Catégorie : Politics

Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Sept 26, 2015 – (originally published by Nick Turse at Tom Dispatch, Sept 24 … also discussed on Global Research.ca, Sept 25).

… You can find them in dusty, sunbaked badlands, moist tropical forests, and the salty spray of third-world littorals. Standing in judgement, buffeted by the rotor wash of a helicopter or sweltering beneath the relentless desert sun, they instruct, yell, and cajole as skinnier men playact under their watchful eyes. In many places, more than their particular brand of camouflage, better boots, and designer gear sets them apart. Their days are scented by stale sweat and gunpowder; their nights are spent in rustic locales or third-world bars.   Continuer la lecture de « Imperial Overreach: U.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations »

Published on Dissident Voice, by Paul Kirk, September 24, 2015: everything from education to marketing, to social engineering to capturing money – Madness Wins – (or, what the 1% makes us believe is that corruption should be normal, having infested large parts of our economic behavior, as well as the whole financial sector – a cancer which is now going into it’s final phase – Heidi).

… You can’t have perfection, and you have to bargain with the devil, pick the lesser of two or two million evils, and just understand the reality of politics. How many Fox News-CBS News-CNN-Local Yokel News consuming folk just talk this talk, every year, every election cycle, every rotten time a school bond comes up or some loud invented news item comes along the ticker of our football-pretentious TV junk science-junk journalism SCLM – so-called liberal media. Continuer la lecture de « The Continuing Criminal Enterprises of the Rich-Corporations »

Published on In These Times, by Bill Fletcher jr., Sept 23, 2015 … movement activists discuss strategy and tactics;

In the last several months, the movement for Black lives (also known as the Black Lives Matter, or BLM, movement) has made headlines by engaging – often aggressively – with Democratic presidential candidates Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Each action brought with it pointed questions and often, tactical criticisms.   Continuer la lecture de « From Hashtag to Strategy: The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter »

CHINA, the key to the new world-order – James Corbett, 36.05 min, uploaded by SGTreport.com, April 27, 2015 … James says that despite the formation of the BRICS Banks, the Shanghai Gold Exchange and the new Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the International Banker’s plans to usher in their New World Order remain firmly in place and on track. How could that be when the evidence suggest that the world is moving away from the Dollar as wealth moves from West to East? Because, James says, « At the very top of this Bankster pyramid, the Chinese elite is connected directly in with the U.S. Western elite … (my comment: this was forseeable since years – Heidi);   Continuer la lecture de « Chine and the new world order »

Articles:

• Migrant crisis: Migration to Europe explained – in 10 graphics, on BBCnews, Sept 24, 2015;
• EU refugee summit in disarray as Donald Tusk warns greatest tide ‘yet to come’, on The Guardian, by Ian Traynor, Sept 24, 2015: Emergency talks end with pledge of hundreds of millions of euros to help transit countries as European Council president says greatest challenge is yet to come;
• video in german: WG aus Berlin, auf Spiegel Online, Sept 20, 2015;
• How do I … offer a room to a refugee? on The Guardian, by Kate Lyons and Harriet Grant, Sept 11, 2015; The Guardian has been inundated by people wanting to support those in need, offering spare rooms, sheds and whole homes. Here is a guide to helping;
• Refugee crisis – what can you do to help? on The Guardian, by Matthew Weaver, Sept 3, 2015: From donating to a charity to volunteering – here is a guide to some of the practical ways that individuals can contribute;   Continuer la lecture de « Refugees Welcome – Flüchtlinge Willkommen »

• MIGRANT CRISIS, The Untold Story, 11.42 min, uploaded by AMTV, Sept 9, 2015 … with Christopher Greene;
• Deal With the Devil – How the Global Elite Re-colonized China, 21.04 min, uploaded by corbettreport, Aug 28, 2015 … TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: The Corbett Report (My comment: this was forseeable, if you really look at. Our world predators do not let themselves so easily crash. I even believe, they let America crash intentionally to have no concurrent for their next ‘harbor’, China … and our humanity, like a crowd of sheeps, is unable to react collectively – Heidi);
• 3 new signs total economic collapse is in progress, 4.09 min, uploaded by SGTreport.com, Dec 12, 2014;

Websites: SGTreport; Liberty Mill; Real News 24/7; The Corbett Report;   Continuer la lecture de « how we are ruled »

• The Real Reason the Fed Won’t Raise Interest Rates, 13.07 min, uploaded by AMTV, Sept 21, 2015 … with Christopher Greene;
• The History of The Federal Reserve, 90.11 min, uploaded by corbettreport, July 6, 2014 … about the enslavement of the 99% – transcript and resources: The Corbett Report.

Published on The Financial Express, Sept 21, 2015.

… With 54 per cent of the vote counted, Syriza stood at 35.5 per cent, with the conservative New Democracy at 28 per cent while the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn was coming in third with 7.1 per cent, followed closely by the once-mighty socialist PASOK party with 6.4 per cent (what can people do else than stay on or despair – Heidi).

Abstention was high, at nearly 45 per cent in an election-weary country with a traditionally high voter turnout. Continuer la lecture de « Alexis Tsipras’ leftist party comfortably wins Greece election again »

Latest:

• Citizenfour FULL MOVIE, 86.03 min, uploaded by kamehameha, Sept 18, 2015 … see it also on their website on NgooMovie;
• Citzenfour: Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden & Glenn Greenwald, 13.20 min, uploaded by Neal Tims, Sept 17, 2015;
• No Place to Hide Edward Snowden, 67.35 min, uploaded by cr6, Aug 28, 2015 … about the NSA and the U S Surveillance State;
• The Never Ending Fight For Liberty, 4.56 min, uploaded by Valerie Rhem, Aug 20, 2015 … thanks to Democracy Now …;

Continuer la lecture de « Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden »

Published on ZNet, by Nikos Raptis, Sept 19, 2015.

The problem:

More than seventy years ago the US elites, as leaders of the West, decided that there should never be a leftist government in any European country. Especially in countries like Greece with its geopolitical importance. Also, if successful, a leftist government in a ‘poor’ country like Greece could be a deleterious example for the other countries of Europe.   Continuer la lecture de « The Case of Greece »

Wolf Richter: Bankers Threaten Fed with Layoffs if it Doesn’t Raise Rates, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Sept 18, 2015;

The Star Trek Fallacy: Romanticizing Imperialism, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Sept 18, 2015 (yes, we know this but nevertheless enjoy the actors);

Uploaded by X22Report:
U.S. Warning: All U.S. Citizens Still In Libya Must Leave Straight Away, Episode 768b, 21.01 min, Sept 17, 2015;
Current Economic Collapse, News Brief, Episode 764, 18.02 min, Sept 13, 2015; Continuer la lecture de « a normal day's different concerns »

Russia made an offer to accept Syrian refugees:

• Why nobody here tells them and does not speak about in the western medias?
• More, how many have heard about? How long will it take them to get a real chance for a modest life also in Big Russia. Why we do not suggest the Russian offer to those refugees we know they cannot stay here?
• Even, why we do not work together with the Russian embassies here in the west for visas to their country? Are we only too much pissed off with our unhappy situation, or are we just too much arrogant to let Russians give a solution?
• One explanation may be, the actual refugees are good middle class people who still dream about an acceptable capitalist lifestyle …
  … oh my god, not live as working class in Russia, for heavens sake …  
• But how long will it take them to get our european pitfall? Already this old arrogant system here begins to crash … making them next all happily crash with us …
  … oh my god … Continuer la lecture de « the european refugee mess – my questions this morning »

Jeremy Corbyn, quo vadis? – Published on Dissident Voice, by T.P. Wilkinson, Sept 15, 2015.

… Corbyn’s political consistency has been remarkable. Since the beginning of socialist and labour politics in Britain—as elsewhere—there has always been what outsiders would call a tendency to factionalism. The inherent authoritarianism of the Conservative Party (and its equivalents generally assures that differences of opinion are kept within the walls of the clubs their members frequent. Expulsions among the Establishment are usually for breach of decorum.4 On the British Left, most expulsions have been based on the failure adequately to support imperialism or until 1989 any inclination to support communism—as defined by the ruling class.This led to divisions in the Labour Party (and the German Social Democratic Party) a century ago in the run up to the Great War. Labour was again divided by the British elite’s policy toward Hitler and Stalin. After the defeat of the fascist Axis powers in 1945, the benchmark for Labour became unwavering loyalty to Washington.   Continuer la lecture de « Overcoming Fabianism in Labour’s Class War of Attrition »

Published on The Guardian, Sept 14, 2015.

School is most common place for bullying, and only a quarter of children think their school’s anti-bullying policy works (see also: Bullied children more likely to suffer from adult obesity and heart attacks) … // Continuer la lecture de « Half of children have been bullied – survey »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Melanie Amann, Matthias Bartsch, Jürgen Dahlkamp, Markus Dettmer, Jan Friedmann, Christine Haas, Veronika Hackenbroch, Horand Knaup, Peter Müller, Conny Neumann, Maximilian Popp, Cornelia Schmergal, Barbara Schmid, Fidelius Schmid, Andreas Ulrich and Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt, Sept 11, 2015 (Photo Gallery).

As the migrant influx continues, the ‘Refugees Welcome’ high is beginning to wear off. People are beginning to wonder if Germany will really be able to cope with all the newcomers. And the system is already completely overwhelmed.   Continuer la lecture de « The Breaking Point? Germany's Asylum System Struggles to Cope »