September 2011
“Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy,”
—Henry Kissinger (via zaraahmed)
Occupy The City: Wallstreet Protest Comes To London →
wideshut.co.uk
‘In solidarity with their brothers and sisters across the pond, downtrodden Brits are planning to emulate the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York, by staging similar action in the financial City of London.
There have been sporadic rumblings through the alternative media about action against the financial gamblers, but one Facebook page that seems to be getting all the press calls citizens to Occupy the London Stock Exchange on Saturday, October 15 at 4:30pm until December 12 at 11:00am. As of now 241 people have signed up as attending.
So far political action in the UK has mainly fallen on deaf ears. The student protests were demonized as too violent and ignored, the cuts protests drew large crowds but lacked understanding & direction, and were mainly led by controlled opposition forces in Labour and the Unions. The Royal Wedding protests were stopped before they could start. And the youth riots were brushed off as not being political and used to give the Government more control over people’s movements.
With a little planning, Occupying the City may prove to be the wake up call the country needs. The root cause of the problems right now are the bankers and gamblers that plummeted the economy and then further robbed the people through the bailout. So the only logical action, should be to target the bankers and the gamblers.
The estimated total cost of the bailout is around £850bn, while the total national debt sits pretty at £4.8 trillion and growing. They can talk about spending their way out of the recession or cutting their way out. The only way out is for the debt to be written off, because it wasn’t created by the people and it’s not owed to anybody that needs it!
The Facebook page notes:
We are a people-powered movement, protesting against the increasing social and economic injustice in this country. Since the financial crisis the government has made sure to maintain the status quo and let the people who caused this crisis get off scot-free, whilst conversely ensuring that the people of this country pay the price, in particular those most vulnerable. What we have in common is that we are the other 99%, that we want People over Profit, that we are making our voices heard against greed and corruption and for a democratic and just society. And we are doing that in a non-violent and peaceful way.
WideShut and Resistance Radio plan to have a presence at the event. Stay tuned for more details.’
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
—Noam Chomsky (via cultureofresistance)
Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern →
bbc.co.uk
Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.
Thousands rally in West Bank for statehood bid →
uruknet.info
My favorite placard held by one of my school mates, it reads: “We don’t want tiny bits of our land to call state”
While Palestinians are defenseless and under attack in villages and cities around the West Bank, thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Ramallah, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Hebron to show support for the United Nations bid for Statehood and express their full support for their leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
It worth noting that this rally was probably the biggest rally held in Ramallah since the death of Yassir Arafat, it also unified people from different political affiliations. The crowd carried mostly Palestinian flags, not flags associated with political parties.
There were many speakers today in Ramallah who took to the stage to speak for the Statehood bid, out of the most prominent figures were the Ramallah governor Laila Ghannam, and the PA’s secretary general Tayyeb abdul Rahim.
My favorite placard held by one of my school mates, it reads: “We don’t want tiny bits of our land to call state”
Stocks fall amid fears of new recession →
presstv.ir
‘The FTSE 100 index in London plunged more than 210 points to 5078, a 4 percent drop, with not a single riser in sight.
In Asia, markets also suffered heavy losses, with the Nikkei closing down 2.1 percent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng tumbling 4.9% and the Jakarta stock market losing nearly 9 percent.
Meanwhile in the United States, Wall Street, futures indicate that the Dow-Jones will open 160 points lower, the guardian reported.
The losses came after the US Federal Reserve unveiled a new USD 400 billion bond buying plan on Wednesday to avoid a double dip recession in America.
The US Federal Reserve’s tacit acknowledged that America’s economic slowdown is likely to persist for quite a while.
According to the International Monetary Fund, a slow, bumpy global recovery could be jeopardized by the US and other governments’ attempts to rein in budget deficits too fast, which could kill the global economic growth.’
The 6 Most Horrifying Lies The Food Industry is Feeding You →
cracked.com
‘If there’s one thing in the world the food industry is dead set against, it’s allowing you to actually maintain some level of control over what you eat. See, they have this whole warehouse full of whatever they bought last week when they were drunk that they need to get rid of — and they will do so by feeding it all to you. And it doesn’t matter how many pesky “lists of ingredients” and consumer protections stand between you and them.’
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