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 DOD, HUD Defrauded Taxpayers Of $21 Trillion From 1998 To 2015 posted by Whitney Webb via jess, 2017-10-06 22:17:22
Last year, a Reuters article brought renewed scrutiny to the budgeting practices of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), specifically the U.S. Army, after it was revealed that the department had “lost” $6.5 trillion in 2015 due to “wrongful budget adjustments.” Nearly half of that massive sum, $2.8 trillion, was lost in just one quarter. Reuters noted that the Army “lacked the receipts and invoices to support those numbers [the adjustments] or simply made them up” in order to “create an illusion that its books are balanced.” (full story)
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  Putin Cops ANOTHER Overt Whack in the Mouth from Washington posted by Moon Of Alabama via shirl, 2017-10-06 21:03:22
One wonders at times how much belittling Putin can take. I have never forgotten a prominent neocon blurting, at the time of the Iraq illegal intervention, when asked a question by the media about a possible Russian reaction, the answer was couched in LAUGHTER, "what can Russia do, ha, ha, ha?" How historically accurate. Putin has caved like the COWARD he is on every occasion he faced Washington criminal aggression, his protest mouse-squeaks over Libya have gone down in history. But what did Putin "DO?" Nothing to support Libya against the OVERT US/NATO CRIMINAL attack on that nation and the assassination of its leader, which criminal travesties Putin could have easily prevented by simply supporting that Russian ALLIED nation. And so his cowardice is legendary in Washington and deservedly so. (full story)
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The Love Miner posted by zed, 2017-10-05 19:44:13
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poetry / international
Short, Sweet and to the Point -- You’re Covered by Copyright Law posted by jasmine, 2017-10-05 05:40:08
Understand that you own the copyright on your person, image, behaviour and anything that issues from YOU. Which means that mega-Tech companies that profit from your behaviour online or elsewhere, your image, or any other direct and indirect emanation, are in BREACH of copyright as they PROFIT from almost everything you do, say and choose in the digital realm. Without your explicit consent to EVERY transaction they make, like selling for profit data accrued from your actions/behaviour etc, -- they are liable and you are entitled to COMPENSATION as their stupid consent agreements do not completely inform the user how PERSONAL data, including behaviour/actions, is being used. (full story)
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Perhaps posted by lex, 2017-10-04 21:51:59
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Unmasked Criminal USA Attempts Grab for Syrian Oil posted by Mike Whitney via jess, 2017-10-04 06:11:09
Clearly, the mask is down and it's now obvious to all that the USA directly and via its many alternating bought proxy fighters is making a grab for Syria's sovereign resource assets, primarily OIL. Of course this overt grab depends on Putin's reaction. Now consider how US ally, ISIS, assassinated one of Russia's generals in a clear diversionary tactic. Washington hopes that Putin would be true to his known COWARDLY form and defer, as he has always done facing Washington/NATO aggression in the past. Perhaps he may acquiesce again, only he knows, but his track record of abandoning allies is appalling, he is known to dump allies at the most critical time. We have a ruined Yugoslavia and Libya, and many other weaker States to offer as proof. Previous Soviet leaders would have supported such allies to the hilt if for no other reason than to check America's imperial, expansionist aggression. (full story)
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 The First Casualty of Terrorism is Innocence posted by vance, 2017-10-03 11:31:01
Truth may be the first casualty of war, but INNOCENCE remains the first casualty of terrorism; by definition and consequence, terrorism is the killing of innocent civilians for political purposes regardless of whether the act is committed by a clever or dumbed down sociopath -- America can expect more, much more for the following reasons. (full story)
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 The End of the Star-Spangled Empire posted by Chris Hedges via sal, 2017-10-03 02:37:57
The following rather gloomy -- for Americans -- piece is accurate and for this reason it is reposted here; however, it should be noted that the world continues usually for the better after the demise of oppressive, rapacious, mass murdering, violent empires which share common core structures/behaviours and the associated inherent weaknesses. Indeed, ALL 'great' empires first fail within usually long before external forces put an end to their terminal twitching and so it is with the USA, which nation has been unraveling for some time. Today's, and recent former national leaders and the destructive, self-interested forces that install and support them are always to blame for undermining the very principles which created strength in the first instance; all things have the seeds of destruction inbuilt genetically and socially. So is it not time to REFORM the poisonous status quo and eliminate the nation-destroying forces responsible for the rapid decline? (full story)
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RAND details terrifying future of hypersonic missile proliferation — and what US can do to stop it posted by Bob Brigham via reg, 2017-10-03 01:03:00
A new report by the RAND Corporation warns of the future proliferation of hypersonic missiles.
“Hypersonic missile proliferation would increase the chances of strategic war,” said Richard Speier, lead author of the report (PDF). “It would give nations an incentive to become trigger-happy.” (full story)
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 US Cartoon Politics vs the Reality of North Korea posted by Benjamin Habib via dulcie, 2017-10-01 03:37:54
We make a lot of assumptions in relation to North Korea and a lot of them are wrong. (full story)
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 Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop does Her servile Obsequious best to Flatter Trump posted by jake, 2017-10-01 00:35:26
Extraordinary! The headline appearing in Murdoch rag The Weekend Australian, read: "Julie Bishop credits Donald Trump’s rhetoric with forcing China to act against North Korea" -- believe it or not. (full story)
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 Cracks in Dollar Are Getting Larger posted by James Rickards via james, 2017-09-30 23:43:07
Many readers are familiar with the original petrodollar deal the U.S made with Saudi Arabia. It was set up by Henry Kissinger and Saudi princes in 1974 to prop up the U.S. dollar. At the time, confidence in the dollar was on shaky ground because President Nixon had ended gold convertibility of dollars in 1971. (full story)
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 Exposed: Lying, Duplicitous, Disgusting Racist SELLOUT FAKE President that Serves the 1% posted by Jenna Johnson via shirl, 2017-09-30 21:55:59
So much for despicable, lying bastard Trump, who has deferred foreign policy to the deep state's 'permanent war' Pentagon and created a tax plan that favours the 1% to the great cost of the people he pretended to support, notwithstanding his overt racism, lack of political skills and inability to run a large powerful nation. But he's good at bluster, complaining, childish games (North Korea) and playing one ignorant stooge against another and distracting the public from his countless FAILURES and broken promises -- you piece of shit Trump, the sooner an angry citizen you sold out puts a bullet in your head the better for America and the entire WORLD. (full story)
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Alternative Media Shoots Self in Foot posted by darcy, 2017-09-30 01:40:56
The latest winger from the alternative bunch is from Alternet, before that Word Socialist Website WSWS, indeed, there is validity to both complaints of INTENTIONAL backgrounding by Google and Facebook and other major IT players able to interfere with information flows and access. However, alternative news sites have only themselves to blame as it was/is a given that the ‘man,’ would eventually contrive a plan and implement a mechanism to stifle free speech on the internet, especially those which oppose the fiction of the dominant mainstream discourse, shaped of course by the CFR. (full story)
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The REALITY Behind the Media's Distorted Presentation of Germany's Elections posted by Paul Craig Roberts via cyd, 2017-09-29 06:13:57
Despite clear evidence that Washington has chosen the path to conflict with Russia and China, European governments have not objected. Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics even seem to demand more conflict or a quicker path to conflict. The European peoples themselves have not elected leadership that is willing to repudiate vassalage to Washington and conduct a rational foreign policy toward Russia. (full story)
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