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"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire" -- Robert A Heinlein
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 Ramos-Horta: coma of convenience
gan, Wednesday, Feb 13 2008, 10:13pm
Australia’s involvement in the assassination of Major Alfredo Reinado is indicated – according to some analysts -- by the prolonged induced coma of Jose Ramos-Horta. The president of Timor-Leste is perhaps the only person able to supply crucial information regarding events leading to the death of Major Reinado and his own wounding, YET an odd reluctance to obtain accurate information is becoming evident, particularly from the Australians, America’s proxy in the region!
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 Kosovo: illegal independence but at what price?
goran, Sunday, Feb 10 2008, 10:29am
What price is the US and NATO willing to pay for supporting a flagrantly illegal secession in the Balkans? No one knows exactly but it‘s sure to be higher than anyone anticipated! Only the moronic Americans would support such an inflammatory move in this extremely volatile region – oil and gas pipelines notwithstanding. (story and 1 image)
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The ‘Timor Rift’ widens
luis, Sunday, Feb 10 2008, 9:55am
Disgruntled freedom fighters led by Major Alfredo Reinado have attacked the symbolic head of Timor-Leste’s puppet government today. Turncoat president, Jose Ramos-Horta was shot twice during the attack, however, accurate reports of his condition are not available at this stage, though his condition is said to be critical. Puppet Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has ‘assured’ western media the situation is ‘stable’ in view of the fact he was also targeted and attacked by freedom fighters! A bit less propaganda and a little more realistic, accurate reporting please!
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Kosovo: justification for a retaliatory attack on the USA
Michel Chossudovsky via reed, Sunday, Feb 3 2008, 8:14pm
While the European Union and the US, have acknowledged that they would be "opposed" to a " unilateral" declaration of independence of Kosovo, the secession of Kosovo from Serbia is already de facto. It is part of a US-NATO military agenda. It is the culmination of the 1999 NATO led invasion. It responds to US-NATO strategic objectives. (story and 2 images)
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State of the Union: living in your own private Denial-aho
Jay, Monday, Jan 28 2008, 7:08pm
If you haven’t seen a State in denial we recommend re-playing Bush’s last State of the Union address -- is anybody out there? The clueless, “mission accomplished” president of the U.S.Aaaay was greeted with a standing ovation from Congress, unrestrained cheers and acclamations reaching to the rafters but the delusory, obviously strained overkill betrayed the PANIC of (crashing) reality. What has the Bush administration done right, name one Goddamn thing, to put it in the American idiom! Just one positive contribution – give it a shot and taste reality through all the baloney and disaster! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Bill Clinton smirked as he bombed Belgrade
Milan, Sunday, Jan 27 2008, 11:34am
News videos clearly depict then U.S. president, Bill Clinton, smirking after the Chinese embassy was hit by missile attacks on Belgrade, capital of Serbia. Targeting civilians was a crime then and remains a war crime today; however, the world was not yet familiar with the criminal tactics that later would characterise the ‘new’ American terrorist State! (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Where has all the money gone, it’s been a short time passing?
peptide, Saturday, Jan 12 2008, 11:18am
Money doesn’t evaporate or disappear – it just changes hands!
The most amusing aspect of the ‘credit crunch,’ ‘sub-prime crisis’ – let’s call a spade a spade, the massive losses incurred as a result of manipulation and appropriation of trillions in funds by very clever, fast-talking financial manipulators/rogues -- are the lame excuses offered by bank execs to a very angry, debt-burdened public.
It’s time to face the music gentlemen and inform the public of the grim, compromising story of a failed economic model and the result of financial deregulation. If you are unable to clearly trace where all the money has gone, then accept responsibility for the losses and your incompetence and beg for mercy – your multi-million-dollar salaries now threaten to destroy you? It’s time to speak up before some bright, angry, family person or shareholders group arranges a SIMULTANEOUS, nation-wide DEFAULT ON ALL LOANS! [In the present climate, not a difficult task!] (story and 1 image)
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Islamist’s prayers answered by U.S. proposed intervention
barra, Sunday, Jan 6 2008, 9:31am
The North West Frontier of Pakistan’s tribal region is steeped in the history of failed attempts by foreign Imperial forces to subdue the region. From Alexander the Great through Imperial Britain to the Russians -- the ferociously independent tribes of this region have successfully resisted all efforts to subdue them. But the U.S. donkey imagines it can do what other more skilled militaries could not accomplish!
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A Quechua Christmas Story
Greg Palast via reed, Monday, Dec 31 2007, 4:12pm
And [Professor] Doctor Correa is one tough character. He told George Bush to take the US military base and stick it where the equatorial sun don’t shine. He told the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which held Ecuador’s finances by the throat, to go to hell. He ripped up the “agreements” which his predecessors had signed at financial gun point. He told the Miami bond vultures that were charging Ecuador usurious interest, to eat their bonds. He said ‘We are not going to pay off this debt with the hunger of our people. ” Food first, interest later. Much later. And he meant it. (story and 1 image)
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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)
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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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Chavez: striking at the root!
Kingfisher, Sunday, Dec 9 2007, 7:13pm
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," stated Henry David Thoreau. Today someone finally struck at the root. Inspired by Hugo Chavez, six Latin American Presidents rejected the economic slavery (plutocracy) of the IMF and World Bank and created their own Latin American Bank of the South. (story and 2 images)
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Positive Options
budgie, Wednesday, Dec 5 2007, 8:41am
It’s not over by any stretch. If global warming/climate chaos, GM food, or geological upheaval doesn’t get us first then European social democracies will prove the superior model over laissez-faire grab it and run, American style capitalism. It’s goodbye and good riddance America and no thanks for plunging the world into chaos and war. We do not need you nor do we want your form of ‘freedom, liberty and democracy’ dripping in the blood of innocent men, women and children. You can stick your poisonous system and vile ideology up your collective national arse! (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
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Iraqi insurgents regrouping, says Sunni resistance leader
Jonathan Steele via reed, Sunday, Dec 2 2007, 8:03pm
Iraq's main Sunni-led resistance groups have scaled back their attacks on US forces in Baghdad and parts of Anbar province in a deliberate strategy aimed at regrouping, retraining, and waiting out George Bush's "surge", a key insurgent leader has told the Guardian.
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NATO, fools rush in!
peptide, Wednesday, Nov 21 2007, 10:08am
A reference was made in an earlier article to the real masters of war – Afghans, Serbs and Vietnamese. Today the reality of that FACT is highlighted by a recent report on developments in Afghanistan. Afghan forces – comprising only of common Afghanis – are teaching modern western soldiers that wars are won by people not propaganda, bribery, UAVs, indiscriminate artillery or missile attacks. This is warfare at grass roots level -- warfare NATO’s modern armies are not ‘equipped’ to fight! (story and 1 image)
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Reining in the Rogue
quill, Monday, Nov 5 2007, 11:22am
After years of criticisms, analysis and debate, the Iraq situation has only worsened. Furthermore, the world can expect an attack on Iran before the current US regime leaves office. We have all been distracted by clever commentary, ‘exposures,’ ENDLESS TALK and a very compliant media. What is lacking, however, is ACTION and that is NO ACCIDENT! (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
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The Great Debate of 2008
Jerry W. Sanders via reed, Saturday, Nov 3 2007, 10:49pm
If ever the time was right for a Great Debate on America's purpose and place in the world, that time is now. But if early auditions leading up to primary season are any indication, the top contenders are either not up to the task or unwilling to take on the challenge of correcting the current course of failure in US foreign policy. Despite America's dire standing in the world and the President's record low approval ratings at home, leading Republican candidates have made it clear that they will deviate little from the geopolitics of fear and fantasy that have marked the Bush years. And while Democratic front-runners are quick to denounce the folly of the war in Iraq--at least in its execution--they appear reluctant to take on the worldview and logic from which it was manufactured and continues to be sold in anticipation of yet new adventures. So far, in shades too reminiscent of 2004, Democrats act as if the White House is theirs for the taking if only they can avoid missteps and duck charges of "weakness."
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The sun sets early on the American Century
Philip S Golub via reed, Saturday, Nov 3 2007, 12:47pm
The ‘American Century’ only began 60 years ago. But it seems already to be over, with the disaster of Iraq forcing some of the United States’ ruling elites to realise that its hegemony has been severely weakened. But nobody seems to know what to do next, or even how to behave.
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Google: a Tzarist model
Kismo, Sunday, Sep 23 2007, 1:03pm
Previous posts (see links) relating to Google sounded a warning which most (including government regulators) chose to ignore but the information juggernaut took note via its own info monitors and pulled all stops in its aims to capture the entire information network! Not content with controlling the lion's share of available info Google now seeks to gain control of information infrastructures by increasing its controlling shares of existing communications companies and NOW by building its own global comms network. The included (below) Australian article reveals Google’s ambitions. However, few have bothered to consider the consequences of Google’s obsessive/manic pursuit of ALL ASPECTS of information control.
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