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Fire Walk With Me's JournalVideo of explosion in Damascus Syria, scary stuff, big mushroom cloud. (Israeli attack)
Collective Cognition Collective Cognition ?@cognitiveslap
Video of explosion in Damascus Syria, scary stuff, big mushroom cloud.
zerohedge ?@zerohedge
Powerful Explosions Shake Damascus As Israel Attacks Syria For Second Time In Past Week
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-04/powerful-explosions-shake-damascus-israel-attacks-syria-second-time-past-week …
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RT ?@RT_com
MORE: Witnesses describe Israel’s reported attack on a military research center near #Damascus as “an earthquake” http://on.rt.com/pmxxo6
Please pray light and Divine Intervention against the death cults.
zerohedge ?@zerohedge
Powerful Explosions Shake Damascus As Israel Attacks Syria For Second Time In Past Week
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-04/powerful-explosions-shake-damascus-israel-attacks-syria-second-time-past-week …
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The forces of destruction are determined to undermine the increasing awakening of Mankind. I'm sure you can see how horribly sour this could go, left uncontested. Thank you for your strenuous endeavours of lightwork...
The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion
(Cross-posted from Occupy Underground.)
@seekingmolly: The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion
http://www.alternet.org/economy/rich-have-gained-56-trillion-recovery-while-rest-us-have-lost-669-billion …
May 3, 2013 |
Oh, are we getting ripped off. And now we've got the data to prove it. From 2009 to 2011, the richest 8 million families (the top 7%) on average saw their wealth rise from $1.7 million to $2.5 million each. Meanwhile the rest of us -- the bottom 93% (that's 111 million families) -- suffered on average a decline of $6,000 each.
Do the math and you'll discover that the top 7% gained a whopping $5.6 trillion in net worth (assets minus liabilities) while the rest of lost $669 billion. Their wealth went up by 28% while ours went down by 4 percent.
It's as if the entire economic recovery is going into the pockets of the rich. And that's no accident. Here's why.
1. The bailouts went to Wall Street, not to Main Street.
The federal government and Federal Reserve poured trillions of dollars into Wall Street through a wide variety of financial maneuvers, many of which were hidden from view until recently. When we add it all up, it's clear that most of the money floated right into Wall Street. (Fannie and Freddie were private institutions that also considered themselves part of the Wall Street elite.)
(More at the link.)
The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion
@seekingmolly: The Rich Have Gained $5.6 Trillion in the 'Recovery,' While the Rest of Us Have Lost $669 Billion
http://www.alternet.org/economy/rich-have-gained-56-trillion-recovery-while-rest-us-have-lost-669-billion …
May 3, 2013 |
Oh, are we getting ripped off. And now we've got the data to prove it. From 2009 to 2011, the richest 8 million families (the top 7%) on average saw their wealth rise from $1.7 million to $2.5 million each. Meanwhile the rest of us -- the bottom 93% (that's 111 million families) -- suffered on average a decline of $6,000 each.
Do the math and you'll discover that the top 7% gained a whopping $5.6 trillion in net worth (assets minus liabilities) while the rest of lost $669 billion. Their wealth went up by 28% while ours went down by 4 percent.
It's as if the entire economic recovery is going into the pockets of the rich. And that's no accident. Here's why.
1. The bailouts went to Wall Street, not to Main Street.
The federal government and Federal Reserve poured trillions of dollars into Wall Street through a wide variety of financial maneuvers, many of which were hidden from view until recently. When we add it all up, it's clear that most of the money floated right into Wall Street. (Fannie and Freddie were private institutions that also considered themselves part of the Wall Street elite.)
(More at the link.)
People in NYC! Next Strategic Action Lab is: Creative Action Planning...
Occupy Wall Street ?@OccupyWallSt
People in NYC! Next Strategic Action Lab is: Creative Action Planning, with Monica Hunken, a wonderful human... http://fb.me/1VlITah9N
http://occupywallstreet.net/event/next-creative-action-planning-sal-strategic-action-labs
Date:
Monday, April 15, 2013 - 6:30pm to Monday, May 13, 2013 - 9:30pm
Address:
NY NJ Joint Board
33 West 14th Street
New York City New York 10001
United States
Join in the Spring Strategic Action and Organizing Labs
These workshops aim to help us deepen our analysis and understanding of how the 1% works while building skills to organize for justice and global transformation.
Next Up!
May 6th - Creative Action Planning: Now that you've looked around, what can you do, what do you want to do and how might you do it? 33 West 14th Street, NY NJ Joint Board
May 13th - Organizing 101: Meeting people where they are at, listening and querying, agitating and more. 33 West 14th Street, NY NJ Joint Board
Occupy Solutions detail the arguments for public banking:
Why should any sufficiently large government entity use a gigantic, multinational, for-profit bank for any purpose? The best interests of the people represented by a government body would seem to be served by keeping any profits and interest from government financial transactions in the area where these people live.
Public banking is a way to do just that. It can be done at a national, state, county, or local level. It has been working well for decades in Germany, India, China, Brazil, and North Dakota, among other places. Study up a bit and see if you think it is a good idea.
Good overview with FAQs:
http://publicbankinginstitute.org/home.htm
An effort to nationalize the Federal Reserve Bank:
http://www.againstausterity.org/program/nationalize-federal-reserve
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/UnitedFrontAgainstAusterity
Interview video with transcript:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/15408-public-banking-needed-to-stop-cannibalization-of-the-economy
Focus on Germany:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3937:the-public-option-in-banking-another-look-at-the-german-model
Focus on North Dakota:
http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/why-socialism-doing-so-darn-well-deep-red-north-dakota
From Occuy.com:
http://www.occupy.com/article/why-its-time-turn-public-banking
Good article:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/06/guest-post-the-giant-banks-are-already-state-sponsored-so-why-not-create-public-banks-to-at-least-share-the-gains-help-out-main-street-and-grow-our-local-economies.html
Brief history of banking in America:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/stunning-facts-about-how-the-banking-system-really-works-and-how-it-is-destroying-america.html
Good MSM overview:
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/09/27/can-public-banking-finance-the-new-economy
Video of a 12 tear old girl explaining public banking:
"The Web of Debt" - A book you can read on subject:
http://www.webofdebt.com/
A wonky econ geek piece:
http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2010/03/7-questions-about-public-banking.html
Another argument for Public banks:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/bail-out-is-out-bail-in-is-in-another-argument-for-publicly-owned-banks.html
Big picture piece:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/public-money-for-public-purpose-toward-the-end-of-plutocracy-and-the-triumph-of-democracy-part-vi.html
Misc links:
http://www.illinoispublicbanking.org/category/about-public-banking/
http://bankonsonoma.com/
http://www.ceedprogram.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=12&Itemid=153
(removed Alex Jones link)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/05/ellen-brown-is-cooperative-banking-the-wave-of-the-future.html
(Yes, we at Occupy Solutions are serious about solutions that will work.
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Meanwhile, in Montreal:
06:48 GMT: Canada’s Montreal police detained 300 protesters following a May Day rally demonstration in Old Montreal organized by the Anti-Capitalist Convergence, or CLAC group. Police declared the rally illegal shortly after it started, citing Montreal’s controversial public order bylaw P-6, which makes it illegal to participate in an gathering with a face obscured by a scarf, hood or mask, and requires protesters to disclose to police the location and itinerary of their demonstration ahead of time. (RT News)
https://twitter.com/NewsRevo/status/329794894916890625/photo/1
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447 ticketed $634 each for participating in MayDay march in Old Montreal
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/montreal/ticketed+each+participating+march+Montreal/8326233/story.html
Grim report warns Canada vulnerable to an aboriginal insurrection
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/05/01/john-ivison-grim-report-warns-canada-vulnerable-to-an-aboriginal-insurrection/This link does not appear to wish to allow cross-posting; there are only four paragraphs and when selected for copy, an "obtain license" query appears.
Aside from that point, if they have begun officially demonizing the First Nations, then they are genuinely worried about their positive effect. Good.
California governor Jerry Brown signs law funding seizure of legally purchased guns
Fawkes Mulder Fawkes Mulder ?@Star_Fawkes
California governor Jerry Brown signs law funding seizure of legally purchased guns
http://rt.com/usa/california-gun-control-law-729/ …
California Gov. Jerry Brown has approved legislation that will allocate $24 million to hire special agents that will track down and seize guns from 20,000 Californians who have been disqualified from owning them.
Thousands of Californians have made legal purchases of handguns or assault rifles, but have since become ineligible from owning them due to mental illness or a criminal conviction. The measure, SB 140, will provide the funds for agents to find these individuals and confiscate their weapons.
Mark Len (D-San Francisco), author of the new legislation, said California has a system that tracks cases in which gun owners became disqualified from keeping their weapons, but has always lacked the funds to go after them.
“We are fortunate in California to have the first and only system in the nation that tracks and identifies individuals who at one time made legal purchases of firearms but are now barred from possessing them,” he said in a statement. “However, due to a lack of resources, only a few of these illegally possessed weapons have been confiscated, and the mountain of firearms continues to grow each day.”
(More at the link.)
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