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Excellent animation:

One former president goes to jail - Will Bush be next?

Ramsey Clark is heading up a major international effort with hundreds of lawyers, legal scholars and human rights leaders from countries throughout the world who are committed to prosecuting and indicting Bush-era officials.

"...Bush and the other top officials are undoubtedly worried right now about going anywhere in the world. Everywhere they go, people are there to demand that they be prosecuted for war crimes and torture.

Karl Rove was repeatedly disrupted by angry protesters on his recent book tour. In Beverly Hills and Las Vegas, Rove was additionally humiliated when people tried to carry out a citizen’s arrest at his speaking engagement.

Twenty-three CIA agents, who were acting under orders from Bush and Cheney, were found guilty in abstentia in a major trial in Italy.

A U.S. Federal Judge put the fear of the devil in all of the Bush team when he allowed a lawsuit brought by a torture victim at Guantanamo to proceed against Donald Rumsfeld.

This global movement will not stop. The damage caused by Bush’s crimes is too great and too many people have been harmed. As they did with the Chilean dictator Pinochet, the people will struggle for accountability until justice has been achieved.

Bush and company are well aware that they can be held accountable.

Just a few weeks ago, an Argentinian judge sentenced former Argentinian President Reynaldo Bignone to twenty-five years in prison for the kidnapping and torture of 56 people in a torture center.

This is precisely what Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld ordered. The CIA set up torture centers for people who the Pentagon or CIA kidnapped. And Guantanamo was determined by the United Nations to be a "torture center."

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff of Colin Powell, testified before Congress that at least 108 prisoners died while in U.S. detention during the Bush era, many of them from torture..."

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Bush Six Likely to Be Indicted
"Spanish prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five top associates over their role in the torture of five Spanish citizens held at Guantánamo," according to Scott Horton, law professor and writer for Harper's Magazine and The American Lawyer.

The #Spanish Revolution
Nobody expected the Real Democracy Now grassroots movement that overshadowed an election campaign to capture the imagination of the world

Israeli Protests – Arab Spring meets Jewish Summer
Paul Feldman reports on giant Israeli protests

Greece: the European version of shock doctrine
The dawn of a new obscure era
All austerity measures forced on Greek people since 2010 constitute a small hors d'oeuvre in relation to the upcoming tsunami of social poverty and squalor that will be served to them as the main course by the capital and the Greek government, the IMF and EU directorate. The percentage of “official” unemployment has surpassed 16%, while the real one is estimated to be more than 20%.

Israeli Uprising


Anarchist,Liberal,andAuthoritarianEnlightenments:NotesFromtheArabSpring

World Revolution Not Seen on TV


Talk - What Difference Does a Revolution Make in a Global Economic Meltdown?

Martin Sanchez, Consul General of Venezuela in San Francisco and Debra Evenson author of "Law and Society in Contemporary Cuba" speaking at the workshop "What Difference Does a Revolution Make in a Global Economic Meltdown?" held October 16, 2009 at the National Lawyers Guild Law of the People 2009 Convention in Seattle

DEATHS IN SYRIA MASS PROTESTS: FRIDAY ''your silence is killing us''



Decentralized Global Rebellion Rages Across Europe, Israel, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and Egypt – #GIABO
The decentralized global rebellion rages on…


A new jury to put the British public interest first

A campaign has been launched to hold to account Britain's 'feral' elite for the series of crises which have scarred the country

A People's Jury of a thousand angry citizens

A Poem For Bukowski

Victory For Iraq War Whistleblower; KBR's Profiteering Exposed
Military contract whistleblower Bunny Greenhouse's legal win is welcome, but US taxpayers are still out $5 trillion for Bush's wars.

Palestinians Prepare for Massive Uprising
Leading members of the Palestinian Popular Committees in the West Bank plan massive civil unrest and disobedience against the Israeli occupation authorities come September when the Palestinians take their case for statehood to the UN.

Riot police evict Tahrir Square activists

Obama Orders Military To Prepare For Spring Food Riots
A grim report prepared by France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) obtained by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) states that president’s Obama and Sarkozy have “agreed in principal” to create a joint US-European military force to deal exclusively with a Global uprising expected this spring as our World runs out of food.

Japan: People Power! Protesters Rally in Fukushima Against Nuclear Power
An estimated 1,700 people gathered to call for an end to nuclear energy on Sunday in the regional capital of Fukushima, where a nuclear power plant that was crippled by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami continues to cause concern.

EGYPT AND THE TRIUMPH OF PEOPLE POWER
The bravery shown by ordinary Egyptians against incredible odds was amazing to see. But more impressive was how they came together to show the world that people of all ages and backgrounds could come together for a common purpose.
This was People Power, and 25 years ago this month, we saw it in action in the Phillipines.

Mystery Group Recruits in OC for Global 'Revolution'
Posters promoting a website purportedly set up by anti-Establishment group Anonymous appear along Del Mar over the weekend.

Pakistan: Security Forces ‘Disappear’ Opponents in Balochistan

Storm by Tim Minchin

Tim Minchin's brilliant & witty demolition of irrationality in all its many guises - with rolling text from [miltherm] -all in the medium of a 9-minute beat poem. Audio from the QEH Dec 2008 show with kind permission from Tim Minchin.


People & Power - Children of the cannabis trade

An investigation into how Vietnamese children trafficked to the UK to work in the cannabis trade are often prosecuted as criminals rather than treated as victims.

Doap Nixon - Power To The People

From somewhere in cyberspace:

"The government today announced that it is changing its emblem ... to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the government's political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, and gives you a sense of security while you're actually being screwed!"

Magic Trip Trailer

Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood's MAGIC TRIP is a freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's fabled road trip across America in the legendary Magic Bus. In 1964, Ken Kesey, the famed author of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," set off on a legendary, LSD-fuelled cross-country road trip to the New York World's Fair. He was joined by "The Merry Band of Pranksters," a renegade group of counterculture truth-seekers, including Neal Cassady, the American icon immortalized in Kerouac's "On the Road," and the driver and painter of the psychedelic Magic Bus. Kesey and the Pranksters intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished and the footage has remained virtually unseen. With MAGIC TRIP, Gibney and Ellwood were given unprecedented access to this raw footage by the Kesey family. They worked with the Film Foundation, HISTORY and the UCLA Film Archives to restore over 100 hours of film and audiotape, and have shaped an invaluable document of this extraordinary piece of American history

Musical Innerlube: Zappa (Dweezil) plays Zappa (Frank)

DZ solos: RDNZL, Pick Me I'm Clean, Cruisin' for Burgers - Roundhouse, 6th Nov 2010

Duet with Ago and Dweezil

Zappa Plays Zappa "Cheepnis" Morse Theater 10/18/08

See also: Cheepnis by Dweezil Zappa

And something from Pappa Zappa:

Frank Zappa Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Father O'Blivion

Every Great Social Movement

By David Korten, Yes! Mag

The biggest shifts of our time have been sparked by ordinary people rejecting the cultural stories that dominated them.

This is part of a series of blogs based on excerpts adapted from the 2nd edition of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth. I wrote Agenda to spur a national conversation on economic policy issues and options that are otherwise largely ignored. This blog series is intended to contribute to that conversation. —DK

Every great social movement begins with a set of ideas validated, internalized, and then shared and amplified through media, grassroots organizations, and thousands, even millions, of conversations. A truth strikes a resonant chord, we hear it acknowledged by others, and we begin to discuss it with friends and associates.The new story spreads out in multiple ever-widening circles that begin to connect and intermingle.

A story of unrealized possibility gradually replaces the falsified story that affirmed the status quo. The prevailing culture begins to shift, and the collective behavior of the society shifts with it.
For the civil rights and women’s movements, the old story said:

Women and people of color have no soul. Less than human, they have no natural rights. They can find fulfillment only through faithful service to their white male masters.

A profound cultural shift occurred between 1950 and 1980 as the consequence of a growing rejection of these stories in favor of a new story that recognized and affirmed the full humanity and rights of all people.

It began with the civil rights movement, inspired in part by the words and writing of W. E. B. DuBois, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His ideas were carried forward by others such as the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.

Communicated through books, periodicals, and speeches, these ideas inspired and shaped countless conversations, particularly in black churches, about race and the possibilities of integration based on a full recognition of the inherent humanity of people all races.

Thinkers, writers, and activists who embraced the idea of integration engaged in verbal combat with those who defended the status quo as legitimated by the old story. As the story of possibility gained currency, proponents engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience in the form of sit-ins in segregated facilities, which began to create a new reality and set the stage for political demands to replace laws that institutionalized the old story with laws that institutionalized the new.

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