corruption
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Video Intermission: Occupy Is NOT An Obama Reelection Campaign
Stephen C. Webster writing at RawStory notes that ‘Speaking to a ‘We Are Change’ activist at ‘Occupy Wall Street’ this week, political hip-hop artist Immortal Technique threw down the gauntlet to those in the media who characterize the anti-corruption movement as a partisan affair, suggesting that the 99 Percent are willing to ‘sacrifice’ President Barack… Continue reading
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The Wolf Report: AWS
There’s nothing like a banker to bring out the best in somebody, and there’s nothing like an enclave of bankers, a virtual village of bankers to bring out the best in everybody. That best, of course, is the gut-hatred of the pin-headed, bb hearted, pin-striped class of bankers, who in both head and heart encapsulate… Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 13 September 2011
13 September 2011 — williambowles.info Ncube blasts Mugabe for Zim woes, praises Wikileaks NewsDay Ncube said the Wikileaks cables released by the whistleblowing website referring to senior Zanu PF officials in the party who are said to have held meetings with Unites States Embassy staff and declared that they wanted the veteran leader “to quit” Continue reading
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Video: British WWII veteran jailed for recording court hearing
British prisons are full to bursting. Courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in England. If they are sent to Leeds prison, they will be languishing alongside 85-year-old Norman Scarth. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 27 August 2011
27 August 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Reset The Voice of Russia Julian Assange’s notorious website WikiLeaks has reacted to its falling popularity rating and made public another batch of US State Department cables. Part of these is classified documents, relating to Russia’s relations with this country’s neighbours … http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/08/27/55256716.html Continue reading
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Video: Comrades to competitors: France and Italy vie for a slice of Libyan pie — RT
The race for Libya’s vast oil wealth is gathering momentum. States who worked together during the NATO airstrikes are now working against each other in the battle to secure lucrative energy contracts. Continue reading
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Video: Comrades to competitors: France and Italy vie for a slice of Libyan pie — RT
The race for Libya’s vast oil wealth is gathering momentum. States who worked together during the NATO airstrikes are now working against each other in the battle to secure lucrative energy contracts. Continue reading
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Many Avatars of Indian Corruption By Satya Sagar
To call Anna Hazare’s crusade against corruption a ‘second freedom movement’ may be hyperbole but in recent times there has been no mass upsurge for a purely public cause, that has captured the imagination of so many. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks 17-19 August 2011
19 August 2011 — williambowles.info Why the WikiLeaks cable about Syrian regime is spot on The Guardian In the Wikileaks cable the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is described as ‘nasty’ and ‘abrasive’ by US diplomats. Photograph: SANA / HO/EPA Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s apparently disingenuous statement to the UN secretary general, … http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/18/syria-wikileaks-cable-assad-regime Continue reading
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The Meaning of the British Riots: Corruption At The Top Leads To Lawlessness By The People
More vigorous policing will drive the thugs off the streets and restore a tenuous calm. But keeping them off the streets, and integrating them — and the hundreds of thousands who have poured onto the streets in peaceful protests — into a socio-economic system that offers them a future and a stake in social stability… Continue reading
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Craig Murray: Bent Judges
It is astonishing that Judge Leverson accepted the leadership of the inquiry into News International when he had at least twice been a guest in Elisabeth Murdoch’s home. Continue reading
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Video: Bent Cops on Parade By Craig Murray
Aren’t members of parliament amazing? Suddenly they all have noticed that the Murdoch influence is a cancer in society, which is something the rest of us have known for 30 years. Equally suddenly they have noticed that Andy Hayman is a lying buffoon, whereas before they took him as a great bastion against terrorism whose… Continue reading
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21 YEARS AFTER “FREEDOM:” SOUTH AFRICA’S CANCER OF CORRUPTION AND ‘CULTURE OF CONCEALMENT’ By Danny Schechter
Twenty one years after Nelson Mandela walked free, corruption has become the issue du jour in South Africa. Continue reading
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Wikileaks Newslinks for 19 June 2011
20 June 2011 — williambowles.info WikiLeaks: Few Cubans can name US-backed dissidents MiamiHerald.com Yet respondents identified an average of only 1.5 of the seven dissidents on the list, or fewer than one in four, according to the dispatch, which is part of the huge cache of State Department documents obtained by WikiLeaks and passed to Continue reading
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Lie To Me By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Here is what Americans should learn: All elected Democrats and Republicans have succeeded because they are excellent liars and, therefore, not one of them can ever be trusted to be telling the truth Continue reading
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Turning against Mu’ammar Gaddafi of Libya By Nureddin Sabir
Nureddin Sabir recounts a painful journey of hope, disappointment, betrayal, blood and murder that has seen him turn from loyal supporter to vehement opponent of Colonel Mu’ammar Gaddafi and his regime in Libya. Continue reading
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Politicians and Freebies by Charles Glass
The foreign minister and her consort, Deputy Minister of Parliamentary Relations Patrick Ollier, were flown around Tunisia with their children courtesy of a millionaire friend of Ben Ali’s about the time a young man’s self-immolation set the former French colony alight. On her return to Paris at the end of her complimentary winter vacation, Alliot-Marie… Continue reading
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