Our dream: The ambivalence of rhetorical truths about peace and war (google translated) (tags)
Driven by my struggle for love, looking for a tactic against the enemy, I found truths, wisdom and sayings. From Aldous Huxley and Max Planck to Plato to Hans Kasper and Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin, supplemented by Israel Satan Isachaar. Here is a selection of the most spectacular combinations ...
How to generate unemployment and deflation (tags)
The theory put forward by fair-weather philosophers that the pandemic will be a salutary shock leading to a better, more sustainable world is wrong. Less is not more, but less. Corona is not an opportunity, it is an evil. We can only hope that one day it will pass.
Everything works, nothing has to Is it even conceivable that after the crisis everything will continue as before? 28 realistic-utopian proposals for a completely renewed society after Corona
CoronaBlues, The Metzora, and Prayer (tags)
Biblical & Modern Plagues And How To Grow From Them
Utopia, Technology and Struggle. Ways out of the Crisis of Social Democracy (tags)
The big question is still open. Must an emancipatory project aim at a changed distribution of incomes or is hedging capitalism through regulation and redistribution enough? In other words, is shifting to an eco-Keynesian path sufficient to create equal life chances?
United Farm Workers has support in AZ,CA and WA 2019 part of national transportation of fo (tags)
The group could shelve a nuclear bomb and do this with salt on arable farmland.
Hurricane Harvey, followed quickly by Irma, left in its wake upended lives and enormous property damage, estimated by some at $150-180 billion. But the pummeling that America received also raise deep questions about its economic system and politics.
The Lie of the Civilized Western World (tags)
"Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich," Peter Ustinov said and thereby contradicted the media picture "we," the West who had to resist after being attacked without reason by barbarians. The so-called western values seem to be military values.
Today's Police/fbi Traverse the Lines of Human Decency (tags)
See my reports and discover the reality of a system of laws and law enforcement that are irrationally brutal and often inhumane as presently applied.
Creativity like mankind's sensitivity is threatened (tags)
Lessons from the Ages are reflected upon in this report.
This crisis is only another warning shot of the current economic system and offers a window of opportunity to leave behind the neoliberal path of development taken since the end of the 1970s. The root of the problem is the economic model based on growth and exploitation of nature.
Moderate Islam’s Real Litmus Test? Israel (tags)
The San Bernardino shooter’s father teaches us a painful lesson about unchecked bigotry
Capitalism is the Problem (tags)
Prosperity in large part is based on the ecological and social exploitation of poor countries in Africa and Asia. Today 20% of humanity consume 80% of global resources. The poor are played off against each other while the richest hide billions in tax havens.
Monied Interests Run America (tags)
Fed
Outlaws Are Better Company Than The Community of Cops (tags)
Don't take my word for this, but read my material & reflect on your own experience with cops, thereby discovering that Outlaws Are Better Men.
UK Elections: Business As Usual Triumphs (tags)
Britain
USA OVERTHROWN AND OVER THE TOP (tags)
My report on the state of our country and of our people:
Christmas message 2014/No place for refugees in Fortress Europe/Reflections on Christmas E (tags)
It's a strange thing, that Christmas is to be celebrated more luxuoriously every year, wile the true meaning of Christmas is, that there was no place for a poor Child in the Inn, like nowadays boat refugees are not welcome in Fortress Europe. Only when all refugees are welcome in Europe, there will be a true Christmas.
The poorest and weakest persons must pay the price for misguided political decisions. Political-economic decisions decide over the life and death of persons. The New Deal stands for an effective debt reduction. Germany has been an active driver of austerity.
Philippines: One Year after Typhoon Haiyan (tags)
Statement of Akbayan Chairperson Risa Hontiveros
Argentina's Christina Fernandez de Kirshner's UN Address (tags)
predatory capitalism
Fucking Awesome Local Show (tags)
Morningside Park Chronicle is putting out an awesome show, Blk Grrl Show.
Time to act with urgency and determination to improve the lives of Filipino workers (tags)
Philippines: As the country observes the International Labor Day, Akbayan Party would like to draw attention to the inability of the current economic growth to translate into an improvement in the lives of ordinary workers from both the urban centers and the countryside. While the Aquino administration takes pride on the 7.2 % growth rate for 2013, it cannot mask the fact that this growth has been insufficient to curb massive unemployment and poverty.
Public Relations - Propaganda as an Economic Branch (tags)
"The borders between skillful PR, dull propaganda and lobbyism and corruption are flowing. The only possibility for protecting oneself is to be informed as extensively and independently as possible. This is easier said than done; information costs energy and time and assumes a basic education."
Celebrate the RH victory in the Philippines, continue the struggle (tags)
On the Supreme Court decision declaring the Reproductive Health Law constitutional
Unconditional Surrender in Ukraine (tags)
Ukraine
Philippines: Shield Yolanda rehab efforts from 'disaster capitalism' (tags)
Amid allegations of overpriced and substandard temporary shelters constructed for survivors of Typhoon Yolanda, Akbayan Partylist urged the government to shield the rehabilitation efforts from possible “disaster capitalism.”
Sorry, Google, I won’t spy on myself for you (tags)
We’ve gone far down a slippery slope when being bombarded by corporate advertising is considered a public service.
ABC Disney Promoting Deforestation (tags)
ABC Disney is involved in propaganda for the treekilling industries.
Putting Together Small Rallies (tags)
A short how-to about putting together small rallies. Nobody does all these things, but should :) This list was pieced together from various experiences, and the author has never seen an event go off where all these things were done. Add suggestions.
Bradley Manning Addresses Sentencing Hearing (tags)
police state
The Aesthetic of Neoliberalism (tags)
The aesthetic of neoliberalism bids farewell to the bad in its environment. Originality and color disappear. Crap tends to make itself into an inquisition and banishes everything that cannot be adjusted in the trash of the system.
The Ideological Mantra "Competitiveness" (tags)
The policy that Merkel and Co. forced on the crisis countries has led to social catastrophes...The competition ideology has managed to establish the notion that generalized competition is the real human condition.
Corporate America Loves Jason Furman (tags)
class war
Public Banking: What Better Time Than Now (tags)
public banking
HDI of USA x III of Brazil (tags)
To laugh a lot of the indices they invent to reduce our self esteem.
Waging War on Immigrants (tags)
immigration
FAIR v. Scoundrel Media Misreporting on Venezuela (tags)
media
Institutionalized Inequality in America (tags)
class war
Pro-Israeli Media Coverage (tags)
Israel
Self-directed workers as a “cure for capitalism” (tags)
Employees themselves should make the decisions concerning the business. They can consider a far wider set of issues and concerns about adopting new technology, or any other strategic decision, thereby fully weighing the effects on themselves, their families and their communities.
Money Party Wins US Election (tags)
elections
Arab Spring and the Israeli enemy (tags)
The Arab Spring showed the world that the Palestinians are happier and in better situation than their Arab brothers who fought to liberate them from the Israelis. Now, it is time to stop the hatred and wars and start to create better living conditions for the future Arab generations.
Hypocrisy not Democracy in America (tags)
tyranny
September Surprise in Chicago (tags)
education
If you have magnet schools, it's impossible for the remaining students to achieve average test scores.
How Unions Could do Better (tags)
Workers Action has a new article on by Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer titled “How Unions Could Do Much Better.”
Chavez Riding High in Polls (tags)
Venezuela
Conservation Tips from Drew Searing (tags)
First in a regular series of tips on how to conserve resources and energy, and generally to live with a softer footprint on the earth.
In politics the tendency for candidates to move to the center when things get tough for them has become increasingly popular. The move helps them to side step and deflect heat coming at them from things that they have done or that have been done to them causing their popularity to wane. It also can appease a segment of folks that typically are not their constituency when members of their own base are looking at them unfavorably in hopes of making up lost ground regarding supporters. Come election time this can be especially important as it can help garner support. However, this still requires strong support from at least most of your base, and when they are fed up with a politician it is usually a good idea to get them behind that person to have not only guaranteed votes, but so as to look as if you are who you say you are. Bizarre schizophrenic personality shifts that try and say “I am no longer the person I was just four years ago” can seem – off.
K-14 for a Brighter Future (tags)
A proposal for California. It's pro-jobs, without stupid giveaways to greedy corporations.
Donate to Sagip Tulong-Pilipinas (tags)
Daig ng maagap ang masipag" Time and time again, the Philippine government has failed in protecting the people from natural and man-made disasters. Instead, the government succeeded in prolonging the agony of the people for failing to deliver basic services to the people who are victims of natural disasters. Thus ,the People's CORE , a 501 (C) 3 organization in Southern California announced that it is relaunching Sagip-Tulong Pilipinas (STP) and is accepting now, cash or check only donations for Sagip- Tulong Pilipinas (STP)-Emergency Relief to Mindanao flood victims. Please send checks or cash: to People’s CORE, 1610 Beverly Blvd. Suite No. 2, Los Angeles, CA 90026. Please also write in the memo: STP-Mindanao 2011. Sagip -Tulong Pilipinas (STP), 2011
Philippines: End the rule of elites and capitalists! Power to the People! (tags)
On the occasion of Gat Andres Bonifacio’s 148th birthday, tens of thousands of workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) and its allied organizations marched in key cities around the country to protest against elite rule and their failed neoliberal policies.
Economics could be a part of life, not a steamroller crushing self-determination and creativity. Economics changes with the times. Once saving was the elixir and then spending was the elixir. Frank Rotering in "Needs and Limits" discusses "ecological overshoot."
Privatization of the State (tags)
Economics changes with the times as states and individuals change. Once savings was the elixir and then spending with John Maynard Keynes. The economy should serve humankind; humanity should not serve the economy. Privatization is part of the snake oil remedy.
Obama in Tucson: Shame, Hypocrisy and Deceit (tags)
core issues ignored
BTL:W. Va. Activists Campaign for Better Regulation of Natural Gas Wells Drilled by Contro (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES - A four-time winner of the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcast Award for Best Feature in the non-commercial category, this syndicated, half-hour program provides a platform for individuals and spokespersons from progressive organizations generally ignored or marginalized by the mainstream media. Between the Lines covers a wide range of political, economic and social topics.
Animal studies indicate that cooperation is better than individualism.
Five Tips For Taming PMS (tags)
Five Tips For Taming PMS
It just keeps getting better.. (tags)
It just keeps getting better..
mesage from the earth to humanity (tags)
iam looking in on you nowWhat do you think you can do from now.
Peace through Education (video) (tags)
This is a video for anyone who’s struggling for a better education, especially immigrant students. I’ll go toe to toe with Glen Beck to see who knows what about life any day.
DON'T COUNT WITH THE END OF THE BOOK (tags)
A necessary reading.
Anti-Abortion & Anti-Gay Marriage Republican Cal Candidates; Feeble Democrats (tags)
In a very low voter turnout election, the June governor's primary, California Republicans voted for 2 businesswomen who are anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage, Meg Whitman for Governor and Carly Fiorina for US Senate. Meg Whitman's anti-immigrant ads would make Hitler proud. And we can be sure Democratic candidate for governor Jerry Brown, a lawyer, will not touch any of these issues as he is also reactionary, having promoted a military charter school while mayor of Oakland. Ms. Israel, Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, will also be silent on these issues. This garbage is called the leadership of this backward country.
Kristol: ‘Better’ For US to Attack Iran Than if Israel Did (tags)
Kristol: ‘Better’ For US to Attack Iran Than if Israel Did
Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits (tags)
oday through news wires that only a fraction of wounded veterans who could get better benefits have applied in the two years since Congress, acting on concerns the military was cutting costs by downplaying injuries, ordered the Pentagon to review disputed claims. The JFAV is planning to sue the DVA for denying more than 17,000 Filipino World War II veterans of their lump sum claims. Out of the 36,000 who filed for the claims only 8,000 were given by the DVA.
Who Are You Working For? (tags)
Beginning with the campaigns for the 2008 elections political activism has hit peaks the likes of which haven’t been this consistent for decades. From all over the spectrum people are energized for causes close to their hearts. In doing so most end up selecting people they believe in to support for candidates in elections. Some of those candidates are sincere in their causes. We know not to expect perfect people nor every promise made kept, but we should count on some of promises, especially major ones, checked off.
Relationships in a Free Society (tags)
For people interested in choosing to improve relationships either with themselves, their friends, family, lovers, society in general, or all of the above, I have some suggestions about scientifically proven methods and information which may be helpful.
The Germans better look out. (tags)
The Israelis want revenge for what they did in Auschwitz
Noam Chomsky Meets with Chavez in Venezuela (tags)
"Chomsky said the growing disappointment with the Obama administration in the U.S. was predictable because the corporate media marketed Obama's presidential candidacy on the slogan of "Change We Can Believe In" but omitted concrete proposals for effective changes, and the Obama administration has since shown an incapacity to institute such changes."
The Revolution We Need...The Leadership We Have (tags)
A message and a call from the Revolutionary Communist Party. A whole different world, a much better future, is possible. We have what we need to fight for that World, that future. It is up to us to get with it and get to the challenge of making this happen.
California Budget Crisis (tags)
A petition to Governor Schwarzenegger and State Legislature regarding the California budget crisis
Join us for the Employee Free Choice Act Big March on Senator Feinstein's L.A. Office (tags)
We need to tell Dianne Feinstein that working families need a real shot at bargaining for better wages that will help lift themselves out of this recession. She needs to support the Employee Free Choice Act.
Global challenges arise today through breaking limits. The idea that more consumption is better begins to lose support. We must be engaged socially and politically to change the rules, institutions and information streams so they reflect our highest values.
CBC'S MOTHERS DAY IN FACLA ON MAY 10 (tags)
The Coalition for a Better Community (CBC) 31 will hold a community party in honor of Mother’s Day on Sunday, May 10 at 4:00 PM at the Filipino American Community of Los Angeles (FACLA), 1740 W. Temple St. Los Angeles, CA 90026.
In our collective helplessness, we seek salvation in the transcendental empire of the inexplicable. "How could it be?" becomes the self-defense to forget our miserable social existence.. The economic has taken society hostage.
What They Don't Tell You About Leftist Delegations (tags)
Know before you go.
Each speech President Obama has delivered since his inauguration seems to paint a picture of change that is being created on the fly. I believe that – by nature of our humanity – we are all artists, and that we can all add a spontaneous stroke here or there to this potential masterpiece. But our current circumstances, as you will read in the below Op-Ed piece, present a serendipitous opportunity for public audiences to participate in community-based theater, and through that, to collaboratively address our social problems. If President Obama continues to publicly hold us accountable for re-creating a better America, this is one proven avenue for us to respond.
Israel Apartheid Week Berkeley (tags)
http://blog.z-word.com/2009/03/israel-apartheid-week-hypocrisy-and-betrayal/
Get Ready for Higher Taxes and Fees (tags)
Americans better "buckle-up"
New York Times - Children Die in Aids Drug Trials, but the Drugs are Fine, Fine, Fine (tags)
The Guinea Pig Kids story of foster children being used in AIDS drug trials continues
The world today is undeniably chaotic — war, abject poverty, and unimaginable wealth exist side by side. In an attempt to explain the current social turmoil, some have resorted to religion and apocalypse, while others place the blame on the few bad apples that held positions of power as the economy slid into destitution. And then there are those who blame conspiracy, immigrants, or a society-wide lack of morality. All of the above explanations seem to be missing a crucial ingredient. A simple observation should be central to any explanation of the current economic crisis: There are huge surpluses (or overproduction) of houses, cars, food stuffs, and many other products that millions of people desperately need, but cannot afford to buy. This is the essence of the problem.
The Age of Austerity Dawns (tags)
The burst bubble of the New Economy should have been understood as a warning. Then as today, wishful thinking and greed blocked the view to reality. Recessions offer a period of welcome recovery. Losing the hectic turbo-capitalism is not really a great loss.
NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.05.08 (tags)
"Obama will be able to work with his European allies to do a better job of selling the war to skeptical publics."
Congress is NOT listening - No Bailouts at all ! (tags)
How many times and how many of us have to repeat for Congress to hear [not that they listen apparently ] "NO BAILOUTS, FOR ANYONE please !!! " Let everyone learn and pay their OWN bills and not gamble with our taxes.
NO MORE BAILOUTS....we have done too much already (tags)
It is FEAR MONGERING, by exaggerations and catastrophic depictions.. propaganda...selling us the 2% incomers version of how bad it will be for us if they lose any of their profits, capital gains, benefits, compensations, and lobbist powers, and government chummists [the revolving door club]
America in Decline: Richard Sennett (tags)
In the race to the bottom, the worship of profit and the self-healing market, education, retraining workers, social mobility and intercultural learning fall by the wayside. School districts spend 600 times more for sports than for natural sciences. The US imports engineers and programmers.
It would have been better (tags)
had he stayed a drunk
Lee Siu Hin Journey to My Home: China and Hong Kong 2008 (Part One) (tags)
Journey to My Home: China and Hong Kong 2008 A Long Waited Trip to My Heartland
William Greider Raps Predatory Usury Schemes (tags)
How did the country get into this unholy financial mess? Think usury! Acclaimed author William Greider points the finger at banks, and people of great wealth, “taking advantage of poor people by lending them money on terms that are sure to fail.” He blames others, too, like “The Fed,” under the reign of Alan Greenspan, the U.S. Congress, and Wall Street. Mr. Greider charges that these parties worked to “castrate” the watchdogs.
Oneness means we are part of something perfect and complete that cannot be changed or altered, and from which we cannot be separated
"Outreach" or Alliance Building? (tags)
At the end of June, I participated in the "Los Angeles Social Forum," an attempt to hold a unifying gathering of people from many different movements and organizations in Los Angeles (and other parts of southern California) on the model of the World Social Forum and the first US Social Forum held last year in Atlanta.
Italy defends move to patrol streets with soldiers (tags)
Italy defends move to patrol streets with soldiers
Keep a light shining on U.S. racism (tags)
Neo-Fascism is always accompanied by a sharp rise in racism, and this one is no different.
Love a Snitch for Progress (tags)
Snitches get stitches. Is there a better way?
23 Theses on the Unconditional Basic Income (tags)
Without vision the people perish. Basic unconditional income like community centers could restore public spirit and interdependence. The anti-social or capital offensive leaves people mere consumers or cogs in the machine and represses our gifts, talents, desires and health.
The FairTax Campaign Rocks the Boat! (tags)
Every day sees a new letter to the editor or web posting defining the 67,500 pages of income tax regulations, the effects of the current tax system on the “Made in America” label and the benefits of a fair, simple and transparent national tax system.
Book review.
McCain for President 2008! 4 More years of War! No make that 8 more years of war! Invade Mexico! A bigger better police state!
ON "POTEMKIN VILLAGES" IN IRAQ (tags)
COMMENTARY
Capital Sources: The Next Terrorist Attack (tags)
The head of the National Counterterrorism Center speaks out on Al Qaeda's plans, America’s readiness—and the nature of the war on terror.
Working Class Resources (tags)
Lists of working class movies, documentaries, and literature
Dagan, the head of Mossad, has ordered his two security service in the US to merge and go after Pelosi.
My Big Prank on President Bush (tags)
Three years ago I stumbled into the midst of a new scientific movement. So I set out to turn the tables on President Bush myself. It was a long shot at the time. I never realized how many people were going to be trying to impeach him by now. Here’s my story…
The office of President was not on the ballot in November. Yet it was around that time that a sitting president began to feel the power oozing out of the White House.
"Iraqis were better off under Saddam" (tags)
All development inthe country point to the US failure in Iraq.. What we're witnessing is that victory for the US-whatever that may mean-is just an exaggerated dream.
Missing 500.000 American weapons were actually never shipped to Iraq? (tags)
Instead of the official allegation that those weapons went "missing" in Iraq - maybe a better explanation is that the weapons were "never" shipped to Iraq in the first place!
Bush is using the fifth anniversary to appear as the rescuer and protector of the US, freedom, democracy and civilization.. Other governments will now decry the shameless exploitation of the attacks that has made the world more insecure contrary to the mantra of the Bush administration.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/8/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! (tags)
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.
Permanent Goodbye to US (tags)
"Sometimes you get your best light from a burning bridge" - Don Henley, "My Thanksgiving" CARACAS - It was about a week before I left the United States forever that I watched Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tell Charlie Rose something all of us already know in our hearts. "Today," he said, "the United States is hated around the world far worse than it was at the height of the Vietnam War." I remember the Vietnam War. I will never forget it.
A Poem For our Children (tags)
Our Children!
Honey heals wounds faster than antibiotics (tags)
A new study into an ancient remedy now proves that honey helps the treatment of some wounds better than most modern antibiotics.
Ron Paul the only congressman who gets it! (tags)
In his legislative fantasies, the amiable Texas congressman would do away with the CIA and Federal Reserve. He would reinstate the gold standard. He would get rid of the Education Department and leave schooling to local governments because he believes that's what the Constitution intended.
Government authorized ways to celebrate your freedoms, this 4th of July (tags)
How the State of Education Has Changed Over Time in (tags)
I think, when the school opens this June, it’s high time to send our officials back to school so that they would learn first hand the real sad state of our educational system. #
drving a better answer than ANSWER March, March 18 (tags)
Is the IMC L.A. Under Assault By Right-Wing Trolls and Haters? (tags)
This story is just an inquiry into what is going on with the L.A. IMC. I am a frequent visitor and, while I appreciate the new interactive moderation, I've noticed that the reactionary posts have become more frequent.
Karl Schroeder, scifi/fantasy writer (tags)
Interview with Karl Schroeder about scifi/fantasy, the end of the Modern/Postmodern age, Foresight Studies, health care, the world is getting better.
Video: "Not Even Once More: Stop Violence Against Women" (tags)
As Latinas/os who reside in California, we want to join in the celebration of these days of international activism against violence toward women.
Anarchists and the Caracas ASF/January 2006 (tags)
* The Venezuelan anarchist movement invites you to participate in the Alternative Social Forum at Caracas in January 2006, a gathering of anti-establishment social movements, in response to the bureaucratic World Social Forum promoted by the Venezuelan government.
Sinking News Ships: But it's not the Rats Who Will be Leaving (tags)
Three big metro dailies are cutting back on staffing, in another cycle of less reporting, less news, fewer readers and lower profits. At this point, it almost doesn’t matter though—they’ve gotten so bad already.
"Since a capitalist democracy is a democracy of capital, `the people' simply don't count.."
Forget those desperate appeals to "save" PBS and NPR. They're already lost. Progressives can do better things with their time and their tax dollars than to give it to these liberal media poseurs. ----------------
Shock without Therapy, Market without Order, (tags)
Half of Russia's assets are gone. Was this caused by Yeltzin, the IMF or the Washington Consensus? This article by a Ukrainian novelist tells us that the end of history and victory capitalism are over as utopias. May we be summoned to serious reflection.
Women has the right to Communicate (tags)
New industrial union pushes working-class power (tags)
LAS VEGAS — It was the fire from below that powered up the merger convention of the USWA and PACE, held here April 11-14. Five thousand workers, their families and guests shared stories of battles on picket lines and in battleground state polling places. Many conversations started with, “Let me tell you what that son of a Bush did in Ohio …” or Texas, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Indiana or Southern California.
Labor can't win in a house divided (tags)
Like no other time in the last 50 years, a united labor movement is critical to defending the working class and the American people. It is decisive to any hope for a progressive agenda for the whole nation, not just for union members.
I don't always agree with Ron Paul (but then who always agrees with any one individual, dittoheads excepted) but I appreciate his consistency in promoting true conservative ethics. Unlike nearly all republicans these days he doesn't merely steal the rhetoric to act as a cover for his agenda. He appears to actually believes in the ideological principles that are found so often in conservative rhetoric. As the republican party continues to fracture I think it is important to focus on individuals with some measure of integrity and honesty to contrast against the corrupt aristocrats running the government whom have not given any thought to benefiting people's lives nor shown any concern for the problems facing the people of the united states. -- tc
Cesar Chavez Day: Walk for Dignity (tags)
The Xispas website and blog is the place to learn about Xicano culture, art, and politics. We deal with history, indigenous traditions, books, opinions, and social criticism. In this newsblast, we offer some people's history and opportunity for community action. Con solidaridad - Xispas staff
That is what democracy looks like! (tags)
A really good blog on the Democracy of South America!
All Out for April 16th, 2005! Washington DC A Better World is Under Construction N (tags)
Were you at the first A16 demonstration against the IMF and World Bank in Washington, DC in 2000? Come back once again to challenge these illegitimate institutions and their plans for a world of unbridled greed! Did you miss out on the first mass protests against the IMF and World Bank? Now's your chance to be part of the second A16! The Mobilization for Global Justice is calling for all those interested in helping to construct a mass movement against neo-liberalism and the devastation it is wreaking on the world to converge on Washington, DC from April 15th-17th. Come help us celebrate the successes of our movement, which in the past five years has not only put these institutions on the defensive and on the run, but has begun construction of the new world that has for so long been in all our hearts. For fliers to distribute in you community, logistical information, meeting times and updates e-mail mgj@riseup.net or visit www.globalizethis.org . GET INVOLVED! IT’S A BLAST!
On the Fight Against Hubert Vo in Texas: Call off the Dogs (tags)
Republican lawyers need better things to do than chase down Houston voters and put their names on the internet.
1/26 6 AM ET Alert! "Suspended Indefinitely!!!" - New York Hot 97 "Miss Jon (tags)
Jay of HipHopMusic.com notified us that the Hot 97 "Miss Jones in the Morning Show" is "suspended indefinitely" over her recent racist "Tsunami Song"
please email this to your reformist friends
BREAKING NEWS: Blackwell Gets Promoted (tags)
Blackwell Given a Promotion The Republicans are getting better and better at stealing the elections from the American people.
73 Percent of Americans Agree: Cheney Related to Devil or Something Else Really Icky (tags)
Q.: What's more scary than the prospect of Bush in the White House for four more years? A.: Having Dick Cheney, the puppet monster, right behind him. For more details about why the most frightening being in American political history insists on hanging around and giving us the willies, read on. (But don’t forget to look under your bed first.)
an open letter to a president (tags)
it has to happen somewhere it has to happen soon what better place than here? what better time than NOW. RAGE
Local Soldier, Killed in Iraq, Laid to Rest (tags)
Gloria Salazar, middle, mother of Las Vegas Marine Cpl. William I. Salazar, is consoled by family member Sammy Acosta, left
Become Your Own RNC Media Outreach Team! (tags)
Traveling to New York for the RNC protests? Want the public to find out what's really happening in the streets and why people are out there? Become your own media outreach team. Here's how you do it. *Call your local paper. It’s best if you call in the morning before the late afternoon deadline crunch setsnin. If you’ve already sent a concise, well-written fax the night before, all the better.
He's no Hugo Chávez . . . (tags)
This month he did something no other US politician has dared to do, and took on the Anti-Defamation League, the organization which smears opponents of Israeli policy as anti-semites. He won't be elected in November, of course, but that's not the point. The point is that if you want to change a system, you have to start now, rather than in some endlessly deferred future. And the better Nader does, the faster the campaign for change will grow.
Bush'ls Plan to Build a Better Octopus (tags)
The politicization of spy work
America: Safer, Better, Stronger! (tags)
America is the A number one greatest fucking country on the face of the earth!
with the help of more ex-radicals turned sensible, pragmatic Democrats like you to convey our message, we can definitely save America. For ourselves.
Iraqatrix: The S&M PsyOp - Torture psyop ends in Passion of Nick (tags)
By now, you must know the Nick Berg beheading video was some kind of fake or scam. How could you not know? The Internet is abuzz with details of a host of video anomalies.
A Realistic Election Strategy the Left Can Really Get Behind (tags)
The US Left should decide today to become the most vociferous, activist constituency of the Bush campaign. Yeah, I know, it's a gobsmacker and jaw-dropper, but don't react – think. And consider: Bush has a good chance of winning. You want to back a winner, or a loser? Be realistic. And yeah, I know -- Bush is almost Hitler-like. No doubt about it. I hate him as much as you do. But do you want Kerry, an ardent militarist, and the richest man in the Senate, in the White House? He says he's going to spend more on the military than Bush, add 40,000 more troops to the Army, and insists the US remain the world's preeminent military power. He wants to exercise US power boldly, says he won't wait for a green light from allies or the UN to use military force, and has articulated a doctrine of preventive war. That sounds pretty Hitler-like to me.
What has gone right in Iraq (tags)
unite vs Bush, the hard right (tags)
why a moderate choice, and a choice for the lessor of two evils is logical
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.
Yassir Arrafat is concerned that he will be targeted for assasination soon. I have been targeted for assasination Friday afternoon in a Harris County TX courthouse, and the infamous Sherriff of Bagdad hid behind his wife and children while threatening me on local CBS affiliate, channel 11.
Demonstrators are the public, and the public thanks us! (tags)
What do people think of us?
7 Destructive Habits of Incompetent People (tags)
WARNING! If you want to have a fantastic life, never engage yourself in these 7 deadly habits that may ruin your life.
Alert: Report From the California Biodiesel Consumers' Conference (tags)
Is it possible to have a community-created, low emissions, automotive fuel source? The California Biodiesel Conusemers' Conference is working toward that goal.
Open Letter to Dean Supporters (tags)
You can still influence the Democratic nomination process in a meaningful way. The answer is to back Representative Dennis Kucinich, who has vowed to remain in the race through the convention. If the convention becomes a "brokered" deal, which it appears will happen, then the more Progressive voices there the better for our issues.
Over 1300 Links on the US Presidential Election (tags)
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2004 !
Libertarians for the Dingbat (tags)
It strikes me that the Republicans as "the lesser evil" theory no longer carries any weight, notwithstanding their classical liberal rhetoric. A case can be made that Bill Clinton was a better "Republican" than the current ruler of the White House.
Falling under the category of protecting the down trodden. . . What is the cure for poverty? Wealth. Embrace the creation of wealth or millions die.
Government Will Be Abolished (tags)
The Free State project already has over 5,000 people committed to relocating to New Hampshire to form a libertarian voting block -- the long term goal being the removal of all regulations, taxes, and government.
Sorry to remind you of a cheesy song, but, "so this is Christmas and what have you done?"
a poem...
Anti-Globalize the Corporate Globalization Movement - DO IT NOW! (tags)
WACKENHUT SECURITY OFFICERS (tags)
Join America's Union for Security Professionals
Who do you admire? Who do you despise? (tags)
Can you name six prominent Americans that you admire? I'm thinking of Americans from the political arena. Can you name six prominent Americans whom you truly despise?
Is Arnold good for the libertarians? (tags)
"sensible people of individualist and anti-government leanings tend to give the Libertarian Party a wide berth"
A Mugging At Albertsons - Albertsons Admits Wrongdoing's! (tags)
Long Known For It's Abuse Of Oaklanders, Albertsons Admits To Wrong Doing At It's E. Oakland Store After Receiving Complaints & Attention!
An example of what Zionists are like. (tags)
Quote from recent death threat against woman that spoke critically of Israel.
Take this quiz. Find out whether you have your head screwed on straight or not.
DEATH THREAT RESULTS FROM UC BERKELEY DEBATE ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE (tags)
Israeli Soldiers Make Death Threats to Berkeley Based Non-Profit After Israel-Palestine Debate on UC Campus
It doesn't get any better (tags)
It doesn't get any better than this
Will NeoCons Drive The Decent From The GOP? (tags)
"We've watched while he used the tragedy of 911 and international terrorism to polarize the nation even further, vexing us with fears, while his mindless minions and yes-men from Ashcroft right down to commercial automatons like Fox's smarmy, imbecilic Sean Hannity, blaspheme the grand traditions and Constitutional institutions of this nation in order to wrestle everything from the flag to love of country to being holy relics of the GOP alone. "
SNL 2000 Version of Bush Speech Reflects the White House in 2003 Better than Real thing! (tags)
This November, 2000 Saturday Night Live Parody of a "future Bush speech" sums up the Bush pResidency better than anything Dubya could say tonight during the "real thing"!
The Peace Pretzel: counter-propaganda for the people (tags)
Using grassroots action to help defeat our unelected, photo-op president.
DEAN: Reborn as a Neo-Conservative (tags)
The DLC speaks and the candidates follow! Dean adopts the hawkish, AIPAC view of Iraq, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Turn the Struggle Into a Complete Victory (tags)
--The fundamental problem (as I see it) is that there are thousands of people out there yearning for change, but who lack the resources and information to make it happen--Jeanette Wallis, The Walk for Democracy
Another rant about survival (tags)
Hiya dear readers. Sometimes I just don't understand. We can do better than this. It requires justice however.
Countries With More People Produce More Knowledge. (tags)
From the book "Hoodwinking the Nation" by Julian Simon (dead after the book came out).
NOT BEFORE THE WEEKEND OF COURSE!
KPFK streaming SUCKS - here's how to help make it better (tags)
This was posted before but I'm tossing it up as a repost because it's well worth signing the petition. It will likely not cost KPFK a penny to do what WBAI does to get their "over flow" streams on to www.live365.com
Why the 'Captain America crowd' is on the defensive (tags)
It helps prove what some have speculated in the past — that the administration benefits from what psychologists call “projection”. In a stressful time such as this, the public subconsciously projects boldness onto rashness and competence onto foolish behaviour, because to see the leaders' mistakes in the harsh light of reality would spark a mass panic.
About the "Kill a cop for the cause!" Redding Murder Case - Pt. 2 (tags)
The man who killed a Police Officer in Red Bluff, CA claims immunity because he was incorporated.
The best agent for change is... Civility? (tags)
Lewis Feldstein, president of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, cited the environmental movement, women's rights, civil rights and the drive to improve libraries and health systems as examples of private giving in the public good.
Every libertarian diehard who decries the government's involvement in anything beyond military defense is an avid user of public streets and highways--and thankful for their existence. The same can be said for national parks and libraries.
"Humanity has always dreamt of a better world, one marked by equality, solidarity and the ability of all people to survive and develop their human potential. Today we are living through a nightmare in a new era of world domination: that of armed neoliberalism.."
Build A Better Mousetrap for peace! (tags)
Check out Alex Jones (www.infowars.net0 for more on government abuses.
Build A Better Mousetrap For Peace! (tags)
Stop war? Build a better mousetrap - then watch the State make a bigger mouse. They don't want you successful. They want you in a ghetto and miserable and dependent on them.
Post war Iraq will look like more of the same for the general population.
Government Is Bad - Business Is Good (tags)
Stop war? Get rid of government. Can't have war without government and forced taxes.
WHEN DUCT–TAPE ISN’T ENOUGH (tags)
Commentary above the myopic Hollywood anti-war movement and suggestions for defanging it.
Pics of Westwood Anti-War Rally, More Civil Disobedience Arrests Thurs. 03-20 (tags)
We did it again, but we did it better this time. And we will do ever better tomorrow and after tomorrow. Hundreds of protesters sat on Wilshire boulevard, stopping the traffic for nearly two hours. This time we held our ground for nearly 2 hours. The Police didn't drag us to the sidewalk this time.
Who's Teaching the Children? (tags)
Violent tendencies of some of today's youth can be blamed on a variety of causes, but the most obvious source of lessons of violence is ignored by the media. Though the government is the first to place blame on others, it has yet to look at its own actions and their affects on children.
Forgive Absolutely (A.K.A. The Way of Honour) (tags)
representing all fun and honour
Forgive Absolutely (A.K.A. anger dishonours all victims) (tags)
highest sacredness
Confronting the Warmakers, Visioning a Different Future (tags)
Letter from a young revolutionary communist
We can rid oil dependency tomorrow (tags)
Why isn't there more attention to this story. Vegetable oil and french fry grease has been used in Europe for 20 years, but still isn't mass produced.
Agains BUSH Integral remodelling of the site http://www.franciscotrindade.com Our intention when renewing was in first place to provide one better environment of reading, a different arrangement of the texts and its visual aspect.
IMAGINE: A Better World Is Possible (tags)
IMAGINE: A BETTER WORLD IS POSSIBLE A 5-min. glimpse at Puppetista pageantry and music: the SOAWatch Celebration of Hope and Commitment, Nov. 16, 2002, at the gates of Ft. Benning, Georgia. snowshoefilms.com
Proud and Insolent Youth Incorporated (tags)
The man who killed a Police Officer in Red Bluff, CA claims immunity because he was incorporated.
Remembering Wellstone – the soul of the Senate (tags)
The following are speeches and statements made about Sen. Paul Wellstone and his wife Sheila upon their death, Oct. 25, in a tragic plane accident, which also took the life of their daugher Marcia, three campaign workers and the two pilots.
With the Lemmings of the Congress in D.C. following the Shrub Piper over the precipice to WW3, the question for us out here in Cali is-do we want any more part of this Global Rogue State?
Down the Drain - Congress Wallows in Buckets of Blood (tags)
DOWN THE DRAIN: Congress Wallows in Buckets of Blood - God's Name Evoked Yet Again
SPFPA .... Amnerica's Security Union (tags)
Since 9/11 Security Officers from around the Country are joining SPFPA .... America's Union for Security Police Officers
I am addressing my concerns about the left's propensity to perpetuate it's own elite and their failed strategies and ideas
California Environmental Programs (tags)
California Environmental Programs Face Major Cuts In Midst Of Budget Debacle
An honest look at the drug problem in America. Not only is the problem drug addiction and the devastating effects addiction has on millions of Americans but a honest look at how we are dealing with it.
The Amalgamation of the Bodies of truth (tags)
babylonicide
Labor 's View: Europe Wins Olympics (tags)
Europe won the 2002 Winter Olympic Games; the United States was a distant second. The Olympics represents the collective wealth of the workers of the world which allows some people to spend their time worrying about figure skating routines. Because labor is better organized in Europe, Europe spends more on social services and less on the military, and has the championship at the Olympics and the better overall health and welfare of its people to show for it.
If You Understand Policy-Makers' Mind-set, You Can Better Do Mass Jiu-Jitsu (tags)
Here are two extremely crucial links, in my estimation, to understanding the *bigoted* mind-set of policy-makers (and those who own society). Both come from the trenchant institutional analysis of Noam Chomsky, in his book _NECESSARY ILLUSIONS: Thought Control In Democratic Societies_ which is available online in full!
"It's Getting Better All the Time" (tags)
book called "It's Getting Better All the Time"
PUSTULES ON PLANET EARTH (tags)
Maybe social problems are not important enough to our politicians. Maybe it's better to choose the expensive way...(!?)
A Better Defense For Andrea Yates (tags)
The author writes an updated and better sourced version of an article he published a few days ago.
IF WE WANT TO WIN, YOU HAD BETTER READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!! (tags)
IF WE WANT TO WIN, YOU HAD BETTER READ THIS RIGHT NOW!!!!
Remember our dead hero in Italy (tags)
It is important to remember the death of young Carlos in Genoa. So many times the movement has forgotten the sacrafices that people make on the streets.
Why This Free Enterprise Democracy Is Not (tags)
A fresh look at why we do not have free enterprise or democracy, but instead a morass of corrupt industry and politics, awash with dubious deals and reckless arrogance. Quality of competition in industry and politics steadily deteriorates, along with the quality of life, for most people and other natural species. While reigning rules of business and politics fan the degeneration, little can change for the better. People have endless reason for skepticism and protest, knowing there are better ways, far out of reach, or so it may seem.
Work, Policy of Major Civil Rights Leaders Ignored in Struggle (tags)
Many of the new groups have cathchy names, a cellular telephone and maybe postcards of a mural that covers one wall. Regretably for the well-being of many they have ignored on purpose or out of slick pressures the teachings and history of an American Human Rights struggle: namely the battles for civil rights that were led by common people.
August 14th FIRST ANNUAL YOUTH UNITY MARCH (tags)
THE YOUTH ARE THE FUTURE! WE DEMAND A BETTER WORLD!
A Zapatista Reading List by Gabriel García Márquez & Subcomandante Marcos (tags)
"I have Don Quixote by the bedside, and I regularly carry around Romancero gitano, by García Lorca. Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They're much better than any column of political analysis."
A Zapatista Reading List by Gabriel García Márquez & Subcomandante Marcos (tags)
"I have Don Quixote by the bedside, and I regularly carry around Romancero gitano, by García Lorca. Don Quixote is the best book out there on political theory, followed by Hamlet and Macbeth. There is no better way to understand the tragedy and the comedy of the Mexican political system than Hamlet, Macbeth and Don Quixote. They're much better than any column of political analysis."
Media & LAPD brace for laker "party" (tags)
media attack on laker fans.
A few brutal photographs displaying the Long Beach Police Departments unjust acts upon yet another peaceful demonstrator.
Cal Arts TA May Day events (tags)
addressing the neglect of the institution, Art School TAs planned on stricking to raise voice of a polity. In bringing class concioussness and anarchist history from abstract discourse to practice in this small elitist, private art universityl, Art TAs wrote a plan of action. Yet due to the fact that some felt that the conversation was to new, the strike was postponed Instead, the decision was made to continue talking, expanding the circle of conversation talking
Waterscooters and Muscleboats - our noisy enemies (tags)
What a noisy place our earth is today.
ANTI-WTO ACTIVISTS IN SEATTLE CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS FOR N30, 2000! (tags)
Activists In Seattle Prepare For Possible Confrontations With Police On WTO Protest Anniversary
Hey Al, Can I Buy You For a Minute? (80K stream or up) (tags)
The Democratic National Convention Protests, Aug. 2000, LA.
why the state has stoped protests (tags)
why not to fall in to state run protests and to move beyond