[LAAMN] Visible Resistance: Civil Rights Photographs
Change always occurs in our Political system. Are you a changer, or are you simply one who will go along with who ever had the power to take more of what you have and give you less in return for your daily efforts? 4 Men sat at a counter, didn't even seem radical to me, it seemed dangerous, even though I was raised in a color blind racist society (we were all basically Christians from the British Isles by heritage) Scott Visible Resistance: Civil Rights Photographs [ http://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2012/02/visible-resistance-civil-rights-photographs/ ] 02/01/2012 02:17 PM EST On February 1, 1960, four young men sat down at the Woolworthâs lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and ordered coffee and doughnuts. More than fifty years later, this may not seem like a daring act, but it was. First the waitress and then the store manager explained that the lunch counter was reserved for [...]  Library of Congress This service is provided by the Library of Congress at www.LOC.gov [ http://www.loc.gov ]. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] To My Old Master (from a man previously a slave) Priceless!!!]
To all us wage slaves, I think Jourdan puts this in very fine words, how we are treated, and how justice only applies to those who have the money to get it. Scott This letter is priceless, simply priceless. In other words, the old massa wants to reenslave the writer of this letter. William A. Franklin Burlington, NC 27215 http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html Monday, 30 January 2012 To My Old http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/to-my-old-master.html Master http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7150/6791211435_1259d0af67_o.jpg In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan - who, since being http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family - responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6790780585_466117fe88_o.jpg newspapers at the time, he dictated). Rather than quote the numerous highlights in this letter, I'll simply leave you to enjoy it. Do make sure you read to the end. (Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38479/38479-h/38479-h.htm#Page_265 The Freedmen's Book; Image: A group of escaped slaves in Virginia in 1862, courtesy of the http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/cwp200355/PP/ Library of Congress.) Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P.H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter, and was glad to find that you had not forgotten Jourdon, and that you wanted me to come back and live with you again, promising to do better for me than anybody else can. I have often felt uneasy about you. I thought the Yankees would have hung you long before this, for harboring Rebs they found at your house. I suppose they never heard about your going to Colonel Martin's to kill the Union soldier that was left by his company in their stable. Although you shot at me twice before I left you, I did not want to hear of your being hurt, and am glad you are still living. It would do me good to go back to the dear old home again, and see Miss Mary and Miss Martha and Allen, Esther, Green, and Lee. Give my love to them all, and tell them I hope we will meet in the better world, if not in this. I would have gone back to see you all when I was working in the Nashville Hospital, but one of the neighbors told me that Henry intended to shoot me if he ever got a chance. I want to know particularly what the good chance is you propose to give me. I am doing tolerably well here. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,-the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,-and the children-Milly, Jane, and Grundy-go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, Them colored people were slaves down in Tennessee. The children feel hurt when they hear such remarks; but I tell them it was no disgrace in Tennessee to belong to Colonel Anderson. Many darkeys would have been proud, as I used to be, to call you master. Now if you will write and say what wages you will give me, I will be better able to decide whether it would be to my advantage to move back again. As to my freedom, which you say I can have, there is nothing to be gained on that score, as I got my free papers in 1864 from the Provost-Marshal-General of the Department of Nashville. Mandy says she would be afraid to go back without some proof that you were disposed to treat us justly and kindly; and we have concluded to test your sincerity by asking you to send us our wages for the time we served you. This will make us forget and forgive old scores, and rely on your justice and friendship in the future. I served you faithfully for thirty-two years, and Mandy twenty years. At twenty-five dollars a month for me, and two dollars a week for Mandy, our earnings would amount to eleven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Add to this the interest for the time our wages have been kept back, and deduct what you paid for our clothing, and three doctor's visits to me, and pulling a tooth for Mandy, and the balance will show what we are in justice entitled to. Please send the money by Adams's Express, in care of V. Winters, Esq., Dayton, Ohio. If you fail to pay us for faithful labors in the past, we can have little faith in your promises in the future. We trust the good Maker has opened your eyes to the wrongs which you and your fathers have done to me and my fathers, in making us toil for you for generations without recompense. Here I draw my wages every Saturday night; but in Tennessee there was never any pay-day for the negroes any more than for the horses and cows. Surely there will be a day of reckoning for those who
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 29 January, 2012
*OCCUPY LUV NEWS * ** *Lots of Occupy news this morning, and we start with Occupy DC http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/police-threaten-two-dc-occupy-encampment, because of its symbolism in representing the movement in the nation's capitol. Today there will be a protest at the White House about Park Police plans to ban tents tomorrow, with participants making it clear We aren't leaving. We are endorsing, at /LUV News/, that people peaceably assemble tomorrow at noon at Freedom Plaza, 13th and Pennsylvania, a block from the main Metro Station downtown Washington DC, and we will be there (/LUV News/ tomorrow morning may be abbreviated as we will be on the road much of the day). Occupy Oakland erupted yesterday as thousands of activists attempted to take over abandoned buildings opposed by Oakland police, with over 300 arrests (/al Jazeera/ http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/01/201212965453169669.html). Occupy Japan is defying an order http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/28-0 to abandon their tent encampment opposing nuclear power. Occupy the Super Bowl has begun, as activists marched in Indianapolis http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/28/occupy-super-bowl-2012-protest-indianapolis-village-union_n_1239214.html yesterday, with more protests planned before this massively televised event takes place next Sunday. We are very impressed with how well-organized occupy groups are in Indiana (and just about every other state, and many nations). And the topless Ukrainian women of FEMEN have traveled over the mountains to Davos for a protest at the World Economic Forum http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/28, carrying signs reading Gangster's Party in Davos, Poor Because of You, and Crisis Made in Davos, drawing attention to this meeting of the most powerful interests on the planet. When protests against the invasion of Iraq by millions were ignored by the mass media, topless women found they could get attention for it, this one always works. * ** *BUSH LIED TO FBI DIRECTOR ABOUT WARRENTLESS SURVEILLANCE * ** *Markus Baram has a piece this morning http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/bush-lied-to-fbi-director_n_1237262.html about our last president lying to his FBI Director about warrentless surveillance he was conducting. There will be no investigation, as the Obama regime has increased Bush surveillance measures and has been willing to cover up all criminal activity of this predecessor, like human rights violations and war crimes for which any of us peasants would be imprisoned for life, if not executed. Bush continues to run loose in our streets-- don't hold your breath on this one. * ** ** ** ** **As a guest on an alternative radio program Friday, I was asked about things corporate media will not allow, and I responded that the mass media does not allow the defense budget to be questioned, or the wars (among other things) in any meaningful way. I pointed out that I'd seen an opinion poll during the 1980's, at the height of the Cold War, showing that most Americans wanted defense spending cut. We've linked to polls showing that Americans today want the wars stopped and the troops brought home. But how many peace activists do you see on television news, which claims to give both sides. The two sides never include the public interest side-- what the American people want. If such opinions were allowed in mass media, a consensus would soon appear for shutting down the wars and cutting the defense budget down to, well, actual defense, perhaps without the multimillion dollar salaries of Nuclear Mafia http://luvnews.info/Mafia.htm corporate executives and the billions in profits. We might shut down our thousand military bases abroad, for which there is little support by the American people, and they have nothing to do with our defense (they actually defend transnational corporations that evade paying taxes here and don't give a damn about the American people or the nation, though they often wave the American flag for effect as they stuff the pockets of politicians with campaign bribes). Keeping the American people in the dark about these issues is vital to the efforts of our ruling Forces of Greed http://luvnews.info/FOG.htm to wage perpetual war, which keeps them rolling in profits --Jack ** *US Plans for Perpetual War http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/28-6 * * * *by Renee Parsons /author/renee-parsons* *As an attack on Iran remains temporarily on the backburner and Syria, home to US-identified terrorist group Hamas, moves up the queue as the next target for military intervention, both are part of a larger strategy proposed to newly-elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996.* *The Clean Break: A New Strategy for
[LAAMN] I Forgot to Mention the Hit Man
The Columbus Day Parade. Cleveland, 1978. Yesterday, I told you how Dennis Kucinich single-handedly saved Cleveland?s public utility from a takeover by the banks. Even though it cost him a job he loved, being Mayor of Cleveland. But I neglected to mention that Dennis?s courage could have cost him more than his job. It almost cost him his life. When Dennis Kucinich refused to turn over Cleveland Public Power to the One Percent, they decided to kill Dennis. Not kill Dennis?s political career. Kill Dennis. You don?t have to take my word for it. You can read the chilling account in the Cleveland Free Times cover story, which includes quotes from the police interview with the hit man. The plan was to shoot Dennis in the head, during the Columbus Day Parade. The Cleveland Cosa Nostra brought in a professional hit man from Maryland to do the hit. The hit man bought an untraceable rifle, and came to Cleveland. Why didn?t the hit man kill Dennis? Because on Columbus Day, an ulcer in Dennis?s stomach burst. Dennis spent that day in the hospital, not in the parade. Or the morgue. The hit man then staked out Tony?s Diner, an old rail car converted into a greasy spoon restaurant, on the corner of Lorain Avenue and West 117th. Dennis liked to eat breakfast there. But then the banks found that they could force the City of Cleveland into bankruptcy, and force Dennis Kucinich out of office. So the hit was called off. (By the way, of the thousands of people who have served as mayor in the United States, only three have been assassinated. Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago, the hero of the Haymarket Riots, was killed by a disgruntled office seeker. Mayor Anton Cermak, also of Chicago, was killed by a bullet intended for FDR. And, as you may recall, San Francisco Supervisor Dan White killed Mayor George Moscone, and Harvey Milk.) In order to save Cleveland?s municipal power company, Dennis Kucinich stuck his neck out so far that the banks and the Mafia tried to kill him. For the people of Cleveland, Dennis put his life on the line. If the One Percent is so angry at you that they want to take you out, and they?re willing to enlist the Mafia to do it, then you are doing one heckuva good job for The People. So I?m asking you again, as I did yesterday. Please do whatever you can do to help Dennis Kucinich, before the absentee ballots get mailed out in his district next Tuesday. And click here to do it. Because Dennis Kucinich is a hero. A real-life hero. Courage, Alan Grayson Paid for and Authorized by the Committee to Elect Alan Grayson 8419 Oak Park Road, Orlando, FL 32819 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Dont Get Angry, Get Even]
I received this from Professor Acuna of the California State University of Northridge (CSUN), and with his permission am forwarding it along. I feel this is a well written bit on the dumbing down of America which results in more profit for the elite of the world. Those uneducated that don't support the prison industry, can support the perpetual war, international banking system, and people with a good education and good jobs rarely do that, unless that is who pays them. This really applies to all of us, not simply one community, as the war against education isn't simply against a single race, and it never has been. Scott Rough Draft Dont Get Angry, Get Even When Do You Start Counting By Rodolfo F. Acuña When the great Muhammad Ali was asked how many sit ups he did, he responded, I dont count my sit-ups, I only start counting when it starts hurting, that is when I start counting, because then it really counts, thats what makes you a champion. These words resonate in Tucson where Latina/o students are fighting for an education by sitting-in in the office of Tucson Unified School District Superintendent of Schools John Pedicone, walking out of classes, demonstrating, and taking to the streets. Students are dispelling the myth that Mexican Americans do not care about education; they have started counting because it hurts. They know the difference between being warehoused, sitting through classes where teachers go through the motions. They know when the subject matter is relevant; and the teachers believe in what they are teaching. At my own campus at California State University Northridge students are mobilizing. Up until now, a small minority protested the rising cost of tuition, which now tops $5,550 a year, promising to climb another 30 percent next year. Because of the lack of accessibility to education, they are growing disillusioned with our system of government. They dont believe the promises of President Barack Obama State of the Union. Desperate, many students are dropping out of school. The straw that broke the proverbial camels back occurred this week. CSU Chancellor Charles Reed issued a threat to all state campuses that any institution that exceeded its target enrollment by more than three percent would be docked $7 million. The CSUN administration panicked and froze classes, not allowing needy students to enroll in classes, even when professors agreed to take them as an overload. The result has been pandemonium. Many students are unable to get the requisite 12 units for financial and other scholarship aid. This action takes money out needy students pockets; the tuition for 12 units and 19 units is the same. Graduation will be deferred by a couple of years. For administrators earning $120,000 - $350,000 annually it is no big deal. But for poor and middle-class students it is a big deal. The freeze has forced many students to start counting. It has dawned on them that they are being shut out of what the Tucson students are fighting for, a college education. Conservatives have always maintained that everyone has an equal opportunity; tragically many poor people believed that the myth. However, this fairytale is being debunked by what is happening in Californias community colleges. Once a safety net where students could attend college almost tuition free and could live close to home and work, this is no longer the case. Although the fees are still affordable at the two year colleges, the campuses have been flooded consequent to the pushdown of students who qualify for the University of California and the California State University systems but cant afford it. Consequently, the problem for community colleges is not so much tuition but the flood of students that have drowned them. Filled beyond capacity their infra-structures have been inundated, and even when students are matriculated they face the impossible task of getting classes. This situation promises to worsen as the UC resorts to the vigorous recruiting of wealthy foreign and out of state students who are displacing residents. If by this time, we are not counting, we should be because the hurt will worsen. The challenge for students is to develop a strategy. It is not going to do us any good to say I told you so or to get angry. We have to get even. The reason the system will continue as if the crash never happened is because we did not get even. Very few people have gone to jail, and the gaggle of thieves on Wall Street and government were not stigmatized. Talk about class warfare, society differentiates between white and blue collar crime. Pure and simple, we are complicit and let the big ones get away. In Tucson, the rich benefit directly from the destruction of the Mexican American Studies program. Brutalizing immigrants and Latino students is part of the grand strategy to keep Mexicans in their place. The assassination of nine-year old Brisenia Flores in
[LAAMN] October 2011 movement, Police Crackdown
I found the included web site address really informative, and more educating them many of the occupy articles I've read recently. Scott *Police may try to crackdown at Freedom Plaza at noon on Monday * * http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/police-threaten-two-dc-occupy-encampment* *This is a call to action for people to assemble there. If you live in Virginia, Maryland, SE Pennsylvania, Delaware, or further out and still might be able to make it, you would be welcome. We are asking you just to stand there and become part of a crowd big enough to persuade police to back off. We will not participate in violence and don't ask people to take risks.* *This group will be updated on Sunday to call it off if it can be resolved before then, so this is just a heads up for people who can to make plans and reserve a little time.* *Personally, the camps are just symbols, but they do keep the establishment tied up in figuring ways to confront them, which gives police something to do to avoid knocking down our doors, confiscating our stuff and that sort of thing which will probably start happening if they eliminate the Occupy camps, since the establishment appears to be in fear of a potential outbreak of democracy. * *Jack * --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Quotes from ICH
The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors Plutarch - Historian of the Roman Republic The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite. : Thomas Jefferson None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - (1749-1832) To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.: Frederick Douglass - [Frederick Baily] (1818-1895), escaped slave, Abolitionist, author, editor of the North Star and later the New National Era --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Book Review of Project Censored's Censored 2012 volume, by Paul W. Rea.]
A SOURCEBOOK FOR THE MEDIA REVOLUTION- Book Review of Project Censored's Censored 2012 volume, by Paul W. Rea. Huff, Mickey and Project Censored, Eds. Censored 2012: Sourcebook for the Media Revolution. New York: Seven Stories Press, October 2011. $19.95. For ordering details: ProjectCensored.org Even more than its predecessors, Censored 2012 makes for highly engaging and informative reading. This collection is a well mixed bag containing much that we need to know but typically dont. In part, this deficit occurs because many Americans are, in Neil Postmans memorable phrase, amusing ourselves to death and also because many exhibit an aversion to discussing issues. But above all this deficit results from increased media malpractice and censorship. When a study shows that regular viewers of Fox News are less informed and likely more misinformedthan those who dont follow the news, something is seriously amiss. According to the project director Mickey Huff, the corporate media are serving up a diet of junk-food news to avoid telling the public what is really going on at home and abroad (p. 12). If this strikes many readers as obvious, fewer seem fully aware of just how pervasive this censorship has becomehow very little coverage many significant issues receive. As a result, even Americans who consider themselves informed dont understand how their government attempts to minimize or even eliminate public awareness. On the climactic final day of the Durban Conference on Climate Change, NPRs Science Friday featured a long segment on bedbugs (12/9/11). Censored 2012 reveals that even less coveragenone at all, in factis afforded to ongoing federal preparations to use a (real or contrived) state of emergency as a pretext to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, and herd dissidents into mass holding camps (p. 85). Both the book and the process that produces it are highly educational: as former director Peter Phillips observes, the democratized and educational nature of Project Censored invites faculty and students to speak the truth to power with news and stories of the abuses of empire and the successes of our resistance (p. 30). Under the guidance of present director Mickey Huff, this years volume delivers exceptional contributions, especially from students and faculty at San Francisco State University, Sonoma State University, and Diablo Valley College in California. In all, close to twenty universities participated this year, with over 100 professors and several hundred students. As in previous volumes, this one includes the twenty-five Top Censored Stories of the year. Topping this years list is More US Soldiers Committed Suicide than Died in Combat; the shocking significance, however, hardly declines at the other end: the massive disposal of toxic waste in Afghanistan and the use of depleted uranium weapons in Iraq, Afghanistan, and possibly Libya (pp. 52-53). Since the early 1990s, the US press has paid some attention to Gulf War Syndrome among American veterans exposed to the toxic soup but much less attention to the medical fallout within Iraq, where the population lives amid carcinogenic radioactivity. This years volume is organized around clusters, key areas of related issues. These include Health and the Environment, Media Distortion of Nonviolent Struggles, and Peter Phillips and Craig Cekalas Human Cost of War and Violence; all present readable, concise treatments of topics that are, of course, the subjects of many current books. As its title suggests, Censored 2012 features two essential topics: the mechanisms of media censorship and the key issues theyve censored. Censorship, defined as one type of propaganda, itself takes many forms: skewed framing, slight of content, and appealing to emotion over logic, among other tactics of media manipulation . . . . These methods involve de facto conspiracies to manipulate or withhold information (p. 37). Canadian scholar Randal Marlin presents an excellent overview of traditional propaganda techniques, including the more recent (and most useful) concept of State Crimes Against Democracy, or SCADs. Equally insightful is Jacob Van Vleets reprise of French sociologist Jacques Ellul (The Technological Society, 1964). In it, Prof. Van Vleet notes that propagandists often use a combination of true and false statements in their appeals, thereby creating the illusion of objectivity when in fact only one side of the issue at hand is being presented. In addition, Van Vleet indicates that much propaganda is social, aiming to influence a societys lifestyle. Such propaganda, often in the form of advertising, not only promotes consumption and an uncritical belief in technology; it also encourages individuals to believe that their society . . . holds the best way of life. This leads to what Marx described as false consciousness. Van Vleet also rightly points to Conditioned Reflex and Myth, paying
[LAAMN] Israel says ... Iran isn't building a nuclear weapon - CSMonitor.com] [1 Attachment]]
http://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/print/content/view/print/452210 By Dan Murphy, Staff writer posted January 19, 2012 at 11:57 am EST The war drums on Iran continue to beat onward. Hawkish editorials and opinion pieces adopt the style and content of articles from a decade ago, in which a Middle Eastern country run by a madman was on the brink of obtaining weapons of mass destruction weapons that would almost certainly be used to threaten the security of the world. The older articles were about Iraq and the weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein almost certainly had (except he didn't). The current crop are about Iran. Front and center is an op-ed by Mark Helprin in the Wall Street Journal yesterday titled The mortal threat from Iran. He writes that the primitive religious fanatics who rule Iran don't think rationally about their own nation's interests, and that, absent a US attack soon, Iran will get nuclear weapons, which in its eyes are an existential necessity. Mr. Helprin, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute in California, even echoes Condoleezza Rice's January 2003 warning that the smoking gun of an Iraqi nuclear program could be a mushroom cloud. He writes: We cannot dismiss the possibility of Iranian nuclear charges of 500 pounds or less ending up in Manhattan or on Pennsylvania Avenue. RELATED: Iran nuclear program: 5 key sites To be sure, Iraq and Iran are not the same; Iran is indeed enriching uranium, a key component of a nuclear weapon. But the fear-mongering sounds the same. What today's arguments about Iran ignore, however much as the arguments in favor of the Iraq war ignored was the position of the US intelligence community that Iran is not currently building a nuclear weapon. The US position appears to be that Iran is seeking the ability to build a weapon, without actually taking that final step. Two weekends ago, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said: Are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon? No. But we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability and that's what concerns us and our red line to Iran is: Do not develop a nuclear weapon. And it's not just the US assessment. Israel's liberal newspaper Haaretz reported yesterday that Iran has not yet decided whether to make a nuclear bomb, according to the intelligence assessment Israeli officials will present later this week to [visiting] Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak poured cold water on speculation that his country is planning a unilateral attack against Iran. This entire thing is very far off. I dont want to provide estimates [but] its certainly not urgent, he said. To be sure, there are concerns. US, European, and Israeli officials suspect that Iran is concealing much of its nuclear work, which it insists is for peaceful purposes only, and that weapons-related work that they don't know about could be taking place. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, told the Financial Times' German edition yesterday: What we know suggests the development of nuclear weapons, according to a Reuters translation. War with Iran? A briefing. But the flow of recent statements has been mostly in the opposite direction. Concern? Yes. Redoubled efforts to use sanctions to force more light onto Iran's nuclear activities? Yes, absolutely. Hair-on-fire panic? No. The tone from private-sector analysts is something else, however. One of the latest examples is from Jamie M. Fly and Gary Schmitt, writing in Foreign Affairs. They even quote former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's line about known unknowns, (that is, things that Saddam Hussein might be hiding) being a cause to consider going to war with Iraq in February 2002. They write that in the case of Iran, the known unknowns are troubling, and go on to outline a case for a broad US war to bring down the Islamic Republic. Having asserted that US airstrikes targeting Iran's nuclear sites would probably fail in ending the program, they write: Given the likely fallout from even a limited military strike, the question the United States should ask itself is, Why not take the next step? After all, Iran's nuclear program is a symptom of a larger illness the revolutionary fundamentalist regime in Tehran. They then suggest that a broad US air campaign against Iran would be popular with Iranians. It is sometimes said that a strike would lead the population to rally around the regime. In fact, given the unpopularity of the government, it seems more likely that the population would see the regime's inability to forestall the attacks as evidence that the emperor has no clothes and is leading the country into needlessly desperate straits. If anything, Iranian nationalism and pride would stoke even more anger at the current regime. That flies in the face of Iranian history and what most Iranians including members of the Green Movement say about how the population
[LAAMN] A Simple, Overlooked Reason SOPA and PIPA Have Appeared, Like a Cancer]
A Simple, Overlooked Reason SOPA and PIPA Have Appeared, Like a Cancer By anonymous anonymous this anonymous posting has a lot of wisdom. There is a very simple, and we think overlooked, reason why the abominations of SOPA and PIPA have appeared like cancerous growths in the House and Senate, and it has more to do than just censoring the internet. It goes deeper than that. It hits a nerve. The very idea of a bottom-up, people driven internet clashes violently with the ideological and political worldview that surveillance should only exist in one direction: From the top down. You see we've overlooked what it really means in terms of discomfort and career risk to those who normally bask and benefit from the art of statecraft. You see, the ordinary, unwashed masses - that would be you and me - are in possession of one of the most powerful forces the earth has ever seen. And you have learned to use it in a way that is indeed alarming. Ordinary people, with little or no political knowledge or even education, are using it to keep their elected employees under surveillance 24 hours a day seven days a week - like real hiring managers should. You see, you're all figuring out that your computer desk at home is now headquarters - it's now the head office - and your acting like the boss, and these employees don't like it one bit. You're calling them out for having a business on the side. For taking long lunches with your competitors. For using the company car and copy machine for their personal use without telling you. For improper conduct that would violate any employee ethics manual. For noticing that they exempt themselves from it, but not you, the boss. In other words you are finally (as the founders intended, and would be ecstatic to see) holding your elected Federal and State employees accountable beyond their wildest imagination. You're watching the help like any good supervisor, manager or owner would and THEY DON'T LIKE IT. Why? You're tirelessly performing hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reviews. You are writing them letters of praise or reprimand. You are sending them the equivalent of performance improvement plans (improve or remove coaching letters). You are expressing your anger or disappointment for lying to you during presentations (i.e., debates on the floor of the House or Senate, during interviews with the press, or during campaign speeches) since you're able to compare a report they delivered a year ago, or a month ago to one they gave today. And even post a clip of them lying that they cannot deny or hide from. You're catching them lying on or padding their expense reports or catching them investing or accepting rewards or favors where it's a conflict of interest to you personally as the real CEO of this country. You have harnessed a resource at your fingertips -Google alone processes 24 petabytes of data alone per day - that you can use to micromanage them, in a way that they prefer to use instead to micro-manage you. In other words, you are doing things that they prefer to DO TO YOU INSTEAD, AND TO YOU ONLY, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. SOPA and PIPA have been introduced (along with other abominable legislation of late) to keep you and the Constitution of the United States from activating at a level that they will never be able to suppress unless they act now. A tipping point in what they believe is the wrong direction is at hand. A tipping point that could restore the Republic to its original Constitutional form and end a 100 year reign of the kleptocracy. You and your use of the internet have inadvertently leveraged an 18th century Constitution, a Bill of Rights, the Privileges and Immunities clause, and powers reserved to the States or the people themselves, and raised them all to an unprecedented, almost astronomical power. You have accidentally taken the rights and powers in these old parchment documents all to a level several orders of magnitude above the most basic objections against the divine rights of kings and despots that were so eloquently expressed, even in the Declaration of Independence, to a dizzying height never thought possible by the Founders. You have arranged yourselves in direct competition to them, into virtual Senates, virtual Houses of Representatives, virtual Judiciaries, and virtual Inspectors General's, all in a manner that redefines what consent of the governed will mean from now on. You can all now deliberate every decision, every move, every dollar, every law, beyond the mere vehicle of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech. You have arranged yourselves into a neural net, or brain of the actual Republic, as originally intended. but never foreseen. And it is from that height, that the internet has allowed the US Constitution and you as the owner to, almost without being fully aware of it, to decimate the worldview -the philosophy of empire - that to this day would prefer that the nuisance of the cult
[LAAMN] [Fwd: [libertyunderground] Today's LUV News: 20 January, 2012]
Original Message Subject: [libertyunderground] Today's LUV News: 20 January, 2012 From:LUV jackdot...@cox.net Date:Fri, 20 January, 2012 5:05 am To: libertyundergro...@yahoogroups.com -- *OCCUPY THE COURTS * ** *Today, in more than a hundred cities across the land, protests will take place at courthouses http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/20/occupy-wall-street-courthouses_n_1218196.html#liveblog to oppose the Supreme Court ruling that corporations are people and have a right to bribe candidates http://luvnews.info/Bribes.htm in our elections. Real people have limits to what they may contribute toward campaigns, but corporations are, under the current interpretation, super people with few such limitations. There will be an action at the Supreme Court building and we expect arrests, since that happened the last time there was such a protest, with Cornell West, among others, being arrested for carrying a sign (the First Amendment, apparently, does not apply at the Supreme Court building). Click here https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212543303386647618890.0004b3214495abde956d0msa=0 for an action in your neck of the woods. We cannot speak for all Occupy groups, but it does appear that most, if not all, are going to participate in this action today and we at /LUV News/, heartily endorse it. * ** *PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SHENANIGANS * ** *Hypocrisy in the presidential campaign is at a frenzied level, with family values candidate Newt Gingrich accusing the liberal media of unfairness by pointing out his ex wife's claim http://www.salon.com/2012/01/20/the_power_of_conservative_victimhood/singleton/ that, when wed to her, he demanded that she allow him to have a mistress, current wife Callista. This is becoming a common response for Republican candidates, as Herman Cain made the same claim when numerous women accused him of sexual harassment, that it was all the fault of the liberal media, and it appears to work among the religious fanatics and corporate sycophants who make up the Republican primary electorate, as Gingrich and Cain got massive applause for this diversion. When asked what he will do for the 99% if elected, Republican front-runner Mitt Romney came up with a bizarre response as though the Occupy Movement person asking the question was out of line, drifting off to this is a great country without responding to the question (video http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/19-5). Nobody in our free press, as corporate media call it, would think of asking such a potentially revealing question as this, as candidates take boatloads of bribes from transnational investors and corporations that don't give a damn about what happens to this country. Thomas Schaller has a good piece this morning http://www.salon.com/2012/01/19/the_obillionaire_candidate/singleton/ on President Obama's chances of raking in over a billion dollars for his own reelection campaign, as the ruling Forces of Greed http://luvnews.info/FOG.htm tighten their grip on government ownership. * ** ** ** ** **The Democrats line up mainstream environmentalists to vote for them by spewing rhetoric that they support the environment, while selling it out in ways that Republicans only dream of doing. Bill Clinton put Al Gore in charge whenever he wanted to put the screws to the environment, with the entire corporate media blasting that Gore is an environmentalist, to enable the scam. It was Gore as V.P. who was the point man on the salvage rider project that razed far more of our national forests than Reagan/Bush had destroyed. It was Gore who debated for NAFTA, destroying any clout of environmental laws into the future, as they are challenged and undermined one by one (Clinton had a Democratic Party majority in both houses of Congress, and had to twist a lot of arms to get them to vote with Republicans for a majority to pass it, with the majority of Democrats in opposition). Gore himself, when asked why his environmental record in Congress was so terrible, said the people of Tennessee expected him to vote that way. Apparently they were not excited enough about his sellout of the environment to elect him president, he'd have beat Bush in 2000 had he won his home state. President Obama, like Clinton/Gore, sounds wonderful when he talks about the environment. That is always the scam, and it always works with the mainstream environmental groups. They never watch what Democrats do, just what they say. Knowing this, Obama has authorized far more oil drilling than Bush dreamed of doing, authorized several commercial clean coal demonstration projects, authorized funding for
[LAAMN] The Great Pipeline Scam: When Will Environmentalists Wake Up?]
He who dares not offend cannot be honest - Thomas Paine Oh, we just love a good magic show, every 2/4 years, dob't we, Listen to the sound bytes! Admire the practiced fluent misdirection which they've worked hard on to be able to hold our interests and keep our attentions directed only where they want it directed! Follow what they are telling us, but even when the deceit is paraded right in front of us, so many not only miss it, but refuse to believe in anything other then in this 'magic'. It is amazing how many politicians are both environmentalists and protectors of Americans freedoms, 10 months out of a 4-6 year term. What is more amazing is they get re-elected. Scott -- When Will Environmentalists Ever Wake Up? The Great Pipeline Scam by MICHAEL LEONARDI In another ridiculous moment of political trickery, Obama managed to dupe a major chunk of the American environmental movement yesterday by refusing to authorize the construction of the Keystone Pipeline now. The keyword in that sentence which seems like it is being largely ignored by the enviros is now, because what Obama did do is leave open the possibility of authorizing the construction of a pipeline any time in the future, say just after the election? And not that it matters much, as pipeline or not Tar Sands are already being refined all across the United States in increasing amounts. This great victory being celebrated by 350.org, Bill Mckibben and the no carbon crusaders out there is a complete farce to manipulate voters as we head into the latest corporate sponsored election. Why is it so hard for seemingly good and well intentioned people to see the reality in front of them? Climate change will not be reversed by temporarily stopping this pipeline and Tar Sands are still moving forward full steam ahead. The Petrolarchs will get their Tar Sands Oil to market anyway they can pipeline or not. As was widely reported in the mainstream media, the state department made sure to leave the door open for Trans Canada to go ahead with another proposal for the construction of the pipeline. Trans Canada says they are preparing to start construction on schedule, knowing full well that this is already a done deal. Is it Obamaâs nurturing language that fools them? âThe rushed and arbitrary deadline insisted on by Congressional Republicans prevented a full assessment of the pipelineâs impact, especially the health and safety of the American people, as well as our environment,â Obama said. How many times will these well intentioned people allow themselves to be fooled? It seems that many of these good folks often get swept away by the feel good headlines and rarely read beyond the first two paragraphs of an article. Obama should be thanking the idiot republicans for this one, as it was a good way to rally a part of his most gullible base. The celebration is on as headlines of âObama Rejects Keystone Pipelineâ shoot across the screens, and Mckibben, like a good little foot soldier isnât missing a beat to rally the troops around the HOPE inspiring president. The Rockefeller front group and its flock rally to the news of Obama coming through in the clutch. They talk of tar sands and coal and fracking and the carbon foot print but never a mention of the âsafe and cleanâ nuclear power from these folks. The very real dangers of our decrepit and crumbling nuclear power industry arenât on Bill Mckibbenâs radar screen it seems and just as with his buddy Al Gore, the issue of carbon seems solely on the radar superficially, maybe as a way to sell more books? One has to wonder. Itâs not at all difficult to dissect the situation here. Tar Sands is quite arguably the most destructive extraction of resources ever unleashed by man and it is wreaking havoc in the tar fields of Alberta Canada, where once intact and beautiful ecosystems are being ravaged. The Oil Industry which is a major share holder in our political establishment, is making a lot of money off this mess. Tar Sands are being refined all over the United States with major expansions ready to be implemented that will further increase the capacity of the United States to work with its halfwitted cousin Canada in the furthering of Tar Sands exploitation. The Keystone XL will be a part of this destructive web and Obama has put it on hold until the next election. As outlined by Tom McDonnell in his December 15th Mother Jones article âThereâs No Hiding From Tar Sands Oilâ , with or without the pipeline, Tar Sands extraction is intensifying and expanding. In Toledo and outside of Chicago, billion dollar expansions of BP refineries are set to refine this crap and spew CO2s and extremely toxic byproducts laden with heavy metals and sulfur into the air, land and water around these facilities which are celebrated by the local Democratic Party Machines and the likes of congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. The ever
[LAAMN] Kucinich Announces Constitutional Amendment to Publicly Finance Federal Elections]
If you are unable to view this email message or are using a mobile device click here to view in your web browser. To ensure that you will continue to receive our messages, please add i...@nationofchange.org to your address books. » Do you have friends that would like this? Click here to share this edition with your contacts! Friday, 20 January 2012 Christopher Petrella | Death, Taxes, and Alcatraz Christopher Petrella, Op-Ed: ?Please allow me to introduce some figures that I believe will convincingly demonstrate the scope and depth of our predicament. Although the United States represents less than 5% of the world?s population, we harbor over 25% of those incarcerated. In fact, we?ve incarcerated more people in absolute terms than China, whose population is four times the larger. Despite these sobering figures, few thinkers, however?even those of avowedly ?progressive? persuasion? have sharply critiqued the well-worn diptych of ?crime and punishment.?? READ | DISCUSS | SHARE NationofChange Speaks with Craig from Occupy San Francisco Video Interview: On December 28th NationofChange spoke with Craig from Occupy San Francisco about the January 20th protests inside the financial district of San Fransisco. READ | DISCUSS | SHARE Tensions With Iran Taylor Luca, News Report: Wednesday, January 11th, 2012, during the morning rush hour in northern Tehran, nuclear scientist Mostaf Ahmadi-Roshan was assassinated. It is said by Iranian officials that two men on a motorcycle attached a magnetic bomb to the car of 32-year-old nuclear scientist, Ahmadi-Roshan, killing him and his bodyguard. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan was a chemistry expert who worked as a director of the Natanz uranium enrichment plant which is suspected to play a key role in Iran?s nuclear arms program. READ | DISCUSS | SHARE How the Pipeline Died - And How to Bury It For Good Jamie Henn, Op-Ed: ?The fight against Keystone XL has its roots in the resistance to the Canadian tar sands led in large part by indigenous communities in Alberta and across western Canada. As news about the dangers of the pipeline spread along its proposed route, ranchers and farmers in states like Nebraska and Texas joined in the fight. National environmental groups and some progressive unions stepped in with additional resources to help the effort.? READ | DISCUSS | SHARE Could SOPA and PIPA Interfere with State Dept.?s Global Internet Freedom Agenda? Corbin Hiar, News Report: Two Internet anti-piracy bills working their way through Congress that are heavily backed by the movie industry could have significant impacts on technology companies, a threat highlighted Wednesday by Wikipedia, Reddit, BoingBoing and other sites that went offline for the day in protest. As a result, some reporters have characterized the standoff over the House?s Stop Online Piracy Act and the Senate?s Protect Intellectual Property Act ? SOPA and PIPA for short ? as a fight between Hollywood and Silicon Valley. READ | DISCUSS | SHARE Bad Bankers, Bad Fraud Deals, And The President?s ?Great Gatsby? Problem Richard (RJ) Eskow, Op-Ed: Investigate the Banks! Today a coalition of progressive groups handed in a petition with more than 360,000 signatures that demanded exactly that. It calls on the Obama administration to stop pushing a cushy fraud settlement for bankers, to pursue a fair deal for shafted homeowners, and to let criminal investigations against Wall Street crooks proceed. Yet White House officials are still aggressively pushing the very same cushy deal on foreclosure fraud that inspired the petition. READ | DISCUSS | SHARE How Payday Lenders Make Billions By Fleecing Americans In Poverty Tanya Somanader, News Report: ?As a growing number of Americans slip out of the middle-class into economic insecurity, they are increasingly vulnerable to predatory lending schemes like the payday loan. Each year, about 12 million Americans incur long-term debt by taking out a short-term loan that?s intended to cover a borrowers? expenses until they receive their next paycheck. Payday lending takes ?unfair advantage of lower-income borrowers,? with most taking out nine repeat loans per year with an interest rate as high as 400 percent.? READ | DISCUSS | SHARE NationofChange Interviews Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Video Interview: On January 17th 2012, NationofChange interviewed Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein at Occupy Congress in Washington DC. READ | DISCUSS | SHARE Robert Reich | Amend 2012 Robert Reich, Video Presentation: Thanks to the Supreme Court and Citizens United, the same big corporations and billionaires that destroyed our economy and caused millions of us to lose our jobs and homes, are spending obscene amounts to drown out our voices in elections and take over our government. But together, We the People can set things right. Stand with Robert Reich and join the movement for a constitutional amendment today. READ | DISCUSS | SHARE
[LAAMN] We just renamed the Supreme Court to 'the Supreme Koch.'
Humm, I just noticed, a lot of good stuff is coming through today. Friday, the day that the worst things Congress and the Senate have to do to We The people, are passed as this is the day of the work week the fewest people pay attention to what is happening in the news. So in that case, pretend that this is 'hot off the press on Monday News' and spread it around through out the week. Scott -- To mark the 2nd anniversary of the criminal Citizens United ruling, we just renamed the Supreme Court to a more appropriate name: the Supreme Koch, giving naming rights to the Koch Brothers who've profited more from the ruling than any other members of the Super Rich. And best of all, we caught it on tape. Watch the video, and help us spread the word: let 5 friends know about it NOW. We have big plans for taking back the Supreme Court this year, and can't wait to keep up the pressure on the defenders of corporate personhood. This is just the first step, and if you can take a minute to share our video on Facebook and tweet about our page on Twitter, we'd appreciate it immensely. As the action started, it looked a little like this: ...and you'll have to watch the video to see what happened next. Click here to watch our video, and make sure to let at least 5 friends know about it. And a big shout-out to our allies who helped us make this possible: Health Care For America Now, Backbone Campaign, Greenpeace USA, Velvet Revolution and AFSCME. And, most importantly, thank YOU for making this movement real. Sincerely, Andrew Boyd, The Other 98% [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] [Fwd: [libertyundergroundtalk] Today at 5 p.m.]
Original Message Subject: [libertyundergroundtalk] Today at 5 p.m. From:LUV jackdot...@cox.net Date:Thu, 19 January, 2012 12:38 pm To: Group Talk Liberty Underground libertyundergroundt...@yahoogroups.com -- At five p.m. Eastern time (2 West Coast) here http://www.revolutiontruth.org/live/ there will be a live streaming discussion by Chris Hedges, Michael Moore, Margaret Flowers and this group's Kevin Zeese, likely an interesting discussion Jack [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Survey: Should Leftists Support Obama?
Interesting survey! My answers are below the link, I suggest you add yours. Reading this, I can tell who is financing it, and they won't take my comments into consideration. Scott Survey Should Leftists Support Obama? LA Progressive - - 14 Jan 12: Obama and Progressives Walter Moss's recent LA Progressive article, Why Leftists Should Support Obama's Reelection, has added fuel to the ongoing debate about whether progressives (or liberals or leftists) should support President Barack Obama's reelection ... Survey On line: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SJPCWML I did. Here are my replies; 1. As a progressive (or liberal or lefty), will you support President Barack Obama's re-election. (Check all that apply) Uh Progressive? Progressives do not suspend portions of out Constitution, make illegal killing OK for the president, do not wage war on countries that did not attack us. Progressives DO support peoples of the world looking for Democracy, and do so peacefully. I can only name a couple of Democrats that favor this, unfortunately I can name more republicans, as they both support their Party Platform MYTH, but no fear, there aren't enough of them to over turn a 2/3rds majority Fascist support vote.. Thanks for the forms so I can share this far and wide. 2. Given the antics of the cavalcade of clowns vying for the Republican presidential nomination, what do you think would happen to America should one of them defeat President Obama? Progressives would stop supporting Fascists cause they have a D by their name, and like with GWB work against that which they'd support any Democrat doing. 3. How best can the progressive community move the Democratic Party leftward? (Check all that apply) Stop voting for Neo Cons with a D by their name. You can tell by their anti US Citizen voting records. Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is insanity. Sorta like why remain a Democrat if we keep getting a Right leaning Republican instead of a far right republican I want a progressive, not evil lite. 4. Occupy and Democrats: dating, marriage, just friends? (Check all that apply) Actually, Democrats should try something different, like supporting Democrats that have voting records that support the Democrat Party Platform MYTH. Not many people want to be aligned with Evil lite anymore, it simply isn't as popular as the talking heads make it out to be. 5. After the November election, how will America look in the coming four years? Making Hitlers Germany look like the pretty Christian Democratic nation he sold it as. Hahahahah! I enjoyed that, even knowing what I know about writing and collating surveys, it is outside of the 'form' they've devised to crunch the replies into numbers, to sell the predisposed solution it was meant to sell, so it just gets shitcanned. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Jan. 12, the 100th Anniversary of the Bread and Roses IWW strike in Lawrence, MA]
(1) Bread and Roses Strike: One of the Great Silences in the School Curriculum One of the great silences in the mainstream school curriculum is the role that social movements have played in making this a more fair, more peaceful, more democratic world. Students learn little about the collective efforts and strategies involved in the movements to abolish slavery, to demand womenâs rights, to end unjust wars, to fight for civil rightsâor for workers to bargain collectively for a living wage and workplace dignity. One of the most significant struggles for workersâ rights began exactly one hundred years ago, on January 12th in Lawrence, Mass., when thousands of textile workers began a walkout that would come to be known as the Bread and Roses Strike, as well as the Singing Strike. Youâre unlikely to find much more than a mention of this important strike in a typical high school history textbook, if that. But as Norm Diamond points out in his article for the Zinn Education Project, One Hundred Years After the Singing Strike [below], this was a remarkable struggle that united mostly young women workers speaking dozens of languages in a dead-of-winter contest with some of the richest men in the United States. And the workers won. The Zinn Education Project includes valuable teaching materials about the strike. See the role play, Lawrence, 1912: The Singing Strike, by Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond, which is excerpted from their book The Power in Our Hands: A Curriculum on the History of Work and Workers in the United States. See also Bill Bigelowâs The Singing Strike and the Rebel Students: Learning from the Industrial Workers of the World. Bread and Roses, Too is Katherine Patersonâs moving young adult novel about the 1912 strike. Events for the anniversary year are being coordinated by the Bread and Roses Centennial Committee. Their website offers a comprehensive list of anniversary programs, history, news, and a list of supporters including the Zinn Education Project. They also have launched an online gallery for those that cannot visit the Bread and Roses Centennial Exhibit in person. (2) One Hundred Years After the Singing Strike By Norm Diamond http://zinnedproject.org/posts/15660 Todayâs Occupy movement is a reminder that throughout U.S. history a major engine of change has been grassroots organizing and solidarity. As an old Industrial Workers of the World song goes: An injury to one, we sayâs an injury to all, United weâre unbeatable, divided we must fall. ââDublin Danâ Liston, The Portland Revolution Major history textbooks, however, downplay the role of ordinary people in shaping events, especially those who formed labor unions and used the strike to assert their rights. One of the most significant strikes in U.S. history occurred exactly 100 years ago, in the Lawrence, Mass. textile mills, and yet it merits barely a mention in the most widely used U.S. history textbooks. It was known as the Bread and Roses strike because underlying the demand for adequate wages (bread) was a demand for dignity on the job and in life more generally (roses). People sang: No more the drudge and idler â ten that toil where one reposes, But a sharing of lifeâs glories: Bread and roses! Bread and roses! âJames Oppenheim, Bread and Roses Unions and bosses alike thought the workers impossible to organize. Mostly unskilled, a majority of them young women, kept apart by more than a dozen languages, millworkers were both vanguard and victims of the new U.S. industrialization. Lawrence, with the largest and most modern textile mills in the world and more than 30,000 workers, was the epicenter and symbol of the system. The textile industry was the first to use new sources of power to drive its machines. It was the leader in subdividing jobs into limited, repetitive movements, making workers interchangeable and replaceable. Workers would no longer have specialized crafts or even know all the processes that went into a product. Posters and postcards showing happy mill hands leaving work with smiles and sacks of gold enticed hundreds of thousands from poor areas of Europe. With a surplus of workers desperate for jobs, the mills drove down wages and sped up the work. Textile millowners deliberately kept workers divided. In some mills, they placed workers together who spoke different languages and were unable to communicate. In others they allocated work by ethnicities and gave particular jobs only to Lithuanians, others to French-Canadians, others exclusively to Irish. Supervisors used ethnic and racial slurs and sexual harassment as intentional means of control. Workers lived in fetid, crowded tenements. Working nine- and ten-hour days, six days a week, their usual main meal was little more than bread and molasses. The drinking water inside the mills was foul; supervisors developed a lucrative sideline selling water that could actually be drunk. Life expectancy for millworkers was 22
[LAAMN] Obama's attack on US civil liberties is par for the course in capitalism
Obama versus civil liberties Posted on January 8, 2012 by dandelionsalad Dandelion Salad Editorial SocialistWorker.org Jan. 4, 2012 Far from being the exception, the undermining of constitutional rights is standard operating procedure under capitalism, regardless of which politicians are in charge. THE U.S. military can indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without trialâthatâs the latest of our supposedly âinalienable rightsâ sacrificed by the Democratic former constitutional law professor who currently inhabits in the White House. After promising during his campaign to roll back the abuses of the Bush administration, Barack Obama has spent the last three years pushing through attacks on civil liberties that Republicans could only dream about. He is eliminating all doubts that the Democrats are as firmly committed as the GOP to strengthening the national security state at the expense of our rights. As part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) signed into law by Obama on December 31, the militaryâunder the authority of the presidentâis empowered to hold anyone âwho was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partnersâ¦without trial until the end of hostilities.â According to legal scholar Jonathan Turley, the NDAA represents âone of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country.â Even the liberal New York Times, which regularly praises the Democratic Obama administration, described Obamaâs announcement that he would sign the bill as âa complete political cave-in, one that reinforces the impression of a fumbling presidency.â The ACLUâs Laura Murphy pointed out that the last time Congress passed indefinite detention legislation was the Internal Security Act of 1950, passed during the McCarthy era. Then-President Harry Truman vetoed the Internal Security Act of 1950, but Congress overrode the veto. As Salon.comâs Glenn Greenwald wrote, the Internal Security Act: authorized the imprisonment of Communists and other âsubversivesâ without the necessity of full trials or due process (many of the most egregious provisions of that bill were repealed by the 1971 Non-Detention Act, and are now being rejuvenated by these âwar on terrorâ policies of indefinite detention). President Obama, needless to say, is not Harry Truman. Heâs not even the Candidate Obama of 2008, who repeatedly insisted that due process and security were not mutually exclusive, and who condemned indefinite detention as âblack holeâ injustice. - â - â - â - â - â - â - â - - IN THE New York Times, Andrew Rosenthal wrote, âItâs stunning that the president is willing to sign a bill that might effectively turn the right of habeas corpus into a mere privilegeâeven for citizens.â But itâs not so âstunningâ once you compare this measure with the Democratsâ record on civil liberties over the past several yearsâfrom capitulation to the Bush administration on the USA PATRIOT Act and similar abuses to their own measures during the Obama years. Beyond Obamaâs failure to honor his promise to close the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bayâthus embracing the idea of indefinite detention of foreign nationals suspected of terrorismâhis administration has overseen a vast expansion of executive power and attacks on rights that includes: failing to prosecute war crimes, whether committed by U.S. soldiers or former Bush administration officials; continuing the use of warantless surveillance; actively prosecuting Bradley Manning and other whistleblowers who have exposed war crimes; carrying out unlawful detentions on U.S. soil and repressive, illegal treatment of those accused of âmaterially aidingâ terrorists; massively expanding the use of unmanned drones to attack and kill so-called âterroristsâ (and, often, innocent civilians who happen to get in the way); carrying out extra-judicial assassinations of foreign nationals and at least one U.S. citizen (Anwar al-Awlaki); defending the right of the president to do so free from oversight by invoking âstate secretsâ; continuing the prosecution of Arabs and Muslims in the U.S. on the flimsiest of evidence for crimes like âmaterial supportâ of terrorism. In other words, the Obama administration has shown its willingness at every step to trample civil liberties in the service of expanding executive powerâand justify it by invoking the âwar on terror.â Obama did attach a âsigning statementâ to the NDAA, proclaiming that he doesnât want to use the massive power which he was granting to not only his own, but to successor, administrations. âI have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of suspected terrorists,â he wrote. But then why enshrine such
[LAAMN] Obama and Faith Based Democrat Party Voting Values
As you read this, can you recall the number of times we've been told, The Republicans are Evil, they are worse. Well if they are. why would we vote for either of them? For those who blindly follow the Democrat Party, these are your values spelled out easily for you to see how your representatives work this is what you support in action! But don't forget, the Republicans are worse. Just ask any Party Line Democrat! Scott PS, this reads easier on the web site http://stpeteforpeace.org/obama.html Among other things, since taking office Obama has: Obama Fact Sheet Flyer - Signed the NDAA - an indefinite detention bill - into law - Waged war on Libya without congressional approval - Started a covert, drone war in Yemen - Escalated the proxy war in Somalia - Escalated the CIA drone war in Pakistan - Will maintain a presence in Iraq even after ending war - Sharply escalated the war in Afghanistan - Secretly deployed US special forces to 75 countries - Sold $30 billion of weapons to the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia - Signed an agreement for 7 military bases in Colombia - Touted nuclear power, even after the disaster in Japan - Opened up deepwater oil drilling, even after BP disaster - Did a TV commercial promoting clean coal - Defended body scans and pat-downs at airports - Signed the Patriot Act extension into law - Continued Bush's rendition program In 2007, then-Senator Obama said: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when Im in the White House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself, I will walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America. Because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner In 2011, President Obama did not find his shoes to join the massive protests in Wisconsin (read). Here's a partial history of Obama's dealings - listed (roughly) chronologically, most recent first: Has Obama taken Bushs preemption strategy to another level? (read). Obama sending 5 US military officers to South Sudan (read). The White House has declared the government of South Sudan eligible to receive weapons and defense assistance from the U.S. The announcement came amid an outbreak of violence between two South Sudanese tribes that may have left thousands dead and some 50,000 people needing aid (read). The White House has declared the government of South Sudan eligible to receive weapons and defense assistance from the U.S. The announcement came amid an outbreak of violence between two South Sudanese tribes that may have left thousands dead and some 50,000 people needing aid (read). President Obama Signs the NDAA Indefinite Detention Bill Into Law The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision. President Obama's action today is a blight on his legacy because he will forever be known as the president who signed indefinite detention without charge or trial into law, said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU executive director (read). Weapon's proliferation: In same week $30 billion weapon deal with Saudi Arabia is finalized, Pentagon reaches $3.5 billion weapon deal with UAE (read). White House rejects calls for oversight on drone killings (read). TSA spreading its wings beyond airports (read). The Obama administration has decided in principle to allow the embattled president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, to enter the United States for medical treatment (read). National Defense Authorization Act - By signing the 'anti-terror' bill the president could end up being worse than his Republican predecessor on civil liberties (read). The Zenith of Civil Libertarian Anger at President Obama (read). Secrecy defines Obama's drone war (read). Obama asks Iran to return downed U.S. surveillance drone (read). Stealth drone highlights tougher U.S. strategy on Iran (read). Inside Romania's secret CIA prison (read). Obama: U.S. to expand military in Australia (read); 2,500 US Marines to be stationed in Australia (read). Obama Administration Delays Keystone Pipeline Decision to After Election (read). Obama's Offshore Oil Plan a Disaster for Wildlife, Climate (read). Palestine Wins UNESCO Membership... And Obama Withdraws (read). Obama's new war in Uganda (read). Obama's proposal would gut Freedom of Information Act (read). As troops pull out of Iraq, Obama plans more combat forces elsewhere in the Middle East (read). The U.S. will maintain a presence in Iraq even after ending of war (read). New Obama Foreclosure Plan Helps Banks At Taxpayers' Expense (read). US Troop Deaths in Afghan War Under Obama Now Twice That Under Bush (read). Obama sends 100 US combat troops to Uganda to help fight 'rebels' (read). Obama vows to seek 'toughest Iran sanctions to punish Iranian officials whom he accused of complicity in an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States
[LAAMN] YES BUT THE REPUBLICANS ARE MORE EVIL!!!!!!!! AAAAAHAHAHHHHHHHHAHAHAHHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Sorry, it's Corporate Candidate sElection Season, I just had to say it before it was rammed
YES BUT THE REPUBLICANS ARE MORE EVIL AHAHAAHAHAHHAA! (Sorry, it's Corporate Candidate sElection Season, I just had to say it before it was rammed down my throat again by the Bush Policy Supporters.) Scott *** Is Obama the Trojan Horse, A Psychopath, A Bad Boyfriend or all Three? Posted on January 8, 2012 by dandelionsalad by Jill Dalton Guest Writer http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/is-obama-the-trojan-horse-a-psychopath-a-bad-boyfriend-or-all-three/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=Feed%3A+DandelionSalad+%28Dandelion+Salad%29 recoveringarmybrat January 6, 2012 I believe Barack Obama was put into office to do what no Republican could ever have gotten away with. Obama has extend the wars, created new wars, extended the Bush tax cuts for the rich, given additional bail out money to the banks, allowed the health insurance industry to write the healthcare bill, extended the Patriot Act and signed the NDAA. Under his watch not one member of the Bush Administration has been held accountable for leading us into wars built on false evidence and lies; not one banker has been held accountable for the fraud and corruption that brought down the global economy. And the final nail in the coffin, Mr. Slim Shady signed the NDAA bill on New Years Eve while most Americans sipped champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) makes America the battlefield and allows indefinite detention of U.S. citizens suspected of terrorist leanings without due process. http://www.aclu.org/national-security/president-obama-signs-indefinite-detention-bill-law But why be so negative, you might ask? Here are a few things Obama did manage to do. He extended unemployment benefits because theyre no jobs as his stimulus package was too small. He also managed to cut payroll taxes, which is a back door way to defund Social Security, He helped cover up the BP oil spill in the Gulf by allowing Corexit, a toxic disbursement not allowed in other countries, to break up the oil which then dropped to the bottom instead of just cleaning it up. In other words, allowing them to hide the body. Obama hates truth tellers such as Julian Assange of WikiLeaks and whistleblowers like Bradley Manning whos been held in detention for almost two years for, according to Obama, exposing state secrets aka a horrendous war crime. That is if Manning is the alleged leaker who gave the Collateral Murder video to WikiLeaks showing 12 civilians murdered by American soldiers. What is the difference between the Collateral Murder war atrocity and the 1970 My Lai Massacre and the Court-Martial of Captain Ernest L. Medina? What is the difference between the Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning? I mean isnt this evidence were now living in a corporate/fascist/ military/police state? Now look, I know theyre still plenty of Obama supporters among us but I find it very difficult to understand why so many people still love, honor and support this guy. I voted for this guy too. I fell for his smooth talk, cool demeanor and wide open smile. Ive always been a sucker for tall dark and handsome but if he wasnt lying then hes lying now and I for one am mad as hell and Im not going to take it anymore. I know its hard to admit you made a mistake. I get it. You really believed this guy was the one and he is the one for the 1%: Wall Street, the too big to fail banks, the military industrial complex, the prison industrial complex, big oil, big pharma, i.e. the corporate fascist state hes so gingerly locking into place. We looked the other way when he said hed put on comfy shoes and march with the unions and then when the unions had their bargaining rights withdrawn, Obama like the good corporate shill he is, remained silent. We made excuses for him when he remained silent as the police brutalized, beat, pepper sprayed and shot projectiles at peaceful demonstrators. Obama, unlike Robert Kennedy who had the balls to stand up to the racists down south and brought in the National Guard to protect those fighting for their civil rights, is a coward. It could be battered spouse syndrome. I know there are people hospitalized with a broken jaw or collarbone and they wont press charges against their attackers. I cant explain why victims protect their abusers but they do and not only do they protect them, they go back to them over and over only to be beaten again and again. Or maybe its the Stockholm syndrome whereby victims fall in love with their captors. It happens. No need to beat yourself up over it. To me Obamas like the bad boyfriend. He lies to you, cheats on you, forgets to call, but you just keep taking him back and making excuses. Well, he cant help it. He has to stand up to those mean Republicans. Right? And, therefore, I feel its my duty to do an intervention. For those of you still deluding yourselves, who still cant
[LAAMN] I am a Conservative/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist, are you?
It's hard to have a conversation about Politics or Economics or the Law, when the definitions of all operational words, are 180 degrees from the original meanings, isn't it? I don't suppose that was done by accident either. To take this a step further, and not take into account the Orwellian meanings associated with the words today, only what they meant before the Big Brothers of the world got through with them. We are CONSERVATIVE, as we believe in reinforcing the things that work well, instead of tearing them down. We are LIBERAL, in the fact that when it is broke, we don't want to reinforce it, we want to do something different to fix it. We are PROGRESSIVE in the fact that we are forward thinking, while taking into context what history should teach us and not repeat mistakes of the past. We are SOCIALISTS in the fact that we feel that a government of the people, by the people and for the people should be for THE PEOPLE, not a minority, no matter the wealth level. We are believers in the DemocratIC PRINCIPAL. Yes. 'the aliens' view us as probably the most psychopathic things in the Universe, because in ACTION, we repeatedly vote in Psychopaths to lead us, allowing a Government system controlled by Psychopathic Economic Principals, while chanting we want something different. When in fact, our actions show, we support FASCISM. And it is again sElection Season, time for the rabid supporters of Progress towards Fascism to beat up everyone that wants something different then the abundance of psychotic Fascism we have today, under a great many other agreeable, through non representative names, like Conservative/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist/Representative Democracy... Think about it, every label listed, is presented as it's opposite, even our language is psychotic now. Scott Feel Free to share in whole-Scott --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] The NDAA's Historic Assault on American Liberty | BY JONATHON TURLEY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW SCHOLAR AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIV.]
Sorta knocks the myth of the two opposition party system, and exposes the 2 Corporate party system, doesn't it? Geez, there isn't even a place far enough left for Republicans, to be republicans anymore with their intent of being the supporters and defenders of the American Business's after working over time to destroy them and help the international Corporations and bankers suck them up. Scott AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS DEAD, LONG LIVE FASCISM! LOGINSIGN UP Join our Network 221,913 Strong! Signup | Login Tuesday, January 3, 2012 HOME ABOUT US DONATE SUBSCRIBE ARCHIVES HOME Subscribe to Common Dreams News Updates Most Popular This Week Most ViewedMost Emailed This Is Called Humanity Half of America In Poverty? The Facts Say It's True Woody's New Year: Change Socks, Dream Good, Wake Up and Fight Protect Your Cell Phone from Prying Eyes in 2012 The Big Lie: Wall Street has Destroyed the Wonder That Was America More... Today's Top News Egyptians Wrap Up Landmark Elections Occupy Heckles Romney Before Iowa Caucuses Occupy Protests Follow 123rd Annual Rose Parade Austerity Reigns in Europe as Crisis Deepens Ohio Fracking Wells Closed After Earthquakes More News... Donate Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter E-mailPrint Share Discussresize:+ - reset Published on Monday, January 2, 2012 by Jonathan Turley's Blog The NDAA's Historic Assault on American Liberty By signing into law the NDAA, the president has awarded the military extraordinary powers to detain US citizens without trial by Jonathan Turley President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment, to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country and citizens partied in unwitting bliss into the New Year. Ironically, in addition to breaking his promise not to sign the law, Obama broke his promise on signing statements and attached a statement that he really does not want to detain citizens indefinitely (see the text of the statement here). Obama insisted that he signed the bill simply to keep funding for the troops. It was a continuation of the dishonest treatment of the issue by the White House since the law first came to light. As discussed earlier, the White House told citizens that the president would not sign the NDAA because of the provision. That spin ended after sponsor Senator Carl Levin (Democrat, Michigan) went to the floor and disclosed that it was the White House and insisted that there be no exception for citizens in the indefinite detention provision. The latest claim is even more insulting. You do not support our troops by denying the principles for which they are fighting. They are not fighting to consolidate authoritarian powers in the president. The American way of life is defined by our constitution and specifically the bill of rights. Moreover, the insistence that you do not intend to use authoritarian powers does not alter the fact that you just signed an authoritarian measure. It is not the use but the right to use such powers that defines authoritarian systems. The almost complete failure of the mainstream media to cover this issue is shocking. Many reporters have bought into the spin of the Obama administration as they did the spin over torture by the Bush administration. Even today, reporters refuse to call waterboarding torture despite the long line of cases and experts defining waterboarding as torture for decades. On the NDAA, reporters continue to mouth the claim that this law only codifies what is already the law. That is not true. The administration has fought any challenges to indefinite detention to prevent a true court review. Moreover, most experts agree that such indefinite detention of citizens violates the constitution. There are also those who continue the longstanding effort to excuse Obama's horrific record on civil liberties by blaming either others or the times. One successful myth is that there is an exception for citizens. The White House is saying that changes to the law made it unnecessary to veto the legislation. That spin is ridiculous. The changes were the inclusion of some meaningless rhetoric after key amendments protecting citizens were defeated. The provision merely states that nothing in the provisions could be construed to alter Americans' legal rights. Since the Senate clearly views citizens as not just subject to indefinite detention but even to execution without a trial, the change offers nothing but rhetoric to hide the harsh reality. The Obama administration and Democratic members are in full spin mode using language designed to obscure the authority given to the military. The exemption for American citizens from the mandatory detention requirement (section 1032) is the screening language for the next section, 1031, which offers no exemption for
[LAAMN] Unhappy Jan 2nd to you!
Another infamous day in the history of our Nation. Gack! The more 'complete history' I learn, (verses the cherry picked stuff of Public K-12 propaganda, it does make for loyal at all cost citizens though) the more I wonder why I didn't spend a life time of reflex vomiting when i hear the words 'Politics', and 'Your Government' does this 'for your own good'. What part of representative Government, doesn't fit WITH ANY OF THOSE CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS? I note that the Census of 1930/40 wasn't mentioned as a way to round up all people who associated themselves as being either Japanese, Italian or German. The list proving our Constitution (the supposed LAW OF OUR LAND) is a myth that is only applicable when it suits those in power, goes on and on and on. Now that the Middle East is having a revolting Spring. we are looking at EXACTLY the same thing happening HERE with NDAA which Obama signed into law on New Years Eve. Thanks O'bomb'em. Scott -- On this day (Jan. 2) in 1920, Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer conducted a nationwide round-up of several thousand radical immigrants, anarchists, socialists and communists who were considered either terrorists or at least un-American and therefore were deemed dangerous and unworthy of American citizenship or even residence in the United States. These Jan. 2 raids largely were the American reaction to the perceived danger posed by Russia after the Bolshevik 1917 Revolution. In retrospect, these Palmer Raids were only one of the several times in American history when the U.S. government passed laws or engaged in activities that often, in the name of national security, curtailed constitutionally protected individual rights and in some cases blatantly were unconstitutional. The first such case occurred during the presidency of John Adams in 1798 when the Federalist-controlled Congress passed the infamous Alien and Sedition Acts, which were aimed against revolutionary France and its pro-French adherents. The second major curtailment of individual rights, again in the name of national security, occurred in the early 1860s when President Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus and ordered some newspapers critical of his policies to be closed down. The Great Emancipator rationalized his actions by writing that he had a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy. The fourth major period of popular fear that the country was threatened internally was the McCarthy era after World War II when many Americans, suspected of being communists, were, again in the name of national security, deprived of many of their First Amendment rights. Chronologically, the 1919-1920 Palmer Raids were the third major period of what could be considered an unwarranted fear of radicals and immigrants thought to be a threat to American security. The Jan. 2, 1920, Red Scare raid was among the most blatant attacks on First Amendment rights in America history. On this date, Justice Department agents and local police arrested more than 2,700 persons. In New England alone, 500 police and Justice Department agents (the Justice Department's investigative bureau became the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the mid-1930s) raided private homes, offices and stores looking to arrest American citizens who had, at least verbally, espoused un-American views or were too pro-union and to arrest and deport radical aliens. Many of the dangerous suspects arrested were detained and deported illegally. For example in Lynn, Mass., 39 people (more than half were American citizens) were holding a meeting to plan the establishment of a co-operative bakery when the police broke up the gathering and arrested the entire group. Since they had been arrested without warrants, 38 of the 39 were discharged the next day. Throughout the country, thousands of suspects were illegally arrested, many without proper warrants, and hundreds were deported, many without trials or hearings. These four major periods of constitutionally questionable activities during four of America's most threatening times highlights a dilemma facing all governments: It is the constant struggle of individual rights versus national security. In America, which greatly values the individual rights guaranteed in the Constitution with its revered Bill of Rights, it is imperative that Americans remain diligent in walking carefully the thin line between national security and individual rights. We should make sure that the pendulum between national security and individual constitutional rights does not swing too far either way. Crystal Lake resident Joseph C. Morton is professor emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University and author of The American Revolution and Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. He is available for tutoring, talks and workshops on American history.
[LAAMN] The Politics of Lowered Expectations. Nader
Let's face it, if today's Republicans are the most craven, greedy, ignorant, anti-worker, anti-patient, anti-consumer, anti-environment and coddlers of corporate crime in the party's history, why aren't the Democrats landsliding them? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/03-10 http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/03-10 The Politics of Lowered Expectations Let's face it, if today's Republicans are the most craven, greedy, ignorant, anti-worker, anti-patient, anti-consumer, anti-environment and coddlers of corporate crime in the party's history, why aren't the Democrats landsliding them? by Ralph http://www.commondreams.org/ralph-nader Nader Common Dreams: January 3, 2012 Ezra Klein, the bright, young, economic policy columnist for the Washington Post believes that Obama came out ahead last year http://www.nader.org/exit.php?url_id=554entry_id=2341 in the administration's bitter, high-stakes negotiations with the Republicans in Congress. He cites four major negotiations in 2011 with the Republicans that Obama won. Obama won the game of chicken played in February by the House Speaker John Boehner and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell to avoid a government shutdown. He won the battle to raise the customarily supported debt ceiling on government borrowing. He avoided an embarrassment after he had to concur in the formation of a Supercommittee on deficit reduction when Congress couldn't come to an agreement. And he won all of a two-month extension of the social security payroll tax cut and extension of unemployment compensation benefits. If those were high stakes, I wonder what microscopic instrument would detect any lower stakes. Obama keeps winning battles that he could have avoided. But what about taking the offensive on some really significant matters? For example, when he caved in December 2010 to the minority Republicans and agreed to extend the deficit-producing Bush tax cuts on the rich, he didn't demand in return a continuation of the regular bi-partisan approval of lifting the debt limit. So over weeks in 2011, he had to mud-wrestle the Republicans on the debt limit - to the dismay of finance ministers across the world - and won only after conceding the bizarre creation of a Supercommittee to order its own Congress to enact budget cuts. That Supercommittee gridlocked and closed down. Finally, if he does nothing, the $4 trillion over 10 years that are the Bush tax cuts expire automatically on January 1, 2013 - after the election. On the same day, the spending trigger automatically kicks in which cuts over ten years $500 billion from the bloated Defense budget and another $500 billion from other departments, but not from social security and Medicare/Medicaid beneficiaries. This is an Obama victory? What makes Mr. Klein so sure Obama won't cave again? He has all this year to do so. His own Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has often said that there's now way he would go for any further defense cuts. Also, Obama was ready in 2011 to raise the Medicare eligibility age in return for the deal on debt ceiling. He was saved from this folly only by the stubbornness of Boehner and his clenched-teeth sidekick, Virginian Eric Cantor from the arguably most passive Congressional district in the U.S. Boehner and Cantor wanted more. Here are some high stakes fights where the Republicans defeated the White House and blocked major substantive advances. They stopped the wide-ranging energy bill, and stifled Uncle Sam's authority to bargain for drug discounts that taxpayers are paying to the gouging drug companies for the drug benefit program for the elderly. They kept the coal industry King Coal on Capitol Hill, preserved crass corporate welfare and tax loophole programs, and blocked the able nominee to head the new agency to protect against consumer finance abuses. They also cut budgets for small but crucial safety programs in food, auto safety, and children's hunger. Republicans preserved the notorious nuclear power loan guarantee boondoggles, a bevy of Soviet-era weapons systems nestled in the arms of the military-industrial complex and mercilessly beat up on the work and budget of the cancer-preventing, illness-reducing Environmental Protection Agency. That's just for starters. Obama and the majority Democrats in the Senate dug this hole for themselves when they failed to curtail the filibuster in January 2009 and 2011 by majority vote. They doomed themselves to the numerically impossible hurdle of needing 60 votes to pass any measure and avoid filibusters. Putting themselves on the defensive, while dialing business lobbyists for the same campaign dollars as the Republicans, the Obama crowd, of course, could not advance what they promised the American people. They went silent on raising the federal minimum wage to $9.50, promised by candidate Obama in 2008 for 2011. At $9.50, it would still have been less than the federal minimum wage in 1968, adjusted for inflation. Hardly a radical
Re: [LAAMN] Please Read This! ~ Obama Signs the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540) ~ The NDAA Authorizes the Arbitrary Indefinite Military Detention of American Citizens ~ THE INAUG
And the Bastard signs it on New Years eve, being upset that he can't have more say so as to whether you and I are sent to a Civilian or Military prison. Is there any doubt that this man like his predecessor considers our Constitution just a god dammed piece of paper, and has no respect for the rule of law, so passes illegal laws to go after those who the law granted privileges and protected our rights? And the Choice the Two headed party is trying to give us will be even worse (as it always is after a lot of money was invested by them in the incumbent). Scott Obama Signs the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540) - Which Repeals the U.S. Constitution! The NDAA Authorizes the Arbitrary Indefinite Military Detention of American Citizens. THE INAUGURATION OF POLICE STATE USA 2012 Transcript of Signing Statement by President Barack Obama on H.R. 1540, December 31, 2011 follows article by Michel Chossudovsky. Obama Signs the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540) By Michel Chossudovsky, Montreal, Canada, January 1, 2012 URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=28441 aid=28441 Global Research http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=o8b4necabet=1109030523234s=6889e=001sTpyew mH6oRQq_2sgjC0KP7oTBicumyCEyJbTsqL9EUNZvyM3slLMIsyaGVcDBxF390s0_5aSjuHQIepAA 5ZvcO_M6C3u8qFk7XJXpxbDfHhkFaX2wrZfw== , January 1, 2012 With minimal media debate, at a time when Americans were celebrating the New Year with their loved ones, the National Defense Authorization Act H.R. 1540 was signed into law by President Barack Obama. The actual signing took place in Hawaii on the 31st of December. According to Obama's signing statement, the threat of Al Qaeda to the Security of the Homeland constitutes a justification for repealing fundamental rights and freedoms, with a stroke of the pen. The controversial signing statement (see transcript below) is a smokescreen. Obama says he disagrees with the NDAA but he signs it into law. [I have] serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, interrogation, and prosecution of suspected terrorists. Obama implements Police State USA, while acknowledging that certain provisions of the NDAA are unacceptable. If such is the case, he could have either vetoed the NDAA (H.R. 1540) or sent it back to Congress with his objections. The National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540) is Obama's New Year's Gift to the American People. He justifies the signing of the NDAA as a means to combating terrorism, as part of a counter-terrorism agenda. But in substance, any American opposed to the policies of the US government can --under the provisions of the NDAA-- be labelled a suspected terrorist and arrested under military detention. Moreover, I want to clarify that my Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation. My Administration will interpret section 1021 in a manner that ensures that any detention it authorizes complies with the Constitution, the laws of war, and all other applicable law. Barack Obama is a lawyer (a graduate from Harvard Law School). He knows fair well that his signing statement --which parrots his commitment to democracy-- is purely cosmetic. It has no force of law. The signing statement does not in any way invalidate or modify the actual signing by President Obama of NDAA (H.R. 1540) into law. Democratic Dictatorship in America The National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540) repeals the US Constitution. While the facade of democracy prevails, supported by media propaganda, the American republic is fractured. The tendency is towards the establishment of a totalitarian State, a military government dressed in civilian clothes. The passage of NDAA is intimately related to Washington's global military agenda. The military pursuit of Worldwide hegemony also requires the Militarization of the Homeland, namely the demise of the American Republic. In substance, the signing statement is intended to mislead Americans and provide a democratic face to the President as well as to the unfolding post-911 Military Police State apparatus. The most important traditions and values in derogation of the US Constitution have indeed been repealed, effective on New Year's Day, January 1st 2012. The NDAA Authorizes the Arbitrary and Indefinite Military Detention of American Citizens. The Lessons of History This New Year's Eve December 31, 2011 signing of the NDAA will indelibly go down as a landmark in American history. If we are to put this in a comparative historical context, the relevant provisions of the NDAA HR 1540 are, in many regards, comparable to those contained in the
[LAAMN] Sin! Spin! SPIN!!!!
Round and round and round we go. Depends on what you definition of Spin is, eh? Bottom of page three has a rather nice summary. http://www.ironictimes.com/0590-p3.html --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Rose Parade
Thousands of us are waiting to see video coverage for the OWS at the end of the Rose Parade. There wasn't anything on the Main Stream 1% Corporate Media, (Duh) and I'm seeing editors all over the place asking for links and such, as they aren't finding anything. Anyone here who can send some links ASAP? Scott --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] Ron Paul - STORMFRONT (videos of Ron Paul at Events)
I was sure this was an alternate media site, not a reinforcement of the Fascist system we presently live in. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ I'm definable not a Ron Paul supporter myself. he is though, in his agenda, a supporter of most of the things alternate media and those who support America's Social structure, are against, just as the Republican and Democrat Parties have OPERATED as (verses the sweet nothings we hear constantly). Ron Paul - STORMFRONT (videos of Ron Paul at Events) http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t852447/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] STORMFRONT FOUNDER: RON PAUL'S VIEWS COINCIDE WITH OURS ON MOST ISSUES
I was sure this was an alternate media site, not a reinforcement of the Fascist system we presently live in. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ I'm definable not a Ron Paul supporter myself. he is though, in his agenda, a supporter of most of the things alternate media and those who support America's Social structure, are against, just as the Republican and Democrat Parties have OPERATED as (verses the sweet nothings we hear constantly). STORMFRONT FOUNDER: RON PAUL'S VIEWS COINCIDE WITH OURS ON MOST ISSUES (above): Don Black (above l to r): Ron Paul with owners of Stormfront, Don and Derek Black Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) received an unwanted endorsement on Tuesday when Don Black, the founder of the white nationalist group Stormfront, told The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur that he supported Paul's presidential candidacy. Paul has recently been plagued by racist, hate-filled newsletters that were published under his name. The newsletters were published about 20 years ago and contained a number of incendiary comments about African-Americans, gays and Israel. All of the newsletters featured his name, but Paul has said he did not edit or write the controversial language, and disavowed it. He's clearly not a white nationalist, he does not have the same worldview we do, Black told Cenk. But we agree with his stand on the issues, which we believe are heartfelt, coincide with ours. I might prefer that he understand the racial issues that we deal with a little more than he does. We believe that white people in this country and all European countries, Australia, Canada are facing a form of genocide through assimilation. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] Ron Paul Lies About Lack Of Involvement With White Nationalists
I was sure this was an alternate media site, not a reinforcement of the Fascist system we presently live in. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ I'm definable not a Ron Paul supporter myself. he is though, in his agenda, a supporter of most of the things alternate media and those who support America's Social structure, are against, just as the Republican and Democrat Parties have OPERATED as (verses the sweet nothings we hear constantly). Ron Paul Lies About Lack of Involvement with White Nationalists http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=63682 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] CRONYISM: Great graphics
Here are a list of names that anyone who follows the money, should never lose. You wonder why such terrible legislation is continually passed for We the Taxpayers, and Corporate Welfare abounds? Well who in the public sector is telling you this? Some of these names will look very familiar to those of us who've followed the money over the years. If you willingly purchase products from any of these corporations, you are FINANCING the best Government Money Can Buy, and should be proud of your investments... but if your not proud of your investments, at least it is something you can change. What it's missing is a list of those that operate the Think Tanks that decide what propaganda you get via the news, and what THEIR bought and paid for Political Representatives, tell you and I. Yup, we're living in a time of two wolves and a lamb voting on what is for dinner, and the fearful lamb thinks it is some other wolf that is going to eat it so does what ever it's wolves tell it to do. Scott Here are some great graphics (Venn diagrams) which help clarify the problem of Cronyism in our government. This is a big problem. -- Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 --- _http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.jpg_ (http://i.imgur.com/PVpFY.jpg) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] Re: [actionla] KPFK Programming Stinks!
No problem with this though? today's edition of Deadline L.A. Scott Don't fully understand exactly what the entire complaint is since there are so many great and diverse progressive programs on KPFK all week long. And fundraising is a REAL necessity. We need to support KPFK and Pacifica fully. Jerry Rubin On Dec 26, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Tom Louie wrote: I just listened to today's edition of Deadline L.A. The commentators were, respectively, writers for the L.A. Times and the Daily News, pontificating about the biggest local stories of 2011. In just one hour, they managed to insult not only all politically active Angelenos but the very city they live in, in at least half-a-dozen ways: from praising LAUSD Superintendent John The Contract Slicer Deasy, to smugly asserting that only fringe-y people were opposed to the stadium project because anything that brings jobs is good, to snarking Occupy L.A., did that amount to a hill of beans? They further demonstrated their shallowness by putting the Occupy movement completely in the context of media coverage, without attempting to examine the underlying reasons for the Occupy movement. Their comments on the contrast between the City Council's resolution of support and the later forced removal and brutalization of the Occupiers came down to this: That's why I love L.A.! It's all just a spectator sport to these media whores. This exchange perfectly demonstrates why it is necessary to occupy the mainstream media as well. And by the way, isn't KPFK supposed to provide an alternative to the Times and the Daily News?? Why are these superficial clowns on the people's radio station? And since when did snarkiness equal intelligent commentary? This is a perfect example of why I only listen to KPFK on weekends, and maybe not for very much longer. As a teacher, I like to listen to Uncle Ruthie's Halfway Down The Stairs, the ONLY children's show on the station; as a devotee of folk music, I like to wake up early to hear Alive and Pickin', whose host is apparently quitting; and as a science buff, I like to hear Michio Kaku's Explorations, the ONLY general science program on the station, which has been moved and rescheduled to the point where no one can find it anymore. Most of these programs are knocked off the air during fund drives, so that we can hear 24-7 broadcasting about cancer cures. I think this fund drive programming strategy is backfiring, because I never listen during fund drives anymore, and never subscribe except in the name of Uncle Ruthie's show. I'm not at the point yet where I want to boycott the station, but maybe someone out there who feels as I do can use my strategy: subscribe ONLY in the name of a cancelled or mistreated program! Tomaisin**NEW Activist Tools from ActionLA!** http://www.ActivistVideo.org An Activist-Run Video Sharing Page! == ActionLA Action for World Liberation Everyday! Tel: (213)403-0131 URL: http://www.ActionLA.org e-mail: i...@actionla.org To join the list, send e-mail to: actionla-subscr...@lists.riseup.net or visit: http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/actionla To unsubscribe from the list, send e-mail to: actionla-unsubscr...@lists.riseup.ne *Please post your protest, community event and news at ActionLA!* To add your event, please go: http://actionla.org/user/addevents.php To publish your announcement and community news, please visit: http://actionla.org/user/publish.php **WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Please support our important works of ActionLA! Send your donations to: ActionLA P.O. Box 751 South Pasadena, CA 91031-0751 (at the memo line write donations to ActionLA/AFGJ, all donations are tax deductible) For Credit Card donations, please visit: http://www.actionla.org/Donation.htm [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com
Re: [LAAMN] Re: [actionla] KPFK Programming Stinks!
These are the same complaints over the last 4-6 years I get from people who've supported their stations in Berkley and New York. NPR is now known a National Propaganda Radio. That progression was accomplished in GWB's first term. Corporate funding for our public voices has brought it to the same place our Universities are having troubles with, speak out and the Big Money, who these radio stations and universities can't operate without out due to the consistent cutting of OUR tax dollars to OUR Media and educational facilities, gets the Corporate donors stating, 'if you say that, then I'll not give any more funding, how are you going to make payroll then?', does that explain why there is so much jack in the box science denouncing global warming? It was the same thing the Military Industrial Complex did in the early 1970's. They were not allowed to own a majority of any radio or news paper, so they bought up controlling interests in 'the advertisers'. All Breakfast cereals and home products companies are not either out right owned by the MIC, or controlled to the point that they would cut off advertising for 30 days, would bankrupt any news outlet but of course the International Bankers had made sure they owned via loans, the news outlets before the MIC got into this more then lucrative deal. You and I are now forced to pay with our tax dollars, for the bilge we wanted alternative media for. There is a Right and Left media these days, the left if far right, and the right is extremely fascist right. Scott Since you evidently didn't read my message, past the title, these are my main complaints: 1) Unique and diverse programs have been made hard to find or have been truncated 2) The fund drive strategy is backfiring, because the aforementioned unique and diverse programs are routinely cancelled and the schedule is completely and wholly given over to junk (including junk science) that I don't want to hear 3) Why should we support an alternative station that puts on the air those same 1% media voices that we tuned in to KPFK to get away from in the first place?? There now, is that clear enough for you? --- On Mon, 12/26/11, Jerry Rubin jerrypeaceactivistru...@earthlink.net wrote: From: Jerry Rubin jerrypeaceactivistru...@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [actionla] KPFK Programming Stinks! To: freepaclf...@yahoo.com Cc: actio...@lists.riseup.net, LAAMN la...@egroups.com, peacecen...@yahoogroups.com, laamn@yahoogroups.com Date: Monday, December 26, 2011, 10:35 PM Don't fully understand exactly what the entire complaint is since there are so many great and diverse progressive programs on KPFK all week long. And fundraising is a REAL necessity. We need to support KPFK and Pacifica fully. Jerry Rubin On Dec 26, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Tom Louie wrote: I just listened to today's edition of Deadline L.A. The commentators were, respectively, writers for the L.A. Times and the Daily News, pontificating about the biggest local stories of 2011. In just one hour, they managed to insult not only all politically active Angelenos but the very city they live in, in at least half-a-dozen ways: from praising LAUSD Superintendent John The Contract Slicer Deasy, to smugly asserting that only fringe-y people were opposed to the stadium project because anything that brings jobs is good, to snarking Occupy L.A., did that amount to a hill of beans? They further demonstrated their shallowness by putting the Occupy movement completely in the context of media coverage, without attempting to examine the underlying reasons for the Occupy movement. Their comments on the contrast between the City Council's resolution of support and the later forced removal and brutalization of the Occupiers came down to this: That's why I love L.A.! It's all just a spectator sport to these media whores. This exchange perfectly demonstrates why it is necessary to occupy the mainstream media as well. And by the way, isn't KPFK supposed to provide an alternative to the Times and the Daily News?? Why are these superficial clowns on the people's radio station? And since when did snarkiness equal intelligent commentary? This is a perfect example of why I only listen to KPFK on weekends, and maybe not for very much longer. As a teacher, I like to listen to Uncle Ruthie's Halfway Down The Stairs, the ONLY children's show on the station; as a devotee of folk music, I like to wake up early to hear Alive and Pickin', whose host is apparently quitting; and as a science buff, I like to hear Michio Kaku's Explorations, the ONLY general science program on the station, which has been moved and rescheduled to the point where no one can find it anymore. Most of these programs are knocked off the air during fund drives, so that we can hear 24-7 broadcasting about cancer cures. I think this fund drive programming strategy is backfiring, because I never listen during fund drives anymore, and never
[LAAMN] Charleston Voice: Israel Caught Selling 69 US Patriot Missiles to Red China NEWS THAT PROBABLY WON'T BE SEEN BY AMERICANS]
All the news that fit to go worldwide (but not in the USA). This is just over 3 days old as I send it Dec 26th, 2011. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/12/23/breaking-patriot-missiles-seized-sold-to-china-by-israel/ http://poorrichards-blog.blogspot.com/2011/12/breaking-patriot-missiles-seized-sold.html Charleston Voice Archived editorial repository for unflinching Americanism. Emphasis on sovereignty reacquisition and retention. Restoration of sound money and individual liberties by electing those honoring their sworn oaths of office to our Constitution. Click on red palmetto flag for its full history. Greatest Card Trick Ever1,100-year-old Mayan ruins found in North Georgia, USAThe Coming Fed Bailout of Europe Must Be Stopped! by Ron PaulDebunking The Anti-Paul Messages Gold: How High Is Up? US$5,000? Confiscation?Capital One Accused of Illegally Suing Bankrupt AmericansTwo Thirds of U.S. Foreign Aid is Really Military AidYen-Yuan Trade Plan to Cut Dollar Dependence of China, JapanBull Markets, Buying Opportunities, and GoldSeriously Silver + Grab this Widget on Way2Blogging Friday, December 23, 2011 Israel Caught Selling 69 US Patriot Missiles to Red China UPDATE VIDEO: Finland 'Finds Patriot Missiles' Smuggled On China-Bound Ship - video Iron Dome Defense Missiles Seized by Finland, Labeled Fireworks 69 Newest Patriot Missiles Seized on MS Thor Liberty By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor Finnish authorities have confirmed the seizure of 69 Patriot missiles manufactured by Raytheon Corporation today. During a routine search of the MS Thor Liberty, a ship flagged by the Isle of Man, at the Finnish port of Kotka, authorities found 69 Patriot missiles capable of a type capable of intercepting ICBMs, the most modern available and Americas most sensitive military technology. The next stop for this cargo, valued at over $4 billion even without the associated radar, which may well have been shipped via some other method, was Shanghai, China. The US and Israel had scheduled an air defense exercise this week but no Patriot missiles were to be shipped to Israel as part of their mission, DOD sources indicate. This weeks exercise was to use Patriot missiles deployed from American ships in the eastern Mediterranean to test Israeli missile defenses. Reports indicate that all missiles for this exercise have been accounted for. These units, the most advanced Patriot system had only been supplied to nation, Israel. The 69 Patiot ICBM interceptors are believed to be a highly secret consignment demanded by Israel as protection from any retaliatory strike by Iran were war to break out in the region, Instead of deploying them, the missiles were apparently sold to China labeled as fireworks accoring to Interior Minister Paivi Rasanen. Though the missiles themselves were worth only $4 billion, the technology transfer itself would be worth over $125 billion, and represent a signficant loss of defense capability for the United States. Sources termed it, An absolute disaster, even if they only received the radar systems alone, much less the missiles. That this would go unreported though the story was broken in Europe 48 hours ago is astounding. Nobody in Washington has this although even the BBC report contains more than enough information to bring Washington to a halt. DOD sources indicate that it would be unusual for these missiles to be moved without radar and launch facilities to have been moved in advance. It was also indicated that the Department of Defense denies shipping any such missies to Germany or anywhere else in Europe, labeled as fireworks or anything else. The owner of the ship of record is Thorco Shipping. Their representative, Thomas Mikkelsen said he was unaware any such cargo was onboard his vessel. Claims were made that the missiles were destined for South Korea but an examination of documentation indicated that there were no South Korean ports scheduled. Additionally, the liklihood that the US government would ship its most valuable and secret missile technology through Germany mislabeled as fireworks rather than on a C 17 under miltiary security supports the Finnish claim. Finnish police say they opened all 69 units, are recording serial numbers and have been unable to find any documentation indicating the real ownership of the seized cargo. Detective Superintendent Timo Virtanen of the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is in charge of the case. He has stated: Actually, in our investigation at the moment, we have got the information that we found 69 Patriot missiles on the ship and around 160 tonnes of explosives. The explosives are identified as nitroguandine, a low sensitivity explosive with a very high detonation speed. These explosives have several uses, among them launching shipboard or submarine launched missiles or in the development and testing of nuclear weapons design. Finnish authorities indicate
Re: [LAAMN] THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE, and a short piece about it.
Reading more on this recently (My Grandfather was in one of those Christmas Truces) I note that universally, it was the Germans who asked for the Christmas Truce, it was the Germans who offered the first gifts. So much for demonizing a people, for following their leaders, whoa re following the wishes of those who want other peoples resources to resell, at a lower purchase price. Peace on Earth to all, of course that will mean not following those that want you to bring misery to your fellow humans, for a few dollars more. My Grandfather was also one of the Ministers that attended the Bonus Army in Washington DC, he left when Congress passed giving them their pay, before OUR PRESIDENT turned the ARMY Loose on OUR Veterans, when the Senate supported the Corporations over our Vets (as they have in every war including the Revolutionary War with Britain). Follow the money, or Follow Peace. Scott THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE By Aaron Shepard mailto:a...@aaronshep.com a...@aaronshep.com Copyright (c) 2001, 2003 by Aaron Shepard. May be freely copied and shared for any noncommercial purpose, but please do not omit any text, including this notice. ABOUT THE STORY: The Christmas Truce of 1914 is one of the most remarkable incidents of World War I and perhaps of all military history. Starting in some places on Christmas Eve and in others on Christmas Day, the truce covered as much as two- thirds of the British-German front, with thousands of soldiers taking part. Perhaps most remarkably, it grew out of no single initiative but sprang up in each place spontaneously and independently. Nearly everything described here is drawn from first-hand accounts in letters and diaries of the time. Britishisms include using Nowell instead of Noel, and football instead of soccer. Visit my home page at http://www.aaronshep.com to learn more about the story, get a copy in Web format, find a reader's theater script version, read more stories, or contact the author. -- Aaron _ Christmas Day, 1914 My dear sister Janet, It is 2:00 in the morning and most of our men are asleep in their dugouts -- yet I could not sleep myself before writing to you of the wonderful events of Christmas Eve. In truth, what happened seems almost like a fairy tale, and if I hadn't been through it myself, I would scarce believe it. Just imagine: While you and the family sang carols before the fire there in London, I did the same with enemy soldiers here on the battlefields of France! As I wrote before, there has been little serious fighting of late. The first battles of the war left so many dead that both sides have held back until replacements could come from home. So we have mostly stayed in our trenches and waited. But what a terrible waiting it has been! Knowing that any moment an artillery shell might land and explode beside us in the trench, killing or maiming several men. And in daylight not daring to lift our heads above ground, for fear of a sniper's bullet. And the rain -- it has fallen almost daily. Of course, it collects right in our trenches, where we must bail it out with pots and pans. And with the rain has come mud -- a good foot or more deep. It splatters and cakes everything, and constantly sucks at our boots. One new recruit got his feet stuck in it, and then his hands too when he tried to get out -- just like in that American story of the tar baby! Through all this, we couldn't help feeling curious about the German soldiers across the way. After all, they faced the same dangers we did, and slogged about in the same muck. What's more, their first trench was only 50 yards from ours. Between us lay No Man's Land, bordered on both sides by barbed wire -- yet they were close enough we sometimes heard their voices. Of course, we hated them when they killed our friends. But other times, we joked about them and almost felt we had something in common. And now it seems they felt the same. Just yesterday morning -- Christmas Eve Day -- we had our first good freeze. Cold as we were, we welcomed it, because at least the mud froze solid. Everything was tinged white with frost, while a bright sun shone over all. Perfect Christmas weather. During the day, there was little shelling or rifle fire from either side. And as darkness fell on our Christmas Eve, the shooting stopped entirely. Our first complete silence in months! We hoped it might promise a peaceful holiday, but we didn't count on it. We'd been told the Germans might attack and try to catch us off guard. I went to the dugout to rest, and lying on my cot, I must have drifted asleep. All at once my friend John was shaking me awake, saying, Come and see! See what the Germans are doing! I grabbed my rifle, stumbled out into the trench, and stuck my head cautiously above the sandbags. I never hope to see a stranger and more lovely sight. Clusters of tiny lights were shining all
[LAAMN] How to decorate your local Obama campaign office for Christmas [1 Attachment]]
(Ah yes, it's what they do, not the sweet 'nothings' they whisper in our ears at sElection time, that matters - Scott) How to decorate your local Obama campaign office for Christmas http://warisacrime.org/content/how-decorate-your-local-obama-campaign-office-christmas SOURCE h/t Coleen Rowley who FaceBooked: We went to Obama's Campaign Headquarters in the Twin Cities to speak out against the NDAA and ask Obama to veto this codification of unconstitutional war on terror tactics. We don't need a police state for Christmas!! After the rally, everyone taped their signs to the outside of Obama's campaign office windows. -- David Swanson is the author of When the World Outlawed War, War Is A Lie and Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. He blogs at http://davidswanson.org/ and http://warisacrime.org/ and works for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org/ ___ Activists mailing list Post: activi...@lists.mayfirst.org List info (to subscribe or unsubscribe): https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/activists To Unsubscribe via email Send email to: activists-unsubscr...@lists.mayfirst.org Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/activists/markadamsjdmba%40hotmail.com To Subscribe via email Send email to: activists-subscr...@lists.mayfirst.org You are subscribed as: markadamsjd...@hotmail.com ___ Activists mailing list Post: activi...@lists.mayfirst.org List info (to subscribe or unsubscribe): https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/activists To Unsubscribe via email Send email to: activists-unsubscr...@lists.mayfirst.org Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/activists/markadamsjdmba%40hotmail.com To Subscribe via email Send email to: activists-subscr...@lists.mayfirst.org You are subscribed as: markadamsjd...@hotmail.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Privatizing Money
WHAT THE EUROPEAN BANKS GOT FOR CHRISTMAS. Yesterday, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that it will hand out $645,000,000,000 in three-year loans to European banks. Which the ECB printed out of thin air, like Monopoly money! The interest rate will be one percent per year. The ECB will not be lending this money to the Government of Greece, even though that government is running a budget deficit of just under 10% of GDP ? and the Greek GDP dropped by 5% this year. The Government of Greece is now paying 37% per year on its ten-year bonds, when it can borrow anything at all. The ECB will not be lending this money to the people of Spain, even though official unemployment in Spain is now at 23%. Spain?s Economy Minister said recently that ?Spain faces its deepest recession in half a century.? Tough luck; their Christmas tree has nothing under it. And when the European banks get this $645 billion, to whom will the banks be lending? Anybody, or nobody. No strings attached. They can borrow from the ECB at 1%, lend it back to the German Government at 2%, lock in that profit, and take the next three years off. I just have one question. Why? The world continues to face the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression. Unemployment throughout Europe is over ten percent. Entire national governments are on the verge of going broke. Why would anyone think that THE THING THAT WE HAVE TO DO RIGHT NOW is to hand out $645 billion in more funny money to the banks? In Europe or anywhere else? The ECB is a public institution. How can it possibly justify yet another bailout for selfish private interests, while the public is sent straight to hell? If a Martian were to land in Paris today, and just read the headlines of the newspapers today, he could reach only one conclusion. That there has been a coup in Europe, the banks are now in charge, and they?re grabbing everything that they can get their hands on. Mark my words: at some point, people are just not going to take it anymore. Courage, Alan Grayson P.S. On a more positive note, a very sizable number of you answered the call on Tuesday. In less than three hours, you helped us to meet our $500,000 fundraising goal for the quarter. To all those who helped, thank you. To anyone who didn?t, it?s not too late; you can still click that Contribute button below. And to everyone, from Aaron to Zuzzana, Happy Holidays. Paid for and Authorized by the Committee to Elect Alan Grayson 8419 Oak Park Road, Orlando, FL 32819 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] FOCUS: Why I Voted Against the Homeland Battlefield Bill OUT OF 536 I CAN LIST THE GOOD GUYS ON ONE SIDE OF RULED PAPER. FRANKEN IS ONE.] [1 Attachment]]
Last first, from the excerpts of this article. Yesterday was the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, and this wasn't the way to mark its birthday. Personally I don't think it was a mistake that this happened on BILL OF RIGHTS DAY day anymore then in 1984 we turned the process of funding our elections over to the Mega International Corporations, under the guise of 'campaign finance reform' and all politicians who opposed it and pointed out it was going to deliver the opposite of what the writers and media said were vilified, accused of sexual misconduct and child molestation, only after the Corporate financing of our elections bill passed, were the charges against them dropped for no evidence'. Big Brother hasn't even bothered to hide what he is doing since those dark days, long after these freedom protection 'inching actions' Senator Franken mentions in this article, as the media has been proven to be a complete protection system for them, as after all, it is their voice, not ours that is in the Multi National Mega Media. Scott http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/8950-focus-why-i-voted-against-the-homeland-battlefield-bill Why I Voted Against the Homeland Battlefield Bill By Sen. Al Franken, Reader Supported News 17 December 11 Yesterday, the Senate passed a bill that includes provisions on detention that I found simply unacceptable. These provisions are inconsistent with the liberties and freedoms that are at the core of the system our Founders established. And while I did in fact vote for an earlier version of the legislation, I did so with the hope that the final version would be significantly improved. That didn't happen, and so I could not support the final bill. The bill that passed on Thursday included several problematic provisions, the worst of which could allow the military to detain Americans indefinitely, without charge or trial, even if they're captured in the U.S. At their core, these provisions will radically alter how we investigate, arrest, and detain individuals suspected of terrorism. What's more, they could undermine the safety of our troops stationed abroad, and they introduce new and unnecessary uncertainty into our counterterrorism efforts. . The Founders who crafted our Constitution and Bill of Rights were careful to draft a Constitution of limited powers - one that would protect Americans' liberty at all times - both in war, and in peace. As we reflect on what this bill will do, I think it is important to pause and remember some of the mistakes this country has made when we have been fearful of enemy attack. Most notably, we made a grave, indefensible mistake during World War II, when President Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of more than 110,000 people of Japanese origin, as well as approximately 11,000 German-Americans and 3,000 Italian-Americans. In 1971, President Richard Nixon signed into law the Non-Detention Act to make sure the U.S. government would never again subject any Americans to the unnecessary and unjustifiable imprisonment that so many Japanese-Americans, German-Americans, and Italian-Americans had to endure. It wasn't until 1988, 46 years after the internment, when President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, that the government formally acknowledged and apologized for the grave injustice that was done to citizens and permanent residents of Japanese ancestry. These were dark, dark periods in American history. And it is easy today to think that is all behind us. But I fear the detention provisions in the bill forget the lessons we learned from the mistakes we made when we interned thousands of innocent Japanese, Germans, and Italians. With this defense authorization act, Congress will, for the first time in 60 years, authorize the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens without charge or trial, according to its advocates. This would be the first time that Congress has deviated from President Nixon's Non-Detention Act. And what we are talking about here is that Americans could be subjected to life imprisonment without ever being charged, tried, or convicted of a crime, without ever having an opportunity to prove their innocence to a judge or a jury of their peers. And without the government ever having to prove their guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. I think that denigrates the very foundations of this country. It denigrates the Bill of Rights. It denigrates what our Founders intended when they created a civilian, non-military justice system for trying and punishing people for crimes committed on U.S. soil. Our Founders were fearful of the military-and they purposely created a system of checks and balances to ensure we did not become a country under military rule. This bill undermines that core principle, which is why I could not support it. Yesterday was the anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, and this wasn't the way to mark its birthday. THE REST NEED TO GO TO THE
[LAAMN] How Did Your Members of Congress Do this Year? [1 Attachment]]
Hey hey hey.. they can run, but they can't hide.. and it is sElection Season, Get yer Politician 'dirty deeds, done dirt cheap' exposing license here...does your representative smell as sweet as the media tells you? I wonder if anyone reading this has a Rep that isn't a negative score. This one is well worth bookmarking and keeping around for EASY TO USE! reference. I suggest after looking at it, get on their list, and then share this mail. The web link after my name is the easiest way to read it. Scott http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/641/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=1233441 Whether or not you're interested in the Palestinian/Israeli situastion you may find this Interactive 112th Congressional Report Card of interest. Subject: How Did Your Members of Congress Do this Year? Reply-To: uscampa...@endtheoccupation.org Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Find Out on Our New Interactive Congressional Report Card Dear , Did YOUR Representative sponsor a resolution encouraging Israel to annex the Palestinian West Bank? Did YOUR Senators vote to sanction Palestinians for seeking UN membership? Find out now on our new and improved, interactive 112th Congressional Report Card. We've had Congressional Report Cards for ten years now, but you've probably never seen one like this before. It lets you slice and dice all the details as you want to see them. Check out this amazing new educational resource right now! Our report card confirms what's already known by anyone who saw Members of Congress madly cheer during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rejectionist address to Congress earlier this year; namely, that Congress, on the whole, horribly and unapologetically supports Israeli occupation and apartheid against Palestinians. We've selected six items from the Senate and 11 from the House that will give you a good overview of the types of bills, resolutions, and Dear Colleague letters that have preoccupied Members of Congress this year in defining U.S. policy on Israel/Palestine. It's not an exhaustive list because, well, that would be just too mind-numbing. We've omitted dozens of repetitive or fringe initiatives to give you instead an easily digestible overview. After you check out our new, interactive report card, we're sure you'll agree that we still have A LOT of work to educate Members of Congress to change their voting to support a U.S. policy toward Palestine/Israel based on human rights, international law, and equality. It's certainly not going to be an easy task, especially given all the Israel lobby PAC funds that Members of Congress receive to literally jump up and down at Netanyahu's beck and call. But who said that political change is easy? We hope that--after viewing our Congressional Report Card and yelling at your computer screen over the outrage of it all--you'll roll up your sleeves and devote yourself in 2012 to becoming a Congressional District Coordinator and help us organize and mobilize in your Congressional District to educate these Members of Congress who obviously need to be schooled. Get started on exploring our new report card by watching this two- minute instructional video to get a sense of how to use all the interactive features to find the information that most interests you. Above: Click to watch our quick how-to video. We'll be updating this report card frequently, so bookmark it, refer back to it often, and, while you're at it, share it with your friends by posting it to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media you use. A huge thanks to our fall intern Amanda McQuade and Steering Committee Co-chair Peter Miller for their research and technical expertise in assembling and displaying this great new resource. Onwards, Josh Ruebner National Advocacy Director PS: We can produce high-quality educational resources like our new Congressional Report Card because of the generous support we receive from people like you. If you value the work we do to educate and organize people to change U.S. policy toward Palestine/Israel to support human rights, international law, and equality, then please make your year-end tax-deductible donation right now! Thank you for your support. Take these actions, P: 1. Learn how to use our new interactive Congressional Report Card 2. Use it! Support Palestinian farmers. Shop our store: Follow Us: Facebook Twitter YouTube Blog Vimeo Back to Top The US Campaign aims to change U.S. policies that sustain Israel's 44-year occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, and that deny equal rights for all. ABOUT | TAKE ACTION | GET INVOLVED | STORE | DONATE | RESOURCES | MEDIA | | FORWARD TO A FRIEND US CAMPAIGN TO END THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION | PO BOX 21539 | WASHINGTON, DC 20009 202-332-0994 | uscampa...@endtheoccupation.org | WWW.ENDTHEOCCUPATION.ORG
[LAAMN] 02-02-2012
THE DAY: 02-02-2012 In the coming New Year, 2012, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day. This is an ironic juxtaposition of events. One involves a meaningless ritual in which we look to an insignificant creature of little intelligence for prognostication. The other involves a groundhog. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Re:House Vote, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
Oh Look! Were back up to 22% of those in Federal Elected Office actually representing the Citizens of this nation! Much better then the 12-16% we've had for most of the last 2 decades. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h2011-375 But of course never enough to ever effect stopping anti American, Police State Pro Perpetual War legislation form passing. The Media only will tell you about the Corporate shills, and allowing a non threatening percentage to remain in office allows the Corporate Folks to say, what'cha complaining about, you have representatives... Take a look and see if the person you voted for, votes against your best interest, and then see if you have the dreaded disease, 'Gonnarelectem'. My Rep (when I clicked on her name in the list on the left, Nancy Pelosi) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400314 Is listed as a Centrist Dem, which is a Orwellain word for Police State/Perpetual War Supporter, and in messages I got during the Iraq War run up, told me 'it is simply good business, the Corporations moved the jobs out of silicone valley to over seas, we should be greatful, the Military Industrial Complex didn't do that also, and offers my constituents jobs.' I thought it was a rather logical/expected response form a Psycho to me about why we shouldn't invade Iraq. She's such a sweetle.Not. I just love her straight talk, as evidenced by her financial disclosure; Nancy Pelosis net worth was between $-7,356,915 and $124,229,990 in 2007, according to Pelosis mandated financial disclosure statements. Please let me know if your one of the lucky few who have a representative that represents you Odds are no ones hear their name or that they don't ahve any lucrative jobs within Congress/Senate, but at least they can cast a minor vote for us against the 'Centrist' Fascists. Ahh, don't ya love the holiday season when few people pay attention to policies and thew worst of the worst of the anti US Citizen legislation traditionally passed before our sElected Officials go home to enjoy their ill gotten perks? If Nothing changes, then Nothing changes! Happy Holidays! Scott Yahoo! Groups Links --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] The cop group coordinating the Occupy crackdowns | San Francisco Bay Guardian
excerpts, as if I couldn't have guessed but I'm surprised the information 'leaked' out. Yeah INTERNATIONAL NON GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION. duh, the .01% who are who control 80% of the WORLDS wealth are those the OWS is targeting, those who manage countries economies for surplus then depression to maximize their profits, of course, would fund a defense organization. This is so much more SOURCE then looking at even the US Military sending local police departments supplies to deal with people who are supporting the US Constitution and demanding it work for them. Remember, these are PRIVATE GROUPS telling the Police Chiefs and Mayors of the USA how to deal with people exercising their Constitutional rights, and we have a right to be heard AND ANSWERED. Now ask yourself, who funds these Police Militarization Think Tanks whose sole purpose is to keep those that would speak out, brutalized and illegally criminalized. And Obama, the self professed Constitutional Lawyer, saying that the local mayors have to figure out how to deal with the protestors. HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM? Oh Yeah, talk is always the last option only if it appears your going to lose, Obama, the 1% front man? Does he just have a nicer way of saying our Constitution is just a god dammed piece of paper? Is that what he meant by Constitutional lawyer? There's more, lots more if you watch for key things like whose in charge and where the money comes from to effects our government from the private sector, in fact, isn't it those who control the most thieving part of the violent sector we're protesting? Scott an international non-governmental organization with ties to law enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been coordinating conference calls with major metropolitan mayors and police chiefs to advise them on policing matters and discuss response to the Occupy movement. The group has distributed a recently published guide on policing political events. Reports of at least a dozen cities and some indication of as many as 40 accepting PERF advice and/or strategic documents include San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Portland, Oakland, Atlanta, and Washington DC. PERF coordinated a November 10 conference call with city police chiefs across the country and many of these cities undertook crackdowns shortly afterward. We know that there were influential conference calls of private groups that include police chiefs who played key roles in repressing the anti-globalization movement, in order to stage rolling attacks on occupations across the country, http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/11/18/cop-group-coordinating-occupy-crackdowns [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Feds Order YouTube To Remove Government Criticism
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[LAAMN] Don't worry, be happy!
By Behrooz Rostampour The recession is over. The banks are healthy. Obama is progressive. Corporations are people. Your vote is counted. Giving trillions to Wall Street saved capitalism. The economic recovery is underway. Climate change is not yet understood. Health insurance reform equals health care. Mandating the purchase of private for-profit health insurance is textbook socialism. GM food is safe and healthy. GM seeds increase yields. Awarding a handful of companies the patent on all food will solve global hunger. The Patriot Act ensures your safety and protects your freedom. Hugo Chavez is a dictator. Ahmadinejad is a dictator. Dictators are not dictators when they open their markets to free trade and buy our treasuries. Our phones must be tapped without a warrant to keep us safe. Our emails must be tapped without a warrant to keep us safe. The government must be able to waterboard occasionally to keep us safe. We may need to be named enemy combatants in order to be safe. The president may need to order our execution, without due process, to keep us safe. Due process is how they make velveeta cheese. Habeas Corpus was only relevant in the 14th century. Tax cuts for billionaires stimulate the economy. Tax cuts for hedge funds and proprietary traders will create jobs. We must make the tax cuts permanent. Mortgages given to minorities were the cause of the housing bubble and collapse. Banks have paid back all their borrowed money. Mark to market accounting hid Bank of America?s prosperity. JP Morgan has no interest in keeping the price of silver low. The Free Market will lead to prosperity. The surge worked. Spending $300 billion to fight in Afghanistan, which has a GDP of $15 billion, is not evidence of war profiteering. We?re making steady progress in Afghanistan. A missile defense shield in former soviet republic countries protects them from non existent Iranian missiles. A missile defense shield in former soviet republic countries will not piss off Russia. Russia attacked South Ossetia. Iran has a nuclear weapons program. Iran has no right to a nuclear power program. The oil in the gulf is mostly gone. BP will stay until all the beaches are clean. The president of Honduras had planned a midnight pajama plane trip. Renewable energy is too expensive. Clean coal technology will power us for the next hundred years. Natural gas has no drawbacks plus you can drink it. Handing over public schools to hedge funds will improve education. Unions drag down all workers. There?s no light between Israel?s interests and ours. Building 7 may or may not have fallen and/or imploded and/or burned to the ground. The Pentagon has only one camera and five frames of film documenting the attack. The Pentagon does not need a full audit. The Federal Reserve does not need a full audit. An independent Federal Reserve is essential for price control and full employment. If QE 1 and QE 2 don?t revive the economy QE 3 and QE 4 most likely will. There?s no danger from the Fed increasing their balance sheet 250% in a couple years. The stock market is not manipulated by front-running high-speed computers. The banks are working to help save you from foreclosure. Austerity will liberate workers and reduce the national debt. Banks, hedge funds and bondholders must be repaid 100 cents on the dollar to ensure economic recovery. Social Security needs to be cut to rein in the deficit. Social security is broke when you discount the $2 trillion surplus and tens of millions of workers currently paying in. Medicare is despised by a majority of the country, humiliates senior citizens and may be taken over by the government. Getting IMF?ed is not going to be painful. The GAO has conclusively proven that single payer is the most costly health care delivery method by never providing an estimate. The media is controlled by liberals. A consolidated media is not a threat to democracy. The public airwaves do not need to be regulated. Handing the internet over to self-regulated telcos will assure neutrality. Assange is a terrorist. Assange is a rapist. Assange is a terrapist. Bradley Manning is a villain. Maintaining an ever growing empire and a flourishing democracy at home is very likely. Bloggers aren?t real journalists who use facts and reason to draw conclusions. Whoever controls the media controls the country. Period. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com
[LAAMN] Tell Me We Don't Live in an Orwellian Police State!
It was pointed out to me half a century ago, and I've found this statement to be very true. All Peace movements will be met with the utmost violence. Why? Because the most dangerous thing in the world to violent people, is Peace. ___ http://myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com/ My name is Patrick Meighan, and I'm a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom Family Guy, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other people at Occupy LA. I was sitting in City Hall Park with a pillow, a blanket, and a copy of Thich Nhat Hanh's Being Peace when 1,400 heavily-armed LAPD officers in paramilitary SWAT gear streamed in. I was in a group of about 50 peaceful protestors who sat Indian-style, arms interlocked, around a tent (the symbolic image of the Occupy movement). The LAPD officers encircled us, weapons drawn, while we chanted We Are Peaceful and We Are Nonviolent and Join Us. As we sat there, encircled, a separate team of LAPD officers used knives to slice open every personal tent in the park. They forcibly removed anyone sleeping inside, and then yanked out and destroyed any personal property inside those tents, scattering the contents across the park. They then did the same with the communal property of the Occupy LA movement. For example, I watched as the LAPD destroyed a pop-up canopy tent that, until that moment, had been serving as Occupy LA's First Aid and Wellness tent, in which volunteer health professionals gave free medical care to absolutely anyone who requested it. As it happens, my family had personally contributed that exact canopy tent to Occupy LA, at a cost of several hundred of my family's dollars. As I watched, the LAPD sliced that canopy tent to shreds, broke the telescoping poles into pieces and scattered the detritus across the park. Note that these were the objects described in subsequent mainstream press reports as 30 tons of garbage that was abandoned by Occupy LA: personal property forcibly stolen from us, destroyed in front of our eyes and then left for maintenance workers to dispose of while we were sent to prison. When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an LAPD officer would forcibly extend the protestor's legs, grab his left foot, twist it all the way around and then stomp his boot on the insole, pinning the protestor's left foot to the pavement, twisted backwards. Then the LAPD officer would grab the protestor's right foot and twist it all the way the other direction until the non-violent protestor, in incredible agony, would shriek in pain and unlink from his neighbor. It was horrible to watch, and apparently designed to terrorize the rest of us. At least I was sufficiently terrorized. I unlinked my arms voluntarily and informed the LAPD officers that I would go peacefully and cooperatively. I stood as instructed, and then I had my arms wrenched behind my back, and an officer hyperextended my wrists into my inner arms. It was super violent, it hurt really really bad, and he was doing it on purpose. When I involuntarily recoiled from the pain, the LAPD officer threw me face-first to the pavement. He had my hands behind my back, so I landed right on my face. The officer dropped with his knee on my back and ground my face into the pavement. It really, really hurt and my face started bleeding and I was very scared. I begged for mercy and I promised that I was honestly not resisting and would not resist. My hands were then zipcuffed very tightly behind my back, where they turned blue. I am now suffering nerve damage in my right thumb and palm. I was put on a paddywagon with other nonviolent protestors and taken to a parking garage in Parker Center. They forced us to kneel on the hard pavement of that parking garage for seven straight hours with our hands still tightly zipcuffed behind our backs. Some began to pass out. One man rolled to the ground and vomited for a long, long time before falling unconscious. The LAPD officers watched and did nothing. At 9 a.m. we were finally taken from the pavement into the station to be processed. The charge was sitting in the park after the police said not to. It's a misdemeanor. Almost always, for a misdemeanor, the police just give you a ticket and let you go. It costs you a couple hundred dollars. Apparently, that's what happened with most every other misdemeanor arrest in LA that day. With us Occupy LA protestors, however, they set bail at $5,000 and booked us into jail. Almost none of the protesters could afford to bail themselves out. I'm lucky and I could afford it, except the LAPD spent all day refusing to actually *accept* the bail
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 3 December, 2011
*LATIN AMERICA REBELS AGAINST THE EMPIRE * ** *Yesterday, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) met in Venezuela http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/02/celac-latin-american-carribean-states_n_1125831.html for the first time. The group was formed in opposition to US hegemony over the region since the Monroe Doctrine was implemented to authorize invasions of Latin America over the centuries, often imposing brutal dictatorships on the region in support of American corporate greed at the expense of the local peoples. We are sentencing the Monroe Doctrine to Death, said Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega. * ** *L.A. POLICE INFILTRATED OCCUPY LA BEFORE THE NIGHT RAID ON THEM * ** ***Los Angeles police used nearly a dozen undercover detectives to infiltrate the Occupy LA encampment before this week's raid to gather information on the anti-Wall Street protesters' intentions, begins a report in British news http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/03/occupy-la-undercover-detectives-raid this morning. * *Occupy groups should be warned that this practice is apparently taking place across the nation, as though the American people are the enemy for opposing corporate greed at any cost to the public interest. * *Anyone familiar with the protests knows that the General Assemblies are public, and anybody who wants to know what the groups are planning need only attend to find out what is taking place-- it is not like the government, which does most of its work in secret. * */LUV News/ is warning Occupy groups to be on the lookout for government officials trying to coax people into using bombs, as they have done repeatedly in the Muslim community. Our government has shown it will stoop to anything to get its agenda. Beware of anyone pushing violence. * *Millions of dollars are being spent by cities to spy on Occupy groups and attack them with brutal force, now commonly in the middle of the night to avoid being filmed or photographed, as cities ignore the millions of homeless and hungry, who are often being cared for by the Occupy groups. * *It should be obvious that the establishment is getting desperate as facts get out to the public around corporate media.* ** ** ** **I first became aware of Dr. Helen Caldicott when she was President of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and I edited a newsletter for PSR. She was well-admired in the organization, then dedicated entirely to opposing nuclear weapons. Helen would do anything to bring attention to the anti-nuke cause, even walking naked through the streets of San Francisco in 1999, with 50 others (including the famous Dr. Patch Adams, who's spoken at Freedom Plaza in the current Democracy Movement), chanting Nudes, not Nukes. It is pulling teeth to get even coverage of ongoing events that are life-threatening, into the corporate media, when they appear to threaten capitalist profits, but Helen pulled it off (no pun intended) that time. During my time on the newsletter I interviewed a number of admirals and generals who commanded large nuclear forces, scientists who made the bombs and arms control experts from the State Department who had negotiated the largest ever arms control treaties (these are the people who know where all the bombs are, how big they are, every detail). This has helped me greatly when we do a /LUV News/ story concerning strategic weapons systems, just as my background as a combat vet helps with the war stories (wonderful to be able to reply with this when I get emails from conservative critics asking What the hell do you know about war?). I'm proud to say in the entire history of /LUV News/ we have always opposed nuclear power along with the axis of evil W's of the related Nuclear Mafia http://luvnews.info/Mafia.htm --weapons, war and Wall Street. In fact, we haven't changed positions on anything http://luvnews.info/Belief.htm since we started, soon to be in our fourteenth year of LUV. Helen brings us up to date, following --Jack ** *After Fukushima: Enough Is Enough http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/02-11 * * * *by Helen Caldicott /author/helen-caldicott* *The nuclear power industry has been resurrected over the past decade by a lobbying campaign that has left many people believing it to be a clean, green, emission-free alternative to fossil fuels. These beliefs pose an extraordinary threat to global public health and encourage a major financial drain on national economies and taxpayers. The commitment to nuclear power as an environmentally safe energy source has also stifled the mass development of alternative technologies that are far cheaper, safer and almost emission free --- the future for global energy.* *When the Fukushima Daiichi reactors suffered meltdowns in
[LAAMN] The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today
This is NOT Universal Health Care. We the majority have always know that this was simply legislation MAKING PEOPLE PURCHASE THE INSURANCE COMPANIES PRODUCTS. And those paying attention know that only AMA doctors work for the Insurance Companies, and that over half the doctors in this country do NOT work for Insurance Companies, but your not being forced to do business with those who aren't going to profit, only those Corporate Doctors. Mussolini openly stated he fashioned his Fascism around the SUCCESSFUL US MODEL of the 1930's. for those who need the media to tell them what was happening then, it was the US Great Depression, the last time the Middle Class was destroyed and all their wealth flowed up to the top .02%. Mussolini stated that his Fascism should have been more appropriately called what it really was in operation, Corporatism, as it not only meant the nation would go to war for the resources of the Corporations that funded and directed the course of the Country, but that the general population would be FORCED TO PURCHASE THAT COUNTRIES PRODUCTS. Making corporations put 80% of what they are paid into health care (verses how it works in the US Government which is something like 93%) is just fine if someone WANTS to do business with a Private Industry. But to be FORCED to do business, or have the IRS come after you, to have the money forcibly taken out of your bank account, is Open Fascism. I wished the RW Neo nuts would get off this Socialism distraction crap, but then again they are funded by the same parties that fund the far left blind faith voters, those folk are simply herded and led to believe that the only 2 'viable' parties are opposites. Follow the money, doesn't lie. They bank on you not following it. There are no coincidences in Politics. Scott Rather good piece... read it through and smile! JJPoenam moratur improbus, non praeterit -Â The villain delays his punishment: he does not escape it. The Bomb Buried In Obamacare Explodes Today-Hallelujah! Rick Ungar, Contributor: www.forbes.com I have long argued that the impact of the Affordable Care Act is not nearly as big of a deal as opponents would have you believe. At the end of the day, the law is â in the main â little more than a successful effort to put an end to some of the more egregious health insurer abuses while creating an environment that should bring more Americans into programs that will give them at least some of the health care coverage they need. There is, however, one notable exception â and itâs one that should have a long lasting and powerful impact on the future of health care in our country. That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that requires health insurance companies to spend 80% of the consumersâ premium dollars they collectâ85% for large group insurersâon actual medical care rather than overhead, marketing expenses and profit. Failure on the part of insurers to meet this requirement will result in the insurers having to send their customers a rebate check representing the amount in which they underspend on actual medical care. This is the true âbombâ contained in Obamacare and the one item that will have more impact on the future of how medical care is paid for in this country than anything weâve seen in quite some time. Â Indeed, it is this aspect of the law that represents the true âdeath panelâ found in Obamacareâbut not one that is going to lead to the death of American consumers. Rather, the medical loss ratio will, ultimately, lead to the death of large parts of the private, for-profit health insurance industry. Why? Because there is absolutely no way for-profit health insurers are going to be able to learn how to get by and still make a profit while being forced to spend at least 80 percent of their receipts providing their customers with the coverage for which they paid. If they could, we likely would never have seen the extraordinary efforts made by these companies to avoid paying benefits to their customers at the very moment they need it the most. Today, that bomb goes off. Today, the Department of Health Human Services issues the rules of what insurer expenditures willâand will notâqualify as a medical expense for purposes of meeting the requirement. As it turns out, HHS isnât screwing around. They actually mean to see to it that the insurance companies spend what they should taking care of their customers. Hereâs an example: For months, health insurance brokers and salespeople have been lobbying to have the commissions they earn for selling an insurerâs program to consumers be included as a âmedical expenseâ for purposes of the rules. HHS has, today, given them the official thumbs down, as well they should have. Selling me a health insurance policy is simply not the same as providing me with the medical care I am entitled to under the policy. Sales is clearly an overhead cost in any business and had HHS included
[LAAMN] old maps
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~210~20057:A-Map-Of-The-United-States-Of-Mexic?sort=Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSortqvq=q:Santa%2BCruz;sort:Pub_Date%2CPub_List_No_InitialSort;lc:RUMSEY~8~1mi=9trs=21 Some interesting maps. 165 years ago before the USA was in our own civil war, when we (the USA) attacked Mexico (shortly after the Immigrant Irishmen were released form their military duties in the US Army before they'd have gotten their citizenship here, roughly 1834, and went to Mexico and acted in the most decisive battles that sent Spain home, thusly becoming heroic Mexican citizens - at one point there were more Irish in Mexico then in the USA) this is what the new Country of Mexico looked like the year before the US invaded and the Free independent Bandiditos (I forget what the men who attacked the California Notre Mexican called themselves, it was something close to this) the American mercenaries? who took California Notre from Mexico and created the California republic. A few weeks ago we were in the California Exhibit in the Oakland museum, you should look at the maps there of the proposals of what was to be called California, as presented by the Republic of California's Senate as they asked to be admitted to the Union, so they didn't fall prey to a hand full of Free Independent Banditios themselves. This is the map just before the gold rush and a 50 years before the discovery of Oil. I note the numerous Russian Holdings on the Coast of California, are ignored, though San Francisco was built up as a fort to protect it from the Russians. It gives me a real feeling of our (Northern European) recentness, to this part of the world. In the SF Bay region, they weren't here 170 years ago, yet 200 years ago this was the second largest population of North American Indians before the advent of Columbus getting 'lost' and landing in the Caribbean rather then in India musta been one hell of a broken sextant to have missed by over 2/3rds the distance. Home page, I was looking around in the SF Monte Rey Bay (er... Monterey Bay)area. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/RUMSEY~8~1 --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Hoping you (having 104 nuclear power plants in USA) can relate to this: Saving Fukushima children
Dear supporters, I am involved with this lawsuit against Japanese government to save the health/life of children in Japan. And we need international support to save those children who are living in radioation-contaminated area in Fukushima. Would you please sign and pass this on to your e-friends? http://fukusima-sokai.blogspot.com/2011/11/urgent-appeal-to-save-children-of.html If we lose this lawsuit, children of Fukushima will continue to live in places as contaminated as Chernobyl except a few lucky ones who can afford to move by themselves. As some of you may know (and some of you have supported this cause financially and I am grateful) , I have been working on relocating the pregnant women and children from Fukushima to Okinawa (Tsunagu Hikari- Connecting Light) and 32 families, and about 100 people have used our support. There are 2.2 million people in Fukushima prefecture (like a state). And to really save all the children living contaminated area, winning this lawsuit is so vital. aloha and mahalo for your support, Yumi Kikuchi Founder, Connecting Light http://tsunaguhikari.weebly.com/index.html Japanese site(more details):http://tsunaguhikari.jp/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Angry churches pull money from big banks
excerpt I'm involved because I think it is one of the great moral issues of our generation, about how we build our communities, Latz said. As a religious leader, as a person who studies texts, I understand that our first commitment must always be to the most vulnerable among us. ** Angry churches pull money from big banks By Josef Kuhn, Religion News Service The Washington Post Published: November 22, 2011 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/angry-churches-pull-money-from-big-banks/2011/11/22/gIQARUaVlN_story.html A small but growing number of religious communities across the country are removing their money from Wall Street banks to protest what they see as unfair mortgage foreclosures and unwillingness to lend to small businesses. The New Bottom Line (NBL) coalition of congregations, community organizations, labor unions and individuals is promoting a Move Our Money campaign with the goal of shifting $1 billion from big banks to community banks and credit unions. In a way, the banks have divested from our communities, especially communities of color, said the Rev. Ryan Bell, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor in Los Angeles. So we're basically telling Bank of America that we want them to invest in our communities, and until they do that we're not going to give our money to them. Bell's church was one of six Los Angeles Christian congregations that announced they would divest a collective $2 million from Bank of America and Wells Fargo as part of the Move Our Money campaign. The campaign has been slow to get off the ground; but after a recent national convocation of clergy in New Orleans, about 100 more leaders from a broad cross section of Christian, Jewish and Muslim congregations pledged to move an additional $100 million. The New Orleans gathering was sponsored by PICO National Network, a coalition of more than 1,000 faith-based social justice groups. The Move Our Money website reports that $55 million had been moved as part of the campaign as of Monday (Nov. 21), but that figure pales in comparison to the big banks' trillions in total assets. The campaign singles out Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase for not doing enough to provide home loan modifications to help guard against foreclosure; cramping down on small business lending; and escaping federal taxes by parking assets overseas, even after each bank received billions of taxpayer dollars in federal bailouts. According to Move Our Money organizers, by the end of 2009 Wells Fargo modified loans for only 22 percent of those eligible for modifications under a federal program, and has not changed its foreclosure procedure despite many confirmed reports of 'robo-signing' and other illegal practices. Richele Messick, a spokeswoman for Wells Fargo, countered that the bank has participated in more than 600 home preservation workshops and provided more than 700,000 mortgage modifications since 2009, as well as giving more than $219 million to 19,000 nonprofits last year. It's definitely our priority to keep people in their homes and to avoid foreclosure. We're also actively lending to small businesses, Messick said. Bank of America could not be reached for comment. A spokesman for JPMorgan Chase declined to comment, but pointed to the bank's third-quarter earnings report for 2011, which shows that it had increased lending to small businesses by 71 percent from the previous year and had offered 1.2 million trial modifications to home loans since the beginning of 2009. The Move Our Money campaign is separate from the Move Your Money project started two years ago by Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington and economist Rob Johnson. It is also separate from a recent Facebook group that called for a national Bank Transfer Day on Nov. 5 to move funds from for-profit banks to credit unions. The Credit Union National Association reported that 700,000 people joined credit unions nationwide in the month before Bank Transfer Day - more than the 600,000 who joined in all of 2010. The Bank Transfer Day movement claims credit for this uptick. In addition to encouraging private divestments through the Move Our Money campaign, NBL plans to introduce legislation in 50 or more cities around the country that would move taxpayer money out of big banks. One NBL partner group was already successful in San Jose, Calif., which enacted a social responsibility policy a year ago that diverted $1 billion from Bank of America. The policy was the first of its kind in the nation, and similar moves are under discussion in Seattle and Portland, Ore. Rabbi Michael Latz, head of a Reform Jewish congregation in Minneapolis, has participated in meetings with Jewish activist groups and county commissioners discussing a responsible banking policy. I'm involved because I think it is one of the great moral issues of our generation, about how we build our communities, Latz said. As a religious leader, as a person
[LAAMN] IRONIC TIMES - 11/28/11
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[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 26 November, 2011]
A definition of Surrender, is to join the winning side. What if they don't want your surrender? Below is today LUV News, ending with an article on joining the 1%. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyunderground/message/3693 Scott -- *THE PSYCHOPATHS WHO RUN THE EMPIRE ARE THE TERRORISTS * ** ***NATO yesterday slaughtered 24 Pakistani troops http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2011/11/20265841645810.html who were trying to stop Taliban from crossing the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Such incidents, we are always told, are collateral damage, and our military and political leaders always pretend to care, apologizing, as they continue to bomb the third world into oblivion. Some of the family members of the victims of course, will want revenge against the Empire and help to justify future attacks, when they decide to fight back.* *We have troops now in several nations of Central Africa, the Philippines, Colombia-- all over the world in this maddening war on terrorism that creates new terrorists daily from the fathers of the children the Empire murders, the sons of the mothers the Empire murders. With a thousand military bases abroad we still have troops in Germany and Japan from World War Two, and troops in Korea from that war, and nobody in our controlled mass media ask why. Glenn Greenwald goes into another incident http://www.salon.com/2011/11/25/the_fruits_of_liberation/singleton/ in which a number of children were slaughtered by the Empire in Afghanistan, and he apologizes for first considering not doing it, and waiting a day, because the Empire bombing children is so commonplace now that it is considered by most to be boring-- no longer newsworthy. The lower than whale poop corporate media have been encouraging consumers (they are no longer human beings, but a kind of zombie shopper) to buy things they really don't need, with Black Friday stories dominating their headlines. The wealthy are raking in billions from the wars, so mass media are careful not to allow criticism, for fear of losing their jobs as propagandists-- better to go with stories about shopping to enrich their owners, board members and advertisers. One of the worst of them, Scott Simon of /NPR/, pushed the lies of the Bush regime for weeks leading up to the illegal invasion of Iraq. This morning Simon had Alan Simpson on to tell us we need to cut Medicare. Simon could not find another person among the 7 billion on the planet he might have interviewed about the Super Committee failure-- he decided to go with the guy who made a career of selling out citizens in the Senate. Has he ever done anything else with objectivity? * *THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT THE CRACKDOWN ON OCCUPY * ** *Naomi Wolf has a great piece http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/25-7 this morning going into what the crackdown on the Democracy Movement in the Land of the Free is really about. Of course, she had to publish it abroad with only the one viewpoint allowed here. * ** *GETTING BEYOND THE CAMPAIGN LIES * ** *Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/25-6, who used to give presidents of the USA their morning intelligence briefing, offers questions our corporate media should be asking candidates for office, were they interested in getting facts to the American people, rather than allowing more psychopaths to take office on behalf of corporate greed at any cost to the public interest. Ray says ask the candidates real questions. Of course, any mass media journalist who tries to get to the inconvenient truth of the public interest would soon be unemployed. * ** **We used to run a bit of humor from time to time, just to break up all the serious stories, to make /LUV News/ more fun to read. For some time we've been buried in serious things we felt we had to get out, so we'd gotten away from it. With all the wars, government corruption and horror brought on the planet by the psychopaths who run the Empire on behalf of the psychopaths who run the transnational corporations on behalf of the psychopaths who invest in what becomes global horror for most of the people on the planet, the 99%, we thought it would be nice to give readers a break, following --Jack ** *Forget the Occupy Movement* *Why I'm Joining the One Percent http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/25/why-im-joining-the-one-percent/ * * * *by BRIAN J. FOLEY* *I marched with Occupy Oakland last Saturday, but I've had a change of heart. I'm joining the One Percent.* *The One Percent have fun. They have jobs and money. Or just money, because when you have a lot of money, you don't need to work. They live in houses, not tents.* *The One Percent have a
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 19 November, 2011
*OCCUPY THE MEDIA * ** http://www.salon.com/2011/11/18/the_foxnyt_nexus_on_ows/singleton/ *Glenn Greenwald says http://www.salon.com/2011/11/18/the_foxnyt_nexus_on_ows/singleton/ the /New York Times/' media critic has attacked /FOX News/ for spreading misinformation about Occupy Wall Street protesters without understanding that the /source/ for /FOX/ was (drum roll please) voila! --/The New York Times/! / The New York Times/ is easy, we could show every day how they misinform their readers against the public interest. During the 1980's we used to read a publication called /Lies of our Times/, which exposed the /Times/ monthly for its propaganda and censorship. Unfortunately there weren't enough informed Americans to keep the publication alive, since Americans are raised on mass media propaganda so have difficulty understanding their own interests, as directed. **Justin Elliott has a wonderful piece http://www.salon.com/2011/11/18/the_bizarre_history_of_the_ows_counter_protesters/singleton/ this morning on the mass media reporting a bogus protest against the Occupy Wall Street protest. If you come up with a story that maligns the Democracy Movement, the mass media will report it without investigating. And as we prove every day, it is easy to investigate these reports without having a multibillion dollar organization like those that make up the American mass media, we do it costing us nickels and dimes, showing them up every day for their sellout of the public interest.* ** *ORGANIZERS: 50,000 SIGN WALKER RECALL PETITION IN JUST 48 HOURS * ** *A statewide vote on whether Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) should be recalled seems more likely today, begins a piece at /Raw Story/ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/18/organizers-5-sign-walker-recall-petition-in-just-48-hours/ this morning. Activists in Wisconsin want revenge for his attacks on workers. * *Recall that Walker was the one who tried to go after pensions and health care of state and local workers, bringing about massive protests in Wisconsin starting 15 February and an occupation of the Capitol building months before the Occupy movement began. * *IF EVER THERE WAS A TIME... * ** *Third Eye Blind has their new song in support of the Democracy Movement If Ever There Was a Time, out on YouTube now, here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gf45vXByCg. * ** **There has been an expedited request for information about who in the Federal government is organizing city police forces to crack down on the Democracy Movement in the brutal fashion we have experienced over the past week, with personal property of protesters destroyed, protesters arrested, protesters beaten, and the free press (that part of the press, like /LUV News/, not tied to corporate funding) stopped from filming or even seeing, in some cases, the attacks on protesters. We are excited at this chance to push the government to be open about why it is not allowing the people to peaceably assemble, why it stomps on free speech, and why it strangles the free press of the nation. Dave Lindorff goes into it, following --Jack ** *National Lawyers Guild Files FOIA Requests Seeking Evidence of Federal Role in Occupy Crackdown* http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/910 ** ** ** * * ** ** ** *by Dave Lindorff * ** ** ** *With Congress no longer performing its sworn role of defending the US Constitution, the National Lawyers Guild Mass Defense Committee and the Partnership for Civil Justice today filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) asking the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CIA and the National Parks Service to release all their information on the planning of the coordinated law enforcement crackdown on Occupy protest encampments in multiple cities over the course of recent days and weeks.* ** *According to a statement by the NLG, each of the FOIA requests states, This request specifically encompasses disclosure of any documents or information pertaining to federal coordination of, or advice or consultation regarding, the police response to the Occupy movement, protests or encampments.* ** *National Lawyers Guild leaders, including Executive Director Heidi Beghosian and NLG Mass Defense Committee co-chair and PCJ Executive Director Mara Veheyden-Hilliard both told TCBH! earlier this week that the rapid-fire assaults on occupation encampments in cities from Oakland to New York and Portland, Seattle and Atlanta, all within days of each other, the similar approach taken by police, which included overwhelming force in night-time attacks, mass arrests, use of such weaponry as pepper spray, sound cannons, tear gas, clubs and in some cases non-lethal projectiles like bean bags and rubber bullets,
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 17 November, 2011
*OCCUPY'S DAY OF ACTION * ** *Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO, issued a statement calling for more protests today when some activists vow to shut Wall Street down. His statement seemed unusually militant http://www.truth-out.org/after-zuccotti-park-raid/1321474605: They can take away the tarps and the tents. But they can't slow down the Occupy Wall Street movement. *The 99% is undaunted. Occupy Wall Street's message has already created a new day. *This movement has created a seismic shift in our national debate --- from austerity and cuts to jobs, inequality and our broken economic system. * */The Guardian/ has live coverage with continued updates here http://www.guardiannews.com/world/blog/2011/nov/17/occupy-wall-street-day-of-action-live, including, as we go to press, that protesters are preparing to march on Wall Street itself as police are out in force in Lower Manhattan already employing violence against protesters according to several news sources. * *Glenn Greenwald has a must read piece http://www.salon.com/2011/11/17/ows_inspired_activism/singleton/ this morning including **Just as American bombs ostensibly aimed at reducing Terrorism have the exact opposite effect --- by fueling the anti-American sentiments that cause Terrorism in the first place --- so, too, will excessive police force further fuel the Occupy movement. He provides an action for those who want to contribute. * *And finally, in Democracy Movement news, /Press TV/ has a wonderful video here http://www.presstv.ir/detail/210208.html to explain the phenomenon, a video readers may want to link to friends, family, work colleagues and internet groups to inform those who may not understand what it's about (because their views are controlled by the corporate-controlled mass media). * *A PEOPLE'S BUDGET IS HERE! * ** *Kevin Zeese sent us a People's Budget Proposal http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/99-s-deficit-proposal-how-create-jobs-reduce-wealth-divide-and-control-spending in response to the Congressional Super Committee meeting to decide what our government should do to move toward balancing the federal budget. We would encourage you to read this proposal and send it to your Member of Congress. To those who say but they would never do this, we would encourage but will they ever even hear this message if you don't send it to them? The plan shows step by step that causing massive suffering to the American people is not necessary to balance the budget. Revenues are available that would not hurt the transnational corporations or transnational investors who run the Empire at any cost to the public interest. This is a public interest budget that would move our government toward decency, justice and respect by The People. What the Super Committee is planning to do will be a horror in any of the versions we have heard. Kevin and others at the Freedom Plaza occupation deserve magnanimous acclaim for the work that went into this. Get this budget out to everyone you can reach to show them that corporate media are not considering the public interest in any of their coverage, only the desires of the ruling Forces of Greed http://luvnews.info/FOG.htm. * ** ** ** ** **Glen Ford of /Black Agenda Report/ rakes Mayor Bloomberg over the coals in the following piece for his attack on Occupy Wall Street. The man really is a disgusting scumbag, but then, so are the others who run the Empire at any cost to the public interest --Jack ** *Bloomberg Personifies What the Occupation Opposes http://www.blackagendareport.com/content/bloomberg-personifies-what-occupation-opposes * * * *by Glen Ford /author/glen-ford* *New York's mayor Michael Bloomberg justified clearing the tents and other materials of Occupation from Zuccotti Park, saying the protesters will now have to occupy the space with the power of their arguments. This is a strange kind of logic from the 12^th richest man in America, who occupies City Hall for one reason only -- because he has bought the office three times since 2001. Mr. Bloomberg's $20 billion fortune maintains him in the Executive Mansion, not the power of his arguments.* *Bloomberg was a lifelong Democrat until he found it more convenient to run as a Republican, and then as an independent -- thus proving that money, not party, is what counts in New York, as in all American politics. Everything else is a diversion, and a lie. Bloomberg has used the mayor's office to make the city more hospitable to his fellow economic one-percenters from all around the planet.**But, in that sense, he is no different than the mayors of other American cities -- including most of the Black ones -- who collaborate in every rich man's scheme to expel the poor in favor of wealthier populations. They've
[LAAMN] Mayors, police chiefs, talk strategy on protests
A message from the Masters, obviously. http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_19341771 Why would they need strategy against the people they are suppose to govern for, unless they work for someone other then us? Why aren't they doing their strategy discussions with the Cities Maintenance and Sanitation departments, if their issue is with sanitation? I note that in a Representative Democracy the Government is suppose to operate for the majority of the citizenry. Is it not obvious that it is no longer a Representative Democracy when from Federal to city level, OUR so called GOVERNMENT is talking strategy AGAINST the 99%, and the police, at the behest of the Mayors of each city are the instigators of violence against those who have assembled for peaceful protest. There is NO LAW in our constitution about how many of us may assemble, where we can assemble, or if we ever have to disperse. There are a few cities that do not have violent assaults by the police on the citizenry, like in Seattle, where the government worked to handle sanitation troubles amongst others and talked WITH the protestors in some manner that was non violent, but the press never touts democracy working, only fascism. So, this makes it obvious, they operate for the 1%, more like the top.04%. That leaves the question, who do you work for, the people of the USA, or are you a willing supporter defender of the top .04%? If you think that is an unusual question, think about it, your purchasing habits fund either your local community or the top .04% of the wealthiest people in the world, and only a few of them lives in the USA. http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_19341771 Mayors, police chiefs talk strategy on protests By NIGEL DUARA Associated Press Posted: 11/15/2011 03:11:09 PM PST Updated: 11/15/2011 03:19:23 PM PST PORTLAND, Ore.Don't set a midnight deadline to evict Occupy Wall Street protestersit will only give a crowd of demonstrators time to form. Don't set ultimatums because it will encourage violent protesters to break it. Fence off the parks after an eviction so protesters can't reoccupy it. As concerns over safety and sanitation grew at the encampments over the last month, officials from nearly 40 cities turned to each other on conference calls, sharing what worked and what hasn't as they grappled with the leaderless movement. follow the above link for the rest of the article --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Look at the mess.....
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[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 16 November, 2011
*CREEPING FASCISM VS. DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT * ** *Jim Davidson begins a piece http://www.facebook.com/notes/jim-davidson/new-york-police-begin-day-one-of-occupation/10150370428883045 yesterday ***The New York Police Department has begun Day One of their occupation of Zuccotti Park. It is unclear what their demands are. Many observers have expressed concern that the NYPD is a violent group and that their occupation of the park undermines its historical purpose as a gathering place for the public.** ** *There have also been concerns about litter, rape, illegal drug use, and assaults in the park during the NYPD occupation, thus far. The leadership of this hierarchical collective appears to be vested in one Michael Bloomberg, an apparently psychotic misanthrope who believes in violence toward women, children, and the disabled. * *NYPD estimates they arrested 200 people in their 1 a.m. raid against Occupy Wall Street yesterday morning. John Nichols has a good piece http://www.thenation.com/blog/164613/raid-1st-amendment-new-yorks-assault-press-freedom on New York's Assault on Press Freedom. When reporters tried to cover the crackdown on Occupy Wall Street, they were not allowed, and many journalists were arrested and detained by police http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/11/15/police-arrest-reporters-as-press-complains-of-media-blackout-at-occupy-wall-st/ in a clear violation of the First Amendment. * *It would appear the night time raid was planned to avoid police being filmed, with darkness protecting them so that they could be brutal, slashing the tents of protesters and confiscating their belongings, which were apparently destroyed. These Gestapo tactics were largely covered up by our mass media. * *Denying protesters tents with winter approaching is an obvious attempt to shut down the protest. * *In response,**Occupy Wall Street announced on its Facebook page the plan for tomorrow: On the morning of November 17, we will shut down Wall Street. We will ring the People's Bell, and initiate a street carnival in which we rebuild and celebrate the neighborhoods that the Wall Street economy has destroyed. They promise a block party the 1 percent will never forget.* *Peter Rothberg goes over the actions http://www.thenation.com/blog/164612/occupy-everywhere-november-17 planned for tomorrow's International Day of Action. * *And even as crackdowns have taken place against the Democracy Movement in cities across the nation over the past week, in a sign of a crack in unity for the establishment, the Seattle City Council unanimously gave its approval http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/15-3 to the Occupy Seattle group. * *AMERICAN CENSORSHIP DAY * ** *Today is American Censorship Day http://americancensorship.org/, as activists oppose new laws allowing corporations to shut down web sites. Activists from the political left to the political right are opposing this new legislation intended, many believe, to give the corporate persons that bribe our elections with unlimited donations (unlike mere human persons who are limited in what they can donate) the right to impose control over internet web sites based on their perception of nebulously-defined copyright violations. It's possible Congress could pass this bill this month. * ** ** ** ** **What we are experiencing in the Democracy Movement is a temporary setback. Thank you, from /LUV News/, to everyone sleeping in the streets, everyone sending the precious seed money to support the occupations, everyone passing the word on to others to spread the dream of democracy. The magnificent Chris Hedges, who signed the pledge to support this movement in May, together with me and many of my heroes, says he now sees a glimpse of potential victory --Jack ** *THIS IS WHAT REVOLUTION LOOKS LIKE http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/11/15-8 * * * *by Chris Hedges * *Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. They are as dead and useless to us as the water-soaked books, tents, sleeping bags, suitcases, food boxes and clothes that were tossed by sanitation workers Tuesday morning into garbage trucks in New York City. They have no ideas, no plans and no vision for the future. * *Our decaying corporate regime has strutted in Portland, Oakland and New York with their baton-wielding cops into a fool's paradise. They think they can clean up the mess---always employing the language of personal hygiene and public security---by making us disappear. They think we will all go home and accept their corporate nation, a nation where crime and government
[LAAMN] The Bonus Army
Retired Marine Corps Gen. Smedley Butler came to speak to the marchers. I never saw such fine Americanism as is exhibited by you people, he said. You have just as much right to have a lobby here as any steel corporation. Makes me so damn mad, a whole lot of people speak of you as tramps. Subject: The Bonus Army: How A Protest Led To The GI Bill : NPR Our history is not all American and Apple Pie! But we did learn from this event. Let's hope some big changes can be made in today's political culture. H... http://www.npr.org/2011/11/11/142224795/the-bonus-army-how-a-protest-led-to-the-gi-bill?ft=3f=1001sc=nlcc=nh-2012 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Caught red-handed: Oakland Police caught posing as protesters]
Infiltration of movements has a long history. Last month a wrong wing infiltrator on DC openly bragged about doing violence being an agent provocateur in the wrong wing rag called the American Spectator where he is an editor. The Oakland general strike was a huge success and totally peaceful. Guess what? Posers caused headline grabbing corporate media news by smashing some windows. It was all violence choreographed by the fright wing manipulators who are soldiers for our wealthy controllers and manipulators. -Original Message- From: brasschec...@aweber.com [mailto:brasschec...@aweber.com] On Behalf Of Brasscheck TV Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 2:04 AM To: Subject: Caught red-handed: Oakland Police caught posing as protesters === === They do it all the time these days, send in cops to pose as protesters and incite crimes and violence among peaceful protests to discredit and marginalize the movement as a whole. It's called false flag, it's deceptive and wrong, and it should be illegal, but we catch them doing it all the time. Check out these cops trying to infiltrate the Occupy Oakland movement... Video: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/5654.html - Brasscheck P.S. Please share Brasscheck TV e-mails and videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Thanks. Brasscheck TV 2380 California St. San Francisco, CA 94115 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] chart on who got what and how much has been repaid
Bailout List: Banks, Auto Companies, and More | Eye on the Bailout | ProPublica projects.propublica.org We're tracking where taxpayer money has gone in the ongoing bailout of the financial system. Our database accounts for both the broader $700 billion bill and the separate bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (go here for the Federal Reserves emergency loans to banks). [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [LAAMN] Fw: A Letter to Pacifica from Goldman Sachs Concerning Occupy Wall Street
Well, a hoax sort of, it's called Political tragedy/comedy. Since Goldman Sachs, and others refuse to talk in plain language, Andy Borowitz does it for them. More Like One Political Tragedy a day, please enjoy the train wreck your participating in. http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/10/17/a-letter-from-goldman-sachs/ I noted his name in the attributing article at the bottom. One should also pay attention to 'too goo to be true' articles, that 'The Onion' wasn't the issuing paper, or Landover Baptist. Oh, and many years ago. not knowing who the three people/sites I listed above, who they were, I too fell for one of these. Read some more and at least enjoy the trip down the drain, those folk never go anywhere uncomfortable wihthout pushing as many people as they can in front of them first. Scott This looks like a hoax to me. Please don't circulate unvetted articles. For instance, Goldman Sachs would never say: ... we recognize that the capitalist system as we know it is circling the drain - but there's plenty of money to be made on the way down.  They believe nothing of the sort. This is irony, a la The Yes Men.    --- On Thu, 10/20/11, jdema...@sbcglobal.net jdema...@sbcglobal.net wrote: From: jdema...@sbcglobal.net jdema...@sbcglobal.net Subject: [LAAMN] Fw: A Letter to Pacifica from Goldman Sachs Concerning Occupy Wall Street To: Pacifica National Board p...@pacifica.org, sheila hamanaka sheila.haman...@gmail.com, freek...@yahoogroups.com, newpacif...@yahoogroups.com, friends_of_k...@yahoogroups.com, ourw...@yahoogroups.com, rocklandfriendsofw...@yahoogroups.com, LAAMN laamn@yahoogroups.com, change change-li...@yahoogroups.com Date: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 9:22 AM  I certainly have to agree with the post below. I do think that there should be one change though: Instead of the slogan 'Support the 99%' , Pacifica will, of course, have to put forth a slogan that shows support of those Pacifica truly supports with the Pacifica slogan of: 'Support the 1% (and Sh*t on the 99%)'. Jim 'Pacifica is waaay worse in its lack of support of (and OPPOSITION TO) Democracy than even the Republican Party.' D. P.S. Probably only an 'Occupy Pacifica Movement' will begin to address the problems at Pacifica. P.P.S. YEA for the 'Professionals' (the 1%ers) at Pacifica - Original Message - From: sheila hamanaka To: Pacifica National Board Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 5:51 AM Subject: Fwd: [freekpfk] Fw: A Letter to Pacifica from Goldman Sachs Concerning Occupy Wall Street Dear Pacifica National Board, This is wonderful news (see email below.) I think full credit should be given to the Chair of the WBAI Local Station Board, Mitchell Cohen*, and LSB member Steve Brown, for encouraging Pacifica's relationship with Goldman Sachs. If we follow Brown's suggestion, and support Ron Paul, Pacifica may in future be on the receiving end of libertarian investment, if we have the zeitgeist, that is. *Mr. Cohen btw also deserves our kudos for - at every possible opportunity at Occupy Wall Street - fearlessly throwing himself between demonstrators and videocamera-wielding reporters. Sincerely Anon E Mouse -- Forwarded message -- From: jdema...@sbcglobal.net Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:13 PM Subject: [freekpfk] Fw: A Letter to Pacifica from Goldman Sachs Concerning Occupy Wall Street To: friends_of_k...@yahoogroups.com, freek...@yahoogroups.com, newpacif...@yahoogroups.com, rocklandfriendsofw...@yahoogroups.com, ourw...@yahoogroups.com October 18, 2011 A Letter to Pacifica from Goldman Sachs Concerning Occupy Wall Street NEW YORK The following is a letter released today by Lloyd Blankfein, the chairman of banking giant Goldman Sachs: Dear Donor Receiver: Up until now, Goldman Sachs has been silent on the subject of the protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street. That does not mean, however, that it has not been very much on our minds. As thousands have gathered in Lower Manhattan, passionately expressing their deep discontent with the status quo, we have taken note of these protests. And we have asked ourselves this question: How can we make money off them? The answer is the newly launched Goldman Sachs Global Rage Fund, whose investment objective is to monetize the Occupy Wall Street protests as they spread around the world. At Goldman, we recognize that the capitalist system as we know it is circling the drain - but there's plenty of money to be made on the way down. The Rage Fund will seek out opportunities to invest in products that are poised to benefit from the spreading protests, from police batons and barricades to stun guns and forehead bandages. Furthermore, as clashes between police and protesters turn ever more violent, we are making significant bets on companies that manufacture replacements for broken windows and overturned cars, as well as the raw materials
[LAAMN] Birth of the U.S. Federal Reserve - How usury destroyed America]
Thorough out this whole 99% vs the 1% I've stated, we're missing something. It's the names that are NOT showing up that are more important. More like the .01% of the 1% is the source of the rot. We still don't see the names Rothschild (1 of 2 Independent INTERNATIONAL Banking families that have been around for over 250 years) as well as the Bank of Scotland and the Bank of England, one who only insures Governments and the other who only makes loans to governments, without which, no perpetual war syndrome could ever exist. Also big enough, that their names stay out of the media, and NO PERSONS name is ever mentioned, unless you believe the myths that Corporations and International banks are people. Read on for some of the local/National gotcha's. You been had suckka. Scott The Birth of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank - How usury destroyed America _http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6507136891691870450#docid=-84849115 70371055528_ (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6507136891691870450#docid=-8484911570371055528) 1 hr 11 min. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes. It sounds like a detective story, which it really is, but it's all true. Based on Mr. Griffin's book of the same title, this address will shatter your old ideas about money and change the way you view the world. 1998 lecture. Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. G Edward Griffin - Creature From Jekyll Island A Second Look at the Federal Reserve _http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6507136891691870450_ (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6507136891691870450) # 42 min. video Federal Reserve is not a government agency. It is a hybrid, or a cartel. Federal Reserve is a banking cartel, a group of very large and powerful banking interests that have gotten together in a cartel arrangement and they brought the federal government into it as a partner, in order to use the force of law to enforce the cartel agreement. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com --- Subscribe: mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com --- Digest: mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com --- Help: mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn --- Post: mailto:la...@egroups.com --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] AlterNet: How the 1% Pillage the Environment
This is a great article, just the basics, just the facts, and a tad of how you contribute to the destruction of the planet and your health, while making the Ultra Wealthy, wealthier. Never forget, without our consumer habits, they have no money. Scott http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/newsandviews/686294 AlterNet By Chip Ward, 1034 Posted on October 27, 2011, Printed on October 27, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/686294/how_the_1_pillage_the_environment To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. What if rising sea levels are yet another measure of inequality? What if the degradation of our planets life-support systems -- its atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere -- goes hand in hand with the accumulation of wealth, power, and control by that corrupt and greedy 1% we are hearing about from Zuccotti Park? What if the assault on Americas middle class and the assault on the environment are one and the same? Money Rules: Its not hard for me to understand how environmental quality and economic inequality came to be joined at the hip. In all my years as a grassroots organizer dealing with the tragic impact of degraded environments on public health, it was always the same: someone got rich and someone got sick. In the struggles that I was involved in to curb polluters and safeguard public health, those who wanted curbs, accountability, and precautions were always outspent several times over by those who wanted no restrictions on their effluents. We dug into our own pockets for postage money, they had expense accounts. We made flyers to slip under the windshield wipers of parked cars, they bought ads on television. We took time off from jobs to visit legislators, only to discover that they had gone to lunch with fulltime lobbyists. Naturally, the barons of the chemical and nuclear industries dont live next to the radioactive or toxic-waste dumps that their corporations create; on the other hand, impoverished black and brown people often do live near such ecological sacrifice zones because they cant afford better. Similarly, the gated communities of the hyper-wealthy are not built next to cesspool rivers or skylines filled with fuming smokestacks, but the slums of the planet are. Dont think, though, that its just a matter of property values or scenery. Its about health, about whether your kids have lead or dioxins running through their veins. Its a simple formula, in fact: wealth disparities become health disparities. And heres another formula: when theres money to be made, both workers and the environment are expendable. Just as jobs migrate if labor can be had cheaper overseas, I know workers who were tossed aside when they became ill from the foul air or poisonous chemicals they encountered on the job. The fact is: we wont free ourselves from a dysfunctional and unfair economic order until we begin to see ourselves as communities, not commodities. That is one clear message from Zuccotti Park. Polluters routinely walk away from the ground they poison and expect taxpayers to clean up after them. By externalizing such costs, profits are increased. Examples of land abuse and abandonment are too legion to list, but most of us can refer to a familiar superfund site in our own backyard. Clearly, Mother Nature is among the disenfranchised, exploited, and struggling. Democracy 101: The 99% pay for wealth disparity with lost jobs, foreclosed homes, weakening pensions, and slashed services, but Nature pays, too. In the world the one-percenters have created, the needs of whole ecosystems are as easy to disregard as, say, the need the young have for debt-free educations and meaningful jobs. Extreme disparity and deep inequality generate a double standard with profound consequences. If you are a CEO who skims millions of dollars off other peoples labor, its called a bonus. If you are a flood victim who breaks into a sporting goods store to grab a lifejacket, its called looting. If you lose your job and fall behind on your mortgage, you get evicted. If you are a banker-broker who designed flawed mortgages that caused a million people to lose their homes, you get a second-home vacation-mansion near a golf course. If you drag heavy fishnets across the ocean floor and pulverize an entire ecosystem, ending thousands of years of dynamic evolution and depriving future generations of a healthy ocean, its called free enterprise. But if, like Tim DeChristopher, you disrupt an auction of public land to oil and gas companies, its called a crime and you get two years in jail. In campaigns to make polluting corporations accountable, my Utah neighbors and I learned this simple truth: decisions about what to allow into the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat are soon enough translated into flesh and blood, bone and nerve, and daily experience. So its crucial that those
[LAAMN] We Are Not Winning - Former Deputy Chief Stephen Downing's Open Letter to California Police]
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/152858 AlterNet http://images.alternet.org/images/site/logo.gif We Are Not Winning - Former Deputy Chief Stephen Downing's Open Letter to California Police By Stephen Downing, AlterNet Posted on October 24, 2011, Printed on October 25, 2011 http://www.alternet.org/story/152858/%22we_are_not_winning%22_-_former_deput y_chief_stephen_downing%27s_open_letter_to_california_police Dear Fellow Law Enforcers, The federal government has put up another $72 million in war-on-drugs-grants to redirect your police resources once again from true public safety duties in order to extend their failed war on drugs; this time with a savage assault on California's 15-year-old medical marijuana law. Are you going to take the money and enforce federal law in lieu of upholding the will of the people of California or are you going to honor your sworn oath to uphold the laws of our sovereign state and send the money back? August Vollmer, the police chief whose name is synonymous with the origins of professionalism in American policing, would urge you to send it back. In his work as president of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the Wickersham Commission Vollmer contributed to the successful campaign that led to the repeal of alcohol Prohibition. In an address to the IACP he stated drug addiction is not a police problem; it never has and never can be solved by policemen, but by scientific and competently trained medical experts... Unfortunately Vollmer wasn't around when Nixon decided to wage his war on drugs against the American people in 1971. I was a police commander in South Central Los Angeles at the time, and most of us believed Nixon's propaganda; that it was a just war, that the druggies were evil and comprised a threat to our communities. We saw our resources dedicated to public safety bought off by Department of Justice and White House grants so that we could leverage their political priorities at the expense of our communities. Using their grant money and the lure of budget dollars though asset seizures they co-opted our public safety priorities and our role as public servants in deciding what was best for our communities. Evidence based budgeting and responsible, prioritized policing went out the window in favor of the war on drugs. We morphed from public servant to drug warrior; blindly serving their interests and their agreements with those who benefited most by a continuation of their war on drugs. We helped them invade and occupy our poorer communities. Their money allowed us to build war machines to batter down doors, purchase sophisticated weapons, surveillance equipment and intelligence apparatus. We arrested and imprisoned thousands and then hundreds of thousands, and while most users were white, the majority we sent to prison were from our minority communities. Most of us stood proudly at the show and tells hovering over tons of drugs, mountains of cash and hundreds of weapons as a compliant media snapped our pictures and hailed our progress toward winning Nixon's war on drugs. But, many of us came to see that we were not winning. We saw the gangs grow, fueled by drug money, the cartels better armed, death squads trained by our own military unleashed across Mexico and our border states. The bodies began to stack up, the gangs became more and more violent, the cartels outgunned us and many of our police officers, our public servants, were killed and maimed for life while the communities we were sworn to protect and serve huddled in their homes dodging bullets and watching their children die by gunfire, night after night after night. For what? That's what I asked myself when we lost our department's first officer to Nixon's war. For what? And then another ended up in a wheel chair for life. For what? So that we could continue the futile effort to keep a recreational or medical cannabis user from getting what he or she wanted? So we could continue failed programs keep an addict from getting a fix? So we could continue to rake in federal funds and shape our budgets around asset seizures rather than evidence based policing aimed at criminals who impose actual harm? For what? I answered that question for myself and took a hard look at all of it. I came away from that look convinced that we were creating more economic and physical harm for the people we served than we prevented by taking their autonomy away and subjecting them to punishments far harsher than would have resulted from drug abuse alone. We destroyed generations of young people by labeling them as drug offenders, denying them education and job opportunities, we fueled the violence in our communities by allowing a black market to thrive, rather than providing the leadership to oppose Washington and the federal drug warriors. We allowed our children access to dangerous drugs by serving as catalyst that allowed an army of pushers to thrive rather than regulating the
[LAAMN] [Darenet] The Lobbyist
Subject: [Darenet] The Lobbyist From:Michael Dare dar...@earthlink.net Date:Tue, 25 October, 2011 4:40 pm To: thewo...@large.com -- Hi, I'm Michael Dare, and since I don't live on a private island surrounded by gunboats with a harem devoted to peeling my grapes, since I haven't fleeced mankind with economic corruption and terrorism for nothing more than my own personal benefit, since I'm not doing high dives into a pool of gold like Scrooge McDuck, since I haven't abandoned the basic precepts of human decency we're all born with for nothing more than my own personal betterment, since I haven't turned into a corpulent slavemaster whose soul can only be measured in micropayments, since this is the best of times for money shufflers and the worst of times for the entire rest of the human race, since I now find myself completely and utterly fucked by a system that puts corporate greed over human need, since I'm now reduced to stealing material not only from Charles Dickens but from signs I read in the park, since the chasm between the haves and the have-nots in this city, this state, this country, this planet, is so wide and so deep that somebody, and it's not me, is looking to get pushed into it, because of all these things, I am part of the 99%, I fully support Occupy Wall Street, and I have been a member of Occupy Seattle since day one. I had to get that out. Run-on sentences are no good for the public microphone where I've been speaking lately. It's an acquired skill (It's an acquired skill). You speak in short bursts (You speak in short bursts). Everything takes twice as long (Everything takes twice as long). You have to be an insta-poet. Ta da DA da da (ta da DA da da) Da da TA da da da (Da da TA da da da) Writing's so much more simple, where my words only echo endlessly in my OWN head, thank you very much. From that first day where everything was a triumph, one of the most exciting of my life, the park coalescing into little pods of discourse, interactive amoeba, a big bang of expanding social evolution in front of my eyes, to the fourth morning where I woke up to find a dozen Seattle Police headed by an intimidating officer surrounded by media and lights asking me to take down my tent, to sleeping in the park without a tent, getting my backpack stolen, getting another tent, setting it up on the night of 500, waking again to at least 50 Seattle Police on bikes and the park surrounded by barricades, no way out, no way in, from the first rain where we were forbidden to stand under the awning to the war of the umbrellas where we were literally ordered to get wet, to seven blocks away where I now mysteriously find myself the central facilitator of Occupy Seattle South in that little building called city hall, I've been completely convinced that the movement is organic, embracing all strata of humanity, a living breathing frustrating disorganized mess that's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. Compared to Westlake Park, City Hall is the goddam Hilton. Westlake Park is absolutely one of the worst places in the city to try to get a good night's sleep. City Hall has a whole other vibe, peaceful, organized, sanitary, a place where things got done instead of talked about. Mysteriously, I was called a traitor. How dare I accept the Mayor's kind offer of a place to sleep, bathrooms, running water, dozens of free electrical outlets, no police, and a safe place to leave my stuff where I can find it when I get back? Why was I giving in to THE MAN? I asked if the Mayor offered them a room in the Hilton, would they take it, and was told No way, man. He's the problem. It would be like accepting cake from Marie Antoinette. It's all just a ruse. They want us where they want us so they can surround us and BAM, round us all up. Well, first of all, that's not what the permit says. Second, no Mayor in the history of Seattle has EVER offered the front plaza of City Hall for occupation by a political movement, much less suspended the fees which should be running up to $500 a day. Third, if there was any political pressure on the Mayor to do something, it was surely NOT to offer us City Hall, it would have been the opposite, to squash us like bugs. Fourth, if the Mayor hadn't offered it to us, we'd be demanding it, and fifth, I asked him if he'd ever heard of the Trojan Horse. When the Mayor invited us to occupy City Hall, he surely didn't expect ME in the lobby. Writing in the lobby of city hall, I try to figure out what to call myself. Days ago, I was told that the night before they had a vote and I was now in charge. I was uncomfortable with being called a leader so we settled on facilitator but I'm not happy with that because it makes my kids facilitator tots. So I need a new word for myself. I'm in a goddam lobby. The city council and the mayor are upstairs. I have been, and I cannot stress this enough, invited. The one
[LAAMN] Cheat Sheet: What's Happened to the Big Players in the Financial Crisis - ProPublica]
http://www.propublica.org/article/cheat-sheet-whats-happened-to-the-big-play ers-in-the-financial-crisis Cheat Sheet: What's Happened to the Big Players in the Financial Crisis by Braden http://www.propublica.org/site/author/braden_goyette/ Goyette ProPublica, Oct. 26, 2011, 2:56 p.m. * * * * Widespread demonstrations in support of Occupy Wall Street have put the financial crisis back into the national spotlight lately. So here's a quick refresher on what's happened to some of the main players, whose behavior, whether merely reckless or downright deliberate, helped cause or worsen the meltdown. This list isn't exhaustive -- feel welcome to add to it. Mortgage originators Mortgage lenders contributed to the financial crisis by issuing or underwriting loans to people who would http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/2785403/Ninja-loans-explode-on -sub-prime-frontline.html have a difficult time paying them back, inflating a housing bubble that was bound to pop. Lax http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-27/fed-faulted-for-lax-mortgage-regul ation-before-financial-crisis.html regulation allowed banks to stretch their mortgage lending standards and use aggressive tactics to rope borrowers into complex mortgages that were more expensive than they first appeared. Evidence has also surfaced that lenders http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44365184/ns/business-real_estate/t/robo-signing -scandal-may-date-back-late-s/#.TpSdTf5Fu8M were filing fraudulent documents to push some of these mortgages through, and, in some cases, had been doing so as early as the 1990s. A 2005 Los Angeles Times investigation http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/04/business/fi-ameriquest4 ofAmeriquest - then the nation's largest subprime lender - found that they forged documents, hyped customers' creditworthiness and 'juiced' mortgages with hidden rates and fees. This behavior was reportedly typical for the subprime mortgage industry. A similar culture existed at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/business/28wamu.html Washington Mutual, which went under in 2008 in thebiggest http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36440421/ns/business-real_estate/t/investigatio n-finds-fraud-wamu-lending/#.Tp7lzN4UoqQ bank collapse in U.S. history. Countrywide, once the nation's largest mortgage lender, also pushed customers to sign on for complex http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/business/yourmoney/26country.html and costly mortgages that boosted the company's profits. Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo was accused of http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/business/17trial.html misleading investors about the company's mortgage lending practices, a charge he denies. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/business/09magic.html?ref=thereckoning Merrill Lynch and http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/23/us-deutschebank-mortgage-lawsuit- idUSTRE77M0E620110823 Deutsche Bank bothpurchased subprime mortgage lending outfits in 2006 to get in on the lucrative business. Deutsche Bank has also been accused of failing http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703834804576300911120513834.h tml to adequately check on borrowers' financial status before issuing loans backed by government insurance. A lawsuit filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara claimed that, when employees at Deutsche Bank's mortgage received audits on the quality of their mortgages from an outside firm, they stuffed http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2011/05/03/deutsche-bank-unit-stuffed-mortgage-r eviews-in-a-closet-literally/ them in a closet without reading them. A Deutsche Bank spokeswoman said the claims being made against the company are unreasonable and unfair, and that most of the problems occurred before the mortgage unit was bought by Deutsche Bank. Where they are now: Few prosecutions have been brought against subprime mortgage lenders. Ameriquest went http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/01/us-citigroup-ameriquest-idUSN3128 419320070901 out of business in 2007, and Citigroup bought its mortgage lending unit. Washington Mutual was bought by JP Morgan in 2008. A Department of Justice investigation into alleged fraud at WaMu closed http://www.fbi.gov/seattle/press-releases/2011/department-of-justice-closes -washington-mutual-investigation-with-no-criminal-charges with no charges this summer. WaMu also recently settled http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304584004576419740497824126.h tml a class action lawsuit brought by shareholders for $208.5 million. In an ongoing lawsuit, the FDIC is accusing former Washington Mutual executives Kerry Killinger, Stephen Rotella and David Schneider of going on a lending http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703818204576206713256773914.h tml spree, knowing that the real-estate market was in a 'bubble.' They deny the allegations. Bank http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22606833/ns/business-real_estate/t/bank-america -acquire-countrywide/#.Tp7g0N4UoqQ of America purchased Countrywide in January of 2008, as delinquencies on the company's mortgages soared and investors
[LAAMN] What Would Jesus Protest?
This is Reverend Jack Zylman's response to the above subject line. The original article is below it. I felt this was one of the best historical outlays that also reflect what is happening in the bit of the world today, we can extract from what the media does allow us to know about. I am forwarding this along with Reverend Zylman's permission. Scott This is my answer to What would Jesus Protest? In first century Israel, the nations leader was not King Herod, who was appointed by the Roman Emperor, but the priesthood of the Temple of Jerusalem, led by the Chief priest, Caiaphus. With his disciples and other followers in a remarkably democratic movement, including many women, gathered at Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee, he led a great march South upon Jerusalem and the Temple, to tackle what was to them the basis of the economy, for the Temple was Israels Wall Street! The most powerful instrument in the Israel economy was the sacrifice industry, and industry it was. The peasant farmers of Israel contracted with the Temple to raise animals for sacrifice, for they had to be specially raised, being blessed, for pay, at every step of the process. To do this, the poor peasant mortgaged his tiny tract of land, his small farm, to the Temple, which would be repaid when and if he got his money at the end of the process. If he couldnt pay, it would be foreclosed on and repossessed! Yep, Wall Street Israel and the Temple were one had the same. The economic dominators have never changed! We know from the story that his aging mother, at the end of her days at 50 or older (life expectancy was about 50) was with him on this long and arduous march. I suspect that she wasnt home because it had been repossessed! And where had Jesus been when he disappeared from the story from the age of 12 until he was 30? Very possible sold into slavery to help her maintain possession of Josephs bit of land. Its easy to see why Jesus was marching on the Temple; it was the same reason that Wall Street is today occupied by young people and their supporters. Indeed, when this band of revolutionaries arrived at the Temple, they occupied the outer court, where commerce, including banking (money exchange) and the sale of the sacrifice animals took place. Jesus and his band were not violent, and they did not attack anyone. Instead, they released the animals from the cages, in what may have been the first animal liberation movement in history, and used whips to drive the animals out, destroying the basis of the economy! Not only were the animals free, but they were made impure and couldnt be used for sacrifice!!! No wonder the Chief Priests wanted this revolutionary dead! This was a non-violent revolution, which Occupy Wall Street can become! Caiaphus held a trial and convicted him, of course, but execution wasnt enough for Jesus he wanted it a huge public execution, so he called in Pontius Pilate, because only the Emperor could crucify and make the execution public. Of course he agreed, without caring, and the revolutionary was beaten and marched off to carry his own cross and die upon it a Roman execution ordered by an Israeli high priest! The situation on Wall Street is remarkably similar, with mass arrests and violent attacks by the police was there a centurion named Tony Boloney? While the main stream media carefully ignores the occupation, The last week of Jesus life is being enacted before us! And we must stand with the movement as well as we can, wherever we are. This mass resistance can be the beginning of the public struggle that can bring Wall Street down, bring down corporate capitalism the system we have that rules the world and that was copied by a collaborationist Jew, Milton Friedman, from an Italian dictator this is the Roman Empire of our era! Do not fear a collapse of the economy, it is necessary to free the people and bring us in equality to rule by all. The depression the banks may well impose on us, as they did in 1929, will not be brought by the Occupation or by the people, but the very banks that dominate the world now! We must, like the people of Jesus time, free ourselves and the human race from the dictatorship of the banks and corporations, and carry us all to freedom and human unity! Rev. Jack Zylman 1321 16th Avenue South Birmingham, AL 35205-6020 cell: 205-821-0650 Occupy Wall Street! Occupy Birmingham! When I feed the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why so many people are poor they call me a communist. - Dom Helder Câmara ___ _ From: To: Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 3:09 PM Subject: [libertyundergroundtalk] What Would Jesus Protest? Â What Would Jesus Protest? By Reverend Anthony Wade It started as most age-defining movements do, somewhere in the wind. Some unrest, some recognition of what is right and wrong. Some people willing
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 20 October, 2011]
*AN ACTION FOR THE PEOPLE * ** *The general assembly at Freedom Plaza has called for the 99% toexpress their outrage with Citigroup http://october2011.org/blogs/kevin-zeese/occupation-freedom-plaza-washington-dc-calls-nationwide-citibank-protests and the banking industry that is making record profits off the backs of working people,**by demonstrating at Citibank locations everywhere. We are asking people to express their outrage in a very visible and audible way in order to shut these banks down for an hour, for a day---and to continue to put pressure on the banking industry indefinitely. * *Citibank got a taxpayer bailout, awarded themselves bonuses, and continue to deny loans to those who need them while foreclosing on the homes of the victims of the bankster scams. * *The call comes with a list of talking points. * *Here is an opportunity to join the revolution, wherever you live, and participate in real democracy.* *ARE THERE MORE CHILDREN IN POVERTY THAN THE POPULATION OF YOUR STATE? * ** *Remapping debate http://www.remappingdebate.org/map-data-resources has come up with statistics to show that in 46 of the 50 states, the entire population is less than the number of American children in poverty. Millions of American children go to bed hungry each night and are not getting proper nutrition, in the wealthiest nation on earth, because our priorities are enriching transnational investors and transnational corporations that don't give a damn about this country or its people (but finance our elections), through privatization schemes, free trade agreements, and outright corporate welfare. * ** *THE LATEST OCCUPATION UPDATES * ** * David Swanson sent us an email this morning to say that Lisa Simeone was fired from her job http://warisacrime.org/content/npr-gets-producer-fired-occupying because /NPR/ had found out she participated in the Occupy Movement. The low lifes of /NPR/ take money from polluters, defense cheats, banksters and other scumbags (adjusting their programming accordingly) and find nothing wrong with this, but they go after anybody who represents the public interest. We have had a standing offer to /NPR/ for over a decade at /LUV News/ that we will show how any of their flagship programs, /Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation/, etc., go against the public interest http://www.intrepidreport.com/archives/1044. We have invited /NPR/ executives to pick a future date and program of their choice, and we will then show how that program clearly sells out the public interest. The cowards won't even respond, knowing we would lay their sellout bare. If you are a member of /NPR/, please consider quitting and telling them you think Lisa Simeone has more integrity in her little finger than all of the corporate butt-kissing executives of /NPR/ laid end to end. **Dennis Trainor Jr. sent us an email linking to one of his videos, which he calls the anthem for the occupy movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYWfvopZn5Y. It is a stirring song whose primary lyrics are Occupy, DC, occupy everything. Trainor has made, in our opinion, the best videos covering the movement, but /YouTube/ often imbeds commercial ads on them and they may be in conflict with the movement, so we say this as a warning, /LUV News/ does not endorse the commercial ads. Send the link to your friends to motivate them!* * * **It never ceases to amaze us how many in the world are being credited in the occupy movement press coverage for starting the phenomenon. One can go back in history over recent centuries, and even millennia, finding a great many protests in many ways similar, often with a similar clash of the classes and an occupation involved. But one in recent history stands out because of the sheer odds against it, the Zapatista movement in Mexico, in which the most wretched of peasants stood proudly to say no, on the day NAFTA was implemented by Bill Clinton to crush the working classes and the poor, push Mexican family farms under, and drive Mexican wages downward (as the Maquiladora precursor had predicted, or global capitalists wouldn't have implemented it). The Zapatistas, up against the might of the Mexican Army, with satellites of the American Empire overhead, tracking their every movement, stood their ground on behalf of the children who would go hungry, and the last shred of hope they were faced with losing as they put their backs to the wall. Although we oppose violence at /LUV News/, we supported the Zapatista, as a rare exception. The Zapatista had tried every nonviolent means: when they marched in a peaceful protest, they were thrown into jails-- men, women and children. They were told they had no voice, that the powerful decide for them, to shut up and
[LAAMN] Re: Who are the 1%?
Who are the 1% IN AMERICA I think we're looking to close to home, to much of a symptom, and not for the actual WHO's that are behind the symptoms listed in this article. Few important things are missing. One is, who loans money only to Governments? Who is it that insures Governments and their wars? Starting with that we now have to look at the IMF, but even more closely is Lloyd's of London, the Bank of England and the Bank of Scotland. Those two banks do not make loans to PEOPLE. Rockefeller's... and a few others whose Multi Century long FAMILY Enterprises, are always associated with International Banking, aren't on this list either. As has been stated many times elsewhere over the last couple of score of years, Banks make 10 times more money in times of strife, for High Risk War Loans, then they do in the best times of Economic Prosperity. Peace, simply, is not good business. Hence Peace Protestors, protesting war, are always met with violence. The final thought here is that, those on the list provided, all can in some form or another, be boycotted. Those that are International Bankers and Property dealers in stature, work with those you thought were suppose to represent you, and you have no choice in boycotting them as YOUR REPRESENTATIVE gives them YOUR HARD EARNED TAX DOLLARS, and of course, Personal Income Tax is still on the books as a temporary war time tax, 100 years ago you an I didn't pay personal income tax, those who have 'an office' in the USA can now export and import tax/duty free pretty much, which is where the whole income for our Government USE TO COME FROM. Scott http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29432.htm Who Are The One Percent in America? By Press TV October 17, 2011 Press TV -- The following are the largest full-service global investment banks which usually provides both advisory and financing banking services, as well as the sales, market making, and research on a broad array of financial products including equities, credit, rates, currency, commodities, and their derivatives. 1. Bank of America 2. Barclays Capital 3. Citigroup 4. Credit Suisse 5. Deutsche Bank 6. Goldman Sachs 7. JPMorgan Chase 8. Morgan Stanley 9. Nomura Securities 10. UBS 11. Wells Fargo Securities Diversified Financials The following are the top eight diversified financials in the U.S. in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Fannie Mae .. $153.82 billion 2. General Electric .. $151.62 billion 3. Freddie Mac .. $98.36 billion 4. INTL FCStone ... $46.94 billion 5. Marsh McLennan ... $10.93 billion 6. Ameriprise Financial .. $10.04 billion 7. Aon .. $8.51 billion 8. SLM .. $6.77 billion Commercial Banks The following are the top ten commercial banks in the U.S. in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Bank of America Corp. .. $134.19 billion 2. JP Morgan Chase Co. .. $115.47 billion 3. Citigroup .. $111.05 billion 4. Well Fargo .. $93.24 billion 5. Goldman Sachs Group .. $45.96 billion 6. Morgan Stanley .. $39.32 billion 7. American Express .. $30.24 billion 8. US Bancorp .. $20.51 billion 9. Capital One Financial .. $19.06 billion 10. Ally Financial .. $17.37 billion Petroleum Refining The following are the top ten U.S. petroleum refining firms in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Exxon Mobil .. $354.67 billion 2. Chevron .. $196.33 billion 3. Conoco Philips .. $184.96 billion 4. Valero Energy .. $86.03 billion 5. Marathon Oil .. $68.41billion 6. Sunoco .. $35.54 billion 7. Hess .. $34.61 billion 8. Murphy Oil .. $23.34 billion 9. Tesoro .. $20.25 billion 10. Holly .. $8.32 billion Oil Gas Equipment, Services The following are the top U.S. firms active in oil and gas equipment and services in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Halliburton .. $17.97 million 2. Baker Hughes .. $14.41 million 3. National Oilwell Varco .. $12.15 million 4. Cameron International .. $6.13 million Aerospace Defense The following are the top ten U.S. corporations in aerospace and defense in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Boeing ... $64.30 billion 2. United Technologies .. $54.32 billion 3. Lockheed Martin ... $46.89 billion 4. Northrop Grumman .. $34.75 billion 5. Honeywell International ... $33.37 billion 6. General Dynamics .. $32.46 billion 7. Raytheon .. $25.18 billion 8. L-3 Communications .. $15.68 billion 9. ITT .. $11.15 billion 10. Textron .. $10.52 billion Motor Vehicles Parts The following are the top ten U.S. manufacturing companies of motor vehicles and parts in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. General
[LAAMN] Benifits of global warming
Yes, I'm again talking about 'following the money'. Those who fight anything that would help halt global warming, are all connected by money, that is, will it INCREASE Profits, and Global Warming will definitely increase profits for these International Corporations who have enough financial clout to effect entire countries economies. And it isn't just that they'd have to raise prices to keep profits in the Carbon Fuel (it is NOT Fossil Fuel) market should regulations interfere with Profits, it is that the melting polar ice caps, mean increased profit for even more international companies, just ask the northern most mining companies, Citigroup, and Exxon Mobil...and on and on. Please keep in mind, if you purchase these people products, this is where their profit incentive comes from. Scott http://tiny.cc/ejeka or http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/business/global/warming-revives-old-dream-of-sea-route-in-russian-arctic.html?src=unfeedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fscience%2Findex.jsonp Warming Revives Dream of Sea Route in Russian Arctic (A version of this article appeared in print on October 18, 2011, on page B1 of the New York edition with the headline: Amid the Peril, a Dream Fulfilled.) By ANDREW E. KRAMER Published: October 17, 2011 ARKHANGELSK, Russia Rounding the northernmost tip of Russia in his oceangoing tugboat this summer, Capt. Vladimir V. Bozanov saw plenty of walruses, some pods of beluga whales and in the distance a few icebergs. One thing Captain Bozanov did not encounter while towing an industrial barge 2,300 miles across the Arctic Ocean was solid ice blocking his path anywhere along the route. Ten years ago, he said, an ice-free passage, even at the peak of summer, was exceptionally rare. But environmental scientists say there is now no doubt that global warming is shrinking the Arctic ice pack, opening new sea lanes and making the few previously navigable routes near shore accessible more months of the year. And whatever the grim environmental repercussions of greenhouse gas, companies in Russia and other countries around the Arctic Ocean are mining that dark clouds silver lining by finding new opportunities for commerce and trade. Oil companies might be the most likely beneficiaries, as the receding polar ice cap opens more of the sea floor to exploration. The oil giant Exxon Mobil recently signed a sweeping deal to drill in the Russian sector of the Arctic Ocean. But shipping, mining and fishing ventures are also looking farther north than ever before. It is paradoxical that new opportunities are opening for our nations at the same time we understand that the threat of carbon emissions have become imminent, Icelands president, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, said at a recent conference on Arctic Ocean shipping held in this Russian port city not far south of the Arctic Circle. At the same forum, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin of Russia offered a full-throated endorsement of the new business prospects in the thawing north. The Arctic is the shortcut between the largest markets of Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, he said. It is an excellent opportunity to optimize costs. This summer, one of the warmest on record in the Arctic, a tanker set a speed record by crossing the Arctic Ocean in six and a half days, carrying a cargo of natural gas condensate. The previous record was eight days. Scientists say that over the last 10 years the average size of the polar ice sheet in September, the time of year when it is smallest, has been only about two-thirds the average during the previous two decades. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Program, a Norwegian group studying the Arctic, forecasts that within 30 or 40 years the entire Arctic Ocean will be ice-free in the summer. And so business plans are being drawn up to capitalize on changes in a part of the world that for much of seafaring history was better known for grim final entries in diaries of explorers like Hugh Willoughby of England. He died with his crew in 1553 trying to navigate this shortcut from Europe to Asia, known as the Northeast Passage. The Russians, by traveling near the coast, have been sailing the Northeast Passage for a century. They opened it to international shipping in 1991, after the breakup of the Soviet Union. But only recently have companies begun to find the route profitable, as the receding polar ice cap has opened paths farther offshore allowing larger, modern ships with deeper drafts to make the trip, trimming days off the voyage and saving fuel. In 2009, the first two international commercial cargo vessels traveled north of Russia between Europe and Asia. This year, 18 ships have made the now mostly ice-free crossing. The voyages included a scenic cruise through the Northeast Passage, departing from Murmansk and arriving in Anadyr, a Russian port in the Pacific Ocean across the Bering Sea from Alaska. The voyage offered attractions such as abandoned Russian
[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 17 October, 2011]
*PROPERLY HONORING A KING * ** *At the dedication to the Martin Luther King memorial yesterday, Martin Luther King III said **Let's not forget or confuse what he stood for and died for: love, peace equality jobs, nonviolence, decent housing and an end to war, and he added that the occupy movements taking place in the United States and around the world are examples of the kinds of action that emulate his life's work. * *Later, a few blocks away at Freedom Plaza, Princeton Professor Cornel West agreed that If Martin Luther King were alive today he would be right here with us. * *As for President Obama putting his face into the middle of the King celebration, West said it was Just like having brother Thomas on the Supreme Court. * *Then West agreed with the October2011 group that on a day of celebration of America's great hero of social justice and peace movements, it was the right thing to do to be arrested, as King was for opposing American apartheid. West joined 17 from Freedom Plaza who were arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court for the serious crime of holding up a sign (apparently the Supreme Court doesn't recognize the First Amendment). * *Fourteen of the 17 arrested were kept overnight in the DC jail, including West, according to Kevin Zeese. * *The sign Dr. West held up, so terrifying to the Empire, stated **Poverty is the Greatest Violence of All, so of course, he had to be locked away by those who rule the Land of the Free. * *WASHINGTON IS THE REAL PROBLEM * ** *Backing our position at /LUV News/ that the Freedom Plaza group in Washington is the tip of the spear for the democracy movement, a poll out by /The Hill/ http://thehill.com/polls/187837-the-hill-poll-voters-say-dc-worse-than-wall-street this morning shows that **In the minds of likely voters, Washington, not Wall Street, is primarily to blame for the financial crisis and the subsequent recession. * *The nerve center for the Wall Street bailouts, corporate welfare, corporate tax breaks, subsidies, wars and the worst of our social problems is Washington.* *SMEARING THE PROTESTERS * ** *MJ Rosenberg has an interesting piece at /al Jazeera/ showing that corporate media pundits are smearing the occupy Wall Street movement with bogus charges of antisemitism http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/2011101510466829989.html. The occupy movement likely has a greater percentage of Jews within it than there are in the general population, but this is business as usual by the corporate media on behalf of those who own them, man their board rooms and provide them ad revenue. * **In Los Angeles, a little over a week ago, a group formed by local religious leaders calling itself the ***Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) committed an act of civil disobedience by standing in front of a federal building and singing John Lennon's Give Peace a Chance. * *This, on the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan. The group, largely of religious people of various faiths, agreed that our country should begin to put some of its massive wealth into the growing homelessness, hunger, unemployment and other critical needs rather than squandering it on wars. * *They were of course arrested. Had they been high ranking officials authorizing torture or illegal war, nothing would have happened to them-- such people, the worst criminals, now run loose in our streets. * *There are dozens of similar stories of people calling attention to peace and being arrested in cities from sea to shining sea, but we chose this one, ran yesterday at /Truthout,/ because we feel we must put a spotlight on it-- it is, polling tells us, after all, the will of the American people to end the wars, so these protesters are only voicing the view of the vast majority. * *Rather than print the story here, we will link to it http://www.truth-out.org/arrested-peace/1318538607 so that you can see all of the pictures of those willing to be arrested and treated like crap for having the courage to speak the truth in the Land of the Free --Jack * *http://www.truth-out.org/arrested-peace/1318538607 * ** *If you wish to be removed from this list, please let us know* ** *To join the Liberty Underground news service email libertyuv@hotmail.comwith join for a subject* ** *You may also join our talk group athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/libertyundergroundtalk/if you would like to participate* ** *email: libert...@hotmail.com* ** *Tell your friends about /LUV News/ because some people just don't get it* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
[LAAMN] Who are the 1%?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29432.htm Who Are The One Percent in America? By Press TV October 17, 2011 Press TV -- The following are the largest full-service global investment banks which usually provides both advisory and financing banking services, as well as the sales, market making, and research on a broad array of financial products including equities, credit, rates, currency, commodities, and their derivatives. 1. Bank of America 2. Barclays Capital 3. Citigroup 4. Credit Suisse 5. Deutsche Bank 6. Goldman Sachs 7. JPMorgan Chase 8. Morgan Stanley 9. Nomura Securities 10. UBS 11. Wells Fargo Securities Diversified Financials The following are the top eight diversified financials in the U.S. in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Fannie Mae .. $153.82 billion 2. General Electric .. $151.62 billion 3. Freddie Mac .. $98.36 billion 4. INTL FCStone ... $46.94 billion 5. Marsh McLennan ... $10.93 billion 6. Ameriprise Financial .. $10.04 billion 7. Aon .. $8.51 billion 8. SLM .. $6.77 billion Commercial Banks The following are the top ten commercial banks in the U.S. in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Bank of America Corp. .. $134.19 billion 2. JP Morgan Chase Co. .. $115.47 billion 3. Citigroup .. $111.05 billion 4. Well Fargo .. $93.24 billion 5. Goldman Sachs Group .. $45.96 billion 6. Morgan Stanley .. $39.32 billion 7. American Express .. $30.24 billion 8. US Bancorp .. $20.51 billion 9. Capital One Financial .. $19.06 billion 10. Ally Financial .. $17.37 billion Petroleum Refining The following are the top ten U.S. petroleum refining firms in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Exxon Mobil .. $354.67 billion 2. Chevron .. $196.33 billion 3. Conoco Philips .. $184.96 billion 4. Valero Energy .. $86.03 billion 5. Marathon Oil .. $68.41billion 6. Sunoco .. $35.54 billion 7. Hess .. $34.61 billion 8. Murphy Oil .. $23.34 billion 9. Tesoro .. $20.25 billion 10. Holly .. $8.32 billion Oil Gas Equipment, Services The following are the top U.S. firms active in oil and gas equipment and services in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Halliburton .. $17.97 million 2. Baker Hughes .. $14.41 million 3. National Oilwell Varco .. $12.15 million 4. Cameron International .. $6.13 million Aerospace Defense The following are the top ten U.S. corporations in aerospace and defense in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. Boeing ... $64.30 billion 2. United Technologies .. $54.32 billion 3. Lockheed Martin ... $46.89 billion 4. Northrop Grumman .. $34.75 billion 5. Honeywell International ... $33.37 billion 6. General Dynamics .. $32.46 billion 7. Raytheon .. $25.18 billion 8. L-3 Communications .. $15.68 billion 9. ITT .. $11.15 billion 10. Textron .. $10.52 billion Motor Vehicles Parts The following are the top ten U.S. manufacturing companies of motor vehicles and parts in terms of revenue in 2010. Fortune 500 1. General Motors .. $135.59 billion 2. Ford Motor .. $128.95 billion 3. Chrysler Group .. $41.94 billion 4. Johnson Controls .. $34.30 billion 5. Goodyear Tire Rubber .. $18.83 billion 6. TRW Automotive Holdings .. $14.38 billion 7. Navistar International .. $12.14 billion 8. Lear .. $11.95 billion 9. Paccar .. $10.29 billion 10. Oshkosh .. $9.84 billion American Millionaires The number of Americans who are millionaires is about one percent of the population. NPR Of the 435 members of the House, 244 current members of Congress are millionaires - that's about 46 percent and that includes 138 Republicans and 106 Democrats, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan watchdog group that tracks money in politics. In fact, there are probably many more millionaires in Congress, since lawmakers don't have to include the value of their family home and other details. NPR In 2010, the average winner of a House race spent $1.5 million for his/her campaigns. The average Senate winner spent close to $10 million. Closely contested races are much more expensive. And about half of that money, on average, comes from an elite group of very wealthy donors. NPR Wealthy Americans have more access to lawmakers than most regular voters and constituents do, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. NPR The median net worth for a current member of the U.S. House of Representatives was $725,000 in 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, and the media net worth of a U.S. Senator was $2.4 million. Open Secrets The richest member of Congress is Darrel Issa, whose net worth was valued between $156
Re: [LAAMN] Cartoon
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