There is outrage over the nationalist economic policy of "America First." The parallels to the 1929 system crisis are obvious. The unstable house of cards could now finally collapse. Credit-financed demand is created for a goods-producing system that suffocates in its own productivity.
Do Germans really want to align themselves with evil? (tags)
In Germany many women are being subjected to sexual abuse by Muslim migrants but their leader Angela Merkel seems captured by the EU and UN and unable to properly defend the country's culture and way of life. My recent book describes the creation of an 'evil' ideology at the UN.
The Culture of Sameness Lament (tags)
Cities all over the U.S. are losing their historic soul.
More about KPFK via Pacifica turmoils (tags)
as Updates appear, they are being excerpted here reposted for LOCALS to also follow if anyone is interested. To all appearances, the conflicts continue as unresolved as nations within nations do, without the physical bullets and rockets but with the same intents and results it seems. Some are not going to seek out information so this seems to be a site where some PACIFICA and it’s local affiliate KPFK doings and undoings are being revealed. Not because it is appreciated or can be ‘helped’ but because at least, it is said, “it is good to know..even if….” yes, there are a few "other" views/ sides/ opponents and different ways the stories are being told too. See elsewhere for those.
Studs Terkel's 1963 interview with Bob Dylan, 58 min (tags)
Silver and gold cannot buy back a heart grown cold. Attitudes are the only disability. If the political elite heard www.pandora.com or www.dylanradio.com, their anger and competitiveness would be broken!
Geekout's Links 9.7.2013 (tags)
This time around, it's some Syrian history, Chelsea Manning, race in Jamaica, and thoughts about the future of labor.
ALLIANCE PHILIPPINES CONDEMNS GMA RELEASE ON BAIL (tags)
“Above the Fray” Like Pontius Pilate, PH President Aquino III washed his hand as the court let former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo filed her bail and was set free from her detention at the Veterans Memorial Hospital. In this scenario, Alliance Philippines (AJLPP), West Coast Coordinator Arturo Garcia... vehemently condemned this latest charade and travesty of justice. Garcia said that:“ The Alliance, the Filipino American community and all freedom loving people of the United States, detest and must expose this newest political “moro-moro “ of the Aquino III.” Garcia elucidated “ Aquino III actions seems to show that he is above the fray but in reality he tolerates and in cahoots with the schemes against the people.
Why Hillary Rod-Iron Clinton Should Be Retired (tags)
Hillary Clinton seems much a mess. Possessed actually, as her appearance, attitude and demeanor, at times, suggests she is in some movie and her character is veering to evil antagonist or machination machine—militantly bureaucratic and all gang mobsters of huge government might imply. Enough with feminist, protectionism claims she is being judged because she is a woman to different standards. Yes there was a terrible and concerted propaganda war to incite hatred against Bill in any way possible as well as everything Democrats ever stood for (or purported). Yet now she is equally manipulated by forces beyond her ken as psychologically blind invalid—because she has need to lash out at something—something society and powerful special interests will allow her unconscious anger to focus. One doesn’t have to understand the likes of Thomas Scheff’s Emotions and Violence: Shame and Rage in Destructive Conflicts to realize where she is coming from and likely to go. Deliberate and accidental humiliation does indeed motivate people to engage violence, which seems the very modus operandi of both Israel and the United States in relation to several Muslim groups.
Wurstkuche Restaurant Owners Harassing Arts District Artist with Defamation Law Suit (tags)
The owners of Wurstkuche Restaurant, Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson have filed a defamation suit against a Los Angeles artist for calling them "The Anti-Artists of the Arts District". Are they self fulfilling the artist's prophecy with this law suit? The artist seems to think so.
Wurstkuche Restaurant Owners File Harassment Law Suit Against Arts District Artist (tags)
Joseph Pitruzzelli and Tyler Wilson, owners of Wurstkuche Restaurant are suing a Los Angeles artist for calling them "The Anti-Artists of the Arts District". Are they self fulfilling an artist's prophecy with this law suit? The artist seems to think so...
From Protest Camp to General Strike (tags)
Something crucial happened in the US in 2011. The strengthening of the Occupy movement, first on Wall Street and then in hundreds of American cities, is celebrated as the revival of the revolutionary middle class. The movement in the US seems two steps ahead.
9/11: Who Really Benefited? (tags)
Forget so-called conspiracy theories. Instead look at reality. Dare ask yourselves who actually seems to have benefited from the 9-11 calamity. In light of the debt ceiling debates and continuous politics as usual of Washington D.C., it is time for the American people and individual states of this federation to look at a troubling set of facts. There seems to have been ?several? beneficiaries of 9-11 that don?t exactly fit the story line we were constantly fed by the propaganda machine and mainstream media as to how to connect the dots (which we were rhetorically asked to do).
Justice Scalia and the Dybbuk (tags)
Justice Scalia's oral comments on the Supreme Court's ruling regarding over crowding in Califoria prisons indicates he, just like Judge Hoffman in the Chicago Seven case, has been possessed by a dybbuk.
IPAD 2 - THE RETURN OF THE ZOMBIES OF CONSUMPTION (tags)
Pensive meditations on the civilization of consumption.
Hanna: An ?Alternative? Movie Review (as more interesting and informative than your typica (tags)
This review is not meant to give you all the typical facts and highlights of the movie. Standard movie reviewers have already presented their perspectives, the basic story line. Whereas this essay is meant to take more seriously what is really a rather stupid plot, but still within a beautiful movie and action packed piece of entertainment, and to speculate how it may fit ?within? the too often vacuous audience culture that might watch it, as well as the movie industry that created it and critiqued it. And, granted, it is often presumptuous to interpret a work of art as something that can be criticized as more subjectively serious?but the idea of juxtaposing a fairy tale with CIA operatives is just too tempting to ?not? deconstruct.
SCREAM IN THE SHOW SOCIETY (tags)
Reflections on the film Scream 4 with base in Guy Debord.
Important New Film “Bag It!” Playing on PBS this Week (tags)
This new documentary is pretty entertaining and well-made, but also very disturbing--and important.
Eric McDavid - 5 Years Imprisonment (tags)
Yesterday marked the 5th year of Eric's arrest and imprisonment...
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exercise in learning
ISRAELI TV SHOW DOUBLE-CROSSES BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT (tags)
To laugh... of the Israelis.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS: Obama has become the articulate Bush (tags)
The only change in the new administration is the voice and the color by Peter Stern
To mutilate literature and history = to do movies in the USA.
AFTER THE RAIN, CONFLICT WITH POLICEMEN (tags)
Burning the bridges of the corruption.
Our new arrival of Surfer Tahitian pearl pendants have been a hit over the Christmas season. This design has been popular on the North Shore of Hawaii among surfers for at least 10 years and for good reason.
copenhagen police destroy integrity of the conference (tags)
a new phase of climate destruction, the public violent beating of earth advocates
Unfinished Fontaineleau Las Vegas (tags)
A formal comparison of the original Fontainebleau to the Las Vegas knock off and recount of funding issues
Corporate180: Failing Due to Ineptitude or Bush Bailout Backlash? (tags)
Corporate180 is having serious problems: are they due to a backlash against the Bush Administration or the company's failure to perform in key business areas?
Corporate180: Trouble Getting Off The Ground? (tags)
This company, run by Bush sympathizers, is having trouble getting off the ground. They cannot perform in their key business area. They are plagued by lawsuits and management singlemindedly opposed to the First Amendment.
VIDEO: Honduran Coup Resistance Grows (tags)
www.therealnews.com is an incredible resource. Check out Nicaragua. The Unfinished Revolution.
Hundreds take the streets in Temecula to say NO ON PROP 8!
Eric Bidwell: "Revolutionary" Mayor for the Rest of Us (tags)
Zenger's Newsmagazine is proud to endorse 25-year-old "revolutionary" candidate Eric Bidwell for Mayor of San Diego.
US Combat Deaths Could Hit 4,000 Next Week (tags)
US Combat Deaths Could Hit 4,000 Next Week
Eric McDavid Update - 11.27.07 (tags)
Eric receives blood work and a visit from the cardiologist...
David Kelly: The belly-dancing spy whose secrets they just ignored (tags)
Charismatic and exotic, Ms Pederson was an Arab-American linguist whom David Kelly met in Iraq in 1998...Mai Pederson — a bellydancing US Army sergeant who, according to both her ex-husbands, is a spy with an astonishing ability to bewitch men.
Bill Clinton has signed his book "Give and change the world" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on October 3, 2007. The title of this book seems to refer to what world teacher Maitreya has said for so long: "Share and save the world." The original English title of the book is just "Giving". Changing the world is automatically included in the term "giving" more so in English than in Dutch, it seems, where the intention of giving is perhaps less naturally accepted without an ulterior motive or at least a clear objective in mind, and needs explanation, as does everything.
Libertarian Tom Rawles Supports the war in Iraq (tags)
Libertarian Tom Rawles in this article seems to support the reasons for invading Iraq in this article. The article was published last week in the Tribune.
Women, please be patient - still (tags)
I posit the radical notion that the denial of rights and oppression of women is equally important as the denial of rights and the oppression of any other group in a society. Underlying this notion is that women ARE those other groups and one cannot separate them out from “the rest of the population” seeking a better life.
May Day 2007; A Report To Correct The Balance (tags)
The following is a summary of what occurred when LAPD decided to disperse a peaceful march. The following contents of this article may be used for non-profit only.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn't keep campaign promise to animals (tags)
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa promised to make LA a NoKill City. He hired Ed Boks as the new General Manager. In his first year Boks has failed to reduce the euthanasia rate. Fewer animals made it out alive, fewer were adopted. What went wrong? And what is the Mayor going to do about it?
Do Something! Quick! 9/11/01 & Delusions of War (tags)
Two more suppressed articles of mine.
Optimism in the Kingdom of Phantasies (tags)
The credit-financing of the worldwide takeover batlles has built a gigantic bankrupt-cy potential in the private equity funds that can lead to a chain reaction in 2007. The hard landing of the consumer economy in the US seems programmed.
Is the Hague court a joke or have we just lost our sense of perspective? The latest indiscriminate slaughter of children and innocent civilians in Lebanon by ‘God’s chosen’ seems not to warrant the attention of the Hague court. Carla Del Ponte’s latest remonstration against the Serbian leadership for not delivering war criminals to her court seems ‘slightly’ dissociative in view of recent events. Her obsession with Serbs now borders on the pathological. Would the civilian death toll in Iraq warrant her attention? Iraq now approaches one hundred thousand innocent civilian deaths – eighty percent directly attributable to the forces of occupation!
Incompetent UN Resolution Draft (tags)
When the war criminals George W Bush and Tony Blair howl like wolves in the choir, that is a prelude to shooting.. State terrorism becomes international policy..The UN only seems to be used for legitimation.
Molly Ivins: Pro-Israel 'Nutjobs' on the Attack (tags)
by Molly Ivins
Let's call the Israel lobby THE ISRAEL LOBBY – by MOLLY IVINS (tags)
This is not about conspiracies or plots or fantasies or anti-Semitism -- it's about rational discussion of American interests. Alan Dershowitz, who seems to be easily upset, went totally ballistic...over the mild article ["The Israel Lobby"] by Mearsheimer and Walt, calling them "liars" and "bigots." And, in my case, being pro-Israel. I'm looking forward to hearing from all you [name-calling] *NUTJOBS* again.
Let's call the Israel lobby THE ISRAEL LOBBY – by MOLLY IVINS (tags)
This is not about conspiracies or plots or fantasies or anti-Semitism -- it's about rational discussion of American interests. Alan Dershowitz, who seems to be easily upset, went totally ballistic...over the mild article ["The Israel Lobby"] by Mearsheimer and Walt, calling them "liars" and "bigots." And, in my case, being pro-Israel. I'm looking forward to hearing from all you [name-calling] *NUTJOBS* again.
Community Response to Mr. Zine (tags)
Community response to the "Angelino of Retribution"
The Only Hope For the World (tags)
I see only one way out; a metamorphic leap of faith, an about face in the way we think, a decision to let go of everything that we, as a nation, once held dear, an understanding that the world will surely end unless we recognize the fact that we have no choice but to embrace our enemy as our brother, the one, without whom, we will never find peace, a brother-in-arms, enchained from head to toe, with whom we will either drown, or, together, might be allowed to live for yet another day....
Crimethinc: In Love With Love Itself (tags)
A true review in three parts of Crimethinc's "Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook"
News Junkie Scott's Blog (11/15/05) (tags)
Right to trial imperiled by Senate vote
What is corporate America's plan for New Orleans?
The UN as Stopgap by Eric Chauvistre (tags)
"First of all, the question must be raised whether Iraq is actually a military problem that could be solved with more troops. This is assumed by Bush and others.."
Minute Men Coming To BP With SOS (tags)
It seems like two raicst groups will be in attendance!
Hypocrisy at Long Beach Library (tags)
Mountebank administrators install filters on internet computers, urge staff to turn in the names of Arab patrons to the cops, then congratulate themselves for being against censorship.
As in all history, it is shown that it is impossible to make friends by invading, intimidating, shooting, bombing, jailing, torturing, killing, maiming, napalming or other deadly actions. It showed every time, that the only people the US could call their friends were the dead, because they couldn't protest anymore.
post 9/11a subjective review of the state of the global world 2005 (tags)
post 9/11a subjective review of the state of the global world 2005
Nuclear Solutions Lost In Ambiguity (tags)
Ambiguity: Mordechai Vanunu; a lawyer in Israel representing Dimona employees; two solutions for nuclear waste that give us alternative viable energy; a portable nuclear weapons detection system since 1999; blackmail and extortion; another dead scientist and the closing of the National Lab in Los Alamos
Are We on the Road to Ruin or Redemption? (tags)
It’s as if we were on a runaway train headed toward a precipice, with the mercenaries of the Republican and Democratic parties battling for control of the engine, and us, the passengers, hanging on for dear life to keep from being thrown from the train. Will we gain control of the locomotive before it’s too late?
The "Official" Operative Clique For The Next 9/11? (tags)
Surveying the recent headlines, Kupferberg surmises that an "official narrative" is already being put in place for potential use in advance of a 9/11 Follow-Up Attack.
CBS and Dan Rather Part of Plot to Terrorize Iraqis (tags)
The Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse pictures scream 'remember 9/11' and intensify the fear in the hearts of Muslims all over the world. Could it be that CBS and Dan Rather were cooperating with the United States Government in the psychological operation of showing the pictures to Iraqis and terrorists to get them to turn.
IMCs Need Better Marketin (tags)
Ideas on how to improve readership and interest in publishing on Independent Media Center. Why the right to right as a citizen is important. Opportunities to write more opinion than the scrawny Letters to the Editors that are hacked up to a few sentences is a way to go. Can’t main stream media practice democracy?
As for Iraq, if Kerry has a problem with Bush, it's that he didn't drag France, Germany and Russia into the war, preferring to strike a grabby, it's all mine, pose, rather than the "let's divide up the loot" approach the Democrats favor. Apparently, a gang rape is better than a rape carried out by a lone assailant, which, I gather, would make a gang rapist a rapist-lite, and therefore more worthy of our backing than a rapist who goes it alone. But, for the record, Washington hasn't gone it alone in Iraq, managing to cobble together a coalition, though one lacking France, Germany and Russia, whose backing, in some perverted twist of reasoning, is supposed to have invested the rape of Iraq with legitimacy. Apparently, if you can lure other renowned rapists into a gang rape, it gives the whole sordid affair moral weight.
Demonstrators are the public, and the public thanks us! (tags)
What do people think of us?
DENNIS MILLER STILL SCARED (tags)
Dennis Miller, former comedian who is still scared to make a joke about the Bush administration has fulfilled his dream of having a regular TV show. CNBC is the new home of the former comedian who seems to have lost his intelligence but has regained his sense of humor which disappeared after 911 faster that Trent Lott leaving the capitol during a bomb scare.
FRESH FROM IRAQ, STOLEN PALACE EGGS! YEAH! CAPITALSM! (tags)
Openly selling stolen goods from Iraq seems to be permissible. I found this on craigslist. Decorative Egg Recovered From Saddams Palace During OIF - $10000
JUDGE CRISTOL AND HISTORIAN BREGMAN CLASH OVER USS LIBERTY (tags)
JUDGE JOE CRISTOL AND HISTORIAN AHRON BREGMAN CLASH OVER ISRAELI ATTACK ON USS LIBERTY
Cronkite comments negatively on the depredations of the Bush Junta's "Grand Inquisitor" John Asscrack. Since Cronkite is a known CIA "Mockingbird" asset this could mean "The Company" is upset with Bush.
Attack of the Dean-Leaners (tags)
"At some point, no one can say precisely when, libertarians apparently swore a feudal oath of fealty to the Republican Party... with this alliance (such as it is) we hold our noses and vote for Republican in close presidential elections, while they pay lip service to limited government."
Book Review: Crashing Hollywood (tags)
Fran Harris' book is good for out of towners to adapt quicker to Hollywood.
Perhaps being a traditional liberal and voting No don't always go hand-in-hand.
NYT Editorial: A Role Best Denied (tags)
Oct 4 opinion from the New York Times about the recall election.
There was no question the filmmaker had dug himself a deep hole. The only question was, how was he going to get out of it? Would he say nothing, and pretend the whole thing hadn't happened, hoping that, after a time, everyone would forget? Would he say, I've learned when you make a bone-headed move, the best thing to do is fess-up? Or would he simply dig himself a bigger hole?
Public health as a public good (tags)
Infectious diseases, though they manifest themselves in individuals, really are a public issue. We are no healthier than the health of our community, which itself has an ever-increasing scope.
Impeach Bush on the 4th of July! (tags)
Summertime's here and George W. Bush's pants are on fire!
My my, aren't you spooks curious. (tags)
Do you trust these people? I mean would you put your future in their hands? You might want to think about your supermarket cards, credit cards, and ATM cards. The 4th amendment is dying
Should right-wing shills be banned from IMC? (tags)
LA IMC breakdowns, porn and racist graphics, and pointless insults
The Most Dangerous President Ever (tags)
I miss Ronald Reagan.
A Call For Protests over Rachel Corries Murder (tags)
"Today a young woman was killed in Gaza. Young women, but more often young men, get killed in Gaza and the West Bank every day, and the world pays no attention. What was different today is that Rachel Corrie was an American,..."
Parents desperate for answers about their childrens vaccines (tags)
We are parents desperately looking for answers about our children who have been damaged by vaccines. Please any feed back and answers would be greatly appreciated. For it seems its all part of a chain reaction to try and pull the wool over the parents eyes and it all seems to be part of one big incorporated vaccine lie.
British IWW Anti-War Poster to Wheatpaste (in .pdf) (tags)
anti-war poster in .pdf w/ color
your mysterious breakdown..... (tags)
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Bush Daddy Looks Under His Skirt (tags)
Why that's proud John Dryden!
Is Big Oil Lubricating War
Breaking Free of the Protest Mentality (tags)
Protestors are in the classic role of "protestors", people with no real power over their lives so they must demand it from the ruling class. Demonstrations also point to a lack of creativity; the only thing we can come up with is playing the song and dance of our rulers. How much longer will these protests go on for? If we could only get a few more tens of thousands to protest, will we be successful in overthrowing capitalism, the state and wage-slavery? Why do the state, capitalism and wage-slavery exist, why do the governments of the U.S. and Israel do what they do, and what are we actually going to do about it?
The sad state of Los Angeles Indymedia (tags)
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Pornography on Independent Media (tags)
There seems to be an epidemic of pornography on Independent Media websites.
Here is what artist/writer Ken Ehrlick has been doing in response to 9/11
Long Beach arrestees -- the need for open communication (tags)
an urgent plea for uncentralized communication before impending LB Mayday pre-trial hearings.
He seems to know allot about police equipment (tags)
The things you need to know before protesting at the DNC.