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 Keep your eye on the tactical Pipeline-Oil wars
dingo, Wednesday, Aug 13 2008, 3:06am
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, today rightly dismissed Georgian president, Saakashvili, as a “lunatic” and “bastard terrorist” after Georgia’s unprovoked attack on South Ossetia -- which resulted in thousands of civilian deaths. Callous US/NATO strategists, utilising a very reluctant Saakashvili, intentionally targeted innocent Ossetian civilians, but why? The Georgian president’s life in now in danger from furious Georgians AND WESTERN FORCES who would stand to gain in the propaganda war if Saakashvili were assassinated and the murder blamed on Russia! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Thursday, Aug 14 2008, 8:49pm
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Orchestrated wars: three times is one time too many!
finn, Monday, Aug 11 2008, 10:28pm
The ILLEGAL unprovoked, U.S. backed attack on civilian targets in South Ossetia by Georgian forces is now an extremely familiar strategy. First used to great effect in recent times on Yugoslavia, then Iraq – LIES, provocation, response, escalation, destabilisation then FRAGMENTATION, U.S. bases and occupation forces – modern imperialist method in other words. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, Aug 13 2008, 10:11am
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War in the Caucasus
Prof. Michel Chossudovsky via rialator, Sunday, Aug 10 2008, 10:58pm
During the night of August 7, coinciding with the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, Georgia's president Saakashvili ordered an all-out military attack on Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia.
The aerial bombardments and ground attacks were largely directed against civilian targets including residential areas, hospitals and the university. The provincial capital Tskhinvali was destroyed. The attacks resulted in some 1500 civilian deaths, according to both Russian and Western sources. "The air and artillery bombardment left the provincial capital without water, food, electricity and gas. Horrified civilians crawled out of the basements into the streets as fighting eased, looking for supplies." (AP, August 9, 2008). According to reports, some 34,000 people from South Ossetia have fled to Russia. (Deseret Morning News, Salt Lake City, August 10, 2008) (story and 1 image)
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 NATO provoked aggression in Georgia
major mitchell, Saturday, Aug 9 2008, 9:27pm
Russia has finally responded to NATO/US attempts to encircle and compromise its defences. After promising to support its traditional ally Serbia, regarding the illegal secession of Kosovo, and failing to do anything but whimper, the Western orchestrated secession occurred. Russia rightly became the laughing stock of the developed world and was thereafter perceived to be a vacillating, timid and weak State -- a fallen superpower! Has the situation changed this week with Russian military intervention in South Ossetia? I think not, and professional opinion seems to support this view. (story and 3 comments)
Last Commented Sunday, Aug 10 2008, 9:30pm
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America-China: social d/Evolution
Kwang zi, Friday, Aug 8 2008, 11:10pm
As America pursues totalitarian methods with a vengeance, domestic spying, legalised torture, illegal detention, and denial of a raft of human rights, China steadily evolves into a more liberal society. Noticeably absent from the opening ceremony/spectacle of the Olympic games in Beijing was any reference to the last totalitarian, despotic emperor of China, Mao Zedong. A truly surprising but intentional omission in the dramatic opening display that touched on important periods/events in China’s history. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Saturday, Aug 9 2008, 2:49am
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How Tenet Betrayed the CIA on WMD in Iraq
Gareth Porter via rialator, Friday, Aug 8 2008, 10:32am
WASHINGTON, Aug 8 - Journalist Ron Suskind’s revelation that Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief was a prewar intelligence source reporting to the British that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD) adds yet another dimension to the systematic effort by then Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director George Tenet to quash any evidence -- no matter how credible -- that conflicted with the George W. Bush administration’s propaganda line that Saddam was actively pursuing a nuclear weapons programme. (story and 1 image)
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The ‘living’ corpse scenario
laz, Friday, Aug 8 2008, 3:16am
When powerful leaders die without an heir apparent, nations face possible collapse, chaos or at the very least social catharsis. Strong, all pervading rulers must be replaced immediately to prevent instability or collapse. History records numerous instances when powerful monarchs/Popes/rulers died without a suitable replacement. The death was kept secret for fear the State would implode!
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Bush’s China speech: brazen American hypocrisy
barra, Thursday, Aug 7 2008, 12:22pm
The last person in a position to reprimand or give advice to China is the now fully divorced from reality George ‘lobotomised’ Bush. G W Bush delivered his anti-China speech en route to Beijing from Bangkok, perhaps Tierra del Fuego would have been more appropriate after considering Bush’s comments. (story and 1 image)
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Living in ‘Interesting Times’
finch, Thursday, Aug 7 2008, 2:26am
History unfolds in the present but is inextricably and dynamically intertwined with the ‘past.’ History is actually an interpretive/constructionist process in the present tense though it appears to relate to past events. The past does not exist; therefore history/everything surrenders itself to interpretation and ‘reality’ construction in the present; the only validity the past possess is that given it by the present!
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Pressure Grows for F.B.I.’s Anthrax Evidence
Scott Shane and Nicholas Wade via reed, Wednesday, Aug 6 2008, 1:44am
WASHINGTON — After four years of painstaking scientific research, the F.B.I. by 2005 had traced the anthrax in the poisoned letters of 2001 to a single flask of the bacteria at the Army biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., according to government scientists and bureau officials. (story and 1 image)
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Banks target nation's family jewels, "infrastructure" assets, after destroying economy
Jonathan Stempel via krill, Wednesday, Aug 6 2008, 1:06am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cash-strapped U.S. state and city governments are likely to sell or lease more highways, bridges, airports and other assets to investors desperate for stable returns after being frazzled by the credit crisis.
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Murdoch’s man: Oz PM, Kevin Rudd, hand picked for the job!
budgie, Tuesday, Aug 5 2008, 11:29am
Few remember the fateful lunch in New York that sealed the fate of a nation for three years.
When Rupert Murdoch and Kevin Rudd, now Prime Minister of Australia, emerged from a New York restaurant Murdoch responded to a reporter’s question with, “I think Kevin Rudd would make a good Prime Minister.” However, the crucial follow-up question was not asked, FOR WHOM, because conditions for the population are worse now than under the previous Howard government? (story and 1 image)
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Mullen warns against USS Liberty redux
Staff report PTV via reed, Monday, Aug 4 2008, 9:37pm
The top American military officer has warned Israel against orchestrating 'USS Liberty Part II' to provoke a US-led war against Iran. (story and 1 image)
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The measure of a slave – a few simple tests
peptide, Monday, Aug 4 2008, 11:26am
This little exercise is similar to those little games that monthly magazines are known for; like test your fitness level by timing how fast you can eat a box of chocolates while watching TV! Get the picture? But I’m afraid these tests provide accurate results. For example, do you believe the government’s explanation of the 9/11 disaster? Yes! Well, I’m sorry to inform you that you’re not only a compliant slave but also a moron! The following furnishes irrefutable proof. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Aug 6 2008, 1:24am
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 McCain, Anthrax & the Afghan Blunder
Robert Parry via reed, Sunday, Aug 3 2008, 10:29am
The scene of John McCain – during the anthrax attacks in October 2001 – opining to David Letterman that Iraq might be responsible underscores McCain’s central role in what may go down as one of the biggest strategic blunders in U.S. military history, the premature pivot from Afghanistan to Iraq. (story and 1 comment and 1 image and 2 attached files)
Last Commented Sunday, Aug 3 2008, 10:51am
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Star-spangled sheep ready for the slaughter
Kismo, Saturday, Aug 2 2008, 8:06am
Home of the brave, land of the ‘free,’ ay! The lyrics to a popular song require changing after it was revealed that border guards have powers to confiscate indefinitely, all personal printed and written material, including handwritten notes, all digital data contained on storage devices such as laptops, iphones, flashdrives etc, and write-only storage mediums such as CDs and DVDs. The regulation applies to all, citizen and non-citizen travellers. The law/regulation can be applied without reason or justification on whosoever a ‘guard’ chooses. The criteria for selection remains undefined, which allows for huge abuses of citizens’ rights. One can easily imagine certain personality types/guards disapproving of the way he/she was looked at and reacting immediately with confiscation and intimidation! (story and 2 images)
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Known by the Company you keep
budgie, Friday, Aug 1 2008, 10:52pm
Infamous member of the ‘coalition of willing criminals,’ John Howard -- a reprehensible LIAR, RACIST, WAR CRIMINAL, LACKEY and COWARD – has thrown his poisonous support behind the current leader of the opposition, Brendan ‘super hornet’ Nelson. The enmity between Howard and former treasurer Peter Costello, who is rumoured to be making a bid for the opposition leadership, is such that Howard would emerge from his rat hole to support Nelson and risk arrest for his complicity in the Haneef scandal. (story and 2 images)
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Economic Free Fall?
William Greider via krill, Friday, Aug 1 2008, 9:32am
Washington can act with breathtaking urgency when the right people want something done. In this case, the people are Wall Street's titans, who are scared witless at the prospect of their historic implosion. Congress quickly agreed to enact a gargantuan bailout, with more to come, to calm the anxieties and halt the deflation of Wall Street giants. Put aside partisan bickering, no time for hearings, no need to think through the deeper implications. We haven't seen "bipartisan cooperation" like this since Washington decided to invade Iraq. (story and 1 image)
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Robert Gates inadvertently predicts demise of USA
fish, Friday, Aug 1 2008, 2:23am
Far too late, Defence Secretary Robert Gates, cited the destructive effects of the Perle, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney policy of unilateralism in a global world. "We cannot prevail if we act alone," Gates outlined in his National Defence Strategy paper. However, Gates also stressed the importance of [U.S.] "freedom of action in the global commons and strategic access to important regions of the world to meet our national security needs," which in effect cancels his call for cooperation – I count only three real U.S. allies, Israel, Britain and lackey Australia! You cannot succeed in gaining credibility in the international community by sending absurd mixed and contradictory messages, Bob – you want (the world) cake and to eat it too! (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Sunday, Aug 3 2008, 8:51am
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Karadzic charged at the Hague
flake gordon, Thursday, Jul 31 2008, 12:42pm
Radovan Karadzic appeared in the dock at the Hague today charged with invading oil rich nations on the pretext they possessed WMD. The Former Bosnian Serb leader faces genocide charges for causing the deaths of over 750,000 innocent Iraqi civilians. He was also accused of surgical missile strikes on numerous wedding parties in Afghanistan, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of civilians including women and children. The Bosnian Serb leader insisted the wedding parties were in fact Muslim terrorists planning the overthrow of the entire world! (story and 1 image)
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