President's Weekly Address/Oct 2010: 1,000 new jobs, and clean power for 140,000 homes with Mohave Desert, California solar plant project. Republican politicians want to block this, and all green energy projects. Republicans are blind to progress, they are just asking for a revolution. It's hard to believe that they are that dumb.
BP isn't the only sinner, or the biggest sinner. COAL, DIESEL/OIL, and NATURAL GAS are WORSE
Utility Companies Using A Green Token To Fool Us.
by Pete Whipple on Friday, December 3, 2010 at 1:48am
The Navajo Nation has taken on Southern California Edison and won.This is just one victory, but there are many more electric utilities in America that continue to poison our Country and our Planet. The rest of us need to join this cause today, to shut down the destructive, polluting, and wastefull ways american electric utilities do business. It is time that we all demand "Real" environmental responsibility. The swapping of carbon credits is nothing more than a carnival shell game. Nearly every single electric utility in America continues to pollute and only pretend to be going green.
During the restructuring of California's electric industry in the late 1990s, Southern California Edison sold most of its generating facilities, retaining only its hydropower, coal and nuclear power generating plants. They claim to be providing 20% of thier power with renewable energy, in fact they do not own any wind or solar farms. As with the other U.S. utilities they get most of thier fuel to make electricity from coal. Hydro power has destroyed habitat and fish stocks. Nuclear is only safe until there is a leak.
"YOU CAN'T SPILL GREEN POWER"
Instead SCE buys "green power" from other utilities such as with Puget Sound Energy, in Washington State.
Puget Sound Energy is not an envionmental angel. PSE has about the same mix of fuel, hydro, natural gas and renewable sources of generating power that TVA and Southern Calfrnia Edison do.
Puget Sound Energy
www.pse.com/
Southern California Edison
http://www.sce.com/
2008 Tennessee Valley Authority, Massive Toxic Coal Slurry Spill.
Half a Billion Gallons of Coal Slurry
spilled into the Tennessee River
and covered more than 400 Acres.
TVA Coal Slurry Spill Dec 22, 2008
The Tennessee Valley Authority is another prime example of a major polluter that is attempting to put a green spin on thier activities. There is plenty more information about the massive toxic coal slurry spill into the Tennessee River on these news clips. Half a Billion gallons (Billion with a B) spilled there in 2008.
TVA's web site claims to be investing heavily into green renewable energy, and claims to be strong environmental stewards, but if you visit their site, and you get past thier flashy "green" front page," you will find that they are full of shit, just like the stuff they spilled into Tennessee's Rivers.
They operate 11 coal plants, 87 gas & fuel oil plants, 29 hydroelectric dams, 3 nuclear power plants, and 1 tiny little wind farm, and 15 tiny little solar farms. Their wind farm only generates 29MW, and all the solar farms together only generate 300KW. TVA's other power plants generate a combined 28,000MW and consume and poison billions of gallons of fresh water.
By their own figures 57% is produced with coal, 22% with hydro, 13% with nuclear, and 8% with gas and oil. Thier so called green energy investment and associated production doesn't even figure in to their own math . Don't believe their rhetoric for a second. They don't expect you to read past the first page because they think we are all stupid. TVA, SCE, PSE and all of the other global electric utilities, and other large energy corporations (such as BP, Shell, Chevron) all do the same slick twisting of the truth. They need to be shut down or forced to be truly green now.
http://www.tva.com/
(vid) Psychopaths Could Be In Charge Of America
An Occupy Wall Street activist explains why he thinks it is very important to spread knowledge about psychopaths and psychopathy. Find out about the important connection between psychopaths and the ruling 1%
Not all psychopaths revolve through doors
between jails and hospitals.
Psychopaths can be
Bankers, Politicians, Lawyers, Cops,
and Television talking heads.
REPUBLIC REPORT : Top 6 Corporations To Boycott
Top 6 Corporations to Boycott
The Occupy Wall Street movement has permeated across the country – the 99 percent has changed the dialogue of the 2012 election and beyond. As organizers start to regroup and set their sites on the spring, groups in 34 cities have agreed to “a day of nonviolent direct action” on Feb. 29 against corporations they accuse of working against the public interest. We nominated six we think deserve an Occupation (some are already on an initial target list):
1. Corrections Corporation of America
Headquarters: Nashville, TN
Profiting off keeping people locked away is certainly a siren call for protesting the practices of Corrections Corporation, the country’s largest for-profit prison company. The corporation has recently sought to purchase prisons in 48 different states. But this offer will do little to lessen the long-term strain on state coffers. Even worse, the corporation stipulates that state prison populations must remain at least 90 percent full – not something any democracy should ever strive to pursue. To complicate matters, Corrections Corporation has deep pockets and uses its considerable might to lobby, finance, and otherwise influence politicians across the country. Corrections Corporation, based in Nashville, manages over 60 facilities in 19 states and D.C.
Meanwhile, the Occupy movement is already starting to join up with prison reformers, who seek to change the conditions that make American prisoners the most abused population in our society. Hundreds of protesters gathered at California’s state-run San Quentin prison this week to demonstrate against high incarceration rates and deplorable living conditions for inmates. Recognizing that prison reformers and Occupiers share similar goals, one Occupier, activist Barbara Becnel, quoted a message she said came from San Quentin death row prisoner Kevin Cooper: “We have merged the prison rights movement with the Occupy movement. The 99 percent has to be concerned about the bottom 1 percent.”
That should go for the bottom 1 percent who are under the jurisdiction of companies like Corrections Corporation.
2. Exxon
Headquarters: Irving, TX
ExxonMobil raked in huge profits last year. The oil company’s profits increased by 31 percent in 2011 as compared with 2010. But somehow, this happened while its oil and gas production fell – by 5 percent over that same period. So how does Exxon make more money while producing less oil and gas?
Tax breaks.
Exxon paid an effective tax rate of 17.6 percent, which as the Center for American Progress points out, is 3 percent less than what the average American family paid in taxes. Exxon and other big oil companies don’t pass on the benefits of these tax breaks to consumers. Instead, as CAP writes, “their board members, executives, and shareholders are the ones that profit.”
So how do these oil companies like Exxon get to spend American tax dollars on themselves? By putting even more money into the political system.
Exxon joined four other oil companies in spending $65.7 million on lobbying to retain their tax breaks. For every $1 spent on lobbying, they received $30 in tax breaks, a 3,000 percent return. Additionally, Exxon and its brethren donated over $1.6 million in campaign contributions last year, further securing the policies they like in the future.
Exxon is especially dirty among the Big 5 oil companies. It lobbied for the Keystone XL pipeline and supported climate change denial campaigns, spending $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to such groups. That’s the wrong way to spend taxpayer provided subsidies. All of this is reason enough for some to have already called for an Occupation of Exxon.
3. General Electric
Headquarters: Fairfield, CT
GE is one of the world’s largest corporations, with 2010 profits of $14.2 billion ($5.1 billion of which came from U.S. operations). But how much did it pay in taxes that year?
Nothing.
In fact, as the New York Times reports, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. Furthermore, from 2008 to 2010, G.E. spent $84 billion lobbying the federal government, joining 30 other major corporations spending more on lobbying than on taxes.
In October, Occupiers recognized the symbolism behind G.E.’s exploitation of the tax system, and set out to demonstrate on CEO Jeff Immelt’s front lawn:
“In the land of the free they tax me but not G.E.!” read the invitation to take an hour bus ride to Immelt’s family home to join the protest, organized by liberal political party Connecticut Working Families. “General Electric made billions last year; they paid no taxes, outsourced thousands of jobs, and got over $3 billion in tax refunds! Join us on a free bus trip to G.E’s CEO’s front lawn to see how our friends in the 1% live.”Given all that and considering the fact that Immelt serves as chair of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, even though during his tenure GE has steadily shipped jobs overseas, perhaps it’s time to re-Occupy.
4. Monsanto
Headquarters: St. Louis, MO
This giant agricultural biotechnology company is already the focus of activist groups and for good reason. Not only is Monsanto the overwhelming leader in producing genetically engineered seeds used in the United States, it also actively works to squeeze out competitors and control seed prices. The company has also targeted small farmers with ruthless legal battles, essentially forcing them to use Monsanto-branded seeds. Because of these dirty practices, Monsanto was the target of an antitrust investigation last year.
Meanwhile, Monsanto has considerable pull within the U.S. government. Most notably, former Monsanto vice president Michael Tyler is now a senior advisor to the Food and Drug Administration. A petition has circulated recently demanded that the Obama Administration “cease FDA ties to Monsanto”:
“President Obama, I oppose your appointment of Michael Taylor,” the petition on Signon.org reads. “Taylor is the same person who was Food Safety Czar at the FDA when genetically modified organisms were allowed into the U.S. food supply without undergoing a single test to determine their safety or risks. This is a travesty.”
5. Bank of America
Headquarters: Charlotte, NC
“It’s not me, it’s you,” read one. “Just kidding, it’s you.”These were some of the Valentines sent by Occupiers to Bank of America earlier this month to break up with the bank over its controversial practices seen as unfriendly to consumers, including a recent attempt to impose a $5-a-month debit card fee. It’s too bad the government hasn’t also followed suit. BofA spent $3.2 million lobbying the government last year and about $3 million on campaign contributions in 2008.
“I’m not falling for ‘phase out’ again.”
“Who’s too big to fail?”
“It’s over, BofA.”
Even while he has criticized the bank for the debit card fee and engaged with the bank on mortgage settlement talks, President Obama has decided to accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for president in Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC, in part to sell more skyboxes to moneyed donors.
6. Walmart
Headquarters: Bentonville, Ark.
This one might be a “Duh.” But Walmart is both deserving of an occupation and easy to occupy. Sure, the company’s Arkansas headquarters aren’t exactly easily accessible for Occupiers from across the country. But Walmart’s thousands of stores nationwide are an easy target for citizens concerned with the company’s standard-setting low wages, labor issues, and steamrolling of local businesses. Moreover, while the corporation had long ago inserted itself in rural America, it now has its sites set on the country’s cities. Walmart plans to open four stores in Washington, DC, for example, and has its sites set on even more locations.
Occupy has already targeted Walmart, most notably to protest the company’s decision to cut health care benefits for full-time workers and eliminate insurance for new part-time workers. But with Walmart continuing to spend about $7.8 million a year lobbying on issues including taxes and labor, it’s worth a continued Occupation.
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Corporate Psychopaths Theory of Global Financial Crisis
The Corporate Psychopaths Theory of the Global Financial Crisis
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/163736/the-corporate-psychopaths-theory-of-the-global-financial-crisis/By DJ Pangburn Monday, November 28, 2011
Psychopathy is defined as the inability to empathize with the feelings of others. A theoretical paper, to be published in the Journal of Business ethics, will analyze the global financial crisis through the lens of the psychopath. The paper is titled “The Corporate Psychopaths Theory of the Global Financial Crisis,” and it is written by Clive R. Boddy.
Boddy describes psychopaths as “the 1% of people who have no conscience or empathy and who do not care for anyone other than themselves.” An echo of the Occupy’s nemesis the 1%? Perhaps.
Of course, this theory is not new—many have theorized a connection between the modern psychological sickness, including Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri in their seminal work “Anti Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.” (Note that schizophrenia and psychopathy are not the same, of course.) Boddy, of course, notes the current tradition in this theory in his paper. I wrote of this connection in “World Wealth Report: Rich Getting Richer,” in which I stated, “Is it not psychopathic, and more particularly sociopathic, that the world’s rich seem to have no problem that they are drawing more water from the well than the rest of us, even as the rich men of the US congressional and executive branches ask for austerity both here and abroad?”
Robert Jay Lifton has spent the better part of the last 60 years defining and cataloguing Psycho-History, so why not open studies into something like Psycho-Capitalism? Or, rather, Psycho-Corporatism? Brett Easton Ellis all but theorized the same thing in “American Psycho” with Patrick Bateman—it certainly needs a greater degree of theoretical work from academics and philosophers and should be made public.
Boddy uses terms such as “dark leadership,” “dark manager” and “imposters as leaders,” noting that business (and government) have more and more been elevating individuals to positions of power who cannot be said to care for the entire organizations that oversee and represent them.
That Boddy is willing to use the term “corporate psychopath” in a peer-reviewed theoretical paper is bold. Boddy deserves to be heard outside the realm of theory, though. His theoretical proposal, which is in fact the argument of all who aren’t dark leaders, should be part of the national discourse.
In the introduction, Boddy writes of corporate psychopaths:
[T]hey seem to be unaffected by the corporate collapses they have created. They present themselves as glibly unbothered by the chaos around them, unconcerned about those who have lost their jobs, savings, and investments, and as lacking any regrets about what they have done. They cheerfully lie about their involvement in events are very persuasive in blaming others for what has happened and have no doubts about their own continued worth and value. They are happy to walk away from the economic disaster that they have managed to bring about, with huge payoffs and with new roles advising governments how to prevent such economic disasters.Boddy notes that corporate psychopaths have also been termed Executive Psychopaths, Industrial Psychopaths, Organisational Psychopaths, and Organisational Sociopaths.
The author concludes by writing, “When presented to management academics in discussion, the Corporate Psychopaths Theory of the Global Financial Crisis is accepted as being plausible and highly relevant. It provides a theory which unifies many of the individual interpretations of the reasons for the Global Financial Crisis and as such is worthy of further development.
To read the full paper in PDF format, go here.
Prescott Bush, And The Golden Age Of War Profiteering
November 26, 2011
Prescott Bush and his son, former President George Herbert Walker Bush.
Butler was a two-time winner of the Medal of Honor, a man with a first-rate mind. He intended from the outset to infiltrate the group and turn them in. He did so and Congress held hearings, (the McCormack-Dickstein Hearings) headed by future Speaker John McCormack.
The group intended to establish a Fascist regime that would send undesirables, including the unemployed, the Jews and political opponents to concentration and/or extermination camps.
Portions of the coup were carried out. The group paid to “own” the editorial policy of 25 major newspapers and sent fellow-plotters to help edit those papers.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (co-founded by Samuel Bush) publicly proposed a plan to control “subversion” that would resemble the Patriot Act of Bush’s great-grandson’s Presidency in 2001.
After General Butler collected names and details, he went public. The story was a sensation for a couple of days, but was quickly pushed off the front pages by a “red scare”–stories of Communist infiltration of the IWW Union.
In the McCormack-Dickstein hearings, none of the powerful citizens involved in the plot was called to testify. They were above that sort of thing.
Although Prescott Bush was a lowly tire salesman when he married Dorothy Walker, his fortunes had quickly improved. His father-in-law George Herbert Walker elevated him to the vice-presidency of Brown Brothers Harriman, which financed exports of gold, steel, weapons and people to Nazi Germany.
Bush ran Hamburg-American passenger line on which American Nazi sympathizers emigrated to Germany under the tutelage of a Nazi “political director.” Bush also helped organize and run UBC, a bank holding company that oversaw many of Hitler’s worldwide investments.
From tire salesman to Hitler’s chief banker and exporter in America, Prescott Bush had come a long way by the time Hamburg-American and UBC were confiscated by the U.S. government. Instead of being tried for treason, his name was kept out of the spotlight and he was given 1.5 million dollars for his one share of stock in UBC.
Five years after World War II, a Connecticut senator died. Prescott Bush who maintained residences in four different states ran for the vacant seat and lost. Two years later another Connecticut senator died, and this time, Bush won.
He personally recruited Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president. He and his fellow war profiteers would be bitterly disappointed by Eisenhower’s warnings against the military-industrial complex….but that was in the future.
Bush also pushed for Richard Nixon as Vice-President, and was a major donor to Nixon until well into the 1960′s.
So there was a point in the 50′s, when Prescott Bush must have felt like the king of the world:
· He had survived being implicated in a coup against a President of the United States.
· He had thrived even after the defeat of his major client, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime.
· He had avoided being tried for treason, though the Justice Department had considered it.
· Both the President and Vice-President of the United States were personally indebted to
him.
· His lawyer Allen Dulles was head of the CIA (and gave his boy George H.W. Bush a job.)
· His business partner John Foster Dulles was Secretary of State.
· His business partner Averell Harriman was Governor of New York, later Ambassador to
the Soviet Union.
· Best of all, wars were breaking out all over the globe.
It was the dawn of a golden age of war profiteering.
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“War is a racket. It always has been… A racket is something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” –General Smedley Butler
“There is no historic parallel that can be drawn, nothing compares with the accomplishments of the Bush family. No dictator or tyrant can equal the suffering and destruction they have wrought on humanity, as they are not mere tyrants themselves, but the makers and breakers of tyrants, the organizers and profiteers of war and death. They are not alone and solely responsible for creating the present day military industrial complex, however since 1915 the Bush family has been directly involved in World War One and Two, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, numerous CIA secret wars, the Gulf War, and now a “Never Ending War”. The past four generations of this one family have had a hand in promoting and profiting from most of the major wars that America has waged since the beginning of the industrialized age.” –Schuyler Ebbets, Globalresearch
“The Walker-Bush cabal’s Nazi partners also helped finance–then profited from–the Auschwitz camp.” –Chris Floyd
“Every great family has its scandal. The Bush family’s scandal is that they funded Hitler and profited from the Holocaust.” –John Loftus
“…newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his ‘enemy national’ partners.” –John Buchanan
“…in 1942, the U.S. government seized the Walker-Bush Nazi assets under the Trading With the Enemy Act. But the well-connected clan managed to bury the news in the back pages: brief mentions of the companies involved, but no names of the Establishment grandees behind them. They also pulled strings to keep their American assets from being seized as well, even though the profits from these enterprises were inextricably mixed with their Nazi loot. Prescott later cashed in these tainted assets for millions, a nest egg that helped launch him into the Senate and his son and grandson into the White House.” –Chris Floyd
“For six decades these historical facts have gone unreported by the mainstream U.S. media (except for the July 31, 1942 editions of the New York Herald and Washington Post.) The essential facts have appeared on the Internet and in relatively obscure books, but were dismissed by the media and Bush family as undocumented diatribes.” –John Buchanan
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http://digital-falcon.com/pipermail/toxickemail_digital-falcon.com/2005-September/000497.html
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/committee.html
http://www.carpenoctem.tv/cons/whitehouse.html
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/bush.html
http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm
http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd06102003.html
http://www.heatherwokusch.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=86
http://www.countercurrents.org/pringle110407.htm
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=EBB20061022&articleId=3558
(vid) Gene Sharp - Revolutionary pamphlet and movie.
"To be considered a threat by your oppressors is a matter of pride."
We are good people with bad governments
We are all good people. We all have bad governments.
Time for good people to demand a True Green Energy Policy World Wide
(vid) Documentary: Howard Zinn on Civil Disobedience
A few quotes from the docementary:
"Non violence is not passive. It involves strikes, boycotts, non cooperation, massive demonstrations, and sabotage as well as appeals to the conscious of the world, even individulas of the oppresive group who might break away from their past ."
"The law is made by very mortal people, very limited people, very opinionated people, and people who have very special interests."
You are the 99% - we are the 99%
"Non violence is not passive. It involves strikes, boycotts, non cooperation, massive demonstrations, and sabotage as well as appeals to the conscious of the world, even individulas of the oppresive group who might break away from their past ."
"The law is made by very mortal people, very limited people, very opinionated people, and people who have very special interests."
You are the 99% - we are the 99%
The Weather Underground - Documentary about the militant faction of the Students for A Democratic Society 1970-1980
Two quotes from this documenmtary the first is from a Weather Underground member,
the second from Dr. Martin Luther King in turn quoting President John F. Kennedy:
"I cannot be non-violent in the midst of the most violent government in history."
"A government that makes non-violent revolution impossible,
makes a violent revolution inevitable."
Obviously this is an example of what not to do as far as injuring or killing yourself and innocent people. The not so obvious is that in american protests violence breaks out too early in the battle. Not enough people have taken their concerns to the streets with their families and without concessions from the government first. ~ clean electric
Three Month Anniversary of Occupy Wall Street Today
Today is the three month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement in america. Time magazine has named The Protester
the 2012 Person Of The Year. Clear issues have emerged from
the Occupy Movement:
46 million americans now living at the poverty level, 52 million americans do not have health insurance (9 million have lost health insurance in the last two years.) Rising education costs and simultaneous lack of jobs for graduates. 10% general unemployment rates, and 24% unemployment rates for military vets and students More than one million americans are homeless, many of them for several years already, while simultaneously there are more than 1.5 million vacant homes, and Bank of America has used Bulldozers to destroy many of them. 25% of millionaires pay lower tax rates than working class americans pay, investment and dividend earnings of the rich are taxed at much lower rates than the much higher tax rates on the wages earned of the working class. While the rick keep their money our communities suffer deep cuts and lay-offs of firemen, police, school busses, libraries, medical care, state parks are closed, and the list goes on.
Financial institutions have knowingly sold bad, losing investements to unsuspecting consumers, the super rich manipulate the stock market high and low with large transactions and virtually rob everyone else who has invested. Politicians make decisions based on what benefits the corporations that financed their campaigns and not based on the best interests of the millions who voted for them. Issues such as approving the payroll tax cut (which people want) and approval of the Keystone oil piplene (which politicians want) are tied together as a "package deal."
Politicians have become rich far beyond there average $100,000 a year salary through (what is illegal for the rest of us) insider trading and by bouncing back and forth between congress and the white house and executive positions such as Karl Rove and Fox News, Condaleezza Rice and Chevron, Dick Cheney and Haliburton, his net worth is $23 million. Newt Gingrich $20 million, Bush family $60 millioin, Collin Powell $45 million and CEO of a Natural Gas company, Donald Rumsfeld $15 million, Diane Fienstein $75 million, and the list goes on.
Food is grown with seeds that are intentionally sterile so that no one can plant a seed in thier yard and grow it and instead have to go buy more, and the list of things that the 99% are protesting goes on.
Homeless Camp in Florida 2009. This is not a new problem and it is not a photo from an occcupy movement in the last three months.
One thing the Occupy Movement did is to be a common umbrella for multiples of what used to be seperate issues and seperate protests. The realization that there is a systemic breakdown world wide is at the core or the 99% movement and it has become a vehicle of solidarity world wide, yet ouir politicians and in turn our media continue to claim they don't know what the 99% wants and verbally attack all of us.
Newt Gingrich said poor kids should clean toilets in their schools, and that protesters should take a bath and get a job. A few hypodermic needles are found around occupy encampments and the media reports wide spread drug use without mentioning the possibilty that someone there could be diabetic.
Police Departments have used excessive force against protesters, arrested journalists and the Seattle Police Department is confirmed by the United States Justice Department of having a pattern of excessive force and violating the constitution pre-dating the Occupy demonstrations yet their Chief and the Mayor accuse protesters of instigating violence.
There are many uneasy similarities between american discontent and discontent in Tunisia and all of the other countries in the world who's citizens have been protesting this past year; unemployment, government corruption, governement control of the news and sucha s Karl Rove working for Fox News and Newsweek, and the arrests of journalists.
More than 5,000 people have been killed while protesting in Syria lately, thousands of people still fill the streets in Egypt, Rome, Greece, Israel, Chile, Tunisia, Belgium, Hong Kong, London, Canada, Aregentina, Australia, India, Turkey, Hondurus, Ireland, Yemen, Jordan, Venezuela, and the list goes on, and the issues are all the same, unemployment, price hikes, food, education and government corruption.
The Occupy Movement will not go away. Camps will continue to be set up to illustrate the economic woes of americans, marches will still occur, freeway overpasses will be occupied during rush hours, police precincts will be blockaded, Occupy Work Groups will create all kinds of different ways to have their message heard despite media bias and suppression.
As we move into 2012 the Occupy Movement also moves into a second phase of operations. This will be through the internet and social media and will be defining issues and proposing solutions. Er are all the 99% and this is where your own voice, your own opinions, your own ideas and solutions can be shared between one another. The internet is a massive database, it's contents easily monitered and categorized by statistics.
My own Facebook account has grown from 200 friends two months ago to 1,200 friends today, all of them fellow Occupy brothers and sisters. The Occupy Face Book pages of cities around the world have grown from zero to 4,000, 10, 000, 30,000 and more around the world in three months. Statistically it is like voting. Show your own solidarity by joining, but this is not enough. We must discuss together what our opinions are and what change we would like to make.
Corporate media has lost its way. It tells us only what it's owners want you to hear. It no longer provides un-biased editorial and opinion, now is your chance to become a journalist and a politician yourself. Write commentaries about the articles you read and the videos you view, share your own opinions, ideas, and solutions. By compiling statistics of your ideas, opinions, and solutions a defined plan propsed by the majority will take form.
Do not be afraid of being watched by those you consider your adversary, this is an opportunity to speak to them directly, this is what we want because it is not enough "to preach to the converted" progress is only achieved by educating those outside of your circle of friends. There is talk that those in power who do not want the Occupy message to be heard want to censore the internet and suppress your free speech but don't worry about that either. if that were to happen it would ignite such passion that even the elderly and crippled, homebound and shut ins will find the strength to fill the streets and spread the word coast to coast if that is what is necessary.
Love your brothers and sisters world wide. Like a bird there are no borders. The 21st century is a new millenium, a new industrial revoltion, one world, one people, one economy, one future.
the 2012 Person Of The Year. Clear issues have emerged from
the Occupy Movement:
46 million americans now living at the poverty level, 52 million americans do not have health insurance (9 million have lost health insurance in the last two years.) Rising education costs and simultaneous lack of jobs for graduates. 10% general unemployment rates, and 24% unemployment rates for military vets and students More than one million americans are homeless, many of them for several years already, while simultaneously there are more than 1.5 million vacant homes, and Bank of America has used Bulldozers to destroy many of them. 25% of millionaires pay lower tax rates than working class americans pay, investment and dividend earnings of the rich are taxed at much lower rates than the much higher tax rates on the wages earned of the working class. While the rick keep their money our communities suffer deep cuts and lay-offs of firemen, police, school busses, libraries, medical care, state parks are closed, and the list goes on.
Financial institutions have knowingly sold bad, losing investements to unsuspecting consumers, the super rich manipulate the stock market high and low with large transactions and virtually rob everyone else who has invested. Politicians make decisions based on what benefits the corporations that financed their campaigns and not based on the best interests of the millions who voted for them. Issues such as approving the payroll tax cut (which people want) and approval of the Keystone oil piplene (which politicians want) are tied together as a "package deal."
Politicians have become rich far beyond there average $100,000 a year salary through (what is illegal for the rest of us) insider trading and by bouncing back and forth between congress and the white house and executive positions such as Karl Rove and Fox News, Condaleezza Rice and Chevron, Dick Cheney and Haliburton, his net worth is $23 million. Newt Gingrich $20 million, Bush family $60 millioin, Collin Powell $45 million and CEO of a Natural Gas company, Donald Rumsfeld $15 million, Diane Fienstein $75 million, and the list goes on.
Food is grown with seeds that are intentionally sterile so that no one can plant a seed in thier yard and grow it and instead have to go buy more, and the list of things that the 99% are protesting goes on.
Homeless Camp in Florida 2009. This is not a new problem and it is not a photo from an occcupy movement in the last three months.
One thing the Occupy Movement did is to be a common umbrella for multiples of what used to be seperate issues and seperate protests. The realization that there is a systemic breakdown world wide is at the core or the 99% movement and it has become a vehicle of solidarity world wide, yet ouir politicians and in turn our media continue to claim they don't know what the 99% wants and verbally attack all of us.
Newt Gingrich said poor kids should clean toilets in their schools, and that protesters should take a bath and get a job. A few hypodermic needles are found around occupy encampments and the media reports wide spread drug use without mentioning the possibilty that someone there could be diabetic.
Police Departments have used excessive force against protesters, arrested journalists and the Seattle Police Department is confirmed by the United States Justice Department of having a pattern of excessive force and violating the constitution pre-dating the Occupy demonstrations yet their Chief and the Mayor accuse protesters of instigating violence.
There are many uneasy similarities between american discontent and discontent in Tunisia and all of the other countries in the world who's citizens have been protesting this past year; unemployment, government corruption, governement control of the news and sucha s Karl Rove working for Fox News and Newsweek, and the arrests of journalists.
More than 5,000 people have been killed while protesting in Syria lately, thousands of people still fill the streets in Egypt, Rome, Greece, Israel, Chile, Tunisia, Belgium, Hong Kong, London, Canada, Aregentina, Australia, India, Turkey, Hondurus, Ireland, Yemen, Jordan, Venezuela, and the list goes on, and the issues are all the same, unemployment, price hikes, food, education and government corruption.
The Occupy Movement will not go away. Camps will continue to be set up to illustrate the economic woes of americans, marches will still occur, freeway overpasses will be occupied during rush hours, police precincts will be blockaded, Occupy Work Groups will create all kinds of different ways to have their message heard despite media bias and suppression.
As we move into 2012 the Occupy Movement also moves into a second phase of operations. This will be through the internet and social media and will be defining issues and proposing solutions. Er are all the 99% and this is where your own voice, your own opinions, your own ideas and solutions can be shared between one another. The internet is a massive database, it's contents easily monitered and categorized by statistics.
My own Facebook account has grown from 200 friends two months ago to 1,200 friends today, all of them fellow Occupy brothers and sisters. The Occupy Face Book pages of cities around the world have grown from zero to 4,000, 10, 000, 30,000 and more around the world in three months. Statistically it is like voting. Show your own solidarity by joining, but this is not enough. We must discuss together what our opinions are and what change we would like to make.
As of Jan 2013 I had more than 5,000 politically active
FaceBook friends and I was off line most of 2013.
Do not be afraid of being watched by those you consider your adversary, this is an opportunity to speak to them directly, this is what we want because it is not enough "to preach to the converted" progress is only achieved by educating those outside of your circle of friends. There is talk that those in power who do not want the Occupy message to be heard want to censore the internet and suppress your free speech but don't worry about that either. if that were to happen it would ignite such passion that even the elderly and crippled, homebound and shut ins will find the strength to fill the streets and spread the word coast to coast if that is what is necessary.
Love your brothers and sisters world wide. Like a bird there are no borders. The 21st century is a new millenium, a new industrial revoltion, one world, one people, one economy, one future.
Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage
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The Occupy camps have shown people how "to break out of this conception that we're isolated." But "just occupying" has "lived its life," says the man who is the most revered radical critic of American politics and capitalist economics.
Chomsky gave his counsel answering questions in a small group after a speech Monday evening, December 12, in the 1000-seat Westbrook Middle School auditorium (a/k/a Westbrook Performing Arts Center), which was filled to capacity. The speech was sponsored by the University of New England's Center for Global Humanities.
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The Occupy movement's repression, which Chomsky decried, has a saving grace, he said: the opportunity for it to expand more into "the 99 percent" by engaging people "face to face."
"Don't be obsessed with tactics but with purpose," he suggested. "Tactics have a half life."
Much is at stake. An angry and frustrated population, as exists now in this country, provides "a combustible mix," he said, adding: "Look at Weimar Germany" — the economically and politically turbulent time in Germany in the early 20th century that led to the rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
Chomsky's speech was entitled "Arab Spring, American Winter." In it, he presented the Occupy movement as the first popular reaction to a "vicious class war" waged against working people for over 30 years in the United States, just as the Arab Spring uprisings this year in the Middle East and North Africa were reactions to decades or centuries of repression by wealthy elites supported by the United States and other Western powers.
Greeted with a standing ovation, on top of his game at 83, he stood, in jeans and sweater, talking and answering questions for two hours in his always-even voice.
Riffing from one topic to another, Chomsky — who, an emeritus professor at MIT, also is known as the father of modern linguistics — demonstrated an encyclopedic knowledge of American foreign policy and history, citing stunningly revealing official documents chronicling our country's economic and military predations abroad.
He compared the rule of international elites over Middle Eastern, African, Latin American, and Asian countries to the rule of the rich 1 percent — it is often the rule of one-tenth of one percent, he suggested — in the United States.
Quoting Adam Smith, the 18th-century father of capitalist theory, Chomsky delved into the roots of the neoliberal soak-the-poor philosophy dominant worldwide. "We're essentially living in a nightmare" that the classical economists predicted, he said.
This nightmare's concentration of wealth "accelerates" political-campaign-money competition, he said, driving politicians into the arms of wealthy interests. One result: "The Democrats are now what used to be called moderate Republicans."
(Recently this reporter asked a prominent Augusta figure if he thought the Occupy movement would make Maine Democrats less like Republicans. He replied that the occupiers "don't finance the campaigns.")
Palma Ryan, 59, who is staying at the Occupy camp in Portland's Lincoln Park, said about 40 occupiers were at the speech. Her reaction to hearing Chomsky: "He is so validating. You leave saying 'yes, yes, yes!'"
Despite what counts in the Portland area as an enormous crowd, the daily press barely covered the event — commonly the case for Chomsky.
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Demand Government and Corporate Reforms To End The Use Of Fossil Fuels And Create A Green Energy Future World Wide
DON'T BE A ZOMBIE,
HELP PUT A NAIL IN THE COFFINS
OF POLLUTION EJACULATING VAMPIRES
Last I checked, we all have brains. I am of the punk rock generation in between the hippies and me"generations, followed by the x generation for those who need to label. Who are we now? I am sure that the people born after me think that myself, and the people who were born before me left you with nothing but a world that is hoplessly messed up in many many ways. so why not party because all is lost anyway?
This is what has happened to american government in my life time, the U.S. has become a fossil fuel empire world wide and Wall Street, The Military, and The Media are used to protect it. Add injury to insult and some people committed crimes in their sector, financial, military, and government like $100,000 a year salaried Washington D.C. politicians who have an additional $100,000,000 in personal wealth made from insider trading on Wall Street by cheating and not by being a true honest capitalist.
The corporations involved in these transactions pollute the earth, are exempted from EPA regulations, as with Natural Gas Drilling on U.S. soil, an industry exempted from the Clean Water Act by Dick Cheney who profits from the Haliburton company which is an International Military, Oil and Natural Gas contractor. The U.S. governement pays out cash in oil subsidies to highly profitable oil companies and politicians profit from the "success" of these companies. A Green Energy Economy is is not actively subsidized by our government nor is it encouraged by Wall Street Corporations.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/25/indonesian-mud-volcano-erupt-quarter-century/#ixzz1F39kAkdP
http://www.agiweb.org/geotimes/aug08/article.html?id=nn_indonesia.html
http://englishrussia.com/2008/03/25/darvaz-the-door-to-hell/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/feb/14/chevron-contaminate-ecuador
http://badgasgoodwind.blogspot.com/2011/06/bps-deepwater-horizon-disaster-is-not.html
Corporations sold mortgages and then profitted by betting against them. They shipped jobs over seas. Discuss this with your friends, and the list goes on. Corporations buy TV commercials and use them to tell you only what they want you to know. They even spin newsmedia into a commercial for their demigogary, which is within their right to opinion when reporting news, as the owners of the news corporations. This is a good example of why corporations should not have "personhood." The personal financial aspirations of a few are missrepresented as popular opinion by commercial media.
This is how America's leaders party to the end, they keep on doing what they are doing until it is all over. They are trying to convince us to let them get away with it, through lies, distraction and with impunity by order of the laws that they have written for themselves.
SINCE DECEMBER OF 2010 youth have been rising up in: Sudan, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, Yemen, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Mirrocco, Jordan, Kuwait, and Lebonon, not to forget China's Tienamen Square in 1989 and the WTO riots in Seattle in 1999. The Occupy Movement has made widespread dissention in America known.
Whatever happened to the love of which our human intellect bestowed
upon all of us to fight for justice in these and so many more battles:
An end to slavery, a woman's right to vote, the beginnings of equal rights America, an end to the genocide during WWII, an end to the Vietnam War and an end to so many other human inequities: Cambodia, Rowanda, Mogadishu and The Balkans, the confusion in Israel and Palestine, the isolation rof Cuba and North Korea .. workers rights, fail labor, coal mine safety. Are any of these things really won if they are forgotten, or are they just a part of the walk of shame. A walk of shame because our leaders have instigated and bullied their way into these conflicts, and a walk of shame because we allowed them to do it.
It is time for all those in America to step up and drive the final nail into the coffin of the pollution ejaculating zombies in world business and government which have exploited the world's resources to the brink of the very extinction of human kind and all that will perish with us.
Your family, your neighbors, and the rest of the world needs all Americans to join the struggle for a new Green Energy Economy Industrial Revolution with which to take planet earth and WE ALL whom are all custodians of it into the future. We must restore democracy in our own country as the voice of the people, in the spirit of the very foundings of democratic civilization upon the soil of our own country, and all of likewise peoples and founders of civilization world wide.
We must restore capitolism to the definition of Fair Trade, the very same principal that capitolism was founded upon. A civilized balance between personal wealth and acceptable minimumm quality of life standards. A balance created by a mix of "for profit" and "social programs". Forward thinkers who profit at the raising of quality of life in their community by providing jobs and tax dollars, and forward thinkers who use those tax dollars to build and maintain schools, fire stations, and hospitals, fight for clean air and clean water, and enough food to ensure that these civilized minimum quality of life standards are not only met for every man, woman, and child, but also increased as societies wealth increases.
The presence of every individual on earth today is a participant in the dawning of a new age. Terms like Fair Trade, minimum quality of life standards, food, housing, clean water, clean air and clean dirt no longer just apply to your neighborhood school, fire station, hospital, hardware store, Wal-Mart, gas station, and rhetoric from your local Mayor, they have gone global. We are one civilization. We all want the same things. Our hearts tell us what is civilized and what is not.
xoxoxoxox I love you. Pass it on.
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