"The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny" -  Mark Twain

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"How the world turns. One day, cock of the walk. Next, a feather duster." Aunty Entity - Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

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"I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza until our resources are invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning."
http://october2011.org/welcome

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Video shows outrage to the massacre of 85 civilians by NATO
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28809.htm

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A high-powered array of former top American officials is advocating removal from the US terrorist list of a controversial Iranian opposition group with a long anti-American history.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28803.htm

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What do politicians do when they leave office and how does that influence their behavior while they are in office?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28804.htm

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Thanks to an irrational and likely illegal Supreme Court ruling, we have moved into an era of oligarch-run politics.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28807.htm

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Their life experience makes them less empathetic, less altruistic, and generally more selfish.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28808.htm

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Demonized and/or sentimentalized by the state/corporate media, exactly as in Victorian times, an entire section of the working class have been reduced to some inferior, sub-human species by the political class and its media partners-in-crime.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28805.htm

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We cannot wait for the rest of the world to be engulfed by flames before we act. The materials are at hand.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28806.htm

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Initial reports said three "militants" were killed in the attack but officials said the toll had gone up to 21 after more bodies were found from the rubble of the house.
http://paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?242581

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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has killed at least 443 people in Pakistan in 51 drone attacks this year so far, the Conflict Monitoring Centre's latest report has said.
http://www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-45547.html

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Faced with a prolonged war against terrorism on global level, its defeat in Afghanistan, the United States seeks to fight covert wars in some Islamic countries, which will especially include Pakistan.
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/08/us-learns-no-lesson/

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Firefights broke out between NATO forces and Afghan police in two parts of Afghanistan overnight, with four Afghan officers killed in one of the incidents, officials said Wednesday.
http://wapo.st/p6rW67

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The United States has launched a diplomatic offensive against Libya among African nations as Tripoli accused NATO of a "massacre" of 85 villagers in air strikes in support of rebels.
http://thedailynewsegypt.com/region/us-launches-anti-qaddafi-offensive-in-africa.html

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Libyan state TV has broadcast what it said was footage of Colonel Gaddafi's son Khamis visiting people wounded in an air attack. Earlier rebels claimed he had been killed in a NATO air strike last week.
http://rt.com/news/gaddafi-khamis-alive-libya/

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Five Iranian security forces have been killed when their vehicle was ambushed by members of the terrorist group of the Party for Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) in northwest Iran, an official says.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/193186.html

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A leading US Democrat on Wednesday said that Congress was united in its opposition to a Palestinian bid for UN membership and called for a speedy resumption of peace talks with Israel.
http://bit.ly/pmgqJO

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London's rioters are the products of a crumbling nation, and an indifferent political class that has turned its back on them.
http://tgr.ph/oCFEE3

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Dylan Ratigan with his panel Karen Finney, Susan Del Percio & Jimmy Williams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHgM8SUAwy8&feature=player_embedded#at=47

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The United States is pointedly turning the other cheek despite an explosion of criticism of its debt debacle in China's official media, including a charge its economy is no more than a Ponzi scheme.
http://bit.ly/mZg36Z

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When a top investor like Grantham sees the US like this, is it any surprise the market has crashed?
http://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-grantham-danger-children-at-play-2011-8

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Tom Feeley