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By Marklar M. Marklar
July 06, 2009
What do you think of when you hear the word Washington? If you’re like most people then words like, graft, organized crime, military industrial complex, lies, lobbyists, sex scandal, war crimes, and even murder capital USA might immediately spring to mind.
Unfortunately there is another place with the…
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12.160MHz
By Marklar M. Marklar
July 03, 2009
Recently a respected judge from New York, Judge Richard Posner, has suggested a ban on interweb hyperlinks in order to save the floundering newspaper industry.
Experts at UC Berkely were quick to point out that Judge Posner seems to be mega illiterate when it comes to…
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Added by Marklar on July 3, 2009 at 9:30am —
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Alternet
By Dahr Jamail, Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Posted July 2, 2009.
From suicide to desertion to refusal to deploy -- service members' dissent may be growing into something far larger.
The All-Volunteer Force (AVF) exists for a reason captured in a study by Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., author of the "definitive…
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Published on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 by The Independent/UK
Almost Everywhere is Touched by the Stonewall Riots Now
by Johann Hari
It is now 40 years since the start of a riot for freedom in a small tavern in New York City – and the riot has never stopped. It is spreading slowly across the world, to every continent, to Mumbai and Shanghai and Dubai. Everywhere it goes, it wins, in time. Yet on 28 June 1969, it seemed only like another Sixties ruck in the…
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By Shamus Cooke
01 July, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- There should be no doubts about the U.S.’ decisive role behind the now-crumbling military coup in Honduras. As commander and chief of the U.S. armed forces, the blame for this intervention lies solely on President Obama.
The White House, however, would like you to believe that they “attempted to convince the Honduran military not to intervene.”
Rubbish.
When it comes to the Honduran…
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By Alberto Vallente Thorensen
July 01, 2009 "
Counterpunch" --- In the classic Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound, the playwright observes: “Of wrath’s disease wise words the healers are.” Shortly put, this story is about Prometheus, a titan who was punished by the almighty gods for having given humanity the capacity to create fire. This generated a conflict, which ended with Prometheus’ banishment and…
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Added by Marklar on July 2, 2009 at 2:22am —
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A couple have been labelled the world's unluckiest tourists after being caught up in three separate terror attacks during their holidays.
By Chris Irvine
telegraph.co.uk
Published: 7:30PM GMT 21 Dec 2008
Jason and Jenny Cairns-Lawrence, from Dudley, West Midlands, were in central Mumbai…
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By Jay Janson
June 30, 2009 "
Opednews" -- -After Obama apologized for the strike which the Afghan government claimed killed well over a hundred ordinary country folk, came the report that the families of those killed, and subsequent Afghani dead falling in harms way of the US military, continuing as before, can…
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Added by Marklar on June 30, 2009 at 8:14pm —
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by Scott Baker
www.opednews.com
Why are there so many poor people when the world seems so much wealthier as a whole? By wealthier, I mean there is more food, more housing (and bigger, better housing too), more of everything, in fact. I'll get to the obvious misdistribution and the true remedy in a moment, but would point out here that this question is not new; in fact, it…
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by Scott Baker
www.opednews.com
Henry George, in his classic, and best-selling economics book of all time, Progress and Poverty, which sold 2 million copies in its first year - 1879 - laid out the remedy to end poverty AND spur growth and prosperity. By taxing natural resources and untaxing wages and capital (real capital such as trucks, ships, cranes etc.), one would…
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by Sherwood Ross
Global Research, June 28, 2009
The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.
“A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after…
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Added by Marklar on June 29, 2009 at 10:30pm —
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Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful’ , reveals Christopher Booker.
telegraph.co.uk
Christopher Booker
Published: 5:20PM BST 27 Jun 2009
Polar bears Polar bear expert barred by warmists
According to the world?s leading expert on polar bears, their numbers are higher than they…
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Added by Marklar on June 28, 2009 at 4:00am —
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Arkansas State Health Department: Mandatory Vaccines Are Constitutional
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Friday, June 26, 2009
Arkansas State Health Department: Mandatory Vaccines Are Constitutional 260609top
A member of the public who was concerned about a mandatory mass vaccination program in light of the swine flu pandemic called the Arkansas State Health Department for advice only…
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Added by Marklar on June 26, 2009 at 11:14am —
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New York Times
By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: June 23, 2009
WASHINGTON — Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal…
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The Orthodox Patriarch, Abuno Paulos, wants to reveal the millennial secret, and in an exclusive interview with Adnkronos…
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Added by Marklar on June 24, 2009 at 11:00am —
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Counter Punch
By DAVID PRICE
As the continuities and disjunctures between the Bush and Obama administrations come into focus it becomes increasingly clear that while Obama’s domestic agenda has some identifiable breaks with Bush’s, at its core, the new administration remains committed to staying the course of American militarization. Now we have an articulate, nuanced president who…
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Jeff Stein
CQPolitics
June 22, 2009
Aftermath of the Beirut Barracks Bombing
He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.
Mousavi, prime…
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No, it's not Alex Jones discussing Bohemian Grove, it's Stephen Colbert in the context the criticism of Sonia Sotomayor's women's-only club. Check out what Nixon had to say about the place...…
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Added by Marklar on June 20, 2009 at 10:30am —
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www.landreform.org
by Lindy Davies
Human civilization finds itself at a terrifying crossroads. The list of dangers is appallingly long. Would it make things a little less scary to group our challenges into main categories?
3) Environmental Crisis (including the ideas of "overpopulation and necessary "limits to growth")
2) Economic Stagnation (a chronic problem that takes many forms, including recessions, arrested…
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Added by Marklar on June 18, 2009 at 11:07pm —
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by Dave Lindorff
www.opednews.com
President Barack Obama, referring to the violent attacks on protesters against the controversial election results in Iran’s just-completed presidential election, this week lectured Iran’s government, saying, “Peaceful dissent should never be subject to violence.”
Referring to the tens and hundreds of thousands of frustrated and angry Iranians who have taken to the streets accusing Iranian…
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