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97% Owned (Money Documentary) | History Documentary | Reel Truth History
When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it’s essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked – questions like: Where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does that mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when money and finance… Continue reading
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US: Retail Death Rattle Grows Louder
The absolute collapse in retail visitor counts is the warning siren that this country is about to collide with the reality Americans have run out of time, money, jobs, and illusions. The exponential growth model, built upon a never ending flow of consumer credit and an endless supply of cheap fuel, has reached its limit… Continue reading
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Can the Top 10% Prop Up the Whole Economy? By Charles Hugh Smith
Since the entire economy depends on consumption for its “growth,” and discretionary consumption is financed with either cash or debt, that leads to two questions: 1) who has cash to spend on non-essentials and 2) who is credit-worthy enough to borrow money for non-essentials? Continue reading
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Video: Indebted citizenship – an interview with David Harvey in Teatro Valle
Austerity doesn’t make sense economically: but it does make sense as a politics of autocracy and the securitized state. Europe should learn from China and Latin America, interviewed by Andrea Mura. (Video, 17 minutes). Continue reading
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Repeal Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act!
Schedule 7 allows for people to be detained for nine hours, fingerprinted, strip searched and asked questions without a right of access to a lawyer. It can be exercised without the need for any grounds to suspect the person is involved in terrorism, or any other criminal activity. This means it can be used against… Continue reading
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The Global Economic Crisis: Causes and Devastating Consequences By Global Research
This important collection provides the reader with “a most comprehensive analysis of the various facets – especially the financial, social and military ramifications – from an outstanding list of world-class social thinkers.” Continue reading
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Financial Cleansing: The Cyprus Bail-in Template By grtv
The recent bail-in in Cyprus has given the world a glimpse at the future of the banking landscape. Now, as Canada gets set to hardwire the bail-in process into law, analysts like Michel Chossudovsky are warning how the big banks can use this template to further consolidate their monopoly of economic control. This is the… Continue reading
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Sequesters To Trim Government Debt; Malls Raise Consumer Debt for The “Sheeple” By Danny Schechter
Durban, South Africa: Back in 2002, South Africa hosted a UN environmental Summit on sustainability. It drew a rag tag army of green activists from all over the world, many excited to visit the now free South Africa that they fought for through the apartheid years, and hoping to meet members of the liberation movement… Continue reading
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Bradley Manning/Wikileaks Newslinks 9 January 2013
9 January 2013 — williambowles.info Judge refuses to dismiss charges against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning Washington Post A military judge refused Tuesday to toss out the case against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning but ruled that any sentence the Army private receives should be reduced by 112 days because of his mistreatment in confinement. Manning’s confinement Continue reading
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Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too
The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target users based on what they do at the keyboard and at the mall. Continue reading
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New free press foundation helps WikiLeaks to subvert banking blockade
A new foundation dedicated to promoting media transparency and fighting censorship is to support WikiLeaks in its efforts to subvert a two-year block on payments by Visa and MasterCard. Continue reading
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How Neoliberal Tax and Financial Policy Impoverishes Russia – Needlessly By Michael Hudson
Russian poverty is unnecessary. Like all poverty in today’s high-productivity age, it is the result of bad policy. There is no technological need for it, nor is Russia lacking in a full spectrum of natural resources and economic potential. So future historians no doubt will puzzle over how the nation was convinced to de-industrialize its… Continue reading
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Truth, Propaganda and Media Manipulation
Never before has it been so important to have independent, honest voices and sources of information. We are – as a society – inundated and overwhelmed with a flood of information from a wide array of sources, but these sources of information, by and large, serve the powerful interests and individuals that own them. The… Continue reading
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The Political Pied Pipers on the Road to Mangaung: A Different Kind of Tale By Dale T. McKinley
South Africa’s modern-day political pied pipers are, like the fairy tale character’s clothing, a patch-work collection. But we should not be deceived by appearances alone, for the securocrat-inspired tune of intolerance and political similitude they are playing with increasing enthusiasm and volume on the road to Mangaung is as deadly to all South Africans as… Continue reading
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Media Lens: ‘The Special One’ – Celebrity, Comedy And Spiritual Egotism – Part 1 By David Edwards
After I published my first book, I encountered quite a few celebrity writers, journalists and activists. I discovered that some of the planet’s most difficult and arrogant people have devoted their lives to ‘making the world a better place’. They claim to be driven by compassion, but their harshness and hatred of criticism (as though… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Cogitation: ‘The Special One’ – Celebrity, Comedy And Spiritual Egotism By: David Edwards
Twitter and Facebook have been cunningly designed to exploit our need to feel ‘special’. To be ‘retweeted’, ‘favourited’ and ‘followed’ on Twitter subtly suckles our ego, generating quiet, short-lived satisfaction. Other users who have 100,000 or 1,000,000, or – God help us! – 20,000,000 ‘followers’, seriously challenge the idea that we are ‘the one’. Negative… Continue reading
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German state TV reports: Syrian rebels claim responsibility for attack on Turkey by R. Teichmann
Supporting the original ZDF report that the rebels are responsible for the attack on the Turkish border village is another video (Source: Syria News) which shows that the rebels have the equipment to carry out such an attack. Continue reading
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WikiLeaks intervenes in the U.S. federal election – Vote WikiLeaks!
Last Friday, the Pentagon publicly reissued its threats against WikiLeaks, demanding that we destroy our previous publications and cease “soliciting” U.S. military whistleblowers — and that our failure to do so was an ongoing “crime” and “law enforcement matter”. The FBI file for the pending prosecution of WikiLeaks, according to court records from earlier this… Continue reading
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SOPA author strikes back with Internet surveillance bill; no one is safe By Sebastian Haley
SOPA author Lamar Smith is sponsoring a new bill named the ‘Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011″ (H.R. 1981). The bill is not brand new, mind you, but with so many other oppressive attempts by the government to invade privacy and control the Internet lately, it has managed to slip by relatively unnoticed… Continue reading
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