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  Obama: pathetic! posted by Shamus Cooke via quill, 2009-12-18 05:46:01
Shortly before Obama was sent to Copenhagen to deliver a scripted speech on behalf of rich Bankers, Military Industrialists and the REAL ruling elite of the USA, he implored the US banking/financial establishment to lend more money to the average person and small business -- you know, they're the people that bailed the banks out with trillions in future debt and tax burdens. To demonstrate their heart-felt gratitude for the people and the government, the bankers, while drowning themselves in yet more bonuses, refused Obama's request and showed him the service exit! It should now be plain to even the average American that Western democratic governments NO LONGER GOVERN anything! (full story)
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 The Front posted by hue, 2009-12-16 18:18:44
‘Hard work always pays dividends,’ a phrase straight from the Corporatist Bible, but to whom goes the dividends -- that is the question? The recent Iraqi Oil Auction, a circus of an event televised like a game show on Iraqi television (see link) dispels once and for all the myth that nation states are the seat of power and influence or that ‘democracy’ exists outside dictionary definitions! (full story and 1 comments)
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Why Americans Are a Broken People? posted by Bruce E. Levine via quill, 2009-12-14 18:58:53
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States? (full story and 1 comments)
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 Oz Political Vermin Survival Strategies posted by dasha, 2009-12-13 07:57:42
In contrast to kitchen vermin, which always seek out dark cracks and crevices when under threat, Oz political vermin, when confronted with massive popularity/face LOSS -- failed ‘Messiah’ of ETS at ‘No-Hopen-Hagen;’ border 'protection;' pissweak whaling ‘warrior’ in our hemisphere; continuing BHP artesian water theft; wholesale rape of the nation by Corporations and gut-turning cowardice/compliance with every dictate of Washington regarding sending our troops to AMERICA’S ILLEGAL (and failed) WARS – but to the point; politicians, unlike their kitchen cockroach cousins, seek the LIMELIGHT to DISTRACT and survive when threatened with demise! (full story and 1 comments)
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 Radicalism in new Oz opposition may prove successful posted by spot, 2009-12-10 21:14:53
It is no secret that Oz has been cursed with spineless, sycophantic, subservient (to Washington) national leaders since Paul ‘bank fees’ Keating. After the agonisingly long tenure of arch-conservative and WAR CRIMINAL, John Howard, Australia hoped beyond reason that the new PM Kevin ‘show pony’ Rudd would return the nation to its traditional cultural values, but alas, it is now painfully clear WE GOT STUCK WITH ANOTHER SERVILE, CONSERVATIVE NERD! (full story)
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 Remembering Patrice Lumumba posted by Danny Schechter via reed, 2009-12-08 08:26:51
I came to the Congo in search of its future and instead found myself marching down memory lane. On Thursday we went to the Museum of Beaux Arts, really a school for teaching sculpture, a subject close to me because my late dad sculpted in stone and wood as a hobby. (full story and 1 comments)
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Trickle-up Economics posted by Paul Craig Roberts via fleet, 2009-12-05 22:38:40
Goldman Sachs senior executives are arming themselves with New York gun permits, according to Alice Schroeder on Bloomberg.com. The banksters “are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank.” (full story)
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  Not always morbid or drear -- Oz Political reporting posted by spot, 2009-11-30 21:07:07
Oz politics reduces to a contest between two major parties vying for the ‘privilege’ of knee-walking in Washington! Few nations could care less which lackey leads Australia in shameless servitude to America; however, a good piece deserves broad exposure regardless of its dreary subject. In support and appreciation the Cleaves Editorial Team voted to break their policy-ban on reporting political flea fights; we are therefore pleased to offer our readership an out-of-character piece from the Oz mass media – God forbid, it actually drips with dry humour, sarcasm, and dare I say it, ‘wit,’ all wrapped in a style usually characteristic of the Independent Media! Better watch your step, Ms Crabb, verve and genuine reporting are better left to the Independents! (full story and 3 comments)
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 Washington dictates policy to PISSWEAK Oz PM, ‘Krudd’ posted by snowy, 2009-11-30 18:18:27
The Australian PM’s subservience to Washington is sickening; Oz has had enough of spineless, servile ‘leaders’ kow-towing to Washington’s every whim! Kevin Rudd has not the skill to recover from the deep disaffection almost all Australians feel over ‘his’ latest decision to increase numbers of Aussie personnel – following increased troop numbers -- to Afghanistan. The guts of the nation turned today in total DISGUST and dismay; Australia and the ENTIRE WORLD HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF MASS MURDERING AMERICA and its FLAGRANTLY CRIMINAL WARS! (full story)
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Second Wave of Financial Tsunami likely to HIT in 2010 posted by Matthias Chang via reed, 2009-11-22 17:07:48
"The policy-makers of these countries faced with the total collapse of the international financial architecture have concluded that the solution, the only solution is quantitative easing (i.e. massive injection of liquidity) to salvage the “too big to fail” banks and (re)inflate their depressed economies. This is best reflected in Bernanke’s candid remark that, “the US government has a technology, called the printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost”.
This is the crux of the problem!" (full story)
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WE fight because .... posted by David DeGraw via quill, 2009-11-21 16:56:45
If its not time NOW then WE would have lost EVERYTHING to the rogues, murderers and thieves that today control our governments! (full story)
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 "Global Economic Collapse" posted by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard via fleet, 2009-11-19 18:45:04
Société Générale has advised clients to be ready for a possible "global economic collapse" over the next two years, mapping a strategy of defensive investments to avoid wealth destruction. (full story)
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The [Obvious] New State Solution posted by Chris Hedges via gan, 2009-11-17 18:07:10
The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the result of Israel’s 42-year refusal to implement a two-state solution, leaves the Palestinians no option but to unilaterally declare an independent state. Israel acted unilaterally when it announced independence in 1948. It is the Palestinians’ turn. It worked in Kosovo. It worked in Georgia. And it will work in Palestine. There are 192 member states in the United Nations and as many as 150 would recognize the state of Palestine, creating a diplomatic nightmare for Israel and its lonely ally the United States. Israel will face worldwide censure if it attempts to crush the independent state by force and very likely be subjected to the kind of divestment campaigns and boycotts that brought down the apartheid government of South Africa. (full story)
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 The Audacity of Failure posted by Mike Whitney via ryall, 2009-11-16 03:34:49
Barack Obama is on his way to becoming a one-term president. According to Politico:
"President Barack Obama plans to announce in next year’s State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides involved in the planning.
The president’s plan, which the officials said was under discussion before this month’s Democratic election setbacks, represents both a practical and a political calculation by this White House." (www.politico.com) (full story)
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 Getting rid of Rudd posted by finn, 2009-11-11 17:59:02
Rupert Murdoch’s Australian Prime Minister, Kevin ‘border security’ Rudd, recently made a failed bid to divert media/public attention away from the complete shambles of his FAILED border security policies by making a surprise visit to disillusioned Aussie troops in occupied Afghanistan! However, media and public attention remained firmly fixed on Rudd and his weak-kneed Foreign Minister’s failed attempts to AVOID RESPONSIBILITY in the Tamil asylum seeker issue! (full story)
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