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 Trilateral Commission: global elite gather in D.C.
James P. Tucker Jr. via reed, Tuesday, May 6 2008, 9:46pm
The Trilateral Commission—one of the three most powerful globalist groups in the world—held closed-door meetings right here in Washington, D.C. from April 25 to 28. True to form, those members of the media who knew about the meeting—or were themselves participants in the proceedings—refused to discuss what went on inside or report on the attendees. Luckily, AFP’s own editor, Jim Tucker, was on the scene to bust this clandestine confabulation wide open.
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Australia, remember?
major mitchell, Monday, May 5 2008, 10:16pm
Australia is making a weak gesture to remember its once proud rebel fighting past. Furnished with a cringing government grant of $120,000, archaeologists are undertaking a dig at Glenrowan, the site of Ned Kelly’s last stand against colonial oppressors and the corrupt authorities of the time. They hope to unearth new artefacts and solve some popular folk legends that Kelly's brother escaped the siege. It is encouraging that Australia -- now in the most cowardly phase of its history -- reminds itself that it once possessed a fearless, indomitable, fighting, INDEPENDENT spirit. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Wednesday, May 14 2008, 8:38pm
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 Rich-poor divide no longer a ‘gap’ now a yawning, unbridgeable chasm
gan, Sunday, May 4 2008, 7:52am
For a very brief period in the second half of the twentieth century, ‘first world’ nations experienced relative equality. The poor could, with immense difficulty, bridge the affluence gap and become wealthy. Today everyone but the cliques and privileged insiders are shut out permanently! The world has returned to the enduring paradigm of privileged elites and everyone else; the access corridors to equity/equality have been shut tight – why share the remaining spoils and perhaps increase competition for the rapidly decreasing commodities and resources of the world? (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Monday, May 5 2008, 9:08am
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Church, State and Campaign ‘08
Bill Boyarsky via fish, Friday, May 2 2008, 9:00am
When Adolf Hitler came to power, he said, “I am not going to do anything in my lifetime that hasn’t been done by the Roman Church for the past 800 years. I am only going to do it on a greater scale and more efficiently.” (story and 1 image)
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Rice's bastard child, Albanian Kosovo
peptide, Friday, May 2 2008, 1:47am
The one thing a bastard can never achieve is legitimacy! Regardless of all the efforts of monarchs, peasants, Albanian criminals and U.S. war whores – a bastard is forever ILLEGITIMATE! (story and 1 image)
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Protesters deflate NZ spy base dome
Reuters via rialator, Wednesday, Apr 30 2008, 7:54pm
WELLINGTON, NZ: Peace activists yesterday attacked and deflated a large inflatable globe housing a satellite dish at a top secret New Zealand spy base in protest at US military actions. (story and 2 images)
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Will Serbia sell its soul for EU membership?
dragan, Tuesday, Apr 29 2008, 8:09pm
What is the EU really offering Serbia after the ICC acquitted KLA war criminal, Ramush Haradinaj, of heinous war crimes charges? It is now clear western interests seek the dissolution of the Serbian State. The West’s support of known criminals in secessionist Kosovo is additional proof of the lengths to which the West will go to (illegally) secure sovereign Serbian territories. (story and 1 image)
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Latin America: the attack on democracy
John Pilger via rialator, Friday, Apr 25 2008, 9:20am
Beyond the sound and fury of its conquest of Iraq and campaign against Iran, the world's dominant power is waging a largely unreported war on another continent - Latin America. Using proxies, Washington aims to restore and reinforce the political control of a privileged group calling itself middle-class, to shift the responsibility for massacres and drug trafficking away from the psychotic regime in Colombia and its mafiosi, and to extinguish hopes raised among Latin America's impoverished majority by the reform governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. (story and 1 image)
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It’s a matter of credibility, literacy and competence
krill, Thursday, Apr 24 2008, 11:37pm
Prior to responding to the latest gibberish from the White House -- you know, the domicile on the misspelt ‘Capitol’ Hill that houses the leaders of the ONCE most powerful nation on the planet, America! [Now famed for its nose-diving economy, stunningly inaccurate intelligence agencies, illegal activities, expansionist wars of plunder and aggression, torture, illegal detention etc, etc; all brought to you by men and women of unusual intelligence and skill!] (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Friday, Apr 25 2008, 7:00pm
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Hillary ‘Bilderberg’ Clinton: the face and soul of the rotten status quo
nano, Tuesday, Apr 22 2008, 6:15am
We need not go into details or add to the media saturation of the past months; all the sordid information and vile tactics in the race for the leadership of the vilest nation on earth have been served to us for breakfast, lunch and dinner, ad nauseam! (story and 2 images)
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Meltdown of U.S. Dollar Underway as China Dumps the Currency
David Gutierrez via reed, Thursday, Apr 17 2008, 8:02pm
Comments by China that it intends to move away from its reliance on the dollar triggered a sharp drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and heightened worldwide fears about the U.S. currency's stability. Chinese Central Bank Vice Director Xiu Jian said that his country is planning to shift much of its $1.4 trillion national currency reserve from dollars to more stable currencies, such as the euro or Canadian dollar. After these comments, the dollar fell to record lows relative to other currencies -- the lowest ever against the euro, the lowest in a generation against the British pound, and the lowest in 57 years against the Canadian dollar. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Thursday, Apr 17 2008, 10:13pm
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U.S. errand boy, Kevin Rudd, returns to Oz
nano, Sunday, Apr 13 2008, 3:47am
Our globe trotting PM has returned home after making no positive impact in world affairs, however, our Kevin did manage to aggravate China and offend Japan – well done, Kevin! Our media darling PM did arouse the curiosity of some unimportant commentators; who was this curious mandarin speaking oddity from Australia and what real impact did he hope to effect on the world reading from an American script?
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Obama wins first battle for the democratisation of America
banjo, Saturday, Apr 12 2008, 11:04pm
Referring to specifics – THE INTERNET – Barack Obama sent shock waves through traditional ruling communities in the USA and western WORLD! The rich and powerful had just been given a wake-up call by a black American of Kenyan and Irish ancestry. Alarm and consternation has befallen members of the Bilderberg group; their traditional power-base -- wealth -- had just been threatened by a ‘dark’ horse Senator from Illinios! “We have created a parallel public financing system where the American people decide -- if they want to support a campaign they can get on the Internet and finance it,” Obama stated at a Washington fundraiser. “And they will have as much access and influence over the course and direction of our campaign that traditionally [was] reserved for the wealthy and the powerful,” he added! [My emphasis.] (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, Apr 13 2008, 12:58am
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Tibet: play it again, George!
Kingfisher, Friday, Apr 11 2008, 6:45am
Right on cue! The current duet performance of Kevin Rudd and the Dalai Lama on the world stage betrays a carefully choreographed strategy designed to subvert China’s rapidly increasing power and influence in the world. (story and 1 image)
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Iraq: from ‘cakewalk, mission accomplished’ to “central front”
finch, Tuesday, Apr 8 2008, 7:58pm
From ‘cakewalk’ dreams to the reality of “the central front of Al Qaeda's global war of terror!" McCain and General Petraeus perform in tandem during Congressional Hearings this week. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Tuesday, Apr 8 2008, 10:06pm
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Australia’s unforgivable crime: homeless and rejected youth
budgie, Monday, Apr 7 2008, 9:29pm
It need not be emphasised that a society’s most precious resource is its next generation. In affluent societies disproportionate increases in youth homelessness is unforgivable and represents the most reprehensible failure of government social policy. (story and 1 image)
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U.S.-Russia row over Kosovo escalates with Moscow aid shipments
Andrew Wander via reed, Sunday, Apr 6 2008, 9:28pm
Russia is sending humanitarian supplies worth $1.7 million directly to Kosovo Serbs, challenging the authority of the US-backed government in Pristina.
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Australian kiss-arse politics
barra, Friday, Apr 4 2008, 5:50pm
If anyone harboured any doubts regarding Australia’s CONTINUING role as sycophantic, servile, cringing, lackey to America, doubt no more. Rudd confirmed ‘our’ position at the recent NATO summit with a subservient salute to his commander, George W Bush. It was tragic and amusing to see pipsqueak Rudd, clearly out of his depth in Europe, chasing the bully of the class for comfort! (story and 1 image)
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The ‘Claytons’ Prime Minister
Kingfisher, Monday, Mar 31 2008, 9:04pm
Kevin Rudd, the leader you have when you do not have a real leader, has left the country to prance and posture on the world stage. Rudd is a man of impressions NOT actions, a media performer, a petty bureaucrat, expert in the ‘art’ of looking busy! All bureaucrats learn early in their careers how to ‘fake it’ and delegate the job to another. However, Rudd is less than expert in the art of political deception, his electoral PROMISE of Australian troop withdrawal from Iraq is a good test of his integrity and performance! (story and 1 image)
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The Imperative Revolution
nano, Sunday, Mar 30 2008, 10:12pm
The ‘us and them’ approach of social leadership is tired, very tired! It’s an old, divisionist rhetoric; one that is proving less appealing with each new unnecessary war people are forced to confront! There must be a better way and there is! Need I spell out the obvious? (story and 1 comment)
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