The cover story of the September 24, 2009, issue of The New Statesman, the venerable left-leaning British magazine, was entitled “The 50 People who Matter Today.”(1) Any such list, necessarily reflecting the bias and limited awareness of the editors, would surely contain choices… Continue
(Nanowerk Spotlight) As the fields of bionanotechnologies develop, it will become possible one day to use biological nanodevices such as nanorobots for in situ and real-time in vivo diagnosis and therapeutic intervention of specific targets. A prerequisite for designing and constructing wireless biological nanorobots is the availability of an electrical source which can be made continuously available in the… Continue
Added by C on December 14, 2009 at 3:01am —
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I'm not certain that many of you are familiar with Adrian Salbuchi but he's an Argentinian and lived through their inflationary monetary crisis. He understands finance, economics and social and political conditions both in Argentina, all of South America and especially across the globe. He's a bright guy. I like to listen to him. I think everyone here will undoubtedly agree with everything he says. He brings a unique perspective to the table.…
Carbon Eugenics: Genocide in the name of the environment is still genocide
TRANSCRIPT: The first person to stand up to any great evil is always the most courageous. To be the first one to call out any great injustice is to invite ridicule, scorn, even persecution. It is difficult to imagine today just how brave were the first slave owners to call for the abolition of slavery, the first men and women to advocate women's suffrage, the first activists… Continue
ROME (AP) -- Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was punched in the face at the end of a rally on Sunday by a man holding a small statue in his hand, leaving the 73-year-old media mogul with a bloodied mouth and looking stunned, police said. The 42-year-old man accused of attacking Berlusconi in Milan as he signed autographs was immediately taken into custody.
TV showed the stunned leader with blood under his nose, on his mouth and under one eye being lifted to his feet by aides…
There are today on the plains of India and China men and women, plague-ridden and hungry, living lives little better, to outward appearance, than those of the cattle that toil with them by day and share their places of sleep at night. Such Asiatic standards, and such unmechanized horrors, are the lot of those who increase their numbers without passing through an industrial revolution. - T.S. Ashton,…Continue
Added by Anti Oligarch on December 13, 2009 at 2:13am —
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A psychologist asks: Have consumerism, suburbanization and a malevolent corporate-government partnership so beaten us down that we no longer have the will to save ourselves?
Can people become so broken that truths of how they are being screwed do not "set them free" but instead further demoralize them? Has such a demoralization happened in the United States?
Do some totalitarians actually want us to hear how we have been screwed because they know that humiliating passivity… Continue
Added by Tara on December 13, 2009 at 1:34am —
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Drugs and crime chief says $352bn in criminal proceeds was effectively laundered by financial institutions
Drugs money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations' drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer.
Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said he has seen evidence that the proceeds of organised crime were "the only liquid investment… Continue
Added by Tara on December 13, 2009 at 1:16am —
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RAND Corporation Blueprint for a Militarized "Stability Police Force".
The RAND Corporation, one of the most fecund research arms of the Military-Industrial-Homeland Security Complex, has released a study entitled A Stability Police Force for the United States: Justification and Creating U.S. Capabilities.
The SPFOR (to use the inevitable acronym) would be a “hybrid” military/law enforcement unit created within the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) for use “in a range of tasks such as… Continue
Added by Sweettina2 on December 12, 2009 at 11:10pm —
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The number of federal workers earning six-figure salaries has exploded during the recession, according to a USA TODAY analysis of federal salary data.
Federal employees making salaries of $100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months — and that's before overtime pay and bonuses are counted.
Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time — in pay and hiring — during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the… Continue
Added by Jeff on December 12, 2009 at 12:55am —
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As some of you may have noticed I have been posting coast to coast am interviews, mainly covering subjects I find of interest and hopefully others have enjoyed them as well. Today I decided to see what if any shows were listed on c2cAM on one of my favorite subjects, William Cooper, writer of… Continue
The Indict Bush movement is about to take a giant step—and you can help us make it happen!
IndictBushNow is launching a major ad campaign to bring the demands of our movement to the heart of the nation's capital. We are planning to buy 10 bus wrap ads for bus routes operating in the Capitol Hill and White House area. We are also planning to place standard ads on buses and at bus stops.
Our message to the White House and Congress will be unmistakable: "Torture is not just… Continue
Added by Jeff on December 11, 2009 at 3:54pm —
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The decision to escalate Afghanistan War should put the final nail in the coffin of "change" and "hope" that Democrats and others crawled into when they supported Obama. The evidence that Obama is every bit the representative of the corporate oligarchy and no less a corporate shill than the rest has been mounting for nearly a year-or well before the election for the cognoscenti. Only fanatics could have heard Obama's speech on Afghanistan and failed to hear the resonances of Bush. But the… Continue
Added by Tara on December 10, 2009 at 4:55pm —
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I will not believe that anyone here at this site had anything to do with this.... I would also at least like to believe that the Islamic faith is populated by millions of people who want for peace....that being said....
Anyone still want to believe that Islam and Muslims want anything but completely utter world domination by violence???
These photos were taken at an Isalmic rally in London-- verify this yourself by going to Google Images...…
The term "environmental modification techniques" refers to any technique for changing - through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes - the dynamics, composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space. (Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques, United Nations, Geneva: 18 May 1977)…
This week, President Obama and the leaders of the world are to meet to determine the fate of humanity. This meeting, to be held in Copenhagen, has as its mission to bind the nations of the world under a climatocracy, or rather a climate regulatory scheme devised and operated by bureaucrats and elitists. The members of this climatocracy will profit while the rest of humanity will sink into darkness. There will be nowhere to hide; no oasis to be found in the desert. Indeed, after the discussions… Continue
Half-baked Homeland Security is spending millions to develop sensors capable of detecting a person's level of 'malintent' as a counterterrorism tool.
In the sci-fi thriller Minority Report, Tom Cruise plays a D.C. police detective, circa 2054, in the department of "pre-crime," an experimental law enforcement unit whose mission -- to hunt down criminals before they strike -- relies on the psychic visions of mutant "pre-cogs" (short for precognition) who can see the future. It may be… Continue
Added by lloyd fuller on December 9, 2009 at 3:08pm —
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Australian media are ignoring a landmark fight to reclaim sex based rights and protectionsfor all women and girls. This constitutional law case is not only r...