"You
get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and
democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only
IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon.
Those are the nations of the world today." - The Movie "Network" (1976) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5hrcwU7Dk
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"Economic hit men, are
highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of
trillions of dollars. Their tools include fraudulent financial reports,
rigged elections, payoffs, extortion, sex, and murder." John Perkins : Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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"Government
today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any
citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day
out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call.
Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less." - H.L. Mencken
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Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War On Iraq: 4,754
icasualties.org/oif/
Number Of International Occupation Force Troops Slaughtered In Afghanistan : 2,311
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Egypt: Death Throes of a Dictatorship
By Robert Fisk
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Uprising in Egypt: 'This Is How Regimes Fall'
By Gywnne Dyer
The likely winner of a genuinely free Egyptian election, according
to most opinion polls, would be the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brothers
are not particularly radical as Islamists go, but the first thing they
have promised to do if they win power is to hold a referendum on
Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27378.htm
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The Egyptian Intifada; Mubarak's Time Is Up
By Mike Whitney
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Who's Behind The Uprising In Egypt?
Rude Awakening!
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
Mubarak is dying. Fearful of losing an important ally in Egypt's
Mubarak, the political elite in America have undertaken a calculated
risk: siding with the Egyptians to promote 'democracy' - hoping to help
put in place one of their own. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27383.htm
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The Egyptian Masses Won't Play Ally to Israel
By Gideon Levy
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George Galloway : Mubarak - "An International Outlaw"
2 Minute Video
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Al Jazeera English Live From Egypt
Video Live Stream
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Chomsky: Elections Today "Public Relations Extravaganzas."
Video - Noam Chomsky Lecture University Of Tennessee
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George Carlin - Who Really Controls America
5 Minute Video
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8 killed in northwest Pakistan:
Six pro-Taliban militants were killed as security forces repulsed
an attack on a check post while two children died when a landmine went
off in the restive tribal belt of northwest Pakistan http://bit.ly/hj8WEp
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4 German occupation force soldiers killed in Afghanistan:
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Egypt death toll touches 150; thousands of prisoners flee:
Gangs of armed men helped free thousands of prisoners and looters
rampaged malls, banks and jewellery stores, even as many armymen doffed
uniforms to join the uprising http://bit.ly/ghtsYm
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Egypt defense min. threatens people:
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Report: Mubarak gives army shoot-to-kill order:
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Mubarak visits military oper. center:
Mubarak has visited an army military operations cente, reports say.
Mubarak's newly-appointed Vice President Omar Suleiman, Defense
Minister Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, and Chief of Staff Sami al-Anan
attended the meeting. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/162806.html
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Egyptian military boosts presence in chaotic Cairo:
Egypt's most prominent reform advocate called for President Hosni
Mubarak to resign after the military stepped up its presence Sunday
across the anarchic capital, closing roads with tanks and sending
fighter jets streaking over downtown. http://yhoo.it/gXyJuZ
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Mubarak tells new PM to cut prices, blames rioting on Islamists:
In a letter read aloud on television, Mubarak tells his newly
appointed Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq to ease the country's economic
crisis but ignores widespread calls to step down. http://bit.ly/fwO4r0
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Egypt's Minister of Defense joins protesters in Tahrir Square:
Mohamed Tantawi, Egypt's Minister of Defense, has been seen with
the protesters in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo. Tantawi in also
Commander in Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces. http://bit.ly/ibaquc
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ElBaradei urges US to abandon Mubarak:
"The American government cannot ask the Egyptian people to believe
that a dictator who has been in power for 30 years would be the one to
implement democracy. This is a farce," ElBaradei told the CBS program
'Face the Nation.' http://www.presstv.ir/detail/162800.html
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Elbaradei: No going back in Egypt:
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Mubarak Said Hiding in Sharm el-Sheikh:
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Live blog - Egypt protests:
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Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau:
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Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt:
Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as "the president who
lost Iran," - Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who
"lost" Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America's
alliances in the Middle East crumbled. http://bit.ly/i3Oxt4
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New IDF intelligence chief failed to predict Egypt uprising:
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Israel mulling Sinai attack?:
Besides dictatorship and the prevention of general freedoms, one of
the things the Egyptian people had always censured Hosni Mubarak for
had been his insistence on continuing peace with Israel and even
allowing it to rule over part of the country. http://www.presstv.ir/detail/162770.html
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Gaza-Egypt border sealed indefinitely: -
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US National Guard detachment is heading to Egypt:
Connecticut National Guard Detachment 2, Company I, 185th Aviation
Regiment of Groton has mobilized and will deploy to the Sinai
Peninsula, Egypt, to support the Multinational Force and Observers. http://bit.ly/flVVUi
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Palestinians: Fall of Egyptian regime will accelerate end to Abbas:
"The siege, hunger and death brought to the Gaza Strip by the regime is being recompensed at the hands of the Egyptians," http://bit.ly/gaHWyP
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Report: Cyprus recognizes Palestinian states within 1967 borders:
Palestinian news agency WAFA says Cyprus President Christofias sent
letter to PA leader Abbas, stating his hope that a Palestinian state
will be formed with East Jerusalem as its capital. http://bit.ly/fw54yB
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Huckabee Arriving in Israel Sunday, Tops Two Primary Polls:
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Assad: Mideast leaders must accommodate people's desire for change:
Syrian President Bashar Assad says he will promote political reform
in his country in the wake of popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. http://bit.ly/hFRXRg
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Thousands to protest in Sudan:
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Turkish Cypriots protest austerity measures:
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Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi returns home:
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Authoritarian governments start stockpiling food to fight public anger:
Authoritarian governments across the world are aggressively
stockpiling food as a buffer against soaring food costs which they fear
may stoke popular discontent. http://bit.ly/g0uQ9x
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UK: Police use CS spray on tax protesters:
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FBI involved in hundreds of violations in national-security investigations:
The FBI disclosed to a presidential board that it was involved in
nearly 800 violations of laws, regulations or policies governing
national-security investigations from 2001 to 2008, but the government
won't provide details or say whether anyone was disciplined, according
to a report by a privacy-watchdog group. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014078300_violations30.html
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Religious clashes have killed 35 in Nigeria: police:
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Dutch ends Iran ties over hanging:
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Chile to probe Allende's death:
The investigation is part of an investigation into hundreds of
complaints of human rights abuses during Pinochet's 1973-1990 rule.
Beatriz Pedrals, a prosecutor in the appellate court in Santiago, said
on Thursday that she had decided to investigate 726 deaths that had
never previously been explored, including Allende's. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/01/2011127223137719819.html
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"Let us be peace and joy"
Tom Feeley
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