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Resistance in Honduras - International Media Blackout!

More radio stations have been set-up to spread the message of the people after the recent coup in Honduras and inform people around the world of the critical situation.
You can listen by simply clicking on the links below (great to learn spanish!)

Para transmisión en vivo consulta:
Radio Globo
Radio Liberada
Radio Progreso


PARA COBERTURA COMPLETA DEL GOLPE DESDE HONDURAS VISITA LA SECCIÓN DE HONDURAS

Building the radio LA VOZ LENCA.
LA VOZ LENCA - RADIO FOR HOPE IN HONDURAS (website in Spanish)

Nigerian government close Femi Kuti's Shrine

THE NEW AFRIKA SHRINE,
NIGERIA’S LAST BASTION OF LIBERTY,
HAS BEEN CLOSED BY THE AUTHORITIES

Say NO to the shutdown of
the NEW AFRIKA SHRINE!
click here to sign the petition to save the SHRINE

The New Afrika Shrine was built and operated by Femi and Yeni Anikulapo Kuti, the eldest son and daughter of cultural icon, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, who built the original Shrine in the seventies, which endured until shortly after his death in 1997 when it, too, was forcibly closed by the Nigerian authorities.

Both the old and new Shrines were much more than just music venues. They were a refuge for the homeless and dispossessed, acted as a focal point for dissent and were consequently a thorn in the flesh of the ruling elite. Fela used the stage to launch eloquently savage diatribes against the corruption and mismanagement that was rife in Nigeria, one of the world’s leading oil producing countries, and was a hero to millions for the biting, non-compromising social commentary contained within his lyrics. In the seventies and eighties people flocked to the Shrine to hear Fela’s latest harangue of the country’s leaders and marvel at the powerful music and spectacle produced by his singers, dancers and musicians. Millions, not just in Nigeria but across the African continent, bought his albums and his tours in Europe and America attracted huge audiences.

Fela paid the price for his brutally frank and widely publicized condemnations of the government and his fierce defense of human rights by being constantly harassed, arrested (more than 200 times) and often savagely beaten, none of which ever diminished the continuing force of his attacks.

Following his death and the forced closure of his beloved Shrine, Femi and Yeni resolved to re-build an even bigger venue on a nearby site and used their share of income from the global sale of Fela’s albums with which to do so. They were determined to maintain their Father’s legacy and considered the heritage of shelter, support and advocacy as being the most valuable contributions they could make towards the development and creation of a united and democratic African republic.

Radio Esperanza calling for help!

A radio station has been built to spread the message of the people after the recent coup in Honduras.
Building the radio LA VOZ LENCA.
LA VOZ LENCA - RADIO FOR HOPE IN HONDURAS (website in Spanish)

$hell on Trial

$hell prepares to stand trial for complicity in the murder of nine activists who opposed the oil giant's environmental and health impact on Nigerian communities.
An international coalition is launching a campaign to demand the company halt the harmful practice of gas flaring.
Campaigners demand Shell end the illegal gas flaring that Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa died trying to stop

$hell Guilty

I don't know if anyone has noticed that the Icon for Google's new piece of crap looks like that All Seeing Eye (like the one above the pyramid on a dollar bill), This guy has actually noticed!

Protect your rights - EU Fight is taking place now!

Fight the Power!
FRench - en FRancais
ENglish - En ANglais

Buy a flying car for £50K

Check these English guys who just flew from London to Morocco in a car.

England speaks its mind on Gordon Brow and the future of banking

One just needs to check the comments on this article: Gordon Brown in peril to see why Britain is facing the summer of rage (actually that's funny France too!), the French Islands have already beaten the French to it and are starting protest season early (due to favorable climatic conditions and atrocious economic conditions). It's not too late to start your own protest locally, the global situation calls for de-centralised action.

The biggest swindle in history..

As great reporters come.. It has become so bad that we can now accurately predict what stories will not see the light of day while we are inundated with showbiz galore & people willingly hurting themselves on You Tube for a shot at their 15 minutes of cyber-stardom.
Check Whitenoise for some of the best reporting on the America Inc. criminals.
But here is the greatest swindle in history.

U.S.A. A Third World Country?

The U.S is set to join the third world economies according to this article.
But really, there are places where the ancestral cultures still survive and where the people live decent lives even with a very low GDP, an example of this is the Republic of Central Africa (see list of poorest countries), although people living there might be classed as some of the poorest on earth, being hunter gatherers and rural dwellers, they live in a sustainable way, don't have much of a government or justice system (apart from special tribal gatherings) and don't consume and pollute like we do, they know that man is not that different from an animal, it is tied to its environment and its decline means death, something we should learn before we judge a nation on the statistics and G.D.P, what matters is happiness, culture and sustainability not dollars.

Oaxaca, Mexico

In defense of their lands and ancestral territory, the indigenous people of Oaxaca (Mexico) published an international press release outlining the problems they are facing. Like many indigenous tribes in South America and around the world as well as the native American tribes who populated North America for thousands of years before being exterminated, they are seeing multinational companies and the army work hand in hand to evict them and seize their ancestral lands.
It is time for this tradition of economic colonialism and destruction of the earth for profit to cease. As Europeans, we must act to defend their rights together with ours, which are under growing threat from a technocratic and profit driven consensus led by the western world (United Nations=World Company).
Read more on Indigenous Peoples' Resistance to Economic Globalization by Jerry Mander. A quote from his Article: "The very reason that native people have become such targets for corporate resource exploration is exactly because indigenous peoples have been so successful over millennia in maintaining traditions, cultures, economies, philosophies and practices that are not built upon some ideology of rapid expansion, economic growth or short-term profit-seeking or the gaining of individual personal wealth.

Generally speaking, intact indigenous cultures have not sought to mine every last square inch of the natural world where they live; nor do they ship mountains of resources like logs or oil across oceans to foreign markets. Indigenous peoples, even when generally very different from each other, have all tended toward philosophies and economic formulas that include such primary values as these:

The central importance of community values, collective ownership, collective governance, above individualistic values and personal acquisition;

Integration, rather than alienation from the natural world;

Reciprocal relations with nature, economies of limits and balance."

Laser Tagging for beginners

Check SoundBringer's TekBlog to see how activists are using laser tagging around the world and how to make your own laser tagging setup.

The Diggers song - World Turned Upside Down

Hear/Watch the Billly Brag version.

In 1649
To St George's Hill
A ragged band they called the Diggers
Came to show the people' s will
They defied the landlords
They defied the laws
They were the dispossessed
Reclaiming what was theirs
We come in peace, they said
To dig and sow
We come to work the land in common
And to make the waste land grow
This earth divided
We will make whole
So it can be
A common treasury for all.

The sin of property
We do disdain
No one has any right to buy and sell
The earth for private gain
By theft and murder
They took the land
Now everywhere the walls
Rise up at their command.

They make the laws
To chain us well
The clergy dazzle us with heaven
Or they damn us into hell
We will not worship
The God they serve
The God of greed who feeds the rich
While poor men starve

We work, we eat together
We need no swords
We will not bow to masters
Or pay rent to the lords
We are free men
Though we are poor
You Diggers all stand up for glory

Stand up now
From the men of properall.

To conquer them by love, come in now, come in now
To conquer them by love, come in now;
To conquer them by love, as itt does you behove,
For hee is King above, noe power is like to love,
Glory heere, Diggers all.
and 'gainst Priests, stand up now, stand up now,
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst Priests stand up now.
For tyrants they are both even flatt againnst their oath,
To grant us they are loath

More on the Diggers

Welcome to the free world.. or the emergency blietzkrieg before a new investiture..

Apart from those who watch Strip Mall, Americans are complaining that they aren't getting a proper unbiased coverage of the situation in Gaza (basically no TV coverage whatsoever..), well no kidding, most of them must feel like they have been living in a bubble for a few years now that they have access to the internet (see: If Americans knew).. I hope some of them are slowly starting to emerge from this parallel world just like their new president who just announced drastic environmental policies to reduce carbon emissions, nice one, how long did that take?
So, anyway, if you live on the moon or in England or Nebraska and haven't received proper information because your media has been bought by the mossad, here are some websites that will try and tell you about the situation as it is lived by the Palestinians:
Human Rights in Gaza
Tale of Sameh Habeeb, an indie Palestinian journalist
A Mancuninan/Palestinian account of the war
B'Tselem, a Jewish organisation run by Israelis is involved in handing out camcorders to 150 Palestinians in the West Bank and encouraging them to chronicle the abuse they suffer, either at the hands of Israeli soldiers or Jewish settlers living in the occupied territories. This had led to footage coming directly from the victims to hit the internet and create massive outrage. See some of the footage here or here.
On the other hand, the BBC is refusing to show a charitable appeal for humanitarian aid in Gaza -- their suffering is too "politically contentious" apparently..
Avaaz Campaign for the BBC to organise a charity broadcast for Gaza.

New tune "Stop the War(s)!"

<-- Listen to Stop the war feat. Jali and the Black Wizzard.

To get all the new releases as a podcast in iTunes for free - Click HERE.
This is an impro full of positive vibes from the studio sessions back in the basement of my old house in Longsight, Manchester. featuring Jali Kuyateh (from the Gambia) on the Kora and Black Wizzard (from Sierra Leone) and Koutou (from France) on the Vocals with a beat by the SoundBringer (nobody knows where he is or where he's from that one!).
Merry Solstice, happy days! Now let's get together and bury capitalism and stop the war machine. Time to put an end to the crusades Mr Obama! Smoke weed, read books, love thy neighbours, peace to you all.

Fairy Tales

A new Fairy interesting section of links about worldwide Fairy Tales through the ages.
Scroll down to the bottom and on the right you will see a selection of links about the fairy folk..

Greek Youth vs fascist Europe

Well, Europe is being driven by the U.S into a state of crisis and at the same time turned into a giant police state to protect the rich elites from the workers. That wasn't the idea behind the construction of Europe (Never again were the words said at the time, just after WWII).
So it's good in those days to see some action against this European-wide rise of fascism and stupidity. Like Bob Dylan said and sang in the 60's, the times they are changing. For the better we all hope, after all the Greeks gave us the word Democracy, which means the rule of the People, not the rule of some fools put there by giant companies and rich families.

Iceland heating up..

Well, this time it is not only global warming or environmental issues (such as Aluminium companies destroying the country cf:ALCOA) that is heating up Iceland. The economic downturn has made the Icelandic currency lose over half of its value since October. So jobs have gone, all imports have become really expensive (and this country imports pretty much everything). What it is good to see in a time of crisis is a popular uprising against capitalism so near to us and how such a socially tightly knitted country can mobilise itself. Through this united struggle the population has re-discovered its ability to take matters into its own hands and face the culprits they see as responsible for their extreme economical infortune; namely the banks (which had heavily invested in the U.S economy) and the government, which has been greatly discredited by its lack of foresight.
So, great job Iceland, keep this up we'd like to see one of our european neighbours become less centrally directed and rethink its local relationship with capitalism and consumerism. Let's hope that their governemnt doesn't accuse protesters of terrorism, A charge more and more western governments decide use to deal with any form of violent protest. See The story of the Tarnac 9 and of the Aotearoa 20 in New Zealand.

Evo Morales kicks the U.S out!

A special mention today for Señor Evo Morales, most ingenious daring humble forward thinking equalitarian and generous leader of south America who told the U.S Drug Agency (DEA) to leave the country after this agency supported an attempted military coup in which 19 people died. He went on to received many support messages from all over latin america to keep his country free from U.S influence. Well done Evo.
Cocalero, a documentary about the travels of Evo Morales is on show here or Download Torrent.

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The future of Banking

From the New Yorker - 4/08/2008



Great Monty Python style explication of the crisis..

The Last Laugh - George Parr - Subprime - subtitulos
Cargado por erioluk

From ukwatch:
By itself the crisis does not spell the end of global capitalism because governments will seek to resolve the crisis at the expense of working people and the most vulnerable sections of society, and, eventually by going to war, as happened in the 1930s. But events will now demonstrate to millions of people the highly toxic and destructive nature of the system and that it cannot guarantee the most essential rights. The alternative to going beyond the capitalist form of globalisation to a socially-owned, non-capitalist form will be a catastrophic drop in living standards for the majority of people.

In our view, the resources that are now being squandered on rescuing the banks should be used instead in a democratically-controlled way to create a not-for-profit, cooperatively-owned banking system and economy. In this way we view the crisis as an opportunity for human beings to go forward to more advanced social system. If it is not replaced, disasters of the kind that resulted from the Wall Street crash of 1929, compounded by the ecological crisis, are inevitable.