July 2009
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February 2009
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HOAS: Sähkömiehen työt kulttuurisidonnaisia
[Metro, 11.02.2009]
http://korta.nu/hoas
Helsingin seudun opiskelija-asuntosäätiö (HOAS) peri entiseltä asukkaalta 140 euroa kahdesta puuttuvasta kattovalaisimen sokeripalasta, Metro kertoo. Sokeripalat asentaa sähkömies, joka laskuttaa työstään tuntitaksan perusteella. Sähkömiestä käytetään, vaikka kuka tahansa saisi tehdä työn.
- Emme voi ottaa asukkaiden turvallisuuteen liittyviä riskejä....
December 2008
3 posts
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The Legislative Process
[Daily Telegraph, 18.12.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/y244
South Korean politicians tried to sledgehammer their way into a parliamentary meeting room barricaded by the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) as the National Assembly descended into chaos over a free-trade agreement with the United States.
Security staff and aides from the ruling party stood guard outside the room to keep opposition...
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Where Are the Jewish Gangsters?
[Ron Rosenbaum, 18.12.2008]
http://ping.fm/gOiNo
The more I read about Bernie Madoff, the more disgusted I am with the whole crowd of country-club suckers he allegedly conned and the phony “gentility” they represent. The whole Bernie Madoff scandal was not about Jews and money but Jews and respectability. The scandal was a tragedy of misguided upward mobility.
This is a scandal...
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Into The Wild
Katselin juuri Sean Pennin “Into The Wildin”. Se, joka pitää elokuvasta, todella rakastaa Amerikkaa. Minä en.
Vaikka elokuvan loppu oli voimakas, päävire oli sama kuin soundtrackinkin: phony.
Ehkä minä olen aina askel lähemmäs kyynikkoa, mutta minuun ei nämä amerikkalaiset kasvutarinat iske.
Mitä Supertrampin vastoinkäymiset ja itsetutkiskelu meille opettaa muuta kuin yksityistä...
November 2008
6 posts
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MP3s Prevent Piracy
[AFP, 21.11.2008]
http://ping.fm/UkL3j
A long-range acoustic device (LRAD), hooked up to a humble MP3 player, blasts the target with a precise beam of sound, which can be turned up to excruciatingly painful levels should an attacker get too close.
Anti-Piracy Maritime Security Solutions (APMSS) hires out three-man teams of ex-military personnel bearing LRADs on ships and has been inundated...
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The Capitalist Prepares for Class War
[Telegraph, 27.11.2008]
http://ping.fm/NdrvU
Damage caused by the financial excesses of the last quarter century is forcing the world’s authorities to take steps never tried before, according to Citigroup.
This gamble was likely to end in one of two extreme ways: with either a resurgence of inflation; or a downward spiral into depression, civil disorder, and possibly wars.
“As...
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Lex Nokia: Näyttö puuttuu
[Petri Sajari, 25.11.2008]
http://ping.fm/55ruN
“Tämäkin laki osoittaa, että loukkaamattomien perusoikeuksien kunnioittamisessa Suomi ei ole täysimittainen oikeusvaltio.”
Lakiesitys ohittaa perusoikeudet ja siirtää merkittävästi laissa viranomaisille määrättyjä pakkokeinoja yksityisille.
Lakiesityksen valmistelleessa liikenne- ja viestintäministeriössä uskotaan, että...
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Isänpäiväkahvit peruttu
Louhelan päiväkodissa Vantaalla perjantaille 7.11. suunniteltu isänpäiväkahvitus peruttiin samana päivänä Vantaan kaupungin säästötoimenpiteiden vuoksi.
Päiväkodin ilmoitustaululla olevan tiedotteen mukaan Vantaan kaupungin taloudellisten näkymien vuoksi päiväkodeissa on lupa tehdä ainoastaan hankintoja, jotka liittyvät hygieniaan ja turvallisuuteen.
Tiedotteesta kävi ilmi, että päiväkoti...
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Hiljainen tieto
[YLE Uutiset, 05.11.2008]
http://ping.fm/EyEFH
Vantaan poliisi esittää vangittavaksi ympäristörikoksista epäillyn jätealayrityksen johtoa. Poliisin mukaan yritys on syyllistynyt jo vuosia törkeisiin ympäristörikoksiin. Lainvastaiset toimintatavat ovat siirtyneet yrityksessä vanhoilta työntekijöiltä uusille. Yritys on laskenut mm. kokonaisen jäteautollisen jäterasvoja sadevesiviemäristöön....
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Pravda: rypäleasein ryssää vastaan
Ihmisoikeusjärjestö Human Rights Watch (HRW) syyttää Venäjää rypäleaseiden käytöstä Georgiassa. Järjestön mukaan Venäjä käytti rypäleaseita tiistaisessa ilmaiskuissaan kahteen georgialaiskaupunkiin. HRW:n mielestä Venäjän olisi tullut pidättäytyä aseiden käytöstä. [Human Rights Watch, 15.08.2008]
Georgia myönsi HRW:lle käyttäneensä rypäleaseita sodassa Etelä-Ossetiassa. Georgian...
October 2008
3 posts
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Lower-Class Dilemma
[The Onion, 30.10.2008]
http://ping.fm/dZYJ6
As election day nears, millions of the nation’s poorest voters have reportedly yet to settle on the most profound and enduring way to completely fuck themselves over when they head to the polls this year.
“On the one hand, I’m pretty sure Barack Obama will undermine my best interests by maintaining the same centrist, pro-corporate...
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Vasemmalta oikealle
116 000 lisä-ääntä äärioikeistolle, 76 500 poroporvareille ja 12 000 jeesustelijoille. Ikuiset sitoitumattomat juhlivat 52 000 lisä-äänellään voittoa työväenliikkeestä yhdessä kodin, uskonnon ja isänmaan kanssa.
Nämä olivat jo kolmannet peräkkäiset vaalit, joissa työväestö äänesti massiivisesti luokkavihollistaan. Urpilaisuus ja punikkien pensastelu ei houkuta työväestöä pois...
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Wrong bus
[UPI, 07.02.2007]
http://ping.fm/TdPj2
A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years, The Times of London reported.
Jaeyana Beuraheng accidentally boarded a bus bound for Bangkok, and once there she boarded a second incorrect bus because she could not read or speak Thai or English.
Beuraheng, who speaks only the...
September 2008
3 posts
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True Justice
[C-Span, 30.09.2008]
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Odn1cH6rlR8
George Bush and Dick Cheney are liars, traitors, and murderers. If there was any true justice in this country, the people would drag them out of the White House, take ‘em to the Capitol Mall, and hang ‘em by the neck until they are dead, dead, dead.
—Caller from Hudson, FL.
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Einsatzkommando Finnland
[YLE Uutiset, 19.09.2008]
http://ping.fm/wUxMy
Valtiollinen poliisi (Valpo) osallistui Pohjois-Suomessa saksalaisten rinnalla aktiivisiksi kommunisteiksi tai juutalaisiksi määriteltyjen henkilöiden surmaamiseen, selviää väitöstutkimuksesta.
Väitöksen mukaan Suomeen perustettiin aiemmin tuntematon turvallisuuspoliisin erikoisyksikkö, Einsatzkommando Finnland, jonka tehtävänä oli tuhota...
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Mickey Mouse must die!
[Daily Telegraph, 15.09.2008]
http://ping.fm/qTLvo
Mickey Mouse is a corrupting influence and must die, a Muslim cleric has declared. Sheikh Muhammad Munajid claimed the mouse is “one of Satan’s soldiers” and makes everything it touches impure. The cleric, a former diplomat at the Saudi embassy in Washington DC, said that under Sharia, both household mice and their cartoon...
August 2008
22 posts
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Patriot Act
[Gothamist, 27.08.2008]
http://ping.fm/g6mVT
I attempted to get up to use the restroom, rather urgently, during the 7th inning stretch as God Bless America was beginning. As I attempted to walk down the aisle and exit my section into the tunnel, I was stopped by a police officer. He informed me that I had to wait until the song was over. I responded that I had to use the restroom and that I did...
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This book does not work
I have tried the “praying” method to get a new Porsche 996 delivered but to no avail. There is nothing in the instructions about not wanting German sports cars but I tried praying for less ambitious things.
I gave up when it did not even get me a Big Mac. In the early part there is a bit about people crossing the desert and being sustained by manna from heaven, so you would think...
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Barack Obama's brother found in Kenya
[Daily Telegraph, 21.08.2008]
http://ping.fm/YLoGh
The Italian edition of Vanity Fair has found George Hussein Onyango Obama, the youngest of the presidential candidate’s half-brothers, living in a two metre by three metre hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts of Nairobi.
“No-one knows who I am,” George Obama told the magazine. “I live here on less than a...
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King Saul
[YLE Uutiset, 20.08.2008]
http://ping.fm/288kA
Kokoomuksen ykkösehdokas on Sauli Niinistö. Hänet rankkaa viiden parhaan joukkoon noin 70 prosenttia ja parhaaksi ehdokkaaksi lähes 40 prosenttia vastaajista.
SDP:n kannattajien suosituin presidenttiehdokas on kokoomuksen Sauli Niinistö. Omista ehdokkaista parhaan kannatuksen saavat kansanedustaja Erkki Tuomioja ja entinen pääministeri Paavo...
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Bread & Circus
An excerpt from a conversation with a friend:
ME: So are you saying that most people do NOT prefer bread & circus over bombs & shells?
NN: There are so many things which I know nothing about. For someone with no knowledge, there is no use in taking a stand on them.
ME: And this is one of them?
NN: Yes.
No comment.
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Tallink rikkoo perusoikeuksia
[Äripäev, 06.08.2008]
http://ping.fm/vvaM5
Viron itsenäinen merimiesunioni (EMSA) on haastanut Tallinkin oikeuteen. Ammattiliitto syyttää Tallinkia yhtiön työntekijöiden perusoikeuksien rikkomisesta.
EMSAn mukaan yhtiö käy salaa läpi laivahenkilökunnan henkilökohtaisia tavaroita ja on kieltänyt henkilökuntaa liikkumasta vapaa-ajallaan laivan matkustaja-alueella omissa vaatteissaan.
EMSAn...
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Free Tibet flags Made in China
[BBC News, 28.04.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/YEsN
Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say.
The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.
Then some of them saw TV...
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US: Man Arrested for Trying to Vote
[Democratic Underground, 06.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/lFCI
The election judge stood straight up from his chair, raising his voice loudly, and said, “If you don’t want to vote, there is the door, and you can leave now!”
My reply was, “Sir, we do want to vote. My son and I have both brought the proper ID. Now, if you are refusing to let us vote, please tell us...
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Thugs Threaten Anti-War Website
[Prison Planet, 07.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/mI3g
The owner of an anti-war website has become the target of thugs apparently in the employ of the US government who have continually harassed him and ordered him to shut down his website.
Tom Feeley, owner and editor of InformationClearingHouse.info, has endured public harassment, home invasions, death threats and threats to his family...
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Finnish athletes reject Tibet appeal
[YLE News, 07.08.2008]
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/oikea/id98218.html
The names of two Finnish javelin throwers representing Finland at the Olympic Games in Beijing have been stricken from an international appeal in support of Tibet. The appeal of the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) calls on the Chinese government to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Tibet.
Kai Müller,...
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Brazil on the Brink of Civil War
[Associated Press, 04.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/c42e
Deep in the northernmost reaches of the Amazon jungle, a land conflict between rice farmers and a handful of Indian tribes has turned so violent that the country’s Supreme Court warns it could escalate into civil war.
The court is expected to decide in August if the government can keep evicting rice farmers from a 4.2 million...
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Zogby: Obama, McCain in Dead Heat
[Red, Green, and Blue, 05.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/qYaC
A national Associated TV/Zogby International poll finds Republican Sen. John McCain taking a barely distinguishable 42%-41% lead over Democrat Sen. Barack Obama in the race for the U.S. presidency. The difference between the candidates is statistically insignificant, but nonetheless indicates a notable turn-around for McCain.
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"Panttipataljoona"
[EUobserver, 05.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/wvk8
Viro kehottaa EU:ta lähettämään sotilaita Gruusiaan ehkäisemään täysimittaisen sodan puhkeamista Gruusian ja Etelä-Ossetian välillä.
Viron ulkoministeri Urmas Paet sanoi puhuttuaan ruotsalaisen ja suomalaisen virkaveljensä kanssa, että EU:n tulisi reagoida tilanteeseen tarvittaessa.
Viimeksi suomalaiset sotilaat osallistuivat operaatioon...
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Streik tasub ära
[Äripäev, 06.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/e1ZM
Viimased aastad on olnud Saksamaal eriti streigirohked. Statistika näitab, et suur osa streikidest toob töötajatele palgatõusu. Saksa majandusel on viimastel aastatel läinud üsna hästi. Järelikult on mõtet streikida, sest kui mitte praegu raha ja paremaid töötingimusi välja pressida, siis millal veel?
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Law & Order in New York
[Glass Bead Collective, 05.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/s07F
One year ago, at the March 2007 Critical Mass ride, cyclists, videographers, community leaders and politicians came together to challenge the NYPD’s unconstitutional new parade permit rule that limits the number of people that can legally assemble without a permit.
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Kapitalismi raudne kand
[Äripäev, 05.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/wmUY
LHV analüütik Erki Kert leiab, et laias plaanis seisavad nii Tallink kui tema aktsionärid streigis ühel poolel. Pikaajaline mõju aktsiahinnale sõltub aga suuresti sellest, milliste tulemustega streikimine ja streigiga ähvardamine lõpeb.
“Mida suurem tööjõukulude kasv, seda negatiivsem mõju aktsiale. Lisaks sellele on streigiähvardused...
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Pelosi: GWB will not agree to impeachment
[Time, 31.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/EmPU
Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said there is no evidence of crimes committed by President George W Bush. Her office was inundated with copies of the various crimes alleged against Bush.
In her search for a plausible rationale for personally blocking any impeachment investigation of Bush, Pelosi now says they could not rely on the White...
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UN: Tasers are torture
[Australia Daily Telegraph, 25.11.2007]
http://hellotxt.com/l/6UcI
Taser electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in North America. “The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture,” the UN’s Committee against Torture said.
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John McCain plays to win
[Doug Thompson, 01.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/phVO
When he ran for the Senate, John McCain outlined his campaign strategy to a gathering of GOP operatives at the National Republican Senatorial Committee:
“I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to fuck my opponent to win I’ll do it. If I have to destroy my opponent I won’t give it a second thought.”
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Jeder kennt jeden
[Spiegel, 02.08.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/Tfi3
Über 30 Milliarden Instant Messages wurden ausgewertet. Am Ende stand die verblüffende Erkenntnis: Es gibt tatsächlich ein Grundgesetz für soziale Netzwerke. Jeder kennt jeden über 6,6 Ecken. Eric Horvitz von Microsoft Research zeigte sich vom Ergebnis der Studie “ziemlich schockiert: Was wir herausgefunden haben, spricht dafür, dass es...
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Truth Under Israeli Occupation
[Mohammed Omer, 31.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/mV3b
This summer, at age 24, I was honored to learn that I had become the youngest journalist to receive the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, named for the famed American war reporter and awarded to journalists who counter propaganda with the truth. Although Israel has sealed Gaza’s 1.5 million Palestinians in what many now call the...
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Democrats in denial
[Crooks & Liars, 31.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/tNnt
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “I saw it as my responsibility to try to bring a much divided country together to the extent that we could. And you can’t do that if you’re trying to impeach the President at the same time, unless you have the goods that this president committed crimes. I thought that impeachment would be divisive for...
July 2008
33 posts
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Electrical Booth Home to 120 Companies
[Russia Today, 29.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/1Duk
Huge corruption has been uncovered in Ukraine’s capital Kiev after a tax inspection found hundreds of companies which had registered illegally.
120 firms were registered in what at appeared to be nothing more than an electrical transformer booth.
The capital tax inspection also found 168 addresses with 50 non-existent companies...
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Three Kinds of Power
[John Kenneth Galbraith, 1983]
http://hellotxt.com/l/YiAm
It is a common feature of both condign and compensatory power that the individual submitting is away of his or her submission — in the one case compelled and in the other for reward.
Conditioned power, in contrast, is exercised by changing belief. Persuasion, education, or the social commitment to what seems natural, proper, or...
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History of the World in Our Time
[Daily Kos, 27.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/b3Ik
What if I told you that the powers of financial capitalism, had a far-reaching aim to create a world system of financial control in private hands, able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole?
This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in...
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Iowa: Citizen's Arrest of Karl Rove
[Des Moines Catholic Worker, 25.07.2008]
http://www.iowapolitics.com/index.iml?Article=132059
Four Iowans were arrested today while attempting to make a Citizens’ Arrest of Karl Rove in Des Moines, Iowa. Citing Iowa Code provisions for making Citizen’s Arrests as well as citing Federal Statute violations they claimed Rove had violated, the four were stopped at the gate of the...
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Gravel: Take Bush to The Hague
[Press TV, 26.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/I4OU
Former Democratic candidate Mike Gravel says President George W. Bush should be taken to The Hague for war crimes rather than being impeached. The former Alaska senator said President Bush does not “deserve” to be impeached for invading Afghanistan and Iraq, which has resulted in the loss of “millions of lives”.
...
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Neuropsychiatry and Macrobiotic Diet
Dr. Dragan Dabic | Neuropsychiatry, Alternative Medicine and Energy, Chinese Medicine, Medicinal Herbs and Macrobiotic Diet
http://dragandabic.com/
[Screenshots: 23.07.2008, 24.07.2008]
Dr. Dragan “David” Dabic was born some 60 years ago in a small Serbian village of Kovaci, near Kraljevo. As a young boy he liked to explore nearby forests and mountains, spending a lot of time on...
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Romaneja leirintäalueella!
[STT, 16.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/pzNm
Romanian romaneita on majoittunut Helsingin Rastilan leirintäalueelle. Leirintäalueelta kerrotaan, että sinne on viime päivinä saapunut noin 50 romania.
Vapaa liikkuvuus -kansalaisliike majoitti aiemmin parikymmentä romania Rajasaareen, jossa sijaitsee liikkeen perustama sosiaalikeskus. Nyt väki on vähentynyt puoleen.
- Ymmärtääkseni he lähtivät...
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Bush administration guilty of war crimes
[New York Times, 11.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/i5cd
Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that CIA’s interrogation methods for high-level Al Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism.
The Red Cross declared in the report, given to...
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Police frames activist as terrorist suspect
[UPI, 18.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/GM8H
Maryland state troopers infiltrated three groups advocating peace and protesting the death penalty and sent reports on their activities to US intelligence and military agencies.
The officers entered one activist’s name into a federally funded database designed to share information among state, local and federal law-enforcement agencies on...
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War is Peace
Thaw in US-Iran relations
[ITV, 17.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/w8R0
US is preparing to deal directly with Iran for the first time in 30 years. The State Department’s third-ranking official, William Burns, will meet with Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator in Switzerland. Burns’s presence signals a break with past Bush administration policy.
US Considers Opening a Diplomatic...
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Culture of Fascism
[The Guardian 17.07.2008]
http://hellotxt.com/l/sZxM
It was just before midnight when the first police officer hit Mark Covell, swiping his truncheon down on his left shoulder. For a while, he managed to stay on his feet but then a baton blow to the knee sent him crashing to the pavement.
A police officer sauntered over to him and kicked him in the chest with such force that the entire...