Pirates
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Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013 By Birgitta Jónsdóttir
February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, the former Secretary of State in Tunisia for Sport & Youth nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize. Continue reading
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ColdType, December 2011
1 December 2011 — ColdType In this month’s 64-page COLDTYPE MAGAZINE (By the way it’s free) Cover story is Felicity Arbuthnot’s impassioned indictment of the hypocrisy of the Western world’s celebration of Remembrance Day at the same time as political leaders are sending their armed forces on missions of slaughter against some of the poorest Continue reading
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Low-End High Design and the Butterfly Effect By Greg Lindsay
In 2004, MediaTek sold 3 million of its chips [3]; six years later, its sales had soared to 500 million, more than a third of the worldwide market. Nearly half of those went to shanzhai. The sudden ability to design, manufacture, and ship millions of dirt-cheap handsets in total secrecy led to an explosion in… Continue reading
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Libya Newslinks 20-21 May 2011
21 May 2011 — williambowles.info 21 May 2011 SCF: Moscow thinks NATO seeks regime change in Libya SCF: NATO planes strike military vessels in three Libyan ports RT: What should be on agenda for G8 summit in France? NY speaks Amnesty UK: Obama speech: USA must `learn from mistakes of past` in Middle East and Continue reading
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US Aircraft and Elite Navy SEALs Defeat Three Somalis in a Lifeboat By Glen Ford
To hear the U.S. corporate media tell it, the Americans had won a huge victory over the forces of evil. The sole surviving Somali was in custody – a 16-year-old who essentially gave himself up, earlier, after being hurt in a scuffle with the American cargo ship captain who is now celebrated as a hero… Continue reading
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Pirates’ Strike a U.S. Ship Owned by a Pentagon Contractor, But Is the Media Telling the Whole Story? By Jeremy Scahill
The Somali pirates who took control of the 17,000-ton ‘Maersk Alabama’ cargo-ship in the early hours of Wednesday morning probably were unaware that the ship they were boarding belonged to a U.S. Department of Defense contractor with ‘top security clearance,’ which does a half-billion dollars in annual business with the Pentagon, primarily the Navy Continue reading
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