Belgian Police brutality in action! Warning- this is upsetting

I am already getting warnings to take down this video; So please mirror - in any case I have given a copy to the BBC political correspondent at the European Parliament; she said if she can't do anything with it she will pass it to other media colleagues; Thus if Youtube remove this vid, the story is not going away. Woken from my sleep by screams, I recorded an incident outside my flat; turns out I know the guy and his girlfriend from the neighourhood, nice decent folk. Some of the police involved... well you the jury of the world decide. This video will be personally shown by me to Members of the European Parliament. Belgium hosts the European institutions, I'm not sure this is the image Brussels wants the world to see. As an ex UN peacekeeping soldier I have seen too much of this in Brussels; coward armed police against unarmed and outnumbered civilians. Again you are the jury of the world; and you have seen the evidence- thumbs up for justice please. Feel free to mirror.

http://www.rtbf.be/video/v_intervention-policiere-musclee-a-montgomery?id=1753614&category=info

Crackdown Coaching: Bahrain's brutal British tactics

The pictures are familiar, regime forces cracking down on protesters, but this time they emanate from Bahrain. Activists trying to mark the one-year anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising were dispersed by heavily armed police. And as Ivor Bennet reports, the weapons, as well as the tactics, may have been imported from the UK.

Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

Maria Beatty's engaging documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through candid interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Designed as a tribute to them and to their spirit of artistic freedom, Gang of Souls also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. The film seeks to truly capture the magic of the Beat generation and its continuing legacy. It brilliantly expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired unprecedented social change.

Allen Ginsberg: "not quite a community, so much as a Gang of Souls, that liked each other (adored each other, actually) and saw a kind of star in each other's forehead."

Spain: Occupy Congress on September 25 - 25S/2012 - #SpanishRevolution #OcupaelCongreso

Madrid, around the House of Representatives on September 25.

Calling to citizens:

Warning: this may be the next and final mobilization of citizens from which to start the process of change that is left behind the current system and lay the foundations for real democracy.

The action is loud and clear:
On 25 September, we are going to Madrid will massively from everywhere of Spain, in order to surround the Congress of Deputies and stay there indefinitely, until the dissolution of the courts and the opening of a constitutional process to drafting a new constitution, this time, of a real democratic state.

All citizens are invited to participate, either individually or through assemblies, civic platforms, etc..
Change is necessary and will be led by the people.

Manifesto:
We, ordinary people are sick of suffering the consequences of a crisis that we have not created, we came together to write this manifesto and invite to everyone to join the claims that we claim.

We believe that the situation has gone beyond all tolerable limits and that we are victims of an unprecedented attack, that using the crisis as a pretext, is ruining our lives, and whose culprits are those who have configured as an untouchable oligarchy, with the complicity of all the political forces represented in parliament, manipulating all the powers of the state to maintain their privileges and excessive and illegal enrichment.

There is no way to hide that we live in a gigantic social fraud, with governments that systematically lie to us, doing exactly the opposite of its election commitments, and that there is any justice in the courts for bankers, politicians and business people to blame for the situation. We only see how this breed implements policies that destroy our rights and lives, and how we are victims of unwarranted repression when we demand a change in the situation.

We believe the problem is so huge that its solution does not pass through the usual mechanisms of the political system established, by them for us, to make us what they want, so we demand:

The resignation of the entire government, for misleading the country so inconceivable and lead the country to disaster, and the dissolution of the Parliament and call an immediate general election.

That these general elections will be for to convene a Constituent Assembly to draft a new constitution, with the participation of all political forces, because we do not recognize any validity to the current Constitution, drafted by a clique behind the village, and which enshrined the rule of the heirs of Francoism and who made a pact with them. It must be the people who determine the state model in which you want to live, which does not happen with the current, because we were given by the clique that responds exclusively to their interests.

An audit of public debt of Spain, with a moratorium on debt payments to be clearly delimited items that do not have to be paid by the nation, as they have served private interests who used the country for their own purposes and not of all Spanish citizens. We also demand the prosecution of all those who show suspicious of such maneuvers, and responsive to their property should be condemned.

The reform of the electoral law in order to truly represent the will of the sovereign people, which is not true in any way with the current.

The immediate repeal of all the reforms carried out by the Popular Party, because not only are a disaster for the country, but have been imposed on betrayal of the democratic will of the people.

A fair tax reform, to make pay more to those who have more. We also demand the repeal of the tax amnesty decreed by the government, whose injustice is a real mockery of honest taxpayers.

The abolition of all privileges of those exercising political responsibilities, and implementing strict control mechanisms on the performance of their duties.

The immediate cessation of all evictions, and commissioning cheap rate rental housing owned by the banks and has been aided by public funds.

The division of labor between all, it is a huge fallacy that has to work harder, fallacy supported by the greed of the big interests and contrary to the common people.

For these reasons we call on citizens on September 25, 2012 to appear indefinitely in the doors of Congress until the resignation of the government and the opening of a constitutional process, making it the call for unity of all fight for a fairer society.

We are the vast majority, we are the people, we are right, and not going to let you pass.

Obama Supported 'Syrian Rebels' Caught Engaging in War Crimes!

The BBC has sensationally censored a news story and a video showing Syrian rebels forcing a prisoner to become a suicide bomber, a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, presumably because it reflected badly on establishment media efforts to portray the FSA as glorious freedom fighters.

[forcing a prisoner to become a suicide bomber clip]
http://youtu.be/Fbxz6THXsf4
The video, a copy of which can be viewed above (the original BBC version was deleted), shows Free Syrian Army rebels preparing a bomb that is loaded onto the back of a truck to be detonated at a government checkpoint in the city of Aleppo.

The clip explains how the rebels have commandeered an apartment belonging to a Syrian police captain. The rebels are seen sneering at photos of the police captain's family while they proclaim, "Look at their freedom, look how good it is," while hypocritically enjoying the luxury of the man's swimming pool.

The video then shows a prisoner who the rebels claim belonged to a pro-government militia. Bruises from torture on the prisoner's body are explained away as having been metered out by the man's previous captors. The BBC commentary emphasizes how well the rebels are treating the man, showing them handing him a cigarette.

However, the man has been tricked into thinking he is part of a prisoner exchange program when in reality he is being set up as an unwitting suicide bomber. The prisoner is blindfolded and told to drive the truck towards a government checkpoint.

"What he doesn't know is that the truck is the one that's been rigged with a 300 kilo bomb," states the narrator.

The clip then shows rebels returning disappointed after it's revealed that the remote detonator failed and the bomb did not explode.

The BBC narrator admits that forcing prisoners to become suicide bombers "would certainly be considered a war crime."

New York Times reporters who shot the video claim they had no knowledge of the plot. A longer version of the clip is posted on the New York Times You Tube channel. The title of the clip glorifies the rebel fighters as "The Lions of Tawhid".

The Globalization of War: The "Military Roadmap" to World War III

The Pentagon’s global military design is one of world conquest.

The military deployment of US-NATO forces is occurring in several regions of the world simultaneously. The concept of the “Long War” has characterized US military doctrine since the end of World War II. The broader objective of global military dominance in support of an imperial project was first formulated under the Truman administration in the late 1940s at the outset of the Cold War.

More...

This House believes pornography does a good public service

Video of the Cambridge Union Society debating the issue here.

The Weight of Chains - Težina lanaca (2010)

Boris Malagurski's award-winning Canadian film "The Weight of Chains", dealing with the breakup of Yugoslavia from a different angle.

Watch the film that has stirred controversy around the world, screened at cinemas across Australia, Canada and the US, as well as at film festivals in London (Raindance), Belgrade (Beldocs), Havana, Ann Arbor, Toronto, and many others.

If you thought you knew why Yugoslavia broke up, get ready for 2 hours of shocking facts that will shed a different light on Western intervention in the Balkans. Nicknamed the "Serbian Michael Moore" by the oldest daily newspaper in the Balkans, Malagurski will expose the root causes of the Yugoslav wars and explain that the goal was for the West to create economic and geopolitical colonies in that part of the world.

Who's in the film? Everyone from former "Economic Hitman" John Perkins, Retired Major General of the UN Army Lewis Mackenzie, Canadian economist Michel Chossudovsky, Canadian journalist Scott Taylor, former Canadian Ambassador to Yugoslavia James Bissett, humanitarian Vlade Divac and the list goes on!

This film was funded exclusively through donations, so please support the project by buying a DVD of the film through the film's website:

http://www.weightofchains.com/buy

Also! Please donate towards the next film that Boris Malagurski is working on: The Weight of Chains 2, which will continue the story where the first film ends! Watch the trailer and donate now at:

http://www.weightofchains.com/2

Interview with a Media Manipulator

This cranial smashing, world imploding Underground Interview with Ryan Holiday and Rebellious Truths is about the rise of online media manipulation and its devastating consequences. Holiday is the Director of Marketing for American Apparel and author of the new book Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator. TRAILER (http://youtu.be/q1e44JsecbE).

In his book and this interview, Holiday undoes the curtain of how online news and blogs are manipulated by people like him at the expense of the people. Many consider the internet to be the new great frontier of freedom for information, an oasis amidst a toxic sea of corporate media propaganda. But is it? Holiday blows forth a storm of insider info and shines a spotlight on how political candidates are manufactured online, human psychology is manipulated for page views, and how honest and integrity are all but lost in this digital debacle. No worries, it's not all gloom and doom as he provides many solutions and alternatives to get educated and stop the manipulation from happening to YOU!

http://www.rebellioustruths.org/

The Time for Revolution is Now 2009 - 2015

History and Surrealism

From A Cavalier History of Surrealism by Jules-François Dupuis [Raoul Vaneigem]

Surrealism belongs to one of the terminal phases in the crisis of culture. In unitary regimes, of which monarchy based on divine right is the best known example, the integrative power of myth concealed the separation between culture and social life. Artists, writers, scholars and philosophers, just like the peasants, the bourgeois, the wielders of power, and even the King himself, had to live out their contradictions within a hierarchical structure which was from top to bottom the work of a God, and unchangeable in its very essence.

The growth of the bourgeois class of merchants and manufacturers meant the moulding of human relationships to the rationality of exchange, the imposition of the quantifiable power of money with mechanistic certainty as to its concrete truth. This development was accompanied by an accelerating tendency toward secularization which destroyed the formerly idyllic relationship between masters and slaves. The reality of class struggle broke upon history with the same brutality as the reign of economics, which had suddenly emerged as the focus of all preoccupations.

Once the divine State, whose form constituted an obstacle to the development of capitalism, had been done away with, the exploitation of the proletariat, the forward march of capital, and the laws of the commodity, by everywhere bending beings and things to their will, became cumbersome realities susceptible neither to the authority of a divine providence nor to incorporation into the myth of a transcendent order: realities which the ruling class, if it was not to be borne away by the next revolutionary wave – already incontestably foreshadowed by the Enragés and Babouvists – was now obliged at all costs to conceal from the consciousness of the proletariat.

Out of the relics of myth, which were also the relics of God, the bourgeoisie sought to construct a new transcendent unity capable of using the force of illusion to dissolve the separations and contradictions that individuals deprived of religion (in the etymological sense of a collective bond with God) experienced within themselves and between each other. In the wake of the abortive cults of the Supreme Being and the Goddess of Reason, nationalism in its multifarious guises - from Bonaparte's Caesarism to the gamut of national socialisms - came to the fore as the necessary but increasingly inadequate ideology of the State (whether the State of private and monopolistic capitalism or the State of capitalism in its socialized form).

Indeed, the fall of Napoleon marked the end of any prospect of reinstituting a unitary myth founded on empire, on the prestige of arms or on the mystique of territorial power. All the same, there is one trait common to all the ideologies that evolved either from the memory of the divine myth, or out of the contradictions of the bourgeoisie (liberalism), or by way of the deformation of revolutionary theories (that is, theories thrown up by real struggles which feed back into those struggles and hasten the advent of a classless society by remaining necessarily opposed to all ideology). That common trait is the same dissimulation or distortion, the same deprecation or misapprehension, of the real movement that arises from human praxis.

The radical consciousness cannot be reconciled with ideology, whose only function is to mystify. What the acutest eighteenth-century consciousness perceived for the most part, in the void left behind by the ebb tide of divine consciousness, was the suffering of separation, isolation and alienation. Disenchantment (in the literal sense of the end of the spell cast by a unifying God) thus went hand in hand with an awareness of contradictions that had no chance of being resolved or transcended.

More...