pretty gay shit going on
"The POLICE (Civil servants) were ordered to ATTACK the Civilians in my city this morning during the completely peaceful and very well organised protest and sit in that has been going on for a week now in the main Squares of every major city in Spain.
We are fine and attending this protest daily, just want to make sure you are all aware whats happening here."
UNPROVOKED POLICE BRUTALITY VIDEO
SIGN THIS PETITION
Live streaming of Plaza Catalunya - Barcelona
Manifesto (Translated)
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
New World Order -OK Maybe?
i'm beginning to think the unthinkable. that maybe we need a single world government to regain control of the world economy. individual state governments have lost/are losing control like they used to have before the globalisation of businesses. raising and lowering interest rates at a national level have a much subtler affect than they used to. multinationals (stockholders) are basically unanswerable forces that cannot be controlled by single nations alone (lets disregard BPs seeming demise due to the US), which makes it near impossible to implement measures to inhibit the boom and bust cycles. this is clearly just applying an old solution to a new problem, but what else is happening? at least there are nasty groups out there that are considering this option as opposed to??? mind you i have absolutely no idea what i'm talking about.
tl;dr i have no idea what i'm talking about ;-)
*(tl;dr == too long, didn't read)
tl;dr i have no idea what i'm talking about ;-)
*(tl;dr == too long, didn't read)
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Remember The Lisbon Treaty?
I'd almost forgotten the Lisbon Referendum of 2009 until this article in the Irish Times today
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0708/1224274266971.html
An interesting read in it's own right, but the particularly resonating paragraph follows this one. Keep in mind that this is an unelected EU commission/comittee that have legislative power over the entire EU. One of my major complaints about voting in the undemoctratic treaty -at the time people told me I was being anti-EU, which never was. Now we are stuck with this shit most likely forever now that it it's been put in place.
"The commission sought to push ahead with the declaration by way of a written procedure after a meeting of the committee where there was no quorum. Under the "silence" procedure in question, the decision to make the declaration would have taken effect automatically if no member state had raised an objection by Tuesday's deadline. "There will now have to be a full hearing of the proposal at the . . . committee where Ireland will be able to voice our profound concerns at such a proposal," Mr Ahern's spokesman said."
Perhaps if Ahern's lackeys had not been on the top of their game (e.g. there was any real political news this week in Ireland apart from the beginning of our great leaders' 12 week summer holiday, or indeed that it had occurred within this schoolboy-style summer holiday) it would have gone unnoticed -as I'm sure many declarations already have [ please feel free to check this, I might sometime but feel lazy right now ].
So, as predicted, we now have;
-meetings of the unelected committee behind closed doors
-written, legally binding proposals stacked in volumes
-direct translation into EU law if noone bothers to read / object to them in time
-no recourse if anything slips through
On a more general note, the original Irish Times article also implies to me that Israeli interests have there own lobbyists in Brussels and that money talks. Is it in EU interests that we export work outside of the EU during recession times?
Blah, blah, blah, I told ye so, etc.
Sponsored by the Lisbon. Best Out Of Three? Campaign ;-)
-=mcmonkeys1rants.blogspot.com=-
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0708/1224274266971.html
An interesting read in it's own right, but the particularly resonating paragraph follows this one. Keep in mind that this is an unelected EU commission/comittee that have legislative power over the entire EU. One of my major complaints about voting in the undemoctratic treaty -at the time people told me I was being anti-EU, which never was. Now we are stuck with this shit most likely forever now that it it's been put in place.
"The commission sought to push ahead with the declaration by way of a written procedure after a meeting of the committee where there was no quorum. Under the "silence" procedure in question, the decision to make the declaration would have taken effect automatically if no member state had raised an objection by Tuesday's deadline. "There will now have to be a full hearing of the proposal at the . . . committee where Ireland will be able to voice our profound concerns at such a proposal," Mr Ahern's spokesman said."
Perhaps if Ahern's lackeys had not been on the top of their game (e.g. there was any real political news this week in Ireland apart from the beginning of our great leaders' 12 week summer holiday, or indeed that it had occurred within this schoolboy-style summer holiday) it would have gone unnoticed -as I'm sure many declarations already have [ please feel free to check this, I might sometime but feel lazy right now ].
So, as predicted, we now have;
-meetings of the unelected committee behind closed doors
-written, legally binding proposals stacked in volumes
-direct translation into EU law if noone bothers to read / object to them in time
-no recourse if anything slips through
On a more general note, the original Irish Times article also implies to me that Israeli interests have there own lobbyists in Brussels and that money talks. Is it in EU interests that we export work outside of the EU during recession times?
Blah, blah, blah, I told ye so, etc.
Sponsored by the Lisbon. Best Out Of Three? Campaign ;-)
-=mcmonkeys1rants.blogspot.com=-
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Software Patents
Great video against software patentability funded by the fsf
It gives a nice bit of history and background.
Link is here: http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html
It gives a nice bit of history and background.
Link is here: http://patentabsurdity.com/watch.html
Saturday, June 26, 2010
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