Sunday February 7 2010 - 20:11
by : David R. Hoffman, Pravda.Ru Legal Editor Oh say can you see by the fluorescent light
The politicians we’ve bought at our last corporate meeting?
Whose venal hearts and deceit wrought health care’s defeat,
While from boardrooms we laughed and then raised premiums?
And the wars that were fought for the profits we’ve sought
Gave proof to our shareholders that freedom is bought.
Oh say does that banner of corporate fascism now wave,
O’er democracy’s corpse and the working class slaves?
David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of (...)
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Sunday February 7 2010 - 11:16
by : Algerian Days ago, while I was surfing the net, I came across this info about British Gas. It says that, for 5 consecutive years, British Gas is ranked among the top 50 places to work in UK. The ranking was based on a survey among British Gas employees. Considering the results, one would think it must be great to work for this company… not so sure, I thought…not in Algeria at least.
Obviously, those who rewarded British Gas didn’t know about the case of Meriem Mehdi. This Algerian woman was an (...)
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Sunday February 7 2010 - 06:29
by : Dr Gideon Polya The extreme right wing, pro-war, pro-coal, human rights-abusing, spin-driven Australian Labor Government has repeatedly declared that it is instituting an “education revolution”.
However a key element of the teaching and learning process called “education” is correct information (I must note here that this is my 5th decade of teaching science students at a leading Australian university and that, unlike most of my colleagues, I have a postgraduate qualification in teaching in Higher (...)
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Saturday February 6 2010 - 09:03
by : Dr Gideon Polya Last year I published on Bellaciao a very carefully researched and documented quantitative analysis of the mass murder of Muslim civilians, and notably of children, by the US Alliance in the Occupied Territories of the American Empire under Barack Obama and entitled “Hey, Hey, USA, how many kids did you kill today? Answer: 1,000”: http://bellaciao.org/en/spip.php?ar... . This article comes up as #1 out of about 8,000 hits on a Google Search for the famous anti-war chant “Hey. Hey . USA, (...)
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Wednesday February 3 2010 - 15:37
by : Charles Foerster Ah Houston, Space Rider here; we’ve got a problem. Space Rider, this is Houston, go ahead. Uh, Houston, Space Rider, we’re in the holding pattern just north of Jupiter and our Foreign Policy Extender Probe is jammed and won’t retract, over. Space Rider, we see the problem and the FPEP engineers are looking at a fix. Houston, Space Rider, we have run the emergency check list and there is no procedure for reentry with the FPEP jammed and generating all that parasite drag. Space Rider, (...)
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Wednesday February 3 2010 - 14:42
by : Dr Gideon Polya The World is facing what an overwhelming international scientific consensus says is a worsening Climate Crisis, Climate Emergency and Sustainability Emergency from man-made global warming (anthropogenic global warming, AGW). However the taxpayer-funded Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has given extraordinary coverage to the views of a visiting UK climate change denialist Mr Christopher Walter Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. The following letter about politician and (...)
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Wednesday February 3 2010 - 09:04
by : kakine Mr. Barak Obama, President February 1st, 2010 The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Dear Mister President,
After the attempted terrorist attack, which luckily failed, on flight 253 Amsterdam-Detroit, you took the necessary measures to reinforce security on the airlines, which is normal.
When we read the list of the countries suspected of terrorism, for which passengers will be closely monitored, and we saw Cuba on this list, we burst out laughing. Our (...)
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Monday February 1 2010 - 14:56
by : mm Haiti quake destruction lands smack dab in the middle of a burgeoning Socialist oil belt on the US’s doorstep.
See map below...
References:
Tectonic weapon: http://www.voltairenet.org/article163626.html
Cuba oil : http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/energy/2009/03/03/why-cubas-dreams-of-major-oil-discoveries-might-come-true.html
Haiti background: http://www.opednews.com/populum/link.php?id=105516
Oil band map background : (...)
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Monday February 1 2010 - 07:49
by : himalove $500m for ‘Safe Exit’ from Afghanistan’s Unforgiving History
“Those who do not learn from history, are condemned to repeat it” -George Santana
Dan Qayyum ; Editor, PKKH
After 9 years of maintaining an expensive presence on Afghan soil, thousands of lives and billions wasted in aid and reconstruction efforts, not to forget bribes to warlords and drug barons, the US and its allies have come up with a real gem of an idea – trying to buy themselves a safe exit from the Afghan mess for a cool (...)
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Sunday January 31 2010 - 18:38
by : William Hughes On the evening of Jan. 27, 2010, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) spoke, in Baltimore City, before a capacity audience at Loyola University Maryland. He addressed a wide range of issues, including civil liberties, civil disobedience, the CIA’s assassination policy, torture, rendition, secret prisons, enemy combatants, the ancient Writ of Habeas Corpus, Barack Obama’s White House and the 2nd and 10th Amendments. Rep. Paul also expressed his growing fears, post-9/11, for our fast-fading Republic itself. (...)
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Sunday January 31 2010 - 08:16
by : Clayton Hallmark $100 ARM Computers Direct from China:Flooding US Market
There are hundreds of netbooks based on ARM processors, but they are all the same! If you didn’t know that, it’s because they are mostly in China — so far. They are about to flood the US markets with cheap computers, not much more, delivered to your door. Some are already in hole-in-the-wall electronics stores in New York and possibly other cities. This changes everything (in electronics, computers, and other fields).
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Friday January 29 2010 - 21:53
by : William Hughes On Jan. 29, 2010, Doctors Margaret Flowers and Carol Paris were arrested outside a hotel, at the Inner Harbor, in Baltimore, MD, where President Barack Obama was to give a speech. They were on a sidewalk outside the Renaissance hotel holding a banner. The doctors had a letter that they wanted to give to the President and/or one of his aides, re: Medicare for All. They were arrested for trespassing, according to to a police officer at the scene. Later after getting into a police car, this (...)
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Friday January 29 2010 - 13:43
by : afrikakorps Native Youth Movement Confront Olympic Torch in Secwepemc Nation
The Olympic Torch was confronted by Secwepemc and their supporters in the Secwepemc Nation in the invader-settler town of Chase, so-called british kkkolumbia, KKKanada, with the message ’Secwepemc Say No Olympics’ and ’Olympic Torch Not Welcome in Secwepemc Nation’ http://mostlywater.org/native_youth...
www.no2010.com
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Friday January 29 2010 - 11:35
by : Ivica Blame it on the French
Lord Goldsmith was making a further attempt to shift responsibility for the Iraq war
Philippe Marlière
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 January 2010 22.30 GMT
In the end, it was the Frogs’ fault. It was down to Jacques Chirac’s slippery diplomacy that the US-British-led coalition could not secure a second resolution ­authorising the use of force against Saddam Hussein. This is no tabloid rant but, in substance, Lord Goldsmith’s astonishing account when he appeared (...)
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Friday January 29 2010 - 02:27
by : William Hughes Rep. Ron Paul Demands: “Audit The Fed!”
On the evening of Jan. 27, 2010, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) spoke before a capacity audience at Loyola College in Baltimore, MD. He urged the U.S. Congress to pass a law authorizing the auditing of “The Fed.” Rep. Paul was also sharply critical of the bailout of the Wall Street Banksters and how their policies, and the policies of “The Fed,” have contributed to the recession. See related views on the shenanigans of the Wall Street insiders by Richard T. (...)
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Thursday January 28 2010 - 14:14
by : Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard By Mark Feeney and Bryan Marquard, Globe Staff
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as "A People’s History of the United States," inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.
His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack.
"He’s made an amazing (...)
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Thursday January 28 2010 - 12:17
by : William John Cox ¿Plata o plomo? Colombian and Mexican drug gangs ask government officials, judges and police officers which they prefer, “silver or lead,” when offering bribes and threatening violence.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision granting corporations the same free speech rights as natural persons allows them to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections and public affairs.
Corporations, foreign and domestic, can now force politicians to choose silver or lead when supporting or opposing (...)
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Thursday January 28 2010 - 11:10
by : Emmanuelle By Steve Watson
Airports serving as trial grounds for the prison planet The clamor to ramp up airport security with invasive naked body imaging scanners has nothing to do with ensuring the safety of travelers. Rather it is part of an ongoing incremental push to break the will of the people and encourage mass subservience and meek obedience.
Perhaps the most alarming aspect of the body scanner push is that people are willingly accepting it. As Bloomberg news reports today, “Passenger (...)
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Thursday January 28 2010 - 03:55
by : Dr Gideon Polya The State of Victoria, Australia, is the worst carbon polluting state in the worst carbon polluting country in the World. Most of Victoria’s electricity comes from the burning of brown coal at huge power stations like Loy Yang and Hazelwood in the eastern Victorian region called Gippsland.
Unfortunately Victoria is ruled by a right wing, pro-coal Labor Government that is busy building superhighways, fossil fuel-burning power stations and a huge desalination plant. The extreme right wing, (...)
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Wednesday January 27 2010 - 10:54
by : David R. Hoffman, Pravda.Ru Legal Editor They despise America’s democracy and its fundamental freedoms more than any terrorist group in the world.
They have destroyed American democracy and its fundamental freedoms more ruthlessly and effectively than any terrorist group in the world.
They have sanctioned the murders of more Americans than any terrorist group in the world.
They loathe people of different races and/or religions.
They punish the innocent, but take extraordinary measures to protect the guilty.
They operate in shadowy (...)
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Wednesday January 27 2010 - 01:50
by : William Hughes On Tuesday morning, Jan. 26, 2010, a “die-in” protest was staged in front of the White House. The antiwar, anti-occupation event was primarily organized by the Minnesota Contingent of the Peaceable Assembly Campaign. Thirteen protesters were arrested for refusing to obey a police order to get off the sidewalk. During the demonstration, I talked with Peace and Justice activist, Kathy Kelly. See related video at: (...)
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Wednesday January 27 2010 - 00:12
by : William Hughes On Tuesday morning, Jan. 26, 2010, a “die-in” protest was staged in front of the White House. The antiwar, anti-occupation event was primarily organized by the Minnesota Contingent of the Peaceable Assembly Campaign. At least thirteen protesters were arrested for refusing to obey a police order to get off the sidewalk. For more information about the demonstration, and for the very latest details on the arrested activists, go to: http://vcnv.org/ Also, see: (...)
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Monday January 25 2010 - 22:30
by : Daveparts The Arsenal of Kleptocracy By David Glenn Cox
History moves in fits and starts, traveling stealthily until suddenly it erupts like a volcano and something new is born. Like the pangs of birth, we can see it coming and even more we can feel its presence. After the Supreme Court ruling in the case of Bush vs. Gore, I thought that never in my life I would ever live to see a worse decision than the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday.
The way in which the media has handled the news of this latest (...)
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Monday January 25 2010 - 12:49
by : Himalove By LEUREN MORET World Affairs, The Journal of International Issues v.9, n.4, Winter 2005
If you have some doubt about the naturel catastroph in Haiti, read this article...
http://exopolitics.blogs.com/peaceinspace/2009/12/haarp-the-space-preservation-treaty-planet-earth-as-weapon-target-by-leuren-moret.html
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Sunday January 24 2010 - 08:11
by : himalove 2010 January 22
Souce : pak alerte press
There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up.
by Marguerite Laurent
This article was first published in October 2009...
There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business (...)
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Sunday January 24 2010 - 01:49
by : Dr Gideon Polya Holocaust denial is repugnant but is entrenched in the mainstream academics, media and political Establishments of the Western Murdochracies.
In WW2 Churchill deliberately starved 6-7 million Indians to death, continued to foster Muslim-Hindu antipathy that led to the horrors of Indian Partition and persuaded his War Cabinet on racist Partition of Palestine. Yet the holocaust-complicit Anglo media, academic and politician Establishment is still in denial.
About a year ago I published an (...)
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Saturday January 23 2010 - 23:43
by : Dr Gideon Polya Holocaust denial and holocaust ignoring must be exposed because they both simply mean that awful history ignored will yield awful history repeated.
“Denial. History betrayed” by Tony Taylor (Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2008) is a very well written, well annotated and well referenced book that deals with the phenomenon of “holocaust denial” and, in general, the denial of horrendous abuses of humanity. This is an important book that should certainly be read by everyone and should (...)
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Saturday January 23 2010 - 17:07
by : Michael David Morrissey I pledge no allegiance to the flag
of the United Corporations of America
or to the plutocracy for which it stands,
an obamanation under fascist rule,
unconstitutional, with nothing left worth fighting for at all.
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Saturday January 23 2010 - 11:24
by : King Johnny Alex Jones and the NWOers: That Not Freedom Fool
Alex Jones and the NWOers do anything, and everything to ’escape’ Bush and Cheney for closing 911 investigations, so, how does that help fight against global tyranny? Get real.
SUSPISOUSLY SILLY
Alex Jones "Health Care isn’t broken. [...] it’s all a scam like Ron Paul has told you." Jan 21 2010
How ignorant of the facts would America have to be, to prop this magic trick of hypnotic illusion, ’hiding’ real Americans going robbed, or without (...)
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Saturday January 23 2010 - 01:42
by : William Hughes Sights and scenes, 25 photos, from the protest action, re: Closing Gitmo/Torture, at the U.S. Capitol, east side, on Jan. 21, 2010. To find out more about this demonstration, and the group, which organized the event, go to this web site: http://www.witnesstorture.org/2010
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Friday January 22 2010 - 21:28
by : David R. Hoffman, Pravda.Ru Legal Editor “In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times [and] ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.”
These were the words the late folk singer Phil Ochs used in 1966 to introduce his sardonic song, Love Me, I’m A Liberal, a humorous and politically astute critique of individuals who profess to believe in (...)
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Friday January 22 2010 - 17:39
by : Michael David Morrissey (For links see here.)
When I heard about the guy that ran into "Poppy" (George H.W.) Bush in a pizza place in Houston, cussed him out and posted a video about it on YouTube, of course I had to watch it. (Click here fast; it seems to be disappearing.) The names turned out to be "murderous, Zionist piece of s*," without the asterisk.
Mulling this over carefully, especially having just finished Russ Baker’s exhaustive (and exhausting) Family of Secrets, I wouldn’t call the man a Zionist. I (...)
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Friday January 22 2010 - 15:45
by : Daniel Patrick Welch I know, I know. I’ve seen the blogosphere screeching about the Death of Democracy now that the Supreme Court has rolled back restrictions on corporate donations to political campaigns. Whiners. Haven’t you all stopped for even a moment to think how this might benefit humanity? Sure, sure, we’re all aware of the downside, but would it kill us to think positive for a change?
I mean, let’s face it: corporations have controlled the agenda since the Mayflower Compact duped those non-puritan (...)
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Friday January 22 2010 - 13:50
by : Dr Gideon Polya The most fundamental of women’s rights is the right to life and for a mother the right to life of her children. Yet the US Alliance is engaged in a bloody assault on the women and children who represent three quarters of the population of the Muslim world.
Post-invasion violent deaths and non-violent avoidable deaths from deprivation in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan territories total 0.3 million, 3.5 million and 4.5 million, respectively, and post-invasion under-5 infant (...)
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Friday January 22 2010 - 07:36
by : himalove 2010 January 20
Source : Pak Alerte
By Farzana Shah
In 2005 India announced a new military doctrine called Start Cold mainly targeting Pakistan as its potential enemy. In November 2009, Indian army chief made a statement that there is a possibility of a limited war between Pakistan and India in a nuclear overhang.
In December 2009, Indian chief announced that India is ready to take on both Pakistan and China in a ‘two front war’ simultaneously. These statements spurred a quick reaction in (...)
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Thursday January 21 2010 - 23:39
by : William Hughes On Jan. 21, 2010, just after noon, about 30 protesters were arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, east side, for failure to obey a police order to disburse. The protesters are part of the “Witness Against Torture” group, which demonstrated earlier today in front of both the White House and U.S. Supreme Court. To find out all about the moral and legal issues that they are raising; exactly how many anti-torture activists were arrested; and the exact charges placed against each, please go (...)
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Thursday January 21 2010 - 21:24
by : JOHN CHUCKMAN January 21, 2010
THE HORROR OF HAITI: WHAT THE PRESS COVERAGE TELLS US
John Chuckman
It is relentless, the pictures of terror-stricken people, broken limbs, and bloated dead, and many of us cannot stand to see or hear more.
One has to ask: what are we to do with such information?
Create pressure on governments to keep the assistance flowing? Perhaps, but there is no shortage of assistance being sent to Haiti. There is however a huge problem in Haiti’s limited ability to absorb the (...)
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Thursday January 21 2010 - 16:41
by : Afrikakorps Why I Won’t Give to the Red Cross http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q...
At Katrina, the Red Cross used funds generously donated by millions of Americans to implement what many knew at the time was, and what has turned out to be the dispersal of much of black New Oreans to the four corners of the continental US. If the Red Cross didn’t respect the persons, the families, the communities of black US citizens, do we really imagine it will respect (...)
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Thursday January 21 2010 - 08:04
by : himalove 2010 January 19
by Aislinn Laing, and Tom Leonard in Port-au-Prince
The French minister in charge of humanitarian relief called on the UN to “clarify” the American role amid claims the military build up was hampering aid efforts.
U.S. Air Force troops patrol downtown Port-au-Prince Monday January 18, 2010. Thousands more U.S. troops will keep order on Haiti’s increasingly lawless streets as tens of thousands of survivors wait desperately for aid. REUTERS/Jorge Silva Alain Joyandet admitted (...)
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Thursday January 21 2010 - 04:43
by : William Hughes On Wed., Jan. 20, 2010, a press conference/demonstration was held in front of the White House. Its purpose was to assess the “one year presidency of Barack Obama.” One of the speakers was Linda Leaks of Empower D.C. Medea Benjamin served as the M.C. of the event, which was sponsored by seven organizations
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