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  • France henpecked with stick blows: Alina Reyes supports Bellaciao... Thanks Alina
    2 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Alina Reyes to support Bellaciao sign here
    I just heard that the commitment to trial of Roberto Ferrario, as unique responsible for Bellaciao collective!!??, for the publication, as any website or blog could have done it, of a press statement from CGT related to the Shipyards of St Nazaire story, is notified by the Judge. This repressive action, obvious example of a will to control expression in the Net, is the symptom of increasing and very pernicious politic inflexibility, such as the (…)

  • Pain and the Bill of Rights
    28 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Pain and the Bill of Rights By RML
    You see, if we have a problem, it would be that we are not aware of what has been taken from us. Because we are not experiencing the actual pain from the actual event (like using a local, and in some cases, general, anesthetic to block pain) we fail to feel, sense, or see what is happening to us.
    Is there any hard and fast statistical data that shows the percentage of Americans on meds which dull, anesthetize, or block various physical and (…)

  • Piercing the Simulacrum: Of Faux Democracy, Petty Tyrants, and Painful Realities
    22 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Miller “The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.” attributed to Dresden James
    A caricature of a man who has wrought havoc in virtually every endeavor throughout his miserable existence has found his calling. Exuding false bravado and contrived machismo, he has swaggered his way into the deepest recesses of America’s collective psyche, (…)

  • The United States of America: Born July 4th, 1776 - Died October 17th, 2006
    18 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The United States of America: Born July 4th, 1776 - Died October 17th, 2006
    By Mary MacElveen October 17th, 2006
    In light of a despot signing ‘The Military Commissions Act of 2006’ into law, it was the day America died. America was born on July 4th, 1976 and died on October 17th, 2006. For a democracy, she died a perilous death at the young age of 230 years old. For six long years she screamed out in pain and while there were some protests, a great majority just stood by and did (…)

  • I Pledge Allegiance to the Corporations... Fascism the American Way
    17 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Miller
    Relentless indoctrination by a vast corporate media complex has convinced many that the United States of America is an exceptional nation. Charged with the sacred duty of preserving Pax Americana, the United States is purported to be the embodiment of the ideals of truth, justice and liberty for all.
    Before making firm intellectual commitment to such pleasant fictions, consider these questions:
    Why is it that virtually every liberal or progressive proposal for (…)

  • Fear of Tyranny Sweeping America
    16 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 15, 2006 at 23:23:50
    Fear of Tyranny Sweeping America
    by Sherwood Ross
    http://www.opednews.com
    Fear of Tyranny Sweeping America
    http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_sherwood_061015_fear_of_tyranny_swee.htm
    By Sherwood Ross
    Fear for an individual’s personal security common to a people whose leaders are taking their nation down the road to dictatorship has begun to grip America.
    In church this Sunday one man said only half in jest, "When the arrests begin I will (…)

  • Anomalies, Prisons, and Geophysics: How Governments Use Data and How to Stop Them
    6 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    A common definition of an anomaly is "a deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form." This definition, however, can be simplified by stating that an anomaly "is a deviation from specific parameters." The defining characteristic of an anomaly is that it can only exist in a comparative setting, implying that it can only be detected within a certain data set. Once a data set is obtained then parameters can be specified to filter out so called anomalies for evaluation. Depending (…)

  • THE EROSION OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM IN AMERICA
    3 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Erosion of Democracy and Freedom in America - by Stephen Lendman
    On December 8, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the US Congress the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He said that "date....will live in infamy" because of what the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan did. Two and one-half months later on February 19, 1942, FDR himself committed an infamous act signing into law Executive Order 9066 which authorized the internment of 120,000 Japanese (…)

  • The Impossibility of Iraqi Democracy
    29 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    History, indeed, is like a picture gallery in which there are few originals and many copies.
    Alexis deTocqueville "The Old Regime and the French Revolution." 1856
    For years now, as both "the War on Terror" and the War in Iraq have devolved more clearly into tragic blunders, the Administration has consistently relied on two themes to sustain their legitimacy: 1. "fighting the terrorists over there," and 2. making the world safer by establishing democracy in Arabia and the Middle East. (…)

  • AMERICAN MORALITY SCAM, PART II
    25 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a previous PRAVDA.Ru article entitled AMERICAN MORALITY SCAM (August 8, 2006), I discussed how demagogues, liars and religious hypocrites confine their definition of “morality” to issues involving human sexuality, which, in turn, enables them to ignore, rationalize and excuse the economic exploitation, and even the abuse, torture and murder, of their fellow human beings.
    This tactic is successful for two reasons: 1). There are diverse categories of morality-legal, medical, religious, (…)