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Vreemdelingendetentie in Nederland

Het is een schande dat ongewenste vreemdelingen in Nederland gestraft worden zonder een misdaad begaan te hebben, en zelfs slechter behandeld worden dan moordenaars, verkrachters en andere criminelen.

Dit is al jaren aan de gang, veel mensen weten ervan en schamen zich diep. We zijn door de Amnesty International, de Raad van Europa en de Verenigde Naties veroordeeld aangesproken op schendingen van basale menselijke rechten - en doen er niets aan.

Aan minister Leers en staatssecretaris Teeven: ik hoop dat u, de rest van uw leven, zwetend van angst wakker wordt in het besef dat uw buitensluiting, onrechtmatige detentie en langdurige eenzame opsluiting slechts een zoveelste slechte droom was.

Voor duizenden is dit de dagelijkse realiteit, en wij zijn er dankzij de herhaaldelijke, grootschalige en onvergeeflijke nalatigheid van bewindsvoerders verantwoordelijk voor. Slaap zacht.

The Banker

The Impossible Hamster

(and economic growth)

Free Speech 2.0

Protesters questioning the loss of freedom brought about by the NDAA are promptly arrested and whisked out of public sight.

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Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk

Once again, a good time to post Naomi Klein's message: we have to stretch out to reach a different kind of narrative if our aim is for this civilization to survive.

Whose side are you on, boys?

Steve Keen on the depression

Steve Keen, one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis, about the possibility of another Great Depression, and how to avoid it.

You don't get into the situation we are in now, without extremely bad thinking

'Another Great Depression is all but inevitable' - that's the view of Steve Keen. He's been called the 'Merchant of Gloom', but he's one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis. While he used to be a lone voice in challenging the economic consensus, more and more people are now listening to him.

His way of avoiding depression?

• Write off the debt
• Bankrupt the banks
• Nationalise the financial system

Hence; start all over again.

German TV reflecting on Russia's elections

Femen: tits and activism

A new kind of feminism operating in the divide between sex and sexism.

Debtocracy

For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. "Debtocracy" seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media.

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Nigal Farage: What gives you the right to dictate to the Italian people?

The European Stability Mechanism

... or the end of sovereign democracy as we know it

Nederlandse? Bekijk vertaalde versie en teken de petitie. Het oorspronkelijke verdag vind je hier.

A new treaty is on it's way of being ratified by Europe's parliaments to instantiate an extra-governmental organisation, the ESM, which has full juridical immunity. It can order virtually unlimited amounts of money (starting with 700 billion) to be paid within 7 days without the possibility of democratic control.

Do we really want to:

• Allow virtually unlimited amounts of national debt to built up in order to save the Euro?
• Have no way to control the amounts of money being lended in order to bail the Euro out?
• Have no way of holding the ones in control over the ESM responsible for their actions?

If you don't, please write your local politicians. We cannot let this happen.

Looking for the original treaty? Download it here

BBC Speechless as trader forecasts global monetary collapse

Financial expert Alessio Rastani: 'Governments don't rule the world, Goldman Sachs rules the world [and] Goldman Sachs does not care about the rescue package.'

He's become the face of the global debt crisis and an internet sensation. The self-styled City trader who stripped away the jargon and bluster of the financial world and summed up our woes in just three minutes. "I go to bed every night dreaming of another recession," Alessio Rastani explained in a BBC interview. "It's an opportunity."

• BBC Interview on YouTube
• Background on Alessio Rastaniin The Telegraph