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 Rise of the "unwashed" Blogosphere
Joe Conason via reed, Wednesday, Jul 25 2007, 7:02pm
Not so long ago, the Republican right expected to dominate American politics for generations to come. Karl Rove, “boy genius” of the GOP, believed that his generation had achieved a partisan realignment that would overturn the progressive achievements of the past century.
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The Life and Times of the 'Agency'
Chalmers Johnson via reed, Wednesday, Jul 25 2007, 6:43pm
The American people may not know it but they have some severe problems with one of their official governmental entities, the Central Intelligence Agency. Because of the almost total secrecy surrounding its activities and the lack of cost accounting on how it spends the money covertly appropriated for it within the defense budget, it is impossible for citizens to know what the CIA's approximately 17,000 employees do with, or for, their share of the yearly $44 billion-$48 billion or more spent on "intelligence." This inability to account for anything at the CIA is, however, only one problem with the Agency and hardly the most serious one either.
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 Not a Western Word
finch, Wednesday, Jul 25 2007, 12:22pm
‘Whatever goes around comes around’ or the Pauline, ‘God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he reap’. The one positive aspect of long term Presidents and Prime Ministers is they usually catch what they have thrown and in that sense Bush is catching a huge amount of shit mixed with blood. Even a cretin like Bush is able to understand where the neo-cons have taken him, to the halls of the world’s most infamous and inept political leaders. A self-respecting Japanese leader would have committed suicide by now but the world knows an American coward and moron when it sees one, and what a tragic and pathetic sight it makes! (story and 1 image)
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Oz Law Council pours scorn on farcical and mentally incompetent Authorities
Kingfisher, Tuesday, Jul 24 2007, 2:19pm
Most professional criminologists are familiar with criminal dissociation and denial; in lay terms the victim or ‘other’ is always responsible or at ‘fault,’ the perpetrator never accepts responsibility for their (criminal) actions – ‘they/you’ are responsible never me! In view of this pathological condition it is hardly surprising that authorities display dissociative pathologies when confronted with their deeds. In the face of the rising civilian death toll in Iraq, which recent John Hopkins studies place at close to one million innocent souls, responsibility for these deaths is avoided like the plague! The criminals who disregarded international law and UN reports in order to gain control of Iraq's precious oil resource are known to history and the world, yet the silence surrounding their guilt is 'deafening.'
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U.S. led Destruction of Yugoslavia Continues
rade, Monday, Jul 23 2007, 12:54pm
Following NATO’s support of KLA terrorist separatists and Bush’s promise to support secessionist moves by Albanians living in the Serbian province of Kosovo, Condoleezza ‘war whore’ Rice, today “assured” leading separatists the U.S. is “committed” to Kosovo's independence “within months” regardless of UN Security Council decisions! Isn’t that just typical? We are all reminded of America ignoring accurate UN reports that WMD did NOT exist in pre-invasion Iraq but America, in usual rustic fashion, invaded anyway and created the world’s worst humanitarian tragedy since WWII -- innocent civilian casualties are fast approaching one million! (story and 1 image)
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Haneef case: international embarrassment and national disgrace
peptide, Sunday, Jul 22 2007, 9:50am
There is one extremely clear aspect to the Haneef debacle; it has Howard written all over it! Yet does the PM or his flunky cohorts in crime fear arrest? Not that one can detect! The long history of deceptions, lies, duplicities and manipulations from Tampa, children overboard to Haneef, combine to form one final farewell fiasco for our resident ‘draco,’John Howard. (story and 2 comments)
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Trouble in Hedgistan: “Its gonna get a lot worse”
Mike Whitney via rialator, Sunday, Jul 22 2007, 12:35am
Two columns of black smoke can be seen rising over Wall Street and disappearing into the ice-blue New York sky. Terrorism? Not quite. The plumes of smoke are all that’s left of two major hedge funds which blew up just weeks ago leaving nothing behind but a few smoldering embers and a mound of black soot.
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Colons, Polyps and Cognisance
zebra, Saturday, Jul 21 2007, 12:27am
George W Bush finally formalised his relationship with Cheney and acknowledged him as the true President prior to entering hospital for a colonoscopy. Doctors were surprised to discover that one of the polyps removed from Bush’s rectum turned out to be his brain. Surgeons were astonished to learn that a tiny polyp-sized brain could function in the human rectum – a fact that didn’t surprise the public! (story and 1 image)
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 Howard: too familiar and contemptible
subterranean zeppelin, Friday, Jul 20 2007, 5:33pm
The extraordinary Haneef fiasco highlights the increasingly desperate tactics Howard is willing to employ to save the un-savable. Everyone, whether Lib or Lab is sick of Howard. But there’s no stopping our home grown lying little war criminal, Johnny! If he takes a greater risk than victimising/scapegoating Haneef, whatever scurrilous action he dreams up, it could well land him and other involved conservatives in the dock or land his entire party so far into the political wilderness that a blacktracker wouldn’t be able to find it! (story and 1 audio file)
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Racist Howard government Exposed
nano, Thursday, Jul 19 2007, 2:17pm
It appears the Australian Howard government has utilised an Indian medical doctor as a scapegoat for purely political purposes. New information contradicting ‘evidence’ supplied by the crown prosecutor regarding the exact location of the discovery of Dr. Haneef’s SIM card -- upon which the crown bases its entire case -- clearly exposes an appalling fabrication, beat-up and collusion. It seems that government ministers and high ranking public servants are involved in a sordid strategy designed to enhance Howard’s re-election prospects – which are now diminishing by the minute!
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Kissinger’s Secret Meeting With Putin
Mike Whitney via reed, Wednesday, Jul 18 2007, 10:33pm
"RAF fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for British airspace yesterday, as the spirit of the Cold War returned to the North Atlantic once again. The incident, described as rare by the RAF, served as a telling metaphor for the stand-off between London and Moscow over the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.” (Times Online, Richard Beeston; “RAF scrambles to intercept Russian bombers, 7-18-07)
"Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.” Niccoló Macchiavelli
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The Australian Dilemma
dingo, Wednesday, Jul 18 2007, 1:37pm
Australian citizens face a national election later this year and few are happy with the available choices. The two party adversarial system has resulted in two disliked candidates, one a war criminal, racist, pathological liar, despicable coward and servile corporate US lackey, the other a nothing, a zero with no ideological platform or defined identity – a non-specific turd! (story and 1 comment)
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Haneef: leaked transcript incriminates Howard government
peptide, Tuesday, Jul 17 2007, 12:08pm
A leaked transcript of a Federal Police interview with Dr. Haneef, reveals that Dr. Haneef denied all knowledge of the UK bombings and that he had given his pre-paid SIM card to his cousin over a year ago as it was no use to him outside the UK. Howard and his flunkey ministers have been exposed YET AGAIN for tampering with the facts, usurping due process and interfering with proceedings for purely political purposes.
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Sydney’s “Go (and get fucked) Bag!”
barra, Monday, Jul 16 2007, 12:52pm
It is rare that a politician expresses the true sentiments of the population but the Deputy Lord Mayor of Sydney, Chris Harris, has thrown political discretion to the wind and let the Mayor ‘have it’. The Mayor Clover Moore, during one of her ‘out of body experiences’ has returned to her tribe with a revelation that Sydney citizens should carry a “go bag” in the event of an emergency! The bag should contain articles such as sneakers for walking, a baseball cap for that quick game, a flash light and a toilet roll, I quote the consultant who advised the Mayor, “in the event of a toilet roll crisis!” (story and 1 comment and 1 image and 1 audio file)
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Desperate losers deliver ‘low blow’
finch, Sunday, Jul 15 2007, 7:57pm
Howard government reveals true character in Haneef case. Immediately after a Queensland Magistrate rightly released terrorist suspect, Haneef, on bail – the prosecutor failed to establish any direct connection to terrorist activity -- the Howard government acting through the Minister for Immigration, Kevin Andrews, revoked his visa on (unproven) character grounds and transferred him to an immigration detention centre. (story and 1 image)
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Beat-up alert: Howard whips it up, whips it good
nano, Saturday, Jul 14 2007, 5:57pm
John Howard, holocaust denier, mass murderer and Terrorist, by any definition of the term, is again banging his very battered and somewhat muted tin drum in a very transparent attempt to capture media attention. He is milking the UK bombings and the tenuous local connection for all its worth. Howard is a known master of the ‘front page grab’ and as expected, the compliant local media have taken the herring. Minimal analysis just Murdoch style hype and exaggeration and Howard the coward appearing as the ‘strong man.’ If the reader has any doubts regarding the compliance of the local media ask yourself how many times the media has taken Howard to task for his direct complicity in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq! (story and 1 image)
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Banana Accomplished
spoon, Saturday, Jul 14 2007, 2:14am
After years of listening to Bush make excuses for his murderous invasion and subsequent failure in Iraq I again took to the keyboard with the intention of detailing the reality of the world’s most denied holocaust. But it dawned on me that the problem was not really Bush or his neo-cons or any other member of the coalition of criminals and imbeciles – it is the apathetic population whose utter indifference has allowed the situation to deteriorate. (story and 1 image and 1 audio file)
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The Semiotics of Racism and Terrorism
William Bowles via reed, Friday, Jul 13 2007, 2:20pm
Language is without peer as the most destructive of all Weapons of Mass Destruction, if so used! The obvious examples are Bush and Bin Laden; where would both these murdering criminals be without the Bible and Koran translating into the actions of Wahhabists and Evangelicals – such is the power of Language/text. We encourage everyone to read the following excellent little piece and pursue the discipline. The inaction and tolerance of the masses in the face of appalling holocausts and overt criminality perpetrated by our governments becomes less mysterious if the subliminal power of language is understood. Becoming aware of the operative layers of language inoculates against slave inducing subliminal messaging. [Eds.]
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ACCC takes 'deceptive' Google to court
Mark Schliebs via reed, Wednesday, Jul 11 2007, 9:15pm
[To Google with biased love:
Industry analysts and IT professionals are extremely familiar with Google’s unfair practices. Google itself advertised the fact that it would toss information freedom and fair play to the wind for a price. The entire free world witnessed Google openly sell its 'integrity' to the communist totalitarian regime of China, proving without doubt that it consciously engages in the most appalling partiality and bias.
We wish the Oz Competition and Consumer Commission all success and we wish Google the justice it deserves.
Cleaves Editorial Committee.] (story and 1 image)
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The ‘Lone Wolf’ terrorist and a ‘Little Red’ faced absurdity
dingo, Wednesday, Jul 11 2007, 2:09am
There comes a time when beat-ups, orchestrated lies, fabrications and plain incompetence converge to form the most ludicrous proposition imaginable. We recall the Saddam connection to Bin Laden, fantasy WMD, mobile anthrax labs, bouquets of flowers and open armed welcomes for invaders, breaking the back of the insurgency, mission accomplished, the inane poetry of Rumsfeld and various other mutterings from the loony tunes brigade OF CRIMINAL MASS MURDERERS. However, it seems the best is yet to come; the local chapter of the lobotomy squad, masquerading as an anti-terrorist force in Sydney has invented a new category of terrorist – the “lone wolf.” (story and 1 image)
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