it’s a brave new world

by betmo @ 9:03 PM EDT
where future wars will be fought with mind drugs
so, let’s connect the dots with this one shall we? big pharma- check, defense industry- check, torture department- check, mental health services (see big pharma)- check. is there enough money in the world to fill these coffers?

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~Ode to Duhbya~

by Geezer Power…12:18 pm

~VIDEO~

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Keith Olbermann Slams Rush Limbaugh Over Edwards Smear (8-13-08)

By- Suzie-Q @ 12:30 PM MST

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How Many Iraqs And Afghanistans Lie Ahead?

By- Suzie-Q @ 11:30 AM MST

The Long War: How Many Iraqs and Afghanistans Lie Ahead?

By Andrew Bacevich, Tomdispatch.com. Posted August 14, 2008
The Pentagonization of the United States shows no sign of slowing down.
All you really need to know is that, at Robert Gates’s Pentagon, they’re still high on the term “the Long [...]

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Can Obama Bridge America’s Wall of Ignominy?

Sudhan @1249 CET

Robert Weitzel | August 14, 2008
“The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down.”
–Barack Obama
When Barack Obama visited Germany in July, he stood at the site where a wall once separated East and West Berlin. With his usual [...]

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hard to wrap my mind around

by betmo
there are many things in this world i doubt i will ever understand. they don’t make sense to me- and no amount of explaining away makes it clearer to me. wars and deliberate hierarchies of haves and have nots- are a couple of examples. the biggest one that i can’t wrap my mind around [...]

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British journalist detained by Beijing police after covering Free Tibet protest

anthony @ 11:26 BST
 
Tania Branigan and Jonathan Watts | London Guardian | Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Police in Beijing roughed up and detained a British journalist after he covered a Free Tibet protest close to the city’s main Olympic zone earlier today.
The incident appeared to be the clearest breach yet of the host [...]

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British Government Attempts To Scrap Open Justice In The Name Of Fighting Terrorism

anthony @ 10:45 BST
Ministers want to re-write fundamental principle of English law to accommodate state secrecy

Steve Watson | Infowars.net | Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The British government has inserted provisions into a Counter-Terrorism Bill that would see centuries old principles of law and justice undermined and allow the government unprecedented powers to intervene in the workings [...]

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