Sunday, 09 October 2011 07:22
'The first time he bought eggs, milk and jam at an outdoor market using not euros but an informal barter currency, Theodoros Mavridis, an unemployed electrician, was thrilled.
“I felt liberated, I felt free for the first time,” Mr. Mavridis said in a recent interview at a cafe in this port city in central Greece. “I instinctively reached into my pocket, but there was no need to.”
Mr. Mavridis is a co-founder of a growing network here in Volos that uses a so-called Local Alternative Unit, or TEM in Greek, to exchange goods and services — language classes, baby-sitting, computer support, home-cooked meals — and to receive discounts at some local businesses.'
Read more: Battered By Economic Crisis, Greeks Turn to Barter Networks
Sunday, 09 October 2011 07:08
'Fundamentally, the government mouthpiece corporate media keeps us in a state of slavery by asking its consumers to employ Orwellian modes of thought about what it reports. That the consumer can doublethink is integral to the exercise of perception shaping that essentially, when you strip it down to bare bones, is all that modern corporate media exists these days to do. And part of this, as I’ve explained before many times here, is asking its consumers to make intellectual and emotional investment in the significance of the corporate media – to believe in its authority by subscribing to an illusion of its size and importance.
The Libyan War, as well as being a good demonstration of the out-and-out perversion of our criminal political elite (that’s why I’ve dwelt upon it), also offers an opportunity to show how the media insists on doublethink in its consumer-ship.
For instance, Al-Qaeda is bad, but Al-Qaeda is good. Kinetic military action is not war (therefore a nuclear warhead strike is not war). War itself is peace-keeping. Protecting civilians is bombing them. Ethnic cleansing is not ethnic cleaning, and neither is systematic murder of black people a genocide. Holding some of Tripoli is to capture the capital city of Libya. It goes on and on.'
Read more: Bani Walid Can’t be Taken, So Mainstream Media Ignore it; Britons Forever Will be Slaves
Sunday, 09 October 2011 06:07
'The Welsh government expects high-ranking officials at the University of Wales to resign after a “cash for qualifications” scandal was revealed by the state-run BBC.
The BBC Wales broadcasted a programme called 'Week In Week Out' on Wednesday, showing an undercover reporter posing as a student and paying £1,500 in cash for bogus qualifications at the colleges affiliated to the University of Wales. Vice-chancellors of five Welsh universities including Aberystwyth, Bangor, Cardiff, Glamorgan, and Swansea have urged the University of Wales to be scrapped.'
Read more: New British University Scandal
Sunday, 09 October 2011 05:52
'The "Occupy Wall Street" movement started its demonstrations about four weeks ago and it has continued gatherings until now.
As of Friday morning, the website "Occupy Together," a hub for nationwide events in solidarity with "Occupy Wall Street" reported gatherings in 1,000 cities, Democracy Now reported. On Thursday, activists kicked off the "October 2011" protest by occupying Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC.'
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