politics for the 99%

2014-01-01: NSA’s Secret Toolbox: Unit Offers Spy Gadgets for Every Need;
2014-01-02: The NSA Can Literally Watch Every Keystroke You Make;
2014-01-03: The pseudo-legal arguments for a police state;
2014-01-04: Chance of a Century: International Investors Flock to Tehran, Part 1;
2014-01-05: The Geopolitical Ecology of Empire’s Ally;
2014-01-06: Western economies: A tale of thieves and tapers;
2014-01-07: Currencies, geopolitics, real estate, finance;
2014-01-08: Has the House of Saud seen its Stalingrad?
2014-01-09: Labor Market: Does Germany Benefit from Balkan Immigrants?
2014-01-10: NSA Insiders Reveal What Went Wrong;
2014-01-11: HOME;
2014-01-11: Les Origines du Sida (about AIDS);
2014-01-12: America’s Black-Ops Blackout;
2014-01-13: South Africa will return land to dispossessed – Zuma;
2014-01-14: Two Transitions in Brazil: Dilemmas of a Neoliberal Democracy;
2014-01-15: Why the Washington Post’s New Ties to the CIA Are So Ominous;
2014-01-15: Freiheit & Überwachung;
2014-01-16: About the pyramids’ construction;
2014-01-17: U.S. Court of Appeals Allows ISP’s to Selectively Block Web Traffic;
2014-01-18: Offshore Banking, Fraud, and the Crisis;
2014-01-18: Neoliberalität: vom Landgrabbing zur Geldschöpfung;
2014-01-18: Russian Officials visit Gitmo;
2014-01-19: Obama’s Executive Order problem;
2014-01-20: Labour’s reforms will ensure new banks flourish;
2014-01-21: Aaron Russo’s Documentary;
2014-01-22: Carl Hart on drugs;
2014-01-23: BBC on WikiLeaks;
2014-01-24: Overheated Financial Planet, World Political Chaos and Shadow Banking;
2014-01-25: Jacque Fresco;
2014-01-26: Links on my Dashboard;
2014-01-27: The Real Causes of the Catastrophic Crisis in Greece and the “Left”;
2014-01-28: Indians Anthology;
2014-01-28: Gregor Gysi;
2014-01-29: The One Percent;
2014-01-30: calme music;
2014-01-30: Tanz auf dem Vulkan;
2014-01-31: Prepared to Die: The Right Wing’s Role in Ukrainian Protests.
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All articles sorted chronologically.

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…

• Staatsgeheimnis Bankenrettung: Doku über Bankenkrise FULL, 52.10 min, von Belinay Dagdas am 17. Januar 2014 hochgeladen;
• Gemachte Armut: Bankenkrise, Doc, 52.07 min, von AktuelleReportagen am 2. Januar 2014 hochgeladen;
• Andreas Popp Franz Hörmann: Plan B, Das Ende des Geldes, 58.51 min, von Johannes Strauss am 14. Januar 2014 hochgeladen;
• Staaten müssen unabhängig werden vom Terror der Finanzmärkte (WeltnetzTV), 13.14 min, von AlternativTV am 8. Januar 2014;
• Tanz auf dem Vulkan: Banken-Crash ante portas? Im KOPP-Verlag, von Michael Brückner, 24. Jan 2014.

• Most Relaxing Music, New Age for Meditation,Yoga,Massage & Deep Sleep, 63.17 min, uploaded by Buddha Tribe, Feb 13, 2013;
• Spa Music, Relaxation with Solo Piano, 60.24 min, uploaded by chilloutloungerelax, May 15, 2013;
• Zen Garden, 61.05 min, uploaded by 77svoboda, Oct 11, 2012.

The One Percent, 76.29 min, uploaded by WarZalez, Nov 1, 2011: This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his sights on exploring the political, moral and emotional rationale that enables a tiny percentage of Americans – the one percent – to control nearly half the wealth of the entire United States. The film Includes interviews with Nicole Buffett, Bill Gates Sr., Adnan Khashoggi, Milton Friedman, Robert Reich, Ralph Nader and other luminaries. Website: The One Percent.

Links:  Continue Reading…

• Vereinbarter Mindestlohn ist Mogelpackung, 8.10 min, von Bunzelmann666 am 21. Januar 2014 hochgeladen;
• DIE LINKE: Die Bundesregierung muss ihr hasenfüßiges Verhalten aufgeben, 18.59 min, von linksfraktion am 14. Januar 2014 hochgeladen
• Mit Diether Dehm über Vaterland und Muttersprache, Kirche und NAZIS, von Hetzenjagd am 15. Januar 2014 hochgeladen: Teil 1, 19.37 min; Teil 2, … noch offen …
• Kabinettsklausur: Statement von Gregor Gysi am 23. Jan. 2014, 21.06 min, von phoenix am 23. Januar 2014 hochgeladen.

• Native American Music, 49.37 min, uploaded by xymoxwave, March 23, 2013;
• Towards The Sacred Mountain, 5.10 min, uploaded by Enjargo, Sept 14, 2012;
• Native American Indian, 27.51 min, uploaded by 77svoboda, August 21, 2012;

Published on Global Research.ca, by Takis Fotopoulos, January 16, 2014.

… 2. Capitalist globalization can only be neoliberal:

The Euro-elites simply cannot afford to lose more of their competitiveness. In fact, the real reason for the creation of EU and later of the Eurozone had nothing to do with the ideals of freedom, democracy, human values and the rest of its ideology, as EU’s history has clearly shown. It was the growing gap in competitiveness (in terms of EU’s share of world exports) during the 1980s, which led the Euro-elites to speed up the integration procedures, which were mostly dormant up to then.  Continue Reading…

• G.Edward Griffin: The Creature From Jekyll Island, 107.19 min,  uploaded by V for Voluntary Library, Jan 28, 2010;
• No more coddling the upper crust while regular folks starve & freeze, on Intrepid Report, by Dennis Rahkonen, Jan 16, 2014;
• Top 10 Proofs People Can Be Completely Manipulated Without Hypnosis, on War Is A Crime, by David Swanson, Jan 4, 2014;
• Welfare for Immigrants: EU Wants Fortress Germany to Open Up, on Spiegel Online International, by Spiegel Staff, January 14, 2014 Continue Reading…

Videos on YouTube:

• The real greatest Talk by Jacque Fresco, 92.38 min, uploaded by Christian G., Sept 27, 2013: … Jacque comes in at 17:15 min;
• Stockholm Lecture: The Venus Project (Extended), 134.30 min, uploaded by UKZeitgeist, April 21, 2013;
• The Venus Project: Future By Design FULL, 89.23 min, uploaded by 3onlinedocumentaries, Oct 1, 2011;
• with Larry King Live, 1974 FULL, 42.15 min, uploaded by TZMchapterFrankfurt, March 2, 2012: (für deutschen Transkript klicke auf das Transkript-Symbol);
• С ЭТИМ НАДО КОНЧАТЬ – Жак Фреско – Проект Венера, 90.16 min, uploaded by TheVenusProjectRUS, August 31, 2013;  Continue Reading…

… 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…