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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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The first refugees of global warming
Laurie Goering via rialator, Wednesday, May 2 2007, 12:25pm
ANTARPARA, Bangladesh -- Muhammad Ali, a wiry 65-year-old, has never driven a car, run an air conditioner or done much of anything that produces greenhouse gases. But on a warming planet, he is on the verge of becoming a climate refugee.
In the past 10 years the farmer has had to tear down and move his tin-and-bamboo house five times to escape the encroaching waters of the huge Jamuna River, swollen by severe monsoons that scientists believe are caused by global warming and greater glacier melt in the Himalayas.
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Occupation Forces support Afghan Narcotics Trade
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky via rialator, Wednesday, May 2 2007, 11:51am
The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence agencies and Western financial institutions. The proceeds of this lucrative multibllion dollar contraband are deposited in Western banks. Almost the totality of revenues accrue to corporate interests and criminal syndicates outside Afghanistan. (story and 1 image)
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German Federal Prosecutor’s Office dismisses Rumsfeld war crimes case
CCR via rialator, Sunday, Apr 29 2007, 10:47pm
Synopsis
On April 27, 2007, Germany’s Federal Prosecutor announced she will not proceed with an investigation against Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA Director George Tenet, and other high-ranking U.S. officials for torture and other war crimes committed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Apr 29 2007, 10:58pm
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Asymmetry delivers Victory
naxal, Saturday, Apr 28 2007, 3:11pm
From Sun tzu to today’s flying LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) the fundamental decisive factors determining the outcome of war have never changed – though some ‘superpowers’ would have us all believe otherwise. The determining factors are and have always been, intelligence, skill, ingenuity and tactics – all other factors, including high technology, are secondary. The outcome of War is determined by and anchored in the warrior. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Monday, Apr 30 2007, 7:21am
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Wonderland Down Under: Snoop Dogg refused visa
dingo, Thursday, Apr 26 2007, 10:25pm
Internationally known racist, war criminal, Iraqi holocaust denier and coward prime minister of Australia, John Howard stated that [black] entertainer Snoop Dogg had been banned from entering Australia for “sound reasons … I have to be careful what I say in these matters but he has been ... well there are certain judgments that are made on certain advice that I can't go into, but the reasons for banning him are sound," said Howard. Perhaps the black rapper is also a HIV carrier and votes Democrat! Howard recently levelled more criticism at US Democrats in relation to the war in Iraq. The absurdity and hypocrisy of Howard’s behaviour is reaching levels unimagined by even his most fervent critics. (story and 1 image)
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Holocaust Denial
yarra, Thursday, Apr 26 2007, 1:23pm
When is holocaust denial not a crime? When the victims are not Jews it would seem! As the world begins to target the lies and excesses of conservative governments, coalition leaders are becoming more nervous and agitated as each day passes. But the monstrous oversight of all opposition parties – and it’s not accidental – is continued holocaust denial. There is no dismissing the figures from a world-renowned authoritative journal (Lancet). The 660,000 civilian dead in Iraq CONSTITUTE A HOLOCAUST in any ‘language’. The screaming figures can no longer be dismissed, avoided or denied nor can the RESPONSIBILITY for the CRIMES. (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Friday, Apr 27 2007, 11:31am
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Stocksplosion
Jim Kunstler via rialator, Wednesday, Apr 25 2007, 10:27pm
Whenever somebody complains about "the lies that George Bush & Co. told to get us into the Iraq war" (as Frank Rich did in The New York Times on Sunday), I wonder how those lies compare to the lies that the American public tells itself every day -- for example, that we could run America without oil from the Middle East, or that hybrid cars will save Happy Motoring, or that we can have an economy without producing anything of value.
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Constant Conflict: US Army College
U.S. Army College via rialator, Monday, Apr 23 2007, 1:23pm
[For those who doubted the psychopathology of the USA , read their own account. There is NO making peace with a rabid dog; for the welfare of all it must be put down immediately.]
There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and economic struggles will be steadier and ultimately more decisive. The de facto role of the US armed forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing. (story and 2 images)
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Lancet calls for removal of Howard government
AAP via rialator, Thursday, Apr 19 2007, 4:01pm
A PRESTIGIOUS international medical journal has launched an attack on Prime Minister John Howard and called on readers to vote against the Government at the upcoming election.
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 Art of War
Sun Tzu, Thursday, Apr 19 2007, 10:48am
Literary works become timeless classics due to many factors. Continuing relevance and excellence characterise all classic texts. In every respect SunTzu's classic work on strategy is peerless to this day. It was written in the most sublime and sophisticated period of Chinese culture; a period that also produced probably the most sublime work ever written by any human being, the Dao De Jing by Lao Tzu. Today, the western world is characterised by criminals in government, corruption in plague proportions and social decadence not seen since the fall of the Roman Empire, people would do well to refer to these two outstanding Chinese classics for inspiration. (story and 1 comment and 2 images and 1 attached file)
Last Commented Thursday, Apr 19 2007, 1:53pm
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