November 2010
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The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement Victor Kovalev
The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance’s new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions. In practice, the reform will institutionalize the West’s victory in the Cold World War III. The already visible results of the victory include the ongoing departure from the Yalta-Potsdam… Continue reading
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The EU at a Crossroads By Rafe MAIR
I am, God knows, no economist but that may not be all that bad when you remember the words of Harry S Truman who said ‘Give a one-handed economist. All my economists say, ‘on the one hand…on the other’.’ I’m therefore unqualified to examine the EU’s field of economic landmines. Yet perhaps my ignorance of… Continue reading
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Haitian Elections on Sunday "Neither Free Nor Fair"
Policy analyst with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Main said today: “These elections were already highly problematic before the cholera epidemic began to spread. Haiti’s electoral authority — the CEP [Provisional Electoral Council] — suffers from a lack of credibility; legitimate parties have been excluded from participating in the legislative elections, and very… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 November, 2010: MK proposes bill to declare Jerusalem Jewish capital
26 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Rabin’s Son Proposes Alternative Israeli Peace Initiative IMEMC – 27 Nov 2010 – Friday November 26, 2010 – 17:39, The son of Yitzhak Rabin and businessman Koby Huberman presented a plan in response to the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, Haaretz said quoting a source Continue reading
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Ireland: “We Can’t Pay That Money, and We Won’t Pay That Money” by 50 Halala
“Well, our gallant allies in Europe have arrived 95 years too late and uninvited, and instead of guns to help the revolution they have brought economic weapons of mass destruction. Does anybody in this country or in Dáil Éireann think that we can as a people afford to pay 6.7 percent on money that we… Continue reading
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Greece – Ireland – Portugal – Spain – Italy – UK – Europe’s Financial Domino Effect Washington’s Blog
Iceland has the world’s 112th biggest economy, Ireland the 38th, and Portugal the 36th. In contrast, Spain has the world’s 9th biggest economy, Italy the 7th and the UK the 6th. A failure by one of the latter 3 would be devastating for the world economy. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 20-26 November, 2010
27 November, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation Radical Islam attacks Central Asia 26.11.2010 | 14:24 | SHUSTOV Aleksandr Hizb ut-Tahrir and other similar international radical Islamic political organizations have intensified their activities in Central Asia. In Tajikistan several dozens of members of Hizb ut-Tahrir have been arrested… It was reported that Hizb ut-Tahrirwas “occupying Kyrgyzstan” Continue reading
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Haiti: One More Shameful UN Betrayal By Peter Hallward
Almost everyone now accepts that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti last month. The evidence is overwhelming and many experts (including the head of Harvard University’s microbiology department, cholera specialist John Mekalanos) made up their minds to that effect several weeks ago. Poverty and a lack of rudimentary infrastructure compels much of Haiti’s population… Continue reading
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Jonathan Cook: On being a journalist in the Middle East
In the mid-1990s, I arrived in Jerusalem for the first time–then as a tourist–with the potent Western myth at the front of my consciousness: that of Israel as “a light unto the nations,” the plucky underdog facing a menacing Arab world. A series of later professional shocks as a freelance journalist reporting on Israel would… Continue reading
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Cannonball Adderley – Work Song
26 November 2010 I think I was 17 when I bought the incredible ‘Them Dirty Blues’ on the famous Riverside label and I’ve been digging the ‘Cannon’ ever since. Joe Zawinal on keyboards and brother Nat Adderley on cornet. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks has announced release of State Department Secret Correspondence
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which has published hundreds of U.S. war logs, has announced a pending release of the U.S. Department of State’s secret correspondence, a Russian business daily said on Friday. The documents contain the U.S. evaluation of the political situation in Russia and the unflattering characteristics of some Russian leaders, Kommersant cited a WikiLeaks… Continue reading
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What the TSA is NOT Telling You about Full Body Scans…
There are about 350 full-body scanners being used in close to 70 U.S. airports, and that number is expected to increase to 1,000 scanners by the end of 2011. Dubbed “naked” scanners because they give a graphic image of your body, including genitalia and other personal effects like sanitary napkins, the devices are raising privacy… Continue reading
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Police provocation and media management By Luna 17
‘The placing of an empty police minibus (in Whitehall) in the path of a known militant march of student demonstrators is a ‘red rag to a bull’. It is nothing short of entrapment and because of the huge policing resources and plans the police made to kettle demonstrators, is part of a deliberate ‘newsmaking’ for… Continue reading
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Mick Barry, “The Socialist Alternative to IMF/EU Diktats”
The bailout of Anglo Irish Bank is set to cost the taxpayer between €29.3 billion and €34.3 billion according to the Government and up to €40 billion according to some economists. The bank should be closed down immediately and the losses should be taken by bondholders, private banks who lent to Anglo and wealthy depositors.… Continue reading
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UK: Student Actions – Only the Beginning
Wednesday 24th November will go down as a day that shook the Con-Dem government. With school and college students walking out and protesting en masse and a wave of sit-ins and occupations in universities across the country, a movement has been born that can inspire millions. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 November, 2010: Israel conducts ‘wave of demolitions,’ including mosque, across West Bank
25 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Army Demolishes Ten Structures In the West Bank IMEMC – 25 Nov 2010 – Friday November 26, 2010 – 01:54, The Arabs48 News Website reported that Israeli soldiers demolished on Thursday ten structures in two areas in the occupied West Bank, mainly in a Continue reading
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Bill Evans: Israel
In a trio setting, 1965. 1st collector for Bill Evans: Israel Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Misty/I Want to Talk
“Misty/I Want to Talk” performed by Rahsaan Roland Kirk in Montreux, 1972. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Misty/I Want to Talk Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Weather Report: Birdland
“Birdland” performed by Joe Zawinul, keyboards; Jaco Pastorious, bass; soprano sax, Wayne Shorter. Weather Report: Birdland Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
The New Dark Age 