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David Swanson on why the rhetoric about shrinking government actually means a bigger, more intrusive government, with both parties complicit. Shrinking government” means a larger and more oppressive but less representative and less useful government. The military gets the money and gets privatized (employs non-competitive corporations working exclusively for the government). Education and public services [...] Something is taking place at an archetypal level, across the world, across class and social lines, across religious and political divides, all characterized by popular uprisings against authoritarian high-handedness across the world. Governments are cratering in the Middle East and elsewhere. Just recently, the government of Canada fell and the ruling party in Germany got [...] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xT-Ljepz0 Zero Hedge has many links and videos. Spain and Greece are experiencing major protests and serious unrest, England too. In Greece, buildings were burned and molotovs thrown at police. “For me, it’s the spirit of ’68. First the students moved, then the workers. This is exactly what’s happening here but this time it will be on a much bigger scale, right [...] BBC interviewer Ben Brown begins: These pictures *appear* to show Jody McIntyre … being dragged out of his wheelchair and dragged across the pavement. (Appear?) Here’s the video that clearly shows Jody McIntrye being dragged out of his wheelchair by police, and for no apparent reason. 6:40 is the best: Brown: Did you [...] Police fear becoming the focus of public anger at government cuts and that repeated clashes with demonstrators risk damaging their reputation, a top officer has told the Guardian. Hello? The police always have been the arm of the state and of the ruling class, but the pretense has been otherwise. I guess that charade is [...] Click to listen on BlogTalkRadio From the discussion: Maybe we should call what Wikileaks is doing ’4G protest’ rather than ’4G warfare’, because it’s not warfare and saying it is could provoke governments into over-reacting (not that they’d need much help doing this.) Maybe Wikileaks is something new, a digital form of protest, and [...] An Open Letter to the Left Establishment A Call for Active Support of Protest from Michael Moore, Norman Solomon, Katrina van den Heuvel, Michael Eric Dyson, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Jesse Jackson Jr., and other high profile progressive supporters of the Obama electoral campaign. … The election of Obama [...] This man has spirit, and that’s required for real, positive change! Reverend Billy Talen is the leader of the Church of Life After Shopping and has been, for months or years now, protesting in bank lobbies to get them to stop funding mountain top removal. He posted this on facebook: This peaceful bank seizure [...] I applaud Chris Hedges. After years of writing apocolyptic, often hauntingly accurate and incisive columns for TruthDig, there’s finally a sign that he is going to take tangible action and, as they say, put his money where his mouth is. On Dec. 16 I will join Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Ray McGovern and several military [...] |  | ||||
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