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To some people, “businessman” has always been a bad word. It represents greed, selfishness and an uncontrollable lust for profits. Of course, the global recession we’re just now climbing out of didn’t help matters either. However, there are plenty of people in the private sector who truly believe they can play a vital role in helping those around them in a meaningful way, creating wealth and jobs in the process.
Mirco de Jesus Martins is one of those men.
Though he’s the stepson of Vice (…)

In 2009 I was moving to Hawaii. I had a frying pan in my carry-on luggage because, well, I would need one. TSA stole it. I guess they would need a frying pan too – perhaps to jump out of?
I found a few numbers regarding what the TSA costs US. $7 billion annual budget $540,000,000.00 Baggage screening equipment $781,201,080.00 Federal Air Marshals $284,073,120.00 Checkpoint Security Screening Fund $284,073,120.00 Aviation Security Capital Fund $568,146,240.00 Transportation Security (…)

05/28/2015
From iww.org.uk
SUPPORT BAHAR MUSTAFA - The 2015 annual IWW Conference strongly approved an emergency motion proposed by London IWW to stand in solidarity with Bahar Mustafa, a Goldsmiths students’ union officer who has faced persecution in the mainstream media and death threats from the right wing for organising a meeting for BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) women and non-binary people. We support Bahar and the right of the oppressed to self-organise, and we encourage our (…)

Why Are Exchange-Traded Funds Preparing For A ‘Liquidity Crisis’ And A ‘Market Meltdown’?
By Michael Snyder, on May 13th, 2015
Some really weird things are happening in the financial world right now. If you go back to 2008, there was lots of turmoil bubbling just underneath the surface during the months leading up to the great stock market crash in the second half of that year. When Lehman Brothers finally did collapse, it was a total shock to most of the planet, but we later learned (…)

4 / 5 / 2015
Only few months have passed since a tiny crack opened in the European chain of command. The election in Greece, beyond the specific judge on Syriza party, delivered an unmistakable message: people had enough of austerity politics.
Could a vote solve all the problems? Obviously not. Nobody believed this, but it was a sign that people want to take power back on their lives. What happened in the while? Negotiations on the plan for new financial aids to Greece are still going (…)

What does the Boston Tea Party and Gandhi’s Salt March have to do with voting in the United States today? These were symbolic political acts that were effectively used to demonstrate against and defeat the same kind of powerful forces now corrupting American politics.
When patriots sneaked aboard East India Company ships in Boston Harbor during the night of December 16, 1773—and dumped tea overboard—they were creatively confronting corporate political power. Much like today, the Company (…)

The First of May in Milan gives us a multi-faceted day. The first fundamental fact to realize is that those tens of thousands of people who took to the strees represent a social spectrum which cannot be co-opted by mainstream politics and party representation.
Overall, these presences managed to strongly express the refutation of a city modeled around the Expo, firmly overturning that "valorization of the territory" that the bosses of food products content themselves with. Ultimately (…)

White denial in the face of overwhelming evidence is a thing to behold
First of all, spare me any #notallwhites vitriol because *you* haven’t personally lynched any black people today. [Incidentally, it may be a frivolous aside, but can there be any more depressing harbinger of non-change that this—Lynch—is the last name of the newly installed Attorney General?] If that is your initial reaction, you have already missed the points I haven’t even made yet. You might want to stop reading here (…)

Share prices of two of Portugal’s largest institutions exceeded recent highs in early March, and all it took was a letter from one of the bank’s minority shareholders.
However, the minority shareholder in question is not your average individual or institutional investor. Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angolan president Jose Eduardo dos Santos and a woman Forbes named Africa’s first female billionaire back in 2013.
It was she who wrote the letter, to Spain’s Caixabank, one of the (…)

29/4/2015
The Commune of Europe will be on the streets again the 1st of May against the other side of european austerity regime.
We recently gathered in the streets of Frankfurt, we took over the ECB-party and painted a picture that hit. The struggles against the Europe of the ruling elites show one clear fact: another Europe is possible and deeply wanted and it will be the Europe of the people. Now we will meet again in Milan on the 1st of May because we want to take possession of (…)