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Judge strikes down Citigroup's $285 million settlement with SECI wonder how long it will take for Citigroup to buy a judge to over rule the judge?
If you can do anything, anything at all to help and support OWS please do. This may be our last chance to stop America's descent into irreversible corporate fascism.
Happy Corporate Holidays, America!
Here we go again folks. It’s that time of year when we show our holiday spirit by plunging headlong, eyes wide shut, into personal debt to support China and other countries while our own America slides further into economic chaos. But don’t let that stop you. By all means, go out and spend that last dime on the credit card for a Taiwan trinket. The credit card company will probably be more than willing to increase your limit. Just don’t miss a payment. Can’t pay? Too bad. We’ll simply increase your interest rate and tell all the other credit card companies so that they increase your interest rates also.
So, at this time of year especially, not only do we actively support the economy of other countries at the expense of our own, but we also support the bankers. And we LOVE the bankers, don’t we… at least we do at this time of year. I call it the Holiday Banker Bailout. Without these corporate holidays, life would be a little less opulent for these parasites – parasites that delude the host into consuming what is good for the parasite, while killing the host...
© 2011 Barbara H. Peterson
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Economic stimulus aside – is this really the nation we want to be??
Becoming Jefferson's People. Thomas Jefferson shares his vision of a Jeffersonian America
http://www.jeffersonhour.com/
The Grand Old Sociopath Party is so sick, so sociopathic, so thoroughly greedy that they will not be satisifed until we have a 100% peasant/oligarch fascist society. They are sick, ugly people...I see no reason in denying what is obvious (at least to me it is).
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OccupyWallStreet The revolution continues worldwide!
Forum Post: S.1867 allows Military to Intern Americans without Charges
Posted 1 day ago on Nov. 26, 2011, 9:23 p.m. EST by PublicCurrency (North Palm Beach, FL)
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Telephone your Senators on Monday . . . Do not support this bill
The Senate is set to vote on a bill next week that would define the whole of the United States as a “battlefield” and allow the U.S. Military to arrest American citizens in their own back yard without charge or trial.
“The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president—and every future president — the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world. The power is so broad that even U.S. citizens could be swept up by the military and the military could be used far from any battlefield, even within the United States itself,” writes Chris Anders of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office.
Under the ‘worldwide indefinite detention without charge or trial’ provision of S.1867, the National Defense Authorization Act bill, which is set to be up for a vote on the Senate floor Monday, the legislation will “basically say in law for the first time that the homeland is part of the battlefield,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who supports the bill." end quote
Thom,
Just wanted you to know I have been a highly loyal listener for over five years, Never missed five minutes and for this reason I took your advice and went to Itt trading. They rippeped me off of my entire life savings. MY only hope now is a class action lawsuit. It wasn't just you, Randi Roades and Ed Schultz both were involved in this fraud, but I trusted your advice the most. Now I see you as the lefts version of Glenn Beck. I will never listen to another word from you. I remain a true lefty, but you have proved to me that you cannot trust anyone. I just hope I don't have to die under some bridge somewhere. Congrats, you have huge influence.
1) I am new to your literature, but it has "Ignited a brush fire of freedom" in my mind. What got me excited and angry were the specifics--taxes for the rich and super rich cut from 90% to 28%.
Simply reinstating what the taxes were before Regan initiated the tax cuts could probably balance the budget in about 7 years.
2) You should write a book on how you did your research. If history had been that interesting when I was in school, I might have majored in it.
3) One comment was that the 1% can't relate, out of touch, sociopaths. I think it's darker than that. I think a lot of the 1% enjoy other people's suffering--like a warped little boy pulling the wings off of a fly, or like the Romans watching Christians being eaten by lions, while they sipped wine and told off-color jokes.
Thom, you awakened me. I've been obsessed with 1930s culture since childhood, as I was a blogger on this for years. Since you often show the parallels between 30s protest and the present occupy movement, I decided to connect my political blog to my 30s blogs and fight on a broader front. Looking very much forward to that....
Thanks Thom!
Mr. Hartmann my suggestion to you: Do some more research into mythology before you engage these ridiculous and idiotic 5 pointed star spin tactics.
"The Apotheosis of Washington Rotunda U.S. Capitol"
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apotheosis_1.cfm
The Apotheosis of Washington in the eye of the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol was painted in the true fresco technique by Constantino Brumidi in 1865. Brumidi (1805-1880) was born and trained in Rome and had painted in the Vatican and Roman palaces before emigrating to the United States in 1852. A master of creating the illusion of three-dimensional forms and figures on flat walls, Brumidi painted frescoes and murals throughout the Capitol from 1855 until his death. The canopy fresco, his most ambitious work at the Capitol, was painted in eleven months at the end of the Civil War, soon after the new dome was completed, for $40,000. Suspended 180 feet above the Rotunda floor, it covers an area of 4,664 square feet. The figures, up to 15 feet tall, were painted to be intelligible from close up as well as from 180 feet below. Some of the groups and figures were inspired by classical and Renaissance images, especially by those of the Italian master Raphael.
Photographs of the inner dome and canopy (41k) and of the canopy fresco (42k) are available, as are photographs of individual groupings:
In the central group (37k) of the fresco, Brumidi depicted George Washington rising to the heavens in glory, flanked by female figures representing Liberty and Victory/Fame. A rainbow arches at his feet, and thirteen maidens symbolizing the original states flank the three central figures. (The word "apotheosis" in the title means literally the raising of a person to the rank of a god, or the glorification of a person as an ideal; George Washington was honored as a national icon in the nineteenth century.)
Six groups of figures line the perimeter of the canopy; the following list begins below the central group and proceeds clockwise:
1.Armored Freedom, sword raised and cape flying, with a helmet and shield reminiscent of those on the Statue of Freedom, tramples Tyranny and Kingly Power; she is assisted by a fierce eagle carrying arrows and a thunderbolt.
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_war.cfm
2. Minerva, Goddess of wisdom and the arts of civilization, with helmet and spear, points to an electric generator creating power stored in batteries, next to a printing press, while inventors Benjamin Franklin, Samuel F. B. Morse, and Robert Fulton watch. At the left, a teacher demonstrates the use of dividers.
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_sci.cfm
3. Neptune, God of the sea, holding his trident and crowned with seaweed, rides in a shell chariot drawn by sea horses. Venus, Goddess of love born from the sea, helps lay the transatlantic cable. In the background is a form of iron-clad ship with smokestacks.
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_mar.cfm
4. Mercury, God of commerce, with his winged cap and sandals and caduceus, hands a bag of gold to Robert Morris, financier of the Revolutionary War. On the left, men move a box on a dolly; on the right, the anchor and sailors lead into the next scene,
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_comm.cfm
5.Vulcan, God of the forge, stands at his anvil with his foot on a cannon, near a pile of cannon balls and with a steam engine in the background. The man at the forge is thought to represent Charles Thomas, who was in charge of the ironwork of the Capitol dome.
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_mech.cfm
6.Ceres, the Goddess of agriculture, is shown with a wreath of wheat and a cornucopia, seated on a McCormick reaper. Young America in a liberty cap holds the reins of the horses, while Flora gathers flowers in the foreground.
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/apoth_agri.cfm
The Capitol's cast-iron dome was designed in 1854 by Thomas U. Walter, the fourth Architect of the Capitol, who had also designed the building's north and south extensions. Work on the dome began in 1856; in 1859 Walter redesigned the structure to consist of an inner and outer dome. A canopy suspended between them would be visible through an oculus, or eye, at the top of the inner dome, and in 1862 Walter asked Brumidi to furnish a design for "a picture 65 feet in diameter, painted in fresco, on the concave canopy over the eye of the New Dome of the U.S. Capitol." It is possible that Brumidi added a watercolor image of his final canopy design over a tentative sketch on Walter's 1859 drawing at this time. (A photograph of the entire drawing [35k] and a detail of the canopy area [65k] are available.)
The fresco underwent a thorough cleaning and restoration in 1987-1988. Although fresco is a very durable medium, grime had accumulated on the surface of Brumidi's Apotheosis for over a century. In particular, the joints between the giornate, the sections of plaster, had darkened, creating disfiguring lines in the composition. Today, with the fresco completely cleaned and treated, the unified effect and soaring illusion of space intended by the artist can once again be seen."
Reference: http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/apotheosis/Overview.cfm
You can not blame a movement which anyone can freely join for the actions of individuals. Msamerican, the group in this case has no control over what an individual protester may do. And though the occupy movement has tried to instill a discipline of nonviolence, it has no way of enforcing this, or controlling who takes part in the movement. It's not like you apply for membership. You say the movement needs leaders, but who decides who is the 'boss' in a movement which encourages everyone to take part?
Also, the things you have listed do not seem particularly violent, especially in light of the kind of violence and provocation on the part of the police that the protesters have had to endure. All people have their breaking point, and I am surprised that there has not been any real violence on the part of the protesters. If I had rubber bullets shot at me, was pepper sprayed, and beaten by billy clubs, I would certainly not have the discipline they have shown. So the claims that it is the protesters who are violent seem ironic to me, and either ill-thought or dishonest.
The Occupy movement should take back the American flag from right-wing conservatives who proclaim themselves patriots. They are not. The Occupiers are the patriots and they are the ones who should be waving the American flag and announcing that we are taking back our country from the 1% and the corporations. I'm a former Marine Corps officer and veteran, and I am tired of seeing my country's flag used as propaganda by right-wing conservatives. Out of ignorance or stupidity, they work to cheat the public of the freedom our soldiers, sailors, and marines have fought and died for--sometimes in wars that were little more than profit centers for corporations and the banks. Occupiers--wave and display the American flag with pride and take our country back! Let's see if the police are willing to put hundreds of American flags into garbage trucks! --Ted
They're not going to be satisfied until they bring back the feudal system. Serf's up! And no, that's not a typo - they want us all to be serfs.
Any organization, foreign or domestic, that would trash the USA should be considered subversive and systematically disbanded. I believe that is the future for the GOP and the corporate think tanks and media cult that created the ugly beast.
Thank you, Cygnus1, for those kind words. And I do speak, sometimes, about things that I think might occur, eventually. And that they may actually be necessary to achieve our goals of reinstating any semblance of what we had 30 plus years ago in the work place and in our lives before the so-called Reagan Revolution. However, no one should take it that I would do any of these things myself...full of fury signifying nothing, perhaps..or not willing to put my actions where my mouth is....just my way of venting. I don't like violence and find it should always be the absolute last thing. And I know it is easy to say things but another to actually do them. As I am not yet one of the really down and out, struggling to find the next meal (no cats or rats yet) although if you look hard enough in some of those fast food burgers you might find someone's finger pointing back at you (I know, I know...that was a hoax...or attempted fraud), I am not compelled to be as active as I would be were my circumstances different. But, I am very much afraid that one day my luck will run out.
If the 99% goes completely down, we will take the 1% with us. The one percent may be smart enough to stay in or get into that class but they are extremely blind and short sighted if they think their behavior won't drag them into the toilet as well. Fine, if they wanted two classes they could have settled for the wealthy and the comfortable. They could have pulled the poor up into the comfortable class. If the current annual income of the 99% was 100k and we weren't in a perpetual state of war/fear, we had full medical coverage and care and corporations weren't polluting the environment we wouldn't care what the 1% were doing behind closed doors. Blissful ignorance! Hopefully after the collapse that we all know is coming the 1% become so neutered that they will not be in a position to regain control. The wrong mindframe has been running the world for too long and it's time to completely turn things around.
Palindromedary, you understand perfectly how futile is voting. Your posts are, in fact, a reflection of understanding and intelligence. Thank you.
We must advise the patriots in the state of California to not use pepper spray, due to the fact that they may be jailed for a very long time. The law there states pepper spray may not be used unless a person is provoked. We know that the police provoke, but we also know that the one provoked will stand no chance in court against the police and judge who stick together in most cases. Good point!
We are concerned that the Peoples of these United States of America might not realise in time the wisdom of your words. Where the elected ones throw the needs of the people into the wind and implement the dictates of lobbyists like AIPAC, then the futility of voting "democratically" for anyone should become evident to all. At that point of realization the people are left with no choice but to attack the system and demolish it in a revolution, which in these United States of America may become a long drawn-out process where the suppressed many are found on one side, and the well-paid, well-equipped, and bought-for-a paycheque on the other side. In this collision we hope the military will intervene on behalf of the people before it comes to a lot of bloodshed.
The second problem which the Peoples have, is that any monies government needs to cover the deficit should not be "borrowed" through a privately-owned institution like the Federal Reserve, which is not "federal" at all, but that name was given it for the purpose of effective cover of the fact that this "bank" is there for the purpose of profit-taking in the form of usury on a phoney "debt" which can readily and legally be covered by virtue of the government's constitutionally entrenched power "coinage and regulating the value thereof."
What we are saying here is that the government of these United States of America has no legal obligation to go into debt against a private group of bankers when it is endowed with the power to create its own currency where it is needed to cover an annual deficit. And if the latter is true, which we know it is, then it stands to reason also that THE GOVERNMENT OF THESE UNITED STATES HAS THE POWER TO ERADICATE THE 14.5 TRILLION DOLLARS OF SO-CALLED INDEBTEDNESS NOT ONLY WITH NO ILL-EFFECT ON ANYONE, BUT MORE SO FOR THE BENEFIT ON ALL AMERICAN TAX-PAYERS, WHO THEN CAN BE RELIEVED OF THAT PORTION OF TAXATION ON THEIR INCOMES, REQUIRED FOR SERVICING THE "NATIONAL DEBT" WITH ALL ITS USURY TACKED ON TOP OF IT.
At that point talk about "tax the rich more, so the poor middle-class serfs can pay less" is to us somewhat of a mute point, for as long as the fundamental issue of tax illegality of the present system has not been addressed. To talk even superficially about taxation is not resolving the bigger issue of government deficit financing and its effect on taxation.
The new system which is indeed age old, guarantees that all needs be taken care of and all hopes seen as being fullfilled.
You see, for men and women who are millionaires or close to it, paying taxes on the same scale as the middle class or poor peoples does them little harm. Why? Because the millionaires have their basic needs met and their comfort zone guaranteed, whilst the middle class (what is left of them) and the poor, do not have their basic needs met for the cost of education and health care is high, so paying taxes upon taxes at the same scale as a man or women pays who is a millionaire, or close to it, or even being a billionaire, will NOT hurt the millionaire nor billionaire, but WILL HURT the middle class and the poor.
In other words, someone who makes a million dollars a year, for example, can easily pay 6% taxes annually on his or her big income, with more than enough left to pay his or her expenses, which is not the case by someone who is required to pay 6% on 15,000 a year, when all his or her entire income is being consumed in cost to pay for basic essentials.
There is really no fairness in all of this.
At this point in time, ANY TAXES will only serve to take the very food off the table of the poor and middle class Americans.
Do not listen, therefore, to those who wish to keep the tax system as a yoke over the necks of the Peoples, because those who do that are too much in love with money, themselves. - Cygnus1
Aside from Gandhi, or MLK, most of all the other "revolutionary movements" were not so peaceful. When the wealthy elite tried to turn everyone in America, in our early history, into slaves working for barely life sustainable wages, with no vacations, health insurance, 12 hour day--6 or 7 days a week work requirements, it took much more than just peaceful demonstrations and voting to change things around. Things got violent..and, in the very least...got obstructionist..they boycotted..they went on strike...massively....and solidarily. And when things got violent...the ruling elite got some sense knocked into their heads...and with a politician like FDR...they managed to turn things around. If it was not for the violence...the strikes...the boycotts....would FDR even have been elected...and if not for the violence...would FDR not been moved to take action that would turn things around for the people? If you continue to act like lambs then the wealthy will continue to act like wolves.
Voting is futile! It won't make any difference! Not if you continue to vote for one of the two parties that have bamboozled us into thinking they are our only choices. The only thing it will do is make it "seem" like we have a "democratic" system. But the cards are stacked against us when we play that crooked and rigged game.
Our worst enemies are the ones that pretend to be our friend then sneak behind our backs and stab us while twisting the knife.
The Democrats pretend to be on our side but they stab us in the back and then say...oh, you have no other choice because the Republicans would be much worse. And if you believe that, then you will die with the illusion that you had loyal friends.
At least, when we recognize our enemies, we can concentrate our efforts on defeating them head on. But if we don't recognize the slimy creature that has lied to us, pretended to be our friend, and is sneaking up behind us with a big knife, then we won't know what hit us.
You have to be able to recognize your real enemies and realize how they have acted against your best interests, and then not keep repeating the same mistakes that led up to your being deceived the first time.
"The Republican landslide in 2010 was the result of many Democrats not showing up to vote. Not voting should eliminate the right to complain."
It was mostly the realization by many Democrats that voting really doesn't matter in a corrupt system and that they were really rebelling against the Blue Dog Democrats.
If Democrat politicians want us Democrats to continue voting for them, they have to realize that they can't make a bunch of empty promises and then act like Republicans themselves after they get our votes.
When we have such a corrupt political system there is only one thing that will turn it around....stop voting and turn to revolution...in the streets...everywhere but the ineffective and corrupt ballot boxes.
Yes, those Blue Dog faux Democrat politicians were replaced by Republicans....so what? At least the people showed those Democrats that they cannot count on our votes if they continue to do as they have done...sell out the people who voted for them. Obama is a sell out! Voting for him again is total foolishness.
The really serious revolts will begin in the next election cycle and having a faux Democrat in the White H0u$e, once again, will throw those who voted for him off guard giving the ruling elite even more of the nation's wealth and a weakened resolve toward the OWS movement.
If a Republican gets in...then it will be the Republicans that will take the heat and they will have to deal with massive revolution...and an even fiercer one..one where the demonstrators are actually fighting back. The police would be totally swamped if the huge crowds decided enough was enough and the demonstrators, each carrying their own pepper spray directed their aim at the bully boys for a change. And if some of those cans contained a rubber glue based substance then the bully boys would have a very difficult time doing anything but trying to find some solvent. There would be bully boys in blue sticking to the pavement and arms and hands sticking to their bodies unable to do anything...like flies caught on fly-paper. And it looks like the people of New York are about ready to run Bloomberg out tarred and feathered on a rail. The rat would deserve it!
With the economic war that the ruling elite started more than 30 years ago, there is only one outcome...and it isn't business (or politics) as usual. It will get nasty but that is the coarse that the Reagan Revolution foisted upon us. They started it..continued it..and if WE don't end it...then there will be mass starvation and a tremendous population decrease in a very short period of time. It is a life and death situation for many of us.
Some people keep preaching the Gandhi or MLK approach but it won't last because the authorities will continue bashing heads and murdering unborn babies.
The majority of Americans already sides with the OWS movement...not necessarily just because it has been relatively peaceful or Gandhi-like...with the demonstrators suffering the violence of the police...but because of the basic reasons why the demonstrators are out there to begin with.
So if 99% of the people are 99% in agreement with 99% of the basic ideals that the demonstrators represent then what will that equate to at the polls? Everybody voting for Obama?...or even all the Democrats in Congress? And so what do you think that will buy us? These crooked slick-tongued devils will continue to make promises and generate slick sound-bites that momentarily may titillate our psyches and move us emotionally to a Kumbaya, flag-waving, sense of accomplishment moment; but, under the table, the same old corruption will still be there. The Democrats will still make empty promises and then, for a few bucks..or a nice cushy, high-paying, revolving-door job in the private sector later, they will continue to sell us out. No!!!......time for corrupt politics is over...it's time for the revolution...one that will scare some sense and reality into these selfish, greedy, heartless criminals who have taken our government, and our lives, hostage.
Im a Brit now living in Vancouver Washington State, I have found the news to be very much a bunch of bullet points that the talking heads throw out there to make as much noise as possable.
So glad to have found KPOJ 620, anyway I have been looking and listening the all your reports on the occupy movement and just wanted to add this link to the BBC News website about London/ Dickens London its show that we are turing a full 360 and hopefully this is now the bottom of the circle and that we will soon be on the up now the the movement has shown the populas that there is something that can be done and something that should be done. Please check the link short but shows this has been a very long fight and we should never give up.
What would Dickens make of the 'modern' malaise?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15864902
It is time to draw a line in the sand. We should follow the lead of the 99% and say out loud we aren't going to take it anymore but to do so in a more organized manner with specific objections and solutions. Let's face it. If the Republicans take the White House and the Presidency, life as we may still hold out hope as to what may be possible will no longer be possible. Do you not think the result will be our becoming a Third World Economy with the rich and the poor with no safety nets such as Medicare and Social Security. If you haven't voted or know someone who has never voted, point out to them their vote will be for themselves as well as the rest of us. The reality is most people are not as knowledgeable about what is going on as people who contribute to this dialogue. Consider it our job to educate them and hope they are open minded enough to see truth when it is presented to them. Use facts. Encourage "buy American". Encourage not buying products from firms such as owned by the Koch Bros. The Republican landslide in 2010 was the result of many Democrats not showing up to vote. Not voting should eliminate the right to complain. Don't you think. Simply speaking, 2012 will be up to us and no one else.
2950-10K Check out this study funded by the National Science Foundation, and get back to me.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-25/global-warming-rate-could-be-less-than-feared/3694896
Just as MSNBC is a prime liberal news network. Oh let me add CNN, CBS, NBC......
Good wishes to Thom and Louise; the Patriots, and all of you who fight for the happy future for each and every one who resides within these United States of America. - Cygnus1
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The Real first Thanksgiving
By: dawson
"Most people are unaware of the real origins of Thanksgiving in this country. Thanksgiving did not become a national holiday in the US until the Civil War, at which time the mythology of the origins of the celebration was created. The real first Thanksgiving was celebrated in this country on July 4th, 1584 on Hatteras Island. Captains Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe were the very first Englishmen to set foot in what is now the United States and they made landfall on Hatteras Island. To celebrate the safe crossing the English gave praise and thanksgiving to God by fasting. That's right Thanksgiving has gone from a day of fasting to a feast!"
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION JUNE 20, 1676
Did you know that Thanksgiving was originally in the summer?" end quote
And remember, a government which is not there for the pleasing of the peoples, is not worth even being around.
Do not let the yoke of taxes be your inheritance in your future. The taxes of the Peoples of these United States of America do not go into road building, infrastructure maintenance, and bridges, but rather the taxes go straight into the coffers of the military industrial complex.
Taxes are against Universal Law and Principle. If you continue in living within this illegal tax system then you will continue to live in chaos.
Coming out from under the yoke of usury (taxation) is what we all wish for the each one of you in this coming year. - Cygnus1