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Comments for CX36 Radio Centenario
James Petras
"NOW WE CAN FEEL VERY ALONE CELEBRATION WITH THE PEOPLE AND THE JOY OF LIVING YOUR ILLUSION. BUT IN A SHORT TIME REALITY GOING TO HIT WITH THESE EXPECTATIONS ... MUJICA IS A POLITICIAN WHO WILL NOT CHANGE ANYTHING... WE MUST RECOGNIZE THAT SOMETIMES LARGE MAJORITIES, INCLUDING THE CONDUCT OF THE POOREST, I MAY BE WRONG "
Comments for CX36 Radio Centenario of American Sociologist, Prof.James Petras from the United States. Monday, 30 November 2009. "There is much to discuss between the elections in Uruguay, the pseudo elections in Honduras, the collapse of the economy in Dubai and global consequences. There is much to talk about today "
Obama: Say One Term Is Enough
Joel S. Hirschhorn
Admittedly, I never was a fan of President Obama, either as a candidate or now as president. I always suspected, based on his dependence on corporate money and his lackluster career as a state and US senator that he would, ultimately, prove to be a big disappointment to the millions of Democrats, liberals, progressives and independents that fell for his slick rhetoric. He has always been too much a part of the two-party plutocracy to ever be a true reformer. Here are some of the main reasons that he should cut his ties to corporate and political elites, announce that he will not run for reelection and, instead, become the populist, reformist president the nation desperately needs:
Though he certainly inherited a terrible economy from the Bush administration, he has steadfastly pursued the same policies (and with the same characters) to address terrible things about the national economy as well as the banking, financial and housing sectors that one would expect from someone too concerned about corporate interests rather than the needs of most Americans. All the billions of dollars pumped into business sectors has done next to nothing to stop the awful, continuing unemployment situation that has become yet another nail in the coffin of the middle class. The many greedy people on Wall Street that sunk the national and global economies have not been punished, but still hold on to their huge wealth. Obama has made a mockery of the rule of law with his infantile “I want to look forward, not backward” philosophy. Justice cannot be obtained other than by looking back and prosecuting the lawbreakers.
Jury Gives Mayor Sheila Dixon a “Go to Jail” Card!
by William Hughes
“ I say to you, O Republic...Beware of the man [or woman] who rises to power from one suspender.” - Edgar Lee Masters
Baltimore, MD - On Dec. 1, 2009, after often heated deliberations for seven days, and with two weekend breaks, a jury of nine women and three men in the criminal trial of Mayor Sheila Dixon, returned a “guilty” verdict on one of the five theft-related counts in the indictment against her. By law, as a result of the conviction, she will forfeit her office; the current President of the City Council, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, will replace her. Ironically, the Mayor, age 55, chose to wear a black dress to court on Nov. 19th, the day the jury heard final arguments in her case, as if she were going to a friend’s funeral rather than attending her own trial. Maybe, in a “political” sense, the trial was her funeral!
PRC launches Internet website regarding Goldstone Report
The Palestine Return Center
Palestinian Return Center (PRC) in London as part of its Media activities has begun a project on the Goldstone Report. The center launched a new website to disseminate the major findings of the report and provide useful analysis. The website can be visited on www.goldstone-report.org, and includes valuable information not widely available or known elsewhere.
According to PRC media department, there has been a number of websites launched by pro Israeli lobbies and groups which adopt the official Israeli narration in respect of the Goldstone report. These websites include misleading and misguiding information about the siege and the War on the Gaza Strip.
DUBAI / A DYING MONUMENT TO GREED AND EXCESS
Allen L Roland
Dubai's glittering half empty towers enveloped by the fog of blowing
sand and world-wide recession / Photo Jamie Stewart
Debt strapped Dubai World who can't pay its bills ( 60 billion dollar debt ) is a dying monument to world wide greed and excess and its obvious consequences ~ for in attempting to create an artificial economy from reclaimed land and borrowed capital, it has become a crumbling sub-prime in the desert:
What was obvious to a few six months ago is now becoming apparent to the world ~ as the tasteless and gaudy monument to western capitalism and greed, Dubai, begins not only to lose its luster but its ability to pay its debts while the world financial markets stagger nervously. And that would include Wall Street investors such as Goldman Sachs.
Will the Church act to save the children of Gaza this Christmas?
Stuart Littlewood
OPEN LETTER to
The Most Rev. and the Rt. Hon. the Archbishop of Canterbury
Spiritual leader of the Anglican Church
Dear Archbishop,
Two years ago, on returning from Gaza and the West Bank, I wrote about the dire conditions and the British government's complicity in the crippling blockade, and reminded prime minister Gordon Brown that Gaza was formerly entrusted to Britain under mandate, which was reason for us to feel a special responsibility.
Gone but not forgotten -- the bin Laden revival tour
Dead man walking, with assistance
"I think now, frankly, he is dead for the reason he is a ... kidney patient," Gen. Pervez Musharraf said on Friday in an interview with CNN.
Musharraf said Pakistan knew bin Laden took two dialysis machines into Afghanistan. "One was specifically for his own personal use," he said.
"I don't know if he has been getting all that treatment in Afghanistan now. And the photographs that have been shown of him on television show him extremely weak. ... I would give the first priority that he is dead and the second priority that he is alive somewhere in Afghanistan." CNN Jan 18, 2002
UNITED AGAINST SPITTING
BY GILAD ATZMON
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Three days ago the Israeli Right wing paper The Jerusalem Post published an exposé of the growing tendency of Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem to spit on their Christian neighbours. (‘Mouths Filled with Hatred’, By Larry Derfner The JPost, Nov. 26, 2009).
Father Samuel Aghoyan, a senior Armenian Orthodox cleric in Jerusalem's Old City, told the JPost “that he's been spat at by young Haredi (God fearing religious Jews) and national Orthodox Jews ‘about 15 to 20 times’ in the past decade”. Father Aghoyan added, "Every single priest in this church has been spat on. It happens day and night."
More Arrests in America's War on Islam
Stephen Lendman
A November 24 "hatemail" underscores the issue, titled "Muslims in America - violent clashing of cultures, basic incompatibility of Western thought and Muslim theocracy," then quoting Denver radio talk show host Peter Boyles (know.com) saying:
"Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims."
Not Jews, not Christians, not Hindus, not Buddhists, or persons from any of the lesser known religions, just Muslims with no understanding that Islam teaches love, not hate; peace, not violence; charity, not selfishness; and tolerance, not terrorism; or that Islam, Christianity and Judaism have common roots.
Yet according to Pat Robertson, Monday, November 9 on his 700 Club:
Why is Lloyd Blankfein
Aetius Romulous
Lloyd Blankfein is the name of the human who is the Chief Executive Officer (the big man) of the global finance corporation called Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is one of history's most successful human endeavours, a legal set of contracts that has accumulated over a trillion dollars in wealth. As CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein is an agent of the corporation - the top agent - and so another set of legal contracts rewards him with a share of that wealth in return for his agency service. His share amounted to about 65 million USD's in 2007. Lloyd Blankfein is among the top 1% of all humans in financial wealth and power by any earthly measure. Except for this fact, and all facts that trail from it, Lloyd Blankfein is a pretty average human in all other regards. There are thousands of Lloyd Blankfein's atop thousands of similar bundles of legal entities - as well as a number of illegal ones. However, there are billions of humans of exact biology on the planet, 99 out of every one hundred (or more) without the wealth, power, and prestige of the very few Lloyd Blankenfein subsets.
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