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 The CIA Beyond Redemption Should be Terminated
Sherwood Ross via quill, Tuesday, Feb 24 2009, 7:31am
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has confirmed the worst fears of its creator President Harry Truman that it might degenerate into “an American Gestapo.” It has been just that for so long it is beyond redemption. It represents 60 years of failure and fascism utterly at odds with the spirit of a democracy and needs to be closed, permanently. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Thursday, Feb 26 2009, 7:25am
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 Is It Jailout Time Yet?
Danny Schechter via fleet, Tuesday, Feb 24 2009, 12:34am
Judging by my in-box, there seem to be no shortage of organizations and individuals obsessed with an image: Dick Cheney and George Bush in prison, and Karl Rove in the next cell. Never mind that Congress doesn’t have the guts or the President the gumption to go after those responsible for the gutting of the Constitution. Nevertheless, there are many campaigns and calls to hold the last Administration accountable for its crimes. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Tuesday, Feb 24 2009, 12:46am
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Obama administration tries to kill e-mail case
Pete Yost via reed, Monday, Feb 23 2009, 8:41am
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration, siding with former President George W. Bush, is trying to kill a lawsuit that seeks to recover what could be millions of missing White House e-mails. (story and 1 image)
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10 Dirty Tricks Wall Street Con Artists Will Pull to Keep the Rip-offs Going
Paul B. Farrell, Monday, Feb 23 2009, 8:08am
America wants an economic recovery. A brand new bull. And nobody wants it more than Wall Street. It gets rich off bull markets. Yes, Warren Buffett may be buying, but the odds are against Wall Street now.
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Soros sees no bottom for world financial "collapse"
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa and Juan Lagorio via gan, Saturday, Feb 21 2009, 8:48am
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Renowned investor George Soros said on Friday the world financial system has effectively disintegrated, adding that there is yet no prospect of a near-term resolution to the crisis. Soros said the turbulence is actually more severe than during the Great Depression, comparing the current situation to the demise of the Soviet Union. (story and 1 image)
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Incarceration level: the clearest indicator of a viable society
yarra, Friday, Feb 20 2009, 9:06pm
No prizes for guessing the world’s NUMBER 1 incarcerator is the USA! Yessiree Bob, that utopian/dystopian capitalist wonderland/HELL is fast approaching its FATE – America is about to confront itself! The portrait of Dorian Gray looks like a Cherub in comparison. (story and 2 comments)
Last Commented Sunday, Mar 1 2009, 9:16pm
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Possible end to secret Swiss bank accounts
David Voreacos and Carlyn Kolker via gan, Friday, Feb 20 2009, 7:51am
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government sued UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, to try to force disclosure of the identities of as many as 52,000 American customers who allegedly hid their secret Swiss accounts from U.S. tax authorities.
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Google Earth reveals secret CIA drone base in Pakistan
Jeremy Page via rialator, Thursday, Feb 19 2009, 8:33pm
The US was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan as early as 2006, according to an image of the base from Google Earth. (story and 1 image)
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IMF chief warns second wave of countries will require bail-out
Edmund Conway via reed, Tuesday, Feb 17 2009, 1:15am
A "second wave" of countries will fall victim to the economic crisis and face being bailed out by the International Monetary Fund, its chief warned at the G7 summit in Rome. [IMF chief] Dominique Strauss-Kahn's warning comes amid growing concern that at some point in the next year a major economy could have to seek support from the Fund. Mr Strauss-Kahn, who was yesterday attending the Group of Seven leading finance ministers' meeting in Rome, said: "I expect a second wave of countries to come knocking." (story and 4 comments and 1 image)
Last Commented Wednesday, Feb 18 2009, 10:09pm
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Nationalise the Banks
Matthew Richardson and Nouriel Roubini via reed, Sunday, Feb 15 2009, 7:32pm
The U.S. banking system is close to being insolvent, and unless we want to become like Japan in the 1990s -- or the United States in the 1930s -- the only way to save it is to nationalize it.
As free-market economists teaching at a business school in the heart of the world's financial capital, we feel downright blasphemous proposing an all-out government takeover of the banking system. But the U.S. financial system has reached such a dangerous tipping point that little choice remains. And while Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's recent plan to save it has many of the right elements, it's basically too late. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Sunday, Feb 15 2009, 7:39pm
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International Criminal Court Faces Big Test With Israel
Amitabh Pal via fleet, Saturday, Feb 14 2009, 12:01am
The International Criminal Court soon faces a big test—a test that could reveal whether it is truly an independent institution.
The Palestinian Authority has asked the court’s chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, to examine if Israel was guilty of war crimes during its recent Gaza operation. Moreno-Ocampo should take a look into the allegations, not the least to refute the assertion that the court is an instrument of the West. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Monday, Feb 16 2009, 8:34am
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The New Thought Police
James Bamford via leafers, Friday, Feb 13 2009, 8:41am
The National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell's Thought Police might have found useful: an artificial intelligence system designed to gain insight into what people are thinking. (story and 1 image)
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Increased social unrest in Europe
Heather Cottin via talya, Tuesday, Feb 10 2009, 7:39am
Thousands of demonstrators in Lithuania, Latvia and Bulgaria have attacked government buildings and called on their governments to resign as unemployment soars in Eastern Europe.
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The War on Terror is a Hoax
Paul Craig Roberts via rialator, Wednesday, Feb 4 2009, 8:52pm
"The most obvious indication that there are no terrorist cells is that not a single neocon has been assassinated.
I do not approve of assassinations, and am ashamed of my country’s government for engaging in political assassination. The US and Israel have set a very bad example for al Qaeda to follow."
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The ‘Amero’ -- fact or fiction?
Sonya Rehman via quin, Wednesday, Feb 4 2009, 9:24am
Word has it that the US Dollar is soon to be replaced by the ‘Amero’. Is this just another conspiracy theory kicked up by a bunch of bored conspiracy theorists?
Who knows, but at the rate the US economy finds itself sinking further into a quicksand recession, the introduction of the Amero might just turn out to be a reality. (story and 2 comments and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, Feb 4 2009, 9:51am
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The Whole World Is Rioting as the Economic Crisis Worsens -- Why Aren't We?
Joshua Holland via rialator, Tuesday, Feb 3 2009, 8:16am
Explosive anger is spilling out onto the streets of Europe. The meltdown of the global economy is igniting massive social unrest in a region that has long been a symbol of political stability and social cohesion.
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Oz supermarket chains profiteering in economic crisis
Alan Jones via fleet, Sunday, Feb 1 2009, 7:39pm
The following report is an indictment of the ineffective Rudd government not an expose’ of profiteering, monopolist supermarkets, whose track record of price hiking and unjustified mark-ups is well known.
Why have governments if they are unable to govern, we may well ask? The people can go without many luxury items but no one can go without food! STOP the RIPOFFS NOW!!!
INTERVENTION IS REQUIRED from our pathetic, compliant (to the corporations) politicians -- you reprehensible, vile, UNAUSTRALIAN, servile scum! (story and 2 images)
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Having a 'Voice' Makes People Happy
Frances Moore Lappé via finch, Saturday, Jan 31 2009, 10:28pm
"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.” So wrote Friedrich Nietzsche in 1895.
I’m guessing that many of you would feel uncomfortable embracing this definition of happiness, especially coming from one of history’s most famous curmudgeons. If so, maybe in part it’s because too often we’ve nodded in agreement with Lord Acton’s catchy caveat, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” And who would want to risk corruption?
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Google 'error' lists all websites as harmful
staff report via reed, Saturday, Jan 31 2009, 8:46pm
The search engine Google sparked online confusion on Saturday when a glitch in its security program temporarily warned users that websites from all search results were potentially harmful. (story and 1 image)
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Well done, Leonard!
Richard Jinman via quill, Friday, Jan 30 2009, 9:40pm
From the earliest totems and depictions on cave walls till today; poets/artists have possessed the ‘magic’ to transform. The world allows murderers, liars and frauds to assume leadership at great cost to the people and planet. However, REAL HOPE and CHANGE RESIDES in the CREATIVE (not warring, destructive) spirit of humankind; from all Aussie poets and artists, WELCOME to Oz, Leonard -- and a job well done, old man.
“That sunny dome those caves of ice
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.” -- STC |
Sydney is also known for its street poet, Arthur Stace, who summed it up in a word, which he chalked onto the sidewalks of Sydney until his death:
(story and 2 images)
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