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 Sorry, Charlie. This Is Michael Vickers's War
Ann Scott Tyson via rialator, Sunday, Dec 30 2007, 5:26pm
In the Pentagon's newly expanded Special Operations office, a suite of sterile gray cubicles on the "C" ring of the third floor, Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael G. Vickers is working to implement the U.S. military's highest-priority plan: a global campaign against terrorism that reaches far beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Dec 30 2007, 6:13pm
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 David Hicks and ‘Freedom’
col, Saturday, Dec 29 2007, 7:58am
David Hicks walked ‘free’ from Yatala high security prison yesterday but freedom is a very ambiguous term and an extremely elusive state. Hicks is discovering, after his release, that prison walls are not necessarily physical. After suffering five years of the most insidious, horrendous, psychological and physical TORTURE at the Guantanamo Bay torture facility, David Hicks could in no way be described as ‘free.’ He will carry the scars left by Guantanamo for the rest of his life – psychologically Hicks remains incarcerated. However, he need not remain a mental cripple, many have survived torture to live and ‘fight’ again. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, Dec 29 2007, 9:25am
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Bhutto assassination update!
gill, Friday, Dec 28 2007, 8:48am
Pakistan’s interior ministry is in frantic damage control in the wake of Benazir Bhutto's assassination. In a futile attempt to extinguish the flames of rebellion, the interior ministry today claimed that Benazir Bhutto died as a result of bumping her head on the roof of the vehicle in which she was travelling. They also claimed that no bullet or shrapnel wounds were found on her body! ‘No doubt,’ and I had breakfast with John F Kennedy -- he was shot with a bullet that could turn corners! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
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Benazir Bhutto killed: what price a human life?
gan, Thursday, Dec 27 2007, 5:42am
Benazir Bhutto shot and killed while campaigning in Rawalpindi yesterday!
Inadequate security measures at a campaign rally allowed an assassin to discharge five shots at Bhutto one of which penetrated her neck killing her. After discharging his weapon the suicide gunman detonated a bomb-belt killing himself and at least ten people in close proximity. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
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‘Taliban:’ term of convenience
cleaves, Wednesday, Dec 26 2007, 10:22am
The American led western (NATO) criminal alliance is crumbling -- as criminal empires often do! A report on BBC radio finally stated an open fact to the people. A fact that NATO/US and even insignificant Australia have known for some time; a military ‘victory’ in Afghanistan is “impossible!”
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Serbian MPs issue Kosovo warning
staff report BBC via reed, Wednesday, Dec 26 2007, 8:46am
The Serbian parliament has voted overwhelmingly to condemn any attempt by Kosovo to become independent. (story and 1 image)
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Rebel groups and double standards highlight lawless world
dingo, Tuesday, Dec 25 2007, 9:05am
Incessantly accusing Bush and his neo-cons of war crimes is clearly counter-productive. He has been comprehensively exposed for the WMD fraud and numerous other crimes. His actions have resulted in a human holocaust -- over one million innocent lives lost in Iraq yet international authorities and the public could care less. OUR complacency and INACTION give license to Bush and his ilk to pursue their crimes with vigour; it's open slather on just about everything – and don’t they, the powers, know it!
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Reversed Asymmetry
dave, Monday, Dec 24 2007, 9:48pm
The sheeple are incapable of lucid thought so it’s necessary to drive the point home with simple and repetitive slogans and news items – ‘just an ol’ fashioned love song’ from a burnt-out ad man, but bear with it for a while.
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Linguistic somersaults indicate extremely sick U.S. Economy
Kingfisher, Monday, Dec 24 2007, 10:58am
Previous articles have drawn attention to linguistic tricks stock markets employ to deceive the public. On a specified day “selling” became ‘profit taking,’ a highly inaccurate and misleading term as selling incurs both profit and loss – but don’t alarm (sheeple) investors for Christ’s sake! Today’s sub-prime, circular credit markets have taken a very dangerous linguistic turn toward even greater DENIAL, which is symptomatic of the disease not the cure. The latest divorced from reality market expression saturating the mass media is, “write-down,” which actually means LOSS! The following headline from Marketwatch is typical:
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Christmas double-speak for the masses
budgie, Sunday, Dec 23 2007, 9:29pm
Let’s start with a couple of whoppers so the moronic masses are able to comprehend. First we have the former Yugoslavia and the show trial of its leader Slobodan Milosevic – now deceased. I’m sure we remember the Hague war crimes tribunal and accusations that Milosevic was responsible for thousands of civilian deaths. This was to be NATO’s and America’s justification for reducing a single nation to a number of fractured, tiny, POWERLESS ‘states,’ which have since been subsumed by Western Europe – that wasn’t the plan, was it? (story and 1 image)
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The Burden of Guilt: Tony Blair converts to Catholicism
barra, Sunday, Dec 23 2007, 10:40am
Murderers carry an exceedingly heavy burden, how much greater the burden for mass murderers? Whether or not Blair’s conversion is the result of a pressing need to relieve the pain of his inner torment or is related to other factors – his wife is a devout RC – the guilt factor is difficult to dismiss. (story and 2 images)
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The US Dollar: The Long Farewell?
Gwynne Dyer via reed, Saturday, Dec 22 2007, 9:02am
It's just straws in the wind so far. India's Ministry of Culture announces that foreign tourists can no longer pay in dollars when visiting the Taj Mahal and other heritage sites; they have to pay in good, hard rupees.
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Rice: wishful thinking or divorced from reality?
cveta, Friday, Dec 21 2007, 10:16am
A report by David Gollust of VOA makes extraordinary reading given the current situation in Kosovo. Surely not even the rabid Condi Rice would make such emphatic and unrealistic statements as “Serbia and Kosovo will never be part of the same country again, and all those concerned should work for a stable outcome in the Balkans based on that reality.” Professional politicians never say never, Condi, nor do they dictate “reality” in situations where they only have a tenuous toehold, as is the case with America in the Balkans. The ‘toe’ to which I refer is the precariously situated military base, Bondsteel. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
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Former CIA analyst says evidence abounds for impeachment
Gretyl Macalaster via reed, Thursday, Dec 20 2007, 10:03pm
PORTSMOUTH — The evidence for impeachment of the president and vice president is overwhelming, former CIA analyst and daily presidential briefer Ray McGovern told a room full of people at the Portsmouth Public Library Monday night.
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The time it takes a falling nation to disintegrate
gan, Thursday, Dec 20 2007, 9:15pm
The amount of money America splashes around in aid, grants, loans, bribes and expenditure is astronomical. All things being unequal, America is spending what it does not have; the result of course is a dollar that plummets when other nations decide they cannot afford to maintain their dollar reserves. The drunken sailor economics of Bush and his fellow incompetents has already killed the American economy; the nation just hasn’t hit the ground yet!
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Xmas Message
Team, Thursday, Dec 20 2007, 8:08am
After taking stock of current world realities; climate chaos, Iraq holocaust, infanticide, illegal wars, wholesale flouting of international law and convention, innumerable assaults on human rights, legalised torture, etc, the Cleaves team of reporters, editors and most contributors have collaborated to deliver an appropriate Xmas message for 2007:
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WATER TORTURE: American DENIAL and PATHOLOGY
finch, Wednesday, Dec 19 2007, 8:52am
Debate rages in the US over the torture policies of the Bush regime and its many other criminal activities. Nevertheless, the House of Reps recently approved $70 billion for continuing war expenditure, which CLEARLY INDICATES THAT AMERICANS support the Bush regime’s criminal activities.
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World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns
Elisabeth Rosenthal via rialator, Tuesday, Dec 18 2007, 8:30pm
ROME: In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
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Naxalites indicate viable future strategy
major mitchell, Tuesday, Dec 18 2007, 2:18pm
The landless peasants, tribal people and Dalit (untouchable) underclass of India and Nepal have been exploited, oppressed and treated with disdain for centuries, but no longer, they have taken up arms and are fighting their oppressors with a vengeance. They have successfully targeted and killed hundreds of their oppressors; feudal landlords, industrialists and the mega-wealthy. The astounding result of this strategy has been a power sharing deal in the government of Nepal – a remarkable success!
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Naxalites stage bold jailbreak in central India
naxal, Sunday, Dec 16 2007, 9:14pm
Over 100 Naxalite rebels and a mix of 200 supporters and general prison population staged a daring jailbreak in Chhattisgarh, central India, yesterday. Naxalite leader Sujit Kumar ‘overpowered’ a guard during mealtime, grabbed his weapon and opened fire on two other guards to secure his freedom and liberate his comrades. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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