The Rise and Rise of the Cult of the Ego (tags)
All types of people are convinced to buy something to ward off feelings of inner emptiness. A mix of clickbait hyper-capitalism will hoodwink an entire generation. "When you lose control, you reap the harvest you have sown" (Pink Floyd)
Amazon's Meteoric Rise in World Capitalism (tags)
Amazon's meteoric rise is, in our view, a key moment in global capitalism. The company's rise to power reflects the increasing influence of neoliberal politics and corporate power in general. It represents a major shift in the global political economy, what we call Amazon capitalism.
Donald Trump and the Rise of the Nationalist Right (tags)
Examining How Trump Won the Us Presidency, 16 pages
Video: Rise of the Robots, 1 hr (tags)
Unlike a chair, an idea can be shared by a whole people! Access could replace excess as enough could replace more. www.steadystate.org
Video: Rise of the Robots, 1 hr (tags)
700 free movies and 700 free E-books are ours in www.openculture.com! Enjoy the feast in the land of disconnect, of reversible cups!
It's Not Just Climate - Pope Francis Is Also Warning About The Health Of Our Oceans (tags)
In his 222-page encyclical, Pope Francis warned about (1) the polar plight, (2) sea level rise, (3) ocean-bound water pollution, (4) ocean acidification, (5) overfishing and (6) loss of marine biodiversity.
The Rent Crisis in Los Angeles (tags)
There is a growing housing and rent crisis in Los Angeles. The resistence is here and growing.
State of Power 2014, 99 pp (tags)
In its third annual "State of Power" report, TNI uses vibrant infographics and penetrating essays to expose and analyze the principal power brokers that have caused financial,. economic, social and ecological crises worldwide.
LA Election Results Commentary (tags)
nobody says nothing
Gov. Brown's peripheral canal increases salinity in delta (tags)
The peripheral canal/tunnel proposal by Gov. Jerry Brown would increase salinity in the delta by removing too much freshwater from the river. The entrance to the tunnel/canal is too far east and would remove freshwater from the Sacramento River without allowing it to enter the delta. Removal of fresh riverwater combined with increasing sea level as predicted by climate change spells doom for the delta.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of Great Public Spaces (tags)
"Copenhagen’s comeback gives hope to people around the world who want to make sure that lively public places don’t disappear in this era of rampant traffic, proliferating privatization and heightened security..."
PHILIPPINES: How to Slay the Oil Price Monster (tags)
Leaders are elected in order to take decisive action to solve problems. What is demanded from a leader is–after a careful weighing of costs and benefits–action that cuts the Gordian Knot of a seemingly complex reality.
Renewable energy solution to oil price hikes (tags)
Manila, Philippines: Akbayan Party today urged the Aquino administration to push for renewable energy as a long term solution to oil price hikes. Akbayan lawmaker Walden Bello said that the spiraling cost of fuel should send alarm signals to the government and stress the urgency of pushing for renewable energy to address the country’s energy needs.
America's Student Loan Debt Bondage (tags)
class war
Seven Billion ... And Rising (tags)
The world’s population surpassed 7 billion on October 31. But except for perhaps the anti-family planning lobby, this was a milestone that few were in a mood to celebrate.
BTL:Hedge Fund-Financed Land Grab in Africa Triggers Global Food Price Spike, Rise in Hung (tags)
Interview with Anuradha Mittal, executive director of The Oakland Institute, conducted by Scott Harris
How Wars are Born: the US vs. China (tags)
Those of us making the “radical” claim that wars are the result of economic/corporate interests pushed abroad, were recently given a nod of approval from a typically unfriendly source, The New York Times. The corporate controlled New York Times published a revealing article about how U.S. foreign policy really works, and why. The motive behind the sincerity is that China’s foreign policy was being attacked. However, the article soon made it clear that China’s policy is the same as the U.S.’s : dominating regions that are of “economic (corporate) interest” — raw materials, cheap labor, shipping lanes, markets, etc. — through military buildup.
Opening Reception for Gwyneth Scally (tags)
Who: Gwyneth Scally “The Rise of the Original Eden” What: Opening Reception Where: Cella Gallery, 5229 Lankershim Blvd. North Hollywood, CA 91601 When: Saturday, November 21st, 7-11 pm Exhibition Dates: November 21st – December 23rd, 2009 Cost: FREE (please RSVP to the Opening Reception: info@cellagallery.com
The Nazi Hydra In America (tags)
In 700 fascinating pages the Nazi Hydra documents how US financiers created Hitler and his war machine, launched a putsch against FDR and recouped Nazi assets to lay the foundations of today’s NSA and CIA and the rise of the Fourth Reich in America.
California ordered to prepare for sea-level rise (tags)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday ordered preparations for rising sea levels from global warming, a startling prospect for the most populous U.S. state with a Pacific Ocean coastline stretching more than 800 miles.
Messiah Barak Mohammed Obama: Product Of Polygamy (tags)
obama is just israel, testings its mind control over US citizens...they have bought off the lazy and the stupid and the weak, so they know that mind control is in place, and will remain so until their paper money tanks, which might be this week, or next, but they want to see if they can keep their middle eastern butt-think in place, where they will remain forever Gods chosen people. Har.
Summary of The Unified Field Theory (tags)
Unifying Gravity and Electro-Magnetism. Ending our dependence upon fossil fuels and ushering in the age of clean energy sources (fusion).
CDIR Expects Surge Of Anti-Immigrant Scape-Goating (tags)
The Coalition In Defense of Immigrant Rights (CDIR)-USA expects a high tide or a surge of anti-immigrant scape-goating in the face of the current economic recession in the United States. The CDIR-USA coordinator Arturo P. Garcia also expressed alarm over the move of anti-immigrant lobbyist Ward Connelly, the author of the infamous Proposition 209 in California to put into ballot initiative in five states propositions about race and gender equality. The ballot measures will have better chances of winning in those states like Arizona, Missouri and Colorado with high anti-immigrant bias and forces.
Three million infected with winter vomiting virus in U.K. alone, government reports (tags)
The Telegraph (U.K.) is reporting: Three million people have been afflicted by the winter vomiting bug - with experts fearing that cases could continue to rise dramatically during this month and next.
Bolivia: Drastic action needed (tags)
In Bolivia, poverty and inequality are on the increase because the government has not been able to implement its National Development Plan. A report drawn up by the Planning Ministry in Bolivia and an arm of the United Nations, the UNFPA, came to the following conclusion: "There is social and economic inequality in the country due to a lack of government policies to bridge the gaps and these inequalities will increase as time passes." The figures say it all. Poverty affects 6 out of 10 Bolivians, while 4 out of 10 live in extreme poverty. The situation is getting worse each year because the annual growth rate of the population is 200,000, but 174,000 of these will live in poverty. While the bourgeoisie plays with hunger strikes to gain so-called Autonomy, some 15,000 children die each year from hunger or hunger related diseases. On the same day that the UN report appeared, it was announced that annual economic growth had fallen from 4.5% in 2006 to 3.8% in 2007. At the same time inflation has risen to 12% mainly due to the rising cost of foodstuffs. Here are two examples. In 6 months a kilo of rice in Santa Cruz had doubled in price from 4 Bolivianos to 8. Gas bottles used for cooking had risen from 25Bs to 50Bs, but it was still hard to find any because most are being exported to Peru where they will sell for up to 125Bs. So business does not worry if Bolivians have no gas to cook with as long as they make a profit.
U.S. HIV infection totals increases by 50%, CDC indicate (tags)
Bloomberg News reports: The government's estimate of annual new HIV infections is likely to rise "as much as 50 percent," say patient advocates who are pressuring officials to speed the release of the new figures.
Dr. James Hansen Amps Up Language on Climate (tags)
A report to the British Royal Society was released Tuesday in which America's top climate scientist and five others spoke with stronger feelings about the climate situation than their usual drab scientific findings. They were, of course, trying to wake people up to the seriousness of the problems of our climate's future.
Climate Changing 3x Faster Since 2000 (tags)
The National Acadamy of Sciences published a report from a series of studies on many aspects of global warming. The May 22 report states that the rise in CO2 emissions and the Arctic Ice Cap melting are three times faster than the worst case predictions of the IPCC report. They also found that the sea level rise is twice as fast as expected by the scientists just last year.
4 questions for Al Gore. (tags)
Or anyone else who knows the answers
The Great Global Warming Swindle's GIANT Fallacy (tags)
The documentary is now available free on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU
Antarctica Melting Faster than Expected (tags)
A leading Australian marine scientist John Church in an interview by Michael Byrnes of Rueters told of his research revealing that "Observations are in the very upper edge of the projections,"(1) "I feel that we're getting uncomfortably close to threshold," said Church. "....the Antarctic Peninsula is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, and glaciers are in massive retreat." A United Nations report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in February projected sea level gains of 18-59 centimeters (7-23 inches) this century from temperature rises
IPCC Report UNDER-ESTIMATES GLOBAL WARMING say experts (tags)
One scientific report which was published the day of the IPCC report shows that the sea level rise will be much more than stated by the IPCC. Here are excerpts from an excellent article posted to the Monthly Review:
Carbon dioxide rate is at highest level for 650,000 years (tags)
[Here's another article from Europe that won't get any print in the US.]
Olmert wants to nuke Iran
Big Jump in Hate Crimes Against Muslims Documented (tags)
WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - Complaints of discrimination, harassment and violence against Muslims jumped over 30 percent in 2005 from the previous year, according to a report released Sept. 18 by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim organization.
On the Executive Branch; Relating to War Powers, continued
News Junkie Scott's Blog (9/17/05) (tags)
The New York Times and Bush's New Orleans speech
When Anarchists Organize; Lessons from the Love and Rage Federation (tags)
Love and rage was a North American revolutionary anarchist federation in the 1990's. Roy, SanFiippo, a former member of ove and rage, will talk about the rise and fall of Love and rage, as well as its accomplishment's and failures.
Dictatorship as Economic Advantage: China's Rise (tags)
"Paul Samuelson questions the theory that existed for 200 years: the theory of free world trade..Wolfgang Hirn shows how China's rise to omnipotent production nation leads to de-industrialization..The 150 year old western dominance is obviously coming to its end.."
Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State (tags)
Alex Jones' new documentary, "Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State" is available!
Don't Blame OPEC; Higher Gas Prices Are Almost Entirely Bush's Fault (tags)
What is making oil so expensive is not energy policy or even SUV’s, dangerous as those are for the environment. It’s Bush’s massive deficits and his willful destruction of the US dollar that has gas selling at $2.30 a gallon and rising.
Rise and Fall of Syphilis Said Normal (tags)
A recent rise in syphilis rates in the United States is probably due to natural cycles rather than an increase in unsafe sex or other behaviors, according to a new study.
The 'Black Book' of U.S. Imperialism: Ward Churchill's Roosting Chickens (tags)
Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman and assorted intellectuals of the "decent left" have earned their keep arguing that anti-imperialism is nothing but an echo chamber of nihilism, oedipal rage and tacit support for whomever the governing class declares the enemy. Once upon a time their kind derided the Communist left as window dressing for the gulag; now they argue with parallel duplicity that anti-imperialists are shills for "Islamo-fascist" death cults and suicide bombers. As the gate-keepers of acceptable dissent, that is to say "none," they rarely take time to note what it is, this America, they've declared their loyalty to and what it is exactly the "anti-Americans" oppose.
The Rise of the Christian Fascists (tags)
Larry Everest on the Rise of Christian Fascists -- and why people must stop it!
January 20 Call to Action: RISE Against Bush/SHINE For A Peaceful Tomorrow (tags)
RISE Against Bush
SHINE For A Peaceful TomorrowA Call for Anti-War Actions in Washington, DC, January 20, 2005
BTL:U.S. Poverty on the Rise, According to Census Bureau (tags)
Interview with Scott Klinger, co-director of United for a Fair Economy's Responsible Wealth Project, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
THE CONTINUING STRUGGLE OF AFGHAN WOMEN: A THREE PART FILM SERIES (tags)
Part one of a film series dedicated to raising awareness of Afghan women, while also raising funds to save a refugee high school from closier in Pakistan.
Collective Action: Histories of Activist Movements (tags)
FROM THE INDYPENDENT: Activists keep reinventing the wheel, but there is a rich history of struggle, victories and failures to learn from. This installment of "The Real Quick Reading List" looks over some of the best histories of the North American left.
Idiot Bastard Son of Lies (tags)
Fear and the Bush presidency
'Hitler' Exec Producer Fired Over Remarks (tags)
This one is for all you pointy headed Brown Shirt Shills - Let's see - I see Psymon, I see frescass, I see caveman, I see ....
Bush Encouraging Shiites to Rise Up (tags)
Please comment on the above scenario
UNEQUAL PROTECTION: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights (tags)
Thom Hartmann will be giving a talk on his new book at The Bodhi Tree, Nov 23, 3p. His new book UNEQUAL PROTECTION: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights (Rodale/October 2002) is an in-depth look into how corporations have hijacked democracy.
MUST READING FOR ALL AMERICAN PATRIOTS AND OTHER FASCISTS..... (tags)
This article should be must reading for all American Patriots who are forever whining about "anti-Americanism"--not to mention anti-war Liberals who may be opposed to America's wars, but refuse to fight the American Empire itself. As this article suggests, America's current Terror War is only an extension of the Cold War. One that "continues under new names but, in essence, it is now a 'North-South' struggle--an effort to prevent the rise of any society that may set a credible example of an alternative to the capitalist model, and to prevent the rise of any power that might challenge American supremacy."
The rise of anti-semitism today (tags)
Harvard President Lawrence Summers recent condemnation of the rise of anti-semitism at Harvard and elsewhere grossly underestimates the problem by excluding the anti-semitism directed against Arabic people.
Taco Bell Truth Tour Caravaners at Rise Up 2002 (tags)
Taco Bell Truth Tour Caravaners pose for a photo at the Rise Up 2002 Conference at the UCLA campus.
Team Photo: Taco Bell Truth Tour Caravaners at Rise Up 2002 (tags)
At the end of the morning plenary at today's Rise Up 2002 Conference at UCLA, the 80 CIW members and fellow travelers who journeyed across country on the Truth Tour Caravan posed for a group photo.
Bush - Enron Connections Exposed (tags)
Bush - Enron Connections Exposed