The Solution is Social Housing (tags)
The Swedish government set a goal of building 1 million new units in the mid-1960s when the population was only 8 million (or about the same size as New York City). Despite a few setbacks and problems, this goal was achieved in less than a decade — We suggest that 10 million new municipal housing units would be a viable ten-year goal.
Elle donne la mort, car elle donne la vie...
With a plan against the climate crisis (tags)
Quality and enjoyment would be the new maxims, and the true wealth would be free time. Admittedly, a change in consciousness would remain necessary, and many a convenience in lifestyle would have to be abandoned in favor of the ecosystem. However, the standard of living could be raised significantly through free time.
An economy that does not grow can nevertheless always change and even improve in the process. It can become more ecological, for example. Last year, for example, CO2 emissions fell by almost six percent - more than at any time since the Second World War.
Against Market Radicalism (tags)
Capitalism is not "the end of history" as the American Francis Fukuyama postulated in 1992. The system question is open! The economy should be re-embedded in society. What seems rational in microeconomics collides with the irrationality of maximum profits as en end-in-itself
La loi El connerie, et autre bradypsychie (tags)
Il n'y a rien de vrai quand tout est faux...
Everyone could work less instead of terminating people. Ways could be organized through shared activity for using the gained freedom in services of everyday life...Breaking with the disastrous logic of competition and money is int he interest of the life, peace and happiness of people today.
TTIP: A Charter for Deregulation, an Attack on Jobs and an End to Democracy (tags)
The parallel private 3-judge arbitration courts could be used by fracking, nuclear and cigarette companies to sue for lost profits. Laws and regulations in the public interest could be decried as indirect expropriations. A "regulatory chill" will deter communities by fear of lawsuits.
Malicious Syria Bashing (tags)
Syria
The Resilience of Neoliberalism (tags)
Vivien A. Schmidt and Mark Thatcher propose five lines of analysis to explain its resilience: the flexibility of neoliberalism’s core principles; the gaps between neoliberal rhetoric and reality; the strength of neoliberal discourse in debates; the power of interests and the force of institutions...
Public Banking Avoids Today's Debacle (tags)
banking
Public Banking: What Better Time Than Now (tags)
public banking
Responsible Fiscal Cliff Resolution (tags)
class war
Draconian Cybersecurity Bills (tags)
police state
Indefinite Domestic Military Detentions (tags)
police state
Bipartisan Deal to Slash Medicare and Medicaid (tags)
class war
Uncontacted Indians: report exposes ‘untold story’ of Repsol’s exploration (tags)
Oil giant Repsol-YPF could be threatening the existence of two of the world’s last uncontacted tribes, according to a damning new report by Survival International.
BP oil spill planet killer (tags)
The oil pressure coming up the oil deep water pipe was running between 20,000 and 70,000 PSI. Science Advisor Richard C. Hoagland warned listeners that an even worse catastrophe could be looming if a giant gas bubble that has formed at the site of the leak on the ocean floor should blow. Hoagland said the pressure in the pipe is 100,000 or more lbs of pressure per squire inch or PSI.
Breaking News: The UGSOA Could Be on The Verge of Bankruptcy! (tags)
UGSOA May 2010 LM-Reports Filed by UGSOA President Desiree Sullivan with the Department Of Labor Clearly Show UGSOA's Net Assets at Just $97,564
Memorandums on Alternative Economic Policy (tags)
The social state, solidarity, sharing and social justice open doors while neoliberal deregulation leads to exploding inequality, generalized insecurity and disappearance of the public spirit.
Rwandan opposition threatened by ruling RPF (tags)
Rwandan President Paul Kagame and the ruling RPF Party have been preventing opposition candidates from registering and fielding candidates in Rwanda's August 2010 presidential election and their excuse is always genocide, the 1994 Rwanda Genocide. But, leading opposition candidate Victoire Ingabiré Umuhoza disputes the history of the 1994 genocide, at great risk.
There is something very fishy going on that I suspect is a government plot, aimed at fomenting civil unrest.
Planned Economy Instead of Chaos Economy (tags)
For years US imports have doubled US exports. For 10 years China has contributed $2 billion a day to finance US consumerism. Trade policy in the WTO, GATT and NAFTA have led to mass unemployment. Part time work for all and/or unconditional basic income could humanize society and assure dignified life.
Obama digging himself a bigger hole in Afghanistan. (tags)
The more he digs the worse it will get.
Ending Today's Economic Crisis Simply and Easily, in America and Globally (tags)
The solution is simpler than imagined.
Why Conduct Torture Inquiry When We Could Just Torture Them? (tags)
Why not just beat the truth out of them?
In a sweeping speech to international leaders and security experts on February 6 in Munich, US vice president Biden, prima facie, revealed to an international audience the core of the Obama regime's foreign policy program. Although emphasizing diplomacy and cooperation as its center piece, he gave a stern warning to the Imperialist allies and client states that they are expected to share the burdens of fighting extremism (whatever that is).
The capitalist system does not make a mistake; it is the mistake. Capitalism is the problem. The solution would be an independent-socialist social order whose highest principles are mutual aid, respect for nature and a nonviolent rule-free humanly just world.
When I was a kid growing up my parents weren’t rich weren’t poor. They didn’t have a lot of money, but enough to qualify as lower middle class and at times middle class. My father had a visiting teacher’s position at a university and my mother was an administrative assistant working towards a college degree. The highest tax bracket they got to was middle class just before my dad passed away in 1987.
OC Civil Forum Induces Protests (tags)
Protesters gather in Orange County to make the presidential cadidates hear their voices August 16, 2008.
As an illegal organization.
The US military occupation of Iraq cannot be won militarily and cannot be paid for. The military occupation was sold as a cheap war that would only help the US and the world: more security and a lower price of oil. Empire and double standards bring only nihilism and distrust.
House Leaves Surveillance Law to Expire (tags)
The refusal of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, to schedule a vote on a surveillance measure approved Tuesday by the Senate touched off an intense partisan conflict over the national security questions that have colored federal elections since 2002 and are likely to play a significant role again in November.
Is the "Mother of all Financial Crises" Imminent? (tags)
A trade-weighted devaluation of the dollar of around 25 percent is necessary allowing the US currency to ski "gradually and orderly" against free-floating currencies. The IMF could establish a "substitution account" with "special drawing rights" to avert a dollar panic.
The Legality of Justice Versus Blind Faith (tags)
Are political guarantees just so man words on paper to be used for political speeches? Who is ultimately responsible for enforcing principles of law in a republic? Given the reality that justice is very much a human concept, what can people presume, if anything, about such abstract words as “justice” and “fairness: before the law? What informs these legal meanings that people too often take for granted? Dedicated to the prisoners at Guatanamo who are or were innocent and to their lawyers who are attempting to bring justice to bear.
Pulling the electronical plug on former 'allies' (tags)
Many programs which are used in computer systems in weapons, ships, planes, tanks, satellites etc. lately all get a build-in 'emergency brake'. Via GPS satellites in space, the command can be transmitted to anywhere on earth, to stop. And the computer systems just go 'dead'.
Astronauts chuck fridge off space station (tags)
NASA thinks the meteoric fridge-frag volley will land in the ocean, but says there is a 1 in 5000 chance that people could be injured or killed.
30,000 injured in Iraq while our enemy sits in a cave in Pakistan.
Congressman Foley is a hypocrite! (tags)
As usual in government it’s do as I say not as I do. Seems like Congressman Foley likes to have sex with little boys. While at the same time he has been passing draconian laws to jail other citizens who enjoy sex with little boys
Among the many shouts of warning from environmentalists about global catastrophes, ‘Peak Oil’ stands out as the newest and most imminent. The issue has gained special acceptance from different sections of the left, who have chosen it as their primary concern – aside from of course, defeating Bush. Peak Oil and other environmental issues, such as global warming, have created important political questions that need to be addressed; the following is an attempt to analyze the different political considerations that arise when one discusses the topic of Peak Oil.
Beyond Chron: Patriot Act: Anti-Immigrant (tags)
by Rita Mandelenis‚ Jan. 25‚ 2006
The total commercialization of the world has triumphed..A dynamic of growth withdrawal could be initiated through a few simple measures..Internalizing costs would drastically change our societies..Democratic local initiatives are realistic.
Santa Ana Anti-police abuse march (tags)
A review of Santa Ana's anti-police abuse march and community response.
Time Autonomy for Everyone (tags)
Given the enormous advances in productivity, radical reduction of working hours is an overdue demand. However working hours are actually lengthened.. Power relations are hidden behind the distribution structures.
Hurricanes and Global Warming (tags)
My guess is that Katrina and Andrew were the most powerful hurricanes to hit the U.S. in at least the last three centuries.
We're Not in Kansas Anymore (tags)
If you look around everything looks pretty much the same. But what is that haunting and ominous sound? We're not in Kansas anymore Toto.
FLORIDA SETTING THE STAGE FOR DRACONIAN CASE LAW? (tags)
Florida has shown its true colors they will stand by the 1000’s in the streets for another country yet when of their own is being killed, they do virtually nothing.
Storm Troopers & Patriots (tags)
By 8:00 PM on Election Day, I was convinced that I was watching the slickest damn con job ever put over on the American people. The TV coverage was pitiful. By now its becoming increasingly clear that Bush stole another election. Once the results in western states could be predicted the vote tally in Florida could be juggled in favor of Bush. Once the outcome in the west was known the vote tally in Ohio could be juggled similarly.
August 29 Could Be a Very Slow Day, So Bring a Toothbrush (tags)
New York Cops Tax Forever to Write Up a Ticket, and Things Could Get Even Slower if They Decide to Go on Strike August 29
INS RAID EMERGENCY RESPONSE WATCH (tags)
Direct action against the INS Raids by immediate response to the sites that the INS is raiding and video taping the INS while they are interrogating and arresting immigrants. Stop the INS by puting them on camera! Broadcast the location of th INS raids while they are happening on KPFK!
"The neoliberal medicine Less State and More Market does not work.. That the neoliberal medicine does not heal the economy and society but damages them must be clear to everyone who hasn't suc-cumbed to the neoliberal delusion."
Venezuela: The Coup Makers- the Invisible U.S. Hands (tags)
U.S. War in Venezuela
March 16th Road Map Art (tags)
In Memory of Rachel Corrie (1984-2003)
A new low in drug testing (tags)
The government is apparently planning to install face-scanning cameras and urinalysis machines in some public urinals. It sounds strange, but it's technically feasible. We need to spread the word about this so it doesn't become widespread.
Millionaires and the Unemployed (tags)
"The millionaire could simply pay his unemployed. If we calculate 12X5X1000 is 60,000 Euros a year. This is the sum that the highest segment of this class saves by the lowering of the top tax rate from 48 to 42 percent planned by Mr. Schroeder."
Donkeys Rocket Iraqi Oil Ministry! (tags)
Smoke rises from the Iraqi Oil Ministry after explosions in Baghdad, Friday, Nov. 21, 2003. Rockets on Friday slammed into the ministry and two central Baghdad hotels used by Western contractors and journalists, wounding several people... including a representative of the U.S. energy corporation, Haliburton. The rockets were fired from carts pulled by donkeys. U.S. occupation soldiers inspect a cart and rocket launcher, background, left, as a donkey that soldiers believe pulled the cart into position, stands nearby after morning rocket attacks in the center of Baghdad. (AP Photos/Khalid Mohammed)
W. Virginia steel tests the mettle of Bush (tags)
West Virginians rely on manufacturing jobs, which earn about twice that of retail. But if Bush lifts the tariffs on imported steel, several thousand jobs could be lost in one fell swoop, and Republicans could lose the state in 2004.
Israeli Roulette - The Settlements As Cancer Cells (tags)
The Palestinians, of course, suffer more than anyone else. Any who come near the settlement are shot. Anything that was standing or growing nearby, or along the road, has been destroyed or uprooted long ago. This week, the army demolished two Palestinian high-rise apartment blocks, each 12 floors high, some hundreds of meters from the settlement, because from there the goings on in the settlement could be "observed".
Audio Recording: Cancun-Vis Livestream (tags)
22 minute recording of the spontaneous live streaming conference between Cancun, Mexico and Vis, Croatia on 4th of Sept. 2003.
Gulliver Calls and the Dwarfs Follow (tags)
"Imperial overreach threatens Europe's economic resources and military arsenals already strained to the limit.. The emperor and his people should quickly understand that the Imperium Americanum cannot subjugate the globe." Translated fr German
Digging a hole in our treasury (tags)
You thought 12 years of Raygun/Bushit were bad? Hell, they were just warming this trainwreck up. Despirate people are more likely to follow the leader into fascism.
Downloaders would get fried computer (tags)
Utah senator Orrin Hatch is willing to remotely destroy the computers of illegal music downloaders in an attempt to "teach somebody about copyrights"
Patriots call for Bush's impeachment (tags)
It is a violation of U.S. federal criminal law, including the broad U.S. federal anti-conspiracy statute, which renders it a felony "to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose." Manipulation or deliberate misuse of national security intelligence data, if proven, could be "a high crime" under the Constitution's impeachment clause. Let's try to put matters into perspective. President Bill Clinton was impeached (although not convicted) based on allegations that he lied about having sex with a White House intern. Serious stuff.
Could be a possible cause.
Get Ready for PATRIOT II (And the Fourth Reich) (tags)
The Bush Junta has already provided adequate evidence that they are not friends of the Constitution or the Civil Liberties Protected therein. If this Bill is ever allowed to pass you can kiss your ass goodbye. Here come the "Detention Camps" for dissidents (those who do not parrot the Party Line. All "Good Americans" Goose Step mit Der Fuhrer.
More UN shennanigans
Israel scorns 'anti-semitic little Belgium' (tags)
Israel accused Belgium of anti-semitism yesterday following a court decision which could lead to the prosecution of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister. The Belgian supreme court ruled on Wednesday that Israeli military commanders could be prosecuted for complicity in the massacre of 800 Palestinians in Lebanon in 1982.
Conspiracy Theories and 9-11 (tags)
An argument listing the numerous advantages of the fear and patriotism inspired by 9-11 to Bush's domestic and foreign policies and speculating about possible complicity given many discrepancies about the events of 9-11.
The Role of cultural producers during war (tags)
Panel Discussion at CalArts focuses on role of art and artists in “Post-9-11” World
Future US Political Prisoners Days Of Action Jan. 19 &20, 2002 (tags)
Two days of creating the freedom you never knew you had
CODED MESSAGES VIA VIDEO? (tags)
Wouldn't it be easier to just send an e-mail?
"We could be back online with no losses tomorrow. It could be a week including huge losses of content, loss of our sustainer and other databases, etc."
Lame Duck Bush Presidency (tags)
Can a leader lead, when they don't have approval?