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 Do not focus on this FACT, for Christ’s sake! posted by peptide, 2008-12-26 19:45:58
Little question all thinking people should ask – and it seems they are an endangered species these days -- how many US or NATO forces/soldiers have been tried for war crimes and other crimes against humanity at the Hague since 1999? Answer: none! A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! Now do a little research and discover for yourselves how many INNOCENT CIVILIANS these forces murder on a DAILY basis! A very high price is extracted for transforming your brains into soup, you mindless fuckin’ morons. (full story)
peace/war / international
The Federal Reserve Abolition Act posted by Stephen Lendman via reed, 2008-12-26 07:10:11
On June 15, 2007, Ron Paul introduced HR 2755: Federal Reserve Abolition Act. There were no co-sponsors, no further action was taken, and the legislation was referred to the House Committee on Financial Services and effectively pigeonholed and ignored. (full story)
imperialism / international
Merry fuckin' Christmas posted by yarra, 2008-12-24 22:59:37
Everything once considered sacred in Western society -- the free market is God -- is falling apart in the most dramatic and public manner. All excuses based on ignorance evaporated with your jobs, savings and homes. Excuses based on a lack of information, knowledge or PROOF are all INVALID after Cheney CONFIRMED on national television that he is a war criminal and torturer! Almost all your leaders have been exposed as puppets, buffoons and/or mass murderers – the pillars of your society proved to be made of chalk. Everything you have been taught as Truth has been exposed as LIES – it’s all coming down as I write; a $50 billion fraud here and there is nothing compared to a $700 billion bailout that blew out to $8.5 trillion in weeks – I can hardly contain my laughter – you pathetic, spineless, turds! (full story)
miscellaneous / international
Before our Eyes; baa’aa, mooo! posted by nano, 2008-12-23 01:06:11
Yep, we are now getting it served up for breakfast on a daily basis! Did you think there was something slightly amiss when the Bush administration described TORTURE/waterboarding as “enhanced interrogation,” for Pete’s sake! Or how about describing invasion, plunder and mass murder as spreading “liberty, democracy and freedom,” for fuck’s sake? There are now hundreds of such linguistic travesties littering our culture thanks to the criminals, rogues and MURDERERS WE ALLOWED to occupy positions of influence and power. (full story)
social/political / international
Doomed to failure: Wall St Banksters continue to Deceive posted by quill, 2008-12-21 00:08:08
The following analysis is revealing for a number of shocking reasons, not least of which is that criminal Wall St Banksters are attempting to deceive their way out of insolvency by creating money from nothing! Isn’t that what caused the global financial collapse in the first instance? What have these white-collar criminals learnt, NOTHING, it seems? (full story)
imperialism / international
  Is this ‘Hope?’ posted by finch, 2008-12-20 20:49:12
Obama’s reaction to ONGOING Wall St. fraud and insider Bankster secrecy falls EXTREMELY short of the expectations of REFORM that HE created during HIS fraudulent election campaign!
Confronting the latest outrageous example ($50b) of ongoing CRIMINAL FRAUD from yet another ROBBER BARON, Bernard Madoff, Obama revealed his feebleness, weakness and reticence; the best he could offer in full view of the largest fraud in American/world history was, regulators "fell asleep at the switch" and “dropped the ball” – for Pete’s sake – more ambiguous, meaningless metaphors, reminiscent of the linguistic chicanery of the outgoing administration. The people are not amused! (full story and 3 comments)
social/political / international
  Unconventional Warfare in the 21st Century posted by Tom Burghardt via quin, 2008-12-19 20:47:56
On December 13, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks did investigative and citizen journalists a great service by publishing the Army Special Operations Forces FM 3-05.130, titled Unconventional Warfare. [Available below.]
Published in September 2008, the 248-page document though unclassified, is restricted "to U.S. Government agencies and their contractors only to protect technical or operational information from automatic dissemination under the International Exchange Program or by other means." The Department of the Army urges recipients to "destroy by any method that will prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document." Wikileaks has guaranteed that the disappearance of this critical primary source into the bowels of the Pentagon will not occur. (full story)
imperialism / international
Obama and Washington Mythmaking posted by Robert Parry via reed, 2008-12-19 20:31:42
Over the years, Washington has evolved into a city of deceptions where semantics cloud reality and where a hazy mix of lies, half-truths and mythology can combine to unleash the devastating military might of the United States for no good reason. Indeed, if there were to be a serious effort to "change the mindset" that got the United States into the Iraq War - as Barack Obama has promised - one place to start would be to force Official Washington to take a long hard look in the mirror. (full story)
mass media / international
 Kevin Rudd risks becoming the toilet paper PM of world history posted by Kingfisher, 2008-12-19 00:00:41
As the US makes plans to close its infamous, excised detention centre, Guantanamo ‘torture’ Bay; Australia opens its newly built, high tech, excised detention/torture centre on ‘Christmas’ Island -- just in time for Christmas! We should all note that Rudd pretends, among myriad other posturings, to be a Christian! WHO ARE YOU TRYING TO KID, RUDD, you reprehensible, performing worm? Tell it to the banjo-playing yanks! (full story and 1 comments)
social/political / international
 Business as usual [Rabbit hole 'CHANGE' you can blow out your arse!'] posted by Kris Alingod via reed, 2008-12-18 20:34:59
Cheney Praises Obama's National Security Team [A most revealing stamp of approval, don't YOU think, Jethro?]
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Reflecting on his eight years in office in his first interview since the elections, Vice President Dick Cheney praised President-elect Barack Obama's national security team but defended the Bush administration's anti-terror policies, including its use of waterboarding and its decision to invade Iraq, which he said would've still taken place even if intelligence had been accurate. (full story)
social/political / international
Rude Awakening posted by quin, 2008-12-18 09:43:01
It was inevitable; the dream has ended and hard reality is pressing mercilessly on all our dissociated perceptions of our leaders, the world and ourselves. (full story and 2 comments)
imperialism / international
 Practical textual/cultural analysis: some secrets revealed posted by peptide, 2008-12-17 01:03:58
Back at the academy we were given a broad range of material from various cultures to analyse. This material included comics, magazines (from technical, through to fashion and homemaker), political and military reports, movies, religious texts and other published material common to a particular culture. We were then asked to analyse the material and assess the current state, direction, weaknesses and strengths of that culture. (full story)
philosophy / international
Setting agendas and stealing debates .. posted by budgie, 2008-12-16 01:31:29
is an art form in which, it seems, few excel, nevertheless it remains ‘the principal, most important’ (I’m practicing American grammar) tool of modern, GLOBAL politics. The reasons are obvious; in a world of instant communications the ‘battle for the dominant discourse’ or rather for the attention/focus of the moronic masses is paramount – the future VIABILITY of Barack Obama is being compromised as I write due to the WORLD focusing on his GLARING DISREGARD of the war and other crimes against humanity committed by the outgoing administration! (full story and 2 comments)
social/political / international
 Reality aversion and rabbit hole logic posted by nano, 2008-12-14 08:51:23
As the U.S. population labours under a mountain of misapprehensions and disinformation regarding the activities of its murdering, criminal government and the mayhem it has created at home and abroad, financial and other ruling cabals are orchestrating a bid for total global financial power – believe it! But rather than confront hard reality and PARTICIPATE in maintaining a healthy democracy – by demanding full accountability of all persons in positions of trust and responsibility -- what do the people do; drown in torrents of propaganda, lies, spin and Murdoch ‘news?’ Americans continue to labour under the false apprehension that turncoat Obama represents “change we can believe in!” (full story and 4 comments)
social/political / international
The $8.5 Trillion bet posted by Matthias Chang via rialator, 2008-12-13 19:50:58
A few weeks ago, I warned that the Dow would dive below 7,000 at the earliest by end of December 2008 and at the latest by the end of the first quarter 2009. Any responsible central banker would want to control a downturn, preferably by a gradual slide of the market as opposed to a sharp hard landing. However, events clearly indicate the current breed of financial handlers are irresponsible gamblers not prudent financial managers. (full story)
imperialism / international
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