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We have just lost cabin pressure, and I don’t mean on the Monsanto corporate jet that Tom Vilsack uses.
Change We Can Believe In: Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture
December 18th, 2008
The fever dream reality of the Obama hive mind goes something like this:
Obama is just pretending to be evil so that he can get into power, but then the Hope and Change, etc. will flow.
—The Cognitive Mechanism Behind Political Fundamentalism… And Probably Lots (…)

If the Former Chairman of Nasdaq is a Crook, Who Can You Trust in America?
by Nicholas von Hoffman
Global Research, December 21, 2008 The Nation
The news of Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion fraud has hit the investor/401(k) class as nothing else — not the fall of Lehman Brothers, not the death of Bear Stearns, nor the string of insolvency announcements of one household name after another. Madoff is the blow that did it.
Lesser explosions connected with Madoff are expected. His story that (…)

Rembetiko: Music of the Outsiders
A 52’ documentary made in around 1988. (English subtitles).
Hommage à Sosso Tsili, Sociologue (1947-2000)
Résistante grecque pendant le régime des colonels
qui aurait participé à la révolte actuelle.
Source: umbc.edu
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-26003899.html

Ground Zero on Wall Street: Fed Funds and T-Bills Hit 0% Interest
by Ellen Brown
Global Research, December 20, 2008 webofdebt.com
“I am more concerned with the return of my money than the return on my money.”– Mark Twain
In the last two weeks, two federal interest rates hit all-time record lows. On December 16, the market was taken by surprise when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke lowered the federal funds rate (the interest banks pay to borrow the reserves they need to meet their reserve (…)

Cairo: Breaks in three submarine cables which link Europe and the Middle East have disrupted Internet and international telephone services in parts of the Middle East and South Asia, officials said on Saturday.
Reuters Published on Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 15:32 in Sci-Tech section
The disruption reduced Egypt’s Internet capacity by about 80 per cent. Technicians were restoring some capacity by diverting communications traffic through the Red Sea, said a Communications Ministry official, (…)

China says lending to US will not go on forever
Wed Dec 17, 2:38 am ET
BEIJING (AFP) – China warned Wednesday it would not keep lending money to the US economy indefinitely, even as new data showed it had consolidated its position as the top buyer of American government bonds. "China’s increased purchase of US Treasury securities should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the assumption that the US can borrow its way out of the current financial crisis," the China Daily said in an (…)

Unconventional Warfare in the 21st Century: U.S. Surrogates, Terrorists and Narcotraffickers
by Tom Burghardt
Global Research, December 19, 2008 Antifascist Calling...
On December 13, the whistleblowing website Wikileaks did investigative- and citizen journalists a great service by publishing the Army Special Operations Forces FM 3-05.130, titled Unconventional Warfare.
Published in September 2008, the 248-page document though unclassified, is restricted "to U.S. Government agencies (…)

International Action Center Thursday, December 18 Congratulations to Ramsey Clark
Ramsey Clark receives UN Human Rights Award 2008 !
International Action Center founder Ramsey Clark, a former US Attorney General and internationally renown human rights defender, received the respected United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights on the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 10 December 2008.
Photo: J. Pénochet (…)

One of the main problems with our civilization is that words have lost their meaning. A few months ago Chris Matthews had to explain to Kevin James what the word "appease" meant. Unfortunately for Mr. James, this didn’t occur in private but live on MSNBC’s Hardball.
In spoken languages, the tone of a word can be used to make inferences that may be completely unrelated to the meaning of the word. This is specially true when dealing with propaganda. When certain people or organizations want (…)

1 Giant Leap: What about me? A must see for everybody, amazing Sound and Movies!
Following the success of their first double Grammy nominated film & album, What about Me? is the latest offering from 1 Giant Leap. This visionary project took Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman to over 50 locations as they explore through music, the complexities of human nature on a global scale, and aims to reveal how we are all connected through our creativity and beliefs, but most of all connected (…)