How did they know? They're not part of Merdoch's Media Empire are they?
The Bush Administration aims to recruit millions of United States citizens as domestic informants in a program likely to alarm civil liberties groups.
The Terrorism Information and Prevention System, or TIPS, means the US will have a higher percentage of citizen informants than the former East Germany through the infamous Stasi secret police. The program would use a minimum of 4 per cent of Americans to…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 26, 2009 at 1:54pm —
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The Pentagon seems to have decided that anthropology is to the war on terror what physics was to the Cold War. As an anthropologist, this makes me very nervous.
Where former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld believed that the United States would vanquish its enemies through technological superiority, his replacement Robert Gates has said that cultural expertise in counterinsurgency operations will be crucial in the future wars he anticipates.
When research that could…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 26, 2009 at 1:40pm —
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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 25, 2009 at 6:22am —
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By BART KOSTER and STEPHEN FIDLER
AMSTERDAM -- The Dutch central bank shuttered DSB Bank NV, a struggling consumer and mortgage lender, after a run by depositors that followed a call from a consumer group to pull money out of the controversial institution.
The government said it would begin an investigation into what happened at the bank, a privately owned institution with reported assets of some €8 billion ($11.77 billion).
The DSB seizure was described by the…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 17, 2009 at 4:02pm —
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This is for Europe I'll post about the US asap.
By: Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Lorenzo Valeri, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Evi Hatziandreu, Annalijn Conklin
This report provides an assessment of the main drivers, obstacles and uncertainties surrounding the deployment of RFID in healthcare in Europe. It identifies the most promising RFID applications in healthcare delivery by reviewing potential for increasing patient safety and the reduction of…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 16, 2009 at 3:00am —
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Lynn de Rothschild
Take a quick look at her pedigree, and you wouldn’t think de Rothschild, wife of Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, could be this hard-nosed. She is rich, charming and beautiful. Portfolio has called her the “the flashiest hostess in London.”
But look closer and you’ll find an iron will. Some Londoners call her “Lady Lynn de Pushy.”
She has long been a power player, counting the Clintons and Tony Blair as good friends. Former husband Andrew…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 14, 2009 at 5:10pm —
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Starting with this little diamond I'd like to invite you all to help bring these ruthless monsters to justice.
Foreign Office, November 2nd,1917
Dear Lord Rothschild,
I have much pleasure in conveying to you on behalf of His Majesty's Government the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations, which has been submitted to and approved by the Cabinet:
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 14, 2009 at 4:44pm —
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France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand is facing intense pressure over a book he wrote that described paying for "young boys" in Thailand.
Frederic Mitterrand has rejected criticism from the far right
The book was written four years ago, before he joined the government, but is back in the headlines following his impassioned support for Roman Polanski.
Polanski has been arrested in Switzerland on child sex charges.
Mr…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on October 9, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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The year was 1982 and America was the largest creditor nation on earth. By 2005, the U.S. was the largest debtor nation on earth. In 1980, the national debt had yet to eclipse the $1 trillion mark and had accumulated around $850 billion during the first 204 years of this republic. By 2007 or 24 years later, our debt had risen to more than $7 trillion and continues straight up.
Today, China alone purchases in excess of $1 billion…
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Added by Chris Rice on September 3, 2009 at 3:05pm —
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Common Sense 2009
Larry Flynt
Publisher of Hustler magazine and free speech advocate
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-flynt/common-sense-2009_b_264706.html
The American government -- which we once called our government -- has been taken over by Wall Street, the mega-corporations and the super-rich. They are the ones who decide our fate. It is this group of…
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Added by Chris Rice on September 1, 2009 at 12:31pm —
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WE MUST UNITE
A UNITY MOVEMENT
is called
for the United States of
America
Join millions of Americans in demanding truth,
justice, and accountability up to and through the
highest levels of government.
A National Call to Action:
Demonstrate Non-violent,…
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Added by Chris Rice on August 26, 2009 at 1:40pm —
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A poster depicting President Barack Obama as Heath Ledger's "Joker" character from "The Dark Knight" has sparked controversy after it appeared on the streets of Los Angeles.
By Toby Harnden in Washington
Published: 6:37PM BST 04 Aug 2009
The poster shows the US president with white face paint, dark eye shadow and smudged red lipstick above the caption "socialism", in an apparent attack on the US president's efforts to reform health care and stimulus…
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Added by Tara on August 4, 2009 at 6:24pm —
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What is socialism? Are we a socialist country? A professor of economics at UMass Amherst talks on the current "financial" crisis and capitialism in general. And he seems to think the current crisis is a kind of opportunity for us to have some kind of socialist revolution. He does make an interesting point that political freedom cannot be seperated from financial freedom, kinda like something Ron Paul would say. And he thinks the Liberals and Conservatives are offering false…
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Added by Chip on July 19, 2009 at 12:00am —
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MONDRAGON: A BETTER WAY TO GO TO WORK?
OKC Catholic Worker Index HOME (it 1 thing the Church got right.)
What has 120 different companies, 42,000 worker-owners, 43 schools, one college, does more than 4.8 billion dollars of business annually in manufacturing, services, retail and wholesale distribution, administers more than $5 billion in financial assets, and has a business plan that is animated by the principles of the social doctrine of the Roman Catholic…
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Added by Michael C. Dewey on January 23, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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Executive Order Seeks to "Synchronize and Integrate"
In the wake of the Flight 253 provocation, over-hyped terrorism panics, and last year's Big Pharma and media-engineered hysteria over the H1N1 flu pandemic, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13528 on January 11.
Among other things, the Executive Order (EO) established a Council of Governors, an "advisory panel" chosen by the President that will rubber-stamp long-sought-after Pentagon…
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Added by Anti Oligarch on November 30, 1999 at 12:00pm —
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