UP TO ONE BILLION PEOPLE THREATENED WITH DEATH BY STARVATION (see Oxfam report below). PYGMY PEOPLE OF CONGO THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION !! :
‘Das Kapital’ - Selling Like Hot Cakes !! :
Free Online :
Greece : General Strike Brings Country to a Halt !! :
Blind Faith of Free-Market Cheerleaders :
Europarliament Debate on EU Response to World Crisis :
| Written by Ralph T. Niemeyer |
| Monday, 20 October 2008 14:46 |
 Ralph T. Niemeyer
That our present system is as rotten as the past socialist one becomes obvious when one scrutinises the supply - demand relation. Never before has industry produced such an incredible amount of low quality goods, useless or superfluous products! |
On 18th October antiwar demonstrators demanded the shutting down of the military bases of Creta(Suda) and Aktion. Over 1500 demonstrated in Chania and 300 in Preveza. These demos were organized by Stop the War Coalition Greece in cooperation with Trade unions, student unions and environmentalist.
In Chania the teachers union with its general secretary Serafim Rizos played a decisive role to broaden the campaign in student and school kids. The students of Polytechnic University were there in big contingent and also students from Rethymno and Heraklio. The president of fire brigades Union was their wearing his uniform despite the fact that in Greece this is a militarized body. Also soldiers who are serving in the 115 army unit in the military bases sent a message of solidarity.
The leader of the revolt of Polytechnic University against Greek colonels 1973 Dimitris Papachristou spoke representing the Campaign 60 years of NATO are enough and invited the demonstrators to participate in the international demo in Strasbourg.
In Preveza hundreds demonstrated. Workers from Labor centres and students.
The meetings that followed the demonstrations decided to joon the campaign and to send delegates for the Balkan Antiwar Conference in Athens 29-30 November.
Petros Constantinou, Yiannis Sifakakis,Stop the War Coalition Greece
GENERAL STRIKE IN ITALIA 17th OCTOBER :
An absolutely extraordinary day!
An absolutely extraordinary day, the biggest strike ever organized by Cobas and grassroots Trade Unions (Cobas, Cub, Sdl) with a maximum peak of participation in schools, where, in the main cities, we had the 60%-70% strikers, with half of the schools closed.
Very good results also in the public sector, transports and many private sectors.
A massive demonstration in Rome, with 500.000 people marching for 4 hours an more, from Piazza della Repubblica to Piazza San Giovanni, the historical place of trade-unionist gathering, now full of strikers.
Wide presence of the school sector, with students from all school grades, teachers and all school workers, parents and simple citizens against the distruction of Public School , against the massive cuts of 200.000 work places in schools,against the cuts of schooltime, against the restoration of the anachronistic “maestra unica” ( only one teacher in primary schools ) against the infamy of the segregation of migrants in separate classrooms and against the restoration of the school of the ‘800: a school that discriminates, threaths and divides.
The square was full of workers who believe unacceptable that after decades of triumphant liberalism our state admits it has no money and, at the same time, declares that is going to invest money in financing and defendings banks and fraudulent bankers.
Let’s invest this money- workers say- for raising the wages, for adequate pensions;
let’s invest it and cancel the plague of precarious work, giving stable work places;
let’s reestabilish the wage indexation system ;
let’s reinvest in Public School and in Public Health Service.
This is the message of struggle and hope coming from the enormous demonstration in Rome.
Starting from tomorrow we, Cobas, Cub, Sdl, will together restate this message through Italy.
Piero Bernocchi
FMI - Le Monde Doit Agir de Facon Concertee Pour Limiter Les Retombees de La Crise !
/ World Must Act Together to Limit Crisis Damage - IMF ! :
(Ar,Ch,En,Jp,Ru,Es.) :
Stateless (Colonised ?) Nations and ‘Responsibility’ in this Crisis :
AN ALBA/SCOTLAND: Alex Salmond, First Minister :
Bank Chiefs : ORDERED TO CUT HOME EVICTIONS !! :
Alistair Darling (London Finance Minister) to Fast Track £Billions of Public Spending Money :
Tax Havens, Economic Aggression and The Race To The Bottom :
Party Hints $ Reds Under The Bed :
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY :
TOOTHLESS EUROPEAN
TRADE UNIONS ? :
One shouldn’t be surprised about the French Prime Minister F. Fillon to argue as he does: he is from the political right.
But, the fact that the trade unions of Europe are still in bed with the other side and follow the wage-dumping logic of the Lisbon Strategy ought to raise eyebrows.
No wonder, we don’t see general strikes and industrial action!
The Banks are, for the moment stabilised, but what about the hedge funds? There is still a liquidity bomb hanging over us and to continue with the Lisbon Strategy means we will speed up and crash against the concrete wall.
Then, at least, we will be able to build a new economic system, but without those who brought this one down, and without unionists who betrayed the cause.
Good luck from the Press room at the EU Summit.
Ralph
PS Narkozy gave us all a present: a grey jacket. One size fits all, women and men wear the same clothes now, like in the good old days of Mao’s China. I wonder where are we marching?!
THE CITY OF LONDON : AN -Indifferent, Rampantly Amoral, Suprimely
Selfish- GHETTO of GREED
(’Greed the Absolute Good,… Altruism Banished’ !!!) :
No Sex in the City, we are English ! (Hot from EU Summit) :
Hard to tell what way out Britain in reality has.
Either the new regulations are not applied or the impact will be felt in The City.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown repeats his mantra of The City not being at stake, but that would either mean that his own proposals were not meant to be taken at face value or that he leaves us in the dark about the future of the once leading financial centre in the World.
Watch his response here:
Find the related article there:
Your comments would be most welcome as a debate should spark.
Have a great weekend despite the bad news, and hey, don’t shoot the messanger-bird, it’s a penguin!!!
Warning over ‘uk’s Overseas Bribes Culture (Financial Times) :
The Test ! :
Conclusions: EU Summit 15th-16th Oct. Brussels. (De,En,Fr,It.):
UP TO ONE BILLION PEOPLE THREATENED WITH DEATH BY STARVATION :
…AS RICH FAIL TO PAY UP !!! (RECORD PROFITS-WORLD’S BIGGEST
AGRIBUSINESS & SEED COMPANIES !!!) :
DANGER !!! :
UnderTakers Deliver Last Rites for US Capitalism !(FT October 15th 2008) :
Degenerate Imp-Capitalisme Companieras/os ? - PEACE and LOVE ! :
The Funeral? :
The delicate mission :
City of London Parasites’ Salaries ‘Defy Gravity’ :
Adam & Eve :
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aCOZQSRzKmU
NATIONALISE THE BANKS NOW!! (Tax Justice Network : 11th October 2008) :
‘In Search of the Visible Hand’ : Der Spiegel. ( The State ? Who’s State ?) :
http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,583882,00.html
Declaration of Summit Eurozone (+ ‘uk’ ) Paris :
USA : Dont spend Bailout Money on Wall Street : Tip from the ‘New Deal’ - Spend it on THOSE THAT NEED IT! :
Peter Mandelson : ‘In defence of Globalisation’…”…States and Effective Governance…” .
Who For? We ask ourselves :
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) on Neoliberal Globalisation :
‘The State and Revolution’ Lenin :
Innuendo etc,. :
L’Internationale ! :
IMF warns of ‘Meltdown’ ; Sarkozy and Merkel to present ‘prepared number of Decisions’ to Eurozone leaders on Sunday (Tomorrow) :
IMF, World Bank ‘look for way out of Global Financial Crisis’ :
Seminar at World Bank 10th October :
‘Combating Tax Flight : Ending Evasion and reducing Avoidance’ :
Bolivia’s Popular Upheaval:
Social and Indigenous Movements March on Santa Cruz, bastion of the Right Wing !
EL PUEBLO UNIDO….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uCC-venMtU&feature=related
http://english.aglob.info/readarticle.php?article_id=74
Once again, the ‘Left’ is coming to Capitalism’s Rescue :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/28/globaleconomy.creditcrunch
Wanted for Dodging Tax Justice ! (Correction ; ‘The English Monarchy’ - The Indigenous British Chiefs were Murdered and their severed Heads stuck on pikes at the Tower of London many years ago !):
http://www.newint.org/landing/taxjustice/taxjustice/
Whitehall (London) Accused of Blocking UN Plan to Stop Tax Evasion ! :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/28/globaleconomy.taxavoidance
England: How Hedge Funds, Tax Exiles and City Financiers Helped Fund the Tories :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/28/marketturmoil.shares
What the EU should be doing Right Now (Tax Justice.Net) :
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/09/27/what-the-government-should-be-doing-this-weekend/
United Nations General Assembly : General Debate of the 63rd Session ( 23rd September - 1st October 2008 ):
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/23sept08.shtml
e.g.
Lao People’s Democratic Republic :
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/pdf/lao_en.pdf
Mr Ban Ki - moon, Secretary General, United Nations :
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/sg.shtml
Russian Federation :
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/russia.shtml
India :
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/india.shtml
China :
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/china.shtml
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea :
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/dprkorea.shtml
La Republica de Bolivia :
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/bolivia.shtml
Republic of Nepal:
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/nepal.shtml
Iran(Islamic Republic of):
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/iran.shtml
Nicolas Sarkozy speaking on behalf of the European Union (EU ):
http://www.un.org/ga/63/generaldebate/france.shtml
News Stories :
http://www.un.org/ga/news/
UN Security Council : Meeting on Peace and Security 23rd September 2008 and others :
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/resguide/scact2008.htm
French Presidency of the EU :
http://www.ue2008.fr/PFUE/lang/en/accueil
Commentary : How to prevent the Next Wall Street Crisis
( Joseph Stiglitz ) :
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/stiglitz.crisis/index.html
Noam Chomsky : Iraq, Oil……;
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20080809.htm
Where Now for Capitalism ? (and other articles) :
http://www.chomsky.info/articles.htm
USA: More than 200 events Coast to Coast yesterday Sept 26th Protesting Bush Administration Proposed BAILOUT !
Protest the Bailout ! :
EU Reporter : The Owners of the Federal Reserve Banks (USA) Bail Themselves Out ! :
http://www.eureporter.co.uk/economy-and-finance-articles-73/202539-the-owners-of-the-federal-reserve-bail-themselves-out.html
German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck blamed The Anglo-Saxon Capitalist Model thursday for Spawning the Global Financial Crisis :
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080925/tts-uk-financial-germany-steinbrueck-top-74d0085.html
In Der Bundestag :
http://www.bundestag.de/
‘Germany Will Pay a High Price for US Sins (Greed!)’ :
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,580709,00.html
England : ArchBishops Slam City Traders.
Rowan Williams, ArchBishop of Canterbury :…” it had become - much as Marx suggested - ” a kind of mythology ” in which people invested their faith, wrongly assuming it would work for the common good ” . On the financial crisis (RW) :
http://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/1982
Speech to The Worshipful Company of International Bankers Dinner (JS) :
http://www.archbishopofyork.org/1980
No Taxation without Representation ! (Slogan of the American (US) Revolution)
No Representation without Taxation ! (Tax Aristocrats, Capitalist Corporations, the Rich etc,. - Clöse Tax Havens ! ) :
( Backsliding From Transparency International ) :
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/09/23/backsliding-from-transparency-international/
Who’s F…ing Europe (EU) is this anyway? and what exactly are we paying these Money-Grabbing Pompous MEPs for exactly ? (Didn’t they spot this ? Have they got a critical brain between them?) -
(EU) ‘Bank Regulator’ McCreevy allows Banking Fraudsters to continue to sell us useless ‘Financial
Products’, build Financial Bubbles and take all us ‘idiots’ for yet another RIDE ! What the hell are we all witnessing right now in God’s Own Country ( the USA) ! See This :
MONKEYS RUNNING THE BANANA PLANTATION ! :
http://www.eureporter.co.uk/economy-and-finance-articles-73/202541-monkeys-minding-a-banana-plant.html
Are we gonna roll-over and take this like tame little SERFS or DO SOMETHING ?
McCain and Bermuda :
http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2008/09/24/mccain-and-bermuda/
Anybody in the EU, to your knowledge, doing anything remotely like this ?
COMMUNIST MANIFESTO 1848 (Multilingua) :
http://www.marxists.org/xlang/marx.htm
World War 1.
….” to understand and appraise Modern War and Modern Politics”……
‘ Imperialism, the Latest/Highest (?) Stage of Capitalism’.
(Vladimir Ilyich Lenin) :
L’Internationale :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7PrVtZAG4M&feature=related
L’Internationale Lyrics (Multilingual) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale#English_lyrics
China,Caucasus:
OCCUPIED!!:
OCCUPIED !! :
BRUSSELS
No Thought Control! :
CALL TO ACTION 
Rage !
Obama/Lenin/Mao?(Moscow).
etc,.
European Parliament(EU).
Moammar Gadhafi
Naomi Klein.
