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Thursday, July 21, 2011
“Is it a Revolt? No Sire, It’s a Revolution”
A press clipping freshly received from your French correspondent NKN shows the dramatic picture of a former Greek right wing minister in shock after a rocky encounter with the crowd during a protest (see below). Angry constituents went after him while shouting “thief! thief!”. (He ended-up being evacuated by his bodyguards, and is ok)
Whilst Greek riots are not making international headlines anymore, popular anger is not going away. Moreover, popular exasperation against the established order of things seems to be spreading across all sorts of channels and means of expression. Seemingly unrelated events such as the Greek riots, the protests against pension reform in France or the rebellion of anonymous hackers trying to bring institutional sites down in the wikileaks saga, all contribute to reinforce the palpable climate of rebellion against ‘a system’.
Are we just witnessing a revolt or a true revolution?
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The cliché of The Perfect Storm really comes to mind if you add up the headlines gleaned from around the world.@Dr_Tad wrote about this in a recent post on the ‘left flank’:
“There is a confluence of moments:
- Mass movements against austerity rapidly emerging in Europe
- The collapse of the American Empire’s legitimacy through quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq”
- We now also have unrest online with the WikiLeaks saga and the attempts of anonymous hackers to bring corporate and institutional websites down.
“Despite a prolonged period of defeats and quiescence for the subaltern classes, there is a palpable sense of systemic crisis, the very crisis that neoliberal victories were supposed to reverse.”
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Financial Terrorism Analysis: How Global Bankers Plunder Nations – Lessons from Greece
By Andrew Gavin Marshall, Global Research
In late June of 2011, the Greek government passed another round of austerity measures, ostensibly aimed at getting Greece “back on track” to economic progress, but in reality, implementing a systematic program of ‘social genocide’ in the name of servicing an endless and illegitimate debt to foreign banks. Right on cue, protests and riots broke out in Athens against the draconian measures, and the state moved in to do what states do best: oppress the people with riot police, tear gaPublish Posts and bashing batons, leaving roughly 300 people injured.
Is Greece simply a case of a country full of lazy people who spent beyond their means and are now paying for their own decadence? Or, is there something much larger at stake – and at play – here? Greece is, in fact, a microcosm of the global economy: mired in excessive debt, economically ruined, increasingly politically repressive and socially explosive. This report takes a look at the case of the Greek debt crisis specifically, and places it within a wider global context. The conclusion is clear: what happens in Greece will happen here.
This report examines the Greek crisis, as well as the larger global economic crisis, including the origins of the housing bubble, the bailouts, the banks, and the major actors and institutions which will come to dominate the stage over the next decade in what will play out as ‘The Great Global Debt Depression.’
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Reading the world in a loaf of bread: Soaring food prices, wild weather, upheaval, and a planetful of trouble
By Christian Parenti, Energy Bulletin
What can a humble loaf of bread tell us about the world?
What can a humble loaf of bread tell us about the world?
The answer is: far more than you might imagine. For one thing, that loaf can be “read” as if it were a core sample extracted from the heart of a grim global economy. Looked at another way, it reveals some of the crucial fault lines of world politics, including the origins of the Arab spring that has now become a summer of discontent.
Consider this: between June 2010 and June 2011, world grain prices almost doubled. In many places on this planet, that proved an unmitigated catastrophe. In those same months, several governments fell, rioting broke out in cities from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to Nairobi, Kenya, and most disturbingly three new wars began in Libya, Yemen, and Syria. Even on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, Bedouin tribes are now in revolt against the country’s interim government and manning their own armed roadblocks.
And in each of these situations, the initial trouble was traceable, at least in part, to the price of that loaf of bread. If these upheavals were not “resource conflicts” in the formal sense of the term, think of them at least as bread-triggered upheavals.
9 11 2011 - Ten Years, No Justice
http://www.Groundzero2011.com
Be a part of history on September 11, 2011. Come to New York City and stand with us. It's time to unite in the streets and demand a new investigation.
Be a part of history on September 11, 2011. Come to New York City and stand with us. It's time to unite in the streets and demand a new investigation.
Obama now go find the $2,300,000,000,000 missing at the Pentagon
Many Americans would have forgotten that $2.3 TRILLION went missing in corrupt military spending. That's alot of money conveniently buried in the news of the following day which was September 11th 2001.
"We Don't Know Where That 2.3 TRILLION Dollars Went!" Rep DeFazio Calls To Audit The Pentagon
Costs of War: 225,000 Lives and up to US$4 Trillion
Nearly 10 years after the declaration of the War on Terror, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have killed at least 225,000 people, including men and women in uniform, contractors, and civilians. The wars will cost Americans between $3.2 and $4 trillion, including medical care and disability for current and future war veterans, according to a new report by the Eisenhower Research Project based at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. If these wars continue, they are on track to require at least another $450 billion in Pentagon spending by 2020.
The Costs of War report by this major multi-university research project reveals costs that are far higher than recognized. Its findings are being released at a critical juncture. As Project Co-Director and Institute Professor Catherine Lutz puts it: “Knowing the actual costs of war is essential as the public, Congress, and the President consider the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and other issues including the deficit, security, public investments, and reconstruction.”
Please visit costsofwar.org, where the project has posted its extensive findings, graphically illustrated, to spur public debate about America at war.
The Costs of War report by this major multi-university research project reveals costs that are far higher than recognized. Its findings are being released at a critical juncture. As Project Co-Director and Institute Professor Catherine Lutz puts it: “Knowing the actual costs of war is essential as the public, Congress, and the President consider the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan and other issues including the deficit, security, public investments, and reconstruction.”
Please visit costsofwar.org, where the project has posted its extensive findings, graphically illustrated, to spur public debate about America at war.
Pie Throwing And The Art Of Ego Deflation
From Among the Pie Throwers by Patrick Howley, American Spectator
Breaking down status structures, says Kay, represents the central tenet of pieing. Kay cites the influence of the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers ("Jewish comedians who, as George Carlin would say, 'created chaos out of order' in a setting in which they never belonged"). The pie-thrower plays jester, and the jester, says Kay, is an entirely political role.
Of course the Yippies, who were in bed with the hard-left political establishment, spent their lives fighting conservatism, and most pieing targets over the years, from William Colby to Ann Coulter, have been conservatives. But even Kay points out that pieing, as art form or by means of political expression, seeks only to deflate the individual ego: that insidious personality engine that Kay claims to have expelled from himself back in that tent in 1974.
Belgian anarchist and surrealist pie-thrower Noel Godin, for example, only pies those who "take themselves seriously." He's hit iconic liberal filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard at the Cannes Film Festival as well as progressive French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévi. Godin claims Bill Clinton and Tony Blair as his two most desired targets, and his seeming conservatism makes sense.
See Also:
Is Pie-Throwing Ever Morally Justifiable?
Rupert Murdoch attack joins the pantheon of pie throwing
A brief history of pie throwing in public
Read this: The history of pie throwing; Murdoch’s wife
Murdoch is the latest in a long line of pie-throwing pranksters’ targets
Rupert Murdoch attack joins the pantheon of pie throwing
A brief history of pie throwing in public
Read this: The history of pie throwing; Murdoch’s wife
Murdoch is the latest in a long line of pie-throwing pranksters’ targets
Crisis, Bailout As Inspiration For Musical Humor
Greek Debt Song
http://www.merlehazard.com/Merle_Hazard/Guest_Book.html
Merle Hazard with his band Economizzin,
Lyrics are at http://www.merlehazard.com/Merle_Hazard/GREEK_DEBT_SONG.html
The Bailout Song (The Country's Fecked) Hi Sir!
AND NOW, A WORD FROM THE ECONOMY HERSELF - song econoparody from versusplus.com
A musical parody of the Fekaris/Perren song "I Will Survive," about the economy.
Parody Lyrics: MARCY SHAFFER
Music Director: GREG HILFMAN
Lead vocal: JANIS LIEBHART
WE HAVE CRISIS
A song about greek crisis. Lyrics and music by Stergios Kottas
The Euro Crisis Song
http://www.merlehazard.com/Merle_Hazard/Guest_Book.html
Merle Hazard with his band Economizzin,
Lyrics are at http://www.merlehazard.com/Merle_Hazard/GREEK_DEBT_SONG.html
The Bailout Song (The Country's Fecked) Hi Sir!
AND NOW, A WORD FROM THE ECONOMY HERSELF - song econoparody from versusplus.com
A musical parody of the Fekaris/Perren song "I Will Survive," about the economy.
Parody Lyrics: MARCY SHAFFER
Music Director: GREG HILFMAN
Lead vocal: JANIS LIEBHART
WE HAVE CRISIS
A song about greek crisis. Lyrics and music by Stergios Kottas
The Euro Crisis Song
With each passing day the Euro crisis deepens, spreading to more countries with ever more dramatic consequences. But are you still struggling to understand how we got here? To help you out, we present The Euro Crisis Song - created by the Guardian and Studio 20 NYU - who brought you My Water's On Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song).
David Holmes, Andrew Bean, Adam Sakellarides and Lisa Rucker
Source: guardian.co.uk
David Holmes, Andrew Bean, Adam Sakellarides and Lisa Rucker
Source: guardian.co.uk
Justice Dept. Gives Torture a Pass
Peter Weiss writes in CommonDreams.Org
Holder's recent move is completely consistent with Obama's insistence on looking "forward, not back" when it comes to accountability for torture. Prosecuting most of these cases would require seriously examining the perpetrators' faith that the Yoo memos acted as a "golden shield," as one Bush administration official called them. But the law says that this defense, "the defense of superior orders," doesn't work when the act in question is palpably or manifestly illegal.
Holder's recent move is completely consistent with Obama's insistence on looking "forward, not back" when it comes to accountability for torture. Prosecuting most of these cases would require seriously examining the perpetrators' faith that the Yoo memos acted as a "golden shield," as one Bush administration official called them. But the law says that this defense, "the defense of superior orders," doesn't work when the act in question is palpably or manifestly illegal.
It didn't work for Lt. William Calley when he and his platoon killed over 300 women, children, and elderly men in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War. It didn't work for Lynndie England, the hapless army reservist convicted of torturing and abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib.
And it didn't work for most of the defendants at Nuremberg.
Salgado - Spectre Of Hope
Rare Doc on Sebastiao Salgado, one of the worlds greatest photographers and chronicler of poverty stricken peoples and industrial workers.
SALGADO = SPECTRE OF HOPE PT1 by bongolicious
UK Lawful Rebellion update
BANNED!!!!! by U.K. Government_ British Tax Protesters Arrest Judge in Act of _Lawful Rebellion
For those wondering whether we can expect to see anything like the scenes witnessed in Egypt coming to America or the United Kingdom, the actions of British protesters who engaged in "lawful rebellion" by attempting to arrest a judge yesterday could herald the beginning of a new tax revolt to rival the infamous poll tax riots of 1990.
Just as the 2009 town hall confrontations gave birth to the modern incarnation of the Tea Party in the United States, with the organization having its early origins in the 2007 End the Fed protests involving Ron Paul supporters, could yesterday's events herald the beginning of a massive tax revolt movement set to sweep the UK?
There were chaotic scenes as around 600 activists from the British Constitution Group massed around Birkenhead county court chanting "freedom," and "arrest that judge" as police with riot dogs attempted to hold them back.
Protesters stormed the courtroom and civilly arrested Judge Michael Peake before escorting him from the building. Peake was eventually wrestled away from protesters by police as the activists chanted, "Do your job" to the police. Dozens more police arrived to set up blockades and numerous protesters were arrested.
Peake was ruling on a case involving Roger Hayes, former member of UKIP, who has refused to pay council tax, both as a protest against the government's treasonous activities in sacrificing Britain to globalist interests and as a result of Hayes clearly proving that council tax is illegal.
Hayes has embarked on an effort to legally prove that the enforced collection of council tax by government is unlawful because no contract has been agreed between the individual and the state. His argument is based on the sound legal principle that just like the council, Hayes can represent himself as a third party in court and that "Roger Hayes" is a corporation and must be treated as one in the eyes of the law.
"As he emerged from the court surrounded by his supporters, Mr Hayes said: 'The judges are breaking the law in their own courts. I asked him [Mr Peake] if he was serving under his oath of office," reports the Daily Mail.
"I asked three times for him to confirm this and he refused, so I civilly arrested the judge and I called upon some people in the court to assist me in this," Hayes said.
"They were acting lawfully and the police should not have arrested them."
"Made up of people from across the UK, the marchers say they are exerting their "ancient right to lawful Rebellion under Article 16 of Magna Carta," reported the Wirral Globe.
Raymond Saintclair, who organised the Birkenhead protest said: "Today was day one. This is going to happen again and again and again. We have sent a message to this court as one nation and one voice until change comes."
Notices Have Been Served. (Ashfield Lawfull Rebellion)
Below is the link for the statement exposing political treason
http://www.lawfulrebellion.org.uk/content/definitive-statement-exposing-political-treason
it's time to remind our public servants just which public they are supposed to be serving
Join us on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ashfield-District-Council-EU-flag-down/136443759762683
Or on twitter. http://twitter.com/#!/AshfieldLR
We are from Sutton in Ashfield, Notts and we are looking for support.
For those wondering whether we can expect to see anything like the scenes witnessed in Egypt coming to America or the United Kingdom, the actions of British protesters who engaged in "lawful rebellion" by attempting to arrest a judge yesterday could herald the beginning of a new tax revolt to rival the infamous poll tax riots of 1990.
Just as the 2009 town hall confrontations gave birth to the modern incarnation of the Tea Party in the United States, with the organization having its early origins in the 2007 End the Fed protests involving Ron Paul supporters, could yesterday's events herald the beginning of a massive tax revolt movement set to sweep the UK?
There were chaotic scenes as around 600 activists from the British Constitution Group massed around Birkenhead county court chanting "freedom," and "arrest that judge" as police with riot dogs attempted to hold them back.
Protesters stormed the courtroom and civilly arrested Judge Michael Peake before escorting him from the building. Peake was eventually wrestled away from protesters by police as the activists chanted, "Do your job" to the police. Dozens more police arrived to set up blockades and numerous protesters were arrested.
Peake was ruling on a case involving Roger Hayes, former member of UKIP, who has refused to pay council tax, both as a protest against the government's treasonous activities in sacrificing Britain to globalist interests and as a result of Hayes clearly proving that council tax is illegal.
Hayes has embarked on an effort to legally prove that the enforced collection of council tax by government is unlawful because no contract has been agreed between the individual and the state. His argument is based on the sound legal principle that just like the council, Hayes can represent himself as a third party in court and that "Roger Hayes" is a corporation and must be treated as one in the eyes of the law.
"As he emerged from the court surrounded by his supporters, Mr Hayes said: 'The judges are breaking the law in their own courts. I asked him [Mr Peake] if he was serving under his oath of office," reports the Daily Mail.
"I asked three times for him to confirm this and he refused, so I civilly arrested the judge and I called upon some people in the court to assist me in this," Hayes said.
"They were acting lawfully and the police should not have arrested them."
"Made up of people from across the UK, the marchers say they are exerting their "ancient right to lawful Rebellion under Article 16 of Magna Carta," reported the Wirral Globe.
Raymond Saintclair, who organised the Birkenhead protest said: "Today was day one. This is going to happen again and again and again. We have sent a message to this court as one nation and one voice until change comes."
Notices Have Been Served. (Ashfield Lawfull Rebellion)
Below is the link for the statement exposing political treason
http://www.lawfulrebellion.org.uk/content/definitive-statement-exposing-political-treason
it's time to remind our public servants just which public they are supposed to be serving
Join us on facebook. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ashfield-District-Council-EU-flag-down/136443759762683
Or on twitter. http://twitter.com/#!/AshfieldLR
We are from Sutton in Ashfield, Notts and we are looking for support.
The unPATRIOTic Act & COINTELPRO 2.0
The PATRIOT Act has allowed the FBI and other government agencies to spy on you and monitor your activities. Join the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and fight back.
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