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Dialect - Global Economic Crisis or Global Confidence Trick?

29-08-2009 00:11

29Aug09 - Global Economic Crisis or Global Confidence Trick?
plus Rejuvenating Easton and part 1 of John Pilger on ‘hypnotist’ Barack Obama.

http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/690894

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AFRICOM: The Pentagon's First Direct Military Intervention In Africa

28-08-2009 10:23

While conducting wars, bombings, military interventions and invasions in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East and recently Southeastern Europe over the past half century, the Pentagon has left the African continent comparatively unscathed. That is going to change after the establishment of the United States Africa Command on October 1 of 2007 and its activation a year later.

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Andy Thomas and Lawrence Gardner

28-08-2009 09:59

Andy Thomas and Lawrence Gardner work together, and Andy Thomas passes on curious messages at particular moments.

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Human Rights Activists Outraged that Scientology Cult Founder Compared to Gandhi

28-08-2009 05:23

Human rights activists are shocked that the Scientology criminal organization has declared its founder, L. Ron Hubbard, to have been as great a humanitarian as Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, and Mahatma Gandhi - or even a greater humanitarian.

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cruise ISSSS selling real fur

27-08-2009 14:42

2 animal rights supporters visited cruise in newcastle yestrerday after hearing its now selling real fur again

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Lammas Ecovillage, Wales gets Planning Approval (finally!)

27-08-2009 11:48

Today the Lammas ecovillage in Pembrokeshire finally won planning permission for their ecovillage project.

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Global War and Dying Democracy: The Revolution of the Elites

27-08-2009 07:48

Global trends in political economy suggest that “democracy” as we know it, is a fading concept, where even Western industrialized nations are retreating from the system. Arguably, through party politics and financial-corporate interests, democracy is something of a façade as it is. However, we are entering into an era in which even the institutions and image of democracy are in retreat, and the slide into totalitarianism seems inevitable.

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Fourth Generation Warfare: Twisting our minds into total submission

26-08-2009 15:17

Only with a social class consciousness and a consequently internationalist, anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist vision can we emerge without harm from the bombardments of mental manipulation a ...

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Latest on HLS financials

24-08-2009 16:47

In 2009 Huntingdon's CEO Andrew Baker announced that he was offering to buy out HLS for $7.50 a share. This means he wants to buy all the unsold shares in the company and buy out all the existing shareholders so that he owns the company in full.

See Baker Deal webpage

http://www.shac.net/action/financial/baker.html

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Hamid Karzai and Afghan elections 2009 (byLatuff)

24-08-2009 03:27

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Obama: Necessity of War in Afghanistan; continuation of Democratic politics?

23-08-2009 18:23

In a previous commentary we indicated that United States President Barack Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, in all probability is steering his corporate ship of State, his 'Titanic', towards turbulent waters, to a programmed, protracted world "war of necessity" ...

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Cuban Connection: Honduran Coup

23-08-2009 17:09

"Perhaps slightly less well known is that, before the coup, Ralph Nodarse was an active participant in assassination attempts against president Zelaya. And it may not be common knowledge, outside of Honduras, that his name came to light in a bombing attempt against former Honduran president Carlos Roberto Reina."

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Pentagon Plans For Global Military Supremacy

23-08-2009 13:32

The U.S. and NATO plans for the deployment of interceptor missiles and complementary radar facilities in Europe are not and could not be designed to protect the United States and Western Europe from imaginary Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles and equally non-existent nuclear warheads.

Even the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright was forced to concede this even the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright was forced to concede the point at the space and missile defense conference this week.

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Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation?

23-08-2009 10:48

A debate with Paul Kingsnorth.

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Controlling the Global Economy: Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve

21-08-2009 19:33

The 1990s saw the emergence of what was called the New World Order. This was a term that emerged in the early 1990s to describe a more unipolar world, addressing the collapse of the Soviet Union and the newfound role of the United States as the sole and unchallenged global power.

The New World Order was meant to represent a new phase in the global political economy in which world authority rested in one place, and for the time, that place was to be the United States.

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Nuclear New Build Blessed by Bishop of Carlisle

21-08-2009 14:36

The new Bishop of Carlisle has given his blessing to new nuclear build in Cumbria, proclaiming “I am very enthusiastic about nuclear power as a green option for the future.”
Radiation Free Lakeland sent an open letter to the Bishop in June - there has been no reply. Today representatives from Carlisle Action on Climate Change and Radiation Free Lakeland delivered a letter direct to Carlisle Cathedral.

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More freedom in eastern Europe than Big Brother Britain

20-08-2009 11:18

This article from the London Times reflects on how, as civil liberties flourish in former police states in eastern Europe, Big Brother is taking an ever increasing hold in Britain, thanks to our collective inaction.

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Interference via Twitter, Dreyfuss and NED

20-08-2009 07:40

Recent coordination between the Department of State and the Twitter
Corporation during the electoral unrest in Iran was a solid proof of the
close cooperation between media, the electronic industry (internet, etc.)
and the State Department.

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Is Barack Obama steering a healthy ship out of turbulent titanic global waters?

19-08-2009 17:04

Is the capitalist world economic crisis over? Are we coming to grips with the financial scandal and banking fiasco? Have we saved world capitalism and can we now peacefully get down to big business, to big wars again?

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Caucasus: The War That Was, The World War That Might Have Been

19-08-2009 14:59

What a resumption of fighting between Georgia and South Ossetia will entail is indicated by an examination of the scale of the catastrophe that was narrowly averted a year ago.

A coordinated attack by Georgia on South Ossetia and Abkhazia and by Azerbaijan on Nagorno Karabakh would have led to a regional conflagration and possibly a world war.