Chris Hedges - "Nonviolent Citizen Resistance to War and Global Climate Change"

Film by Eugene Taylor and Abraham Krikorian (Conscience Films - non-profit) of Chris Hedges' talk at Hofstra University on October 3, 2011 - International Day of Non-Violence. Sponsored by Hofstra University's Departments of Economics, History and Sociology and The Center for Civic Engagement and the Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives.Total running time 1 hr 11 min.

Teratocracy Rises

...I've been following indications for awhile that democracy as practiced in the post-industrial world is increasingly under threat; in February of this year, I wrote a piece ("Fear of Teratocracy") that explored the increasing attacks not just on the policies of leaders, but the on very legitimacy of leaders. In this world, it's not enough to say that your opponent is wrong, you have to say that your opponent simply has no right to lead. As democracy depends on the losers stepping aside gracefully as much as the winners ruling fairly, I tried to be clear in saying that attacks on the legitimacy of opponents were implicit attacks on democracy itself...

Why Occupy? David Suzuki Occupy Vancouver Oct 2011

David Suzuki speaks at Occupy Vancouver with Details to substantiate the atrocities subjected by the 99% by the 1%.

http://kim-hunter.blogspot.com/

From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere

The Occupy Wall Street movement - the story has moved on, but can the media keep up?

Marshall McLuhan in Conversation with Mike McManus

In one of the few interviews that Marshall McLuhan granted before his death in 1980, he talks to TVO host Mike McManus about modern regionalism and separatism, nostalgia, violence and identity, television as an addictive tranquillizer, propaganda and his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic.

F*ck You Pentagon March Flyer

Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker

Anti-War Demonstrators Storm Pentagon 1967/10/24

Mass protest against Vietnam war in Washington DC, on mall, across Potomac river to Pentagon, MPs with bayonets emerge from Pentagon, tear gas used, next day camp fires burn on the 2nd day of sitting-in

RIOT DOG - UNLEASH THE BEAST!!!

Tribute to Loukanikos aka Riot Dog, whose name derives from λουκάνικο (loukaniko - Greek for sausage), a dog that has been present at nearly every protest in downtown Athens in the past few years. The stray has become the symbol of the Greek protests against the IMF and the EU backed austerity measures that are taking place in 2011

One Of The Realest videos Message To Humanity - The Time is Now.

A revolution is coming to America.. Not Just America but the World, people are waking up and finally realising how the world works and that their rights as free human beings are slowly being taken away from them.. The 99% are rising up!

Real Democracy NOW- Oslo

Theres now a platform to speak out every saturday , We are the 99 percent, hear the people not the money.!

Law Bans Cash for Second Hand Transactions in Louisiana - Bill 195 - bye bye America

AMTV: The Message (Worldwide Revolution)

WE ARE REVOLUTION! Worldwide Uprising!

People are rising up all over the globe... its a Worldwide Revolution!!!!

The Tragic Tale of the Rocket Maker

He was an acolyte of Aleister Crowley, an employee of Howard Hughes, a victim of L. Ron Hubbard, and an enthusiastic phone buddy to Wernher Von Braun.

"...In one of the most celebrated feats in magickal history, Parsons and pre-Dianetics L. Ron Hubbard…performed The Babalon Working, a daring attempt to shatter the boundaries of time and space and intended to bring about, in Parsons own words, “love, understanding, and Dionysian freedom…the necessary counterbalance or correspondence to the manifestation of Horus”…Babalon, a Thelemic counterpart of Kali or Isis, was described by Parsons as “black, murderous and horrible, but Her hand is uplifted in blessing and reassurance: the reconciliation of opposites, the apotheosis of the impossible.” The impossible was precisely what Jack Parsons, the scientific sorcerer, had in mind.” (Richard Metzger)

Simultaneous with his more material scientific pursuits, he also tried with painstaking ritual — but apparently failed — to create a “Moon Child,” a magic being conjured via mystic ritual who would usher in a new age of unfettered liberty and signal the end of the Christian era and its outmoded morality. (Reason)..."

Outpost 13: The Atrocity Exhibition

"Eurydice in a Used Car Lot. Margaret Travis paused in the empty foyer of the cinema, looking at the photographs in the display frames. In the dim light beyond the curtains she saw the dark-suited figure of Captain Webster, the muffled velvet veiling his handsome eyes. The last few weeks had been a nightmare - Webster with his long-range camera and obscene questions. He seemed to take a certain sardonic pleasure in compiling this one-man Kinsey Report on her . . . positions, planes, where and when Travis placed his hands on her body - why didn’t he ask Catherine Austin? As for wanting to magnify the photographs and paste them up on enormous billboards, ostensibly to save her from Travis . . . She glanced at the stills in the display frames, of this elegant and poetic film in which Cocteau had brought together all the myths of his own journey of return. On an impulse, to annoy Webster, she stepped through the side exit and walked past a small yard of cars with numbered windshields. Perhaps she would make her descent here. Eurydice in a used car lot?"

J.G. Ballard, Chapter One: 'The Atrocity Exhibition', The Atrocity Exhibition (1970).

Outpost 13: The Atrocity Exhibition from Ballardian on Vimeo.

An excerpt from Outpost 13's adaptation of JG Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition. Uploaded with permission from the filmmakers. More information at ballardian.com/​outpost-13-atrocity-exhibition.

Presenting ‘Outpost 13: The Atrocity Exhibition’, a video directed by Mark C and produced by Outpost 13: Stuart Argabright, Mark C and Kent Heine. The full 35-minute film is based on J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition, and is part of a performance piece that debuted in Porto, Portugal at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, with o13 performing the soundtrack live.

Narration from Ballard’s text by David Silver with Jen Jaffe and Esther Ahn. Images by Robert Longo, Adrienne Altenhaus and others.

Outpost 13:

Mark C: guitar, synthesizers, vocals

Stuart Argabright: synthesizers, laptop, vocals

Kent Heine: bass

"The Concentration City. In the night air they passed the shells of concrete towers, blockhouses half buried in rubble, giant conduits filled with tyres, overhead causeways crossing broken roads. Travis followed the bomber pilot and the young woman along the faded gravel. They walked across the foundation of a guard-house into the weapons range. The concrete aisles stretched into the darkness across the airfield. In the suburbs of Hell Travis walked in the flaring light of the petrochemical plants. The ruins of abandoned cinemas stood at the street corners, faded billboards facing them across the empty streets. In a waste lot of wrecked cars he found the burnt body of the white Pontiac. He wandered through the deserted suburbs. The crashed bombers lay under the trees, grass growing through their wings. The bomber pilot helped the young woman into one of the cockpits. Travis began to mark out a circle on the concrete target area."

J.G. Ballard, Chapter One: 'The Atrocity Exhibition', The Atrocity Exhibition (1970).

Massachusetts Supreme Court Voids Most Foreclosure Sales from Past 5 Years

On Oct. 18th, 2011 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court handed down their decision in the Francis J. Bevilacqua, III vs. Pablo Rodriguez – and in a moment, essentially made foreclosure sales in the commonwealth over the last five years wholly void. However, some of the more polite headlines, undoubtedly in the interest of not causing wide spread panic simply put it “SJC puts foreclosure sales in doubt” or “Buyer Can’t Sue After Bad Foreclosure Sale“

In essence, the ruling upheld that those who had purchased foreclosure properties that had been illegally foreclosed upon (which is virtually all foreclosure sales in the last five years), did not in fact have title to those properties.

Yemeni Journalists Targeted by Regime

Exiled journalist describes the threats and intimidation directed against the local press.

Nasik Dhol Shiva Trance Remix High Quality HQ

The Revolution Is Televised, But You Are Not Watching

The Revolution Has Already Begun, but you stayed home brother

You are not watching it on tv, because you do not know what channel it is on

You are watching nascar, and vampires and crime procedurals

You are watching snookie and suze orman and bloomberg

You would rather be voting on American idol and x factor.

The revolution is televised, but you are not watching

The revolution is taking place right now, brother.

It is happening in the streets of Greece,

Where the World Bank and the European Central Bank

Are demanding as "some sensible austerity measures"

A more radical deconstruction of a socialist government

Than Ron Paul and the Tea Party could ever hope for.

The revolution is televised, but you are not watching

The revolution is brought to you by Adbusters from Canada

Who printed some high-art posters for a publicity stunt

With a dancer on the brass bull, called Occupy Wallstreet,

But then the Canadians were surprised when the

Real revolutionaries showed up and wanted to actually protest.

The revolution is not a publicity stunt for anyone.

The revolution is not going to have Walter Cronkite or Tom Brokaw

as the commentator, telling you what it means to you.

It took to long to come, Walter is Dead, and Tom is Retired.

The revolution is televised, but you are not watching

Anderson Cooper doesn't know what it means.

Glen Beck doesn't know what it means.

MSNBC and Fox and CNN will ask the man in the street

Because that's the best they can do, and they will still not understand.

You will be more likely to get an explanation of the revolution

From John Stewart or even Joel McHale, if you are even watching.

The revolution will take place in locations you cannot locate on a map.

It is taking place in the Wisconsin statehouse, and in Tunisia.

It is taking place in Egypt, in Libya, and Zuccotti Park.

It is taking place in Iceland and Ireland, and the Security Council.

There will not common theme and coherent plot line.

There will not be a explanation of the mysteries at the end of each episode. There will not be a big reveal at the end of the season.

The revolution is televised, but you are not watching

The revolutionaries are calling for the dismantling of government

The revolutionaries are calling for the dismantling of globalization

The revolutionaries watched too damn much sesame street, and are calling for the dismantling of everything that begins with the letter "G."

The revolutionaries want us to return to an 18th century ideal that has

Been re-discovered in histories written by a wealthy dead white 1%.

Because in the 18th century, the 99% were illiterate and actually worse off

than they are now, but the revolutionaries do not remember that.

The revolution is televised, but you are not watching

The revolution will not be islamist, or capitalist, or socialist, or progressive,

or any kind of "ist" or "ism" except perhaps for anarchist.

The revolution is opposed to everything the revolutionaries hold dear.

The revolution is against government regulation.

The revolution is against cheap global credit.

The revolution is against taxation of any kind.

The revolution is against cheap globally produced goods.

The revolution is against government services

The revolution is against corporations

The revolution is televised, is televised, IS TELEVISED,

But you are not watching

Song anthem for Occupy

Nena 99 red balloons for the 99% 

Nena 99 Luftballons Live 2003 (german english)

Squashing Uprisings, Mercenaries Could Create a New Wave of Control

Eric Prince, the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater, is making headlines again, this time with his training of a mercenary unit in the United Arab Emirates.

Greece Strikes, the People Rise, Global Economy Teeters

Everyone knew it was a losing battle, but everyone showed up anyway. In an uprising virtually unprecedented in its size, scope and diversity, malcontents united across Greece to push back against the government’s assault on working people.

After the Global Day, Go to a Global Week for the Financial Alternatives! Minutes of the IX Squares Meeting

The 5th. of NoVember will be signed with a V as Vendetta

Anonymous - #OpCashBack - November 5th

If you dont trust any credit union, just let your old bank account active and try to get as much hardcash as you can. Fiat money is worthless for merchant banks, because if they need it they just create it, but if they loose their reserves of hard cash they may even could become bankrupt.

Bank Transfer Day Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/Nov.Fifth

Greetings, We are Anonymous.

Over the past month, we have witnessed the Occupy protests grow to unbelievable strengths. 82 countries and 1000 cities are currently joining in the Occupy movement. Occupy Wall Street is currently heading into its 30th day of protest and is showing little signs of stopping.

This November the 5th, we invite you to join us, for Bank Transfer day.

We invite you to remove all funds from your bank account and transfer them to a not-for-profit credit union.

Together, we will show banks a day they will never forget.

They will remember, the 5th of November.

We are Anonymous.

We are Legion.

We do not forgive.

We do not forget.

Expect us.

Peak (Oil) War by political means (16.10.2011.)

This is Democracy in Berlin! #OccupyBerlin

For a Balkan federation by Evel Economakis*

Abolishing the borders within the Balkans

In India, Whistle-Blowers Pay with Their Lives

The country’s Right to Information Act has had a powerful impact but has prompted a lethal backlash

Greek debt? We've seen it all before, Bavaria says

In 1849, patience with heavily indebted Greece began to run thin in the southern German Kingdom of Bavaria.

Peter Bane - How I'm Preparing for the Local Future: Permaculture

Permaculture - (n) agricultural system or method that seeks to integrate human activity with natural surroundings so as to create highly efficient self-sustaining ecosystems

Educator Peter Bane is preparing for the local future, beyond the global economy and after peak oil. Bane's talk is the story of the history of permaculture, and how he has used permaculture methods to move towards a self-sustaining homestead using free or low-cost techniques.

Peter Bane is the publisher of Permaculture Activist Magazine for 20 years. He is a garden farmer in Bloomington, Indiana. He teaches permaculture design for Indiana University. He has a bachelors from University in Illinois in political design. Bane has a diplomna in permaculture design from the British Academy of Permculture design. He served on the peak oil task force for the City of Bloomington, Indiana, which was adopted in 2009 December. Bane is currently working on a permaculture handbook for people who live in the suburbs.

In this talk, Bane describes, in his own words, how he is moving beyond the money economy, to providing his essential needs from his homestead, and how he is utilizing the principles of permaculture.

This talk immediately followed Nicole Foss's talk on how she prepared her family for peak oil and economic uncertainty.

Recorded at the International Conference on Sustainability: Energy, Economy, Environment 2010 hosted by Local Future and directed by Aaron Wissner.

http://sustainabilityconference.org

Scrunched-up dimensions untangled

British physicist Stephen Hawking may claim that extra dimensions provide the key to understanding the "grand design" of the universe, but it's Chinese-American mathematician Shing-Tung Yau who actually figured out how those extra dimensions work.

Universe submerged in a sea of chilled neutrinos

We are all submerged in a sea of almost undetectable particles left over from the first few seconds of the big bang, according to the latest observations from a NASA satellite.

Cointelpro, Provacateurs,Disinfo Agents

The challenges of managing mountains of information

If you think the storage systems in your data centers are out of control, imagine having 449 billion objects in your database, or having to add 40 terabytes of new data each week.

Karma - Ganesha (Trance Mix)

Musical Innerlube: Serj Tankian - The Unthinking Majority

Directed by Tawd Dorenfeld

Occupy: Catalepsy/Multitude/Consensus/Crisis

From Friday Essay:

I’d like to offer some brief notes, consisting of four titles, on the recent occupation movement. Many are incomplete ideas born of frustration and joy, but it’s best to strike while the iron is hot rather than mourn mistakes later, or both.

Catalepsy/Seizure: cat·a·lep·sy (ktl-ps)

n. A condition that occurs in a variety of physical and psychological disorders and is characterized by lack of response to external stimuli and by muscular rigidity, so that the limbs remain in whatever position they are placed

‘Katalipsi‘- the term the current Greek movement uses to describe ‘occupation’ is perhaps better thought of through the term ‘catalepsy’ or ‘seizure’. Seizure has two meanings- the first implies capture- of the enemy base, of a hostage, of government, or indeed of Power itself.

But it also carries this second meaning- a seizure as a fit, a convulsion of the body politic, a form of violent immobility in which muscles seem to wrench away from each other. It is this second sense that gets lost in the anglophone concept of ‘occupation’- the notion of a ‘catalepsy’ itself.

It's already been pointed out that while UK movements try to copy the ‘memetic form’ of a social movement, they certainly lack any of the radical withdrawal of labour or disruptive capacity of the Greek occupations or Egyptian uprisings. A square outside St. Pauls might be occupied, but the Greek Finance Ministry is seized. Note what David Graeber says here; “reclaim it [non-public space], camp out, and use it as a base to start doing other things”. The ‘occupation’ as used here; basically just sitting in a space, be it public or private, is to a certain extent an irrelevance - the space is being used as an organizing place to plan other activities which pose the real threat to hegemonic power relationships. Not simply being in a space, but the active organization of a space as a tactical device- occupation or seizure need to be, and can be, so much more. They can be the catalepsy of the body politic.

In the following short clip from the 1969 occupation of Tokyo university, this logic is taken to an extreme (indeed, one to which to which it is questionable whether today’s occupations need go), but the effect is powerful- the entire political system and the life support of the city itself is fastened to the fate of a few hundred square meters in one city, a catalepsy of the metropolis as its organs seize up:

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The Folly Of Gaddafi's Execution
Evil is expunged, not in anger, not in blood, but in court.

Mikhail Gorbachev Says Uprisings Signal an Emerging New World Order
“The world needs goals that will bring people together,” he said. “Some people in the United States were pushing the idea of creating a global American empire, and that was a mistake from the start. Other people in America are now giving thought to the future of their country.
The big banks, the big corporations, are still paying the same big bonuses to their bosses. Was there ever a crisis for them? . . . I believe America needs its own perestroika.”

Occupy LA Jeff Dowd "Big Lebowski" Oct 15 2011

Jeff "The Dude" Dowd, the real-life inspiration behind the cult classic movie, "The Big Lebowski," appears at Occupy Los Angeles for the October 15, 2011 global day of action against corporate greed. Dowd lives up to his reputation fully with a discursive explication of the Occupy Wall Street movement, as seen through the interpretive lens of his tortoise-shell shades.

Costas Panayotakis, Author, Remaking Scarcity-The Autograph-10-19-2011

http://www.presstv.com/Program/205608.html
In this edition of the show Susan interviews Costas Panayotakis, the author of Remaking Scarcity.
He talks about why the young Americans are occupying Wall Street and why there will be a new movement against the government in the United States.
His latest book Remaking Scarcity is a powerful challenge to the current economic orthodoxy.
It asserts the core principle of economic democracy, that all human beings should have an equal say over the priorities of the economic system, as the ultimate solution to scarcity and ecological crisis.

Athens Demonstration Photos From Spiegel Online

Greece Riots: Athens Erupts Again

Greek sociologist discusses "deathbed of democracy" as 50,000 protest austerity

Interview from RT. Shortly after it was announced the new austerity measures were passed by the government.

Orson Welles Narrates Kafka’s Parable, “Before the Law”
"No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it."

Max Keiser: 'Greece economic crisis, sinister plot' [PressTV]

People in Greece are right to revolt against the banking system which is committing massive fraud in the country, an economic critic tells Press TV.
In an interview with Press TV, Max Keiser, financial journalist from Paris, commented on the latest developments regarding the economic crisis in Greece.

Shocking Police Behaviour OccupyMELBOURNE!


Occupation of DC Shuts Down Citibank
A group of 40 protesters marched to the Citibank, a subsidiary of Citigroup, at 14th and G Streets NW this morning to protest the announcement of the seventh consecutive quarter of massive profits by Citigroup while the economy continues to collapse. Upon the arrival of the protesters, the bank shut down. Six protesters including a video team remained inside the building.

Anonymous - Financial emitter, financial liquid, qualitative change inevitable

It is quite evident that the source of the money (emitter) is infinite, whereas money is virtual value, and the source of money is limited only by the physical representation, which is also largely a virtual, digital form. Whereas the financial emitter is infinite, and money represent access to real values, not infinite values, the financial emitter must not represent the ownership, whereas that represents total ownership. The financial emitter must not have access to real values, directly or indirectly, and this must be under highly rigorous, and wide societal control, and an abuse of the financial emission needs to be very seriously punished, as far as this endangers the society and justice in aggregate. Inasmuch as the financial emitter is infinite, the content of the financial emitter is completely virtual, whereas any financial quantity in proportion to the content of the financial emitter is zero. Therefore the financial value may manifest only outside the financial emitter in the context of real economic processes, under the rigorous conditions constituted by the financial system. Inasmuch as the financial emitter is infinite, it does not have mathematical sense or meaning, which is manifestation of its total virtuality, which means that the financial emitter is cultural value without quantitative meaning. Mathematical and societal manifestations of financial emitter are the subject of the financial system, which generates the emission, absorption, credibility, stability, justice, security and value of virtual financial medium. Financial emitter, financial system and financial medium are inseparable realities. The financial system is cultural value. Economic value is the ownership of financial medium, thus the financial quantity in the form of ownership. Ownership is the fundamental economic value, not a financial medium. Skills, knowledge and abilities are the real ownership. Ownership of financial medium is potential ownership, seeing that the financial medium is virtual value. Annihilation of ownership of skills, knowledge and abilities is slavery. Total ownership is empire.

The argument that the money is the blood of the economy is completely erroneous and misleading, and is just another ideological indoctrination. Economic exchange is essentially independent of money and the ownership is the fundamental economic value. Blood circulations are balanced systems, in which the blood does not lose the balance of the volume, the volume adapts the growth of the organism, the blood is distributed to all evolutionary dependent components of the organism in a balanced manner, and it does not lose its stable functionality, despite external influences. The Western financial system does not meet even one of these properties. In terms of a flow of the fluid, the current financial system is essentially unstable and self-destructive, in particular as a result of the interest accumulation in the volume of the liquid, which is multiplied by the completely wrong basic distribution of the fluid, distribution blocking, and also due to the fact that the financial fluid, especially in highly virtual environment of financial enterprises, stimulates the growth of financial enterprises without restriction, leading to the local accumulation of the fluid - of the potential ownership, instead, to allow all the necessary functions of societal organism, evolutionary dependent on financial medium, not just economic. The purpose and function of the blood is supply, not the growth stimulation. Unlimited local growth is a malignancy. One of the forms of treatment of malignant tumors is the restriction of blood supply. The opposite may have deadly impact.

Real economic process is a fundamental societal necessity. The body politic is not just economic article, because it bears a substantial societal, social and cultural role, as well as other non-economic tasks, without which a stable real economic process in advanced specialized society is not possible. Currently the role of the body politic is reduced to a work service, representing the overall degeneration of society, and leading to competition between work services by reducing the price of work, to the economic capacity migration, and unemployment.

These facts do not represent any political affinity, but the basic undeniable reality.

Private ownership of the financial emitter and accounting emission of the money by banks are the greatest deceptions in history.

Many are indoctrinated by the idea that there is no other better system than capitalism, and manipulated to the tolerance of substantial injustice and parasitism, and they don't see that the capitalistic free market is an illusion, totally manipulated. Capitalism is not a free market. Free market is not capitalism. Capitalism is not a societal system, but the financial system, whose purpose is totalitarian domination. Democracy is the political system that doesn't have anything common with capitalism...

JULIAN ASSANGE AT OCCUPY LSX - ST PAUL'S CATHEDRAL


Why Many Cells Are Better Than One: Limited Decision-Making Ability of Individual Cells Is Bolstered in Masses
Researchers from Johns Hopkins have quantified the number of possible decisions that an individual cell can make after receiving a cue from its environment, and surprisingly, it's only two.

'Flash Robs' Vex Retailers
Retailers this holiday season are preparing to protect themselves against a new group of unwanted visitors: swarms of teenagers and young adults who plot via Twitter, phone texts and Facebook to descend on stores and steal merchandise.

Flying Spaghetti Monster: Futurama sighting
This isn’t the first FSM sighting on the show.. could it be that there are some Pastafarians on staff? How do I get a job there?

How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect
We are so eager to conform to the collective, to fit our little lives into the arc of history, that we end up misleading ourselves.

John K. Vance; Uncovered LSD Project at CIA
John K. Vance, 89, a member of the Central Intelligence Agency inspector general's staff in the early 1960s who discovered that the agency was running a research project that included administering LSD and other drugs to unwitting human subjects...

Invisible Pink Unicorns
“Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. We know this because they are capable of being invisible and pink at the same time.

Conquering an Infinite Cave
There’s a jungle inside Vietnam’s mammoth cavern. A skyscraper could fit too. And the end is out of sight.

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

Andy Coghlan and Debora MacKenzie report for New Scientist:

As protests against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.

The study's assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.

The idea that a few bankers control a large chunk of the global economy might not seem like news to New York's Occupy Wall Street movement and protesters elsewhere. But the study, by a trio of complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is the first to go beyond ideology to empirically identify such a network of power. It combines the mathematics long used to model natural systems with comprehensive corporate data to map ownership among the world's transnational corporations (TNCs).

"Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it's conspiracy theories or free-market," says James Glattfelder. "Our analysis is reality-based."

Previous studies have found that a few TNCs own large chunks of the world's economy, but they included only a limited number of companies and omitted indirect ownerships, so could not say how this affected the global economy - whether it made it more or less stable, for instance.

The Zurich team can. From Orbis 2007, a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide, they pulled out all 43,060 TNCs and the share ownerships linking them. Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company's operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power.

~ more... ~ Also... 'One super-corporation runs the global economy'... and it could be terrifyingly unstable ~

HOLY BAILOUT - Federal Reserve Now Backstopping $75 Trillion Of Bank Of America's Derivatives Trades
This story from Bloomberg just hit the wires this morning. Bank of America is shifting derivatives in its Merrill investment banking unit to its depository arm, which has access to the Fed discount window and is protected by the FDIC.
This means that the investment bank's European derivatives exposure is now backstopped by U.S. taxpayers. Bank of America didn't get regulatory approval to do this, they just did it at the request of frightened counterparties. Now the Fed and the FDIC are fighting as to whether this was sound. The Fed wants to "give relief" to the bank holding company, which is under heavy pressure.
This is a direct transfer of risk to the taxpayer done by the bank without approval by regulators and without public input. You will also read below that JP Morgan is apparently doing the same thing with $79 trillion of notional derivatives guaranteed by the FDIC and Federal Reserve.
What this means for you is that when Europe finally implodes and banks fail, U.S. taxpayers will hold the bag for trillions in CDS insurance contracts sold by Bank of America and JP Morgan. Even worse, the total exposure is unknown because Wall Street successfully lobbied during Dodd-Frank passage so that no central exchange would exist keeping track of net derivative exposure.
This is a recipe for Armageddon. Bernanke is absolutely insane. No wonder Geithner has been hopping all over Europe begging and cajoling leaders to put together a massive bailout of troubled banks. His worst nightmare is Eurozone bank defaults leading to the collapse of the large U.S. banks who have been happily selling default insurance on European banks since the crisis began...

Oct 20: Athens Protests – Live Blogging in English-News, Pcts, Videos

Watch live streaming video from syntagmasquare at livestream.com

Live updates from the General Strike, day 2 – October 20

The Occupy movement has lit a fire for real change
In just a few weeks the Occupy movement has helped bust open the political class veto on the scale of change demanded by the crisis – and now that opportunity needs to be seized.

An Occupy Wall Street Challenge to the "Professional Left"
The time for lip service is OVER. That's why people are camped out in a park.

Occupy Sydney trio charged with crate theft

Propaganda 2.0 and the Rise of ‘Narrative Networks’
DARPA, the Pentagon’s advanced concepts think-tank, is looking to take propaganda to the next level, and they’re hoping to do so by controlling the very way their targets perceive and interpret the flow of incoming information.

Darpa Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda
Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller’s art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing “incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities,” was the province of the American storyteller. A machine might imitate simple formulas behind yarns, but never quite master them.

Birth of 7th Military Information Support Battalion is a special event
The 7th is the final battalion to be activated as part of the growth of military information support operations, formerly known as psychological operations.
Those soldiers' job is to convey selected information to foreign audiences to influence emotions, reasoning and behavior.
The battalion will work for the special operations commander of Africa Command, which has headquarters in Germany and oversees U.S. military activity in Africa.

Euro-Parliament opens its own propaganda centre: and you're paying for it
Parlamentarium eu siteToday was the first open day of the new 'Parlamentarium' at the European Parliament here in Brussels. The thing is billed as a visitors' centre, but in fact it is a propaganda centre, a multi-million pound way for the MEPs to stroke their own egos.

Project Hostile Intent (FAST)

The US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect "hostile thoughts" in people walking through border posts, airports and public places. The DHS says recent tests prove it works.
roject Hostile Intent as it was called, is aimed to help security staff choose who to pull over for a gently probing interview - "or more".
The DHS science unit gave an update on the project, now dubbed the less-hostile-sounding Future Attribute Screening Technologies (FAST) .
DHS Claims The FAST Program has been through stringent privacy controls and that the data is never matched to a name. It is only used to make decisions about whether to question someone, and then discarded.
Make no mistake, they have no intentions on discarding any data as DHS states that they have a Congressional Mandate to conduct data mining activities from almost all public and private sources. This has raised some very serious privacy concerns. DHS claims they respect our privacy and have tried to work that into their solution however, they police themselves as they have their own Chief Privacy Officer they consult on OUR privacy concerns.
DHS knows they walk a tight line when it comes to doing whatever the hell they wan't and breaking the law when it comes to projects such as FAST. In order to get around some restrictions they fly under the flag of "research and science"
For More Information On How They Plan To Use "research" to justify this privacy assult on you, be sure to read this 2008 document produced by DHS is quite the display of using the Delphi Technique to achieve consensus -
http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/privacy/privacy_datamining_July24_2008_min...

Skirmishes break out during largely peaceful Greece protest
Angry protesters vowed to bring Greece to a standstill on the second day of a general strike today while disgruntled lawmakers vote on the details of a deeply unpopular austerity package needed to stave off bankruptcy.

Athens night clashes as Greece fights austerity [RT]

Firefighters were called in late on Wednesday to extinguish piles of rubbish set ablaze by protesters in Athens after riots broke out during a demonstration by about 100-thousand people on the first of a two-day general strike. Violence spread across the centre of the city earlier in the day, following the massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures. Authorities said about 3,000 police were deployed on the capital's streets.

Special Lord Monckton Interview: Scientific Misconduct Needed to Push Nwo Objective 1/5

special interiview with Lord Christopher Monckton about Al Gore's climate gate hoax, and the hidden Nwo objective behind it all.

The Hamster Wheel: Lord Monckton

Craig Reucassel interviews comedy genius Sacha Baron Cohen in character as his latest creation: climate skeptic Lord Christopher Monckton.

Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

THE GLOBAL CHANGE - INDIGNADOS OCCUPY TOGETHER

Audiovisual project that shows the evolution of the indignant movement initiated in Spain and that has multiplied in different countries of the world crystallising in a world-wide demonstration on October 15, 2011 whose peculiarity is that finishes in Wall Street, the heart of the financial system and origin of the global crisis.

Facebook Is Building Shadow Profiles of Non-Users
An anonymous reader writes
"As noted previously, Max Schrems of Europe Versus Facebook has filed numerous complaints about Facebook's data collection practices. One complaint that has failed to draw much scrutiny regards Facebook's creation of Shadow Profiles. 'This is done by different functions that encourage users to hand personal data of other users and non-users to Facebook... (e.g. synchronizing mobile phones, importing personal data from e-mail providers, importing personal information from instant messaging services, sending invitations to friends or saving search queries when users search for other people on facebook.com). This means that even if you don't use it, you may already have a profile on Facebook.'"

Russian artists VOINA detained, harassed
Russian police pose as German journalists

Palestinian 'terrorist' takes aim at Sacha Baron Cohen
Man depicted as Lebanese terrorist in Cohen's film Bruno files suit against him for $115 million.

Art as a Weapon
Eric Drooker and the persistence of the committed artist

How nonviolence protects the state

http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2010/05/31/the-resistance-is-blowing-up/
This week's guest is Peter Gelderloos

Parasite Turns Wasps Into Outsider Zombie Queens
Even in a world where parasites routinely turn insects into zombies, radically altering their bodies and behavior to serve the parasites’ demands, the story of Polistes dominulus and Xenos vesparum stands out for its weirdness.

Evidence
While there are many success stories that have been told by macrobiotic supporters, there are a number of strong exceptions. Aveline and Lilly Kushi (wife and daughter of the father of American macrobiotics) were lifelong, dedicated practitioners of the macrobiotic lifestyle but both passed away as a result of cancer. Renowned macrobiotics teacher Cecile Levin and macrobiotics speaker Dr. Anthony Sattilaro, both longtime macrobiotic practitioners, also passed away from cancer. Even Michio Kushi, the student of George Ohsawa who brought macrobiotics to America has undergone an operation to remove a tumor in his intestine.