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An investigation has been launched in response to allegations by two Muslim students that they were banned from boarding a London bus because of their veils.
The two Muslim students claim that the driver of a Metroline bus refused them entry onto the bus,
claiming they [...]
Al Jazeera English
Interesting show this one, caught an episode today where they were discussing the need for a global government, like it was no big thing… yikes.
I’ll endeavour to post it when it makes it into the “pipes and dump-tucks” of internet land.
Here is a good intro but Its all propaganda at the end of [...]
A United Nations vote to recognize water as a basic human right is a “historic” chance for the global community to ease human suffering, according to a Canadian activist in the thick of a last-ditch lobbying effort.
“We’re running out of water and the crisis is getting worse,” Maude Barlow said Monday from New York, on [...]
Soon after Richard Gage, AIA, became interested in the subject of the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11, he began debating critics who felt qualified to challenge the explosive evidence. Gage twice debated Ron Craig (International Society of Explosives Engineers), as well as Mark Roberts (tour guide), Michael Shermer (founder of [...]
Cancer is projected to be the number one cause of death worldwide by the year 2010. This frighting disease can affect anyone at any time in their lives. The terror, confusion and physiological deterioration that Cancer causes devastates not only those who are afflicted by it, but everyone in their lives as well.
For more information [...]
The international aid agency Oxfam demanded Monday that Israel compensate Palestinians in a northern Jordan Valley village after soldiers destroyed at least $29,000 of aid.
In a statement, the charity said villagers in Al-Farisiya were forced into poverty when soldiers demolished 79 structures in the village, including homes, stables, sheds, water tanks, two tons of animal [...]
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The New Pentagon Papers:
WikiLeaks Releases 90,000+ Secret Military Documents Painting Devastating Picture of Afghanistan War
It’s one of the biggest leaks in US military history. More than 90,000 internal records of US military actions in Afghanistan over the past six years have been published by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.
The documents provide a devastating portrait of the [...]
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Fourteen months ago the article “Globovision digging its own grave in Venezuela” was published on Axis of Logic.
Now this right wing opposition news channel which made a career out of opposing and lying about the Chavez government has imploded forfeiting a possible 45.8% of its stock to the Venezuelan state primarily [...]
The following article was first written in 1998.
I am relinking it here not so much as to say
“I told you so”
but to point out that the long term economic future of the United States was obvious,
or should have been obvious,
to the people who are awarded lofty degrees
and paid huge salaries to [...]
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The Indian government has unveiled the prototype of an iPad-like touch-screen laptop,
with a price tag of $35 (£23),
which it hopes to roll out next year.
Aimed at students, the tablet supports web browsing, video conferencing and word processing,
say developers.
Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said a manufacturer was being sought for the gadget,
which was developed by [...]
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Snopes.com,
officially known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages,
has since its humble inception in 1995 come to be regarded as one of the most trusted debunkers of conspiracy theories on the internet.
Described by one of its many fans — it apparently has over 6 million visitors per month — as
“the granddaddy of all fact-checking sites,”
Snopes [...]
[ zionism's slow-mo train-wreck descent down to nazi-town continues unabated ]
Palestinian activists are being jailed, Israeli activists are under surveillance,
and the Israeli military is increasingly targeting journalists who cover West Bank protests.
The Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Israel issued a statement recently condemning what it sees as a change [...]
[ ... and in the weekends - these wankers go skiing ]
You can keep an eye on them here
And here’s their website
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http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/
I realise that Democracy Now are, to some extent, gatekeepers, but both these interviews are worth a listen.
“Top Secret America” Washington Post Investigation Reveals Massive, Unmanageable, Outsourced US Intelligence System”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/19/top_secret_america__washington_post
“Tim Shorrock Asks Why It Took the Washington Post So Long to Investigate the US Intelligence System”
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/19/tim_shorrock_asks_why_it_took
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The Ministry of Truth was how George Orwell described the mechanism used by government to control information in his seminal novel 1984.
A recent trip to Europe has convinced me that the governments of the world have been rocked by the power of the internet and are seeking to gain control of it so that they [...]
I don’t play cards, but if I did… I’d get some of these
http://financialterrorists.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/financial-terrorists-playing-cards/
http://financialterrorists.wordpress.com/sample-cards/
chuckle chuckle
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I don’t really mean ‘mad’ mad, Max is without a doubt the least mad money man on the planet.
Want to know more?
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The U.S. caused the 1930s deflationary depression and is again the cause of the current contraction. Although similarities exist between the two, the differences between them insure a far more consequential outcome today than in the 1930s. [Indeed, the world] now finds itself on the edge of a growing deflationary sinkhole created by the sequential [...]
Watch this movie.
On at the Auckland film festival
http://www.nzff.co.nz/default.aspx?id=8791®ion=2
Still tickets available for the last two shows. … ooooh but hurry.
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The official ‘redband’ trailer for American The Bill Hicks Story www.americanthemovie.com
This groundbreaking new documentary uses a stunning new animation technique to tell the story of the modern cultural icon Bill Hicks.
Music: “Breathe Me” performed by Sia, courtesy of [...]
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There are those who would argue that the financial crisis was caused by over-enthusiastic worship of the Almighty Dollar.
Call it brutal financial karma, but that church is looking pretty empty these days.
A new report from Morgan Stanley analyst Emma Lawson confirms what many had suspected:
the dollar is firmly on its way [...]
Really can’t wait until TVNZ ditches its One Network News sponsor so I can finally start hearing some more interesting factoids on the banks…
… like ‘how much money flows out of the country everyday ‘
& financial discussions could finally include statements such as:
‘Should most New Zealandic banks be owned by Australia, anyway?’
& [...]
A few years ago, when the FBI detained me at the airport and asked me
“are you a terrorist,” I told them no, I was working to expose the real terrorists.
But it all depends on how you define terrorism, doesn’t it?
If terrorism is “politically-inspired dissemination of fear,”
then those who terrified the population with the [...]
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