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 How Does a Corporation Speak?
William A Cohn via reed, Thursday, Feb 18 2010, 6:04pm
A corporation speaks by clear-cutting old-growth forests, by dumping pollutants in our communities and denying care for our elders, by off-shoring to avoid paying taxes, and by outsourcing and eliminating jobs. This inanimate Frankenstein constructed by law now enjoys vast legal and constitutional rights which it wields against humans, animals and nature. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Sunday, Feb 21 2010, 6:43am
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 More than 75K commercial computer systems hacked in large cyber attack
Ellen Nakashima via Kismo, Thursday, Feb 18 2010, 5:29pm
More than 75,000 computer systems at nearly 2,500 companies in the United States and around the world have been hacked in what appears to be one of the largest and most sophisticated attacks by cyber criminals discovered to date, according to a northern Virginia security firm.
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Goldman Sachs: it's not Greek to me!
Robert Scheer via quin, Thursday, Feb 18 2010, 5:35am
“What is this Goldman Sachs and why has it caused us so much grief?” is a question they must be asking in even the most remote of Greek villages, as they are throughout much of this economically troubled world. The Greek financial scandal in which Goldman Sachs stands accused of selling dubious derivatives that concealed enormous government debt has sent the Greek economy and European markets into a tailspin. But that’s just part of a made-in-the-USA banking hustle that has haunted folks at home and abroad.
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Which Bank? The People's Bank!
Dale Wetzel via gan, Wednesday, Feb 17 2010, 7:21am
We shouldn't forget that Oz once had a people's bank, The Common-wealth Bank of Australia. Former PM, Paul 'deregulation' Keating, killed it off and sold it to the private sector (Wall St) then instituted the most ODIOUS banking practice ever seen in Oz -- Bank FEES for doing their bloody job! Oz banks now have a license to steal so why bother working for a living! If ever an Aussie needed hanging its Keating -- he's worse than the three little shits Hawke, Howard and Rudd rolled into one [turd]!
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Legislating MURDER: targeted assassinations of AMERICANS is now legal!
David Swanson via teale, Friday, Feb 12 2010, 7:15pm
The director of U.S. national intelligence, Dennis Blair, informed the House Intelligence Committee that the government now has the right to murder Americans! (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Saturday, Feb 13 2010, 6:18am
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New Balkans Wars on the Horizon
Dr. Pyotr Iskenderov via reed, Friday, Feb 12 2010, 4:05am
The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina will get strained as soon as Bosnian Serbs hold a referendum on their constitutional status. Its aim is to prevent leaders in Sarajevo, the US and EU from eliminating Republika Srpska. The outgoing Croatian President, Stjepan Mesic, promised that if the referendum takes place, the regular army of Croatia will enter the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina to cut off the 15-km Posavina corridor, which connects the western and the eastern parts of Republika Srpska in the area of Brcko, close to the Croatian border! (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Friday, Feb 12 2010, 6:35pm
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The Terror-Industrial Complex -- Criminal Nation, Terrorist State
Chris Hedges via fleet, Monday, Feb 8 2010, 4:52pm
The conviction of the Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui in New York last week of trying to kill American military officers and FBI agents illustrates that the greatest danger to our security does not come from al-Qaida but the thousands of shadowy mercenaries, kidnappers, killers and torturers our government employs around the globe. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Monday, Feb 8 2010, 8:15pm
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Last Rites for the USA
Cindy Sheehan via reed, Sunday, Feb 7 2010, 8:13am
Many people mistakenly believe that corporations were given the same rights (not just privileges) as persons in this Supreme Court decision, but nothing could be farther from the truth - the reason my nation is such a dysfunctional system now is not because of a Supreme Court decision, nor a law passed by Congress, nor by a referendum of the people: it's because of a single statement, one sentence, spoken by a Supreme Court Chief Justice before the hearing even began.
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The American Presidency, what presidency?
Sheila Stuff via fray, Sunday, Feb 7 2010, 6:03am
It boggles the mind reading this very accurate account of the completely ineffective role of the U.S. President today.
From George H Bush, Clinton to Obama the exact same status quo is in operation and the same private ruling interests are in control of the nation! However, the American people continue to argue the toss regarding Obama's total lack of credibility and influence in the REAL affairs of the nation. Instead of confronting the reality of a paper mache 'Hope and Change' President, we get distracting Obama blah blah! American democracy is dead, the Republic has been lost to private, vested interests for decades!
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Israeli commander: 'We rewrote the rules of war for Gaza'
Donald Macintyre via reed, Wednesday, Feb 3 2010, 10:35pm
Civilians 'put at greater risk to save military lives' in winter attack - revelations that will pile pressure on Netanyahu to set up full inquiry. (story and 1 image)
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Secret Banking Cabal Emerges From AIG Shadows
David Reilly via reed, Monday, Feb 1 2010, 7:50am
The idea of secret banking cabals that control the country and global economy are a given among conspiracy theorists who stockpile ammo, bottled water and peanut butter. After this week’s congressional hearing into the bailout of American International Group Inc., you have to wonder if those folks are crazy after all. (story and 2 images)
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US Courts complicit in 'war on terror' Profiteering
Tom Burghardt via ryall, Sunday, Jan 31 2010, 9:02pm
In late January, the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report that provided startling new details on illegal operations by the FBI's Communications Analysis Unit (CAU) and America's grifting telecoms.
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The Big Theories Underwriting Society Are Crashing All Around Us -- Are You Ready for a New World?
Terrence McNally via reed, Friday, Jan 29 2010, 7:39am
The ideas and institutions that define our culture are breaking down -- and that's a good thing, say authors Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Monday, Feb 1 2010, 6:41am
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Obama Roundly Condemned by American Intellectuals
harley, Sunday, Jan 24 2010, 8:53pm
American intellectuals have added their voice to the rapidly growing chorus of condemnation directed at President ‘Hope and Change!’ Obama is now choking on his previous promises and pledges. Maintaining the status quo for Corporatists and acquiescing to Pentagon Militarists could hardly be described as ‘Change;’ notwithstanding that escalating WAR is the most HOPE-LESS human endeavour imaginable! (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Wednesday, Jan 27 2010, 7:59am
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![[US] Corporate military 'secures' Palace grounds, Haiti](attachments/imagecache/local/jan2010/100_75_1_1_5_0_0_0_0_0_haitipalace.jpg "[US] Corporate military 'secures' Palace grounds, Haiti")
Disasters are Big Business
William Bowles via stan, Friday, Jan 22 2010, 1:13pm
I am staggered. There are 10,000 ‘NGOs’ (Non-Governmental Organizations) in Haiti, one for every 900 inhabitants and each one of them has no doubt at least one Westerner working within, yet aside from the Cuban health workers, it seems they could do nothing until the gringos arrived with their Blackhawks and nuclear-tipped aircraft carrier and of course, the 82nd Airborne, paying yet another ‘visit’ to this benighted and super-exploited land to ’secure’ the place for the locust storm of aid to come (too late for too many). (story and 1 image)
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A Very American Coup
William J. Astore via fran, Wednesday, Jan 20 2010, 7:38pm
Here’s a bit of cheery news: Last week, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates met with the nation's top defense company executives, including the CEOs of those mega-military-industrial combines Lockheed Martin and Boeing, and called for a “closer partnership.” He also made them a promise. He pledged, according to his spokesman, “to work with the White House to secure steady growth in the Pentagon's budgets over time.
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ICC Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales
Prof. Francis A. Boyle via teale, Wednesday, Jan 20 2010, 6:34pm
Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) for their criminal policy and practice of “extraordinary rendition” perpetrated upon about 100 human beings. This term is really their euphemism for the enforced disappearance of persons and their consequent torture. This criminal policy and practice by the Accused constitute Crimes against Humanity in violation of the Rome Statute establishing the I.C.C. (story and 1 image)
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Criminally Complicit Mass Media
Media Lens via stan, Saturday, Jan 16 2010, 6:14pm
Ignoring or downplaying Western crimes is a standard feature of the corporate Western media. On rare occasions when a broadcaster or newspaper breaks ranks and reports 'our' crimes honestly, it is instructive to observe the response from the rest of the media. Do they follow suit, perhaps digging deeper for details, devoting space to profiles of the victims and interviews with grieving relatives, humanising all concerned? Do they put the crimes in perspective as the inevitable consequence of rapacious Western power? Or do they look away?
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Playing Victim for Politics and Profit -- Murdoch, Palin and the Extreme Right
Frank Schaeffer via teale, Thursday, Jan 14 2010, 11:44pm
The following article is not only highly readable and entertaining it is USEFUL for a number of reasons, not least of which is the APPLIED Balkanisation of the USA! (story and 1 image)
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Community Co-ops are only hope for the future
Sena Christian via zed, Monday, Jan 11 2010, 9:15pm
The most viable and efficient social model for an uncertain future (and failing present) is the mutually assisting, co-operative COMMUNITY. The days of the self-seeking, alienated, capitalist, 'individual' have come to a dramatic CORRUPT, criminal END. If you wish to endure or survive, join or form a COMMUNITY co-op. WE are ONE or we are nothing!
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