All Blog Posts Tagged 'neo' (749)

Barack Hussein Obama and Indonesia: There's No Place Like Home

Now that President Obama has done enough back-room deals to get

the Democrats' health care legislation through the House of

Representatives, he can resume making plans for a visit to his childhood

home, Indonesia. The trip was on for this week, but the White House

cancelled it so Obama could stay in Washington…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on May 1, 2010 at 3:06am — No Comments

This Guy Has Found 177 Bombs in Afghanistan

Some soldiers supposedly have a “…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on April 30, 2010 at 12:01pm — 1 Comment

The Torture Archives

The Torture Archive, an ongoing project of

the National Security Archive, is assembling at a single location documents from wide-ranging sources on United States government policy toward rendition, detainees, interrogation, and torture. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the George W. Bush administration's subsequent launching of its "Global War on… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 30, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE

Josh Stieber to Join Teach-In on War

Josh Stieber served in the company shown in the video from Iraq

recently released by Wikileaks. He and Ethan McCord have published an

apology to the Iraqi people:

http://bit.ly/dkWP4o

And the widow of an Iraqi killed in the video has accepted the apology:

http://bit.ly/cBVtZc

Steiber will… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 29, 2010 at 12:06am — No Comments

Seize and Liquidate Goldman Sachs

Today’s Senate hearings, carried on CNBC, Bloomberg, and C-SPAN, represent the first major exposure of the American people to the scandalous frauds of the derivatives casino, including synthetic collateralized debt obligations (synthetic CDOs or CDO²). These are things most people have heard very little about. They begin to open up the shocking reality behind such shopworn euphemisms like “toxic assets,” “exotic instruments,” and “troubled assets.” Reactionaries in general and Republicans in… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 28, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

US: Illinois State Legislators Have Asked The Governor To Send The National Guard To Chicago To Quell Street Violence

State Representatives John Fritchey and LaShawn Ford (from left) at a press conference today at the Thompson Center, where they asked Gov. Pat Quinn to send the Illinois National Guard to Chicago.

At right is Willie Williams, who lost his son to gun violence.

(Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune)

Two state representatives called on Gov. Pat Quinn Sunday to deploy the Illinois National Guard to safeguard Chicago's streets.

Chicago Democrats John… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 27, 2010 at 6:49am — No Comments

Two scenarios, Bad and Worse, for Greece After Resorting to Bailout

Athens will have to adhere strictly to stability program or restructure its debt

Another Greek tragedy? The worst-case scenario with Greece’s acceptance of the EU-IMF support mechanism could see tragic results for the country in both the socioeconomic and political aspects of public life.

By: Dimitris… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 27, 2010 at 6:09am — No Comments

U.K's 9/11, July 7th 2005 Reuters: Call for 7/7 public investigation

The inquests into the deaths of 56 people who died in the 2005 London bombings should be a public investigation into whether police and security services could have done more to prevent

them, a court heard on Monday.

Christopher Coltart, representing seven of the victims' families, told a pre-inquest hearing that the inquests should consider whether the state had breached its obligation under the

European Convention of…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on April 27, 2010 at 2:56am — 2 Comments

China’s Navy Gets Its Act Together, and Gets Aggressive

Abe Denmark directs the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the Center for a New American Security. This is his first post for Danger Room.

China’s decades-long military modernization effort is paying off. After assembling a revamped arsenal of new ships, subs, planes, and missiles, the People’s…

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How To: Risk World War III, and Blow Billions Doing It

The Pentagon’s plan

to fire ballistic missiles at terrorists isn’t just a nuclear

Armageddon risk. It’s a ludicrously expensive way to accidentally

start World War III: each weapon could cost anywhere from a few hundred

million to $1 billion.

The…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on April 27, 2010 at 1:37am — No Comments

Tony Blair, Very Close to being Indicted for War Crimes

While on a speaking engagement in Malaysia organized by "Success Resources Company", former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the object of an articulate protest movement demanding his indictment for war crimes.

This was no ordinary protest. Tony Blair has been accused of war crimes in a legal initiative led by the country's former Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

A War Crimes Tribunal as well as a War Crimes Commission were set up integrated by renowned jurists.… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 26, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Targeted Killing Lite: Inside the CIA’s New Drone Arsenal

In Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has long been wise to a problem: Weapons designed for Cold War combat are often too powerful — and too lethal — for low-intensity conflict and counterinsurgency. Now it seems the CIA is catching on to the concept as well.

In today’s Washington Post, Joby Warrick and Peter Finn report that the… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 26, 2010 at 11:30am — No Comments

Frauds And Scandals Follow The Collapse Of The Financial System

The collapse of the financial system is under way, a giant debt that will never be repaid, deliberate destruction of the economy, bailouts a part of the manipulation of the markets, More creative forms of destruction for the economy, Wall street a criminal enterprise, Goldman CEO visits the White House, often, another giant Ponzi in Florida...

As the world faces an ongoing sovereign debt debacle we see an… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 26, 2010 at 3:18am — No Comments

U.K. Workers must oppose prejudice against immigrants and asylum seekers

By Robert Skelton, Socialist Equality Party candidate for Manchester Central

24 April 2010

SEP candidate Robert Skelton campaigns at North City Shopping Centre

The Socialist Equality Party, in its campaign in Manchester Central, has repeatedly encountered workers who are by no means racist, but who argue that with jobs and public services under…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on April 25, 2010 at 11:05am — No Comments

Paupers In The Land Our Forefathers Conquered

A long time ago, in an America now far, far away, the majority of the American people owned the land that they live on. The term "my land" actually meant something back then. But today that has fundamentally changed. Now the majority of the American people owe on the land that they live on. In fact, most of them owe big money to the giant corporate banking interests that control the mortgage industry. So how did the American people come to be debtors and paupers in the land that our… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 25, 2010 at 1:57am — No Comments

It's Worse at the CFTC, Where They Watched Maria Bartiromo, Clothed

Submitted by cpowell on Fri,

2010-04-23 23:35. Section: Daily

Dispatches

SEC Staffers Watched Porn as Economy Crashed

From CNN, Atlanta

Friday, April 23, 2010…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on April 24, 2010 at 5:38pm — No Comments

Scandals Signal The Demise of Our Financial System

Bob Chapman's site

Posted: April 21 2010

The line up goes down the block and around the corner for prosecutions against Goldman Sachs, Sovereign debt looms

large, 8 more banks close, scandals in the financial sector continue to

erupt everywhere, the public picks up the bills, we face a staggering

depression, anger… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 22, 2010 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Pelosi Calls Press Conference to Unveil $140,000 Light Fixtures in House Cafeteria

Thursday, April 22, 2010

By: Matt Cover, Staff Writer

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

(CNSNews.com) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday to unveil new

light fixtures in the House… Continue

Added by Anti Oligarch on April 22, 2010 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Google: U.S. Demanded User Info 3,500 Times in 6 Months

By Ryan Singel

Search engines and ISPs have for years refused to tell the public how many times the cops and feds have forced them to turn over information on users.

Google broke that…

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Added by Anti Oligarch on April 21, 2010 at 3:13am — No Comments