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UK Commits to Less Welfare, More Warfare

<a href="http://theantimedia.org/team/michaela/" target="_blank">Michaela Whitton</a> 
July 16, 2015
(<a href="http://theantimedia.org/" target="_blank">ANTIMEDIA</a>) What’s that noise? It’s the U.K. drums of war beating.
Less than a week after George Osborne’s emergency budget declared a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jul/11/uk-young-fairness-george-osborne-budget" target="_blank">war on young people</a>, Britain suddenly has enough funds to <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33358267" target="_blank">re-consider</a> a bombing campaign in Syria.
David Cameron visited U.K. drone base RAF Waddington on Monday, backing up his <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33500006" target="_blank">commitment</a> to spend more on drones, spy planes, and special forces—which, according to the latest terror hysteria, is “<a href="http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/David-Cameron-visits-RAF-Waddington-say-Britain/story-26890665-detail/story.html" target="_blank">vital in keeping us safe</a>.”
The use of British drones began in Afghanistan in 2007.  More recently, drones and Tornado jets carried out over <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-secretary-thanks-uk-military-personnel-tackling-isil" target="_blank">70 strikes</a> against Islamic State militants in Iraq, also providing support for the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces. So far in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/21/uk-to-fly-military-drones-over-syria">Syria</a>, U.K.  drones have been limited to a surveillance role.
“As Prime Minister, I will always put the national security of our country first. That’s why it is right that we spend 2% of our GDP on defence because this investment helps to keep us safe. It has only been possible because of the difficult decisions we have made to ensure a strong and secure economy.” David Cameron <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/07/12/spend-more-on-drones-chiefs-told_n_7781446.html" target="_blank">said</a> on Monday.
Let that sink in.
The difficult decisions he is referring to must be the £12 billion worth of welfare cuts, literally hounding Britain’s poor to <a href="http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/one-in-five-benefit-related-deaths-involved-sanctions-admits-dwp/" target="_blank">death</a>.
But do not despair, Cameron wants to make sure Britain is safe in a ”<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33500006" target="_blank">very dangerous and unstable world</a>” and is convinced Islamic extremism is at the root of the problem. He plans to make sure Britain has the equipment to deal with the threat at “<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33500006" target="_blank">its source</a>.” Oh no—not that old sketch! We are all familiar with Britain’s exemplary record of dealing with threats at the source, namely, the mass destruction in <a href="http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2015/03/23/isis-the-unintended-consequences-of-the-us-led-war-on-iraq/" target="_blank">Iraq</a>, <a href="http://www.stopwar.org.uk/news/libya-where-humanitarian-intervention-turned-into-its-exact-opposite" target="_blank">Libya</a> and <a href="http://stopwar.org.uk/news/how-britain-spent-40bn-suffering-humiliating-defeat-in-afghanistan-while-trying-to-impress-the-us" target="_blank">Afghanistan</a>.
A <a href="http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR400/RR446/RAND_RR446.pdf" target="_blank">study</a> produced by the RAND corporation clearly outlines that aerial interventions do nothing to stop terrorist organisations and are more likely to escalate conflict. Since when does dropping bombs make the world a safer place? The hypocrisy of Britain contemplating air strikes on Syria while <a href="http://theantimedia.org/middle-east-burns-business-usual-uk-arms-trade/" target="_blank">arming</a> countries like Saudi Arabia—the largest exporter of extremist ideology and mercenary fighters in the region—is mind blowing.
In messy, cruel wars that have no regard for civilian casualties, the West could be  engaging in diplomacy and humanitarian aid, working towards alleviating suffering on a longer term scale. Instead, the aim seems to be to get the public to buy the idea that dropping bombs on other sovereign countries will protect U.K. citizens from “terror.”
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Pizza Employee Takes Smoke Break and Saves Kidnapped Child

<a href="https://twitter.com/thesmgibson" target="_blank">SM Gibson</a> 
July 16, 2015
(<a href="http://www.theantimedia.org" target="_blank">ANTIMEDIA</a>) On July 9th, Courtney Best was clocked in for her shift at Papa Murphy’s Pizza in Corpus Christi, Texas when she felt the itch that smokers know all to well. Little did the 26-year-old know at the time, her sudden urge for this particular cigarette was about to save a child’s life.
Typically, when Courtney needed to satisfy her nicotine cravings at work, she would step out back for a quick smoke, but for some reason, on this day, she decided to light-up out front.
“I stepped outside, I was standing by the trashcan, and I seen a white car pull up, and I just happen to take my phone with me, cause we don’t look at our phones at work, and I looked down and I saw ‘white Dodge Avenger Amber Alert,’ and I was like, ‘Nah, that’s not him,'” <a href="http://www.kristv.com/story/29516418/pizza-shop-employee-helps-rescue-kidnapped-child" target="_blank">Courtney told KRIS TV</a> in Corpus Christi. “The man was walking across the parking lot looking at me … cause I was the only person out here, with the little boy and the little boy looked scared and I was like no, that’s not him.”
The Amber Alert was issued for 7-year-old Nicolas Gomez who had been <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-pizza-shop-employee-helps-police-track-down-kidnapping-suspect/" target="_blank">abducted</a> the day before in nearby Alice, Tx.
As Courtney watched the pair walk into a neighboring dollar store, her gut told her that she had to do something. “My stomach started knotting up, so I was like, ahh, I’m gonna go, I’m gonna check and see,” Courtney said.
Thinking on her feet, Courtney ran to her car and nonchalantly drove past the vehicle that the man and the young boy had emerged from. As she got a clear view of the license plate number, she confirmed that it was a match.
In disbelief, Courtney immediately picked up her cell phone and dialed 911. By this time though, the man and his victim were already back in the white Dodge and were driving away.
“And I’m on the phone with 911 and I tell her, look, the plates match up, he’s turning left on Staples but I’m gonna follow him.”
Luckily, police officers caught up to the suspect and he was <a href="http://www.caller.com/news/local-news/crime/amber-alert-police-search-for-missing-alice-boy-suspect" target="_blank">arrested</a> on a $100,000 kidnapping warrant obtained by detectives.
Nicolas is now back with his mother in Alice and 29-year-old Channing Eloy Galbraith is being held at Jim Wells County Jail on charges related to kidnapping.
As for Courtney, she admitted that she never paid much attention to Amber Alerts before, but now <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-pizza-worker-takes-smoke-break-and-saves-kidnapped-child/ar-AAcV3VE" target="_blank">states</a> that she will definitely be on high alert the next time her phone signals a missing child.
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City Cuts All Ties With 5 Big Banks Over Corruption Charges

<a href="http://www.occupy.com/author/matt-stannard/" target="_blank">Matt Stannard</a> 
July 15, 2015
(<a href="http://www.occupy.com/" target="_blank">OCCUPY.COM</a>) It’s hard being a big private bank these days. Ongoing awareness of the <a href="http://wallstreetonparade.com/2015/06/goldman-sachs-doesnt-have-clean-hands-in-greece-crisis/" target="_blank">role that Goldman Sachs played in the Greek debt crisis</a>; that Greek voters <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jul/06/greek-feferendum-no-vote-why-young-people" target="_blank">said no</a> to Europe’s harsh austerity demands; <a href="http://rooseveltinstitute.org/policy-and-ideas/big-ideas/dirty-deals" target="_blank">recent revelations</a> of unreasonably high fees and interest rates for lending to municipalities, and the role of <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/material-responsibility-what-banks-did-baltimore">big banks in the Baltimore crisis</a> and <a href="http://www.occupy.com/article/detroits-bankruptcy-plan-adjustment-latest-giveaway-big-banks">Detroit bankruptcy</a> all suggest that irresponsible finance ruins millions of lives.
And then there are the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/business/dealbook/5-big-banks-to-pay-billions-and-plead-guilty-in-currency-and-interest-rate-cases.html?_r=0" target="_blank">six banks</a> that manipulated exchange rates between euros and dollars and manipulated LIBOR, which sets the “benchmark” for what banks charge one another.
In May, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS Group AG pled guilty to felonies. Swiss Bank had cooperated with authorities early on, and was ultimately not charged. The banks face collective fines of a little over $5 billion – paltry in relation to the money they handle and the money they manipulated. But while big banks continue to ruin communities and personal lives with light impunity, in some cases the people are fighting back.
Santa Cruz Stands Up
In California, Santa Cruz County Supervisor Ryan Coonery has written books on capitalism and is a founder of Next Space Coworking, a company specializing in shared workspace. He’s no revolutionary, nor an enemy of the free market. He doesn’t throw bricks. But when the U.S. Department of Justice announced on May 20 that most of the wrongdoer banks were pleading guilty to felonies, Coonery prioritized local over global, and working people over corporate profits.
Spurred by a growing interest among many in Santa Cruz for economic reform, Coonery <a href="http://sccounty01.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/BDS/Govstream2/Bdsvdata/non_legacy_2.0/agendas/2015/20150609-659/PDF/029-1.pdf" target="_blank">requested</a> that the board “not do new business for a period of five years with Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS as specified, and further direct that the County unwind existing relationships with these five banks to the greatest extent feasible.”
According to <a href="http://www.allgov.com/usa/ca/news/where-is-the-money-going/santa-cruz-county-slashes-business-with-five-big-felonious-banks-150707?news=856899%5D" target="_blank">commentator Ken Broder</a>, Coonery was specifically reacting to the way the banks had been found to have “messed with hundreds of billions of dollars a day in transactions for five years, right through the financial meltdown… The banks made untold billions using a private electronic chatroom to manipulate the spot market’s exchange rate between euros and dollars.”
From the beginning, the crux of the move was symbolic. “We currently don’t use these banks for our day to day banking and if that contract comes up in the next five years, these banks would be excluded from applying,” Coonery told me recently. Although Santa Cruz has purchased “commercial paper” (short-term unsecured promissory notes) from some of the banks, “the County Treasurer under this new policy will no longer do so,” he explained.
Local sustainable economic activity is important to Coonery, who said he’ll still scrutinize the banks even after the five-year ban ends. “I still have a preference to investing our funds locally,” he added.
“I sponsored a policy when I was the Mayor of Santa Cruz to have the City put its money in local financial institutions to spur the economy. However, if these banks have cleaned up their act and not committed more crimes, they can be considered for our investment pool again.”
Amanda Robinson, vice chair of the Santa Cruz County Democratic Party, was also instrumental in making the Supervisors’ decision happen. Once people started talking about it, she said, the community realized it was a no-brainer – and by passing the measure 5-0, Santa Cruz sent a clear message that the county is in control of its money.
“The Supervisors can make a strong point and show disapproval with our dollars,” she said. “We will no longer put up with unethical and illegal banking practices. I hope other cities and counties will follow our lead and remove their monies from banks that don’t benefit local communities.”
While Robinson is happy the decision has gotten <a href="http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-news/santa-cruz-local-news/6718-rebuild-the-art-banks-for-nothing.html" target="_blank">national publicity</a>, she believes the conversation shouldn’t end with the supervisors’ action. Like Coonery, she wants local investment.
“We are all aware of the benefits that investing with local banks can have for a community,” Robinson said, and “It would also be nice to see other ‘bad banks’ added to [the] list, i.e. Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Bank of America.”
The Power of Local Politics
Why not envision that? Supervisors play a uniquely powerful role in local affairs, and now they might be a cornerstone for the coming pushback by municipal governments against big banks. Supervisors aren’t bound by separation of powers concerns like those that characterize federal and state government. In <a href="http://www.counties.org/general-information/county-structure-0" target="_blank">California and elsewhere</a>, “the Board of Supervisors is both the legislative and the executive authority of the county. It also has quasi-judicial authorities.”
Combine that with a strong mandate from citizens and you have a county ready to fight. “I’m very lucky to represent a community that very much believes in standing up for what is right,” Coonery said, “even if it is against very powerful interests.” He has also read the <a href="http://rooseveltinstitute.org/policy-and-ideas/big-ideas/dirty-deals" target="_blank">reports</a> about banks’ unreasonably high service fees and interest rates that have sparked so much investigative interest of late – and says his eyes are now wide open. “I’ve just become aware of these efforts and am looking at what we can implement in Santa Cruz County,” he said.
In the meantime, banishing the banks is a small but important step. More important than the actual financial ripple caused by Santa Cruz’s decision might be what it’s able to show other municipalities considering similar action. Activists should learn about the power and structure of their counties’ supervisory boards. They have all the power except judicial power.
The enthusiasm propelling Santa Cruz reflects a broader realization: that firm local actions are part of a larger, growing vision to retake public control in a world that increasingly seems wholly colonized by capital. Mark Karlin of Buzzflash/Truthout <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/santa-cruz-county-won-t-do-business-with-big-banks-that-act-like-crooks" target="_blank">points out</a> that in the long-term, “the current banking system needs to be completely restructured…[and] the creation of public banks across the U.S., based on the model in North Dakota, is a more desirable long-term goal – but for the moment, governmental entities severing their ties to Wall Street would be a salutary step.”
Amanda Robinson agrees. “We have to start somewhere,” she said.
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Pope Calls on World Youth to Rise Up Against Global Capitalism

'Make a mess, but then also help to tidy it up,' Argentinian pontiff said in address to Paraguay youth
<a href="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pope.jpg"><img alt="pope" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-36070" height="219" src="http://cdn9.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pope-400x219.jpg" width="400" /></a>By:<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/author/lauren-mccauley-staff-writer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lauren McCauley,</a>
The latest call for a youth uprising against global capitalism came not from grassroots groups, but from the leader of the Catholic Church, who on Sunday gave a rousing speech during which he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HJ_ZI-o6G8">told</a> a crowd of young people in Paraguay that it is their time to “make a mess.”
The address marked the end of Pope Francis’ week-long pilgrimage to Latin America, during which he also <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/world/americas/in-fiery-speeches-francis-excoriates-global-capitalism.html">assailed</a> the prevailing economic system as the “dung of the devil,” saying that the systemic “greed for money” is a “subtle dictatorship” that “condemns and enslaves men and women.”
During Sunday’s rally, which was held on the banks of the Paraguay River outside the capital Asunción, the Argentinian pontiff went off-script as he addressed tens of thousands of local youth.
“They wrote a speech for me to give you. But speeches are boring,” Pope Francis said. “Make a mess, but then also help to tidy it up. A mess which gives us a free heart, a mess which gives us solidarity, a mess which gives us hope.”
He also encouraged those present to look at their less fortunate peers, some of whom he met earlier in the day during a visit to the Banado Norte shantytown, and spoke of the connection between authentic liberty and responsibility and the necessity of fighting for the right to lead a dignified life.
“We don’t want young weaklings. We do not want young people who tire quickly, who live life worn out with faces of boredom. We want youths with hope and strength,” Francis told the crowd.
Pope Francis’ South American visit comes just week after the release of his Papal Encyclical, which many hailed as a “radical statement,” in which he <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/06/18/climate-common-good-pope-francis-calls-justice-warming-planet">told</a> leaders of the Catholic Church that there is a moral imperative for addressing climate change.
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World’s First Hotel Staffed By Robots Opens In Japan

<a href="http://cdn9.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/japan-weird-hotel-robots.jpg"><img alt="japan-weird-hotel-robots" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-36059" height="225" src="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/japan-weird-hotel-robots-400x225.jpg" width="400" /></a>It was recently reported that the world’s first robot hotel has opened in Japan, and it even features a dinosaur robot as a receptionist.
The Henn na Hotel in Japan, translated to “The Weird Hotel” in English, opened for its first visitors this week. The hotel is located near the Huis Ten Bosch amusement park in Sasebo, in southwestern Japan.
Hideo Sawada, president of the hotel company responsible for the innovation, has said that he made the move to cut back on prices.
“I wanted to highlight innovation. I also wanted to do something about hotel prices going up,” he said.
Unfortunately though, he said that the robots cannot yet do everything that a human can do.
“They still can’t make beds,” he added.
The savings are passed along to the customer, who pays just 9,000 yen ($73) for the average room. The most expensive room in the hotel reportedly costs just 14,000 yen ($113).
Some critics may argue that robots take away jobs from humans, but this traditional narrative has never actually been proven, it is merely an assumption that has become generally accepted. In the past, technology that has replaced working humans has not actually diminished the amount of jobs available for humans, it has merely pushed the industry and the workforce in a different direction. For example, plows, tractors and other farming equipment is responsible for the fact that there are fewer farmers today than there were hundreds of years ago, however, new jobs were created by that technology that people in the past would have never dreamed were possible. There will always be ways for humans to provide value for one another, even if robots are hired to complete all of the menial tasks that people can do, there will still be a need for goods and services, and there will still be a marketplace for humans to interact on that level.
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Australian Government Sets Up New Agency To Kill 2 Million Cats

<a href="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cat.jpg"><img alt="cat" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-36051" height="300" src="http://cdn10.trueactivist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cat-400x300.jpg" width="400" /></a>Austrailian Environment Minister Greg Hunt said this week that the government plans to kill at least two million feral cats. The minister says that the extermination is an attempt to save local wildlife that are threatened by the cats.
<a href="http://www.news24.com/Green/News/2-million-feral-cats-to-be-killed-in-Australia-20150716">The announcement was made at a wildlife summit in Melbourne</a>, where Hunt said that they will be launching the Threatened Species Strategy, a program that will divert $4.8 million towards the extermination of wild cats.
“By 2020, I want to see two million feral cats culled, five new islands and 10 new mainland areas as safe havens, free of feral cats, and control measures applied across 10 million hectares,” Hunt said.
Hunt appointed Gregory Andrews as the Threatened Species Commissioner, who will oversee the trapping and killing of the cats.
“We don’t hate cats. We just can’t tolerate the damage that they’re doing to our wildlife,” Andrews said.
<a href="http://www.trueactivist.com/australian-government-admits-that-they-killed-hundreds-of-koalas/">Earlier this year we reported</a> that Australia’s western Victoria Environment Minister Lisa Neville recently admitted that the state killed as many as 700 Koalas, in an attempt to control their population.
The killings took place during the years of 2013 and 2014 at the hands of wildlife officials. Neville told reporters that the koala population is “a very challenging and complex issue” and added that the killings were “humane and effective”.
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