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Index August 2015

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2015-08-01: Global Derivatives – the $ 1.5 Quadrillion Time Bomb;
2015-08-02: India: Government planning to deduct part of subsidies – and hand it over to beneficiaries to boost demand;
2015-08-03: testing the global central bank swap network;
2015-08-04: the growing pains of urban agriculture;
2015-08-05: german Know-Nothings today;
2015-08-06: Accumulation of what?
2015-08-07: Amazing Grace;
2015-08-08: Kitaro;
2015-08-09: EPIC video of sunlit ‘dark side’ of moon crossing over Earth revealed by NASA;
2015-08-10: The Real Cost of Being Poor, reflections from the heartland;
2015-08-11: La Chanson Française;
2015-08-12: Are the World’s Largest Central Banks Independent?
2015-08-13: Unsettling Encounters – Tourists and Refugees Cross Paths in the Mediterranean?
2015-08-14: Andre Rieu;
2015-08-15: A Yemen road trip;
2015-08-16: Spain Gets Bitter Costly Foretaste of its Beloved Trade Pacts;
2015-08-17: The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1;
2015-08-18: Ereshkigal, Dis, & Lucifer: Children of Western Civilization & Fundamentalist Christianity;
2015-08-19: some ideas about what is Socialism – part 1;
2015-08-20: Greece: the European Union’s historical betrayal;
2015-08-21: just diving;
2015-08-22: It Starts: Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War;
2015-08-23: some ideas about what is Socialism – part 2;
2015-08-24: Puerto Rico: an US debt colony hounded by hedge funds;
2015-08-25: Australia: Basic income is a human right;
2015-08-26: From Germany to Greece;
2015-08-27: Spirits of Nature – Enigma, Deep Forest, Vangelis …;
2015-08-28: Mass Migration – what Is driving the Balkan Exodus?
2015-08-29: Lessons from Syriza’s Defeat;
2015-08-30: What lies beneath China’s financial tremors?
2015-08-31: L.E.J … and others;
2015-08-31: Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, AUGUST 1-31, 2015.
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See also this page: All articles sorted chronologically.

Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, August 1 – 31, 2015

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related articles published during August 2015: (continuously updated …) Continue Reading…

L.E.J … and others

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Uploaded sur YouTube August 2015:

What lies beneath China’s financial tremors?

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Published on The Straits Times, Singapore, by John Wong, Aug 29, 2015.

China’s financial fluctuations have sent world markets reeling. But fears of an imminent collapse in the Chinese economy are unfounded … //

… China’s present economic slowdown is also not just about the change in the magnitude of growth, but also the nature of its growth. Continue Reading…

Lessons from Syriza’s Defeat

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Published on teleSUR english, by Jerome Roos, Aug 27, 2015.

Far more than regaining state power to exit the euro, the challenge for the Greek left is to build the social power that can sustain a radical rupture.

Now that Alexis Tsipras has resigned, Syriza has split and Europe’s first radical left government has been brought to its knees in less than six months’ time, it is time to reflect. What have the experiences of the past half year taught us? And how does the struggle move on from here?   Continue Reading…

Mass Migration: What Is Driving the Balkan Exodus?

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Published on Spiegel Online International, by Susanne Koelbl, Katrin Kuntz and Walter Mayr, Aug 26, 2015 (Photo Gallerytranslated from the German by Christopher Sultan).

More than a third of all asylum-seekers arriving in Germany come from Albania, Kosovo and Serbia. Young, poor and disillusioned with their home countries, they are searching for a better future. But almost none of them will be allowed to stay … // Continue Reading…

Spirits of Nature – Enigma, Deep Forest, Vangelis …

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Various Artists, enjoy our mashup of summer 2015, 78.23 min, uploaded by leipero, March 30, 2013 … and endless more in autoplay …

From Germany to Greece

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Published on Jacobin, by Amien Essif, Aug 24, 2015.

Five German left activists on building solidarity with the Greek people and confronting the pro-austerity elites in their own country … // Continue Reading…

Australia: Basic income is a human right

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Published on green left Weekly GLW, by Daniel Elliot, Aug 21, 2015.

Universal Basic Income (UBI) is not a new idea. But it is an idea whose time has come. It is one of the simplest, most obvious pieces of social policy imaginable: every member of a society, with no exceptions, is entitled to enough money to live on.   Continue Reading…

Puerto Rico: a US debt colony hounded by hedge funds

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Published on ZNet (first on Roarmag.org), by Jérôme Roos, Aug 22, 2015.

On August 1, Puerto Rico defaulted on part of its enormous $72 billion debt, paying back only $628,000 on a $58 million loan that was due at the start of the month. The default, which marks the most serious credit event in US state and municipal bond markets since the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy in 2013, has led many to draw obvious comparisons to Greece – and understandably so.   Continue Reading…

some ideas about what is Socialism – part 2

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  • Richard Wolff on Bernie Sanders and Socialism, 25.49 min, uploaded by GRITtv, July 14, 2015 … This week: On Sanders and Socialism. Is socialism still an American taboo? Not so much, says professor Richard Wolff; nor was it in the past, says Nation columnist John Nichols. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School University in New York City. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books, including his most recent; Capitalism’s Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown 2010- 2014, and he hosts the weekly Economic Update podcast. John Nichols’ many books include The “S” Word: A Short History of an American Tradition … Socialism, and, most recently, Dollarocracy: How the Money-and-Media-Election Complex is Destroying America. This episode also features an commentary from Laura on renaming capitalism;   Continue Reading…

It Starts: Broad Retaliation Against China in Currency War

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Published on Wolf Street, by Wolf Richter, Aug 20, 2015.

The biggest global “tail risk” is China’s deteriorating economy and an emerging market debt crisis, according to BofA Merrill Lynch’s monthly poll of fund managers. And 48% of them were expecting the Fed to raise rates, despite languid growth and low inflation expectations. Continue Reading…

just diving

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Uploaded by Rems Production, 2013 – 2015:

Greece: the European Union’s historical betrayal

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just one work for today:

Monthly Update on Global Capitalism, August 2015, 102.58 min, uploaded by Richard D Wolff, Aug 13, 2015 … about Capitalism, the vanishing Middle Class and the Poor … Website: Democracy at Work.

some ideas about what is Socialism – part 1

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  • Anarchism Or Socialism – Harpal Brar, chairman of the CPGB-ML, 78.05 min, uploaded by Proletarian TV, July 22, 2015 … What are the beliefs of the Anarchists? How are they different from the socialists and communists? In particular: is capitalism the enemy, or is the state machine the enemy? What do the anarchists think workers should do if they are successful in getting rid of exploitative capitalism? What are the anarchists’ criticisms of communism? What are the basic ideas and beliefs of the communists that make it a useful guide to action, and empower workers to overthrow the old system of exploitation and build a new, peaceful and truly representative society? In what way is socialism more ’scientific’ and systematic? …;
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Ereshkigal, Dis, & Lucifer: Children of Western Civilization & Fundamentalist Christianity

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Part 3: Mephistopheles, Child of Christian Civilization – Symbols of Transformation – Published on HUNTER-GATHERER ISSUES, by George S. Svokos, August 14, 2015.

The Self or Anthropos quaternio symbolically represents what we cannot, in fact, see. Carl Jung’s Aion, Volume 9 of his Collected Works brilliantly describes the Self and shadow archetypes as quaternios. Archetypes only become visible through their symbols, not themselves as such. Anthropos is a reflection of the “higher Adam” (Self, or the center of the unconscious) and occupies the upper apex of the diamond-shaped quaternio which is joined at its base by a mirror image of itself. Thus, the diamond appears to be two pyramids attached at their bases with an apex point and a basal point. The basal apex symbolizes “lower Adam,” or the ego. The four vectors leading to the corners symbolize positive and negative axis of male and female energy beings. Continue Reading…

The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1

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Published on The Automatic Earth, by Raúl Ilargi Meijer, Aug 15, 2015.

We’re going to try something a little different. Nicole wrote another very long article and I suggested publishing it in chapters; this time she said yes. So in the next five days we will post five different chapters of the article, one on each day, and then on day six the whole thing. That way, you will have some time left over to spend with your families. Continue Reading…

Spain Gets Bitter Costly Foretaste of its Beloved Trade Pacts

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Published on Wolf Street, by Don Quijones, Aug 13, 2015.

US brokerage firm Schwab Holdings and Malta-based OperaFund Eco-Invest Sicav have lodged a new international complaint against the Spanish State over its recent cuts to renewable energy subsidies. The case will be heard in the International Center for Settlement Investment, a Washington DC-based investment arbitration institution that is a member of the World Bank.   Continue Reading…

A Yemen road trip

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Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Hossam Radman, Aug 13, 2015: about an overland journey from Sanaa to Aden in Yemen through areas held by Houthi and anti-Houthi forces.

… Today, Aden is free. But half its buildings are gone, having been razed to the ground in recent battles. The young men who had crowded the streets to demand secession are nowhere to be seen. They are fighters now, or they are dead. Continue Reading…

André Rieu

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Live in Kraków 2015 – FULL, uploaded by Mateusz Godek, June 2015:

Unsettling Encounters – Tourists and Refugees Cross Paths in the Mediterranean

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Published on Spiegel Online International, by Özlem Gezer, Frank Hornig, Martin Knobbe, Walter Mayr, Maximilian Popp and Helene Zuber, Aug 7, 2015 (14 Photos in the Gallerytranslated from the German by Christopher Sultan).

Two worlds are colliding on the beaches of the Mediterranean this summer: Vacationers looking for relaxation and migrants seeking relief from poverty or warfare. The result is a moral conundrum for Europe.   Continue Reading…

Are the World’s Largest Central Banks Independent?

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Video on YouTube, 2.36 min, uploaded by csFinancialist, April 5, 2013 … the world’s largest central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, are overseeing unprecedented easing programs *. While the European Central Bank, unlike the BoJ or the Fed, has not purchased large amounts of sovereign debt, it could do so in the future by ramping up its Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT) program. That program allows the ECB to purchase sovereign government bonds on the secondary market, which would be expected to lower interest rates in the event of renewed turbulence in the euro zone. Continue Reading…

La Chanson Française

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Mise en ligne par chanson française:

The Real Cost of Being Poor, reflections from the heartland

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Published on Zcommentaries, by Paul Street, Aug 8, 2015.

Serious debates over what the minimum wage should be in various U.S. locales and jurisdictions should start with serious information on what it actually costs to live in the different places where Americans live.   Continue Reading…

EPIC video of sunlit ‘dark side’ of moon crossing over Earth revealed by NASA

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Published on Russia Today RT, Aug 5, 2015.

NASA has released spectacular footage of the “dark side” of the moon – fully illuminated – as the Earth’s natural satellite was moving across the sunlit side of our planet. The unique shots were captured by the Deep Space Climate Observatory.   Continue Reading…