Anti-Israel protests draw masses across world: Hundreds of thousands rally in Turkey against Israel's actions in Gaza. Demonstrations also in Canada, Australia and US.
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Showing posts with label World Wide Protest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Wide Protest. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Demonstrators Hurl Shoes at Downing Street
Demonstrators demanding an end to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza hurled their shoes at the gates of Downing Street yesterday during a wave of global protests.
Riot police were also pelted with missiles and fireworks as about 5,000 pro-Palestinians descended on the Israeli Embassy in London in the evening.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Secret Plan For IMF World Dictatorship
This is a confidential strategy paper for the November 15 G-20 summit in Washington DC. This is not a new Bretton Woods in any sense, but rather a British-steered attempt to impose the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the entire planet, wiping out all hope of economic recovery, the modernization of the developing countries, and national sovereignty at the same time.
Under this plan, the IMF would dictate the economic policies of all states. The IMF orthodoxy is austerity, sacrifice, deregulation, privatization, union busting, wage reductions, free trade, the race to the bottom, and prohibitions on advanced technologies. These policies would strangle humanity.
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Under this plan, the IMF would dictate the economic policies of all states. The IMF orthodoxy is austerity, sacrifice, deregulation, privatization, union busting, wage reductions, free trade, the race to the bottom, and prohibitions on advanced technologies. These policies would strangle humanity.
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Saturday, October 18, 2008
What To Expect When Martial Law Is Declared
After the coming economic financial collapse, a state of world-wide martial law will be declared. Considering the current events which are in direct alignment with documented plans for totalitarian one-world government, (white paper plans published by the Tri-Lateral Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, and Club of Rome), martial law will be imposed without official dissent upon the various countries of the world.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
How Dare They Spend Trillions on Corporate Welfare, Without...?
They're spending over a trillion dollars to rescue doddering, failed companies that deserve to die. How dare they-- the congress-- allow the Fed and the Whitehouse to spend so much without oversight. In times like we are experiencing tough, visionary leadership is needed and we're not seeing it.
The Whitehouse, with the help and support of the deservedly most unpopular congress in recent history, is planning a huge rescue for the finance industry. Reuters already estimates that rescue has exceeded a trillion dollars in cost. How dare they? How dare they give corporate welfare on such an obscene scale without a whimper of question or challenge from legislatrs on either side of the aisle, while a fraction of that budget could be used to provide health care to every American. How dare they throw good money after bad when a trillion dollar investment could subsidize hybrid cars for a hundred million people and just about eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. How dare they, when a trillion dollars-- and they're not finished yet-- could be invested at $5 million a company, in 200,000 energy saver start up companies. And instead, they save a handful of rotting, dying institutions run by failures.
How dare they double the ante on the loan to the automobile manufacturers, to $50 billion without DEMANDING-- yes absolutely requiring-- that they up the mileage dramatically, beyong the pathetic goals currently set within the existing cafe standards (Up to 35 MPG by 2020.) Are they idiots? If a vendor comes to me and asks me for double the size of the loan or payment, I ask what more am I getting in return?
Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer, Charlie Rangel... do your goddamned jobs and stop this crazy, stupid, panic-stricken rescue mentality that is wrong, wrong, wrong. They say that if AIG wasn't saved that chaos would have ensued. Chaos is not always a bad thing. The alternative is lack of chaos and in biology, that's a sure sign of morbidity. Maybe it seemed easier to let AIG fail. Maybe it would have been scary for a time. But NO institution is or should be immortal. When one becomes so obviously unable to function in a healthy, successful way, it is time, like with a dying human, to let it go. Keeping it alive is the antithesis of good judgemnt and certainly, converting it to a government managed entity, is the antithesis of conservatism's most basic principles. But since the leadership of the conservative, or should I say faux/former conservative party is leading the way in the socialization of the finance and securities industry, I say, don't stop there. While you're at it, take the leap and do something FOR the American people.
Give the American people health care. Spend $100 or $200 billion on it, whatever it takes. I dare any Republican who has remained silent as the finance industry has become socialized to complain about health care being socialized. I dare any Democrat (Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank,Henry Waxman and any bluedog democrat) to NOT speak out demanding approval of the legislation. There's a bill that's pending-- HB 676 and it could be passed posthaste. Do it, damn it! Enough of this finding money for doddering, senile corporations to protect foreign investors.
Just do it.
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The Whitehouse, with the help and support of the deservedly most unpopular congress in recent history, is planning a huge rescue for the finance industry. Reuters already estimates that rescue has exceeded a trillion dollars in cost. How dare they? How dare they give corporate welfare on such an obscene scale without a whimper of question or challenge from legislatrs on either side of the aisle, while a fraction of that budget could be used to provide health care to every American. How dare they throw good money after bad when a trillion dollar investment could subsidize hybrid cars for a hundred million people and just about eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. How dare they, when a trillion dollars-- and they're not finished yet-- could be invested at $5 million a company, in 200,000 energy saver start up companies. And instead, they save a handful of rotting, dying institutions run by failures.
How dare they double the ante on the loan to the automobile manufacturers, to $50 billion without DEMANDING-- yes absolutely requiring-- that they up the mileage dramatically, beyong the pathetic goals currently set within the existing cafe standards (Up to 35 MPG by 2020.) Are they idiots? If a vendor comes to me and asks me for double the size of the loan or payment, I ask what more am I getting in return?
Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer, Charlie Rangel... do your goddamned jobs and stop this crazy, stupid, panic-stricken rescue mentality that is wrong, wrong, wrong. They say that if AIG wasn't saved that chaos would have ensued. Chaos is not always a bad thing. The alternative is lack of chaos and in biology, that's a sure sign of morbidity. Maybe it seemed easier to let AIG fail. Maybe it would have been scary for a time. But NO institution is or should be immortal. When one becomes so obviously unable to function in a healthy, successful way, it is time, like with a dying human, to let it go. Keeping it alive is the antithesis of good judgemnt and certainly, converting it to a government managed entity, is the antithesis of conservatism's most basic principles. But since the leadership of the conservative, or should I say faux/former conservative party is leading the way in the socialization of the finance and securities industry, I say, don't stop there. While you're at it, take the leap and do something FOR the American people.
Give the American people health care. Spend $100 or $200 billion on it, whatever it takes. I dare any Republican who has remained silent as the finance industry has become socialized to complain about health care being socialized. I dare any Democrat (Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank,Henry Waxman and any bluedog democrat) to NOT speak out demanding approval of the legislation. There's a bill that's pending-- HB 676 and it could be passed posthaste. Do it, damn it! Enough of this finding money for doddering, senile corporations to protect foreign investors.
Just do it.
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AN AMERICA THAT CAN SAY NO
There is no freedom without the freedom to say "no". Free people can say "no". Slaves cannot.
If we are free, or at least free enough that the terrorists hate us for it, then we have the right and ability and often the moral duty to say "no". We have the right to say "no" to being lied to. We have the right to say "no" to being lied into war. Certainly we have a right to say "no" when the government demands that we make do with less, so that the government and its favored cronies may have more.
Right now, the government is preparing to "fix" the economic mess by setting up a new Resolution Trust Corporation. For those too young to remember, this is a repeat of the same scam used to "fix" the S&L Debacle (remember the Keating Five?) back in the 1980s. And in short it was simply going around with a checkbook filled with taxpayer dollars and cleaning up the mess made by reckless deal making (and a little CIA drug money laundering) in a climate of relaxed regulation.
So, here we are, 20 years later, yet another Bush in the White House and a repeat of the same fiscal debacle stares us in the face. More than coincidence? Many think so.
The mere rumor of a new RTC sent the stock market soaring. Why not? The US Government is telling the investors that they can keep the profits from any trades, but any further losses will get transferred to the taxpayers. It's like being in Las Vegas at the Blackjack table, and every time you get 21 or beat the dealer, you get to keep the winnings, but if you bust, or the dealer wins, they take the money from the bus boy cleaning the table behind you. Such a deal! What's not to like?
Unless you are that bus boy, of course.
If we are free, or at least free enough that the terrorists hate us for it, then we have the right and ability and often the moral duty to say "no". We have the right to say "no" to being lied to. We have the right to say "no" to being lied into war. Certainly we have a right to say "no" when the government demands that we make do with less, so that the government and its favored cronies may have more.
Right now, the government is preparing to "fix" the economic mess by setting up a new Resolution Trust Corporation. For those too young to remember, this is a repeat of the same scam used to "fix" the S&L Debacle (remember the Keating Five?) back in the 1980s. And in short it was simply going around with a checkbook filled with taxpayer dollars and cleaning up the mess made by reckless deal making (and a little CIA drug money laundering) in a climate of relaxed regulation.
So, here we are, 20 years later, yet another Bush in the White House and a repeat of the same fiscal debacle stares us in the face. More than coincidence? Many think so.
The mere rumor of a new RTC sent the stock market soaring. Why not? The US Government is telling the investors that they can keep the profits from any trades, but any further losses will get transferred to the taxpayers. It's like being in Las Vegas at the Blackjack table, and every time you get 21 or beat the dealer, you get to keep the winnings, but if you bust, or the dealer wins, they take the money from the bus boy cleaning the table behind you. Such a deal! What's not to like?
Unless you are that bus boy, of course.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Freedom Not Fear - Worldwide Protest Against The Surveillance State
Surveillance mania is spreading. Governments and businesses register, monitor and control our behaviour ever more thoroughly. No matter what we do, who we phone and talk to, where we go, whom we are friends with, what our interests are, which groups we participate in - "big brother" government and "little brothers" in business know it more and more thoroughly. The resulting lack of privacy and confidentiality is putting at risk the freedom of confession, the freedom of speech as well as the work of doctors, helplines, lawyers and journalists.
The manifold agenda of security sector reform encompasses the convergence of police, intelligence agencies and the military, threatening to melt down the division and balance of powers. Using methods of mass surveillance, the borderless cooperation of the military, intelligence services and police authorities is leading towards the construction of "Fortresses" in Europe and on other continents, directed against refugees and different-looking people but also affecting, for example, political activists, the poor and under-priviledged, and sports fans.
People who constantly feel watched and under surveillance cannot freely and courageously stand up for their rights and for a just society. Mass surveillance is thereby threatening the fabric of a democratic and open society. Mass surveillance is also endangering the work and commitment of civil society organizations.
Surveillance, distrust and fear are gradually transforming our society into one of uncritical consumers who have "nothing to hide" and - in a vain attempt to achieve total security - are prepared to give up their freedoms. We do not want to live in such a society!
We believe the respect for our privacy to be an important part of our human dignity. A free and open society cannot exist without unconditionally private spaces and communications.
The increasing electronic registration and surveillance of the entire population does not make us any safer from crime, costs millions of Euros and puts the privacy of innocent citizens at risk. Under the reign of fear and blind actionism, targeted and sustained security measures fall by the wayside, as well as tackling peoples' actual daily problems such as unemployment and poverty.
In order to protest against security mania and excessive surveillance we will take to the streets in capital cities in many countries on 11 October 2008. We call on everybody to join our peaceful protest. Politicians are to see that we are willing to take to the streets for the protection of our liberties!
You can find the latest information on the protest marches and the list of participating cities at our website: http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2008.
Our demands
1. Cutback on surveillance
no blanket registration of all air travellers (PNR data)
no information exchange with the US and other states lacking effective data protection
no secret searches of private computer systems, neither online nor offline
no blanket surveillance and filtering of internet communications (EU Telecoms-Package)
abolish the blanket logging of our communications and locations (data retention)
abolish the blanket collection of our biometric data as well as RFID passports
abolish the blanket collection of genetic data
abolish permanent CCTV camera surveillance and automatic detection techniques
scrap funding for the development of new surveillance techniques
2. Evaluation of existing surveillance powers
We call for an independent review of all existing surveillance powers as to their effectiveness and harmful side-effects.
3. Moratorium for new surveillance powers
After the homeland armament of the past few years we demand an immediate hold to new homeland security laws that further restrict civil liberties.
4. Guaranteeing freedom of expression, dialogue and information on the Internet
Ban the installation of filtering infrastructure on ISP networks.
Only independent and impartial judges may request the removal of Internet content.
Create a full right to quote multimedia, today indispensable to public debate in democracies.
Protect common internet places of expression (participatory sites, forums, comments on blogs) today threatened by inadequate laws encouraging self-censorship (chilling effect)
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