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 Former CIA analyst says evidence abounds for impeachment posted by Gretyl Macalaster via reed, 2007-12-20 22:03:18
PORTSMOUTH — The evidence for impeachment of the president and vice president is overwhelming, former CIA analyst and daily presidential briefer Ray McGovern told a room full of people at the Portsmouth Public Library Monday night. (full story)
social/political / international
World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns posted by Elisabeth Rosenthal via rialator, 2007-12-18 20:30:30
ROME: In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday. (full story)
miscellaneous / international
  Tit for Tat: Merkel and Mugabe posted by yarra, 2007-12-10 21:35:01
Germany summoned Zimbabwe’s charge d’affaires to the foreign office for a Teutonic dressing down after the African nation’s foreign minister called Angela Merkel a “Nazi remnant” and “racist of the first order!” "It was made clear in strong terms that remarks like the ones made about the chancellor are in no way tolerable," a German spokesman said. Furthermore, if Mugabe or any of his government representatives continue to slander the right-wing, Bush-loving, Merkel, Germany promises to invade, concentrate and gas the sub-human African population. Mugabe and his ministers will be reduced to soap and their skin made into lampshades! (full story)
personal development / international
Bush's Reaction to the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) reveals him as World Warmonger No. 1 posted by Sherwood Ross via rialator, 2007-12-09 23:30:09
So, just how much are the American people supposed to take? Here we’ve got a president who lied us into making war on Iraq and who, despite a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is stubbornly trying to lie us into another war against Iran. (full story)
peace/war / international
 DARPA seeks network firing ranges for cyber weaponry posted by Lewis Page via Kismo, 2007-12-03 21:13:24
DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency), the Pentagon battle-boffins who would rather bet on a long shot than eat their dinners, are looking for the computer-net equivalent of a firing range or exercise training area. (full story)
peace/war / international
 Frankenstein's Farm posted by F. William Engdahl via reed, 2007-12-03 20:41:39
One thing Microsoft founder Bill Gates can’t be accused of is sloth. He was already programming at 14, founded Microsoft at age 20 while still a student at Harvard. By 1995 he had been listed by Forbes as the world’s richest man from being the largest shareholder in his Microsoft, a company which his relentless drive built into a de facto monopoly in software systems for personal computers. (full story)
miscellaneous / international
Iraqi insurgents regrouping, says Sunni resistance leader posted by Jonathan Steele via reed, 2007-12-02 20:03:29
Iraq's main Sunni-led resistance groups have scaled back their attacks on US forces in Baghdad and parts of Anbar province in a deliberate strategy aimed at regrouping, retraining, and waiting out George Bush's "surge", a key insurgent leader has told the Guardian. (full story)
imperialism / international
 Vladimir Putin: “The world's most popular leader”? posted by Mike Whitney via rialator, 2007-12-01 07:57:33
On Sunday, Russians will vote in their country's parliamentary elections. The results are a foregone conclusion. Putin's party, United Russia, is expected to win in a landslide. The only question is whether the margin of victory will exceed 70%. If it does, then Putin will continue to be the most powerful player in Russian politics even after he steps down from office next year. (full story)
social/political / international
Is Our Worship of Consumerism and Technology Making Us Depressed? posted by Bruce E. Levine via rialator, 2007-11-27 19:02:44
The following is an excerpt from Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Chelsea Green, 2007) by Bruce E. Levine, and is reprinted here with permission from the publisher. In this book, Levine delves into the roots of depression and links our increasingly consumer-based culture and standard-practice psychiatric treatments to worsening depression, instead of solving it. (full story)
philosophy / international
Banks Gone Wild posted by Paul Krugman vie reed, 2007-11-24 11:12:52
"What were they smoking?” asks the cover of the current issue of Fortune magazine. Underneath the headline are photos of recently deposed Wall Street titans, captioned with the staggering sums they managed to lose.
The answer, of course, is that they were high on the usual drug — greed. And they were encouraged to make socially destructive decisions by a system of executive compensation that should have been reformed after the Enron and WorldCom scandals, but wasn’t. (full story)
social/political / international
 Open-Source Warfare posted by Robert N Charette via Kismo, 2007-11-23 21:45:18
“What we are seeing is the empowerment of the individual to conduct war,” says John Robb, a counterterrorism expert and author of the book Brave New War (John Wiley & Sons), which came out in April. While the concept of asymmetric warfare dates back at least 2000 years, to the Chinese military strategist Sun-tzu, the conflict in Iraq has redefined the nature of such struggles. As events are making painfully clear, Robb says, warfare is being transformed from a closed, state-sponsored affair to one where the means and the know-how to do battle are readily found on the Internet and at your local RadioShack. This open global access to increasingly powerful technological tools, he says, is in effect allowing “small groups to…declare war on nations.” (full story)
social/political / international
If Conservatism Is The Ideology of Freedom, I'm The Queen of England posted by David Michael Green via reed, 2007-11-23 09:48:11
I wish I had a nickel for every time a conservative told a lie in order to sell an ideology that would otherwise be hopelessly unappealing. But, then, what the hell would I do with ten kazillion, trillion, dollars? I wouldn't know how to spend that much loot. (full story)
social/political / international
  Religion: from Failure to Liability posted by fish, 2007-11-20 09:59:28
It’s dreamboat time in pathological paradise! Yes, the topic is religion, a favourite of mindless morons regardless of race or nationality. No human society has been spared; religion induced murder, destruction, violence and insanity knock on every door, hut, tent and lean-to on the planet. But before proceeding I would, in a sentence, highlight the fact that ALL religions are FAILED – irrefutable fact! Furthermore religious leaders are the most brazen and despicable hypocrites on the planet!
With the exception of the homicidal, sociopathic, Jew God, Jehovah, who delights in genocide (Jericho) and displays a weakness for gold and silver (for fuck’s sake) religions teach PEACE! However, religious leaders throughout history have interpreted PEACE as WAR! (full story)
theology / international
 Divorced from Reality posted by fish, 2007-11-18 11:17:16
The title is the most accurate description of today’s politicians – worldwide! In the face of impending global catastrophe driven by pollution-induced global warming our corporate controlled politicians maintain that monetary matters are our principal concern – NOT SO! FUTURE LIFE ON EARTH IS OUR/EVERYONE’S PRIMARY CONCERN TODAY! (full story)
environment / international
Guantanamo operating manual posted on Internet posted by Jane Sutton via rialator, 2007-11-14 07:58:48
MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. military's operating manual for the Guantanamo prison camp has been posted on the Internet, providing a glimpse of the broad rules and tiniest minutia for detaining suspected terrorists. (full story)
human rights / international
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