August 30, 2010
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‘CANTOS’ based on Dante’s Inferno (Trailer)
Much came about in only one room and a couple of exterior locations around Deptford,London; home to Christopher Marlowe, Pepy’s, Sir Walter Raleigh, and the original Cross Bones of St. Nicholas Church mixed with allegorical references to love, loss and chiaroscuro feelings of low light and Dante’s voyage with Virgil. Continue reading
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More back-door privatization of the National Health Service proposed
NHS Direct, perhaps the only effective addition to the Health Service the Labour government contributed, is to be axed under new proposals being put forward by the Tory/Lib-Dem government in spite of all the pre-election promises to ‘ring-fence’ the NHS. Continue reading
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Media Complicity in Financial Crimes By Danny Schechter
When I discovered that dodgy lenders and credit card companies pumped more than $3 billion into media advertising, which inflated the housing bubble between 2002 and 2007, I thought I had my answer. Yet, even I, as savvy as I thought I was, missed an important link which was hidden in plain sight — who… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, 30 August 2010 (15/10): Statewatch Special: DRAFT EU-US AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
30 August, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ Statewatch European Documentation Centre (SEMDOC): www.statewatch.org/semdoc/ Sitemap: www.statewatch.org/sitemap.htm 1. Statewatch Special: DRAFT EU-US AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 2. EU: Statewatch Briefing: ID Cards in the EU: Current state of play 3. G8 SUMMIT: Muskoka, Canada, 26 June 2010: G-8 Leaders Statement on Countering Terrorism 4. EU: Continue reading
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Information Clearing House 29 August, 2010: Weekend Update – America's Corruption Racket in Central Asia
29 August, 2010 — Information Clearing House America’s Corruption Racket in Central Asia By Scott Horton This is the third time this summer that the United States has been slammed with credible charges of corrupting foreign governments in Central Asia. www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26266.htm Afghanistan PowerPoints ‘R’ Us By Lawrence Sellin, Ph.D., is a colonel in the U.S. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 August, 2010: Rabbi Yusef Wishes Death To The Palestinians
29 August, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli universities condemn ‘witch hunt’ by right-wing groups IMEMC – 29 Aug 2010 – Sunday August 29, 2010 – 16:09, In a joint statement released by Israel’s largest and most prominent universities, the academic leadership challenged a foreign-funded campaign to undermine academic freedom in Continue reading
The New Dark Age 