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"I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them." If he wins enough fights... Tamerlan says he could be selected for the US Olympic team and be naturalized American. Unless his native Chechnya becomes independent, Tamerlan says he would...
"Tucked away in President Barack Obama’s financial plan for the upcoming year is a tribute to former president George H.W. Bush. Obama proposed to designate $10 million toward a national volunteer fund that would reflect the 41st president’s lifetime...
"I (Dr. George Clinton) want to be known as the man who brought to the attention of America the copyright issues. You have to fight the copyright companies, like BMI. You have to fight these record companies because they really want to take it all. Right...
“On January 14, 2013 President Obama met with Saudi Minister of Interior,” Glenn said. “Two days later Janet Napolitano signed agreement with Saudi minister allowing ‘trusted traveler’ status on Saudi student visitors, meaning greatly reduced security...
"These stray dogs live in the outskirts of Moscow Russia and commute on the underground trains to the city centre in search of food scraps. After a hard day scavenging and begging on the streets, they hop back on the train and return to the suburbs where...
"...there is only one way to stop the BS that goes on these markets, and that’s by forcing all derivative contracts onto public exchanges where bid, offer and trade prices are independently posted as the transaction takes place, visible to everyone, and...
"Even those running the system are reluctantly beginning to conclude that some kind of mass debt cancellation—some kind of jubilee—is inevitable. The real political struggle is going to be over the form that it takes. Why not a planetary debt cancellation,...
"ABN AMRO, the biggest Dutch bank, has sent a letter to its clients stating that they will no longer be able to take physical deliveries of the gold they have bought through ABN. Instead they are offered money at the current market rate for gold. Basically,...
"For 15 months, nearly 100 reporters from outlets around the world have worked together to analyze a trove of 2.5 million documents detailing the identities and activities of 120,000 offshore companies, most of them based in the Caymans and the British...
"Think of the American teenage slaves who signed up to fight for the Union. Think of the ‘76 youth generation of South Africa, fourteen-year-old girls and boys who said to their elders “enough is enough” and forced the fight against apartheid into a more...
"Back in November 1999, Congress passed legislation pushed by then Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX), rescinding the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act. The measure, backed by the Clinton administration, and overwhelmingly passed by the Senate (90-8) and the House...
"One of Burr’s most ingenious gambits, the Manhattan Company helped break the political stranglehold with which Hamilton’s Federalist Party controlled the city, and thereby made the election of a Republican president, Thomas Jefferson (not to mention...
"All three men are in their 80s now, and their case is part of a new wave of prosecutions focusing on corporate support for the dictators who ran Argentina from 1976-1983. Factory director Pedro Muller, human resources chief Guillermo Galarraga and security...
"...a note to my journalist pals who got involved in this scandal. If your source lied to you, they are not actually a source. They are a con artist and you are their victim. It means you don’t have to protect them any more. They’re not a source. When...
"In 1933, she was arrested by the Gestapo for collecting evidence of anti-Semitic propaganda. After fleeing to Paris, she worked for a Jewish relief group before being sent to an internment camp, in Gurs, from which she escaped. She and her husband, Heinrich...
THE DOORS - THE END - JIM MORRISON - LYRICS This is The end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes...again...
5,200 Pentagon Employees Bought Child Pornography and the world media is silent: "I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men." Emiliano Zapata Salazar - 1879 -1919 "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." Aldous Huxley - 1894 -1963...
"Laurel Krause and her organization, The Kent State Truth Tribunal (KSTT), filed a petition on February 9, 2013, with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), asking them to review their claim that Vietnam War protesters were intentionally targeted...
“We base our costumes on the price of the Nikkei average of the day. For example, when the index falls below 10,000 points, we go on stage with really long skirts,” Mori explained. The higher stocks rise, the shorter their dresses get. With the Nikkei...
"Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were...
"TIME concedes that “several” oil fields are held by Al Qaeda, however, other reports across the Western media indicate most, if not all “rebel-held oil fields” are under Al Qaeda’s control. In the New York Times article, “Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma...
"Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is a legitimate one before taking that authority seriously. Evaluating the legitimacy of authorities includes assessing whether or not authorities actually know what they are talking about, are honest,...
"The City of London’s representative, the Remembrancer, should not have the right to sit in the House of Commons chamber. With 6 lawyers and a budget of £5.3 million a year, the centuries-old post of the Remembrancer has the right to see every draft law...
"With regard to your actions—especially those taken in the name of national security–you are obliged by your constitutional oath to explain by what authority you are acting, and to answer serious criticism of your legal theories. Among other issues, you...
"Ms. White led the commissioners in approving a proposal that, if finalized, could leave investors and taxpayers exposed to the ravages of reckless bank trading… The S.E.C. proposal would let the foreign branches of American banks avoid rules being developed...
