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Homelessness and Despair in New York City

Friday, May 18th, 2012

Survey: 23 % rise in street homelessness in NYC – Published on Global Research.ca (first on World Socialist Web Site WSWS), by Ali Ismail, May 16, 2012.

… The New York-based advocacy group Coalition for the Homeless, which has frequently criticized the city’s annual street homelessness survey, cast doubt on the city’s findings when they were released last month. “Today’s release of the City’s street homeless survey estimates a 23 percent increase in street homelessness from last year and confirms what we already know – there are more and more New Yorkers sleeping on the streets and in the subway system each night,” Patrick Markee, Senior Policy Analyst for the Coalition said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »

austrian folk music

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

Extremists vs. Extremist: Salafists and Right-Wing Populists Battle in Bonn

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Charles Hawley, May 7, 2012.

Germany’s right-wing populists are fond of insulting Islam in order to attract attention. On Saturday, violence prone Salafists took the bait, resulting in a riot that left 29 police injured. Despite the clash, however, the anti-Islam party can continue to display their anti-Islam caricatures, a court has decided.   Read the rest of this entry »

Sir Patrick Stewart and Star Trek, Talks, Conventions and Comics

Monday, May 7th, 2012

Sir Patrick Stewart and Shakespeare, on this blog on May 6, 2012:

Sir Patrick Stewart and Shakespeare

Sunday, May 6th, 2012

Sir Patrick Stewart and Star Trek, Talks, Conventions and other Comics, on this blog on May 7, 2012.

Patrick Stewart turned his back on Hollywood to return to England:

  • Sir Patrick Stewart (1/2) HARDtalk, 14.08 min;
  • Sir Patrick Stewart (2/2) HARDtalk, 10.30 min: Patrick Stewart will be instantly recognisable to millions around the world as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise. Or as Professor Charles Xavier of X-Men. But after 17 years in Hollywood, he’s turned his back on it to return to England and to venues like London’s Young Vic – to his first love – Shakespeare and the theatre. In his latest role he’s even playing Shakespeare. So why choose small audiences in venues like this over the glamour of Hollywood?

Shakespeare:    Read the rest of this entry »

music for soul and mind

Saturday, May 5th, 2012

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The Big Empty: Eating Cheetos with the hungry ghosts of the corporate state

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Published on Intrepid Report, by Phil Rockstroh, May 2, 2012.

Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural trajectory of unregulated capitalism tends towards hyper-authoritarian excess, even towards fascism. Moreover, by the standards of capitalist ideology, and exacerbated by the rigged nature of economic and social arrangements—large segments of society are deemed losers, and, resultantly, will grow restive, if scapegoats aren’t invented to mitigate a sense of humiliation and displace rage.    Read the rest of this entry »

Giving Voice to the voiceless

Tuesday, May 1st, 2012

listen to the 86th of 200 small videos in autoplay: Tea Party Meets Occupy Richmond … and to all the rest, if you have time …

Swinging for the Fences

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

Published in Chiropractic UAE /latest newsletters.

Game-changing plays in any sport and at any level are tremendously exciting. Whether we’re watching Pop Warner football, middle school recreational soccer, high school basketball, or Major League Baseball, an extraordinary athletic play makes us stand up and cheer. If our team takes the lead as a result, so much the better … //   Read the rest of this entry »

Massive Student Upsurge Fuels Major Debates in Quebec Society

Saturday, April 28th, 2012

Published on Socialist Project, by Richard Fidler, April 25, 2012.

A crowd estimated at 250,000 people or more wound its way through Montréal April 22 in Quebec’s largest ever Earth Day march. They raised many demands: an end to tar sands and shale gas development, opposition to the Quebec government’s Plan Nord mining expansion, support for radical measures to protect ecosystems, and other causes. And many wore the red felt square symbolizing support to the province’s students fighting the Liberal government’s 75 per cent increase in post-secondary education fees over the next five years. The Earth Day march was the largest mobilization to date in a mounting wave of citizen protest throughout the province.   Read the rest of this entry »

a good life for the 99% … videos and texts

Friday, April 27th, 2012
  • Brian Greene: Why is our universe fine-tuned for life, 21.48 min, on TED talks, April 2012: At the heart of modern cosmology is a mystery: Why does our universe appear so exquisitely tuned to create the conditions necessary for life? In this tour de force tour of some of science’s biggest new discoveries, Brian Greene shows how the mind-boggling idea of a multiverse may hold the answer to the riddle …  Read the rest of this entry »

La France vote demain: par exemple Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Germany’s economic model: What Germany offers the world

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Other countries would love to import Germany’s economic model. But its way of doing things is a lot less amenable to export than the wares it produces – Published on The Economist, April 14, 2012.

THE European Central Bank controls Europe’s currency from Frankfurt, Germany’s financial centre. Beckhoff Automation, in a bucolic corner of Westphalia, controls the bank. Or more precisely, its devices control the bank’s lighting and ventilation. Other Beckhoff gizmos raise the curtain and dim the lights at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala. Yet more are embedded in luxury sailboats, in dancing fountains outside Las Vegas hotels and in half the wind turbines made in China.   Read the rest of this entry »

Externsteine

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
  • Externsteine, on en.wikipedia: are a distinctive rock formation located in Ostwestfalen-Lippe of northwestern Germany, not far from the city of Detmold at Horn-Bad Meinberg.[1] The formation is a tor consisting of several tall, narrow columns of rock which rise abruptly from the surrounding wooded hills …     Read the rest of this entry »

The Scorpions

Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

Find on YouTube:

James Cameron: Expedition Bismark

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

depth: 4.700 meters on YouTube:

- in english /subtitled in norwegian, 92.32 min, uploaded by Artas1984 on Jun 20, 2011;

- in german /in 9 episodes, uploaded by technikfreak1994 on 28 Nov. 2010: Teil 1, 10.00 min;  Teil 2, 10.00 min;  Teil 3, 10.01 min;  Teil 4, 10.00 min;  Teil 5, 10.01 min;  Teil 6, 10.01 min;   Teil 7,  10.00 min;   Teil 8, 10.01 min;  Teil 9, 10.54 min.

see also Bismarck wreck: images on panoramio, place on Google Earth: 48° 43′ 11.86″ N – 11° 36′ 5.62″ W, etc … Read the rest of this entry »

Energy from cash: The power of money

Friday, April 13th, 2012

Published on The Economist, April 12, 2012.

HIGH-SPEED currency trading uses oodles of computing power to exploit short-lived price differences in international foreign-exchange markets. Jonathon Keats proposes an alternative: exploit the electrical differences between currencies to power a low-speed computer. In an exhibit which opens on April 12th at the Rockefeller Centre in New York Mr Keats, a concept artist (or, as he likes to call himself, an experimental philosopher), introduces the notion “electro-chemical arbitrage”. An engineer might call it a battery … // Read the rest of this entry »

Flirting with Islamic finance

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Sherine Abdel-Razek, 5 – 11 April 2012. /ec1.htm

With Egypt’s politics dominated by Islamists, the financial market has developed a love for Sharia-compliant products. With Egyptian newspaper headlines signalling Islamists’ increasing hold on politics, the economy pages are regularly filled with information on all kinds of investment products that adhere to Islamic principles. Sharia law bans both interest and speculative trading.   Read the rest of this entry »

Sir Ken Robinson about learning

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Watch these videos on YouTube:

  • Changing Paradigms, 55.20 minutes: Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson will ask how do we make change happen in education and how do we make it last?
  • Bring on the learning revolution, 20.57 min: … Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning – creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish …
  • Creativity, Learning and the Curriculum, 29.27 min: … talk at Learning Without Frontiers …
  • Educating the Heart and Mind, 48.59 min;
  • A New Direction, 41,45 min: Bridge Building, connecting the Arts and Schools in London. A New Direction asked Sir Ken Robinson to reflect on the current challenges around creativity in education.

Conversations with Dr. Steven Greer

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

at the World Puja Network Show – Friday April 13, 2012 – (Please post and circulate widely) – Received by Newsletter, From CSETI, Date: 05/04/2012

UFO & Energy Secrecy: How it is maintained from early 1900s thru the present, Dr. Greer will be joined by Dr. Ted Loder to discuss the complex issue of UFO and Energy secrecy.  They will discuss how since the early 1920’s energy solutions have been suppressed and how the energy and UFO issues are related.  From T. Townsend Brown, to Jimmy Dolittle, the 3rd Reich, Barry Goldwater … This will be an in-depth discussion of history from a different perspective.

The World Puja Network.org (conversations), air time: April 13, 2012:
11 am Pacific/ 2 pm Eastern – and – 6 pm Pacific/9 pm Eastern.

See also: Disclosure Project.org; Orion Project.org; CSETI.org; Steven M. Greer, USA.

Inculture2: l’éducation nationale, par Franck Lepage

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Voyez cette vidéo, publié dans YouTube, 146.32 minutes / 2.26′32 heures:  … Quels sont les fondamentaux de l’Éducation Nationale? À quoi sert-elle? Y a t-il eu des alternatives? Quelles perspectives pour l’Éducation Nationale? …

… et, si vous n’avez que quelques minutes: Altergouvernement, par Franck Lepage, le 3 février 2012.

Occupy San Francisco Creates Social Center in Vacant Church Building

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

Published on ZNet, by OccupyWallSt, April 03, 2012.

In another sign of the Occupy movement’s diversifying tactics and growing spring momentum, yesterday Occupy San Francisco liberated a vacant building owned by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and announced plans to establish a permanent occupation – including a social center, shelter, and food bank – on the site. The April 1st action began with a lively march from Union Square before arriving at the building just before 6pm. When they arrived, Occupiers who had already secured the building greeted the marchers with open doors.  Read the rest of this entry »

Out in the cold?

Friday, April 6th, 2012

Liberals and leftists vow to continue their protests at the Islamist monopoly over drafting a new constitution – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Khaled Dawoud, 29 March – 4 April 2012.

… El-Shobki, an expert at Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, has long supported reconciliation between Egypt’s political Islamic groups, led by the Brotherhood, and its secular elite. He was among the few non- Islamist members of the constituent assembly elected during Saturday’s joint meeting of the People’s Assembly and Shura Council.  Read the rest of this entry »

… encore pas fini, Toulouse …

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

juste reçu par e-mail: A Toulouse, un balcon bien encombré, paru dans AGORA Vox, lundi 2 avril 2012.

History: Persepolis recreated

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012

History: Persepolis recreated, by Omidir:

Paititi

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

Published on en.wikipedia:

  • Paititi is a legendary Inca lost city or utopian rich land said to lie east of the Andes, hidden somewhere within the remote rainforests of southeast Peru, northern Bolivia or southwest Brazil. The Paititi legend in Peru revolves around the story of the culture-hero Inkarri, who, after he had founded Q’ero and Cusco, retreated toward the jungles of Pantiacolla to live out the rest of his days in his refuge city of Paititi. Other versions of the legend see Paititi as an Inca refuge in the border area between Bolivia and Brazil …   Read the rest of this entry »

MORE CORAL REEFS

Sunday, March 25th, 2012

One Author Tackles Trayvon Martin and the Deadly Legacy of Vigilantism

Friday, March 23rd, 2012

Published on ZNet, Interview by Koritha Mitchell and Jamilah King, March 22, 2012.

The unprovoked killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has sparked widespread national outrage, particularly among black Americans. The particulars of the case are, at best, tragic, and at worst, horrifying: Martin was visiting a friend of his father’s in a small gated community outside of Orlando, sporting a gray hoodie and armed with a pack of Skittles and a can of iced tea. Along the way he became a target of nearby resident George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old member of the local Neighborhood Watch, who thought the teen looked “suspicious.” Zimmerman then shot and killed Martin—and, so far, it’s been with legal impunity, protected in part by Florida’s expansive definition of self-defense … //   Read the rest of this entry »

SHIP WRECKS on YouTube

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Asia is world’s top weapons importer

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

Published on Raw Story, by AFP, March 19, 2012.

Asia leads the world when it comes to weapon imports, according to a study released Monday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI. Globally the volume of international transfers of majorconventional weapons was 24 percent higher in the period 2007-11 compared to the 2002-06 period, the report said.   Read the rest of this entry »