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Marxists have been predicting the disintegration of capitalism for so long that most people - including most Marxists - stopped believing it would ever happen. But today anyone who reads the financial press knows that the system is in an unprecedented crisis with no clear way out. The following articles offer a variety of ways of understanding the crisis so we can begin to create a world beyond capitalism:

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During the Arab Spring, we saw dictators and governments react a certain way to protesters calling for more say in their government. They first sent in police to order the protesters that occupied parks and plazas to move. They ordered and threatened that if they did not obey the protesters would be taken out by force. They gave those protesters in North Africa and the Middle East a deadline to move and threatened that if they did not by a certain date the forced removal mentioned would commence. They were told that if they regrouped afterwards they'd face stiffer penalties.

America’s majority who supported the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), within the 99% of all Americans, are being smeared by agent propagandists within the punditry of mainstream media (MSM). For example, Michael Gerson’s black demagoguery, of the closet-right-wing Washington Post, is a good example. In one of his recent columns he declared the OWS movement seems little more than a “…confused set of grievances…” and paints the movement to have little ideological coherence save Marxist socialism and anarchy. Equally he attempts to blame the Democratic Party (that he claims is their “desperate” political calculation) for this phenomenon of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement.

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OCCUPY THE 2012 POLITICAL ELECTIONS IN THE U.S.A. - VOTE FOR A POOR CANDIDATE ON YOUR OFFICIAL ELECTION BALLOT IN YOUR STATE OR TERRITORY. (1) IT IS TIME FOR GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, THE 99%. (2) STOP VOTE COUNT FRAUD. (3) STICK UP FOR RIGHTS OF POOR CANDIDATES. (4) DEMAND POOR CANDIDATES BE INVITED TO ALL DEBATES.

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AstraZeneca and all their subsidiaries, shareholders and employees will remain focus until every cage is empty and HLS is shut down! Let them know what you think about their animal experimenting business and their connection to Huntingdon life Science. Name and shame those responsible for animal torture in vivisection labs like HLS. Please contact AstraZeneca.

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America’s majority who supported the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWS), within the 99% of all Americans, are being smeared by agent propagandists within the punditry of mainstream media (MSM). For example, Michael Gerson’s black demagoguery, of the closet-right-wing Washington Post, is a good example. In one of his recent columns he declared the OWS movement seems little more than a “…confused set of grievances…” and paints the movement to have little ideological coherence save Marxist socialism and anarchy. Equally he attempts to blame the Democratic Party (that he claims is their “desperate” political calculation) for this phenomenon of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement.

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Wrecking Europe to Fix It - by Stephen Lendman

From inception, Eurozone monetary union was an idea doomed to fail. Nonetheless, it was engineered fraudulently to look workable.

In 1979, Europe's Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) was introduced as part of the European Monetary System (EMS) to propel the continent to one European currency unit (ECU).

ERM never worked. ECU is failing. At issue is duplicity, conflicts of interest, and uniting 17 dissimilar countries under rigid euro straightjacket rules. Doing so usurps their monetary and fiscal autonomy disastrously.

Nonetheless, banking giants partnered with EU, ECB and IMF Troika power decide everything. Policies require lowering living standards, sacking public workers, and selling off state assets lock, stock and barrel at fire sale prices.

Today, the euro corpse only awaits its obituary to be written. Successive bailouts and fixes haven't worked. Troubled Eurozone economies are drowning in debt. Adding more makes bad conditions worse.

So do forced austerity measures, layoffs, and higher working household taxes. Lost purchasing power means less spending, fewer jobs, and greater public anger than today's high levels.

Nonetheless, Germany and France pressured other EU members (except Britain) closer to economic collapse. Sweden, the Czech Republic and Hungary said their parliaments would decide whether or not to agree. Nonetheless, they went along.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said:

"It's interesting to note that 20 years" to the day after the Maastricht Treaty was drafted, "we have succeeded in creating a more stable foundation for (its) economic and monetary union, and in so doing we've attended to weaknesses that were included in the system."

"I'm very happy with the result," she stressed. Germany becomes an arrogant domineering leader. Britain refused to go along. A new treaty will be drafted. Merkel wants it done by March 2012.

However, it won't be a treaty. On December 13, 2007, the Lisbon Treaty amended Masstricht. EU member unanimity was required to consummate it. The same requirement holds for changes.

All member states must agree. Constitutional changes may be required. In some cases, referendum approval may be needed. Internal divisions could take years to resolve.

At issue is imposing budgetary discipline on member states. Violators face sanctions. The European Court of Justice will have final say over national budgets. Short-term measures to prevent contagion are also planned.

An alternative is two pacts - one for 17 Eurozone countries with restrictions, and a second for the other 10 EU members without them.

Hours before the Brussels summit, French President Nocolas Sarkozy said, "Europe has never been in so much danger....An agreement....is crucial." Otherwise there's a "risk that Europe will explode."

Britain opted out. At issue are new regulatory proposals UK banks oppose. They include an EU-wide financial transactions tax, bans on short-selling, and requirement that all financial business be conducted in the Eurozone, not London.

At the same time, a provision protects banks and bondholders from losses incurred by bailouts. Worker households will bear the burden.

Other differences remain to be resolved, including between Germany and France. Sarkozy wants less stringent fiscal oversight and more expansive ECB policies. Merkel wants more centralized control, enforced EU austerity, and tighter ECB reigns imposed.

Without Britain, whatever's agreed will be illegal under Lisbon. The December 9 deal solves nothing. Switzerland is preparing for a euro collapse. Capital controls and negative interest rates may be imposed for protection.

A tsunami of euros would inflate the Swiss franc, devastate its export economy, and devalue its overseas wealth. The price for troubled Eurozone countries is economic collapse. It's just a matter of when.

At the same time, the agreement requires 26 EU nations to surrender their monetary and fiscal powers to Brussels. Violators will be punished. Political, economic and legal issues impose immense burdens and uncertainties.

In addition, final details aren't yet worked out. Another summit will follow next year. Europe and America face worsening Depression-level problems. China, India, Brazil and other emerging economies are slowing. A global train wreck approaches.

Recent economic data show why. In November, French business confidence fell for the eighth consecutive month. In October, Japanese machinery orders dropped 6.9%, following an 8.2% plunge in September.

South Africa just reported a 5.6% drop in manufacturing activity. Britain recorded a 0.7% decline. China's October exports fell 1.7% after dropping 3.8% in September.

Korea's exports are down three consecutive months. Singapore's were off in September and October. Indonesia's plunged 8.5% in October after slipping 2% in September. India's imploded 18.3% after being flat in September.

Commodity markets also are being hammered. Copper was down almost 5% in September and 20% in 2011. Since June, aluminum is off 25%. European refinery margins dropped 30% this year.

Representing about 20% of global GDP, Europe is the world's largest economic unit. It accounts for 25% of global oil and nickel consumption, and nearly 20% of other commodities like copper. As it goes, so do countries everywhere, and it's heading south.

Longer-term realities will throw cold water on duct tape solutions. Italy must refinance almost 20% of its sovereign debt (400 billion euros) next year at interest rates punitive enough to push it over the edge. Economic weakness is spreading globally.

In 2012, Spain has to refinance 150 billion euros. Its fate may be similar, especially given spreading global economic weakness. Comments from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand echoed other central bank sentiments, saying:

"Tightness in international markets means funding costs for New Zealand banks will increase to some degree over the coming year." Global uncertainty signals "risk(s) that conditions (will) weaken further."

The Reserve Bank of Australia was just as glum, saying:

"Financing conditions have become much more difficult, especially in Europe." It suggests "further material slowing in global growth has increased."

The Bank of Canada concurred, saying:

"Conditions in the international financial system have deteriorated significantly since" June 2011, "owing to three interconnected developments:

• "sharp(ly) escalat(ed)" Eurozone sovereign debt crisis conditions;

• "a much weaker outlook for global economic growth;" and

• far less risk-taking globally.

As a result, conditions are expected to remain weak, uneven, and uncertain. Contagion's also at issue. Core Europe is affected. French and German economies look much weaker. In fact, Germany's banking sector is in much worse shape than earlier thought.

Progressive Radio News Hour regular Bob Chapman says six troubled Eurozone countries can't compete "and more may follow." Debt levels keep rising. "This was known and evident from the very beginning, but the experiment went ahead anyway."

Bankers, politicians and bureaucrats want world government. Competitive nations want profits. It took a decade to destroy the infrastructure of weak economies. The euro's "on its way out - another failed experiment."

If stronger countries opt out, "governments, banks, insurance companies and pension plans would very well be wiped out by the bad debt."

Moreover, Eurozone disintegration will take America, Britain and global economies with it. Twelve years ago, Chapman predicted it. It's now a reality, he says. He sees stopgap measures delaying its eventual demise.

"History tells us involuntary acceptance of profligate credit expansion and unpayable debt leads to total catastrophe for the entire financial system."

Troubled Eurozone economies need $6 trillion to avoid collapse. Whatever they get won't offset needing more help down the road.

Moreover, Friday's "grand bargain" achieved nothing. ECB monetary policy won't be expansive. Britain and many EU countries won't follow budget deficit restrictions. All of them have poor track records keeping promises.

Greater trouble lies ahead. Bailouts and agreements beget new ones. Final resolution only is delayed. Contagion spreads Eurozone problems everywhere.  

The longer crisis conditions persist, the worse they'll be when day of reckoning time arrives. It's just a matter of time.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at  lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

 http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.                                  

The Presidential candidate that created the "Real Republicans" (and Real Democrats and Independents) has created another winner.....using the newest Unification Science Discoveries, now you can really "Platinum-Eyes Your Planet".....

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Provision for healthcare is growing in need for Elderly Latinos who have experienced barriers to obtaining services.

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Fighting poor education standards and protecting human rights are the tasks of the Community Learning Center and Youth for Human Rights of Florida. Both got a boost at the December 4th performance of the Nutcracker Ballet, presented by the Guilfoil Ballet Theater.

Illegal FBI Spying on Community Groups - by Stephen Lendman

On December 1, an ACLU of Northern California press release headlined, "FOIA Documents Show FBI Illegally Collecting Intelligence Under Guise of Community Outreach," saying:

"The trust that community outreach efforts aim to create is undermined when the FBI exploits these programs to gather intelligence on the very members of the religious and community organizations agents are meeting with."

"The FBI should be honest with community organizations about what information is being collected during meetings and purge any improperly collected information."

Instead, FBI agents illegally collected names, ID information, opinions of community event attendees, as well as sponsoring groups, including their goals, activities, names and positions of leaders, and their racial, ethnic, and national origin.

The FBI Directorate of Intelligence Domain Management program maintains the information to "assess threats, vulnerabilities, gaps and new opportunities for intelligence collection."

In fact, community outreach programs are a way to establish communications, mutual understanding and trust between government agencies and public groups. Using them for covert intelligence gathering shows authorities operate lawlessly for their own purposes.

In fact, FBI documents reveal Privacy Act violations in gathering information about individuals' First Amendment activities.

ACLU Documents Obtained

A 2009 San Jose FBI memorandum described its participation in an Assyrian organization's lawful career day. Nonetheless, recorded information obtained included leader identities, content of their conversations, backgrounds, travel histories, education, occupation, and charitable work.

Information was then sent to the FBI's San Francisco Division.

A 2009 Sacramento FBI memorandum explained California State University, Chico conversations with a student about the Saudi Student Association, including its size, purpose and activities. Detailed information on the student was collected.

A 2009 San Francisco memorandum documented information on a Pakistani community organization. It included material on its First Amendment-protected activities, as well as identities of its officers, directors and advisors.

San Francisco 2007 and 2008 memoranda dealt with Ramadan Iftar dinner attendees "under the guise of the FBI's mosque outreach program." Detailed information about them was collected.

A 2007 San Jose memorandum documented a mosque outreach meeting attended by 50 individuals from 27 Muslim community and religious organizations. Demographic information about them was collected.

FBI community outreach programs are supposed to operate out of the Agency's Office of Public Affairs. Its programs include:

• the FBI Citizens' Academy to give community leaders information on FBI activities to promote better mutual understanding; and

• ad hoc efforts like post-9/11 mosque outreach programs, in conjunction with the FBI's Civil Rights Unit, to provide ways to report hate crimes.

Since 2005 or earlier, FOIA obtained documents reveal Agency covert use of community outreach programs to collect First Amendment-protected activities for intelligence purposes, not legal ways to promote mutual understanding and cooperation.

In 2005, the FBI linked its Citizens' Academy outreach activities to its InfraGard Program - an association of private sector and law enforcement agencies "dedicated to sharing information and intelligence to prevent hostile acts against the United States."

Then and later, Agency efforts collected intelligence covertly as part of Washington's "war on terror." In 2008, the FBI Directorate of Intelligence formally linked community outreach activities to intelligence gathering under the Agency's Domain Management program.

It was done to "enhance the....network of contacts with community leaders....who can assist the FBI and fellow federal, state and local law enforcement and intelligence agencies in combating terrorism."

Information obtained violated Privacy Act provisions that prohibit federal agencies from collecting and maintaining records:

"describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity."

The Privacy Act also prohibits federal agencies from collecting information "for a particular purpose from being used or made available for another purpose" without explicit consent of targeted individuals and/or groups.

However, community members weren't informed that Agency outreach was for intelligence, and potentially could be used to subject them to investigations on suspicions of terrorism involvement.

The Muslim Community Association (MCA) was affected. Its Board Secretary Isa Shaw said:

"Like all Americans, we want to help the FBI. Now we feel betrayed. We support the idea of building trust through FBI outreach programs, but the government should not be taking advantage of it to violate out First Amendment rights like this."

With great concern, other targeted groups feel the same way, especially when legal activities can be manipulated and interpreted to be terrorist related.

Other Federal, State and Local Spying Activities

The ACLU released numerous reports of illegal spying. They include federal, state and local SARs (suspicious activity reporting) programs that encourage police, intelligence and homeland security officials, emergency responders, and members of the public to spy on neighbors, and report "suspicious" activities to authorities.

In an environment of fear, legal activities may be misinterpreted. Innocent people end up on terrorist watch lists. Their names and vital information get in law enforcement/intelligence data bases. As a result, their personal safety and reputations are henceforth jeopardized.

Fusion centers and other intelligence sharing systems enable easy access for the Joint Terrorism Task Forces and Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Information Sharing Environment (ISE), as well as local law enforcement officials.

In Terry v. Ohio (1968), the Supreme Court established "reasonable suspicion" of criminal activity as the standard for police stops to investigate further.

Under Title 28, Part 23 of the Code of Federal Regulations, law enforcement agencies getting federal funds "shall collect and maintain criminal intelligence information (on an individual) only if there is reasonable suspicion (of involvement) in criminal conduct or activity," and what's collected is relevant.

However, suspicious activities reporting (SARs) threaten civil liberties by encouraging harmful indiscriminate spying.

A June 2010 ACLU report titled, "Policing Free Speech: Police Surveillance and Obstruction of First Amendment-Protected Activity" highlighted today's danger. It also cited law enforcement's long history of illegally spying on US citizens and obstructing lawful political activity.

As a result, federal, state and local authorities "across America continue to monitor and harass groups and individuals for....peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights." Community outreach investigations represent one of many illegal activities threatening law abiding Americans. Muslims are especially affected.

They and others have been monitored and harassed for engaging in marches, protests, organizing, having "unusual viewpoints, and engag(ing) in normal, innocuous behaviors such as writing notes or taking photographs in public."

A February 2011 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) report titled, "Patterns of Misconduct: FBI Intelligence Violations from 2001 - 2008" reviewed nearly 2,500 FOIA-obtained document pages.

They revealed "alarming (lawless) trends," and suggest far more frequent civil liberty violations than previously known, including:

(1) grossly understated numbers;

(2) long delays between violations and reporting them;

(3) types of violations involved, including:

(a) investigative oversight;

(b) "abuse, misuse, or careless use of....National Security Letter (NSL) authority;" FBI, CIA and other government agencies use them (administrative subpoenas), demanding recipients turn over requested information and remain silent; no probable cause or judicial oversight is necessary;

(c) sidestepping constitutional, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other legal principles; and

(d) complicity of ISPs, phone companies, financial institutions and credit agencies, supplying unauthorized personal information without their customers' knowledge or consent.

(4) flagrant abuses, including false declarations to courts, supplying bogus evidence to get indictments, and accessing protected documents without warrants.

Violations of federal law governing criminal investigations and intelligence gathering activities are especially flagrant, brazen and egregious. They include willfully making false written statements to courts, and supplying bogus information to get indictments of innocent people.

Because of FBI secrecy and coverup, it's impossible to know the full extent of its lawlessness, how many people were harmed, and for what reasons.

Yet from what's known, "the frequency and type of violations revealed....are staggering." Minimally, greater accountability and oversight are needed.

Post-9/11, Muslims especially are targeted for their faith, ethnicity, and at times prominence and charity. As a result, they're ruthlessly vilified and exploited as "war on terror" scapegoats for political advantage.

Innocent victims are entrapped, arrested, tried on secret evidence, convicted on bogus charges, and incarcerated as political prisoners.

As a result, Muslim organizations need protection from government outreach and other efforts targeting them lawlessly.

Today, they're more than ever vulnerable. Everyone should embrace their struggle against FBI and police functioning as enforcers for crime bosses, not everyone they're sworn to protect.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at  lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.

Also visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com and listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network Thursdays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.

 http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-progressive-news-hour/.                                  

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In the hills surrounding the Susquehanna River and its tributaries, rural Pennsylvanians have created a new campaign, called Occupy WELL Street, as a way to confront and speak out against the oil and gas corporations laying siege to our communities in their relentless pursuit of natural gas. Participants of Occupy Well Street have been working side by side with several Earth First! groups in the region to create this, our Pledge of Resistance to hydraulic fracturing and the promises of gas royalties at the cost of ruined land, toxic water, polluted air, and divided communities.

Wage Theft in New Mexico. And despite workers protection through the FLSA and NM HB 489, the company is robbing their employees blind.

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This article briefly describes the findings of a study regarding elder Latino Health Care

Houston Indymedia reports on Occupy Houston's action at the Port of Houston. On Pacifica KPFT 90.1 FM in Houston, Friday nights at 7:30pm...

A massive conference of banksters, billionaires and buzzards is taking place in south Florida this winter. GAIM [Gathering of Investors and Managers] will be at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, January 22-25. The Occupy movement of South Florida will be there too, join us!

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The new search engine on the left prioritizes the pages of organizations and political parties.

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Sheriff opposes legislation intending to help prevent Tucson-style terror and Arpaio protects a crony who issued death threats.

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Sheriff opposes legislation intending to help prevent Tucson-style terror and Arpaio protects a crony who issued death threats.


Foundation for a Drug Free World’s uses educational materials to attack dangerous and addictive painkillers.
 

A menos que uno pueda tener confianza en la fiabilidad de quienes le rodean, él mismo está en peligro. Cuando aquellos con quienes contamos nos decepcionan, nuestra vida puede volverse un desorden y aun nuestra supervivencia podría llegar a estar en peligro.

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Scott X and the Constitution Commandos Release the 7th rock music video off their 2011 Album "Fighting the U.S. Police State With Music"

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Tu puedes ayudar a cambiar el mundo, con tan solo leer y distribuir este librito, que está logrando bajar la criminalidad a un 50 % en Colombia y muchos otros lugares en el planeta.

In the Tampa Bay area, there were 681 deaths from prescription drug overdose in 2009, double the number of deaths in 2005.

When I was in college between 2003 and 2006 here in my coutry, America, I was harassed by fellow students and professors while attending a degree program I was majoring in. The harassment was predicated upon my race and a student protest I was involved in at another school roughly thirteen years prior. I was subtly harassed through a constant litany of insinuation, being subtly ostracized within the program and being purposefully not given all the information necessary to complete assignments fully etc. Other times it was much more blatant.

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Following the nationally-coordinated police evictions last month of Occupy Wall Street and encampments across the country, on December 12 the Occupiers struck back. Ports up and down the West Coast were blockaded, from Seattle to San Diego. Despite a barrage of hostile propaganda in the media, opposition from union bureaucrats and heavy police repression in some places, overall the blockade was successful -- this time. The blockade was called in solidarity with longshore workers fighting a union-busting assault in Longview, Washington and port truckers seeking union recognition in the ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach. This support should have been greeted. But now the class war on the West Coast docks is coming to a head, and it can't be waged from the outside. Bay Area labor has called for a caravan to Longview. The goal should be a real occupation of the terminal by the workers to prevent the loading of the scab cargo. Longshore militants have called on the longshore unions to shut down every port on the West Coast, and the East and Gulf Coasts, to smash EGT's union-busting. Can it be done? Yes, but only though sharp struggle against the pro-capitalist labor bureaucracy.

Even if editorial staff at Time magazine dubbed “the Protestor” as this year’s “Person-of-the-Year” doesn’t necessarily mean people at the Time, or it’s backstage managers, has garnered much appreciation or respect for “personhood” of the average outspoken dissenter. Likely they surveyed the landscape and realized the inevitable conclusion—2011 has had a lot of ubiquitous protestation around the world. So then an inevitable conclusion became refreshingly obvious—popular dissent is here all over as many status quos are being challenged.

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Israeli politics seems to challenge history by moving in the opposite direction of exclusion and unilateral self - righteous monopoly of geography, demography, history, archeology and culture, especially in Jerusalem