July 2012
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London 2012: the Corporate Olympics →
To enforce corporate control over the London 2012 Olympics, we are to have a security lock-down by 50,000 soldiers, police, and security guards – five times the number of British troops deployed in Afghanistan at the height of the war.
This is presented as a defence against terrorism. It has much more to do with what Tory Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher liked to call ‘the enemy within’. If...
June 2012
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The Elite Coup is Complete | Robert Hunziker →
theamericanbear:
“By definition … if no criminal charges are filed, the coup is complete.”
The American plutocratic revolution is now complete. The proof is: There are no criminal charges for the housing bust and financial meltdown of 2008. Starting with Reagan in the 1980s, as of today the Right has won their decades-long overthrow for complete control of America. An elite corps of wealthy...
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#Drone Documents: Why The #US Government Won’t... →
anonymissexpress:
by Cora Currier, June 25, 2012
The covert U.S. effort to strike terrorist leaders using drones has moved further out of the shadows this year — targeted killing has been mentioned by President Obama and defended in speeches by Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan. The White House recently declassified the fact that it is conducting...
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“I believe that the people need to be woken up to the fact that the Democrips and...”
– Former Minnesota governor and pro wrestler Jesse Ventura, on why Democrats and Republicans are like Crips and Bloods.
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Syria's Conflict: With both barrels - The... →
leaveobashar:
Opposition forces are doing better than expected, but the regime is responding with ever nastier tactics
THE ceasefire in Syria brokered by Kofi Annan, an envoy and former secretary-general of the UN, is unravelling. After several weeks of holding back somewhat while being pummelled by government forces, bands of armed rebels gathered under the umbrella of the Free Syrian Army...
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Joseph E. Stiglitz: We’ve been brainwashed →
How, in a democracy supposedly based on one person one vote, could the 1 percent could have been so victorious in shaping policies in its interests? It is part of a process of c, disillusionment, and disenfranchisement that produces low voter turnout, a system in which electoral success requires heavy investments, and in which those with money have made political investments that have reaped...
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“Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class,...”
– Matthew Arnold (via occupyallstreets)
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Politics – Is democracy a sham in Quebec? (Le...
translatingtheprintempserable:
Simon Jomphe June 11, 2012
Original French Text: http://www.ledevoir.com/politique/quebec/352137/un-simulacre-de-democratie-au-quebec
One of the arguments that surfaces again and again to defend the legitimacy of actions taken by Charest’s government is that it was democratically elected by the Quebec people. If citizens are unhappy, all they...
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The Liberal Strategy of Repression (La Presse)
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Guy Ferland, Professor of Philosophy and Literature June 10, 2012
Original French Text : http://www.lapresse.ca/debats/le-cercle-la-presse/actualites/201206/10/48-486-la-strategie-liberale-de-la-repression.php
Will it be the PQ or the Liberals in the next elections? “It will either be the street and referendums or democracy and the economy,” affirms Jean Charest....
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Defenders of Wildlife Releases New Climate Change... →
climateadaptation:
Defenders of Wildlife recently released a new report entitled Harnessing Nature: The Ecosystem Approach to Climate Change Preparedness, which summarizes the benefits of strengthening and enhancing green infrastructure and offers case studies of communities around the country that are already harnessing nature to lessen the impacts of floods, storms, droughts, wildfires and...
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Providing Housing For The Homeless Saves... →
anticapitalist:
According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s most recent data, there were more than 51,000 homeless individuals in Los Angeles county, which has one of the highest homeless populations in the country. But it turns out that programs to provide housing for these unlucky individuals actually helps LA save money.
A study conducted by a Los Angeles County research unit...
Another unarmed black youth shot to death. 13... →
cherrispryteaintsobrite:jujuistrulyoutrageous:thefemme-menace:warofpositionist:
FORWARD WIDELY:
“Darius Simmons was by all accounts a good kid. The fun loving 6th grader was simply moving a garbage can in front of his home when his neighbor, 75 year old John Henry Spooner confronted him with a shotgun and accused him of stealing from his home. Darius, who was in school the time of the...
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To avoid counting civilian deaths, Obama... →
anonymissexpress:
June 1, 2012, by Glenn Greenwald
Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in
headlines that the dead were ”militants” – even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed. They simply cite always-unnamed “officials” claiming that the dead...
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America’s jobs crisis →
To spell this out: high corporate profits and low levels of job growth are two sides of the same coin. If things were working properly right now, companies would take their excess revenues and use them to hire more people. Instead, they’re basically just letting those excess revenues sit on their balance sheets as cash because they’re scared to invest in themselves. It’s frankly pathetic.
The...
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A Failed Strategy: Waiting for Obama the Savior →
If you want to win, you will ORGANIZE. You will organize in the same way the Right has done for the last 40 years, and you will spend money on persuasion, where it really matters. You will, in short, make the politicians as afraid of you as they are of them. The Right has built vast networks of think tanks, newspapers, periodicals, cable news channels, and political advocacy organizations to...
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Large Majority of Americans Now Believe There is... →
anonymissexpress:
Friday, January 13, 2012, via @Glad2ShareLife
The wealthy and the poor in U.S. society are not getting along, according to a large majority of Americans. A new Pew Research Center survey revealed that 66% of the public believes there are “very strong” or “strong” conflicts between the upper and lower classes—an increase of 19 points since 2009. This increase was...
