A Date For Your Diary.

     On Wednesday 9th April 2014 to coincide with the visits of Morgan Gibson (Queensland) and Vicente Ordóñez Roig (Jaume I University, Castellón, Spain) to the Dumfries campus of the University of Glasgow there will be a symposium (or perhaps something similar with a slightly less pompous sounding title)  on the theme: “Contemporary Anarchist Theory and Practice: Critical perspectives”. With ‘critical’ playing multiple roles, meaning either important, relevant/vital, analytical, supportive, evaluative or from opposing traditions. 

      The venue will be in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow, Rutherford McCowan Building, Crichton Campus Bankend Road, Dumfries (it is about 2.5 miles from the train station to the Campus). It  will start at 11am and finish formally at 5pm, so that those travelling on the day by public transport from Glasgow, Stirling, Edinburgh and Carlisle, Newcastle and Lancaster can attend without missing any of the formal event.  

        If you wish to travel from further afar and need to stay over, some colleagues/friends/comrades up in Glasgow have offered accommodation and something might be available in Dumfries too. Please let me know ASAP. 

      As well as Vicente and Morgan, there is a strong line-up of activists and academics contributing (a brief line up will be available soon). We also inviting other contributions – it can be a formal presentation/paper or something different - so if you are interested, please send an abstract or a description and a title by Wednesday  19th March., though please let us know sooner if possible. The deadline for submitting completed papers, if you wish to have them circulated beforehand is Wednesday 26th March (this is by no means compulsory).

       The deadline for confirming attendance (for those not formally contributing) is also Wednesday 26th March (just so I know what size rooms to book and see if I can get any catering). 

      The event will be free for anyone to attend, however, I have not been able (as yet) to raise funds to subsidise travel.  

        For those not in a hurry back, there are some good pubs and reasonable eateries around Dumfries town centre, and so something in the evening might spontaneously arise. 

       If you have any questions, suggestions or advice, on any detail of the plan for this symposium (colloquium, gathering…), please let me know. 

All the very best 

Benjamin 

Dr Benjamin Franks,

Lecturer in Social and Political Philosophy,

School of Interdisciplinary Studies,

University of Glasgow,

Rutherford McCowan Building,

Crichton Campus,

Bankend Road,

Dumfries, DG1 4ZL

0 (044) 1387 702055

www.gla.ac.uk/schools/interdisciplinary/​staff/benjaminfranks

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Rape And The Death Penalty.

Where rape merits the death penalty--- for the victim!!

In August, a pregnant Ethiopian immigrant was lured into an empty flat by seven men, who held her there against her will and subjected her to a brutal gang-rape. They recorded the assault, and the video went viral online, drawing the attention of the authorities. How did the police react to this footage? By arresting the victim and throwing her in jail for "indecent behavior."

Now, things have gone from bad to worse. The Attorney General of Sudan has refused to prosecute the rapists, and has announced that he will pursue the death penalty for the victim in the case. Even if the victim isn't found guilty, Sudan's laws won't allow a new trial based on the evidence being used against her -- meaning that she will never be able to get justice.

Care2 member Lisabeth has started a petition to bring public pressure on Sudan's government. Let's show Sudan that the world is watching, and we won't stand by while a woman already traumatized by a brutal crime is punished for seeking justice.

Sign and share the petition now - we don't have much time before the trial starts!

Thank you for your support, Julie R. Care2 and The Petition Site Team

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Terrorism.

Definition:

• Terrorism is the systematic use of violence (terror) as a means of coercion for political purposes.
  
  
  Example: As in Iraq and Afghanistan by UK and American governments. 
  
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Big Brother Ain't Leaving Of His Own Accord.

        Some interesting facts about our modern day “democracy”. No matter what you do, e-mail, phone, chat on social media, walk down your main street, stand at a bus stop, walk into a bar, shop at the local supermarket, draw cash from a cash machine, you are being watched and listened to, you are being profiled. Big Brother wants to know what you are up to, who you communicate with, who you meet and where. 

        This is the extent of your freedom, this is the shape of your “democracy”. Do you believe that they are doing this for your benefit? There was the day when you could expect the “bad guys” to be followed and spied on, but in today's “democracy”, everybody is treated like the “bad guys”. Today the state sees no reason why it shouldn't poke its nose into every aspect of everybody's life, to them, everybody is a possible “bad guy” and has to be watched constantly.

       This mass surveillance, this over all scrutiny of our every action, is not going to go away anytime soon. It will only get more intrusive as technology is driven by the paranoid state, which wants total control over its citizens. The state has a constant fear that people will always strive to control their own lives and this would negate the state's existence, obviously it can't let this happen.

     If you want a free democratic society, free from constant intrusive surveillance, then it has to be a society without the state, a community based society organised from the bottom up. The only answer is a society based on co-operation, mutual aid and mutual respect, not one of power and authority.

• The NSA "has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world." — The New York Times
• The NSA "is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world." — Washington Post
• The NSA "is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world." — Washington Post
• The NSA collects the content and metadata of emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else from fiber-optic cables "that carry much of the world's Internet and phone data." — Washington Post
• NSA "officers on several occasions have channeled their agency's enormous eavesdropping power to spy on love interests." — The New York Times
• NSA "is secretly piggybacking” on Internet advertisers' "cookies" and location data “to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance." — Washington Post
  
  
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Combat Stress Reaction, So Shot At Dawn.

     The recent floods in the south of England has kept our millionaire Oxbridge parasite leader, in wellies for a while. This has probably taken his mind, temporarily, off his arrogant grandiose scheme of trying to turn that imperialist blood letting known as the First World War, into a glorious struggle for the freedom of the people. No doubt his minions will still be beavering away in the back rooms of power, dreaming up methods to turn it all into a pompous spectacle. A spectacle where the parasite class will put on all their finery, stand under flags listening to “Land of Hope and Glory”, drunk on that poison “patriotism”.

Patriotism

No, I shall not die for the fluttering flag,

if truth be known, ’tis nothing but a multi-coloured rag

held aloft by some foolish hand

inciting worker and peasant to kill

on some green and wooded hill,

peasant and worker from some other land.

Nor shall I shed blood for the fluttering rag

that brings out fools to stand and brag

of brutal deeds painted grand,

deeds where rustic and craftsman lie so still

killed by my brothers' misguided hand.

No allegiance have I for the Nation

this man made autocratic creation

that divides my brothers in a world so small,

binds us to a country's cause, right or wrong,

bids us follow its drum, sing its song,

then sheds our blood in some border brawl.

No, I'll be no slave to flag or nation,

have no ear for power oration,

though its iron heel is on my breast,

my back feels its leather thong,

at patriotism's barracoon, I'll be no guest.

     Perhaps as they stand with their shining medals, chains and badges of phony honour, they will reflect on the 306 young men that their class had shot at dawn for “cowardice”. 306 young men that had experienced their mind being crush by the endless pointless slaughter all around them. Young men that had seen their friends and in some case family members blown to pieces and maimed, and could see no end in sight. Men as young as 17, tied to a stake and shot at dawn, by their own comrades, on the orders of the blood crazed defenders of imperialism, for what today we would refer to as post-traumatic stress syndrome and combat stress reaction. 

Shot at dawn memorial, at the National Memorial Arboretum  

   Another thought that should permeate through their warped minds is the fact that the UK was one of the last countries to end this barbaric dawn murder of its own troops. The die-hard UK imperialists would cling to this savagery until the bitter end. It was two different classes, the arrogant upper class, officer prats, and the worthless working class, who had to be treated brutally to keep them in line. Nothing much has changed in their mental attitude, it is still them, who believe they were born to lead, and us, who need to be kept in line, or we might start doing what we want to do.

   We owe it to those 306 young men and all those who suffered during and after that imperialist land grab, to remember it for what it was, a massive blood letting, so that the European aristocrats could settle their greed driven differences.

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Is It Spring Time In Europe?

      When ever people take to the streets in protest at the corruption, inequality, and injustice, that is rife in this stinking system, it is difficult to get a true picture of what is happening. That babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, always put a slant on it that it is just a bunch of hooligans looking for trouble. It is never portrayed as genuine anger, nor is it reported as demand for real change. Bosnia Herzegovina has been in turmoil for the last few weeks, and the truth on what is going on, is a scant visitor to our media.
       The following is an extract taken from a detailed report on Crimethinc from those involved: 

 

The Graffiti reads; “Let’s fire all [politicians]—death to nationalism”

 

       The past two weeks have seen a fierce new protest movement in Bosnia, commencing with the destruction of government buildings and continuing with the establishment of popular assemblies. Unlike the recent conflicts in Ukraine, this movement has eschewed nationalistic strife to focus on class issues. In a region infamous for ethnic bloodshed, this offers a more promising direction for the Eastern European uprisings to come.
     To gain more insight into the protests, we conducted two interviews. The first is with a participant in Mostar, Bosnia, who describes the events firsthand. The second is with a comrade in a nearby part of the Balkans, who explains the larger context of the movement, evaluating its potential to spread to other parts of the region and to challenge capitalism and the state.

Read the full article HERE:

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A Truth Of Our Era, ATOS Kills.

     ATOS Kills, is not a slogan, it is a truth. Across the country we have seen deaths and suicides as a result of this so called “assessment policy”, which translates as, cutting welfare to the most vulnerable in our society. Whatever the result of the “assessment” the stress and trauma of having to face this humiliating treatment is often enough to push vulnerable people over the edge. We have, sitting in the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, a millionaire cabal, who, in their pampered bubble world, know nothing of the struggles and suffering of the ordinary people, nor do they care. They are all worshippers in the temple of Mammon, the poor and vulnerable are mere sacrifices on the altar of finance.

 

      ATOS is just one of the many tools in their armoury as they plunder the public purse, but it is a brutal tool being used against a vulnerable section of our community. We can all say what we feel about this savage attack on our communities by attending the organised Day of Action against ATOS, which takes place tomorrow Wednesday, 19 February. There will be one in your town or city, if not create one. Protests are taking place in towns and cities across the UK including Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Croydon, Hull, Birmingham, Truro, Portsmouth, Edinburgh, Wimbledon and many more. To find a protest near you visit: http://ukrebellioncom.ipage.com/atosdemo/

 

This from The Void:

 

     Someone recently commented that there was once a time when a government policy which led to spate of unintended deaths would have been halted to find out what the fuck was going on.

     Yet the death toll linked to the horrific Atos run Work Capability Assessment grows ever higher with a spate of tragic suicides reported throughout December.  Life is cheap under neo-liberalism and neither the Tory Party, or Labour – who merely say they will replace Atos but the assessments will continue – are opposed to this terrible regime facing sick and disabled claimants.

     Barely any of those found ‘fit for work’ by Atos have actually found jobs, despite Iain Duncan Smith’s magical Work Programme.  The number of successful appeals against decisions made to throw people off benefits remains sky high.  The stress and suffering caused by Atos is more than well documented by hundreds, if not thousands of people on the internet.

Read the full article HERE:

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Direct Action Needs Organisation.

Campaign Strategies: 

Four Talks on Self-Organised Activism

FREE EVENT: Saturday 22nd February 2014 at Rivington Place, London, EC2A 3BA

      Celebrate the power of protest! Come along to Rivington Place and explore strategies for creating political pressure to further your cause. Learn how to galvanise groups into direct action from our afternoon of free talks.
      Find out more about the tools used by activists from photographs and DIY printing to tweeting. You’ll be able to see special campaign related archive material from The George Padmore Institute while New Beacon Books (Black culture specialists since 1966) will have a selection of publications to browse and buy.
     You can also visit our free exhibition Congo Dialogues: Alice Seeley Harris and Sammy Baloji to discover why Alice Seeley Harris represents one of the earliest human rights campaigners in the world, and how Sammy’s work exposes the ongoing need for activism

Join us for one or more of the following:

1pm – 1.45pm 

Analogue Activism: DIY before the Digital Era
2pm – 2.45pm 

Archives and Activism: Why are Archives and Records so Valuable for any Activist?
3pm – 3.45pm

Art and Activism: The Role of Art in Campaigning and Direct Action
4pm – 4.45pm 

Social Media Activism: A Guide to Online Tactics

Free event, we recommend booking in advance to ensure a place. To book, phone us on 0207 749 1240 or email bookings@rivingtonplace.org

Rivington Place is in Shoreditch, London, and fully accessible. For directions please visit rivingtonplace.org

 

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Local Politics Is Global Politics.

     As we vent our anger at the Cameron millionaire cabal, about the “austerity” ideology being forced onto us, we should realise that this attack on the ordinary people is not a UK phenomenon. There is no use looking to one of the other parties of puppets of the financial Mafia, to set things right for us. This is a well co-ordinated, world wide assault on the conditions of the ordinary people. The financial Mafia is organised across the globe, and running to a ballot box, here in the UK, to change the smiling suit that sits on the throne of the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, will change nothing. The policies in country after country across the planet, mirror each other, no matter the shade of the political party in power.

     Our real enemy is capitalism, we are just experiencing its latest phase, global corporatism, and we should realise that it can only be beaten on a global scale. They are well organised globally, and can only be beaten by us being similarly globally organised. It may look like local politics, ATOS, the bedroom tax etc. but these policies are shaded and moulded to fit every country. It is the system that stinks, the politicians are merely the managers of that stinking system. Welcome to Australia's bedroom tax.

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The Armed Forces Are No Friend Of The People.

      To all those who say “support our troops” I think they should ask themselves, “what are the troops really for?”. They are portrayed as, there to protect the people, but can be, and are, brought onto the streets to suppress the people and protect the state apparatus. The armed forces are the strong arm of state expansionism and the body guard of corporate globalisation. It is ordinary kids from our communities that are hoodwinked by the state propaganda, the deal is you hand in your freedom and you get a uniform, with the promise of learning and travel. In truth, the kids are brutalised and moulded into robots that will always follow orders, no matter what. Then they are sent to the out posts of the corporate imperialist's empire, there they will employed to crush any local resistance to the march of Western corporate greed, corporate globalisation. 

     People of the world don't need protecting from people of the world, we the people, need protection from the various states and their partner, corporate imperialism, who are wedded in a festering marriage of greed and destruction. 

Symbols of state repression.

This from Indymedia:

  ------We see them recruiting in the towns, colleges and jobcentres, luring in the exploited and excluded classes with bloodmoney, moronic patriotism and the promise of adventure to replace their misery, with macho bootcamps or the controlrooms for videogame-style remote killing technology. Despite cuts Britain still has the fourth largest military budget in the world as it clings to an imperial legacy of genocide and enslavement. Today the Western armies are flexible for democratic-expansionist wars, 'peacekeeping' interventions to facilitate the new colonial age of corporate globalisation, counterinsurgery, geopolitical manoeuvrings and resource control, or prepared for internal policing and strikebreaking. Their ends are the same as ever, here as in Afghanistan, Mali or Libya - the rulers lie, the poor die, capitalism profits. 

Read the full article HERE:

It's The End Of The world, And I feel Fine.

Another from Submedia, Organising Revolt.



Organizing Revolt from the stimulator on Vimeo.

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Crooks And Liars All.

     Once again our lords and masters in the Westminster Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption have shown their duplicity, and what they think of the minimum wage. It seems that our Oxbridge millionaire Tory MP's are being advised on how to get round minimum wage legislation by naming interns as volunteers. Hey presto, you don't have to pay them at all. Fairness, justice and we are all in this together.

This from The Void:

      The breath-taking hypocrisy of both the Tory Party and the TUC was laid bare this week after an astonishing document emerged which advises Tory Party MPs on how to dodge minimum wage legislation by renaming interns as ‘volunteers’.
     The leaflet, which was published on the Graduate Fog website, provides legal advice on minimum wage legislation along with a template letter that can be used to fob off any enquiries to MPs about their use of unpaid interns.  This shoddy attempt to dodge the rules on paying workers comes in the same week that David Cameron announced in Parliament that his Government was naming and shaming firms which don’t pay minimum wage.

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Bank Liquidity, Or People's Health?

      The full extent of austerity measures can't really be measured as it is the next generation that will carry a lot of the scars. The deeper the austerity the further into the future the damage goes. Greece is the financial Mafia's biggest European crime against a future generation. The extreme poverty inflicted on today's generation of the people of Greece destroys lives in the present, but the harm to the next generation could be far worse.

     According to Doctors of The World, medical aid group, at this moment in time, 25% of Greek's can't afford health care. This of course hits the most vulnerable, elderly, sick, pregnant women and children. Like the rest of Europe, parents in Greece had the kids immunised, this has now rapidly fallen away. In Greece immunisation of a child over its first six years, costs between €1,400 and €1,800, to an impoverished family this is beyond them. Doctors of The World also claimed that over a recent nine month period they examined 10,633 children and found that 6,580 had not been immunised, that is well over 50% of children not being vaccinated. They also stated that every day they see two and three year old children, who have not been vaccinated. Another of their findings, is the appalling fact that since 2008 to 2011 the number of stillborn babies has increase by 21%. This is the direct result of the policies of the, the European Financial Mafia, the Troika, (ECB, European Central Bank, EC, European Commission, IMF, International Mankind Fuckers.)

     What will the future be like, growing up in a country where child vaccination is disappearing and infant mortality rising, where unemployment is running at 27%, and over 60% among the young, what will this do for the quality of life, for family life? These are just some of the many hidden crimes perpetrated by the financial mafia, in its plundering of the public purse. Generations of deprivation, with all the attendant physical and mental health problems, for no other reason than to fill the coffers of a banking system that got drunk on gambling, and lost. 

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Challenging The Arms Trade In Scotland.

Challenging the arms trade in Scotland

A Campaign Day with Campaign Against Arms Trade

10.30am-5pm, Saturday 15^th March, Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4HZ

What's the link between Edinburgh and drones, or Ayrshire and the teargas turned on democracy protesters in the Middle East? What does Dundee have to do with the repression in Bahrain? Find out at an info and skills-sharing day in Glasgow on 15 March.

Bringing together campaigners from across Scotland and Northern England, CAAT's Campaign Day is a great opportunity to pick up information and campaign skills.

We've got an exciting agenda lined up - get in touch if you'd like to offer a talk or workshop too!

• Hear from Edinburgh CAAT about their inspiring campaign to end arms company sponsorship of the Edinburgh Science Festival.
• Discuss how we can use the referendum debate to rethink the arms trade, whether in an independent Scotland or as part of the UK.
  
• Learn about CAAT's research into shifting resources away from the arms trade and creating green jobs.
• Explore useful skills for running campaigns and having an impact.
• Share news and information from the campaigns you care about.

With top-level arms dealers due to meet in Scotland a few weeks later and the opportunity to challenge Edinburgh Science Festival's support for a drones company in April, it's an important time to get involved!

Please let us know you plan to come! events@caat.org.uk

Stay in touch with Glasgow CAAT on Twitter @GlasgowCAAT

www.caat.org.uk

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Solidarity Is Our Weapon.

A call for solidarity from IndustriALL Global Union: 

       Trade unions and NGOs rallied outside Cambodian Embassies around the world on 10 February demanding the release of Cambodian garment workers detained since the beginning of January. The campaign is set to escalate as they were not freed at the court hearing on 11 February.
     In a show of global solidarity, demonstrations took place in Brussels, Canberra, Dhaka, Geneva, Honduras, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul, Sri Lanka, Tokyo and Washington D.C.
      It follows a call by IndustriALL Global Union, UNI Global Union and the ITUC to show international support for 23 people arrested in the capital Phnom Penh during demonstrations by garment workers fighting for a fair and living wage.
     In the past few days, two workers have been released. Of the remaining 21 detainees, 16 began a hunger strike on Sunday.

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Paint Your Face With War Paint?

       In honest reflection, I think we have to admit that we have made a real mess of the planet. Apart from ripping the planet apart to plunder its finite resources to feed our excesses, we swamp its rivers with noxious chemicals, and fill its atmosphere with deadly pollutants. We destroy its forests and devastate all other forms of animal life, as they get in the way of our “progress”. Basking in the illusion that we are making our lives better, we destroy our only home. We fail to grasp that spaceship earth has no escape capsule. Greed of the few, which is contagious, is sold as “progress” while tinsel and fancy gadgets cover the scars of our bleeding planet. What we should bear in mind is that the planet is much more adaptable than we are as a species, it will change and go on spinning, while we slowly eliminate ourselves with our ever growing greed and arrogance.

      Is it too late? Can we rescue our only home? Who knows, but any chance of rescuing our once beautiful home will require a mass revolution of consciousness among the ordinary people, a destroying all the old tablets of stone, a burying of the myth of “continuous growth”, a levelling of the quality of life of the people across the planet, an end to the greed driven excesses of the few at the expense the many. What ever rescue plan we come up with, will most certainly need to be based on co-operation, mutual aid, sustainability and mutual respect of all life on the planet. The rescue plan for our survival must sit firmly on the foundation of material needs rather than material desires. A realisation that more pretty coloured boxes does not equate with a better quality of life.

This from The Year Of Black Clothing:

 

     In the Middle East, those questions look like birth defects from residuals of depleted Uranium. Beneath the Arab Spring lie unattainable food costs. In China, you have nets built around factories to prevent suicides and screens projecting sunrise and sunsets since you can’t see them through the smog. Throughout Latin America you have displaced villages and toxin spewing factories demolishing forests. Throughout the affluent nations, you have chronic debt, depression, and people buried under their possessions and gadgets as real world connections wither.

      You have a world overrun by resource wars, power grabs, ponzi schemes, crushed egos, isolation and separation induced anxiety and depression, suppressed populations, and unthinkable wealth. But you have no middle ground. You have no escape.

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 Tomorrow’s World! 

See the fat cat’s grinning smile

as Corporate Capitalism runs amok,

Chasing profit as it goes

firing millions of ordinary folk.

Raping and polluting land after land,

starting bloody wars.

Toxic waste, sweat shop wages

and oil covered sea shores.

Where have all the flowers gone

beneath this ozone free sky?

To join the birds, to join the fox

on yonder plutonium field to die.

Mercury fish, strontium lamb

trees that never show a leaf,

radio active beaches, toxic streams

good lean BSE-antibiotic beef.

In a world of epidemic, plague and famine

it’s bottled water and chemical food.

Of course, it’s all tested on rats and mice

so you know its got to be good.

Beneath a sky that’s always black,

hurricane winds and endless drought,

its oxygen masks for the toxic air,

corporate profit’s what its all about.

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You Are Many - They Are Few.

      As surveillance becomes ever more widespread and detailed, covering all aspects of our lives, it is more and more stupid to suggest that this is all for our own protection and safety. When whistle-blowers are imprisoned for exposing government excesses and duplicity, and governments pry into your ever email and phone call, it is obvious who they are protecting, it's their own power structures.

An excerpt from an interesting article in Anarchist News:

"Rise like lions after slumber,
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew,
Which in sleep have fallen on you,
Ye are many - they are few"
- Percy Bysshe Shelly; The Mask of Anarchy

       Marie Mason was sentenced to decades in prison for property crimes in an ELF action. Check out "Attorney Claims USA Chills Rights of Environmentalists: @ supportmariemason.org. Recently, Daniel McGowan's parole was revoked as punishment for his political speech. Read "Court Documents Prove I Was Sent to Communications Management Units (CMU) For My Political Speech @huffingtonpost.com. Edward Snowden is in exile. Chelsea Manning is in lock-up. Jeremy Hammond faces decades for hacking the military industrial complex. Glenn Greenwald is under assault for reportage. Sara Harrison is in forced exile. Julian Assange cannot leave an embassy compound. Barrett Brown faces decades in prison for a non-crime and is now held under a gag order designed to keep the world from learning how federal courts have become a weapon for assaulting free speech. NATO 5's Mark Neiweem's "ideology" was used by prison authorities to justify extension of his sentence.
       In short, there is a war being waged right now, an undeclared Dirty War, by a fascist control state hell-bent on ideological cleansing. The police state targets militants, radicals, and critics. The prison complex, outsourced to corporate profiteers as the capitalist concentration camps, is the solution to prevent the next Occupy. What you are witnessing is the convergence of technologies, surveillance, and militarized "crime" control. Connect the dots and it becomes clear that we are staring down the barrel of the most un-free system ever devised.
    The power projection is a response to Occupy. The singular significance of Occupy has been lost in all the scribbled incoherence generated in the media. Its significance is this: In all prior rebellions, authorities were able to divide the movement by offering concessions to one group, separating them, neutralizing the "organizers" or "leaders" and causing the rebellion to collapse. In all other movements, everyone went back to their assigned seats, went back to dragging stones up the side of the pyramid.
This time, brute force simply bent the resistance into the shadows, seething and stewing, waiting for the next evolution. No one could be compromised. Welcome to the next evolution: Welcome to the ARMY OF THE 12 MONKEYS!!

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We're A Very, Very Rich Country.

       So according to our lords and masters, the pampered Oxbridge parasites, the Cameron cabal, the flood damage will get what ever money it takes and, no need to divert money from overseas aid to the flood disaster, we are a very rich country. Well that's good to hear, perhaps we will now see the reversing of all those austerity measures that are creating different kinds of disasters around the country. These are not natural disasters, but man made disasters, the direct result of the Cameron cabal's ideological policies. How about reinstating all those public sector workers that have been paid off, because we couldn't afford them? After all, we were told that the severe austerity and massive redundancies were because we didn't have the money, but now Cameron has let it be known that have, there is all the money we need, as we are a very rich country. 

We can't afford a welfare state.

      It is the usual claptrap bullshit we expect from the political class, a phrase to suit an occasion, truth is irrelevant. I'm not saying we are not a very rich country, on the contrary, I have always spouted that we are a very, very rich country. However, the economic structure of the country is ideologically driven to suit the corporate world, it could just as easily be driven to suit the needs of the people. No matter how you look at it, it is a class thing, the class with all the wealth, hold the levers of power, and they are not about to adjust things to reduce their own wealth in favour of bettering the conditions of you and I. They will continue their drive to increase their own wealth and power. If we the ordinary people want the economic structure of the country to be working for the benefit of all, then we as a class will have to take those levers of power into our own hands. Our are we going to wait for the compassion of the corporate moguls and their political lackies? 

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