nous les 99%

Published on Dissident Voice, by William Hawes, April 25, 2016.

We have all been told a lie. The lie that says democracy can be maintained only through voting, through purely representative, parliamentarian means. When the founding fathers set up the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they were wary of any truly popular, working and middle class control of the United States. Our government was to be run as a republic, designed by elites, for the elites.   Continuer la lecture de « Electoral Politics and the Illusion of Control »

Published on Five Thirty Eight, by Andrew Flowers, April 25, 2016.

Daniel Straub remembers the night he got hooked on basic income. He had invited Götz Werner, a billionaire owner of a German drugstore chain, to give an independent talk in Zurich, where Straub was working as a project manager for a think tank. He had read an article about the radical proposal to unconditionally guarantee citizens an income and spent a few years casually researching the idea. Continuer la lecture de « What Would Happen If We Just Gave People Money? »

update April 27, 2016/09.25 MEZ: LIVE – MCIS Moscow Conference on international security forum discusses fight against terrorism, global defense issues, on RT, April 27, 2016.

… some related Links:

• 9/11 report: Obama administration ‘set to release’ secret 28 pages, on The Independent.co.uk, by Andrew Buncombe, April 25, 2016: there is speculation the documents could raise questions about whether some Saudi officials supported the attacks;
• The Real Truth Behind The 28 Pages Psyop, 8.28 min, uploaded by WeAreChange, April 21, 2016 … with Luke Rudkowski;   Continuer la lecture de « about these 28 pages »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Peter Müller in Brussels, April 25, 2016.

The European Commission (its President Jean-Claude Juncker) had hoped not to provide fresh anti-EU ammunition to pro-Brexit voters ahead of Britain’s upcoming referendum. But SPIEGEL has learned that Brussels is planning to launch legal proceedings against the UK over its truck toll. Continuer la lecture de « Ahead of Brexit Vote: EU Commission To Challenge UK Truck Toll »

… how much of the electoral process is illusory? – Published on truthout, by Candice Bernd, April 24, 2016.

The parallel Democracy Spring and Democracy Awakening mobilizations wrapped their week of sit-ins protesting the corrosive influence of money in politics and voter suppression at the US Capitol on Monday, tallying more than 1,400 arrests.   Continuer la lecture de « Democracy Spring and the US Voting Matrix – report »