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The Secret History of Western Education

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Videos with Charlotte T. Iserbyt – The Scientific Destruction of Minds:

Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan. While working there she discovered a long term strategic plan by the tax exempt foundations to transform America from a nation of rugged individualists and problem solvers to a country of servile, brainwashed minions who simply regurgitate whatever they’re told.  Continue Reading…

Alexej von Jawlensky, Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky – der Blaue Reiter

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Find Alexej von Jawlensky:

  • in Artikeln: Das Leuchten in der Welt: Freie Presse, 19. Februar 2014: Wer Farben liebt, der muss auch diesen Jawlensky lieben. Dem Russen, der vor vermutlich 150 Jahren zur Welt kam und in Bayern zum Weggefährten von Wassily Kandinsky und Gabriele Münter wurde, widmet das Museum Gunzenhauser derzeit eine Ausstellung. Sie ist Genuss und Lehrstück gleichermaßen (die Ausstellung “Jawlensky. Neu gesehen” im Museum Gunzenhauser in Chemnitz /Germany, Falkeplatz, ist bis 27. April, dienstags bis sonntags und feiertags 11 bis 18 Uhr zu sehen);
  • on Google Images-search;    Continue Reading…

when Old is leaving, the New is coming

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Sealed files reveal US hunt for WikiLeaks associates, on Russia Today RT, Feb 17, 2014;   Continue Reading…

Intercept: An Essential New Site by Greenwald, Scahill, and Company

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Published on The Contrary Perspective, by blog owner, Feb 15, 2014.

In an age when many journalists are corporate-owned or are reduced by various pressures into stenographers for the powerful, it’s encouraging to hear of new journalistic ventures that promise to be critical of those in power. Glenn Greenwald, who’s established a reputation for outspoken journalism at Salon.com and The Guardian, and Jeremy Scahill, an investigative reporter and bestselling author of Blackwater as well as Dirty Wars, have established a new online magazine known as The Intercept (it’s available here: The NSA’s Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program).   Continue Reading…

Venezuela: A Complex Psychological War

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Published on ZNet, by Tamara Pearson, February 15, 2014.

… On top of this, we have the media constantly lying about what is going on here (in Venezuela) and about what the government does, as well as the verbal abuse towards Chavistas on social networks. Then, over the last few weeks, in some parts of Venezuela, the most violent sectors of the opposition have been active. Here in Merida it started off with a few “students” blocking the main road; burning tires and garbage on it, and throwing rocks at anyone who tried to get close. They had no placards. From last Friday those protests escalated, both in terms of violence, people involved, and roads closed. It has been hard to get to school, work, and the hospital, and the frustration, inconvenience, and fear that comes with these sorts of actions combines with the aforementioned economic insecurity. The cacerolas (pot banging protests) that started last night in my barrio and in a few others here and in other cities also cause anxiety.   Continue Reading…

Online revolts can stop govt

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Yesterday we defeated SOPA, today we battle NSA – Interview with Josh Levy, published on Russia Today RT, Feb 12, 2014.

Properly mobilized people can become a massive online force capable of blocking ‘dangerous bills’ and changing government policies, Josh Levy of the Free Press told RT. The participants of The Day We Fight Back campaign say their call to action is simple.

RT: What are the protesters trying to achieve? How exactly are they supposed to ‘fight back’?

  • Josh Levy: This day of action [Wednesday, February 11] is the next stop on the continuum of action that has taken place since Edward Snowden first revealed the extent of the NSA surveillance program back in June. It follows mass protests that took place in Washington DC in October, the huge online protest that took place in June after we’ve found out about all of these things. And what we have seen is that it has really changed the debate not only here in the US but around the world. And more and more people every day have turned away these programs and have tried to find the ways to stop them.   Continue Reading…

The side effects of the monetary paradigm

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Published on Neues Geld.net, Interview Professor Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Berger, economist and philosopher, by Lars Schall, Translation into English by Lucy Streng, Feb 14, 2014 (Verbunden mit Ursachen der Finanzkrise).

Professor Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Berger is among the critics of an absolute basic prerequisite of today’s financial system: interest. In the following interview he reveals present conditions, risks and alternatives. “Interest is part of the system and it has side effects which therefore also belong to the system – terrible side effects.”  Continue Reading…

Ursachen der Finanzkrise

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Link: Die Schweiz sagt Fuck the EU.

Moving beyond the corporate vision of sustainability

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Published on Intrepid Report, by Rajesh Makwana, February 12, 2014.

… The green economy vs. the greed economy:

Invariably, the big business lobby advocates for market-based solutions to environmental problems and the ‘greening’ of economic growth, and essentially works to safeguard opportunities for private sector investment and shareholder profit. But environmentalists and civil society organisations have long argued that there is something deeply misguided about putting corporate profits and market-based solutions at the forefront of our response to climate change and the wider environmental crisis. Continue Reading…

Do over?

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Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, Feb 11, 2014.

You would have thought that, after all this time, economics would change. Or be changing. Or even be hinting at the possibility of changing. However, while there are a few encouraging signs, there is precious little sign of said motion inside the citadels that dominate the discipline. We still have a profession stuck in a most unprofessional rut, pursuing thinking that reflects not the world around it, but itself.   Continue Reading…

Tony Gosling

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Ed Miliband: Labour will give parents power to oust headteachers

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Proposed public service overhaul includes education hit squads to boost performance of failing schools or teachers – Published on The Guardian, by Patrick Wintour, Feb 9, 2014.

Parents are to be given a new power to call in a specialist team to boost the performance of failing schools or teachers, under a set of wide-ranging public service reform plans to be laid out on Monday by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband.

The improvement team, working separately from Ofsted, will have powers to set out school improvement plans, order greater collaboration between schools or even remove failing headteachers. The body would have powers to intervene with academies, free schools and community schools.  Continue Reading…

To challenge global capitalism we must first understand it

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… an interview with Leo Panitch – Published on red pepper, January 2014.

Globalisation and Imperialism: … //

  • … Is it really the case that other states have not also assumed the responsibility for promoting and protecting global capitalism?
  • That’s a good question, one that’s not fully resolved. The US is a new type of empire that only rules in conjunction with other states, especially G7 states. It’s not merely an imposition. It requires a lot of institutional coordination and interpenetration. That said, the Germans in particular have been recalcitrant in taking responsibility for ‘failure containment’ in light of financial volatility. Neither has Japan been very forthcoming. By contrast, the relationship between UK and US Treasury is particularly close in playing this failure containment role, although the UK accepts that the US is the senior partner, if for no other reason than it has greater capacity. Continue Reading…

all these links remaning on my Dashbard

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Spain: Popular Resistance Delivers Results

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Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E-Bulletin No. 934, by Esther Vivas, February 7, 2014. http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/934.php

Resisting is pointless,” we hear endlessly repeated. “So many years of protest but the crisis continues, why bother?” insist others, inoculating us with apathy and resignation. “Protests could lead to something that’s even worse,” whispers the machinery of fear. They want us submissive, heads bowed. Dreams of change are forbidden. However, history rebels, indomitable. And it shows us, despite the naysayers, that struggle is worth it. The victories against the privatization of Madrid’s public health system, of the Gamonal neighbourhood standing up to speculators and the corrupt, of the cleaners in their battle for jobs in the capital and the struggle against evictions and the banks, are good examples … // Continue Reading…

Speaking Truth to Power: ‘Boat’ reinvents notion of human possibility

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Published on Journal News.net, by Sonja James, Feb 6, 2014.

Christopher Merrill’s “Boat” is an extraordinary and complex collection of dissident poetry.

Merrill’s gift lies in the laser-like precision with which he dissects memory, love, politics and faith. The poems assume forms as diverse as traditional narrative and prose poems as well as translations. His human rights message is simple and direct. Our highest ethical imperative as human beings is to question injustice and the abuse of power no matter where it occurs … //

poem-reviews …  Continue Reading…

G. Edward Griffin about the FED

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If America Doesn’t ABOLISH The FED, The FED Will ABOLISH AMERICA, 24.06 min, uploaded by uploaded by FinanceAndLiberty.com, Dec 23, 2013.

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Why is the Fed tapering?

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Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts and Dave Kranzler, February 4, 2014.

On January 17, 2014, we explained The Hows and Whys of Gold Price Manipulation. In former times, the rise in the gold price was held down by central banks selling gold or leasing gold to bullion dealers who sold the gold. The supply added in this way to the market absorbed some of the demand, thus holding down the rise in the gold price.  Continue Reading…

Greece 3rd bailout

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Leaked: Germany says 3rd Greek bailout worth €10bn-€20bn, on Russia Today RT, Feb 3, 2014.

The next financial lifeline Greece will receive from Germany and its European lenders will be worth €10 billion to €20 billion, the German magazine Der Spiegel reports, citing a document leaked from Berlin’s finance ministry.

The rescue package, which will be the third for Europe’s most troubled economy, is considered “extra aid” by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, who said the sum would be “far smaller” than the €240 billion is has already received from international lenders.   Continue Reading…

Zur mehr gerechten Welt

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mit nur echtem Geld, 125.09 min, von GoldenAUroraniS am 3. Februar 2013 hochgeladen.

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Apostasy ban overshadows political debate in Tunisia

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Published on The Tunis Times, by Staff, Jan 23, 2014.

The debate over the role of religion in the constitution has ignited an ideologically-heated dispute between the secularists and the Islamists. Ultimately, the two sides of the conflict, whether public or parliamentary, argued that Article 6 – the heart of this debate- should be worded otherwise to maintain balance. The article guarantees freedom of belief and conscience and the free exercise of religion and bans apostasy and incitement on violence.   Continue Reading…

Eric Hobsbawm

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How junk economists help the rich impoverish the working class

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Published on Intrepid Report, by Paul Craig Roberts, Jan 31, 2014.

A few days ago, I explained how economists and policymakers destroyed our economy for the sake of short-term corporate profits from jobs offshoring and financial deregulation.  Continue Reading…

Prepared to Die: The Right Wing’s Role in Ukrainian Protests

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Published on Spiegel Online International, by Spiegel Staff: BENJAMIN BIDDER, CHRISTIAN NEEF, VLADIMIR PYLYOV and MATTHIAS SCHEPP, January 27, 2014 (Photo Gallery).

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich appears bent on crushing the protest movement but the opposition won’t go quietly. A right-wing nationalist party is seeking to benefit from the growing violence and has begun warning of a civil war. Continue Reading…

Tanz auf dem Vulkan

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