politics for the 99%

• * (Inside) The Islamic State FULL, 42.31 min, uploaded by VICEnews, Aug 14, 2014;
• Der Islamische Staat und die Ästhetik des Wahnsinns, Die Welt, von Jan Küveler, 18. August 2014: erstmals zeigt eine TV-Reportage den Islamischen Staat (IS) von innen. Bester Laune planen seine Bürger die grausamsten Gräueltaten. Das Böse zeigt sich in seiner ganzen Unschuld. Das Erstaunlichste an der Reportage aus dem syrischen ar-Raqqa*, de facto Hauptstadt des Islamischen Staats (IS), die einem Reporter des Internetmagazins “Vice” sensationellerweise gelang, ist die Offenheit und Freundlichkeit der Menschen. Das Kind, das angibt, später einmal lieber Dschihadist als Selbstmordattentäter werden zu wollen, lächelt scheu-kokett. Sein Vater, genannt der Belgier, weil er dort lange lebte, bevor er nach ar-Raqqa kam, um einen Gebetstruck zu fahren, muss gerührt weinen, wenn er verspricht, die Ungläubigen in aller Welt auszurotten …;  

Related Links:

• Islamic State threatens to ‘drown’ American targets in blood,  in a new video on Russia Today RT, Aug 19, 2014;
• The Drama of Sinjar: Escaping the Islamic State in Iraq, on Spiegel Online International, by Christoph Reuter, Aug 18, 2014 (Photo Gallery): Last week, thousands of Yazidis were evacuated from the Sinjar Mountains in Iraq, where they had fled due to marauding fighters from the Islamic State. Kurdish fighters from the PKK helped them escape, but it remains unclear if anyone can stop the IS jihadists …;
• Islamic State on YouTube-search;
• Die Propaganda des Bösen, on Heise.de, by Florian Rötzer, Aug 1, 2014;
• (Siehe auch die Webseite: Die Guten und die Bösen, Ansichten eines Putinverstehers, mit Mathias Bröckers / Paul Schreyer;

Other Links:

Calling off FS level meet, by K.N. Pandita, Aug 20, 2014;

Europe’s reboot: Reform or die, on Russia Today RT, August 19, 2014: Patrick L Young is expert in global financial markets working in multiple disciplines, ranging from trading independently to running exchanges. Sooner or later EU denial must give way to gut-wrenching reform. The longer the delay, the greater the pain for the Lost Generation …;

Russia’s futuristic Tesla Tower aims to protect against lightning, 0.51 min, on, Russia Today RT, August 19, 2014 - COURTESY RT’s RUPTLY video agency: Russian scientists are working hard to restore the Tesla Tower, constructed in the 1970s to protect vehicles, aircrafts and electronic equipment against lightning. Today, the one-of-a-kind High Voltage Marx and Tesla Generators Research Facility, located some 40 kilometers from Moscow, could boast the capacity to equal Russia’s entire electricity output – but only for about 100 microseconds;

… and this:

• Scottish Moors Album, 53.49 min, uploaded by Mesmeric Moon, Oct 27, 2012.