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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.

$Hell wins suspect Iraqi oil no-bid contract!

The U.S. government secretly facilitated dealings between Shell and the Iraqi Oil Ministry for no-bid contracts.
The contract signed between the South Gas Company and Shell for the processing and marketing of natural gas produced in the governorate of Basra in southern Iraq has raised many questions and different view points.
Oil giant Shell has recently won the Big Oil race to become the first major oil company to gain access to Iraq’s energy sector since the 1970s. With no competitive bidding process, the Dutch-British multinational has ‘won’ a $4bn contract to process and market natural gas with the South Gas Company in Basra.

The deal has been conducted in secret, leaving important information about the terms and authorship unknown. This secrecy has meant the contract was not subject to any public scrutiny or debate. Platform co-director Greg Muttitt surmised that “a country under occupation has introduced an oil policy that is favourable to western oil companies. The [US] State Department has already admitted that it has advisers working on oil policy and there is a likelihood they may have drafted the Shell contract.”

However, attempts to gain control over Iraq’s oil fields have not gone so well. As Corporate Watch reported last year (www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=2912), an oil law permitting de-facto oil privatisation was drafted under pressure from Big Oil, the US and UK governments, their consultants, and the IMF. It was presented to the Iraqi parliament in May 2007 and was expected to pass quickly. However, Iraqi and international opposition to transferring oil sovereignty to multinational oil companies has helped create a climate in which the Iraqi parliament has been able to resist the extreme pressure by US and UK governments and the has not been passed to date. So the big oil companies and governments are busy finding other avenues to the eventual prize of control over Iraq’s vast oil fields.
More on alternet and ukwatch.

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Popular uprising in Colombia

At the beginning of October, thousands of Colombia's indigenous people began a popular uprising around the country to protest about the cultural and physical genocide they are suffering at the hands of the state and to defend their territory, autonomy and culture.
Police forces have repressed many of the protests with bullets, tear gas and even sometimes nailbombs. So far three people have been killed, including a child, and more than one hundred have been injured.

Link to the Friends of the Earth campaign.

Globalisation and minimalism

More on Underave.net

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DIE WEB ADVERTS, DIE!!!

As seen on my tekblog, you can block all web adverts and even replace them with Artwork!

On a PC running Firefox, simply download add-Art, it will replace all those adverts on myspace and everywhere else with pretty pictures and un-obtrusive images (just to annoy rupert murdoch).
Add-Art website.

If you use a mac running OS X, you can download a program that blocks all the adverts, pretty useful on big brother controlled sites such as myspace.com..
Get PitHelmet.

Thank you Mr SoundBringer!
And of course, pass this on to people around you who love advertising as much as you do!

Divide and rule?

Don't fight with each other brother, just aim for the top of the tower cos when brothers fight, the vultures pick up the spoils..
Stop playing the pimps and hoes and don't be a thug in the ghetto, your blacksploitation game only serves to further the thug culture undermining any past and present liberation attempts by your people and killing your community, so change your game, seen?
Who invented this so called gangsta culture anyway? Was it the white supremacists who run MTV and introduced crack cocaine in your tenement yard? Why? Well there is something hidden behind these (stolen) diamonds they show you, and the way to get them you thought was plain to see, the way is not guns and crime but could be words and rhyme, it's surely the reappropriation of your minds and of your diamond mines, it's the memory of a not so distant African past and the real roots that would allow the ghetto youth to stand firmer and grow..
Women and queens, descendants of Sheba and Cleopatra, don't look at sex and the city, Tyra Banks or Oprah Winfrey to find role models, keep your generous curves under cover and may your sweet lips serve to tell the stories of your ancestors to your children or to denounce the pillage of your village.
Read about the real blood diamond here.

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” - Steven Biko

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