Auf Zeichnemit.at – der Plattform einer österreichische Bürger- und Bürgerinneninitiative gegen die Umsetzung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung – kann man noch für knapp weitere 3 Monate gegen die VDS unterschreiben (online auf der Parlamentshompage, eine aktive Email-Adresse zur Bestätigung wird benötigt).

Petersil sagt man nicht, auch nicht Petersilie, genauso wenig wie Mozartkugeln, Grenadiermarsch, Fiakergulasch, Augsburger und Frankfurter. Die Gleichbehandlungsbeauftragte hat schon einen Brief geschrieben, und die Sprachwartin vom Standard-Ton in allen Publikationslagen schreibt nicht mehr Petersil sondern P…sil und nicht mehr Mohrrüben sondern M…rüben, wenn sie sich piefkinesisch auszudrücken beliebt. Karotten geht noch, glaube ich. Aber eigentlich könnte sich der r… Mann beleidigt geben, weshalb ich lieber Ka…ten schreibe, sicher ist sicher. Sonst krieg’ ich eine Strafdrohung.

Zustandswechsel (Changing Lanes) is feature length documentary about the status of hemp and marijuana in Styria – a region that is deeply rooted in Austria’s rather conservative culture. Yet, beneath the time-honored surface which is steeped in history, you will also find a subculture that is larger than many would expect. Includes interviews with partners from the executive branch and medicine and cannabis insiders, hemp farmers, marijuana users, etc. Watch the full documentary now

Die Dokumentation über Graz und das Gras in voller Länge. Mit Michael Ostrowski und Hans Söllner.

Zustandswechsel (Changing Lanes) (2007) – 1 hrs 20
With Michael Ostrowski und Hans Söllner.

Press the “CC” button for subtitles

Seestadt Aspern: Stadt der Frauen

Wiens Straßen, Parks und Plätze tragen überwiegend Namen bekannter Männer. Damit sich das ändert, werden die Straßen Asperns nur nach Frauen benannt. „Namen prägen die Identität eines Stadtteils“, sagt Lueger.

(Telepolis) – Matthias Brake:

Jetzt soll nur noch für einen Teil des erzeugten Solarstroms gezahlt werden …

heise.de/tp/blogs/2/151423

Original auf DDP Berlin-Brandenburg

Offener Brief an Frau Dr. Merkel | © Steffen Senft

Sehr geehrte Frau Dr. Merkel,

in Anbetracht der derzeitigen Lage Deutschlands und Europas, sehe ich mich heute veranlasst, Ihnen eine E-Mail zu senden. Diese E-Mail wird zusätzlich an sämtliche Medien, vertrauenswürdige Anwälte, Gewerkschaften, Verbände und selbstverständlich auf Facebook veröffentlicht. Mein Name ist Steffen Senft, 44 Jahre jung, gebürtiger Mecklenburger und konservativer Wähler. Die derzeitige Lage im Land macht mich sehr betroffen und ich erkenne Tendenzen, von denen ich nie gewagt habe zu träumen. Sie, ja genau Sie, spielen sich als Retterin der deutschen Nation und Europas auf und nehmen dabei nicht einmal Rücksicht auf ihr Volk. Wissen Sie Frau Dr. Merkel. Ich habe Ihnen in der Vergangenheit zwei Mal meine Stimme GELIEHEN, in der Hoffnung, Sie würden unser Land vor Katastrophen bewahren und verteidigen. An diesem Tag kann ich in Ihnen aus voller Überzeugung sagen, SIE…

Auch wenn die Wahl erst kommenden Sonntag stattfindet, eines ist sicher: Putin wird erneut regieren. Ein Land,  das schon vor ihm, jedoch durch ihn durchtriebener, von Korruption, Gewalt und Amtsmissbrauch geprägt ist. In seiner Amtszeit wurden unzählige JournalistInnen ermordert oder aber fast zu Tode geprügelt. Einer dieser gewaltätiggen Übergriffe auf einen bekannten Kolumnisten und Blogger wurde gefilmt und unter anderem im Weltjournal: Russland – Wladimir der Starke augestrahlt. Darauf ist zu sehen, mit welcher Brutalität im regelrechten Blutrausch auf den Mann einschlagen wird, obwohl er bereits kurze Zeit nach dem Überfall am Boden liegt. Als die Unbekannten davonlaufen kann man erkennen, wie der Journalist aus letzter Kraft versucht aufzustehen, es ihm jedoch nicht gelingt und erneut auf den Asphalt knallt.

Ein grausiger Anblick, der mich jeden Knochen in mir spüren lässt. Das Gefühl ist kaum zu beschreiben. Vor allem da es eine Abscheu gegen die Handlung und zugleich eine unglaubliche…

At the next full meeting of MK Council on Tuesday March 13th a motion calling for the building of more council housing “to meet expected need.” MK Defend Council Housing campaign has called a lobby of this council meeting to “help convince them it’s time to build a new generation of first class council housing so as to provide the secure, genuinely affordable, decent and accountable housing desperately needed.” MK CPGB support this lobby and encourage others to join it at 6.30pm on March 13th outside the Civic Offices, and from 7pm in the council chamber’s public gallery.

There is a Facebook event page for the lobby here: http://www.facebook.com/events/345569582154115/

There is certainly a significant need for new housing in Milton Keynes, but the question of what type of housing is also vital. While we certainly wish to defend existing council housing stock from any attempts to undermine it, we have…

REPSOL LOBBY: El presidente de Repsol, Antonio Brufau

“Nadie nos puede dar lecciones, porque somos líderes en el respeto al medio ambiente, pero hay que pensar más lejos y ver qué hay de positivo para Canarias en esta actividad”

HECHOS: RESPOL “MATA” —> repsol

Lancelot  Noticias

At least one Cal State Fullerton student has something different to say about the #StopKony2012 movement — it’s not what you think it is.

The campaign to capture and arrest Joseph Kony, a Ugandan political leader and head of the Lords Resistance Army, is complicated by the fact that money collected is used to lobby for military intervention, said David Inga, a Students for Quality Education member.

He added that the United States government is only interested in helping Uganda because usable oil was discovered in the region — military intervention would mean the U.S. would never leave.

“It’s just like Iraq,” said Inga.

There is already military personnel in Uganda. President Barack Obama sent 100 military advisers to central Africa in 2011. The campaign, spearheaded by Invisible Children and its TRI campaign, is a social media “experiment” intended to increase and advance support for the arrest of Kony…

Following news out of neighboring València of police brutality against student protests, individuals gathered in solidarity with the people of València. Students were protesting the federal government’s planned education cuts as part of the all-encompassing austerity plan in an effort to rescue Spain from economic calamity.

Crowds gathered before the Generalitat de Catalunya and soon began to march.

In València, 25 were arrested; but the real meat of the issue came out with several videos getting posted to the internet showing police beating and dragging protesters.

As seen on Lækjargata.

I like to think I despise politicians more than 99.9 percent of the population. Even in my kindest moments, I see them as occasionally well-intentioned souls who are easily corrupted. Most of the time, they are a plague on society, as this cartoon illustrates.

So you might think I’m in favor of throwing them in prison on the slightest pretext. That’s surely an appealing thought, but one of the main traits of libertarianism is a belief in the rule of law. Arbitrary arrests, trumped-up charges, and unjustified imprisonments should not exist in a civilized society (though I’m ashamed to admit that such things are happening with increasing frequency in the United States).

I raise this topic because of a story I saw in the EU Observer. The former Prime Minister of Iceland is on trial, but as far as I can tell, his only crime is to…

The balance sheets of Iceland’s banks were 9x the country’s GDP before the crash.  Stunning!

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You know those times you think to yourself ‘I’m so hungry I could eat a horse’ and ‘boy do I feel like spaghetti’ but just aren’t exactly sure how much spaghetti it would take to satisfy those horse-like cravings? Well now there’s a solution to your problem and it comes all the way from Iceland.

I’d never have known this delightful measuring tool even existed if it weren’t for Brian and Pintrest. I just knew Pintrest was going to turn out to be useful. I am amused that I bought something from ‘the local design store’ which is about as far from local as I can get. This item is small and fits in an envelope so cheap enough to ship. Imagine my delight when I realised it came in lime green, the decision to purchase was instant.  Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson who designed the measuring tool has done…

“Subsidies are prima facie evidence that consumers would not buy the product at its market price. They distort markets, compromising economic growth, breed corruption and undermine social welfare by foisting inferior or over-priced goods onto the market” Kenneth P. Green

Cities and markets have historically been created under pragmatic realities. Towns, villages, or any other settlement existed in logical places: by a river, by the sea or close to a trading road. Farming was possible where the soil was rich. Fishing was productive and worth it only if the gains outweigh the costs. The logic was quite simple and fair – either you can or you can’t.   If you could on some times, and not on others, than most likely you would adopt a nomadic lifestyle, looking for certain benefits in certain places on certain times. In this system, the value on goods was equal to the realities…

Just in time for SXSW, the House passed the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act. This is a big step in the right direction, of course the US Senate has to pass this bill for President Obama to sign this into law. Venturebeat has the news about the bill here, and has a FAQ Page for Crowd Funding Bill go read it. The biggest advantage of this bill is the right to allow Startups and small companies to raise capital through Crowd Funding platforms like Kickstarter or Twitter. In addition, it reduces some of the restriction on the size of the shareholders needed to raise capital before going public etc I believe that is what is needed in Iceland. If a company really has the numbers and business case to really put themselves to the scrutiny of the crowd, I say that is true transparency…

Politics and Legislation

We Take Care of Our Own: Eric Holder and the End of Rights

Historians of the future, if they are not imprisoned for saying so, will trace the end of America’s democratic experiment to the fearful days immediately after 9/11, what Bruce Springsteen called the days of the empty sky, when frightened, small men named Bush and Cheney made the first decisions to abandon the Constitution in the name of freedom and created a new version of the security state with the Patriot Act, Guantanamo, secret prisons and sanctioned torture by the U.S. government. They proceeded carefully, making sure that lawyers in their employ sanctioned each dark act, much as kings in old Europe used the church to justify their own actions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-van-buren/anwar-al-awlaki-killing_b_1322528.html

Politicians Won’t Return Ponzi Payoffs

Michael Winship, Moyers & Co.:

“On Tuesday, Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford was convicted in a Houston…

So yeah i’Ve been in a calm mood this weekend. Mrs Sex Farm was away so i spent the time pestering the cat with cooked pasta and getting some writing done. General tried to run my body into a viscous liquid of activity, but without much success.

Having said that, it’s lucky that I’m living in Reykjavik, which is just the centre of the universe of activity. Man it all happens here. I’d hate to be stuck in the country. Man, even Selfoss would be way too much like being in the sticks. So it’s with this thought that for this weeks edition of the cult film corner I’m staying here in Iceland for a truly harrowing picture of life out in the farthest reaches of this lovely nation. Ladies & gentlemen, i give to you. “Nói Albinói (Noi The Albino)”.

the movie tells of Nói (played by Tómas Lemarquis), a bald…

RT

Damn is this Doonesbury cartoon is not beautifully spot on:

One of my favorite things to do in my Intro class is ask how many people actually know what a socialist is.  It’s usually just a handful.  But that doesn’t stop most of the conservatives from being convinced that Obama is one.

Electronic Counter-Measures (2011) by Liam Young

Many of us are afraid of the development of drone technology in the army which regularly allows the US and Israeli Army to assassinate people without having to deploy a single man on a foreign territory. It is now well known that  during the last ten years, the limits between Western police services and armies have increasingly became blurry both in the methods and in the equipment, the former requiring often the help or teaching of the latter. In this regard, I highly recommend the excellent coverage of Occupy Wall Street by Democracy Now  on November 17th 2011. Amy Goodman indeed invited both the always excellent Stephen Graham and the former Seattle Police Chief, Norm Stamper to discuss about what she called Paramilitary policing.
It is relatively clear that it is simply a matter of time before national security drones would be implemented in…