November 2010
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BA_Report 18 November, 2010: Top 10 Reasons Black Leaders Are Silent on Social Security Attacks — BA Report
18 November, 2010 — BAR Black Agenda Report News, analysis and commentary from the black left Top Ten Reasons Why Black Leaders Are Ignoring President Obama’s Good Cop-Bad Cop Attack on Social Security After a decades-long drumbeat led by the Peterson Foundation, corporate media, Wall Street and their minions of both parties, Social Security, Medicaid Continue reading
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Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society: Transit
18 November, 2010 Actually, in a short while I’m off to see this fantastic orchestra, all the way from NYC at the Cafe Oto in Dalston as part of the London Jazz Festival. 1st collector for Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society Follow my videos on vodpod One of my favourite artists. Imagine a cross between Continue reading
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: A Night in Tunisia
18 November, 2010 Magnificent! With Wayne Shorter AND Lee Morgan. Taken at breakneck speed, Blakey’s version of this classic is a killer. 1st collector for Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: A Night in … Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society
18 November, 2010 Actually, in a short while I’m off to see this fantastic orchestra, all the way from NYC at the Cafe Oto in Dalston as part of the London Jazz Festival. 1st collector for Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society Follow my videos on vodpod One of my favourite artists. Imagine a cross between Continue reading
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Which would you choose: a full-body scan or a pat-down?
Airline passengers who object to any type of physical screening are not going to fly anywhere, the head of the Transportation Security Administration told a congressional committee Tuesday. Continue reading
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US Imperial Military Presence Unprecedented | Global Research TV
US Imperial Military Presence Unprecedented | G…Follow my videos on vodpod US Imperial Military Presence Unprecedented by grtv. The American military presence in the world is global, blogger and author Tom Engelhardt told RT. “The Pentagon usually admits yearly to about 800 military bases or sites from macro to micro, but in their account they Continue reading
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Protesters shot dead as Haiti cholera toll tops 1,000 By Bill Van Auken
The port city, approximately 300 kilometers north of the capital of Port-au-Prince, was still largely paralyzed on Tuesday, with schools, public offices and businesses shut, streets blocked by barricades of burning tires and sporadic gunfire reported. The bridge leading to the city’s airport was blocked with welded metal barriers. Continue reading
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Jury Appears Deadlocked in Landmark Civilian Trial of Gitmo Prisoner
A federal jury in New York is deliberating in a landmark trial of the first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in the civilian court system. On Monday, the jury appeared deadlocked after a juror asked to be excused, saying she was being attacked for her conclusions about the defendant, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani. A Tanzanian… Continue reading
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Miles Davis Quintet: Round Midnight
The second classic Quintet: Miles Davis, leader and trumpet; Wayne Shorter, tenor sax; Herbie Hancock, piano; Ron Carter, bass; and Tony Williams, drums. Continue reading
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Religious and Racist Extremism Will Block Agreement
Video: Israel: A refuge or a colonial project? Pt.6 Israeli historian Tom Segev Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, November 13, 2010: Justice Department Censors Nazi-Hunting History
The Department of Justice censored dozens of pages of a candid history of Nazi-hunting (and Nazi-protecting) by the U.S. government to such a self-defeating extent that former officials leaked the entire document to the New York Times this week, instead of fulfilling the Freedom of Information request and lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, October 4, 2010: THE IRAQ WAR — PART III: Shaping the Debate
For nearly a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the British government of Prime Minister Tony Blair collaborated closely with the George W. Bush administration to produce a far starker picture of the threat from Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) than was justified by intelligence at the time, according to… Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, October 1, 2010: THE IRAQ WAR — PART II: Was There Even a Decision?
Contrary to statements by President George W. Bush or Prime Minister Tony Blair, declassified records from both governments posted on the Web today reflect an early and focused push to prepare war plans and enlist allies regardless of conflicting intelligence about Iraq’s threat and the evident difficulties in garnering global support. Continue reading
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National Security Archive Update, September 22, 2010: THE IRAQ WAR — PART I: The U.S. Prepares for Conflict, 2001
22 September, 2010 — NSA U.S. Sets “Decapitation of Government” As Early Goal of Combat Talking Points for Rumsfeld-Franks Meeting in November 2001 Outline Policy Makers’ Aims for the Conflict and Postwar Rule of Iraq Declassified Documents Show Bush Administration Diverting Attention and Resources to Iraq Less than Two Months after Launch of Afghanistan War Continue reading
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Haiti Cholera Protest Turns Violent
Clashes and gunfire have broken out between protesters and UN troops in Haiti, where a cholera epidemic has claimed over 900 lives in about three weeks. Continue reading
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Ruling on Behalf of Wall Street’s “Super Rich”: The Financial End Time has Arrived By Prof. Michael Hudson
Now that President Obama is almost celebrating his bipartisan willingness to renew the tax cuts for the super-rich enacted under George Bush ten years ago, it is time for Democrats to ask themselves how strongly they are willing to oppose an administration that looks like Bush-Cheney III. Is this what they expected by Mr. Obama’s… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 16 November, 2010: VIDEO – Footage contradicts arson allegations / Residents say settlers behind torched grove
16 November, 2010 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinians and Arab League likely to reject US proposal IMEMC – 16 Nov 2010 – Tuesday November 16, 2010 – 16:58, According to Maan News, a proposal from the United States for a 90-day temporary freeze on construction in Israeli West Bank settlements might Continue reading
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Media Lens: “Put the Palestinians on a Diet”
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”. Continue reading
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200 Israeli war Criminals
Underlining the following people is an act of retribution and affront. They are the direct perpetrators, agents for the state of Israel that in Dec.- Jan. 2008- 2009 attacked scores of people in the besieged Gaza. The people listed here held positions of command at the time of the attack therefore not only did they… Continue reading
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