 Shell Oil pays $19.5m to avoid facing criminal proceedings
Meredith Griffiths via talya, Tuesday, Jun 9 2009, 5:53am
Oil company Shell has agreed to pay $19.5 million to avoid standing trial over accusations that it was complicit in human rights abuses in Nigeria in the 1990s. The families of nine people executed in 1995 accused Shell of collaborating with the country's military regime to silence the activists for protesting against the oil company's environmental practices in the Niger Delta. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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 Russia, China should dump dollar - Medvedev
staff report, Sunday, Jun 7 2009, 10:50pm
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and China should consider switching to domestic currencies in bilateral trade without going to the dollar, Russia's president Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Kommersant daily published on Friday. (story and 1 comment)
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The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
Stephen Lendman via reed, Tuesday, Jun 2 2009, 9:57am
For over 14 years, Daniel Estulin has investigated and researched the Bilderberg Group's far-reaching influence on business and finance, global politics, war and peace, and control of the world's resources and its money.
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And you thought playing race card would go unnoticed!
sadh, Sunday, May 31 2009, 9:09pm
Shame, cowardly shame on you Australia; your backward, parochial, xenophobia and racism has AGAIN made International headlines – you can truly be proud of the John Howard, Geoff Cousin’s racist revival NOW! The cost of the Cousin’s/Howard ‘race strategy’ for cheap, SHORT-TERM POLITICAL GAIN has come home to roost – and a very well deserved outcome it is! Will it affect our position in the WORLD and our relations with important regional trading partners and other Asian neighbours – YOU bloody bet it WILL! Two dead Chinese nationals killed in race attacks and bashed Indians in parochial Melbourne dictate that outcome, you mindless morons! (story and 4 images)
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Here's hoping Google gets hammered
James Kirby via sadh, Sunday, May 31 2009, 1:21am
It's a sad day when the battle for digital information is between two of the world's most obscene IT Companies, Microsoft and Google. Neither self-serving company has the interests of the public at heart, especially in China, and in the West if hidden information detailing Google's unsavoury relationship with NSA and other security agencies became known! Microsoft is no better having once supplied a 'backdoor' to its Operating System at the request of the NSA. Nevertheless, the stranglehold Google has on information is far worse than the author intimates -- any real democratic government would have legislated long ago forcing Google to relinquish its hold on information searches. Idiotic governments seem to be unaware of today's digital axioms: 'Whoever controls the flow of information rules the world', including governments! Let's hope the open source community gets a viable product out there soon -- then lobbying can begin in earnest! Ed. (story and 3 images)
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Cyber Warfare: Building Attack Tools for Mass Destruction
Tom Burghardt via Kismo, Thursday, May 28 2009, 10:25am
A quintessential hallmark of an authoritarian regime, particularly one that operates within highly-militarized, though nominally democratic states such as ours, is the maintenance of a system of internal control; a seamless panopticon where dissent is equated with criminality and the rule of law derided as a luxury ill-afforded "during a time of war." (story and 2 comments)
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The science of voodoo: When mind attacks body
Helen Pilcher via michael, Thursday, May 28 2009, 9:18am
"Don’t believe anything you hear and only half of what you see!" -- I was waiting for an opportunity to use that saying, which is an old Irish proverb, I am ‘led to believe!’ Now there’s a loaded expression that may not be as innocuous as you may think? (story and 1 image)
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Congress leader wants India to seek action against Lanka
staff report via sadh, Tuesday, May 26 2009, 7:25am
New Delhi (PTI) A senior Congress leader from Tamil Nadu on Tuesday demanded that India should support a resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to be moved by 19 countries demanding action against Sri Lanka for human rights violation during the last phase of the 30-year civil war. (story and 1 comment)
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Nigeria: MEND rebels destroy Chevron oil pipelines
Helen Vesperini via gan, Monday, May 25 2009, 11:42am
LAGOS (AFP) — Nigeria's main rebel group on Monday destroyed several major oil pipelines in the south in response to a military offensive, prompting a cut in production announced at 100,000 barrels a day (story and 1 image)
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America's Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia
Andrew Hughes via rialator, Saturday, May 23 2009, 10:02pm
After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
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Bilderberg Group Orders “Total” Destruction Of US Dollar
Sorcha Faal via talya, Friday, May 22 2009, 9:52pm
A new Kremlin report on the shadowy Bilderberg Group, who this past week held their annual meeting in Greece, states that the West’s financial, political and corporate elite emerged from their conclave after coming to an agreement that in order to continue their drive towards a New World Order dominated by the Western Powers, the US Dollar has to be “totally” destroyed. (story and 1 comment)
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SCO: Prospects For A Multipolar World
Rick Rozoff via rialator, Friday, May 22 2009, 10:11am
On June 15th and 16th the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) will hold its ninth annual heads of state summit in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. It will be attended by the presidents of its six full members - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - and by representatives of various ranks from its four observer states - India, Iran, Mongolia and Pakistan - and from several aspiring partner nations yet to be announced.
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FBI Spyware Has Been Snaring [some] Extortionists and [a few 5th rate] Hackers for Years
Kevin Poulsen via Kismo, Thursday, May 21 2009, 11:25pm
A sophisticated FBI-produced spyware program has played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in federal investigations into extortion plots, terrorist threats and hacker attacks in cases stretching back at least seven years, newly declassified documents show. (story and 2 images)
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Russia dumps US dollar as basic reserve currency
staff report via quill, Thursday, May 21 2009, 3:56am
The US dollar is no longer Russia’s basic reserve currency. The euro-based share of reserve assets of Russia’s Central Bank increased to 47.5 percent as of January 1, 2009 and exceeded the investments in dollar assets, which made up 41.5 percent, the Vedomosti newspaper reported. (story and 1 image)
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Law abiding nation? Sure we are!
Prof James Petras via zed, Sunday, May 17 2009, 10:23pm
“The Deltas are psychos…You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…”, a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980’s. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to head the US and NATO military command in Afghanistan. McChrystal’s rise to leadership is marked by his central role in directing special operations teams engaged in extrajudicial assassinations, systematic torture, bombing of civilian communities and search and destroy missions. He is the very embodiment of the brutality and gore that accompanies military-driven empire building. Between September 2003 and August 2008, McChrystal directed the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations (JSO) Command which operates special teams in overseas assassinations. (story and 2 comments and 1 image)
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Who Rules America?
Paul Craig Roberts via reed, Thursday, May 14 2009, 8:13pm
What do you suppose it is like to be elected president of the United States only to find that your power is restricted to the service of powerful interest groups?
A president who does a good job for the ruling interest groups is paid off with remunerative corporate directorships, outrageous speaking fees, and a lucrative book contract. If he is young when he assumes office, like Bill Clinton and Obama, it means a long life of luxurious leisure.
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US soldier guns down 5 fellow soldiers in Iraq
Robert H. Reid via fleet, Monday, May 11 2009, 10:26am
BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S. soldier opened fire at a counseling center on a U.S. base Monday, killing five fellow soldiers before being taken into custody, the U.S. command and Pentagon officials said. (story and 1 image)
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Oz Internet censorship Minister Conroy faces possible law suit
Stan Beer via Kismo, Monday, May 11 2009, 9:04am
iiNet has scored a stunning round 1 knock-down against the consortium of movie studios and a TV channel trying to sue it because some of its users illegally download copyrighted movies, with some important charges dropped after the presiding judge ruled they had no merit. (story and 1 image)
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The Everyday Extremism of Washington
Tom Engelhardt via fleet, Saturday, May 9 2009, 2:30am
A front-page New York Times headline last week put the matter politely indeed: "In Pakistan, U.S. Courts Leader of Opposition." And nobody thought it was strange at all.
In fact, it's the sort of thing you can read just about any time when it comes to American policy in Pakistan or, for that matter, Afghanistan. It's just the norm on a planet on which it's assumed that American civilian and military leaders can issue pronunciamentos about what other countries must do; publicly demand various actions of ruling groups; opt for specific leaders, and then, when they disappoint, attempt to replace them; and use what was once called "foreign aid," now taxpayer dollars largely funneled through the Pentagon, to bribe those who are hard to convince.
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A Stalled Counterrevolution
Robert Kuttner via reed, Friday, May 8 2009, 9:40am
There is no shortage of books attempting to sort out the dynamics of the great financial collapse that began in the summer of 2007. Since we are still in an early phase of the crisis and don't yet know whether it will rival the Great Depression in its depth and duration, all verdicts remain provisional. But rather in the spirit of the 1952 presidential campaign's arguments over who lost China, the battle is already on to define who lost the economy and what to do next.
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