Mini-Me: European-US Banking–Tangled Web — Tell Me Again, Why Shouldn’t We Default and Let the Banks Fry? + Financial Terrorism RECAP

The question has to be asked: “Why shouldn’t we default and let the banks fry?” What possible benefit it there to the people of a nation whose previous leaders “sold out” the entire country on the basis of lies from the banks, notably Goldman Sachs? Why not default and focus on full employment and resilience …

David Swanson: History of Corporate Personhood — How Lewis Powell & US Chamber of Commerce Bought the US Supreme Court

The Real History of ‘Corporate Personhood’: Meet the Man to Blame for Corporations Having More Rights Than You The real history of today’s excessive corporate power starts with a tobacco lawyer appointed to the Supreme Court.  By Jeffrey Clements, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, AlterNet The following is an excerpt of Jeffrey Clement’s Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have …

Penguin: The Heart of Darkness is Empire

Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt by Richard Gott – review The violence at the heart of colonialism is exposed in Richard Gott’s history Richard Drayton Guardian, 7 December 2011 Amazon Page for Reviewer’s Book Nature’s Government “We insisted on reserving the right to bomb niggers.” So David Lloyd George explained the British government’s demand …

Theophilis Goodyear: The “Teflon” Argument – Open-Source Government Can Launch a New Scientific Age with Multinational Open-Source Science Projects

The “Teflon” Argument:  Open-Source Government Can Launch a New Scientific Age by Facilitating International Cooperation on Open-Source Science Projects The potential uses for open-source collaborations are limited only by human creativity and ingenuity. In other words, Open-Source Intelligence is open-ended! No one can possibly predict the upward limits of benefits that can come from it. …

Mini-Me: Japan’s Lies to the World on Fukushima

  New international report shreds Japan’s carefully constructed Fukushima scenario John C. Daly Arab News. com, 13 November 2011 EXTRACT Needless to say, in the aftermath of the disaster, both TEPCO and the Japanese government were at pains to minimize the disaster’s consequences, hardly surprising given the country’s densely populated regions. But now, an independent …