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 All Lies posted by Mike Whitney via stele, 2010-06-08 22:29:55
Israel has become Myanmar on the Jordan. Every new act of violence deepens the paranoia, the resentment, the isolation. The killing of 9 peace activists aboard the Mavi Marmara was celebrated in Tel Aviv--another blood victory against the 'terrorists', another triumph against those who would harm Israel. Heads of state around the world have condemned the butchery, but Israelis have shrugged off the criticism. They think that support for the activists is anti-Semitism. They think that food and medicine are weapons that will be used by Hamas against Israel. This is madness, but madness has consequences. Nine people are dead. (full story)
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Some Big Lies of Science posted by Denis G. Rancourt via reed, 2010-06-07 07:03:19
“The majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed.” – Harold Pinter, Nobel Lecture (Literature), 2005 (full story)
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The Indistinguishable Enemy posted by Mustafa Qadri via reed, 2010-05-17 21:59:30
The US-led occupation of Afghanistan has transformed the once-reviled Taliban into freedom fighters. (full story)
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The Simple Life posted by peet, 2010-05-17 07:04:21
As a child things were really simple, people said things u could believe and as a child everything seemed 'stable' or so we were led to believe. (full story and 1 comments)
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Great choice, Oz! posted by stele, 2010-05-16 20:46:15
The Murdoch, Stokes and other mass media organisations in Oz are exercising their influence on the masses by offering THEIR alternatives to the now fully exposed (popularity trashed) POLICY FAILED, narcissistic PM, Kevin ‘show pony’ Rudd; who imagined that managing a nation amounted to slavishly following Washington in unwinnable wars, serving Wall St, the RBA and other unrepresentative minority interests. (full story and 2 comments)
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  Bought American Senators vote down bill to audit the Fed posted by sol, 2010-05-11 21:00:27
The most powerful and secretive PRIVATE BANK in the world has succeeded in defeating a bill that would have REVEALED its monetary dealings – what does this PRIVATE consortium have to hide from the people? There is no doubt whatsoever that FULL DISCLOSURE of monetary policy is required of a BANK that pretends to be a Federal Institution! The private lobbyist coup against an audit becomes yet another nail in the coffin of American democracy. The take-over of American government by PRIVATE CORPORATE interests is almost COMPLETE. The USA is now a CONFIRMED CORPORATE (therefore fascist) STATE – it offers a heinous, criminal track record as proof of the FACT! (full story)
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What's in a Word? posted by Pierre Tristam via quill, 2010-05-11 07:03:51
The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press just released a survey testing reactions to political rhetoric—whether people react positively or negatively to words like “progressive” or “socialism” or phrases like “states’ rights” or “civil liberties.” The results were not surprising in some regards. Say the phrases “civil rights,” “civil liberties” and “states’ rights,” and between 87 percent and 77 percent of people respond positively. Even the word “progressive,” which the right-wing machinery on Fox and friends is doing its best to turn into a slander, gets a 68 percent positive response, including 56 percent of Republicans. (full story)
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 Iraq: an American ‘Success’ Story posted by Al, 2010-05-10 23:45:53
Iraq is an excellent example of American ‘success,’ knowhow and ‘genius,’ is it not? Afghanistan is proving a better example still! These two screaming, REAL LIFE examples of American incompetence, ineptitude, overt flouting of international law and human rights, just won’t fade into the background. Almost daily the newswires contain more horrid examples of civilian killing by Americans and the MASSIVE DESTABILISATION that ensues. The ‘stability, liberty and democracy’ that America promised Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan AND the WORLD, is proving to be a very bitter experience for the innocent civilians of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Take a quick squiz at the REALITY today and VERIFY the truth for yourself. (full story and 3 comments)
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Failure by Conscious Design: Private Banking posted by cleaves, 2010-05-08 23:57:41
The masses sometimes remind me of a woman I once knew; completely oppressed/stifled by her current relationship and living conditions but unable to face the uncertainty and challenge of breaking FREE! Don’t we all know it to a greater or lesser extent? Gender really has nothing to do with our internal contradictions, fears and the uncertainty of facing the unknown. Nevertheless, how does this analogy of human emotions relate to the forced failure of the (criminal) PRIVATE banking/financial system? (full story)
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What’s wrong with this Equation, doodles? posted by sol, 2010-05-06 22:52:39
COLLUDING CRIMINAL, mega-rich elitists create the world’s worst economic crisis and force innocent common people (USA, Greece) to pay for THEIR mistakes? (full story and 2 comments)
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America: The Grim Truth posted by Lance Freeman via reed, 2010-05-05 20:57:56
Americans, I have some bad news for you. You have the worst quality of life in the developed world – by a wide margin. (full story and 1 comments)
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 Corporations are Killing You! posted by teale, 2010-05-05 01:06:00
If you ever wondered what Corporate Organisations really think (their ideological raison d'être) then wonder no more. The graph below is yet another example of the REALITY -- as opposed to the LIES, spin and advertising – of the Corporate influence/effect on ALL our lives. (full story and 2 comments)
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'onya Oz: man cleared of charge after calling pig (police) a 'prick' posted by staff report via sal, 2010-05-04 06:46:08
An Australian student who called a police officer a "prick" has been cleared of verbal abuse charges after a judge ruled that the word was in "common usage" and therefore not offensive. (full story)
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 Rudd earns the ire of Aussies posted by bluey, 2010-05-03 11:32:07
In perhaps one of the worst examples of cynical politics this nation has seen, incumbent Australian PM, Kevin ‘show pony’ Rudd, is attempting to distract the attention of the population away from his ruinous policy failures by implementing minor tax and health reforms and attacking the 'soft target,' tobacco industry. However, the list of Rudd’s failures, which range from Japanese whaling, ETS, computers for every student, home insulation debacle, ‘borderless’ security and indebting OUR nation and future generations to nefarious foreign Banksters (stimulus) that print ‘fiat’ (toilet-paper) money in exchange for our REAL assets, are far too prominent to be ignored or brushed away. Rudd’s track record does not exactly fill one with confidence; we now know that Rudd is less concerned with positive results than he is with appearances, distractions and political trickery. (full story)
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 Criminal elites – see how they run! posted by ryall, 2010-04-28 21:30:24
As a kid I enjoyed a fairytale about a Lion raised as a sheep. One day, faced with predatory wolves, this LION realised who it was and what it was FULLY capable of; it easily vanquished the threat to its loved ones and its society. Today, as an adult, the allegory is clear – those unfamiliar with this delightful animated story should search Youtube for, ‘Lambert the Sheepish Lion.’ (full story)
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