Author: jimmy

Economic recovery: Modernising money

In a cross post from the Ecologist, Ian Tennant looks at a bid to change the way that money is created so that it can flow to where it is most needed, and asks what part will you play in creating a new paradigm for money?

Homelessness tops 5-year high in UK

A new report says homelessness in northern England has witnessed a 42 percent increase in just one year, with the homeless choosing to live in a network of disused sandstone caves near the town centre of Stockport, Greater Manchester

Mandela’s Greatness May Be Assured — But Not His Legacy

The liberation government, Mandela had promised, would take over the apartheid economy, including the banks – and “a change or modification of our views in this regard is inconceivable”. Once in power, the party’s official policy to end the impoverishment of most South Africans, the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), was abandoned, with one of his ministers boasting that the ANC’s politics were Thatcherite.

How to Spot Frauds and Informants in Political Resistance Movements

Sundry individuals come into resistance movements without a clear history, without known connections, and with sketchy or unverifiable backgrounds. Typically, they are disagreeable persons, they often don’t work but have access to money or constantly beg for funding on social media sites like Facebook, using the pretense they need funds for demos, endless “legal costs,” “successful campaigns,” etc. They are either opportunists or agent provocateurs, or just police agents. They quickly rise to the forefront of a movement, they spew militant rhetoric and agitate for “radical” actions, and they clearly have other agendas than what they pretend to care for.

Happy Birthday Nicola Tesla

Einstein was once asked – what does it feel like to be the smartest man alive? He replied: ‘I don’t know, you ll have to ask Nicola Tesla’.

Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla, the greatest inventor of modern times who was born 157 years ago today on July 10, 1856. He is responsible for almost all modern technology that is known to the public and advanced technologies, discoveries that are still patented and hidden from the public.

Some of his inventions include: Alternating Current, Radar, X-Rays, Radio, Remote Control, Electric Motor, Robotics, Lasers, Wireless Communications and Limitless Free Energy, Florescent light bulbs – 40 years before industry “invented” them.

Petitioning Journalists to Take a Pledge

Faced with a dangerous escalation of the Syrian conflict, and the alarming role yet again of many Western media in facilitating it, we are asking you to sign this petition, not to our governments but to media organisations and journalists to take a pledge to do their job responsibly and accountably.

We are asking for your support by signing this petition, which we will forward to all journalists reporting on Syria, everywhere we can, asking them to take a personal PLEDGE

NSA spying will be Obama’s Watergate

OBAMA’s Director of National Intelligence James CLAPPER lied to US Congress when declaring to Lamakers: “THE US IS NOT SPYING ON ITS CITIZENS.” Press TV has conducted an interview with Franklin Lamb, international lawyer, about Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admitting he lied to Congress when he said NSA doesn’t spy on Americans.

This Torture By Our Government Must Stop!

Watch : Force Feeding Under Standard Guantánamo Bay Procedure As Ramadan begins, more than 100 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In this four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta award-winning director Asif […]