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  Oz ABC 'Media Watch' Should Watch Itself! posted by Binoy Kampmark via justin, 2017-11-15 21:39:38
The program usually pokes fun, riddles and irks a fourth estate that has long given up the chase for verity. Media Watch, after years of weather beaten but reliable service, remains Australia’s only real source of genuine critical comment about journalistic practice and its poorer practices. Over the years, it has exposed fictions, unearthed myths and lampooned incompetence. (full story)
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 Imbecile Drunken Australian Diplomat Dies After Falling From Balcony in New York posted by staff report Reuters via dulcie, 2017-11-15 21:14:24
A drunken Australian diplomat accidentally fell five floors to his death on Wednesday from the deck of his New York City home during a social gathering with his wife and friends, police and local media said. (full story)
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Why Science Says You Should Be Reading Small Independent Media posted by Jo Ellen Green Kaiser via jaxie, 2017-11-15 20:21:49
Trust in corporate news has plummeted over the past few years, however, trust in independent news is strong and growing -- hardly surprising in view of the blatant lies, misinformation and propaganda that issues like sewage from the corporate mass media. (full story)
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Australia -- Homosexual Marriage and a Distracted, Nose-ringed CONSERVATIVE Nation posted by les, 2017-11-14 21:16:52
Australians, like their moronic, media-enslaved American cousins, have fallen for ultra-conservative values dressed in ‘radical’ clothes. Homosexual issues, which group comprise a tiny percentage of any population, have been used by conservative authoritarian forces to distract from the critical and major SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL and FINANCIAL inequities and concerns that confront the overwhelming world MAJORITY, particularly Australians. (full story)
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Two posted by drew, 2017-11-14 03:01:18
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 Iran's Leading Cleric Declares Psychedelics Halal, Acceptable posted by Phillip Smith via dulcie, 2017-11-14 00:44:19
In a move barely noticed in the West, more than three years ago, Iran's Grand Ayatollah Rohani issued a formal legal ruling—a fatwa—declaring that the use of entheogens and psychedelics was permissible (ḥalāl) for Shi'a Muslims for purposes of treatment and spiritual growth. (full story)
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 Into the Afghan Abyss (Again) posted by Alfred W. McCoy via jess, 2017-11-13 22:09:50
After nine months of confusion, chaos, and cascading tweets, Donald Trump’s White House has finally made one thing crystal clear: the U.S. is staying in Afghanistan to fight and—so they insist—win. “The killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that no place is beyond the reach of American might,” said the president in August, trumpeting his virtual declaration of war on the Taliban. Overturning Barack Obama’s planned (and stalled) drawdown in Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced that the Pentagon would send 4,000 more soldiers to fight there, bringing American troop strength to nearly 15,000. (full story)
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 Secret ISIS Withdrawal Deal from Raqqa Exposed posted by staff report BBC via jane, 2017-11-13 21:18:36
Lorry driver Abu Fawzi thought it was going to be just another job. He drives an 18-wheeler across some of the most dangerous territory in northern Syria. Bombed-out bridges, deep desert sand, even government forces and so-called Islamic State fighters don’t stand in the way of a delivery. (full story)
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 The House of Saud a Tinder Box Ready to Implode posted by tafiq, 2017-11-13 12:23:13
Numerous commentaries by experts on the recent arrests of multi-billionaire Saudi royals by the heir apparent dimwit pretender to the throne, prince Salman, yes the same imbecile that sparked the war in Yemen which he is losing, which has demonstrated to the world his complete ineptitudes and incompetence as a tactician and leader. However, nothing compares to the recent convulsions in the house of Saud precipitated by the same idiot prince, the Trump of the Middle East, in that a total idiot is on the loose causing all manner of grief which could easily see the house of Saud implode, as there are far too many billionaire princes and other relatives that fear for their fortunes and lives to make this absurd purge tenable. (full story)
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On The Brink Of War posted by Abdel Bari Atwan via gail, 2017-11-13 02:58:25
We should not let minor details such as Hariri’s resignation or the detention of [Saudi] princes and former ministers divert our attention from the real developments that are taking place in secret. Nor should we let these minor details distract us from the more dangerous phase that will follow Prince Mohammad bin Salman ‘purge’ on the domestic Saudi front. For such ‘purges’ are the preliminary move to scenarios for a war that may be the most dangerous in the region’s history. And we are not exaggerating here. (full story)
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Shoreless Sea posted by lex, 2017-11-12 21:37:33
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Going, gone posted by jack, 2017-11-09 22:09:37
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the [public] is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our [any] nation." - Edward Bernays
"The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are therefore those that blissfully unaware, enslave themselves." Dresden James. (full story)
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The Saudi Night of the Long Knives posted by Pepe Escobar via jess, 2017-11-07 23:12:34
The House of Saud’s King Salman devises an high-powered “anti-corruption” commission and appoints his son, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, a.k.a. MBS, as chairman. (full story)
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Signatures posted by fibonacci via sadh, 2017-11-07 22:32:09
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The Last Thing posted by jean, 2017-11-05 20:53:00
It may surprise many but the last thing people wish to hear today is the TRUTH, which, as most westerners know, sets us free. But that is exactly the problem. Truth is challenging but propaganda and lies placate and help induce populations into ‘safe’ fantasy worlds comforted by numbers, which clearly is the preferred option as is apparent. Facing harsh reality which truth demands, is anathema to the majority living in a dreamworld -- the American population is a good example, for instance; Americans are so averse to reality/truth they have elevated a buffoon and pathological liar (a desired necessity for fantasists) to the highest office in the land, in which position he remains even though he is compromising the nation and people on a daily basis, BUT LIES are comforting, as they enable responsibility to be deferred. (full story)
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