Perth Independent Media Centre:
From the NEWSWIRE: February 28, 2007 – In a successful attempt to stop the deportation of a Falun Gong practitioner to China, this morning some 100 detainees at Sydney’s Villawood detention centre formed a human barricade. Refugee Action Coalition of NSW said the detainees assembled in and around a recreation room at [...]
Monday, 03.05.07, yr546
SHOW LINK: http://www.syphill.us/sirius/weekof030507/yr546sirius.mp3
BLOG LINK: http://yeastradio.podshow.com/?p=1019
SYNOPSIS: Madge catches up with her voice mails and hears from old friends including CHeryl Mercowsky, Sharon from Tampon, Roger Smalls, and a special ancient poem about another whore named Madge read by melissa Gira of whorecast.com. Also, voice mail from Mrs. X and Special Delivery mark [...]
America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s regime is accused of repressing minority rights and culture
In a move that reflects Washington’s growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to [...]
News Analysis – Rove Said to Have Received 2003 Iranian Proposal:
The Iranian proposal for negotiations, which suggested that Iran was willing to consider far-reaching compromises on its nuclear programme, relations with Hezbollah and Hamas and support for a Palestinian peace agreement with Israel as part of a larger peace agreement with the United States, has [...]
I think that all of the content distributors will have to offer bittorrent in order to remain competitive. BT drastically reduces distribution costs and once the end user catches on, it will virtually eliminate them, at least for popular podcasts. Less popular podcasts will be more expensive to distribute. This is a disturbing truth, IMO.
BitTorrent [...]
Speaker Of The Truth: UK: Psychics ‘Hired To Find Bin Laden’:
Psychics were recruited by the Ministry of Defence to locate Osama Bin Laden’s secret lair, it was claimed yesterday.
Newly declassified documents revealed that the MoD conducted an experiment to see if volunteers could ’see’ objects hidden inside an envelope.
Technorati Tags: lesbian, dumb, bin ladin, assholism, [...]
Tikun Olam-תקון עול?: Make the World a Better Place » Jobs Files for State Supreme Court Review in Jackling House Case:
Steve Jobs is for the second time appealing the court ruling that said he may not destroy the historic Jackling House, where he currently lives.
Says 89 year old Gladys Woodham of the a local preservation [...]
Quiddity: Torture Today:
What Terry Gilliam’s Brazil tells us about torture today.
Link via GitM.
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General: Finding Bin Laden Not “All That Important” | The Huffington Post:
“I don’t know whether we’ll find him,” Gen. Peter Schoomaker, the Army chief of staff, said in a speech to the Rotary Club of Fort Worth. “I don’t know that it’s all that important, frankly.”
Schoomaker, pulled out of retirement in 2003 to lead the [...]
Why is America leading the world in bankruptcy filings? Is it our mind-set? Is it our need to acquire everything we didn’t have when we were younger?
Bankruptcy Reader: Soaring Bankruptcy: Top 10 Reasons Why America is leading the World in Bankruptcy Filing
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Arthur Silber: “Large-scale public ignorance is necessary to the perpetuation of a fundamentally false national mythology”it’s a fact that to overcome our ignorance takes considerable time, serious thought, an open mind, and no small skill at discernment, but it can be done…
And, yes, I DO take it personally: Arthur Silber: “Large-scale public ignorance is necessary [...]
IMPEACHMENT ArchivesFebruary 21, 2007Why impeachment is urgentThe recent skirmish with Congress over the “surge” shows that Bush still holds the trump card; his Senate Republicans, barely in the minority, can filibuster any legislation that would slow him down. For instance, last week’s vote by the House to censure the “surge” has no teeth, since the [...]
SF Gate: Multimedia (image)
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He’s one of us and he’s been in jail longer than any other refusenick journalist:
The Revolution Will Be Televised » Watch Josh on PBS Frontline!
Part two of the extraordinary Frontline series titled News War aired last night and will replay on PBS affiliates this week. Check it out. Watch the whole episode. Seeing Josh’s story [...]
I’ve seen a few bloggers ask this question of late. No, it’s not dead, no thanks to those of you who have already given up on it in the search for the next big thing.
Podcasting is not dead for those who had a message before they found the medium.
Vlogging will have the same result. It’s [...]
Sirius Shows for Week of 02/26/07 yeast radio
02/26/07 – YR534
SHOW LINK: http://www.syphill.us/sirius/weekof022607/yr534sirius.mp3
BLOG LINK: http://yeastradio.podshow.com/?p=1001
SYNOPSIS: Richard Bluestein hosts. Madge is out with a yeast infection and she has no yogurt at home. Richard plays some heavily drug induced radio from the original Yeast Radio of 1997. It’s completely ridiculous and kind of fun, even if you’re [...]
Surprise! I’m a liberal! | CorrenteWire
Liberals represent 17 percent of the American public, and 19 percent of registered voters.
This group has nearly doubled in proportion since 1999, Liberals now comprise the largest share of Democrats and is the single largest of the nine Typology groups.
Liberals are second only to Enterprisers in following news about government [...]
The Waxman cometh | CorrenteWire
Of the $10 billion in overpriced contracts or undocumented costs, more than $2.7 billion were charged by Halliburton Co., the oil-field services company once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney.
How odd.
Noting that auditors still have $300 billion of Iraq spending to review, [Rep. Henry] Waxman said [...]
The nerve of this SHIT propaganda trash to put this war mongering yellow journalism on the front page. NYTIMES NEEDS TO GO DOWN.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 — President Bush said today he is certain that elements of the Iranian government are supplying deadly roadside bombs that kill American troops in Iraq, even if the innermost circle [...]
week of feb 19 2007: Yeast Radio
Monday, 2/19/07
from yr531
blog link: http://yeastradio.podshow.com/?p=994
show link: http://www.syphill.us/sirius/weekof021907/yr531sirius.mp3
Synopsis: Madge reads her version of the F-list, but hers is called the H-list. The Opera Queen calls with lots of operatic drama and gossip. Senators Fenstein and Beiden and why they are turds. Also, Madge makes yogurt [...]
Here we go again. Americans are fucking morons. Prove me wrong.
Informed Comment
NYT Falls for Bogus Iran Weapons Charges
Completely Implausible Numbers are Thrown Around
Repeat of Judy Miller Scandal
This NYT article depends on unnamed USG sources who alleged that 25 percent of US military deaths and woundings in Iraq in October-December of 2006 were from explosively formed [...]
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