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1975, Angola: Mercenaries, Murder and Corruption COAT 2008-10-20 2:46 AM
Just returned from the evacuation of Saigon, I put together the CIA's task force and manage the secret war under the supervision of the CIA's Africa Division chief and the NSC's Interagency Working Group on Angola. The FNLA forces numbered a hundredth of what Roberto had claimed. We decided to co-opt Savimbi and UNITA into our program. (text/plain)

FRENCH ELITE ON TRIAL: The Sordid Tale of 'Angolagate' SPIEGEL 2008-10-19 5:16 PM
Corruption, arms sales and a civil war in Africa: France's biggest ever bribery scandal sees 42 leading figures of the French business and political world on trial. They are accused of being involved in a murky network said to have facilitated the illegal transport of arms to Angola in the 1990s. (text/plain)

Pre-Election Message from Stewart A. Alexander Stewart A. Alexander 2008-10-19 1:17 PM
Every 75 years the capitalists ruling class devise an economic crisis which is always followed by a conflict between nations or a major war. We must end this cycle and support socialism and socialist candidates. (text/plain)

Stimulus can put Main Street on the road to recovery The Star-Ledger 2008-10-18 2:14 AM
A fiscal stimulus of $300 billion to $400 billion -- about equal to the amount of spending wiped out by the decline in house prices -- will avert a deep downturn and put the economy back on the path to growth. The stimulus package should include temporary measures to boost consumption and to enable states and municipalities to maintain services such as extending unemployment benefits, temporary tax rebates to low-income households and block grants to states to support spending on Medicaid and child health programs, on education and training and on social services. Investments in infrastructure and in energy-conserving retrofitting of houses, businesses and government buildings would engage hard-hit construction firms and their employees while contributing to the long-term growth potential of the economy. Investments in literacy, education and health care reform would increase the productivity of American workers and businesses. (text/plain)

The Terrorist Among U.S. Kenn Spacefield 2008-10-17 9:17 PM
("Papers, - Do You Have Your Papers?") Do you remember the Fred McMurray Building in Oklahoma City? It was blown up by an ex-army home-grown terrorist. Do you want this to happen again? How many Federal Government checkpoints will it take until a patriotic American goes crazy and becomes a terrorist? I feel it will be an ex-military person who has seen checkpoints blow up before and knows exactly what it is they are doing. (text/plain)

WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB? Richard Aberdeen 2008-10-16 5:17 AM
FREE CD and videos addressing Human Rights and political and religious corrpution in the United States (text/plain)

Alumni Association Strongly Opposes Plan to Shutter Carver High School Carver HS Alumni Association 2008-10-15 9:43 PM
The School Facilities Master Plan for Orleans Parish, a city-wide plan for the placement of schools and land-use of school-district property, proposes that the George Washington Carver Senior High site, a pillar of the ninth ward community, be landbanked, which is urban-planning speak for “closed”. Carver’s alumni association strongly opposed both the landbanking of the Carver property and any effort to relocate the school to another site. (text/plain)

Time bomb on the river Robert Zas 2008-10-14 11:17 PM

STOCK MARKET RALLY, BIG OIL-BUSH-WALL-STREET MANIPULATION! Doug Cupertino 2008-10-14 6:07 PM
The world stock market rally is a manipulation by Big Oil, Wall Street and Bush to white-wash the capitalist greed and anarchy of Big Money and promote the candidacy of the Big Oil candidate, John McCain. (text/plain)

V.P. Candidate Alexander: U.S. Economy is Beyond Recession Stewart A. Alexander 2008-10-14 4:41 PM
Socialist Vice Presidential Candidate Stewart A. Alexander says the measures that are being taken by the Fed, in the midst of this growing economic crisis is an indication that the U.S. economy has now passed the stage of a recession and is now in the early stage of a depression. “It will take more than printing truck loads money and bailing out the capitalists to prevent the U.S. and global economy from slipping into a deeper depression.” (text/plain)

The US and the Reign of Fear Janet Phelan 2008-10-14 2:20 PM
A message of hope in the midst of the darkness. (text/plain)

Munich Agreement papers declassified Moscow News 2008-10-14 4:32 AM
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR in Russian abbreviation) has declassified archive materials related to the 1938 Munich Agreement, which triggered the most dramatic events of the 20th century. (text/plain)

STOP THE WALL STREET FALSE “NATIONALIZATION” TAX MONEY BAILOUT OF FAILED BANKS! Doug Cupertinob 2008-10-13 4:50 AM
The working people must fight the new capitalist Wall Street scheme to rip off even more of their tax money and bail out Wall Street further with U.S. government purchase of preferred stocks without voting rights of failed Wall Street banks. (text/plain)

Economic Fascism and The United States Kenn Spacefield 2008-10-12 7:37 AM
If I do not believe in, trust, or support the US Federal Government, my home should not be in jeopardy. The Federal Government, whenever they choose, through the IRS, will take your home if you do not support them. This confiscation of property by the Federal Government is absolutely and unequivocally wrong, and it is illegal. (text/plain)

Justice Department scandal almost buried by financial crisis The Toledo Blade 2008-10-12 4:03 AM
Investigators from both the department’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility found that political pressure did indeed drive the dismissal action against at least three of the nine federal prosecutors abruptly fired. At the time, then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted the individuals were all dismissed for inadequate performance, or failure to implement the President’s law enforcement agenda. (text/plain)

SENATOR CLINTON TAKES THE LEAD ON FUTURE AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM ??? DOUGLAS FIELD 2008-10-12 1:43 AM
A FUTURE US JUDICIAL TASK FORCE DESIGNED TO HELP BRING THE NEEDED CHANGE TO AMERICA'S BROKEN JUDICIAL SYSTEM, Will FARE VERY WELL UNDER MRS. CLINTON'S DIRECTION !! (text/plain)

Palin's Pot Problem Reason Magazine 2008-10-11 11:48 PM
Why should other Alaskans be arrested for something Sarah Palin once did with impunity? (text/plain)

Venezuela: National Security = Personal Insecurity El Libertario, Venezuela 2008-10-10 9:34 PM

* This Editorial from El Libertario (#54, September-October 2008, Venezuela) examines – from the current Venezuelan perspective – how authoritarian power builds its own security upon the destruction of collective security. (image/gif)

THE TERRORIST PAL - McCain Firebombed Millions of Peasants People Person 2008-10-10 8:05 PM

McCain THE TERRORIST proudly takes credit for firebombing millions of helpless Peasants in Vietnam for France, all to enrich war mongers at the Pentagon, who to this day, "lose", at least 25% of all monies stolen from the pocketbook of every tax paying American victim. (image/jpeg)

Mirliton Festival joe light 2008-10-10 5:46 PM

Food, music, crafts, and a view of Bywaterites, all on a Saturday, November 8, 2008. And only $5 ($1 for members of the Bywater Neighborhood Association) (image/jpeg)

Illegal use of Equity - Average and Normal Kenn Spacefield 2008-10-09 5:49 AM
People have made bad and improper investments with credit and equity. My family and friends (who I would say are "average" and "normal" Americans) have used home equity to buy other homes, invest in the stock market, to buy "stuff", and to pay expenses. This sometimes illegal and improper use of residential property equity is the problem! This equity does not exist yet, and no one knows when - or if it will. --- No one knows how much this equity may be - and it is all ready "at work", multiple times over. I have seen many people live off of credit, and use their money to invest. This "hyper-capitalism" of equity on equity - on credit and debt appreciation, is a flawed and failing economic model; and it is failing - just as it should. (text/plain)

Pie in the Sky: Downtown Development District Presents Land (and Sky) Use Plans Darwin BondGraham 2008-10-08 5:11 PM

N.O. Council member Stacy head officiated the DDD meeting and was praised as a consensus builder by developers and preservationists alike for providing leadership toward a solution that addressed the concerns of both parties. Head, well known for her leadership in the demolition of public housing touted the DDD plan as one that put an “academic background and expert opinion around the issue,” and provides various stakeholders with influence over the final reports recommendations. This was in stark contrast with her leadership during the debate over the future of public housing when she eschewed attempts to forge common ground between those who sought homes for residents of the “big four” developments, and those who advocated immediately tearing down the developments: head was adamantly for demolition and entertained zero discussion with public housing residents and their allies about how to provide immediate affordable housing opportunities for working class New Orleanians. (image/jpeg + 1 comment)

SEN OBAMA, ANOTHER POSSIBLE innocent poorer black american NEEDS YOUR VOICE FOR JUSTICE ? DOUGLAS FIELD 2008-10-07 4:29 PM
DOES GOD NEED TO LOBBY THE US CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD ON BEHALF OF OUR POORER AMERICAN’S SENATOR OBAMA, OR ARE YOU WATCHING OUT FOR THEM ?? (text/plain)

US Real Estate: From Goldmine To Money Pit - Mortgage Backed Securities and Derivatives ar Kenn Spacefield 2008-10-07 6:23 AM
The mortgage debt problem is simple really, it has been a total mis-appropriation of equity. The equity lost on flat screen TV's, boats, new cars, vacations, and other living expenses; is equity lost forever. This loss of equity spent on consumer goods and expenses is a pyramid scheme of hyper-capitalism that is flawed and failing. Equity not spent on the property the equity comes from, is equity lost forever, a mis-appropriation of funds, and inappropriate; it is a failing economic model. (text/plain)

US election symposium: London speaks ISN 2008-10-07 2:03 AM
Under Obama, the use of force will return to its place as America’s option of last, not first, resort and the US will work through, rather than purposefully thwart, international institutions, even those that do not act as creatures of US power. (text/plain)

Lehman sought millions for execs while seeking bailout SFGate 2008-10-07 12:04 AM
The now-bankrupt investment bank Lehman Brothers arranged millions in bonuses for fired executives as it pleaded for a federal lifeline, lawmakers learned Monday, as Congress began investigating what went so wrong on Wall Street to prompt a $700 billion government bailout. (text/plain)

ACORN, Public Housing & Post-Katrina New Orleans Mike Howells 2008-10-06 11:41 PM
Why didn't the movement to stop the demolition of the Big Four public housing developments in New Orleans attract the active support of ACORN? Wade Rathke, Chief Organizer of ACORN while the N.O. public housing struggle unfolded, blames the estrangement of his organization from the public housing movement, above all else, on anti-ACORN sectarianism. This article examines that charge. It also examines ties that ACORN developed, post-Katrina, with the Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD) and the Rockefeller Foundation, two decidedly pro-demolition entities. The conclusion here is that the leadership of ACORN placed a higher priority on maintaining friendly and lucrative ties with HUD and the Foundation than it did on defending the Right of Return for public housing residents. (text/plain + 1 comment)

Exports Sudhama Ranganathan 2008-10-06 1:32 PM

Over the last two decades the gap between the rich and the poor decreased significantly. The trend slowed somewhat during the 90’s, but picked up again around 2001. The American middle class saw its income decrease over this time and the current administration did little to nothing to slow the tide. Whether displaced suburbanites feel satisfied their government has done all in its power to help them during the last eight years is questionable at best. (image/jpeg)

Novartis Knock Down Day anonymouse 2008-10-06 12:40 AM
Novartis Knock Down Day is a call for actions against Novartis on Monday, October 27th for being one of Huntingdon Life Sciences’ (HLS’s) largest customers. (text/plain)

Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State? Naomi Wolf 2008-10-05 3:30 PM
What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is "dialed in" to the McCain campaign. Rove's protege Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain's vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move. (text/plain)

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