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 The Airport Scanner Scam
James Ridgeway via fleet, Tuesday, Jan 5 2010, 6:52pm
'Scan, baby, scan!' That’s the mantra among politicians at all levels in the wake of the thwarted terrorist attack aboard a Detroit-bound passenger jet. According to conventional wisdom, the would-be “underwear bomber” could have been stopped by airport security if he’d been put through a full-body scanner, which would have revealed the cache of explosives attached to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s groin. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Friday, Jan 15 2010, 5:50pm
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Obama: pathetic!
Shamus Cooke via quill, Friday, Dec 18 2009, 5:46am
Shortly before Obama was sent to Copenhagen to deliver a scripted speech on behalf of rich Bankers, Military Industrialists and the REAL ruling elite of the USA, he implored the US banking/financial establishment to lend more money to the average person and small business -- you know, they're the people that bailed the banks out with trillions in future debt and tax burdens. To demonstrate their heart-felt gratitude for the people and the government, the bankers, while drowning themselves in yet more bonuses, refused Obama's request and showed him the service exit! It should now be plain to even the average American that Western democratic governments NO LONGER GOVERN anything! (story and 3 images)
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 Why Americans Are a Broken People?
Bruce E. Levine via quill, Monday, Dec 14 2009, 6:58pm
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Monday, Dec 14 2009, 7:23pm
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Bernanke applies liquid palliative while Real Economy continues to flounder
Mike Whitney via fleet, Saturday, Dec 12 2009, 5:31pm
The Fed's monetary intervention has created a bifurcated market. Stocks rise on an ocean of central bank liquidity while the real economy continues to languish in a small "d" depression. The disparity between financial markets and the underlying "productive" economy has never been greater. Nor has the "wealth gap", the gross inequality exacerbated by decades of "monetarist" supply side policies. Bernanke simply has no other choice but to try to inflate another gigantic bubble that will lift the economy from the doldrums on a speculative wave of zero-rate liquidity. The problem is, according to Bernanke himself, the strategy is not working.
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USA Refuses to Allow UN Inspectors to Investigate its WMDs!
AFP via rann, Friday, Dec 11 2009, 6:01pm
PROOF incontrovertible! It's all out in the open NOW!
The world's leading civilian killing (therefore TERRORIST) nation persistently refuses to comply with International Law and Convention -- Balkans and South Asia -- is anyone really surprised that America now clarifies its ROGUE STATUS by denying UN weapons inspectors access to its WMD sites? (story and 1 image)
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FUCK Yoo!
Bob Egelko via stan, Tuesday, Dec 8 2009, 7:33pm
The ‘HOPE and CHANGE’ (ROFL) administration of Corporatist PUPPET Barack Obaa’ma has intervened in the case against former Bush legal advisor, John Yoo, the man who LEGITIMISED TORTURE (for God’s sake) and left an indelible stain on a once proud and MORAL nation! The US had an opportunity to demonstrate to the world that it was serious about criminal reform in high office but lost out to the rancorous, corrupt ruling elite that control Washington. (story and 1 image)
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Copenhagen: the 'FIX' is in -- Corporatist sham EXPOSED!
John Vidal via fish, Tuesday, Dec 8 2009, 6:48pm
The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Wednesday, Dec 9 2009, 6:00pm
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Remembering Patrice Lumumba
Danny Schechter via reed, Tuesday, Dec 8 2009, 8:26am
I came to the Congo in search of its future and instead found myself marching down memory lane. On Thursday we went to the Museum of Beaux Arts, really a school for teaching sculpture, a subject close to me because my late dad sculpted in stone and wood as a hobby. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, Dec 9 2009, 9:44pm
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Trickle-up Economics
Paul Craig Roberts via fleet, Saturday, Dec 5 2009, 10:38pm
Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.”
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 The Audacity of Ethnic Cleansing
Mike Whitney via reed, Saturday, Dec 5 2009, 8:46pm
"Today, we Afghans remain trapped between two enemies: the Taliban on one side and US/NATO forces and their warlord hirelings on the other." -- Malalai Joya (story and 2 comments and 1 image and 1 attached file)
Last Commented Tuesday, Dec 8 2009, 7:30am
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Currency Warfare -- Review of Financial Markets
Bob Chapman via stan, Thursday, Dec 3 2009, 8:49am
This past week was one of utmost turmoil in world markets. In the midst of an American holiday, Dubai faced bankruptcy for approx. $100 billion. Another unsuspected untoward event. The exposure of the Dubai event coming as it did could have been discovered at any given time, thus, we question the timing. We can understand why the London market was off some 300 Dow points, but exposure to Dubai was very limited in Europe, the US and in Asia. Could it have been an excuse to take down the US and European markets and gold and silver? We do not know, but we have come to question everything that happens. (story and 1 image)
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ETS PM, Kevin Rudd, exposed as Corporate Lackey and LIAR
AAP wire via fleet, Thursday, Dec 3 2009, 12:34am
It is no secret today that Capitalism’s last, desperate pitch to survive depends on (grossly unfair) Carbon Trading/Emission Schemes. Not surprisingly the Corporate world has dispatched their LACKEY politicians to implement Carbon Trading schemes in the respective nations in which they hold sway. However, schemes that disadvantage the average person with CRUSHING additional TAXES while COMPENSATING Industry/Big Business for polluting, may prove a very hard sell to say the least – one national leader EXPOSED, who’s next? (story and 1 image)
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 Not always morbid or drear -- Oz Political reporting
spot, Monday, Nov 30 2009, 9:07pm
Oz politics reduces to a contest between two major parties vying for the ‘privilege’ of knee-walking in Washington! Few nations could care less which lackey leads Australia in shameless servitude to America; however, a good piece deserves broad exposure regardless of its dreary subject. In support and appreciation the Cleaves Editorial Team voted to break their policy-ban on reporting political flea fights; we are therefore pleased to offer our readership an out-of-character piece from the Oz mass media – God forbid, it actually drips with dry humour, sarcasm, and dare I say it, ‘wit,’ all wrapped in a style usually characteristic of the Independent Media! Better watch your step, Ms Crabb, verve and genuine reporting are better left to the Independents! (story and 3 comments and 2 images and 2 audio files)
Last Commented Thursday, Dec 3 2009, 7:28pm
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U.S. stages coup to avoid $12 Trillion national DEBT Obligations!
The Onion via captain poopet, Sunday, Nov 22 2009, 5:42pm
The world is aware that America has no intention of meeting its $12 trillion debt obligations -- how does it feel China? You had your chance. [Suckers!]
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Second Wave of Financial Tsunami likely to HIT in 2010
Matthias Chang via reed, Sunday, Nov 22 2009, 5:07pm
"The policy-makers of these countries faced with the total collapse of the international financial architecture have concluded that the solution, the only solution is quantitative easing (i.e. massive injection of liquidity) to salvage the “too big to fail” banks and (re)inflate their depressed economies. This is best reflected in Bernanke’s candid remark that, “the US government has a technology, called the printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost”.
This is the crux of the problem!"
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WE fight because ....
David DeGraw via quill, Saturday, Nov 21 2009, 4:56pm
If its not time NOW then WE would have lost EVERYTHING to the rogues, murderers and thieves that today control our governments!
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Feds raid homes of Reserve Bank Execs
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie via finch, Friday, Nov 20 2009, 6:35am
FEDERAL police have raided the homes of executives from a Reserve Bank of Australia company as part of an international bribery investigation. (story and 1 comment)
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"Global Economic Collapse"
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard via fleet, Thursday, Nov 19 2009, 6:45pm
Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction. (story and 2 attached files)
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The [Obvious] New State Solution
Chris Hedges via gan, Tuesday, Nov 17 2009, 6:07pm
The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the result of Israel’s 42-year refusal to implement a two-state solution, leaves the Palestinians no option but to unilaterally declare an independent state. Israel acted unilaterally when it announced independence in 1948. It is the Palestinians’ turn. It worked in Kosovo. It worked in Georgia. And it will work in Palestine. There are 192 member states in the United Nations and as many as 150 would recognize the state of Palestine, creating a diplomatic nightmare for Israel and its lonely ally the United States. Israel will face worldwide censure if it attempts to crush the independent state by force and very likely be subjected to the kind of divestment campaigns and boycotts that brought down the apartheid government of South Africa.
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The Forgotten Bird Of Paradise
John Pilger via stan, Monday, Nov 16 2009, 4:44pm
When General Suharto, the West’s man, seized power in Indonesia in the mid-1960s, he offered “a gleam of light in Asia”, rejoiced Time magazine. That he had killed up to a million [mostly ethnic Chinese] 'communists' was of no account in the acquisition of what Richard Nixon called “the richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest prize in South-east Asia”.
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