Australia

Where to now Occupy Brisbane?

With about as many attendees as there were ideas, the Occupy Brisbane (OB) protest started on Saturday morning without much of an agenda. This is the challenge that the “occupy” movement is facing everywhere: we are against a multitude of things, but what do we stand for?

14 anti-fracking songs called "Whole Lotta Frackin' Going On"

Listen or download this four minute sample of the songs here:

http://www.archive.org/download/ESFrackinSample/ES_Frackin_Music_Sample.mp3

FRACKIN GAS - WE MUST POISON THE EARTH MILES BELOW US!

Also relevant to this:

"Carcinogenic chemicals in 5 water bores around the Qld town of Dalby"

Takin' it to the streets....

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Amnesty rhetoric fails to show the way forward for homelands

By KIERAN FINNANE

The one-day visit last Saturday by Secretary General of Amnesty International, Salil Shetty, to the Utopia homelands generated the usual round of headlines: conditions are “devastating”, comparable to those in the “Third World”, policies amount to “ethnic cleansing” (this last from Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Utopia resident and Barkly Shire President).

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Stand with Malcolm Fraser on refugees

By GetUp!

Only weeks ago the High Court declared the Government's Malaysian Arrangement unlawful. Despite the ruling, this week the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on whether or not to change the law to get around the High Court’s decision and return to harmful and ineffective offshore processing.

The crucial vote for refugee policy is this Thursday, and we need to show our support for compassion and common sense.

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Dalai Lama, Tibet and western media

China has often being misunderstood by the Western public due to factual distortion by Western’s journalists and writers. Bruce Gilley, an assistant professor of political science at Portland State University’s Mark O.

The Plan to put it all together.

Foreword

The World Wide Movement is Great but needs to be tied to a working Policy. Politicians don't have the answers to your demands they are stuck in limbo. PlanQ can change all that energy, but can't do it without you. Need you to push it along loud and clear.

The following blog is in relation to several questions I have asked myself about the ongoing circumstances revolving the GFC for last year and any action that could or should be taken by our Governments.

Public vs. private banks mp3

http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr214.mp3

Samples of Ellen Brown from GR TV.CA talking about publicly owned Banks as a remedy for ailing economies. Interview by James Corbett

music by Fine Line Sub Prime Decline The Richter Scales, American Economy Rap, excerpt of Another Day Another Dollar by Wayne Stewart, excerpt of 2009 Economic Crisis The Inflation Nation Theme Song, Keith Jarrett