November 2010
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Jazz at the Philharmonic (sort of)
Classic live session emulating the amazing Jazz at the Philharmonic sessions produced by Norman Granz. Charlie Parker – Saxophone, Coleman Hawkins – Tenor saxophone, Hank Jones – Piano, Ray Brown – Double bass, Buddy Rich – Drums, Bill Harris – Trombone, Lester Young – Tenor saxophone, Harry Edison – Trumpet, Flip Phillips – Tenor saxophone, Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Events Newsletter for December 2010 – January 2011
30 November, 2010 — Housmans NEWS 1. Loyalty cards and events charging 2. The Spirit Level IN-STORE EVENTS 3. ‘John Lennon’s Poetry and Politics’ with Tim Biancalana 4. ‘Hobson’s Imperialism’ presented by Jeremy Corbyn MP, Alex Callinicos and Nathaniel Mehr 5. ‘Restless Revolutionaries’ with Clive Bloom 6. ‘Ecology & Anarchism’ with Brian Morris Continue reading
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Wikileaks and State Department correspondence
Index on Censorship has obtained copies of correspondence between whistleblowing website Wikileaks and the US embassy in the United Kingdom, which took place between Friday and Sunday. They reveal Wikileaks editor in chiefs last-minute attempt to seek the cooperation of the United States government in redacting information from the latest controversial release of documents. Continue reading
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Wikileaks News Roundup for 30 November, 2010
30 November, 2010 — creative-i.info Richard Cohen Nails That Lying George W. Bush US ambassador: Leaks not damaging WikiLeaks on Public TV: Defending the ‘Interests of the West’ Leaks reveal Pakistan arms fears Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables – Fulltext Search No-Longer Secret US Embassy Cables Continue reading
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Wikileaks and the New Global Order: America’s Wake-up Call By Jonathan Cook
The new disclosures do provide a useful insight, captured in the very ordinariness of the diplomatic correspondence, into Washington’s own sense of the limits on its global role — an insight that was far less apparent in the previous Wikileaks revelations on the US army’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 30 November, 2010: NATO, World Gendarme
30 November, 2010 — Information Clearing House US Cable Confirms US Killed Women and Children In Yemen By Michael Isikoff The U.S. media paid scant attention in June when Amnesty International released a report charging that U.S. cruise missiles carrying cluster bombs had struck the village of al Majalah in southern Yemen on Dec. 17, Continue reading
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Will Wikileaks kill the Official Secrets Act? Richard Norton-Taylor
It might be thought the deluge of classified US state department information placed on the worldwide web is yet another – possibly fatal – nail in the coffin of the Official Secrets Act (OSA), as well as that uniquely British institution the Defence Advisory Committee, which operates a system of voluntary self-censorship in cooperation with… Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online, No 2: 30 November 2010 (21/10)
30 November, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EU: Amnesty International: Open Secret: Mounting Evidence of Europe’s complicity in rendition and secret detention 2. EU: European Data Protection Supervisor: Data protection reform strategy 3. EU: European Commission: Taking on the Data Retention Directive – a discussion paper 4. EU: Article 29 Working Party on Continue reading
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Statewatch News Online – 30 November 2010 (21/10)
30 November, 2010 Home page: www.statewatch.org/ e-mail: office@statewatch.org 1. EUROPE: Border Monitoring Project Ukraine: Access to Protection Denied 2. ECCHR: Blacklisted: Targeted Sanctions, Pre-emptive Security and Fundamental Rights 3. EU: Commission: Study on the feasilibty of establishing a mechanism for the beneficiaries of international protection 4. EU-USA TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA: European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Continue reading
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The Mysterious "Laptop Documents". Using Fake Intelligence to Justify a Pre-emptive Nuclear War on Iran By Michel Chossudovsky
Without Russian military aid, Iran is a “sitting duck”. Its air defence system depends on continued Russian military cooperation. These developments strike at the very heart of the structure of military alliances. They prevent Russia and China to sell both strategic and conventional weapons and military technology to their de facto ally: Iran. In fact,… Continue reading
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The Mysterious “Laptop Documents”. Using Fake Intelligence to Justify a Pre-emptive Nuclear War on Iran By Michel Chossudovsky
Without Russian military aid, Iran is a “sitting duck”. Its air defence system depends on continued Russian military cooperation. These developments strike at the very heart of the structure of military alliances. They prevent Russia and China to sell both strategic and conventional weapons and military technology to their de facto ally: Iran. In fact,… Continue reading
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New York Times Oversells WikiLeaks/Iranian Missiles Story By Peter Hart
WikiLeaks document dumps are largely what media want to make of them. There’s one conventional response, which goes something like this: “There’s nothing new here, but WikiLeaks is dangerous!” But there’s another option: “There’s nothing here, except for the part that confirms a storyline we’ve been pushing.” In those cases, WikiLeaks is deemed very, very… Continue reading
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Daniel Ellsberg: The lying is being enforced by the upper levels
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has begun releasing a giant trove of confidential U.S. diplomatic cables that is sending shockwaves through the global diplomatic establishment. Among the findings: Arab leaders are urging the United States to attack Iran; Washington and Yemen agreed to cover up the use of U.S. warplanes to bomb Yemen; the United States… Continue reading
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New WikiLeaks Documents Expose US Foreign Policy Conspiracies By David Walsh
The batch of 250,000 US classified documents released by WikiLeaks to several news outlets, some of whose content was made public Sunday, sheds new light on the sordid nature of American imperialist intrigue and conspiracy around the globe. Continue reading
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Wikileaks State Cables: Quick Hits By Nate Jones
The five news organizations that Wikikeaks provided the documents to under embargo did a good job synthesizing and reporting the 251,287 cables leaked by someone with access to that information. That said, document hounds (including historians, IR/polisci people, and concerned citizens) know that to really understand the contents and significance of the records you need… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks releases thousands of classified cables — RT
Over 250,000 classified document sent from American embassies to Washington have been leaked on the Internet, in spite of warnings from the Obama administration. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 November, 2010: ‘Holy Land’ does not include Bethlehem – It’s official!
29 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Tries to Improve Its International Image IMEMC – 29 Nov 2010 – Monday November 29, 2010 – 17:47, The Israeli foreign ministry has called on 10 of its embassies in Europe to begin an advocacy campaign for Israel, starting with recruiting 1,000 public Continue reading
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Nina Simone ‘If You Knew’
Nina Simone at Ronnie Scott’s in London. No date. Nina Simone ‘If You Knew’ Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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The Global Insurrection Against Banker Occupation
A collection of videos all related to the latest Crisis of Capital (now coming to to a town near you), courtesy Glen Greenwald over at Amped Status. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 