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 Uber Warrior
nano, Thursday, May 24 2007, 4:53pm
New Uber warfare strategies of the 21st century have relegated conventional war and to a lesser extent guerilla war strategies to history. Today’s ubiquitous and highly accessible computer technologies have redefined warfare. Traditional militaries are facing redundancy, irrelevance and heightened vulnerability to skilled digital operators. The keyboard is proving to be the most effective weapon of the modern age! Uber war is asymmetry taken to its final phase. In theory a single individual is now capable of subverting a State! The digital age has resulted in a universal dependence on digital technology. The most powerful military powers are now exposed to (persistent) direct and indirect digital attacks – it is only a matter of time before a skilled digital warrior succeeds in compromising the defence capability of a superpower.
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Why the US Government Is Hated All Over the World
Fred Reed via rialator, Wednesday, May 23 2007, 9:33am
Something is wrong with the United States. I think most of us have noticed it. There is a mortal rot in the country, made manifest by many little rots that are hard to integrate mentally yet are, I think, somehow related. The change is grave, accelerating, probably irreversible, and fascinating. Things are not as they were.
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Bush reviving the nuclear threat
William D. Hartung and Frida Berrigan via rialator, Wednesday, May 23 2007, 9:20am
April 30, 2007 -- Only days before the fifth anniversary of September 11, President George W. Bush addressed military officers in Washington to warn that nuclear-armed terrorists could "blackmail the free world and spread their ideologies of hate and raise a moral threat to America." This alarmist vision was accompanied by the White House's release of "A National Strategy for Combating Terrorism," which painted a picture of a "troubling potential WMD terrorism nexus emanating from Tehran." The administration is building the case for war against Iran--a job made easier by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent announcement that Iran can now enrich uranium on an industrial scale--despite the fact that many Iran-watchers and nuclear experts consider their claims of enrichment capacity to be an overblown boast.
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 Bush Authorizes New Covert Action against Iran
Brian Ross and Richard Esposito Report via rialator, Wednesday, May 23 2007, 8:43am
The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com. (story and 1 image)
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Politics of fear creating a dangerously divided world
Amnesty press via rialator, Tuesday, May 22 2007, 12:41pm
(London) Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized and dangerous world, said Amnesty International today as it launched Amnesty International Report 2007, its annual assessment of human rights worldwide.
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Holocaust Iraq: An inconvenient Truth
fish, Monday, May 21 2007, 10:55pm
Today, the American public is no longer able to claim ignorance over the real cost of filling their SUVs with gas nor are they able to deny their status as a hypocritical, ungodly, pariah nation. Few people anywhere are unaware of America’s dirty little grab for the resources of weaker nations. For every full tank of gas INNOCENT human blood has been spilt, particularly the blood of those least able to defend themselves, CHILDREN. When faced with undeniable and unpleasant realities Americans seek refuge in the unreality of their televisions or other distracting entertainments. The cost of the American lifestyle today is served to local populations for breakfast, however, the media is careful to neatly package all distasteful material in justifications, propaganda and flagrant lies (that have no currency anywhere but America).
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Al-Qaeda’s Waiting Game
Michael Scheuer via rialator, Sunday, May 20 2007, 8:36pm
Americans tend to forget that while we were surprised by the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was not. The attacks’ exact date was known to bin Laden and two or three others only six days before Sept. 11, 2001, but they had long known the attacks were coming. Thus al-Qaeda was able to move important operatives, archives, material, and other assets out of Afghanistan in advance. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Wednesday, May 23 2007, 9:17pm
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By their Commission and Omissions you will Know Them
dingo, Sunday, May 20 2007, 12:33pm
We thank National Security correspondent to the Australian Broadcasting Commission (‘our’ ABC) Leigh Sales, for revealing her flagrant bias in relation to the David Hicks case. We were almost tempted to read her book, “Detainee 002 …”, until today’s extremely revealing report. (story and 1 image)
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The Art of Flower Arranging
gan, Thursday, May 17 2007, 6:31pm
The uninformed are rejoicing over the forced resignation of Paul (bouquet of flowers) Wolfowitz from the World (US) Bank; the resignation of Tony (45 minutes) Blair as British prime minister; the foregone demise of George (WMD, mission accomplished) Bush and the likely elimination of John (aluminium tubing) Howard as Australian prime minister. However, rejoicing may be premature as the gangrenous infection in the body of humanity has not been completely excised. (story and 2 images)
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My Darling Boy ...
Associated Press via rialator, Wednesday, May 16 2007, 12:14pm
My darling baby boy, before you talk or walk, Uncle has provided you with a gun ..
Corrupting children is a heinous criminal act; who but America would poison infants?
To the soldier who raped and slaughtered children I say, my darling boy you had no chance! (story and 1 image)
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What’s So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding?
Elizabeth DiNovella via rialator, Saturday, May 12 2007, 11:10pm
When it was announced that the Dalai Lama was coming to Madison in May, a few of my friends snatched up the pricey tickets right away. I had heard the Dalai Lama speak five years ago during his last visit, and it was so difficult to hear him that I decided to stay out of the ticket-buying frenzy this time around. But when a friend of mine (a Maoist no less!) called me last Friday morning to offer me free tickets to the public talk that afternoon, I couldn’t resist.
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Warming triggers `alarming' retreat of Himalayan glaciers
Tim Johnson via rialator, Saturday, May 12 2007, 10:53pm
KAROLA PASS, Tibet - The glaciers of the Himalayas store more ice than anywhere on Earth except for the polar regions and Alaska, and the steady flow of water from their melting icepacks fills seven of the mightiest rivers of Asia.
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Interlude #9
tra la, Friday, May 11 2007, 10:51am
By way of balance and release. (story and 3 images)
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Global Military Alliance: Encircling Russia and China
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya via rialator, Thursday, May 10 2007, 10:33am
Although Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and Japan are not formally members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), they are linked through military partnerships, affiliated governments, a network of partnerships, and bilateral agreements with the United States and Britain.
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Bush's Zombie Shuffles Off
Tariq Ali via rialator, Thursday, May 10 2007, 10:11am
Tony Blair's success was limited to winning three general elections in a row. A second-rate actor, he turned out to be a crafty and avaricious politician, but without much substance; bereft of ideas he eagerly grasped and tried to improve upon the legacy of Margaret Thatcher. But though in many ways Blair's programme has been a euphemistic, if bloodier, version of Thatcher's, the style of their departures is very different. Thatcher's overthrow by her fellow-Conservatives was a matter of high drama: an announcement outside the Louvre's glass pyramid during the Paris Congress brokering the end of the Cold War; tears; a crowded House of Commons. (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Thursday, May 10 2007, 7:45pm
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The Madness of War Profiteering in Iraq
Robert Greenwald via rialator, Thursday, May 10 2007, 9:58am
The following is Robert Greenwald's testimony to the House Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Defense about war profiteering:
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The nature of God – and I ought to Know!
major mitchell, Tuesday, May 8 2007, 2:36pm
[No apologies for the title, as it applies to everyone.] In today’s world far too many killers and murderers are utilising religion as a method of social manipulation, control and (believe it if you would face the reality of your ‘religion’) to JUSTIFY MURDER, THEFT and WAR! If that in itself doesn’t sound an alarm in the heads of all devotees of the ONE nameless, peerless, INFINITE God of ALL, then please go for a walk or entertain yourself with something else, this paper is NOT for you! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, May 9 2007, 1:15pm
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Aussie software pirate extradited
Kenneth Nguyen via rialator, Sunday, May 6 2007, 7:33pm
BEFORE he was extradited to the United States, Hew Griffiths, from Berkeley Vale in NSW, had never even set foot in America. But he had pirated software produced by American companies.
Now, having been given up to the US by former justice minister Chris Ellison, Griffiths, 44, is in a Virginia cell, facing up to 10 years in an American prison after a guilty plea late last month. (story and 1 image)
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IMF and World Bank Face Declining Authority as Venezuela Announces Withdrawal
Mark Weisbrot via rialator, Friday, May 4 2007, 5:06pm
Venezuela’s decision this week to pull out of the IMF and the World Bank will be seen in the United States as just another example of the ongoing feud between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Bush Administration. But it is likely to be viewed differently in the rest of the world, and could have an impact on both institutions, whose power and legitimacy in developing countries has been waning steadily in recent years. (story and 2 images)
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Dick Cheney's Banker Grantham Sees World Bubble
William Pesek via rialator, Thursday, May 3 2007, 10:32pm
May 2 (Bloomberg) -- You'd expect someone whom the famously dour Dick Cheney entrusts with millions of his dollars might have a gloomy view of the world. Jeremy Grantham does indeed.
"From Indian antiquities to modern Chinese art; from land in Panama to Mayfair; from forestry, infrastructure and the junkiest bonds to mundane blue chips -- it's bubble time,'' he writes in Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.'s latest quarterly letter titled, "The First Truly Global Bubble.'' (story and 1 image)
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