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February 16, 2011 Portland Oregon Press Conference by religious community opposing outrageous bloated military budget and inhumane cuts in social service in the recent Obama Budget for 2012.Religious Leaders Speak Out Against Obama's 012 Budget
The Old Testament prophets condemned war and accumulating riches as attacks on society and the poor, as forms of idolatry and blindness where fellow persons are degraded into non-persons. False prophets are described as broken cisterns that can hold no water. Can we learn from the prophets to raise our voices and decry normalizing greed and militarism?
For the fifth day in a row, there were bloody clashes in the tiny island monarchy of Bahrain, where the US Navy's Fifth Fleet is based. At least three people were killed when the army opened fire on demonstrators. Some 25,000 people, a huge crowd for a country of less than a million adults, had turned out for a funeral march for protestors killed the day before.
It was the first protest in the centre of the capital, Manama, since the police stormed the Pearl Roundabout before dawn on Thursday, killing four people and wounding around 200. A Salmaniya hospital doctor told Al Jazeera that the hospital was full of severely injured people: "We need help! Our staff is entirely overwhelmed. They are shooting at people's heads. Not at the legs. People are having their brains blown
Following the arrests of five people in Britain for their supposed involvement in the widely-publicized DDoS attacks in December of last year against a number of online companies for their involvement in cutting services to WikiLeaks, the online group known as Anonymous has declared war on the U.K. The companies originally targeted by the attacks were MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal.
Anonymous has issued a press release stating that they see these arrests as a declaration of war by the U.K. government. This one could get ugly, folks. Here is the full press release:
Students everywhere are taking up the banner against oppression and the attack against there teachers and futures. From Egypt and Tunisia and the middle east to England and France and Europe to Wisconsin and California. Also be looking for more right here in Portland. Micahel Moore has now set up a website to encourage high school students to continue to be a force for change. Lets continue to suppport students as they lead the charge in support of freedom. Below are two links one to micahel moores now high school newspaper website and the other to youtube showing High schoolers in the Wisconsin capitol building.
The sweeping anti-union legislation being pushed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is not about balancing budgets. It is a power grab, part of a calculated effort to undermine what's left of the most significant institutional counter-balance to the ever-weightier political influence of corporations.
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I love Madison. I really do.
I began the third grade living with my (recently divorced) mother and two sisters in a one bedroom apartment in an inner-city Chicago neighborhood. In January 1970, over Christmas break, we moved to Madison. It was an distinct improvement; that part of third grade became transformational.
La mode de la dictature , n ' est que la dictature de la mode ...
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The biggest solar flare in four years has blasted out from the sun, and is expected to reach Earth late tonight.
Much to the jubilation of the throngs of demonstrators in Egypt Hosni Mubarak has announced his resignation, handing his powers to the army. The strongman who just a few hours before wanted to be the defender of the constitution and the ultimate bulwark against the "chaos", has thus ratified a kind of cold coup d'Etat .
Can you give us an update on Operation No Compromise?
So far hugely successful. We have shut them down for 90 percent of their season. They have not killed many whales and they will not kill any more.
You could win up to $100 when you submit an Essay, Memoir, Interview, or Fiction story about work, employment, job relations, or lack thereof. WORK Literary Magazine seeks the finest thought and writing on the hottest topic of today. Deadlines vary by genre.
The real number might be much higher for two reasons:
1. The govt conducts most of these executions in secret, so they release names when they want to. 2. The family of the executed has have the resources and the will(many families are shamed into denouncing their loved ones) to claim the body. Bribes are common in this situation. If the body is not claimed, its simply tucked away in one of hundreds of mass graves around the country. The larges of these graves in Tehran is called Khavaran. The govt refers to them as "the place of the damned". Visitors have to sneak in and out of these grave sites as visitations are not allowed.
The republican and democrats are entertaining anti woman legislation. Where will be the filibuster?
Obama is arguing on the Republican's turf; he's lost control of the debate. Obama has internalized the deficit hawks' frenzy, arguing about cuts instead of reordering the economy. Jobs and unemployment seem eclipsed by the exclusive focus on reducing the deficit.
He's a perfect candidate. Came to power after his father Haydar Aliev, took the helm by removing Dr Elchibey(democratically elected president) in a mild military coup involving Moscow, Tehran and Armenia. Just before his death under very suspicious circumstances, Hayder changed the constitution to allow his son to become Prime Minister. Since Ilham's take over religious, political, economic and human rights have been hard to come by in the oil rich state.
Hackers claim to have unearthed proposal to undermine site ahead of reportedly planned disclosures about Bank of America
Below is an email I received, from Change Dot org
Want to makes some changes? --> You be the Change <-- I was impressed with the amount of email they "can generate' and the impact :-) Below is some short 'reports back' on how effective sending a petition-comment can be.
EGYPT 2011: MILLIONS HAVE
HEROICALLY STOOD UP... THE FUTURE REMAINS TO BE WRITTEN Bob Avakian Millions of Egyptian people from all walks of life, drawing inspiration from the people of Tunisia, have heroically risen up, defied the hated regime of Hosni Mubarak and forced Mubarak to resign. This has shattered the notion that "things can never change." It is a powerful demonstration that there is no permanent necessity to the existing conditions under which the great majority of humanity suffer so terribly. Oppressed people and people who hunger for an end to oppression, in every country all over the world, have deeply shared in the joy and hope of these massive uprisings. And the stirrings of revolt continue to spread.
World weather patterns and the looming collapse of the dollar may drive food prices through the roof.
The value of the Yuan is not the cause for the US trade and balance of payments deficits. The reasons are the high state indebtedness (armaments/wars and tax gifts to the rich) and the indebtedness of private households going back to stagnating or declining real incomes. The US has a trade deficit with 90 countries. The US economy became a waste economy.
Rooftop chanting is one of the only forms of safe communication left for the Iranian people to organize themselves in their resistance to the violent regime. They used this same tactic Monday during the night to prepare for the showdown later took place today in several major cities around Iran. In the meanwhile the government virtually stopped the internet and all other forms of electronic communication. They also banned all journalists and cameras from the streets.
Teargas, rubber bullets, batons, knives, live, rounds as well PAINT BALL guns were used to disperse crowds. I would love to find out the brand of those paint ball guns.
Virtual information lock down. No internet, no texting, no cell phones, no phones at all in and around the main squares. Journalists were banned from the streets and viciously attacked if they did venture out. The latest report has 1 person confirmed dead and roughly 250 arrested.
he SPOT program trains TSA officers to detect potential terrorists at airport checkpoints by monitoring for facial expressions and other behaviors that may signal heightened levels of stress, fear, or deception.
In the UK, the Great Recession inspired ordinary people to take on corporate tax evaders-with enormous success. Can this same model work in the U.S.?
i have to mention that as i researched this online, some of the articles i had bookmarked as references were no longer available. many no longer turned up in searches. someone's fucking with the internet, someone with loads of money and resources.
La propriété du commerce , n ' est que le commerce de la propriété ...
White Hats Reporting on the latest activities of the the Dark Cabal, the United States Fed, the WH administration, Congress, the IRS, etc.
Too good to be true; a beautiful, non-violent revolution- now this. Remember these words of wisdom and remember them well: all power corrupts. The military is taking over and being iron fisted because the military in all societies have power. The Egpytians should have kept the power with the people and not traded it off to the military. Let's learn from this.
"A revolution is not a simple event-it is a process. A process with ebbs and flows, advances and setbacks that can take place ov er weeks, months and even years.. The Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky developed the theory of `permanent revolution.' He argued that not every society needs to go through the same stages to achieve socialism." Links to Howard Zinn and Marcos
Egypt's military to warn against "chaos and disorder"
In Switzerland, the government just approved a law that eases the historical secrecy of Swiss private banks. The law allows for money deposited here by Third World dictators to be reimbursed to the legitimate governments of the dictators' countries of origin. The law is being used to revise the bank accounts and trusts maintained in Switzerland by Arab dictators such as Tunisian Zine el Abidine Ben Ali and Egyptian Hosni Mubarak.
We stand in awe and admiration at your historic victory, as you removed one of the world's worst U.S.-sponsored dictators. You liberated yourselves and at the same time liberated the imagination of ordinary working people around the world.
First Tunisia, then 18 days of people power toppled Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, now it seems the people of Algeria want to be rid of their dictator Abdelaziz Bouteflika and the military junta. Democracy protests have started on February 12 in Algiers, called by the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (NCCD). Algeria is under a state of emergency since February 9, 1992.
Authorities deployed huge numbers of security forces ahead of the protests - some calling it a "state of siege". Up to 30,000 riot police have been mobilized. Saturday's February 12 protest has been banned by authorities fearing a people's uprising like in Tunisia and Egypt.
In this game, you get to manage the McDonalds corporation. Have fun injecting cows with steroids, destroying rain forest, growing GMO crops, fearing employee organizing, fighting angry consumer groups and angry environmental organizations. You get your own PR firm, advertising firm and nagging board of directors, so you'd better crank out those death burgers.
"(Wikileaks) US cable from 2008 reported that disgruntled mid-level Egyptian officers referred to Field Marshal Tantawi, (head of the military and now head of Egypt,) as "Mubarak's poodle".
The main square is completely ringed by tanks' -- L.A. Times foreign correspondent Laura King; Suleiman says basically, 'I'm in power now, so the protests are over, and I will repress you if you think otherwise even though I represent NO CHANGE. Thanks suckers, it all worked! Signed, Suleiman."
A show of hands, please. How many really thought Egypt--dependent on blank checks from the USA--was going allow a democratic revolution, people? Second another show of hands: how gullible are you when all 'democratic revolutions' only in the past 15 years have been external coups for U.S. imperialism? Activists' gullibility allows them to only be bit players in their future, in a larger geopolitical game, catalysts for something they don't control or even participate within, and now great, and now thanks to that ignorance, their purpose has been used, and they WILL BE ushered off the stage by Egyptian tanks and threats of mass torture from their 'new boss, same as the old boss.' Thus closes the optimism of deluded activists who should come up with better strategies to deal with the co-option of democratic slogans by the U.S. empire. 3 assorted articles; you have to wise up, you are unable to fight the NWO with 'democratic street protests' when they are as in the case of Egypt only hitched to an external coup. Such undemocratic coups of any government are entirely externally created. All coups should be rejected, whether CNN spins to you it is "democratic" or otherwise. If all those democratic activists can think of is a coup, then they deserve all the heartbreak that they will receive so soon for not wising up earlier and thinking of better ways to organize to reject such coups.
The activities of the protesters in Tahrir Square transformed the idea of democracy from a stale ritual that occurs every few years to an open ended struggle for freedom. We are inspired by the example provided by this mass revolt of the Egyptian people.
• Scientists say 4C rise would kill 85% of the Amazon rainforest
• Even modest temperature rise would see 20-40% loss within 100 years
Friday, February 11 · 5:00pm - 7:00pm
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Egyptian VP Sulieman announced Mubarak stepped down and has asked the armed services to take over. WATCH IT LIVE ON AL JAZEERA
Kafoury & McDougal - activist lawyers?
Joke is C.I.A. Panneta said today before congress he thought Mubarak would step down today. C.I.A. knew that he wouldn't, but wanted to throw their dog a bone that he wasn't bowing to "foriegn pressure." In fact, the reason he doesn't step down is that C.I.A. wants him as bargaining chip to keep a puppet repressive regime in power and to crush any real democracy.
just sent this to merkley.senate.gov
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mubarak clings to office, gives some power to CIA
Mubarak is toast...but C.I.A. spooks still trying to derail popular revolutionj...
is asleep at the wheel...or worse...still feeding us C.I.A. written "news"
for superbowl America.
State debts may be caused by reduced corporate tax revenues, not excess spending. Through "location competition," corporations play off states and countries and harvest tax write-offs and sweetheart-assessments. Through "state capture," lobbyists write laws and corporate campaign contributions make the state into a trough for the super-rich.
Actualisation des différents aspects de la fausse conscience ...
Before, Egypt was a police state. Now the feeling is, this is our land. This is our country and we don't fear anybody. We aren't hiding from the police. I heard one activist say, "We feel more safe than ever before."
Some mainstream media coverage has been calling this 'chaos in Egypt', 'unrest in Egypt'. I'm sorry, this is nonsense. The people are in control. They are happy. They feel safe. They are showing love for each other. What is happening is amazing.
Obama takes directions from C.I.A. and U.S. Military, plans on dumping Mubarak but keeping U.S. puppets within Egypt military in power.
Sadly, we are again watching the ages-old game of subverting a popular uprising to ensure that the old power elite remains rich and powerful by taking advantage of the shifting sands.
No to market-based business deals proposed by the governments of industrialized countries and transnational corporations.
The thousands of solutions to the climate crisis are in the hands of the people.
Scientific American reviews what resources we have left.
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