RT: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff lambasted US spying on her country
at Tuesday’s UN summit, calling it a “breach of international law.” She
further warned that the NSA surveillance, revealed since June,
threatened freedom of speech and democracy.
“Meddling in such a manner in the lives and affairs of other
countries is a breach of international law and as such it is an
affront to the principles that should otherwise govern relations
among countries, especially among friendly nations,” Rousseff
said.
“Without the right to privacy, there is no real freedom of
speech or freedom of opinion,” Rousseff told the gathering of
world leaders. “And therefore, there is no actual
democracy,” she added, criticizing the fact that Brazil had
been targeted by the US.
“A country's sovereignty can never affirm itself to the
detriment of another country's sovereignty,” she added.
UK BANNED Press TV: British friends of
Israel, supporters of the nuclear, Zionist apartheid regime of
Israel and its expansionist policies, are promoting pro-Israeli
propaganda initiatives at Britain’s universities as students start a new
academic year.
In an attempt to undermine Palestine solidarity campaigns in the UK,
the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) is hiring Canadian Beca Bookman,
whose main area of expertise comprises working with the apartheid regime
of Israel to weaken Palestinian solidarity movements. Bookman has
already received a “Hasbara in Action” award from the Menachem Begin
Foundation for his anti-Palestinian activities.
Typhon Blue: This is an audio recording of an unaired interview I did with CBC's
Nadia Stewart regarding men's rights posters appearing in Calgary. As
far as I know nothing came of it although Karen Straughan was also
contacted by Nadia for an interview.
ramzpaul: WisCon, a progressive feminist science fiction conference, has
introduced official racial segregation. K. Tempest Bradford, a famous
science fiction author, has created a "POC Safer Space". The POC (People
of Color) Safer Space is an area where Whites are not allowed.
AJ: The Associated Press has now shown they are just as malleable as CNN
& FOX news when pressured by wealthy Saudis. Threatening to get AP
reporter fired for a story that reported Saudi connections to chemical
weapons supplied to Syrian Al-CIA-da, it appears that the Saudis have now
made good on their threat. Source
SHAPING OUR WORLD: First the international banksters checked the economic system of humanity by
gaining the right in each country or regional association to issue their
own money and give it to countries with interest. Then they created physical industry, producing infinite material goods. Through the Media they enchanted humans and created the need to earnestly want to acquire. In order to capture them, a balloon was inserted into his own Ego and a pump was used to inflate it. The
pump that blows air and inflates the balloon was the person through
choices, to undermine the good in us and to deliver it. As
long as man inflates the balloon of ego and pull us down both
international banksters offered him the opportunity to enjoy the goods,
which they themselves created. Man closed his entire being and soul into this balloon. As long as the body tastes material pleasures both the soul is rotting and the person feels fake security.
An appeal to Greece from one of its oldest supporters
The Slog: I’ve been spending quite a l0t of time time travelling in and out of,
and around, Greece over the last month. Last night I was in Kalamata -
the Messinian capital in the Peloponnese, a warm place with cool people
in it….albeit alongside the increased level of muggings and burglary
that have marred Greece since the crisis took hold in a big way four
years ago.
Although Kalamatians miss the elegant capital they used to inhabit,
there are still huge parts of it – the Castle, the old town, the
seafront taverna bars and the newer hip venues in the centre – that
could rival any civilised European city for fascination and charm. Now
that Antoniki (Samaras) has corruptly ensured a spanking new motorway
links his home region to Athens, Kalamata offers easy access to all
things of real importance in contemporary Greece. Traditionally, this
area is solidly Right Wing (New Democracy) but last night Kalamata was
the venue for a large joint Left demonstration in the centre against the
neo-Nazi Party Golden Dawn. Or – put another way – the Left in Greece
is just as parochial in its hatreds (and irrelevant in its enemies) as
it is everywhere else in Europe.
The more time I spend in Greece, the more it becomes obvious that it
is the same squeezed, respectable middle and lower classes that are
paying the price of mad EU hubris, corrupt bureaucrats, political
embezzlers and professional State rip-off greed as elsewhere in Europe.
RenegadeEconomist: FOUR HORSEMEN is an independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works.
As
we will never return to 'business as usual' 23 international thinkers,
government advisors and Wall Street money-men break their silence and
explain how to establish a moral and just society.
By Michael Krieger: Private prisons are antithetical to a free people. Of all the
functions a civilized society should relegate to the public sector, it’s
abundantly clear incarceration should be at the very top of the list.
Jailing individuals is a public cost that a society takes on in order to
ensure there are consequences to breaking certain rules that have been
deemed dangerous to the happiness and quality of life within a given
population. However, the end goal of any civilized culture must be to
try to keep these cost as low possible. This should be achieved by
having as few people as possible incarcerated, which is most optimally
achieved by reducing incidents of criminality within the population.
Given incarceration is an undesirable (albeit necessary) part of any
society, the idea is certainly not to incentivize increased
incarceration by making it extremely profitable. This is a perverse
incentive, and one that is strongly encouraged by the private prison
industry to the detriment of society.
I’ve written many highlighting the negative consequences of the
private prison industry, and these have focused on the two biggest names
in the space. Corrections Corp of America (stock ticker, CXW) and GEO
Group.
Best Vidoes Ever: Kenyan special forces were still fighting on Tuesday morning what
sources said were "one or two" Islamist militants inside the Westgate
shopping mall in Nairobi.
As sporadic gunfire and an explosion
were heard at dawn, the attackers were said to be isolated either inside
or next to a casino on one of the upper floors.
Earlier Kenya's interior ministry said its forces were in control of the centre and that all hostages had been freed.
The government says the militants include several foreigners.
"(There
are) two or three Americans and I think so far I have heard of one
Brit... a woman and I think she has done this many times before,"
Julie Borowski: You may have heard about Common Core standards that are being
implemented in US public schools. This video is a brief explanation of some
parts of Common Core.
By Jeff Clark: Goldman Sachs is once again predicting that gold will fall, setting a new near-term target of $1,050.
Never mind the schizophrenic gene that would be required to follow the
constantly fluctuating predictions of all these big banks; it's amazing
to me that anyone continues to listen to them after their abysmal record
and long-standing anti-gold stance.
Sure, the too-big-to-fails can move markets—but they say things that are good for them, not us.
When I visited China two years ago, guess who no one was talking about?
Goldman Sachs. There was news about the US, of course, but the regular
diet of journalistic intake consisted of Chinese activity, not North
American. And surprise, surprise, the view from that side of the big
blue ball was materially different than what we hear and read here—and
in some cases, the opposite.
Not only has the average Chinese housewife, perhaps the most frugal and
cautious species of savers in the world, probably never heard of
Goldman Sachs and their call for $1,000 gold—if she had, she would
think: 垃圾! (Rubbish!)
Here's some evidence. Since January 1, gold ETF holdings have fallen by
roughly a quarter (26%, according to GFMS). But Chinese housewives
aren't refraining from buying and certainly aren’t selling:
“Meddling in such a manner in the lives and affairs of other
countries is a breach of international law and as such it is an
affront to the principles that should otherwise govern relations
among countries, especially among friendly nations,” Rousseff
said.
