politics for the 99%

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s e-bulletin no. 1065, by Ursula Huws, Jan 6, 2015.

In these straitened times, the idea of a basic income, granted unconditionally to every citizen, from cradle to grave, feels utopian. How on earth could it be paid for, we wonder. Wouldn’t everyone just stop working? Where would we be then? … // Continue Reading…

• les Cartoons: on Google Images search;
• les morts: dans Le Parisien;
• l’attaque: dans YouTube: 1 ère video, 0.34 min; 2 ème video, 0.42 min; 3 ème vidéo, 13.22 min; … et dans sare (YouTube channel);
• en direct: dans le Parisien; on Russia Today RT;
• Worldwide vigils held for Charlie Hebdo victims;
• My comment: death penalty means nothing for these guys, except if they pass away by the hand of a woman.

Published on Global Research.ca (first on WSWS), by Andre Damon, Jan 6, 2015.

As the New Year begins, the social crisis gripping tens of millions of working people in the United States is worsening. Hunger, poverty and long-term joblessness remain at the highest levels in decades, while vital social services continue to be slashed.

One would never know this from reading the press, watching the evening news, or listening to the statements of politicians. The official discourse is dominated by the supposed revival of the American economy, characterized by record corporate profits and stock prices. The fact that the great majority of the population finds it increasingly difficult to make ends meet finds no reflection in the media or official politics.   Continue Reading…

Published on ZNet, by Bill Fletcher, Jan 6, 2015 (first published on Billfletcher.com).

In every vibrant progressive social movement there comes a moment when a psychologically or emotionally disturbed person, an agent provocateur, or a political extremist commits an atrocious act that is seized upon by the State and/or the political Right as a means of attempting to discredit or outright repress the movement. The action, committed for whatever reason, is sufficiently heinous that confusion develops within the movement and the movement can lose both its momentum as well as a segment of its less committed or more ambivalent supporters.   Continue Reading…

Published on Axis of Logic (first on Global Research and on teleSUR english), by Peter Koenig, Jan 3, 2015.

The world is still hell-bent for hydrocarbon-based energy. Russia is the world’s largest producer of energy. Russia has recently announced that in the future she will no longer trade energy in US dollars, but in rubles and currencies of the trading partners. In fact, this rule will apply to all trading.

Russia and China are detaching their economies from that of the western financial system. To confirm this decision, in July 2014 Russia’s Gazprom concluded a 400 billion gas deal with China, and in November this year they signed an additional slightly smaller contract – all to be nominated in rubles and yuans.   Continue Reading…

Published on ZNet, by Paul Street (writer and activist in Iowa City, Iowa), Jan 4, 2015.

… One day in my office I asked a colleague at the organization why our chief executive behaved in the selfish and irresponsible ways he did. My colleague responded with a question: “Dr. Street, why does a dog lick its balls?”
I confessed I didn’t know. The answer: “Because it can.”

My colleague’s point was that nobody with any power was telling our CEO was setting any boundaries on his behavior. He was being rewarded again and again, from year to year, with an outrageously high salary, an agency limousine, and positions on various corporate boards.
Thinking of that exchange the other day, I was reminded of something that Thomas Jefferson wrote to his fellow Virginian, the American solider and statesman Edward Carrington from Paris in the late 1780s. “If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs,” Jefferson wrote, “you and I and Congress and Assemblies, Judges, Governor, shall all become wolves.”   Continue Reading…

Published on Intrepid Report, by Rodrigue Tremblay, Jan 2, 2015.

Dear visitors, Happy 2015 for all. (The troubles about my computer AND my internet connection are over, let’s begin 2015 with new energy, for today with a long article on economy, and with a big bunch of links, mainly from the last days).

… These days, militaristic neoconservatives, or neocons, have near complete control of the American government under the façade of whoever is president at the time. They direct U.S. policies at the State Department, at the Pentagon, at the U.S. Treasury and at the Fed central bank. They are thus in position to influence and frame American foreign policy, military policy, economic and financial policies and monetary policy.   Continue Reading…

• Carla Bley Trio – Jazz Lines Festival München 2002, 109.40 min, uploaded by Dorian Grey, Sept 7, 2012 … and many more videos in autoplay;
• Carla Bley on YouTube-search.

Pat Metheny – Newport Jazz Festival Oct 8, 2003, FULL, 56.48 min, uploaded by Music Vault, Nov 14, 2014 … and many other videos in autoplay.

• Keith Jarrett – THE KÖLN CONCERT – complete, 71.14 min, uploaded by Tomasz Trzcinski, August 6, 2014;
• Keith Jarrett on YouTube-search.

2014-12-01: Britain: The fight against war and the political tasks of the Socialist Equality Party;
2014-12-02: The vital lessons we have learned from Ferguson;
2014-12-03: War on Whistleblowers: Berlin Gets Serious in the Search for Moles;
2014-12-04: Opinion: Stop Talking about NATO Membership for Ukraine;
2014-12-05: Eric Garner: WHAT IS THIS PROTEST ABOUT?
2014-12-06: what happens?
2014-12-07: On the Republicans and the 1% – Noam Chomsky;
2014-12-08: War by media and the triumph of propaganda;
2014-12-09: Congress Gives Native American Lands to Foreign Mining Company With New NDAA;
2014-12-10: Prominent Germans urge West to stop sabre rattling toward Russia;
2014-12-11: Generations of Victims: Bhopal’s Unending Catrastrophe – part 1;
2014-12-12: Efficiency no justification for criminal activity – Snowden on CIA torture report;
2014-12-13: today just music;
2014-12-14: Bail-In and the Financial Stability Board: The Global Bankers’ Coup;
2014-12-15: Stripped naked, kept in solitary: Manning tortured like terrorist – Welsh relatives say;
2014-12-16: Reflections – Réflexions – Betrachtungen;
2014-12-17: a bunch of concerns;
2014-12-18: How China’s Eurasia Maneuvers Beat Obama’s Pivot to Asia – Pepe Escobar;
2014-12-19: Fascism and War: Elite Tools to Crush and Kill Dissent;
2014-12-20: about Gender and Education;
2014-12-21: one hour relaxing good music;
2014-12-22: Maintaining the supremacy of the financial oligarchy;
2014-12-23: more music;
2014-12-24: still music;
2014-12-25: still let’s go with music;
2014-12-26: Karunesh;
2014-12-27: KITARO;
2014-12-28: Medieval Camelot;
2014-12-29: Celtic Music;
2014-12-30: Anne Sylvestre;
2014-12-31: les enfoirés.

All articles sorted chronologically.

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Tournée des enfoirés 1989, 99.14 min, uploaded by maiseuhdisdonc, Nov 23, 2014.

Sorry, our famous Swiss efficiency is crashing, when you are ordered to change the Internet provider, what happens to me:

My actual provider announces rather too late his sudden retirement from Switzerland, my next, the big Swiss company, cannot solve connection problems before the first days next year … if really. So I am still out of my own internet access, telephone fix and numeric TV …

… ok, for me a possibility for less work and desintoxicate as workaholic, with the hope you enjoy the music you may find meanwhile every day. As soon as our Swiss efficiency finishes his winter sleep we will meet again with longer articles and links.

Meanwhile all the best wishes for 2015!

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Uploaded by Flora Sholem, different dates:

• 73 videos in autoplay,
• 100 videos in autoplay.

Best Celtic Music, 159.14 min, uploaded by Relax Night and Day, June 29, 2014.

Medieval Instrumental Music, 61.40 min, uploadede by Derek & Brandon Fiechter, August 13, 2014.

Kitaro: Matsuri, 8.03 min, uploaded by San Bass, May 31, 2006 … and many other videos in autoplay.

Música New Age, 104.56 min, uploaded by Camino al Despertar, August 30, 2014.

Sorry, I have still not my own Internet-access!

Vangeli’s YouTube Mix … in autoplay, uploaded by Oneil1969, Jan 22, 2008 … wish you have a good time.

Thomaschi’s YouTube Mix, Rock & Soul Music, live at Woodstock HD … in autoplay, uploaded by Thomasci, Oct 23, 2011 … I whish you a peaceful Christmas eve.

Das große Fest der Besten (the best) 191.52 min, von MusicZentrale am 22. Januar 2014 hochgeladen … relax, while I resolve computer problems.

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Editor, Dec 20, 2014.

Let’s assume that there is a financial oligarchy which exerts strong political influence due to the vast amounts of money it controls. Let’s further assume that this financial oligarchy has succeeded in having financial markets deregulated and that this has enabled the financial industry to expand their business massively. Then, in some near or far future, their artfully constructed financial edifice breaks down, because it cannot be hidden any more that the accumulated claims cannot be serviced by the real economy. That might be due, for example, to millions of people having bought overly expensive houses on credit without having the income necessary to service this debt. This is the kind of situation we are interested in … // Continue Reading…

PINK FLOYD THE ENDLESS RIVER Full, 57.30 min, uploaded by magiccdweezel, Oct 30, 2014.

• Launch of the HEART Education Technology Topic Guide, 56.59 min, uploaded by Heartre Sources, Dec 18, 2014;
• WIP Study Trip to Iceland: Eliminating Gender Stereotypes, 101.37 min, uploaed by WIP Global Forum, April 8, 2014;
• Attitudes, not aptitude: Understanding the roots of gender gaps in STEM education, 52.02 min, uploaded by NIMBioS, April 14, 2014;
• Elaine Unterhalter on girls’ education and gender equality, 20.14 min, uploaded by Heartre Sources, Oct 13, 2014;
• The New School and The Nation: A Ten-Year Collaboration, 1.45 min, uploaded by The New School, Dec 16, 2014;   Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca, by Julie Lévesque, Dec 17, 2014.

… The myth of the Good War:

Every time Westerners’ approval for war is required, the myth of the good war surfaces: the Second World War was a good war, a necessity to quench Hitler’s blood thirst. Pauwels tears this myth apart, uncovering the vicious nature of the western elite.   Continue Reading…

Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Dec 17, 2014.

… This article by Pepe Escobar gives a fine overview of the measures China is taking to create greater economic integration with its Eurasian and European trade partners, to the detriment of US influence. And Washington appears to have been caught flat-footed:

By Pepe Escobar, the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong and an analyst for RT.. His latest book is Empire of Chaos (Nimble Books). Follow him on Facebook.Originally published at TomDispatch:

• November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82 containers of export goods weighing more than 1,000 tons left a massive warehouse complex heading for Madrid. It arrived on December 9th.   Continue Reading…