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 Silver Lining: musings from the hacker elite!
Kismo, Friday, Jan 16 2009, 8:49pm
Every ‘dark cloud’ has a silver lining and Obama is no exception. The first thing to learn about victory is NEVER LOSE HEART! So what, if Obama is proving to be the greatest traitor and betrayer since Benedict Arnold; the American Revolution survived Arnold, gained momentum and forged onward to FINAL VICTORY. How much easier to overcome a slick, TRANSPARENT, no-conscience, carpetbagger like Obama? Too bloody easy, mate! (story and 1 image)
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 ICC, no jurisdiction over Israel/America!
barra, Thursday, Jan 15 2009, 9:27pm
The International Criminal Court confirmed, after Palestine brought war crimes issues to notice, that it had no jurisdiction over Israel or America – how convenient! All doubts are removed as to how or why leading terrorist nations, Israel and America, are able to wantonly kill civilians and commit numerous atrocities with impunity! Perhaps Bin Laden ought to insist on a similar arrangement, it worked for Kosovar war criminals, so why not! We should ALL demand equal dispensation or exemption – the LAW is truly an ASS or should I say a convenient means of avoiding JUSTICE! (story and 3 comments)
Last Commented Friday, Mar 20 2009, 10:49pm
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Land Rental Deal Collapses After Backlash Against 'Colonialism'
Julian Ryall and Mike Pflanz via quin, Thursday, Jan 15 2009, 8:19pm
One of the world's largest land deals, a scheme to lease African farmland to rich countries to grow their own crops, has collapsed amid accusations of 'neo-colonialism'.
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Obama Nation Upholds US Terror
Mickey Z. via budgie, Thursday, Jan 15 2009, 7:16pm
Let’s start with two facts:
1. The United States of America is a rogue state built on and maintained by terror
2. Barack Obama will do absolutely nothing to change or challenge the realities behind fact #1 (story and 2 images)
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Israeli forces shell UN headquarters in Gaza
Ibrahim Barzak and Amy Teibel via gan, Thursday, Jan 15 2009, 8:40am
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israel shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, engulfing the compound and a warehouse in fire and destroying thousands of pounds of food and humanitarian supplies intended for Palestinian refugees. (story and 1 image)
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Growing disillusionment forces Obama to retry internet tricks
Kingfisher, Thursday, Jan 15 2009, 2:47am
The mainstream has always been SLOW to adapt to the latest technologies; an amusing and highly exploitable fact/situation. Antiquated media modes of communication and moguls too old to change have no answer to the millions of independent digital voices that speak in one voice whenever the need arises. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Jan 15 2009, 7:41am
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A Perfect Definition of 'Terrorism'
Glenn Greenwald via rialator, Wednesday, Jan 14 2009, 8:07pm
This war on the people of Gaza isn't really about rockets. Nor is it about "restoring Israel's deterrence," as the Israeli press might have you believe. Far more revealing are the words of Moshe Yaalon, then the Israeli Defense Forces chief of staff, in 2002: "The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people." (story and 1 image)
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An argument for Secession
dingo, Tuesday, Jan 13 2009, 8:23pm
The entire world groaned when WAR CRIMINAL Bush insisted, in his last press conference, that he had served his country well and had done a “good job” as president – W-H-A-T!? Furthermore, Cheney supported Bush’s statements with his own divorced from reality, twisted version of history. It’s time for the handcuffs people! The credibility of the ENTIRE nation is at stake – the reality oriented WORLD is fast running out of patience! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Tuesday, Jan 13 2009, 9:28pm
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The Afghan Scam
Ann Jones via quill, Monday, Jan 12 2009, 6:48pm
The first of 20,000 to 30,000 additional U.S. troops are scheduled to arrive in Afghanistan next month to re-win the war George W. Bush neglected to finish in his eagerness to start another one. However, "winning" the military campaign against the Taliban is the lesser half of the story.
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Demand accountability or suffer more Fraud
Frank Rich via rialator, Monday, Jan 12 2009, 6:31pm
Three days after the world learned that $50 billion may have disappeared in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, The Times led its front page of Dec. 14 with the revelation of another $50 billion rip-off. This time the vanished loot belonged to American taxpayers. That was our collective contribution to the $117 billion spent (as of mid-2008) on Iraq reconstruction — a sinkhole of corruption, cronyism, incompetence and outright theft that epitomized Bush management at home and abroad.
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Western war criminals take refuge in denial
finch, Sunday, Jan 11 2009, 7:42am
In the dying years of the FAILED international conservative push, efforts to hide and disguise the many war and other crimes perpetrated by conservatives became impossible. Failed wars, civilian holocausts, $10 trillion debts and ruined states defy all attempts to re-present them as other than what they are – FIASCOS! (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, Jan 11 2009, 9:49am
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NASA Scientist -- Australia threatens life on Earth!
major mitchell, Friday, Jan 9 2009, 10:45am
And we thought we’d amount to nothing more than a bunch of cringing, apathetic cowards led by super lackeys, Howard and Rudd! (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Monday, Jan 12 2009, 6:12pm
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Israel's Dress Rehearsal for Lebanon
Mike Whitney via reed, Thursday, Jan 8 2009, 7:57pm
"The raw logic of Israel’s distorted self-image and racist doctrines is exposed beyond confusion by the now-stark reality: the moonscape rubble of once-lovely Lebanese villages; a million desperate people trying to survive Israeli aerial attacks as they carry children and wheel disabled grandparents down cratered roads; limp bodies of children pulled from the dusty basements of crushed buildings. This is the reality of Israel’s national doctrine, the direct outcome of its racist worldview." Virginia Tilley "The Case for Boycotting Israel" in Counterpunch. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Friday, Jan 9 2009, 8:31pm
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Howard displaces Obama in Blair House
quill, Wednesday, Jan 7 2009, 7:58pm
Australia’s Obama-bashing, racist, conservative former PM, John ‘deputy sheriff’ Howard, is currently occupying the traditional premises of the President Elect prior to inauguration, the historic Blair House in Washington. Obama and family have been forced to play second fiddle to Howard who is in Washington to receive an award from Bush. Forcing the President Elect to defer to a former leader of an insignificant little, servile nation of cringing cowards and lackeys is a disgrace – skin colour continues to matter in America it seems! The displacement was clearly intentional; self-confessed racist, John Howard, is well-pleased at the 'honour' accorded him by his partner in crime, G W Bush. However, the shame associated with this despicable act is all America's! (story and 2 images)
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Massive dollar collapse imminent ..
Edmund Conway via reed, Wednesday, Jan 7 2009, 10:29am
The world simply would not tolerate America irresponsibly printing more money in order to save its economy. There's more than a hole in the bucket dear Obama, the Bush regime blew the bottom out and no amount of printing VALUELESS toilet paper money can save the situation. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Jan 9 2009, 9:44pm
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Exposing God, the root of the Problem!
finch, Tuesday, Jan 6 2009, 11:22pm
Everything we know, including our knowledge of ‘God,’ NECESSARILY (must) refer back to the source of production of that knowledge, HUMANITY! That rather obvious fact should be self-evident, however, few are able to appreciate the clarity and simplicity of TRUTH – have you not yet noticed that everything we know of ‘God’ has been PRODUCED and encoded BY MAN? Furthermore, all man-made Gods are peculiar to and described by the idiosyncrasies of the cultures that created/produced them! (story and 2 images)
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The nation’s First Family smiles while the blood of innocents flows
quin, Monday, Jan 5 2009, 7:26am
What an utterly tragic and perfect disgrace. The first family of the USA is all smiles while other ‘less human’ families and children are blown to bits or lay dying in hospitals deprived of medicines and supplies – the result of an Israeli blockade and murderous attack on Gaza! We are reminded of the Clinton embargo on Iraq which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi ‘sub-human’ children; a price considered “worth it” by former Democrat Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright -- a taste of things to come! (story and 1 image)
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Government propaganda ministry biggest advertiser in UK!
quill, Sunday, Jan 4 2009, 1:11am
Now there’s a revealing little morsel (see insert), but not a complete surprise as it matches proportional increases in advertising spending by the Australian and other Western governments – the propaganda expenditure in the USA, the nation with the most to hide and disguise, cannot be assessed as the figure is astronomical! Donald Rumsfeld, as Secretary of Defence, couldn’t account for $2.3 TRILLION, which ‘somehow’ disappeared in his Department, what hope then for accurate figures from thousands of agencies servicing various governments across the USA? (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, Jan 11 2009, 9:44pm
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Obama and a status quo we can believe in!
nano, Saturday, Jan 3 2009, 12:30am
Sit back, relax and we’ll do it for you – why not exploit existing conditioning? It would not be an oversimplification to state that Obama won a presidential campaign based on two words and one second-hand slogan, ‘Change,’ ‘Hope’ and ‘Yes we can!’ In any other nation people would have demanded generous helpings of DETAIL served with their ambiguities, but not in lobotomised America, a land where a good slogan can take you to the top. The American people have once again paid the price for investing meaning where none previously existed – it’s an old (tired) advertising TRICK that continues to work on gullible, ill-educated populations! (story and 1 image)
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Sing it! Bye, bye, bye, Obama; fly, fly, fly, Credibility ..
Staff report via talya, Thursday, Jan 1 2009, 9:11pm
Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney has called upon President-Elect Barack Obama to "please, say something about the humanitarian crisis that is being experienced by the Palestinian people, by the people of Gaza." McKinney spoke to CNN news from the Lebanese city of Tyre, where she had debarked from the relief vessel Dignity after it was rammed on the high seas by an Israeli patrol boat, early Tuesday morning. Passengers also report the Israelis fired machine guns into the water near their ship. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Monday, Jan 12 2009, 7:19am
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