THE MEDIA - LIES AND ILLUSIONS.

         Several weeks of protests in New York by the Occupy Wall St. movement and still the media give it a very low key approach, the fact that it is spreading to other cities in America makes no difference what so ever. It is not hitting the headlines, there is obviously a form of censorship in the West. You can report protests and up-risings in lots of countries across the world, the further away the better, the nearer to home the less coverage they get. Not much in the European media about the protests in Athens, Madrid and Rome, to mention a few, but lots of cover on the uprisings in the Middle East. As Julian Assange said at the London anti-war protests this weekend, "journalist peddle lies", but what is equally abhorrent is the non reporting of certain events when it might throw a bad light on their lords and masters the corporate world. The mainstream media is a subservient tool of the corporate world, the peddler of illusions, a PR machine for the corporate and political parasites at the top. It is time that we stopped looking to the mainstream media for "news" and stick with the independent alternative media, activists' news-sheets, internet, facebook, twitter, etc. Let the mainstream media peddle their lies to the thin air. Information on Protests and Anti-war info.

By John Hartfield.

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THEY HAVE EARNED DEFEAT!!

         We are an unbeatable force, governed by consent, we have the right to withdraw that consent, and when we do, we are ungovernable, our lives will be ours to live.

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FIRES OF THE FUTURE.

I

am fire,

I surge, I hiss,

sometimes bursting forth in a flame

that lights up the world

illuminating unimagined dreams.

Then the black cloak

blankets out the glow.

Again all is dark,

but, still

beneath the surface

I surge, I hiss,

I endure, waiting, seeking,

building up pressure.

One day I will explode

destroying forever

the Tartarean crust of oppression.

I am fire,

I am the people.

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NAZI, NEOCON, RELIGIOUS NUTTER, IT'S ALL THE SAME.

       Mitt Romney, front runner for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination is one of those people that the West is always demonizing, and sending drones out to kill, he is a religious fundamentalist. However, his religious fundamentalism is of the type accepted by the Western warmongering nations, he is a Christian fundamentalist rather than a Islamic fundamentalist. In his recent speech he spouted the usual supremacy crap about how God created America different from other countries, it seems he thinks God is a biased creature who prefers white supremacist Americans over all other people. He is also spewing out the usual shit about America having a unique destiny and was never meant to be, “---one of several equally balanced global powers”, another piece of his delusional drivel, "---God did not create this country to be a nation of followers," and if America doesn't lead the world someone else will. Sounds much like the Nazis in Germany around 1939. Of course it is very difficult to separate an American religious fundamentalist neocon for an old German Nazi, they spew out the same arrogant self centred psychotic bile.

       This religious nut also wants to beef up America's military power and is surrounding himself with the other equally fundamentalists from the G. W. Bush, Iraq massacre era, saying that America would work with United Nations “--where appropriate” but also saying ”-- "know this. While America should work with other nations, we always reserve the right to act alone to protect our vital national interests." Another statement proving he is nothing less than another dangerous religious nutter visionary, he believes, “---this is America's moment”. I can't think of anything more frightening than a bigger military America with a religious nutter sitting with his God controlled finger on the nuclear button.

       Reading his speech I couldn't help thinking that, if this guy was speaking anywhere else in the world, it would probably be on a soap box in a park surrounded by a crowd of laughing hecklers. Sadly in America there are millions who will take him seriously and believe his crap, also a lot of big money will get behind him, the arms industry for one, the oil industry for another, and attempt to propel him into that seat of power. The future looks bleak, if it wasn't for, Occupy Wall St. the demonstrations in Athens, Madrid, Rome, Paris, London and other cities across the world. More power to the people of the world.

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GLASGOW'S OWN DOCUMENT 9, FILM FESTIVAL.

      October, a dark and dreich month here in Scotland, but we have one thing that brightens up the month, Glasgow's own International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival. This will be the ninth year of this festival, hence its name DOCUMENT 9. and it is appropriately named, 2011 - A Year of Protest. Those who put this festival together, start the hectic and sometimes tiring work immediately after each festival, it takes a year of meetings viewings and all the other bits the film goers don't see, all we see is the wonderful and exciting results, which this year will run from 20 - 23 October. The festival will be screening over 50 International human rights documentary films along with talks, discussions, live art, performances, exhibitions and music. The launch of the festival takes place at the CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street Glasgow, 7pm on the 20 October 2011. The film festival runs in conjunction with a series of exhibitions, running from 13 – 23 October.

All the details and venues of the Film Festival and the Exhibitions can be found on their website

HERE.

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FEMINIST SAUDI ARABIA!!!!

         Is it worth it, all that marching and demonstrating against the war, does it make any difference? Well of course it is worth it and of course it makes a difference, if you don't put your ideas on the table, they'll never be taken up. Also, little by little you expose the brutal lies of this corrupt system, consciousness shifts one small step at a time. There is now no doubt in the majority of the people across the world that the Afghan war was built on a series of lies and is maintained by more lies.
      Comedian Mark Steel, with his great sense of the absurd, mocks the endlessly changing justification for the war in Afghanistan - whether it's democracy, the heroin trade, terrorism or women's rights - and celebrates how the anti-war movement across the world has changed people's view of wars and the lies our leaders tell to take us into them.

       Mark Steel will be performing at the Antiwar Mass Assembly in Trafalgar Square on 8 October 2011, alongside John Pilger, Billy Bragg, Jemima Khan, Brian Eno, Julian Assange and many more.

Antiwar Mass Assembly details...

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CLOISTERED, PAMPERED IDIOT.

Reading well manicured millionaire Cameron's speech given at the Tory party conference, re-enforced my opinion that the guy is an idiot with no grasp of reality, our reality, his is a different world. Telling the ordinary people of this country to clear their credit cards to help the banks, displays his total lack of understanding of how the ordinary people live. He lives such a cloistered life cocooned and pampered in the millionaires club, he can't grasp that most ordinary people have debt on their credit card because they can't afford to buy things cash. Unlike him and his parasite friends, who think it is perfectly normal just to clear your credit card and then nip out and buy the odd bed room suite or new garage and pay with cash, most people with debt have difficulty paying for their heating, their food bills and travel expenses, and don't get paid enough to nip down to the retail park and just buy another washing machine cash, hence the debt. To the ordinary individual, the credit card is not just a convenient way of buying, in this type of society, it quite often, is the only way of buying, we are a low wage economy, when you have a job.

 

"Clear your credit cards, we bankers need your cash."

He then goes on to tell us to, "show a bit of fight”, from a man who has never had to fight for anything in his entire life. What does he mean? When our gas bill comes in, how should we fight that? Is he saying that we shouldn't pay and instead just pick a fight with the energy company, if so I'm with him all the way. So all you who are in a lousy job with crap wages, and have been facing a wage freeze the last couple of years, and are struggling to make ends meet, follow your great leader millionaire Cameron, and just clear your credit card to help the banks and show some fight when the bills come in, what an arsehole.

 

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IT'S YOUR OWN FAULT!!!!

     Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain in a recent Wall Street Journal interview showed what the rich elite of America think of the poor, when asked what he thought of the 'Occupy Wall St' movement, he stated, “ Don’t blame Wall Street,--- Don’t blame the big banks, if you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself!”

     So there you have it , the possible next president of America's message to the people of America is, if you're unemployed and you are poor, well it's all your own fault. Well perhaps it is, should you have taken so much shit from the system and its elite parasites for so long? Should you have let the greedy parasitical politicians in cohorts with the more greedy and parasitical corporate world take complete control of your lives and screw you day in and day out? So maybe it is your own fault, but now would be a good time to put that right and take back control of your lives. Don't change your leader, change the system.

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REMINDER - ANTIWAR ASSEMBLY SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER.

All the signs are that the Anti-war Assembly in Trafalgar Square on Saturday is going to be a memorable day. Grace McCann, will be there, the women who has come closest so far to carrying out a citizen's arrest on Tony Blair. 

      Films, visuals and audio will be an integral part of the day, and when the Assembly ends at 4pm, we will march to Downing Street, led by ex-soldiers and relatives from military families, with the demand that the government bring the troops home now.

      The need to build the political pressure to make the politicians reflect the majority view of public opinion that all the troops should be withdrawn from a futile and unjustified war, was never more apparent following the statement this week by the new US commander of the occupation in Afghanistan, US General John Allen, who said: "We're actually going to be here for a long time."

      Which is why this week, in Trafalgar Square in Britain, and on Freedom Plaza, Washington DC, in the United States, there will be major anti-war events on the tenth of anniversary of the start of the Afghanistan war.

      Please do all you can in these last few days to help publicise the Anti-war Assembly as widely as possible and encourage everyone you know to join us. Users of social networks please spread the word, share and tweet as much as you can.

ANTI-WAR MASS ASSEMBLY
SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER
12 NOON TO 4.00PM
TRAFALGAR SQUARE LONDON
Called by Stop the War Coalition, CND and British Muslim Initiative http://www.antiwarassembly.org/

Transport from Scotland: http://glasgowstopwar.blogspot.com/

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WALL ST, - 20 DAYS AND STILL THERE.

        

  In spite of  the almost complete blackout by the mainstream media the occupation of Wall St. continues and is growing in numbers, it is now spreading across the whole of America in cities from the east coast to the west, from the south to the north. So far it seems to be keeping itself clean, by that I mean no leaders and no parties. What they have to remember is that we are governed by consent, we have the right to withdraw that consent, and when we do, we cannot be governed. Only then will we be able to create the type of society that we really want.

        OCCUPYWALLSTREET is a people powered movement for democracy that began in America on September 17 with an encampment in the financial district of New York City. Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and the Spanish acampadas, we vow to end the monied corruption of our democracy … join us! We're now in DAY 20.

MORE PHOTOS HERE:

Get Involved

OCCUPYWALLST.ORG for news and logistics

NYCGA.net for General Assembly Updates

OccupyTogether.org join occupations across America

Reddit Page organizing tool

Facebook Event Page for facebookers

Tumblr for clippings and links

Livestream from the global revolution

Antibanks for international actions

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AFGHANISTAN -- WHY???

        The cost of the war without a reason raging in Afghanistan has and is costing the UK dear. Not only is it draining the public purse at a time when our cabal of millionaires in the cabinet are slashing viciously at all our social services, but even more seriously, it is costing the lives and future of thousands of our young people. Leaving aside the massive slaughter of Afghans on their own soil by foreign troops they never asked to enter their country, the figures for the UK suffering is unacceptable. Along side the 382 UK deaths since the start of this tragedy there is the wounded. 

Centrally available records show that: For the period 1 January 2006 to 15September 2011:

       1,792 UK military and civilian personnel were admitted to UK Field Hospitals and categorised        as wounded in Action.

3,440 UK military and civilian personnel were admitted to UK Field Hospitals for disease or non-battle injuries.

       256 UK personnel were categorised as Very Seriously Injured from all causes excluding disease.

       268 UK personnel were categorised as Seriously Injured from all causes excluding disease.

      Then of course there are those who have suffered trauma and will struggle with mental heath problems, probably for the rest of their lives, causing more suffering and anguish for their friends and families and so the misery spreads. WHY. 

Don't you know, wars create jobs.

       Ask any of our pampered politicians why we are there and each one will give a different reason. They'll have to give some reason, for them to admit that they don't know would not go down too well with their bosses. I'm sure any man or woman on the street would most certainly find it hard to come up with a reason and no doubt each reason would differ from the other. The truth is this war defies reason. I'm sure somewhere deep in the dark corridors of corrupt power there will be a handful of millionaires who know the reason for this ten years and counting slaughter and destruction. Somewhere there will be a benefit to some corporate body, perhaps the arms industry, they must be making a mint from the death and destruction. Perhaps it will be the Western corporate mining sector, rubbing their sweaty hands thinking of all that mineral buried under the mountains of Afghanistan and all that cheap labour in a country with no infrastructure. The corporate world feeds on the blood of the people, slaughter in Iraq, all that shiny black oil, Libya, more of the black stuff. The potential wealth for the corporate world from all those precious minerals waiting to be exploited by the wealthy and powerful Western mining sector will gladden the heart of many of those on any Stock exchange.

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12,000 ON HUNGER STRIKE.

       12,000 prisoners on hunger strike against inhumane conditions and treatment??  No this isn't some banana republic, it is sunny California in the land of the free the good ol' U.Sof A. It preaches human rights and freedom to the world and does its damnedest to bomb the world into freedom and democracy but has thousands of prisoners own its own soil who feel ill treated enough to go on hunger strike.

THIS FROM SACC.

       In September 6,000 prisoners in California began the 2nd wave of a hunger strike against inhumane conditions in California Secure Housing and Administrative Segregation (Ad-Seg) Units. Numbers released by the federal receiver’s office show that on September 28th, nearly 12,000 prisoners were on hunger strike.
     Lawyers from the prisoner’s legal & mediation team have been banned from communicating with hunger strikers and family members of hunger strikers have also been denied visits. This is an added punishment that increases isolation for hunger strikers in an attempt to break the strike and conceal retaliation.

More background and updates at http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/

10 ways to support the strike: http://prisonerhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com/take-action/

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GLOBAL REVOLUTION???

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MILITARY DEMOCRACY???

      

          I have never been one to think that democracy will come via a military government. In most cases the top Military are in too cozy a relationship with those at the top you wish to get rid of, they are part and parcel of the same state apparatus. So I thought it would only be a matter of time before there were the usual fractures between the new ruling elite and the real people of Egypt, and now the new ruling class are beginning to show where their plans are heading, the usual control over the working class. Below is an appeal from LabourStart.

        The Egyptian revolution last winter was an inspiration to the whole world. And workers were at the heart of it. Their strikes brought down the Mubarak regime.

But today, Egypt's Military rulers continue to criminalise strikes.

     That hasn't stopped Egyptian workers from walking off the job in their hundreds of thousands. Today, a major strike wave is sweeping the country, with schools, hospital and public transport systems shut down. Those workers face the risk of brutal repression unless the country's military rulers start recognizing their basic human right to join and form trade unions, and to strike.

        Egypt's new independent unions and the International Trade Union Confederation have today launched a major campaign to pressure the new regime to enact a labour law that recognizes workers' rights.

      It's extremely important that you and other members of your union act today by sending off a short message. It will take you less than a minute to do this.

Click here to send off your message.

Please pass this message on to other members of your union.
Thank you!



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PEOPLE FIRST.

More from that very wet Saturday 1st October Glasgow. The weather didn't dampen their spirits, nor their anger.

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CAMERON - MILIBAND, TWO OF A KIND!!

        The following is a short extract from Tony Benn's speech made at the weekend. It is all well and good what he says, but we don't want to to defeat the government and see a Miliband Labour government in its place. After all the man himself Ed, has said that they cannot reverse the cuts. To replace the Cameron/Clegg millionaires with look-a-like named Miliband is hardly going to improve the conditions of the ordinary people of this country. They are all singing from the same music sheet, it's just that the Cameron mob are singing it as a reel, while the Miliband bunch want to sing it as a waltz. The end result will be the same, a drastically decimated welfare system, a low wage economy and millionaires making loads of cash. It is not the faces at the front of the package that is the problem, it is the package itself.

          “The present government is mounting the biggest attack ever made on the welfare state created after the Second World War. Their aim is to finish the work begun under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.

         When people came back from the war, the view was that it was the responsibility of government, representing the people as a whole, to provide affordable homes, free medical care, education for all, and key public services.

        All of that is now under threat. The Con-Dem Coalition's programme of austerity and privatisation will take us back 80 years.

          We are going to need a tidal wave of resistance from below to defeat the government. Every one of us needs to get active, involve others, spread the spirit of resistance to help to build a united mass movement to stop the cuts.”

What we want is a mass movement of resistance to change the system, not to change the face at the podium or the bums on the seats of power, and party political politics will never do that.

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