politics for the 99%

… but Solutions for the Future Continue to Emerge – Published on Global Research.ca, by GEAB no. 81, January 17, 2014.

… We have symbolised 2013 as “the first steps in a chaotic world after” (1).

A year which was in effect the new century’s zero year and at the end of which solutions were emerging from all sides. At the beginning of 2014 the spotlight is henceforth on the Eurozone, China, Russia and the BRICS where the tools to shape the “world afterwards” are being designed with incredible rapidity: the “world before” is handing over to “the world afterwards”.   Continue Reading…

The Secret Life of a Superpower, uploaded by mmcetera, March 2012:

• Ep. 1, 59.29 min;
• Ep. 2, 59.35 min.

• Drugs Aren’t the Problem, 22.55 min, uploaded on YouTube by Noam Chmsky Videos, Jan 7, 2014: Neuroscientist Carl Hart on Brain Science and Myths about Addiction – first on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman … and 96 other videos in autoplay;
• Carl Hart on en.wikipedia … (born 1966) is an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University. Hart is known for his research in drug abuse and drug addiction. Hart was the first tenured African American professor of sciences at Columbia University …;

America Freedom To Fascism – director’s cut, 146.41 min, uploaded by predoba, April 4, 2013.

… to challenge big five: Ed Miliband to pledge creation of at least two new banks with minimum 12% market share in bid to fix broken system – Published on The Guardian, by Patrick Wintour, Jan 16, 2014.

Labour will set in train “a reckoning with Britain’s broken banking system” to ensure at least two new banks can flourish in Britain with a minimum 12% market share by the end of the next parliament, Ed Miliband will say on Friday.

In a major speech designed to show how a break-up of the domination of the ‘big five’ banks will help Britain pay its way in the world, Miliband will argue that change is needed ” not for retribution, but for reform”.  Continue Reading…

Published on Metro weekly, by Justin Snow, Jan 17, 2014.

… With a portrait of George Washington looking down at him, Obama told reporters gathered in the Cabinet Room of the White House Tuesday that while Congress is busy with a number of bills at the start of 2014, “We are not just going to be waiting for a legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help that they need.”  Continue Reading…

• On Air: Russian officials hold briefing after Gitmo visit – LIVE – A delegation of high-ranking Russian diplomats and lawyers headed by the Foreign Ministry’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Konstantin Dolgov, is holding a media conference on its Friday visit to Guantanamo Bay prison. The officials have stepped up efforts to secure release of the only Russian national held without trial in the US camp;
• Denied access to justice: Moscow officials visit Gitmo trying to free Russian detainee, on Russia Today RT, January 18, 2014.

And … Egypte: un déluge de OUI au référendum sur la nouvelle Constitution, dans rfi, le 17 janvier 2014: En Egypte, les résultats officieux du référendum sur la nouvelle Constitution donnent le « oui » victorieux frisant les 98%. Un résultat qui ouvre la porte à de nombreuses critiques, tant en Egypte qu’à l’étranger. Pour plusieurs analystes, les premiers responsables de ce vote massif pour le « oui » sont les Frères musulmans eux-mêmes qui ont fait campagne pour le boycott du scrutin …;

Land Grabbing in Sierra Leone: Interview Shiaka Musa Sama, 13.11 min, von wwwNACHDENKSEITENde am 31. Oktober 2013 hochgeladen: … und 76 weitere Videos in autoplay;

von NuoViso.TV auf YouTube hochgeladen:   Continue Reading…

Published on Triple Crisis, by Sara Hsu, January 16, 2014.

The global financial crisis that began in 2008 in the United States had roots in offshore banking, some of which have been revealed: the Bear Stearns’ 2007 Cayman Island hedge fund bankruptcy, in which the company attempted to file offshore to protect U.S. assets, Goldman Sachs’ off balance sheet Cayman deals in shaky asset-backed securities (ABSs), and Citigroup’s creation of structured investment vehicles in London to hide the sales of ABSs.   Continue Reading…

Say goodbye to the Internet we’ve known – Published on Axis of Logic (first on Mercury News), by Troy Wolverton, Jan 15, 2014.

If you like how cable television works, you’re going to love how a court decision Tuesday could change the Internet.

Thanks to the ruling, broadband providers can now exert a lot more control over what sites you visit on the Internet and what services you can access. The decision would allow Comcast, for example, to bar its Internet subscribers from seeing videos from Netflix (NFLX) or from using Vonage’s Internet phone service.  Continue Reading…

and: A low cost, easy to produce solution – uploaded by J. Davidovits:

• How the pyramids where built in Egypt, 4.41 min, on YouTube Dec 1, 2006;
• How to analyze pyramid stones, 8.36 min, on YouTube Oct 11, 2008;
• Bricks made at low temperature, low energy, low cost, on YouTube July 2008: part 1, 9.58 min; part 2, 9.36 min.   Continue Reading…

Sternstunde Philosophie: Gespräch mit Juli Zeh und Ilija Trojanow, von  absinth1987 im Januar 2010 hochgelden:
1/6, 9.57 min; 2/6, 9.57 min; 3/6, 9.29 min; 4/6, 9.47 min; 5/6, 9.57 min; 6/6, 8.39 min:   Continue Reading…

American journalism has entered highly dangerous terrain – Published on Global Research.ca, Jan 13, 2014.

• … For the CIA, the emerging newspaper role of Mr. Amazon is value added to any working relationship with him. The CIA’s zeal to increase its leverage over major American media outlets is longstanding.
• After creation of the CIA in 1947, it enjoyed direct collaboration with many U.S. news organizations. But the agency faced a major challenge in October 1977, when — soon after leaving the Washington Post – famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein provided an extensive expose in Rolling Stone.  Continue Reading…

Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 927, by Alfredo Saad Filho, January 13, 2014.

This article reviews the background and the implications of two transitions in Brazil: the political transition from a military regime (1964-85) to democracy (1985-present), and the economic transition from import-substituting industrialization (ISI, 1930-80) to neoliberalism (1990-present). It subsequently examines how neoliberal economic policies were implemented in a democracy, under the centre-right administrations led by Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-98, 1998-2002), and the centre-left administrations led by Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula, 2003-06, 2007-10) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-present). Continue Reading…

Published on BRICS POST (Source: Agencies), Jan 10, 2014;

The South African government has vowed to restore land to its rightful owners, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
“Land Reform is an important part of national reconciliation and nation building,” asserted Zuma while handing over 13,184 hectares of previously white-owned land to the black N’wandlamhlarhi Community in Mpumalanga Province.   Continue Reading…

… unraveling the secrets of the military’s secret military – Published on ZNet (first on TomDispatch), by Nick Turse, January 08, 2014.

“Dude, I don’t need to play these stupid games. I know what you’re trying to do.” With that, Major Matthew Robert Bockholt hung up on me. More than a month before, I had called U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) with a series of basic questions: In how many countries were U.S. Special Operations Forces deployed in 2013? Are manpower levels set to expand to 72,000 in 2014? Is SOCOM still aiming for growth rates of 3%-5% per year? How many training exercises did the command carry out in 2013? Basic stuff.  Continue Reading…

Voici de la contradiction autour du SIDA:

• Les Origines du SIDA / (origin of AIDS), reportage complet 2013, 78.11 min, mise en ligne par FranceReplayTv, le 12 août 2013;
• I CREATED AIDS to DELIBERATELY DEPOPULATE HUMANITY – Dr Robert Gallo, 8.36 min, uploaded by youxsearch, December 2, 2011; Continue Reading…

HOME in english, 93.17 min, uploaded by homeproject, May 12, 2009;

HOME en français, 93.39 min, mise en ligne par homeprojectFR, le 12 mai 2009.

Published on truthout, by Former NSA Senior Executives and Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, Consortium News, an Open Letter, Jan 7, 2014.

In a memo to President Obama, former National Security Agency insiders explain how NSA leaders botched intelligence collection and analysis before 9/11, covered up the mistakes, and violated the constitutional rights of the American people, all while wasting billions of dollars and misleading the public: … (the memo) … //

… Introduction:   Continue Reading…

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Andreas Ulrich, Jan 7, 2014. (Linked with the article: The Plight of the Roma: Part 1, Europe’s Unwanted People, Part 2, Birth Control For Gypsies, on Spiegel Online International, by Spiegel staff, January 07, 2014 … for all: Photo Gallery).

A debate over whether Germany profits from Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants has flared up since the EU opened its labor market to these workers. Statisticians are struggling to come up with conclusive evidence on either side of the argument … //

… Inconclusive Statistics:   Continue Reading…

… about Volgograd and the Conquest of Eurasia – Published on Global Research.ca, by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Jan 3, 2014.

…  “Bandar Bush” goes to Mother Russia:

• For the purposes of supporting such an assertion we will have to start with the not-so-secret visit of a shadowy Saudi regime official to Moscow. Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the infamous Saudi terrorist kingpin and former House of Saud envoy to Washington turned intelligence guru, last visited the Russian Federation in early-December 2013. Bandar bin Sultan was sent by King Abdullah to solicit the Russian government into abandoning the Syrians. Continue Reading…

… 2014: the big American retreat – Published on GEAB no 80, Dec 16, 2013.

… Whether it be the economic or political woes of the United States, Japan and the European Union, the Russian diplomatic victories over Syria, Armenia or the Ukraine, or Chinese ambitions in the East China Sea, tomorrow’s powers are quickly filling the geopolitical void left by yesterday’s powers.   Continue Reading…

Published on Russia Today RT, by Patrick L Young, expert in global financial markets, Jan 4, 2014.

2013 was the year where the threat of removing the QE punchbowl provoked market panic, while the EU was instrumental in sinister programs of theft above and beyond even the rapacious ‘Central Bankers’ party’… We began 2013 with the euro crisis yet to be cured, and indeed as we end the year it remains the fiscal elephant in the room. A volcano apparently dormant but clearly still active beneath the crater. Quite when it will next erupt nobody knows, but even Christine Lagarde of the IMF was keen during December to remind us that the crisis was far from resolved.  Continue Reading…

Interview with Greg Albo GA and Jerome Klassen JK, published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 923, by Jordy Cummings JC, January 3, 2014.

… JC: In terms of Canada’s and others’ efforts to “rebuild” the Afghan state, what hurdles have been faced, and how has Canada failed to manage and/or transcended such hurdles? If it is indeed possible to help Afghanistan, what can be done, not merely by the Canadian state, but by international assistance?   Continue Reading…

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Susanne Koelbl, January 02, 2014 (Photo Gallery).

Since the West reached a landmark deal with Iran on its controversial nuclear program late last year, many Iranians are hoping for an end to sanctions. Western companies are also gearing up do big business … //

… Old Revolutionaries Are Skeptical:  Continue Reading…