quote:United States House Committee on Homeland Security
The U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Its responsibilities include U.S. security legislation and oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.
Dit gesprek uit 2002 is nog altijd actueel (zie vanaf 11:55 tot 50:30)quote:With his famous wit and insight, Vidal also demonstrates the ways in which the "War on Terrorism" is being used to curtail civil liberties and shred the Bill of Rights
De versie uit het OP is nu al verwijdert, daarom een alternatieve versiequote:Op maandag 10 juni 2013 16:04 schreef deelnemer het volgende:
Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train
quote:2002 documentary about the April 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt which briefly deposed Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. The documentary says that the coup was the result of a conspiracy between various old guard and anti-Chávez factions within Venezuela and the United States.
quote:His 2007 film The War on Democracy was Pilger's first to be released in the cinema. It was named Best Documentary at the 2008 One World Media Awards.[34] The film explores the role of US intervention since the 1950s, overt and covert, in toppling a series of governments in the region. The film also explores the attempted overthrow of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez in 2002.
quote:'Stealing A Nation' is a film about the plight of the Chagos Islands, whose indigenous population was secretly and brutally expelled by British Governments in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make way for an American military base.
quote:The War You Don't See challenges the media for the role they played in the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine conflicts.
quote:The New Rulers of the World (2001) Pilger investigates the realities of globalisation by taking a close look at Indonesia."
quote:John Pilger in conversation with Charles Glass looks back on half a century of reporting from around the world.
quote:Kissinger cables
The Kissinger Cables are 1.7 million United States diplomatic and intelligence records dating from 1973 to 1976 that WikiLeaks republished in April 2013.
At the time Henry Kissinger was the United States Secretary of State and National Security Adviser. They had previously been declassified and released by the U.S. government; all the records are from the National Archives and Record Administration. The cables can be searched for using a search engine provided by WikiLeaks at the Public Library of United States Diplomacy, a special page on the Wikileaks website.
In one of the documents, Kissinger, who authored many of the 205,901 cables that deal with his activities, was quoted as saying "The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer."
quote:Henry Kissinger
Since he left office, some efforts have been made to hold Kissinger responsible for perceived injustices of American foreign policy during his tenure in government. Christopher Hitchens, the late British-American journalist and author, was highly critical of Kissinger, authoring The Trial of Henry Kissinger, in which Hitchens called for the prosecution of Kissinger "for war crimes, for crimes against humanity, and for offenses against common or customary or international law, including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture".
De voorgeschiedenisquote:Daniel Ellsberg is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.
quote:In the documentary The Secret Government, Bill Moyers exposes the inner workings of a secret government much more vast that most people would ever imagine. Though originally broadcast in 1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected top military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history and secret objectives of powerful groups in the hidden shadows of our government.
quote:Bill Moyers speaks with the journalist after the release of "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt," the book Hedges co-authored with fellow reporter and artist Joe Sacco. The 50-minute conversation is followed by a segment on Sacco, who talks about the thinking and experiences that moved him to become a "comics journalist."
De topic gaat over hetgeen waar Howard Zinn zijn leven aan geweid heeft:quote:Op vrijdag 12 juli 2013 22:26 schreef heite het volgende:
Is dit het topic waar je youtubefilmpjes dumpt die geen hond gaat kijken?
• post 6 (was de eerste post, maar die versie is verwijderd door de gebruiker)quote:Op vrijdag 12 juli 2013 23:22 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:
Heite, spreek alsjeblieft voor jezelf.
Gezien het grote aantal filmpjes zou ik het echter wel op prijs stellen als wordt aanbevolen met welke paar filmpjes te starten.
quote:Newly disclosed emails obtained by the Associated Press show former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels sought to remove Howard Zinn's work from state classrooms just weeks after the historian's death in 2010.
Daniels wrote, "This terrible anti-American academic has finally passed away." After he described "A People's History" as a "truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation that misstates American history on every page," Daniels asked: "Can someone assure me that it is not in use anywhere in Indiana? If it is, how do we get rid of it before more young people are force-fed a totally false version of our history?''
Heb je een link?quote:Op dinsdag 23 juli 2013 11:19 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:
Net zoals door allerlei krachten jarenlang is ontkend dat speculanten doelbewust de voedselprijzen opdrijven. Nee, nee, dat komt door overbevolking. Niet door boze speculanten.
Maar nu heeft een uitgelekt intern memo van Goldman Sachs duidelijk laten zien dat de prijzen van allerlei grondstoffen en voedsel wel zo'n 30-40% hoger ligt dankzij de speculanten. De man die dit heeft laten lekken is een held.
Same old story: de rijken die rijker worden ten koste van de arme mensen.quote:Net zoals door allerlei krachten jarenlang is ontkend dat speculanten doelbewust de voedselprijzen opdrijven. Nee, nee, dat komt door overbevolking. Niet door boze speculanten.
Maar nu heeft een uitgelekt intern memo van Goldman Sachs duidelijk laten zien dat de prijzen van allerlei grondstoffen en voedsel wel zo'n 30-40% hoger ligt dankzij de speculanten. De man die dit heeft laten lekken is een held.
quote:This hour long documentary follows the award-winning reporter Greg Palast on the trail of the Bush family: Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
quote:Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.
This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.
En ze handelen niet alleen in voedsel en andere grondstoffen, maar ze hebben ook bedrijven die deze spullen opslaan, vervoeren etc: A Structural View of U.S. Bank Holding Companiesquote:Op woensdag 7 augustus 2013 10:21 schreef robin007bond het volgende:
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quote:Are some big players about to leave the commodities market?
The subject being debated in Washington is whether or not deposit-taking U.S. banks should be permitted to trade in physical commodities like oil, minerals, and agricultural products. At issue is how regulators can effectively assess the safety of citizens’ bank deposits in the incredibly complex and volatile world of commodity trading. Such a ruling to take deposit banks out of commodities would eliminate players like JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs from the commodity trading business. In fact, the 10 biggest banks on Wall Street earned about $6 billion in commodity trading revenue last year, proving that American banks are more than just sideline players in the commodity markets.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were both historically permitted to trade in commodities because they were investment banks, but during the American financial meltdown of 2008, they became bank holding companies which had retail banking subsidiaries. At the time, the U.S. Federal Reserve gave them a five-year grace period to exit physical commodity trading, and that grace period expires in September 2013. With $7.7 billion in commodity holdings in their March 31 financial statement, it certainly does not appear that Goldman Sachs has been exiting the commodity business approaching the September deadline. To be clear, most of the invested capital is in energy and minerals, but agriculture still holds a portion of this portfolio.
quote:Senate looks into the role of banks in commodities
Significant risks to the nation’s financial system and to taxpayers are the potential consequences of continuing to allow the country’s largest financial institutions to own commodities units that store and ship vast quantities of metals, oil and the other basic building blocks of the economy, several witnesses warned a Senate panel on Tuesday.
The ability of those bank subsidiaries to gather nonpublic information on commodities stores and shipping also could give the banks an unfair advantage in the markets and cost consumers billions of dollars, the witnesses said.
The Senate Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittee convened the hearing to explore whether financial companies should control power plants, warehouses and oil refineries.
quote:JPMorgan Chase subsidiary to pay $410 million penalty in electricity pricing scheme
On March 14, 2011, Blythe Masters, head of JPMorgan Chase’s global commodities group, asked one of her top deputies why California power officials were making ominous inquiries into the bank’s arcane and lucrative business of selling electricity. Five months earlier, Masters had been given a spreadsheet predicting that this line of business would generate profits of $1.5 billion to $2 billion by 2018.
Francis Dunleavy, the Houston-based executive in charge, replied in an e-mail that he would handle the matter, but added that “it may not be pretty.”
On Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase agreed to a record $410 million settlement of accusations by government regulators of manipulating electricity prices in California and the Midwest.
quote:'Taking Responsibility': German Banking Giant Quits Food Speculation
The DZ Bank decision highlights the deep differences among German financial institutions when it comes to the controversial practice of speculating on foodstuffs. Commerzbank and several Landesbanken (state-owned savings banks) had previously announced their intention to back out of food commodities speculation. But neither Deutsche Bank nor Allianz has followed them. Both say that it has not been proven that speculation on foodstuffs results in hunger and shortages.
Organizations such as Foodwatch disagree, pointing to studies showing that speculation leads to price bubbles. For DZ Bank, the risk was simply too great. The bank quietly announced in January that it was suspending such trading indefinitely, but few took notice. In its letter to Foodwatch, board member Lille was much clearer. He said the bank welcomes the fact that the effects of speculation on food prices are being intensively studied.
The letter says that DZ Bank will allow securities based on agricultural commodities to expire in 2013 and has ceased purchasing agricultural derivatives from other banks. The same holds true for funds managed by Union Investment.
Hille also made clear in the letter that his bank supports the creation of stricter financial market regulations. DZ Bank would like to see "controls on transaction volumes, particularly the introduction of effective position limits for exchanges and central clearing platforms." In other words, DZ Bank would like to limit the degree to which hedge funds and other speculators participate in so-called over-the-counter, or off-exchange, trading. Such limits existed until the beginning of the 2000s, but were then eliminated as deregulation progressed. Since then, the share of speculators on agricultural commodities markets has risen from 30 percent to 80 percent.
R. McChesney: Media and Politics in the United States Today (Lezing begint op 12:32 m )quote:Robert Waterman McChesneys work concentrates on the history and political economy of communication, emphasizing the role media play in democratic and capitalist societies. He is among the most widely read and honored communication scholars in the world today. His work has been professionally translated into 30 languages.
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