You’ve Heard that the Government and Big Corporations Are Spying

June 21st, 2013

… But Do You Have ANY IDEA How Widespread the Spying Really Is? – Published on Washington’s Blog, by blog owner, June 19, 2013 … or what might be done with that information.

Yes, the Government Is Spying On You

You know that the government has been caught spying on the Verizon phone calls of tens of millions of Americans. The spying effort specifically targeted Americans living on U.S. soil//

… The ACLU explained:   Read the rest of this entry »


Left or Not Left

June 20th, 2013

Videos:

  • The Future of the Left – A Conversation on Socialist Unity, 45.29 min, uploaded by Organizing20, June 7, 2013: Presented by the Left Labor Project: With Mark Solomon of the CCDS leading off based on his widely circulated and discussed article in Portside and respondents from Jacobin Magazine, Democratic Socialists of America, CPUSA, and Freedom Road Socialist Organization …;
  • Mobile-ize Training: The Basics, (and ff in autoplay), uploaded by Organizing20, June 13, 2011: The basics of Mobile campaigning, with Michael Sabat and Gloria Fong of Mobile Commons;

Texts:   Read the rest of this entry »


Inside Bilderberg

June 19th, 2013

Clues left in the Grove Hotel reveal another piece to their financial agenda – Published on 21st Century Wire, by 21wire, June 14, 2013.

As the dust had settled from Bilderberg’s global weekender held at The Grove Hotel in Watford, England, some members of the alternative media stayed on site continuing to dig for answers.

Investigative journalists from the UK Column, American Free Press and Sovereign Independent accidentally wandered into a presentation suite at the Grove – only discover the remnants of a presentation by Thomson Reuters which Bilderberg organisers had neglected to take down after the event. It read “”unleashing the power of our unified platform on financial markets” … // Read the rest of this entry »


Turkish PM Erdogan mobilizes supporters and violently clears Gezi Park

June 18th, 2013

Published on World Socialist Web Site WSWS, by correspondents, June 17, 2013.

(First my comment: Rooted both deeply in the Turkish nation, none of the two parties is able to give up and Turkey has a real chance to become the next Syria. Now watch the line Iraq-Syria-Turkey and recognize: the Rainmakers / the owners of the Financial System no longer need Iran as tool to destabilise the world and reduce us to our daily Rice Bowl – and Iran suddenly may loose it’s smell of being the bad boy – Heidi).

… Prime Minister Recep Tayip Erdogan has sought to end the protests against his government with a mixture of duplicity and brutality. He is being aided and abetted by the leaders of the protests, who are playing into his hands.  Read the rest of this entry »


A Brave New World: Preparing Our Children for a National Emergency

June 17th, 2013

… New York City Schools to Conduct Yearly Lockdown Drills, Training Begins this Summer for School Officials – Published on Silent Crow News, by Timothy Alexander Guzman, June 14, 2013.

It was reported last month by the New York Daily News that New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott announced that all schools will be required to “conduct lockdown drills each year”. Training will begin this summer according to the report:

The policy revealed by Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott in a letter to principals Wednesday will require school leaders to attend a two-hour training program over the summer and appoint staff response teams and command posts.   Read the rest of this entry »


The Party is Over

June 16th, 2013

Children, Clean up the House! Lessons from the Turkish #OccupyGezi – Published on Triple Crisis, by Erinc Yeldan, June 14, 2013.

They are referred to under different identifiers: generation-Y; millennium generation; globalization generation; Net-generation… roughly they are the cohort of post-1980 newborns, coming from distant geographies, different nations. Yet, they are claimed to share astonishingly common characteristics: narcissistic love of the self; the me, me, me approach to life; impatience; intolerance of all forms of hierarchy; a fetishistic loyalty to technology and brands; almost non-existing interest in social events, apolitical nihilism; non-reading, etc etc.  Read the rest of this entry »


Unlikely Alliances

June 15th, 2013

Published on ZNet, by Zoltan Grossman, June 13, 2013.

In the 2010s, new “unlikely alliances” of Native peoples and their rural white neighbors are standing strong against fossil fuel and mining projects. In the Great Plains, grassroots coalitions of Native peoples and white ranchers and farmers (including the aptly named “Cowboy and Indian Alliance”) are blocking the Keystone XL oil pipeline and coal mining. In the Pacific Northwest, Native nations are using their treaties against plans for coal and oil terminals, partly because shipping and burning fossil fuels threatens their treaty fishery. Read the rest of this entry »


Incredible India: Home to Modern Slavery

June 14th, 2013

Watch this video, published on Dissident Voice, 12.14 min, by The Real News Network TRNN, June 12, 2013.

(The Real News Network is a television news and documentary network focused on providing independent and uncompromising journalism. Read other articles by The Real News Network,
or visit TRNN’s website
).

Links:   Read the rest of this entry »


Undercounting the Poor

June 13th, 2013

The U.S.’s New, but Only Marginally Improved, Poverty Measure – Published on Dollars and Sense, by JEANNETTE WICKS-LIM, May/June 2013.

In 1995, a blue-ribbon panel of poverty experts selected by the National Academy of the Sciences NAS told us that the “current U.S. measure of poverty is demonstrably flawed judged by today’s knowledge; it needs to be replaced.” Critics have long pointed out shortcomings including the failure to adequately account for the effects of “safety net” programs and insensitivity to differences in the cost of living between different places.   Read the rest of this entry »


NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says …

June 12th, 2013

… Video: I don’t want to live in a society that does these sort of things, 12.35 min, on The Guardian, June 11, 2013 (linked with Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations, and with Edward Snowden on The Real News Network and on YouTube).

Links:   Read the rest of this entry »


again remaining Links on my dashboard

June 11th, 2013

Alter Summit: A People’s Manifesto

June 10th, 2013

Our urgent common priorities for a democratic, social, ecological and feminist Europe – Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 835, June 9, 2013.

Roll Back Austerity and Claim Real Democracy!

  • Europe stands on the edge of a precipice, looking into the abyss. Austerity policies drive the people of Europe into poverty, undercut democracy and dismantle social policies. Rising inequalities endanger social cohesion. Ecological destruction is worsening while acute humanitarian crises devastate the most affected countries. Women and young people are hardest hit.    Read the rest of this entry »

As Nation-States Falter, Capitalism Shines

June 9th, 2013

Published on Dissident Voice, by Robert Hunziker, June 7, 2013.

The world has been ruled by nation-states throughout modern history, ever since kings and queens were put out to pasture, but nation-states may be on the brink of extinction, similar to monarchies over the past 50-200 years.  Read the rest of this entry »


Fifth World Human Rights Moot Court Competition

June 8th, 2013

Received by e-mail, From: Armand Tanoh, Date: June 5, 2013:

Dear Colleagues, Greetings from Pretoria. I am very pleased to inform you that the fifth World Human Rights Moot Court Competition will be held at the University of Pretoria in South Africa from 8 to 10 December 2013;
Online registrations are currently open and I would like to strongly encourage your university to register before the deadline which is 28 June 2013.
For more information, please visit our website;
The Rules of the Competition have been amended.The Section on Team Eligibility should now read as follows:   Read the rest of this entry »


Labour must not forget the economic costs of child poverty

June 7th, 2013

Published on Labour List, by Alison Garnham, June 5, 2013.

As the Chancellor prepares the ground for this month’s spending review and Labour starts to provide more detail on its spending approach for 2015, the three main political parties sometimes sound as if they believe social justice and economic efficiency are mutually exclusive. That the toughest of all tough choices is choosing between the head and the heart.   Read the rest of this entry »


hidden human history … forbidden archeology

June 6th, 2013

uploaded by nwosatire:

Michael Cremo:  Read the rest of this entry »


Lost Opportunity

June 5th, 2013

Published on ZNet, by Michael Albert, June 03, 2013.

(This is Albert’s brief conclusion to the Peercommony/Parecon discussion/debate found here. Siefkes didn’t feel a need to add one. Albert thought it might be useful). I had hoped we might arrive at unity in this exchange. My optimism ran like this: Parecon and peercommony – Suppose we assume that they both seek:  Read the rest of this entry »


Engineering Empire

June 4th, 2013

an Introduction to the Intellectuals and Institutions of American Imperialism – Published on Dissident Voice, by Andrew Gavin Marshall, June 1, 2013.

Educating yourself about empire can be a challenging endeavor, especially since so much of the educational system is dedicated to avoiding the topic or justifying the actions of imperialism in the modern era. If one studies political science or economics, the subject might be discussed in a historical context, but rarely as a modern reality; media and government voices rarely speak on the subject, and even more rarely speak of it with direct and honest language. Read the rest of this entry »


Russia Today RT.com reports on Bradley Manning

June 3rd, 2013

RT.com is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel which brings the Russian view on global news: Read the rest of this entry »


… developming this humanity …

June 3rd, 2013

Gregg Braden

June 2nd, 2013

Secret Ancient Knowledge, The Divine Matrix, 228.01 min, uploaded by NWOTruthChannel, March 3, 2013;

Gregg Braden: on Gregg Braden.com, bringing science to spirituality; on Gregg Braden.net; on amazon.


Some videos with Julian Assange

June 1st, 2013

on Democracy Now:

Julian Assange on Meeting with Google, Responds to Anti-WikiLeaks Attacks from New Film to Finances, 58.56 min, May 29, 2013: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy last year to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sex assault and rape allegations. He fears that Sweden will agree to extradite him to the United States. On Tuesday, Ecuador’s foreign minister accused the British government of trampling on Assange’s rights by refusing to allow him to travel to Ecuador, which granted him political asylum almost a year ago.   Read the rest of this entry »


Index May 2013

May 31st, 2013

2013-05-01: Europe’s Moral Quandary: The High Human Price of Cheap T-Shirts;
2013-05-02: The death of innovation, the end of growth;
2013-05-03: Terrorists and money junkies: Who are the bigger threats?2013-05-04: Wolves;
2013-05-05: Anti-Plutocracy is as American as Apple Pie: a short of history of American populist anger;
2013-05-06: What the FBI Doesn’t Want You To See;
2013-05-07: A new Europe can only come from the bottom up;
2013-05-07: Neues mit Andreas Popp;
2013-05-08: Subject of Envy: Britain Discovers Germany as a Model;
2013-05-09: Money Laundering and The Drug Trade: The Role of the Banks;
2013-05-09: ZDF Nachtstudio: Ich und die Welt;
2013-05-10: THRIVE;
2013-05-10: Top Info Forum 2012;
2013-05-11: German Euro-Skeptic Party Gaining Ground;
2013-05-11: 2013 International Mufon Symposium;
2013-05-12: Why aren’t we talking about public goods? A proposed research agenda;
2013-05-12: new on my health blog /nouveautés pour la santé;
2013-05-13: Art links on my dashboard;
2013-05-14: Divisions between major powers dominate G-7 meeting;
2013-05-15: German Election: Embattled Pirates Looking for Rapid Reboot;
2013-05-16: Gangster State America;
2013-05-17: Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, April 29 – May 3, 2013;
2013-05-18: Where Has All the Money Gone?
2013-05-19: OpGTMO: Anonymous launches global anti-Gitmo action;
2013-05-19: Die neue Energiequelle aus dem Quantenvakuum;
2013-05-20: ancient Cities Discovered in Africa, Enoch, and more …;
2013-05-21: Pluralistic Ignorance / Pluralistische Ignoranz;
2013-05-21: Wirtschaft ohne Zins: von FMF Zinsfreie Finanzen;
2013-05-22: Beyond Diversity: The Hidden Curriculum of Privilege;
2013-05-23: Corporate Tricks: EU Faces Tough Battle to Close Tax Loopholes;
2013-05-24: Everybody must get … straight!
2013-05-25: Noam Chomsky Breaks the Set on War, Imperialism, and Propaganda;
2013-05-25: Cristallina.de;
2013-05-26: The World Against Monsanto: Holding the Corrupt Accountable;
2013-05-27: Death By a Thousand Cuts’: Coal Boom Could Destroy Great Barrier Reef, Part 1;
2013-05-28: Viome: A Workers’ Experiment With Global Appeal;
2013-05-29: UK moves to gag radical preachers;
2013-05-30: UK security services completely out of control;
2013-05-31: FUTURE.


    FUTURE

    May 31st, 2013

    UK security services completely out of control

    May 30th, 2013

    Interview with Tony Gosling, published on Russia Today RT, May 28, 2013.

    The UK security services are overrun with incompetence and vested business interests, without being subject to checks themselves, British investigative journalist Tony Gosling told RT … // 

    … RT: We’ve seen extremist groups like the English Defence League react, but are we now at a point where we’re seeing tolerant moderate people now turning against their Muslim neighbors?    Read the rest of this entry »


    UK moves to gag radical preachers

    May 29th, 2013

    … clamp down on Internet extremism – Published on Russia Today RT, May 27, 2013.

    with video 1.36 min … The UK Prime Minister has announced an anti-terror task force to clamp down on the “poisonous narratives” of radical preachers who target recruits in schools, jails and mosques. However, some fear the government’s efforts could actually worsen extremism … //

    … Malicious communications and racial or religious hatred on the rise:   Read the rest of this entry »


    Viome: A Workers’ Experiment With Global Appeal

    May 28th, 2013

    Published on Reports from the Edge of Borderline Democracy, by Augustine Zenakos, May 23, 2013.

    “No worker who is not a shareholder, no shareholder who is not a worker,” say the workers of VIOME (Industrial Mineral), a factory in northern Greece. Their plan to take over the factory and to manage it themselves has generated waves of encouragement and support throughout the world. In this report for UNFOLLOW magazine, Christos Avramidis and Antonis Galanopoulos investigate the background to current events, and ask what the future might hold for these workers and their plan, what the reaction of the Greek government is likely to be, and whether workers’ self-management is feasible in a capitalist context.    Read the rest of this entry »


    Death By a Thousand Cuts’: Coal Boom Could Destroy Great Barrier Reef, Part 1

    May 27th, 2013

    Published on Spiegel Online International, by Samiha Shafy, May 21, 2013. (12 images in the Photo Gallery: Threats Mounting to Great Barrier Reef).

    Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is rapidly losing its coral, to the point that UNESCO may soon place the natural wonder on its “in danger” list. Climate change is one culprit, but so is the country’s booming extraction industry. Environmentalists warn that time is running out for the reef … //

    … Five Minutes to Midnight: Read the rest of this entry »


    The World Against Monsanto: Holding the Corrupt Accountable

    May 26th, 2013

    Published on Global Research.ca, by James Corbett and Tami Canal, May 25, 2013.

    This is the GRTV Backgrounder video on Global Research TV: Grassroots Rising, the People’s Movement against Monsanto, 12.09 min, (see also on YouTube, by GlobalResearchTV, May 23, 2013).   Read the rest of this entry »


    Cristallina.de

    May 25th, 2013

    das  neue kosmische Bewusstsein für die Menschheit – /Startseite; /Energiemusik; Klangheilung; Reiki; Energiemalerei; Blog: Die Cristallina-Bibliothek; /Kontakt – Impressum;