Reference: What Is the One Thing? On Democracy
What is the one thing? L. Shaw Mitchell, Occupy South Carolina Source Direct Full text below the line for ease of online translation.
Chuck Spinney: Defense Lies, Big Lies, Super Lies
We Need the Money and we Need It Now [email] he Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex (MICC) is in panic city over what promises to be cosmetic cutbacks in the growth of the defense budget. The courtiers in Versailles on the Potomac, like the obedient editors of the Washington Post, are dutifully pumping out …
Continue reading “Chuck Spinney: Defense Lies, Big Lies, Super Lies”
Reference: The 99% Declaration
“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson The 99% Declaration WHEREAS THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging …
Robert Steele: Open Answers to Adam Dorwart
Increasingly these days, I am getting thoughtful emails from people who really do want to fix this country rather than leverage ignorance for selfish gain. Here is the YouTube that helped start the conversation: YouTube (5: 51) Robert Steele OWS Electoral Reform Proposal Below is a fine email with questions, and my answers. This is …
Continue reading “Robert Steele: Open Answers to Adam Dorwart”
Chuck Spinney: Manufacturing Dissent – The Rise of the Tea Party as an Elite Front – Opposite of OWS
Below is an excellent interview with Anthony DiMaggio in Counterpunch. DiMaggio author of The Rise of the Tea Party, due out in November 2011. He uses the “propaganda model” developed by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in their book Manufacturing Consent to document and explain the Tea Party’s organizational dynamics for manufacturing dissent, and he …
Review: A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation – And How to Save it
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed 5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond 5 Stars – Superb Individual Effort, October 25, 2011 In its own way this book is every bit as good as such classics as The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) or The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters …
Continue reading “Review: A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation – And How to Save it”
Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)
Full Text: Note on financial reform from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 2011-10-24 Vatican Radio Please find, below, an unofficial translation of the Note on the reform of the international financial and monetary systems in the context of global public authority, released Monday by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. ****************** Pontifical …
Continue reading “Vatican, Ethics, & Truth II (Full Text Online for Google Translate)”
