August

A musical history of Britain's ConDemolition.
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Based on The Verve's classic number one single, "The Drugs Don't Work"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToQ0n3itoII
Backing track: the Ameritz Karaoke band
Video editing and vocals: Jack Morgan
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Take action against austerity:
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March in London, October 20:
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Russell Brand and Peter Hitchens debate the treatment of drug addicts on Newsnight August 2012

General Martin Dempsey has voiced his opposition to Israel taking unilateral military action in Iran, so why are top military leaders using caution when it comes to military action in Iran while politicians are advocating hard-line military intervention? RT's Liz Wahl has the details.

Yael Berda's new book The Bureaucracy of Occupation sheds light on
Israel's more invisible control over the Palestinians. For more www.therealnews.com

30 minute sneak preview of the creative nonfiction film with real footage of "UFOs"

Military UFO Files Lecture at the National Atomic Testing Museum

The 99ers appeared out of nowhere to protest Tampa's Republican National Convention and spoil Mitt Romney's party. OWS Week has had a busy seven days also covering Occupy the Midwest Conference in Detroit with the theme "another world is possible" and Women's equality day in the big apple. OWS Week also took a trip across the land to shed light on LAPD Oppression and Harassment of Homeless and Occupiers.

There has been a new twist in student protests against tuition hikes in Quebec, Canada. Last spring, thousands of students took to the streets of Montreal demanding a change to the policy. Recently things got chaotic in Quebec, with police pepper-spraying the crowd and students flooding the streets. RT will keep you updated on the matter.

A tropical storm forced the Republican National Convention to be postponed, but thousands of protesters didn't let a little rain stop them from rallying in Tampa, Florida Monday morning to voice their grievances against the GOP.
Demonstrators from across the country gathered in downtown Tampa early Monday , where they then marched around the city's streets chanting messages for the Republican Party.
GOP leaders will convene later this week at the convention, where they are expected to formally nominate Mitt Romney to challenge incumbent Barack Obama during November's presidential election.

"Hundreds of pages of confidential internal documents from the private equity firm Bain Capital published online Thursday provided new details on investments held by the Romney family's trusts, as well as aggressive strategies that Bain appears to have used to minimize its investors' and partners' tax liabilities...".* Cenk Uygur and comedian Jimmy Dore discuss on The Young Turks.

*Read more from NICHOLAS CONFESSORE, FLOYD NORRIS and JULIE CRESWELL in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/politics/documents-show-details-on-romne...

It's 'crunch time' for Greece right now - the German leader and French president are working out whether to grant Athens the 'breathing space' it says it needs to sort its finances out.

The country's been relying on international loans for over two years, but is struggling to meet its bailout conditions.

Meanwhile, Chancellor Merkel's allies in Berlin say 'a Greek exit wouldn't have a 'great impact' on the Eurozone'.

Investment advisor Patrick Young says, whether on not Greece is provided with more time, there's no chance it'll manage to get its economy back on track within the Eurozone.

August 17, 2012 CBC News
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DemocracyNow.org - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing new scrutiny over revelations he founded the private equity firm Bain Capital with investments from Central American elites linked to death squads in El Salvador. After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain's start-up money. Some investors had extensive ties to the death squads responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands of deaths in El Salvador during the 1980s.

We're joined by Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim, who connects the dots in his latest story, "Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads." "There's no possible way that anybody in 1984 could check out these families -- which was the term that [Romney's campaign] used -- and come away convinced that this money was clean," Grim says.

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