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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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John F Kennedy speech April 27, 1961
fleet, Thursday, Jul 31 2008, 1:10am
A President with integrity invokes the same sentiments as his predecessor Abe Lincoln, who stated, “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
Kennedy refers to the same sentiment in his speech to the Newspaper Publishers Association: “No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. From that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary... I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.” (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Jul 31 2008, 1:55pm
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The Response!
peptide, Tuesday, Jul 29 2008, 11:37am
Bob Dylan once penned a lyric that applies today more than ever, “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” Ninety nine percent of Americans today do not require any qualifications to determine that criminals in the White House, Pentagon, CIA, NSA and FBI have in concert subverted the sacred principles upon which the United States was founded and allowed Bankers and CEOs to rob the nation/people blind – the economy is in ruins and no amount of bullshit from ‘experts’ can reverse the inevitable collapse. (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, Jul 30 2008, 9:30am
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Abe Saffron and the dance of the flaming arseholes
ernie, Sunday, Jul 27 2008, 2:27am
The title refers to a ‘stage act’ at one of Saffron’s clubs, The Venus Room, a venue that catered for Sydney’s working class Joes. The undisputed king of Sydney’s Entertainment Underworld not only catered for the knights of the realm, ‘sophisticates’ and closeted power brokers but to the common people; yes, Abe was a true Aussie egalitarian criminal who provided entertainment for everyone! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Sunday, Jul 27 2008, 10:03pm
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Real life incident saturated in Symbolism
luis, Saturday, Jul 26 2008, 12:56am
An ‘American breed' fighting dog that attacked an 11 year-old Brazilian boy received the shock of its now very short life. The pit bull, a breed known for its ‘lack of intelligence’ and ‘propensity to attack the innocent,’ was repelled by a counter attack from the boy who lunged at the dog and fastened his teeth onto its neck. The boy lost a tooth fending off the ‘unprovoked’ attack from the vicious, mindless American breed. (story and 1 image)
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The Road to [Economic] Perdition: Paulson's Scatterbrain Capitalism
Mike Whitney via reed, Friday, Jul 25 2008, 9:33am
Something has gone terribly wrong with the economy, but no one wants to say what it is. This is more than just a typical downturn in the demand-cycle or a temporary "rough patch". In fact, it's not a recession at all; it is a meltdown of the financial system. And it's obvious. The "deep pocketed" Federal Reserve is currently providing hundreds of billions of dollars through its auction facilities to the most craven speculators on the planet, the investment banks. These very same banks have no ability to pay that money back. Show me their revenues; show me their assets; show me their capital cushion which is calculated mainly in terms of "Level 3 assets" and which allow the banks to assign their own value to the bad paper that's overflowing from their vaults. Have you ever heard of anything more ridiculous? One blogger called Level 3 assets "mark to fantasy". He's right, too. It's all smoke and mirrors. So why are we letting crooks decide what their assets are worth?
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Serbian government grovels and acquiesces to West
zoran, Thursday, Jul 24 2008, 10:17am
Kosovo, stolen by terrorists and thieves; Albanian Kosovar war criminals acquitted while Serbs continue to be persecuted by the Hague; Montenegro to accept millions in development ‘aid’ from Italy and the West in exchange for Kosovo recognition. Compliant new Serbian government agrees to return recalled Ambassadors to EU States. Is it possible for Serbia to suffer further humiliation, shame and injury? Have Serbs finally learnt to eat shit and cower like whimpering dogs? Is SERBIA, as a sovereign nation, completely lost? (story and 2 images)
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Intellectual elites defecting in droves
cleaves, Tuesday, Jul 22 2008, 9:48pm
CRIMINAL and evil cabals that have stolen government, our democracies and plunged the world into conflict and war are losing their intellectual support base at speed. It is not a matter of defecting to the ‘other side;’ it is a matter of WITHDRAWING SUPPORT FROM CRIMINAL GOVERNMENTS! Vile governments that spy on their own populations, legalise TORTURE, subvert legal process, illegally detain citizens and engage in all manner of criminal activities, including invasive warfare and mass murder, remind us of the most oppressive and despicable totalitarian regimes of the 20th century.
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Oyster card hack to be published
BBC report via Kismo, Tuesday, Jul 22 2008, 9:47am
Details of how to copy the Oyster cards used on London's transport network can be published, a Dutch judge has ruled. The ruling overturns an injunction to suppress the information won by NXP - makers of the travel smartcards used in London and many other cities.
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Canada's spreading cannabis crop
budgie, Tuesday, Jul 22 2008, 9:28am
In the first of two pieces on organised crime accompanying his Radio 4 series How crime took on the world, Misha Glenny visits British Columbia in Canada where homegrown marijuana has become big business. (story and 1 image)
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Serbian compliant dogs HAND OVER Karadzic
dragan, Monday, Jul 21 2008, 11:21pm
Like all proud sovereign nations we catch and kill our own if necessary; we certainly DO NOT hand them over to a court that releases known Albanian and Croatian war criminals and PERSECUTES SERBS! The track record of the Hague speaks for itself; even former special prosecutor Carla Del Ponte has exposed the obvious BIAS of the ICC against Serbs! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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