Talking New World, New Age System Blues

By Les Visible Well, my friends, I probably shouldn’t be feeling as good as I am; slammed by physical problems (not my usual métier) at the moment. And I probably shouldn’t be looking forward to all of the things that are coming, when they mean bad news for the majority but the majority have backed [...]

Quote of the Day – Those who make peaceful revolution impossible…

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. John Fitzgerald Kennedy  

How Egypt did (and how your government could) shut down the Internet – BlackListed News

How hard is it, exactly, to kill the Internet? Egypt seems to have been able to do it. But Egypt’s situation isn’t exactly the same as that in the Western world. And even though Egypt only has four big ISPs, the fact that everything went down after midnight local time suggests that it took considerable [...]

Rise People Rise – The Global Revolution is Upon Us!

By Ken O’Keefe I have for many years lived with the knowledge that we, the masses, the working class, the poor, the white, the black, the brown, the immigrants, the Christians, the Muslims, the atheists, the soldiers/ex-soldiers, the peaceniks, the communists, the anarchists, the students, the people, across the spectrum, we all have a common [...]

Prince warns S. Arabia of apocalypse

In a letter published by Wagze news agency on Tuesday, the Cairo-based prince warned Saudi Arabia’s ruling family of a fate similar to that of Iraq’s executed dictator Saddam Hussein and the ousted Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, calling on them to escape before people “cut off our heads in streets.” He warned that the [...]

Egypt – Eyewitnesses say state sponsoring vandalism | Al-Masry Al-Youm: Today’s News from Egypt

Thugs looting residential neighborhoods and intimidating civilians are government-hires, say eyewitnesses. In Nasr City, an Eastern Cairo neighborhood, residents attempting to restore security told Al-Masry Al-Youm that looters were caught yesterday. “They were sent by the government. The government got them out of prison and told them to rob us,” says Nameer Nashaat, a resident [...]

Protests Spread To Saudi Arabia

By Tyler Durden While the biggest threat to the Middle East region is the possibility that the population of Saudi Arabia may try to imitate what has been happening in the area, thereby bringing total chaos to the established regional geopolitical and more importantly, energy, structure, the first protests in the Saudi Arabia city of [...]

You Can’t be There if You’re not Here

By Les Visible Remember when you used to walk into a bus kiosk or a subway station and you needed to figure out where you were before you tried to go anywhere? There used to be these maps that had an arrow pointing at a spot, with a little dialogue box next to it that [...]

We’ve Made our Bed and we’re Sleeping in it

By Les Visible Alright people, if you can’t see it you’re not looking very closely. The dominoes are starting to tumble. All around the world, that unrest we have been expecting is rearing its revolutionary head. What will the outcome be? It’s going to be something different than the corpse feeding bankers, making bets on [...]

No Private Central Banks (Michael Rivero)