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 [Communications Minister] Conroy coy on filtered web content
Fran Foo via Kismo, Wednesday, Nov 12 2008, 7:39am
THE federal Government has been urged to come clean over grey areas in its internet filtering plan after Broadband and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy pointed to "unwanted content" being censored. On Monday, the Government released details of its long-awaited call for expressions of interest on internet content filtering trials that will involve ISPs and mobile phone operators. (story and 1 comment and 1 image)
Last Commented Thursday, Nov 13 2008, 6:14am
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 Nuclear smackdown [standoff] in New Europe
Mike Whitney via reed, Sunday, Nov 9 2008, 7:53pm
"US president-elect Barack Obama has told Polish President Lech Kaczynski he will go ahead with plans to build a missile defense shield in eastern Europe despite threats from Russia, Warsaw said on Saturday" AFP Warsaw
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Censorship in the Western Media: What they Don't Want You to Know
Eric Sommer via quill, Wednesday, Nov 5 2008, 8:47am
The Western media has recently outdone itself in censoring important stories - stories which contradict the policies and interests the media seeks to uphold.. Western publics have been systematically misled in recent weeks on vital issues related to war-and-peace, human rights, the financial crisis, and more. Only a few examples can be set out here. But it should be enough to indicate the extent to which world reality is being filtered by the media. (story and 1 comment and 2 images)
Last Commented Wednesday, Nov 5 2008, 7:30pm
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Between Hope and Reality: An Open Letter to Barack Obama
Ralph Nader via reed, Tuesday, Nov 4 2008, 7:44am
Dear Senator Obama:
In your nearly two-year presidential campaign, the words "hope and change," "change and hope" have been your trademark declarations. Yet there is an asymmetry between those objectives and your political character that succumbs to contrary centers of power that want not "hope and change" but the continuation of the power-entrenched status quo. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Tuesday, Nov 4 2008, 8:02am
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More from the Front Lines of the Financial Crisis
Stephen Lendman via reed, Monday, Nov 3 2008, 8:52am
In its latest economic outlook, Merrill Lynch economists "worry about inflation, or more precisely," a lack of it. From crashing global equity markets, falling commodity prices, rising unemployment, stagnant wages, over-indebted households, declining production, the continuing housing crisis, and more. All pointing to several future quarters of negative growth. Showing that Fed chairman Bernanke will face "his greatest fear: deflation." An analysis of the coincident to lagging indicators signals "deep recession." (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, Nov 8 2008, 8:00am
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Balkan Wars and Western Propaganda
Edward S. Herman via rialator, Friday, Oct 31 2008, 8:40am
Marlise Simons, the New York Times' main reporter on the Milosevic trial and International Criminal Trial for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), has had a difficult year. Perhaps most painful was the disclosure that in 1999 the Kosovo Albanian KLA sent as many as 300 captive Serbs to Albania to be killed and their internal organs "harvested" for sale abroad; a matter barely mentioned in the New York Times (see below). I was sorely tempted to write to Marlise Simons and offer her my sympathies, "Marlise, if only the villains in this case were Serbs, what a fine front page article you could have had!"
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American Hegemony Bites The Dust
Paul Craig Roberts via rialator, Wednesday, Oct 29 2008, 9:52am
"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do." -- Bush White House aide explaining the 'New Reality.'
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U.S. threatens to halt services to Iraq without troop accord
Roy Gutman and Leila Fadel via reed, Monday, Oct 27 2008, 11:19pm
[The latest hair-brain tactic of the US mass murdering military is to threaten the cessation of services to Iraq by January 1st, if the Iraqi puppet government does not comply with US DEMANDS, brilliant! China and Russia are waiting patiently in the wings for an invitation to do business in a civilised manner. Neither superpower feels the need to murder over one million INNOCENT civilians in order to develop Iraq's valuable resources. By all means, yankee doodle moron, CEASE ALL SERVICES AND FUCK OFF!] (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Monday, Oct 27 2008, 11:33pm
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How the Banksters are Making a Killing Off the Bailout
Pam Martens via fleet, Tuesday, Oct 21 2008, 9:26am
In 1897, when 8-year old Virginia O’Hanlon posed her Santa Claus query to the New York Sun, she received a heart-warming editorial response reassuring her that “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist….” Today, we hand our 8 year olds a $13 trillion national debt while our Congress hands Wall Street banksters the national purse without so much as a hearing to determine the cause of the debt collapse. Worse still, the money is doled out to the very same individuals who leveraged their institutions to casino status.
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"Armageddon" Prices Fail to Lure Buyers Amid Selling
Pierre Paulden and Caroline Salas via reed, Monday, Oct 20 2008, 11:07pm
Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Credit markets have fallen so far that they are providing a "once in a lifetime opportunity,'' and investors are still selling. Prices of loans rated below investment grade declined to a record low 66.1 cents on the dollar, virtually guaranteeing investors get their money back, based on historical recovery rates, according to data compiled by Standard & Poor's. Yields on corporate bonds show investors expect 5.6 percent of the market to go bust, the highest default rate since the Great Depression, according to Christopher Garman, chief executive officer of debt research firm Garman Research LLC in Orinda, California.
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A journey into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
Nir Rosen via krill, Monday, Oct 20 2008, 1:39am
"The Russians were stronger than the Americans, more fierce. We will put the Americans in their graves."
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Maybe U.S. needs yard sale
Eric Margolis via reed, Sunday, Oct 19 2008, 1:16am
At the end of Second World War the British Empire still ruled nearly a quarter of the globe. But the war bankrupted Britain. Its once mighty empire quickly collapsed and the United States inherited much of the British Imperium. Six decades later the United States is close to bankruptcy thanks to a national orgy of borrowing, the replacement of manufacturing by financial manipulation, ruinous foreign wars and a government whose stunning incompetence and arrant stupidity was exceeded only by its reckless imperial arrogance.
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US Banks Reap Whirlwind of Govt Spending
Adrianne Appel via rialator, Friday, Oct 17 2008, 7:35am
BOSTON, Oct 17 (IPS) - The George W. Bush administration handed 125 billion dollars to nine of Wall Street's richest banks, but this will do little to help the economy that is crumbling around ordinary U.S. citizens, independent experts and activists say.
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Does the bailout pass the smell test?
Paul Craig Roberts via rialator, Wednesday, Oct 15 2008, 7:47am
The explanation that has been given for the financial crisis does not match up with the solution that has been devised. Moreover, the windows into the crisis offered by the authorities are opaque rather than transparent. (story and 2 images)
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A $516 trillion derivatives 'time-bomb'
Margareta Pagano and Simon Evans via krill, Sunday, Oct 12 2008, 8:40am
The market is worth more than $516 trillion, (£303 trillion), roughly 10 times the value of the entire world's output: it's been called the "ticking time-bomb". It's a market in which the lead protagonists – typically aggressive, highly educated, and now wealthy young men – have flourished in the derivatives boom. But it's a market that is set to come to a crashing halt – the Great Unwind has begun. (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Monday, Oct 13 2008, 7:06am
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Betrayed by the Bailout: The Death of Democracy
William Cox via reed, Saturday, Oct 4 2008, 11:21pm
On this date, October 3, 2008, the American people were betrayed by those whom they had elected to represent them. The members of Congress who voted for the Wall Street "bailout" violated their oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution" ... "that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same" ... "and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: ..." (story and 1 comment)
Last Commented Saturday, Oct 4 2008, 11:34pm
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 Common denominator: 9/11 and the Bush Doctrine
quill, Saturday, Oct 4 2008, 10:52pm
Every branding, advertising and marketing trick in the book is employed by American neo-conservatives in their manic pursuit of world domination. Political destabilisation and promoting constant war are two well-known methods that Washington criminals employ. However, we should never forget that the first attack must necessarily be on language! (story and 1 attached file)
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Woman, 90, Shoots Self Inside Foreclosed Home
dingo, Saturday, Oct 4 2008, 12:29am
We have all been trained to ‘internalise’ social problems; however, in the OVERWHELMING majority of cases it is our RULERS/LEADERS that are at FAULT! For those who missed it previously we quote the following: “the fact the government prefers to bailout the criminal bankers and not the people gives license to the people to DEFAULT ON ALL LOANS IN PROTEST OF A CORRUPT, CRIMINAL AND INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT that has lined its own pockets at the expense of the people and the nation!”
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The dead children of Iraq ensure defeat for the murdering USA
Eric Margolis via rialator, Friday, Oct 3 2008, 2:06am
Those Wall Street financial alchemists who turned garbage into gold must have helped John McCain prepare for his debate with Barack Obama last Friday. Senator McCain’s insistent claims that the US is winning the war in Iraq thanks to his "surge" strategy are the military-political equivalent of the junk securities that Wall Street’s shady financiers have been selling around the globe.
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Black Monday Galore: A Speculator's Paradise
Michel Chossudovsky via reed, Tuesday, Sep 30 2008, 10:05pm
"Black Mondays" are potentially the source of windfall profits. The revenues to be derived by financial institutions, which not only have foreknowledge and inside information but also the ability to manipulate the market are enormous.
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