politics for the 99%

2015-09-01: Economic Destabilization, Financial Meltdown … Shanghai Stock Market?
2015-09-02: Whitewashing the IMF’s Destructive Role in Greece;
2015-09-03: Some ideas about what is Socialism – part 3;
2015-09-04: Michael Parenti;
2015-09-05: last results of our humanity’s behavior;
2015-09-06: Swiss pictures;
2015-09-07: TTIP deal – business lobbyists dominate talks at expense of trade unions and NGOs;
2015-09-08: Antarctica, hollow Earth / hohle Erde, etc;
2015-09-09: some ideas about what is Socialism – part 4;
2015-09-10: Russia ready to accept Syrian refugees;
2015-09-11: Washington’s Financial Currency War on China, the Eclipsing of the US Dollar by the Yuan;
2015-09-12: Culture and Art, World’s Largest Artist Colony Is About To Be Bulldozed;
2015-09-13: Global Capitalism: September 2015 Monthly Update;
2015-09-14: the world with Thomas Piketty;
2015-09-15: The Breaking Point? Germany’s Asylum System Struggles to Cope;
2015-09-16: Half of children have been bullied – survey;
2015-09-17: Overcoming Fabianism in Labour’s Class War of Attrition;
2015-09-18: the european refugee mess – my questions this morning;
2015-09-19: a normal day’s different concerns;
2015-09-20: The Case of Greece;
2015-09-21: Glenn Greenwald and Edward Snowden;
2015-09-22: Alexis Tsipras’ leftist party comfortably wins Greece election again;
2015-09-23: what this FED means for us;
2015-09-24: how we are ruled;
2015-09-25: Refugees Welcome – Flüchtlinge Willkommen;
2015-09-26: Chine and the new world order;
2015-09-27: From Hashtag to Strategy – The Growing Pains of Black Lives Matter;
2015-09-28: The Continuing Criminal Enterprises of the Rich-Corporations;
2015-09-29: Imperial Overreach: U.S. Special Ops Forces Deployed in 135 Nations;
2015-09-29: Erzwungene Nationale Psychotherapie? (in english and german);
2015-09-30: Canada: C-51 anti-terror law causes some Muslims to reconsider vote;
2015-09-30: Basic Income BIG – Revenu de Base – Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen BGE, September 1 – 30, 2015.

all articles sorted chronologically.

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

Published on CBCnews, by Tanya Birkbeck, Sept 27, 2015.

Some Montreal Muslims say the passage of the Conservative government’s controversial anti-terror legislation may affect their voting intentions.

“All my information is that there are no Muslims who are supporting the Conservatives,” Montreal Muslim Hanadi Saad told CBC News.   Continue Reading…

(forced national therapy?) … Merkels Kommentar aus kanadischer Sicht, 10.44 min, von NuoViso.TV am 18. Sept 2015 hochgeladen.

My comments:

1): This is a false debate:

Therefore the real threat is, that this hidden Mafia remains still unknown and therefore can not be exterminated. Denying it is not the solution.
- Heidi,

Published on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Sept 26, 2015 – (originally published by Nick Turse at Tom Dispatch, Sept 24 … also discussed on Global Research.ca, Sept 25).

… You can find them in dusty, sunbaked badlands, moist tropical forests, and the salty spray of third-world littorals. Standing in judgement, buffeted by the rotor wash of a helicopter or sweltering beneath the relentless desert sun, they instruct, yell, and cajole as skinnier men playact under their watchful eyes. In many places, more than their particular brand of camouflage, better boots, and designer gear sets them apart. Their days are scented by stale sweat and gunpowder; their nights are spent in rustic locales or third-world bars.   Continue Reading…

Published on Dissident Voice, by Paul Kirk, September 24, 2015: everything from education to marketing, to social engineering to capturing money – Madness Wins – (or, what the 1% makes us believe is that corruption should be normal, having infested large parts of our economic behavior, as well as the whole financial sector – a cancer which is now going into it’s final phase – Heidi).

… You can’t have perfection, and you have to bargain with the devil, pick the lesser of two or two million evils, and just understand the reality of politics. How many Fox News-CBS News-CNN-Local Yokel News consuming folk just talk this talk, every year, every election cycle, every rotten time a school bond comes up or some loud invented news item comes along the ticker of our football-pretentious TV junk science-junk journalism SCLM – so-called liberal media. Continue Reading…

Published on In These Times, by Bill Fletcher jr., Sept 23, 2015 … movement activists discuss strategy and tactics;

In the last several months, the movement for Black lives (also known as the Black Lives Matter, or BLM, movement) has made headlines by engaging – often aggressively – with Democratic presidential candidates Martin O’Malley, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Each action brought with it pointed questions and often, tactical criticisms.   Continue Reading…

CHINA, the key to the new world-order – James Corbett, 36.05 min, uploaded by SGTreport.com, April 27, 2015 … James says that despite the formation of the BRICS Banks, the Shanghai Gold Exchange and the new Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), the International Banker’s plans to usher in their New World Order remain firmly in place and on track. How could that be when the evidence suggest that the world is moving away from the Dollar as wealth moves from West to East? Because, James says, “At the very top of this Bankster pyramid, the Chinese elite is connected directly in with the U.S. Western elite … (my comment: this was forseeable since years – Heidi);   Continue Reading…

Articles:

• Migrant crisis: Migration to Europe explained – in 10 graphics, on BBCnews, Sept 24, 2015;
• EU refugee summit in disarray as Donald Tusk warns greatest tide ‘yet to come’, on The Guardian, by Ian Traynor, Sept 24, 2015: Emergency talks end with pledge of hundreds of millions of euros to help transit countries as European Council president says greatest challenge is yet to come;
• video in german: WG aus Berlin, auf Spiegel Online, Sept 20, 2015;
• How do I … offer a room to a refugee? on The Guardian, by Kate Lyons and Harriet Grant, Sept 11, 2015; The Guardian has been inundated by people wanting to support those in need, offering spare rooms, sheds and whole homes. Here is a guide to helping;
• Refugee crisis – what can you do to help? on The Guardian, by Matthew Weaver, Sept 3, 2015: From donating to a charity to volunteering – here is a guide to some of the practical ways that individuals can contribute;   Continue Reading…

• MIGRANT CRISIS, The Untold Story, 11.42 min, uploaded by AMTV, Sept 9, 2015 … with Christopher Greene;
• Deal With the Devil – How the Global Elite Re-colonized China, 21.04 min, uploaded by corbettreport, Aug 28, 2015 … TRANSCRIPT AND SOURCES: The Corbett Report (My comment: this was forseeable, if you really look at. Our world predators do not let themselves so easily crash. I even believe, they let America crash intentionally to have no concurrent for their next ‘harbor’, China … and our humanity, like a crowd of sheeps, is unable to react collectively – Heidi);
• 3 new signs total economic collapse is in progress, 4.09 min, uploaded by SGTreport.com, Dec 12, 2014;

Websites: SGTreport; Liberty Mill; Real News 24/7; The Corbett Report;   Continue Reading…

• The Real Reason the Fed Won’t Raise Interest Rates, 13.07 min, uploaded by AMTV, Sept 21, 2015 … with Christopher Greene;
• The History of The Federal Reserve, 90.11 min, uploaded by corbettreport, July 6, 2014 … about the enslavement of the 99% – transcript and resources: The Corbett Report.

Published on The Financial Express, Sept 21, 2015.

… With 54 per cent of the vote counted, Syriza stood at 35.5 per cent, with the conservative New Democracy at 28 per cent while the Nazi-inspired Golden Dawn was coming in third with 7.1 per cent, followed closely by the once-mighty socialist PASOK party with 6.4 per cent (what can people do else than stay on or despair – Heidi).

Abstention was high, at nearly 45 per cent in an election-weary country with a traditionally high voter turnout. Continue Reading…

Latest:

• Citizenfour FULL MOVIE, 86.03 min, uploaded by kamehameha, Sept 18, 2015 … see it also on their website on NgooMovie;
• Citzenfour: Laura Poitras, Edward Snowden & Glenn Greenwald, 13.20 min, uploaded by Neal Tims, Sept 17, 2015;
• No Place to Hide Edward Snowden, 67.35 min, uploaded by cr6, Aug 28, 2015 … about the NSA and the U S Surveillance State;
• The Never Ending Fight For Liberty, 4.56 min, uploaded by Valerie Rhem, Aug 20, 2015 … thanks to Democracy Now …;

Continue Reading…

Published on ZNet, by Nikos Raptis, Sept 19, 2015.

The problem:

More than seventy years ago the US elites, as leaders of the West, decided that there should never be a leftist government in any European country. Especially in countries like Greece with its geopolitical importance. Also, if successful, a leftist government in a ‘poor’ country like Greece could be a deleterious example for the other countries of Europe.   Continue Reading…

Wolf Richter: Bankers Threaten Fed with Layoffs if it Doesn’t Raise Rates, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Sept 18, 2015;

The Star Trek Fallacy: Romanticizing Imperialism, on naked capitalism, by Yves Smith, Sept 18, 2015 (yes, we know this but nevertheless enjoy the actors);

Uploaded by X22Report:
U.S. Warning: All U.S. Citizens Still In Libya Must Leave Straight Away, Episode 768b, 21.01 min, Sept 17, 2015;
Current Economic Collapse, News Brief, Episode 764, 18.02 min, Sept 13, 2015; Continue Reading…

Russia made an offer to accept Syrian refugees:

• Why nobody here tells them and does not speak about in the western medias?
• More, how many have heard about? How long will it take them to get a real chance for a modest life also in Big Russia. Why we do not suggest the Russian offer to those refugees we know they cannot stay here?
• Even, why we do not work together with the Russian embassies here in the west for visas to their country? Are we only too much pissed off with our unhappy situation, or are we just too much arrogant to let Russians give a solution?
• One explanation may be, the actual refugees are good middle class people who still dream about an acceptable capitalist lifestyle …
  … oh my god, not live as working class in Russia, for heavens sake …  
• But how long will it take them to get our european pitfall? Already this old arrogant system here begins to crash … making them next all happily crash with us …
  … oh my god … Continue Reading…

Jeremy Corbyn, quo vadis? – Published on Dissident Voice, by T.P. Wilkinson, Sept 15, 2015.

… Corbyn’s political consistency has been remarkable. Since the beginning of socialist and labour politics in Britain—as elsewhere—there has always been what outsiders would call a tendency to factionalism. The inherent authoritarianism of the Conservative Party (and its equivalents generally assures that differences of opinion are kept within the walls of the clubs their members frequent. Expulsions among the Establishment are usually for breach of decorum.4 On the British Left, most expulsions have been based on the failure adequately to support imperialism or until 1989 any inclination to support communism—as defined by the ruling class.This led to divisions in the Labour Party (and the German Social Democratic Party) a century ago in the run up to the Great War. Labour was again divided by the British elite’s policy toward Hitler and Stalin. After the defeat of the fascist Axis powers in 1945, the benchmark for Labour became unwavering loyalty to Washington.   Continue Reading…

Published on The Guardian, Sept 14, 2015.

School is most common place for bullying, and only a quarter of children think their school’s anti-bullying policy works (see also: Bullied children more likely to suffer from adult obesity and heart attacks) … // Continue Reading…

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Melanie Amann, Matthias Bartsch, Jürgen Dahlkamp, Markus Dettmer, Jan Friedmann, Christine Haas, Veronika Hackenbroch, Horand Knaup, Peter Müller, Conny Neumann, Maximilian Popp, Cornelia Schmergal, Barbara Schmid, Fidelius Schmid, Andreas Ulrich and Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt, Sept 11, 2015 (Photo Gallery).

As the migrant influx continues, the ‘Refugees Welcome’ high is beginning to wear off. People are beginning to wonder if Germany will really be able to cope with all the newcomers. And the system is already completely overwhelmed.   Continue Reading…

Thomas Piketty fustige des Européens qui se donnent bonne conscience en Afrique, dans Le Monde/Afrique, propos recueillis par Laurence Caramel, le 11 sept 2015;

Economist Thomas Piketty helps Podemos election bid, on The Olive Press.es, by Staff reporter, Sept 10, 2015;

EU must force more transparency from companies in Africa – Piketty, on YAHOOnews, by Joe Bavier, Sept 10, 2015: the European Union should require companies operating in Africa to disclose the taxes they pay there more transparently, to ensure they contribute fairly to government revenues, French economist Thomas Piketty said on Thursday …; Continue Reading…

Global Capitalism: September 2015 Monthly Update, 91.53 min, uploaded by Richar D. Wolff, Sept 9, 2015 … website: Democracy at Work.

Links: Continue Reading…

Published on Axis of Logic, by Mallika Rao, Aug 31, 2014.

In the heart of New Delhi lives what is said to be the world’s largest collective of performers – puppeteers, drummers, monkey tamers, snake charmers, singers, acrobats, and more. Their family units can include more than a dozen members. Dads and moms pass their art down to the kids. In Kathputli Colony that’s simply how things are done. Continue Reading…

Published on Global Research.ca (first on Strategic Culture Foundation), by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Aug 31, 2015;

The Chinese are in the process of displacing the monopoly of the US dollar. They are dropping their US Treasury bonds, stockpiling gold reserves, and opening regional distribution banks for their own national currency. This will give them easier access to capital markets and insulate them from financial manipulation by Washington and Wall Street.   Continue Reading…

Published on Russia Today RT – ombudsman, Sept 9, 2015.

The Russian Federation can host a great number of refugees from Syria, just as it has accepted a record number of people who fled the war in Ukraine, claims the presidential advocate for children’s rights, Pavel Astakhov.
“Our territory, our culture and our history, even our social situation are actually capable of withstanding this,” the ombudsman told the RSN radio when asked if Russia could open the doors for refugees from Syria. Continue Reading…

Related Links:

• What is socialism, 4.27 min, uploaded by TestTubeNews, May 10, 2015;
  (also: what is Communism, 2.49 min, (on same channel);
• The Rise of Syriza and Podemos – Jorge Martin, 61.43 min, uploaded by Marxist Student Federation, April 2015;
• Socialism (in the US) For Dummies – Prof Richard D. Wolff, uploaded by PrettyAwesome: Part 1, 49.45 min, May 17, 2015; Part 2, 70.51 min, June 14, 2015 … on the past, present and possible future of America (see McCarthyism);   Continue Reading…