November 2011
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Monsters, Inc - News in Nepal: Fast, Full &... →
By SABIN NINGLEKHU LIMBU
A newspaper columnist recently wrote about how it is important to spend some time understanding Nepali politics at a deeper level before organizing any kind of grassroots-based activism to call out central-level politics. This was a call made in response to the Facebook community, mostly youths, organized few months ago in Kathmandu calling for ‘Nepal Unite’ to put...
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let it flow: Occupy Movement News Round-Up 11/16... →
occupyonline:
BERKELEY, CA: Some 2,000 students and protesters gathered at the campus and rebuilt their tent city despite a university-wide ban on camping, according to reports. They were joined by hundreds of Occupy Oakland demonstrators who marched 5 miles to join the Berkeley protesters after being booted from their own camp outside the city hall Monday.
BOSTON, MA: Per a judge’s court...
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Here's the Risk: "Occupy" ends up doing the... →
In the end, the Occupy movement could easily end up doing the bidding of the very elite globalist powers that they were demonstrating against to begin with. To avoid such an outcome, it’s important for a movement to have a good knowledge of history and the levers of power in the 21st century.
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#openough | V-Day: A Global Movement to End... →
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Watchyouranonnews:
Shocking video confirms Indonesia’s brutal suppression of West Papuan rally ahead of US visit
(WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT)
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Notes towards an anthropology of money by Keith... →
Most anthropologists don’t like money and they don’t have much of it. It symbolises the world they have rejected for something more authentic elsewhere. It lines them up with the have-nots and against the erosion of cultural diversity by globalisation. Anthropologists have, as a result, not had much of theoretical interest to say about money. Rather, they have been limited to discussing whether...
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What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic... →
Philip Pilkington: Let’s begin. Most economists claim that money was invented to replace the barter system. But you’ve found something quite different, am I correct?
David Graeber: Yes there’s a standard story we’re all taught, a ‘once upon a time’ — it’s a fairy tale.
It really deserves no other introduction: according to this theory all transactions were by barter. “Tell you what, I’ll give...
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#Monsanto soybean hits regulatory hurdle in EU →
Requests from Bayer AG and Monsanto Co. to allow genetically modified soybeans for use in food and feed in the European Union will go to an appeals committee after regulators didn’t approve the proposals, the EU said Tuesday.
The EU committee overseeing biotech crops didn’t approve a herbicide-resistant soybean from Bayer or renew permission for a soybean from Monsanto, meaning the...
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