The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Below now circulating within US green community.
Title: Urgent Request to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
Source: Green Action Japan
Date: May 1, 2012
EXTRACT:
Nearly all of the 10,893 spent fuel assemblies at the Fukushima Daiichi plant sit in pools vulnerable to future earthquakes, with roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl.
Invitation to the gathering of the commons, 30th June, 1-5 pm
Something new is moving, coming alive in London and it’s powerful. Similar to any big change in nature, it started in a way noticeable only to relatively few but have no doubt, it will grow fast and wide.
Whether you attended one in 12-day/12-seminar series on The Emergence of a Commons-based Economy or join us at the next gathering, you will not only learn about how you can reclaim the commons in your life and work, but also, contribute to the tide that will raise the boat of all commoners.
You are warmly invited to bring your dreams, questions, enthusiasm to co-creating a Commons-based society, one commons at a time.
Continue reading “Event: 30 June London Gathering of the Commons”
DEAR AMERICA: You Should Be Mad As Hell About This [CHARTS]
In November, Americans will have a chance to speak their minds.
And there's one thing everyone should agree on:
America just isn't working right now.
It's not just Americans who aren't working. It's America itself, a country whose economy once worked for almost everyone, not just the rich.
In the old America, if you worked hard, you had a good chance of moving up.
In the old America, the fruits of people's labors accrued to the whole country, not just the top.
In the old America, there was a strong middle class, and their immense collective purchasing power drove the economy for decades.
No longer.
Over the past couple of decades, the disparity between “the 1%” and everyone else has hit a level not seen since the 1920s. And there is a widespread and growing sense that life here is not fair or right.
If America cannot figure out a way to fix these problems, the country will likely become increasingly polarized and de-stabilized. And if that happens, the recent “Occupy” protests will likely be only the beginning.
The problem in a nutshell is this:
In the never-ending tug-of-war between “labor” and “capital,” there has rarely—if ever—been a time when “capital” was so clearly winning.
And that's not just unfair.
It's un-American.
Phi Beta Iota: The actual unemployment rate in the USA is 22.4%. Anyone that does not know this is part of the problem. Anyone that knows this and conceals it from the public is part of the corruption that has created the problem.
See Also:
Josh Kilbourn: US Disability & Food Stamp Welfare Skyrocketing
Mini-Me: Economists Scoff at Obama, Romney Job-Creation Myths
Stephen Lendman
5.0 out of 5 stars 6 Star (My Top 10%) Primer for Every Citizen,June 6, 2012
I've had this book in my stack of “to be read” books for some time now, and now that I have read it, I deeply regret not getting to it sooner. Although I have read and reviewed a number of vital serious books in this field, and list ten of them below, I have to say this is easily the single best book of the lot, and I put it into 6 stars and beyond — out of the 1,800 plus books I have reviewed at Amazon, fewer than 10% get this rating.
Perhaps because I had already read the ten books below, I was absolutely floored by the clarity, organization, precision, simplicity, intelligence, and general integrity of this book and its author. Please do take advantage of the Look Inside the Book feature that Amazon offers (click on book cover above). In seventeen chapters, the author has brought to the public a work of elegant explosive yet balanced and measured, FACTS with CONTEXT.
If you read only one book on the destruction of the US economy, the destruction of the US Republic, the destruction of legitimate governance in the USA, this is the one book I recommend. It should not only be read, but also shared. As I go back over the table of contents thinking about what to highlight (I no longer mark up books now that I donate them all as I finish reading them), I am just blown away by the medticulous, sensible, systematic, intuitively coherent manner in which the author starts with the fraud and treason of the Federal Reserve (neither Federal nor a reserve), and ends with his prescription for public banking that I heartily respect.
US Labor Market Is In A Full-Blown Depression
ZeroHedge, 6 June 2012
Now that stocks are back to reflecting nothing more than expectations of how many times the Chairsatan dilutes the existing monetary base in a carbon copy replica of not only 2011 but also 2010… and 2009 (because contrary to what purists may believe, the only way to inflate away unsustainable debt in a growth-free economy is by destroying the currency), and manic pattern chasers have crawled out of their holes proclaiming the death of the bear market after a two day bounce, what is happening in the actual economy, no longer reflected by the market, has once again been pulled back to the backburner.
Which is sad, because while ever fewer people reap the benefits of artificial, centrally-planned S&P rallies, the rest of the population suffers, and what is worse: hope for a quiet, middle-class life is now an endangered species. Nowhere is this more evident than in the following list from David Rosenberg which summarizes how, quietly, the US labor force slipped back into a full-blown depression.
From David Rosenberg:
One Sick Labor Market
There were so many disturbing elements to the May jobs data that we're not sure we can do justice to the litany of disappointments (with some help from our friends at the Investor's Business Daily):
A Constitutional Solution for Internet Governance
Rolf H. Weber
Faculty of Law, University of Zurich
R. Shawn Gunnarson
Kirton McConkie
June 4, 2012
Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Forthcoming
Dr. Rolf Weber and R. Shawn Gunnarson have written a paper on ICANN accountability that has been accepted for publication by the Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. In brief, the paper argues that ICANN should hold the ICANN Board of Directors accountable through mechanisms both independent of the Board and binding on it. They further argue that such mechanisms should be grounded in traditional principles of constitutional government, such as the enumeration and separation of the Board’s powers, a declaration of stakeholder rights, and an independent tribunal with the authority to issue decisions binding on the ICANN Board. Such measures should be adopted through a ratification process that includes representatives from every sector of ICANN’s global stakeholder community.
The paper can be downloaded at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/
