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“There is not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties.” - George C. Wallace
The national conventions of the DemRepublicrats (the Duopoly) are expensive shows. Think $50 million for each one, thanks mostly to corporate donors. Every four years they are used to convey their nominees, and the party’s line, to the faithful in attendance, as well as to voters watching the TV/Cable tubes out in the hinterlands. When Sen. John McCain recently picked Alaska’s Gov. (…)

A case of disciplinary action against a university academic is presented on COBAS UK. In the analysis a case for managerial discrection and union passivity is presented highlighting how disciplinary procedures are internalised within the system in order to extend managerial control.
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COBAS UK

Making Sour Gas Into Sweet Energy
A 2004 report by the World Bank provided the shocking news: Every year, energy producers waste more than $40 billion by burning off gas at their oil fields and sending it into the atmosphere.
The World Bank’s latest statistics estimate that energy producers annually waste 110 billion cubic meters of natural gas—gas that could be transformed into usable energy—by flaring it. This is a tremendous waste. It’s also harmful to the environment. Such massive (…)

AFGHANISTAN: THE ’GOOD’ WAR TURNS BAD
The situation in Afghanistan is reaching breaking point. Civilian and military casualties have risen sharply over the last few months. The death of another British soldier this week brings to 200 the number of foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan this year.
The level of NATO bombing is up 40% on last year’s levels and the mainstream press here has had to start reporting on the innocent dead as a result. Two weeks ago a raid in (…)

STOKING THE FIRES FOR MORE WAR
MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD - STOP THE SPREAD OF WAR DEMONSTRATE AT THE LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE SATURDAY 20 SEPTEMBER: ASSEMBLE 12.30PM ALL SAINTS, MANCHESTER M15
Events in Georgia have raised the terrifying prospect of big power confrontation between the US and Russia. NATO expansion was the prime cause of the crisis in the first place, disgracefully, the British Government’s response has stoked up more tension.
David Miliband’s trip to the (…)

U.S. Using Anti-Terror War to Gain World Oil Reserves — Soviet Intelligence Chief
By MosNews
03/21/05 "MosNews" - - On the pretext of fighting international terrorism the United States is trying to establish control over the world’s richest oil reserves, Leonid Shebarshin, ex-chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service, who heads the Russian National Economic Security Service consulting company, said in an interview for the Vremya Novostei newspaper.
Using the anti-terrorist cause (…)

September 4, 2008
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: SARAH PALIN’S SPEECH
John Chuckman
I’ve reassessed my view of Sarah Palin.
My first thought about her usefulness to John McCain was that she would be a draw for disaffected Hillary supporters in a close race, but then all I knew about Sarah was that she characterized herself as a soccer, or hockey, mom.
But already I’ve learned more about her than I ever would have wanted to know, and her simple, original description of herself proves (…)

CounterPunch
For the West, everything changed but stayed the same, hard-wired and in place. Things just lay dormant in the shadows during the Yeltsin years, certain to reemerge once a more resolute Russian leader took over. If not Vladimir Putin, someone else little different.
Russia is back, proud and reassertive, and not about to roll over for America. Especially in Eurasia. For Washington, it’s back to the future, the new Cold War, and reinventing the Evil Empire, but this time for (…)

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