nous les 99%

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 »