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 Mining Giant Credits Activists with Possibly Saving Great Barrier Reef posted by Lauren McCauley via jaxie, 2015-08-12 00:32:08
Fierce environmental activism is being blamed—and credited—with spurring the potential demise of Australia's controversial Carmichael coal mine project. Indian mining giant Adani on Tuesday lashed out at activists, accusing them of causing delays that prompted financial backers to withdraw their support for the vast Queensland mine and port expansion along the Great Barrier Reef (GBR). (full story)
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Reality, Meaning and Religion posted by jared, 2015-08-11 23:48:55
I had occasion for great mirth when I encountered possibly the most tragic, desperate and sorrowful piece I had ever read on the American condition. What made it more tragic was the fact that it was written by seemingly educated thinking people, yet it was painfully apparent they were all SLAVES to the dominant cultural prescription. Not one exhibited a personal connection to the living, infinite cosmos of which we are all a living part. (full story)
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Words posted by quill, 2015-08-11 05:28:00
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‘Collateral Damage,' my arse! posted by justin, 2015-08-11 02:24:03
We are talking millions of innocent human lives here not some scrap garbage or expendable merchandise! Whoever in their right mind could justify the murder of innocent civilians using the phrase, ‘collateral damage’ and hope to evade justice, international laws and conventions, which expressly criminalise the murder of civilians, as drone ‘signature strikes’ clearly do, is either a criminal, out of their mind or both? It’s time to get off the unreality media pills, dreamboats, as someone must pay. Perpetrators or the nation that fails to deal legally with its criminals in high places cannot evade the law or justice forever. There simply is no such thing as killing civilians legally, notwithstanding that every war the US wages today, directly or by proxy, is ILLEGAL. (full story)
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  US workers work longest hours for lowest pay and holidays in Western World posted by Prof. James Petras via shirl, 2015-08-10 01:54:34
Abbott and his conservatives are attempting to create a mini-US in Oz, as their policies CLEARLY indicate. Those policies amount to giving a free ride to tax avoiding multi-nationals, parasitic banks and other large corporations while at the same time CONSTANTLY attacking the vulnerable, students and average workers in our community; so it becomes very relevant indeed to view working and social condtions for average Americans in order to STOP ABBOTT and his team of scurrilous, lying ministers in their treasonous tracks. Australians fought hard for the fair and equitable society they ONCE HAD, the envy of the WORLD. Notwithstanding the damage that major parties have inflicted on traditional Australian values to date, it nevertheless is an easy matter to RESTORE Australia by withdrawing all support from the owned, puppet major parties and installing REPRESENTATIVE independents into office at every local, state and federal election. (full story)
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Pentagon prepares for hundred year corporate resources war posted by Nafeez Ahmed via stacey, 2015-08-09 23:38:30
Whatever else could be said about the corporate/banker ruled USA, it is clear that war is the only vision it has. Note, not a word about cooperative relations or business just grab your gun like a bandit and attempt to steal what you should rightfully pay for, as has been done over the past 15 years. Nevertheless, other nations today will not have a bar of it, neocon perpetual war spells disaster for the US and the world and if the masses tolerate this mafia mindset and tactics then they deserve what they get -- fallout if not complete obliteration! (full story)
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Former Defense Intelligence Agency Chief Says Rise of Islamic State Was “A Willful Decision” posted by Brad Hoff via jake, 2015-08-08 10:35:10
In Al Jazeera’s latest Head to Head episode, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Michael Flynn confirms to Mehdi Hasan that not only had he studied the DIA memo predicting the West’s backing of an Islamic State in Syria when it came across his desk in 2012, but even asserts that the White House’s sponsoring of radical jihadists (that would emerge as ISIL and Nusra) against the Syrian regime was “a willful decision.” (full story)
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  Donald Trump Blows Lid Off Ruling Plutocracy posted by Mike Whitney via jude, 2015-08-07 21:14:26
Last night’s FOX News GOP Presidential Debate Extravaganza featured the most riveting two minute political exchange ever heard on national television. During a brief colloquy between Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Fox moderator Brett Baier, the pugnacious casino magnate revealed the appalling truth about the American political system, that the big money guys like Trump own the whole crooked contraption lock, stock, and barrel, and that, the nation’s fake political leaders do whatever they’re told to do. Without question, it was most illuminating commentary to ever cross the airwaves. Here’s the entire exchange direct from the transcript: (full story)
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'The Dream of Internet Freedom is Dying,' Warns Top Civil Liberties Attorney posted by Lauren McCauley via gail, 2015-08-07 20:59:33
Jennifer Granick, addressing security professionals at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas on August 5, said "the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse: terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderers" are allowing the government to push for even more regulation and control of the Internet. (full story)
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The Orator posted by quinn, 2015-08-06 07:13:16
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Ideological Godfather of the Neocons – Leo Strauss posted by jason, 2015-08-06 00:24:58
Strauss espoused the view that the masses are an incoherent rabble incapable of reason and self-determination. They must be managed he said for ‘their’ own good, but especially for the good of the elite that manages them, implied. He taught that the optimum means of crowd management was via fear or appealing to the most basic human emotions rather than reason as the masses lacked that critical ability – he clearly got it right! And so his students, particularly Paul Wolfowitz and other Zionist Jews that subscribed to the views of their Jewish teacher, Strauss, began their assault on American democracy in the 90’s until they succeeded in capturing America using their Zionist banker supporters and puppet president dubya Bush as a means to an end. (full story)
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The Land of Han posted by Kuan, 2015-08-04 08:46:53
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LIBOR Fraudster Jailed for 14 years – Oversight on Big Banks a Necessity posted by justin, 2015-08-04 00:44:21
A UK judge handed down a 14 year jail sentence for fraud to a ‘City’ trader who worked for Citi and UBS over his involvement in tampering with the ‘London Interbank Offered Rate,’ commonly known as LIBOR. This makes a grand total of ONE banker that has been given a substantial jail sentence for the massive LIBOR fraud, which would in all probability only be a few years served time at best, yet the elite banking community is aware how pervasive this scandal actually was and that no one person was or is able to rig LIBOR alone, so what of other involved banker criminals, they’re home free! (full story)
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The American Led New Axis of Evil posted by Jason Hirthler via stix, 2015-08-03 10:46:03
The title hardly requires elaboration as recent REAL, as opposed to mass media propaganda, history amply highlights. America and its spineless vassals, particularly NATO, have created the modern world's most destabilising period in history. The US and its vassals have been at war constantly since the engineered, purpose designed, pretext of 9/11. The result is millions of innocents dead, many more millions displaced from war torn and ruined nations and a faltering global economy due to the need to prosecute these corporate/banker wars of resource appropriation and strategic energy corridor acquisitions -- or put simply, corporate/banker wars for PROFIT! (full story)
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 Abbott’s “best police in the world” LIE Exposed posted by Natalie O'Brien via cyd, 2015-08-01 21:01:20
Informed Aussies can count on two things, 1. that Tony Abbott is a reprehensible pathological LIAR and 2. that our federal police are a bunch of incompetents (Bali 9 etc) – we are now, thanks to the Herald, able to add thieves among the ranks of AFP. (full story)
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