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Fire Walk With Me's JournalDennis Kucinich on the "Fiscal Cliff": Why Are We Sacrificing American Jobs for Corporate Profits?
Democracy Now! ?@democracynow
Rep. @Dennis_Kucinich on the #FiscalCliff: Why Are We Sacrificing American Jobs for Corporate Profits? http://owl.li/gp8Pc
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http://www.democracynow.org/2012/12/28/dennis_kucinich_on_the_fiscal_cliff
As President Obama meets with congressional leaders at the White House in a last-ditch effort to reach a budget deal, we speak to outgoing Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich about the so-called fiscal cliff. If an agreement is not reached in time, $600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases will go into effect on January 1. But the tax increases would not necessarily be permanent — the new Congress could pass legislation to cancel them retroactively after it begins its work next year. "We’ve been going in the wrong direction," Kucinich says. "Why haven’t we been talking about stimulating the economy through the creation of jobs? We’ve seemed to accept a certain amount of unemployment as being necessary for the proper functioning of the economy, so that for corporations it will keep wages low. That is baloney. We’re creating our own economic vice here that is entrapping tens of millions of Americans."
(Video at the link.)
Leading Environmentalist Rebecca Tarbotton of Rainforest Action Network Dies at 39
CODEPINK ?@codepink
We are heartbroken at the loss of leader and friend @beckytarbotton brilliant director of @RAN report at @democracynow
http://is.gd/71o7s1
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2012/12/28/leading_female_environmentalist_rebecca_tarbotton_of_rainforest_action_network_dies_at_39
Leading environmentalist and human rights champion Rebecca "Becky" Tarbotton, executive director of the organization Rainforest Action Network (RAN), has died at the age of 39.
According to RAN, Tarbotton died Wednesday on a beach in Mexico while vacationing with her husband and friends. The coroner ruled cause of death as asphyxiation from water she breathed in while swimming.
"Tarbotton was the first female executive director of RAN, and a strong female voice in a movement often dominated by men," quotes RAN in a press release. "Under her leadership, RAN was engaged in protecting endangered rainforests and the rights of their indigenous inhabitants. Most recently, she helped to design the most significant agreement in the history of the organization: A landmark policy by entertainment giant, Disney, that is set to transform everything about the way the company purchases and uses paper."
(Video and more at the link.)
@pixplz managed to get OPD's livestream footage from #OO #M1GS
Anon Street Medics ?@AnonMedics
If you didn't catch what we're ranting about, @pixplz managed to get OPD's livestream footage from #OO #M1GS -
http://bit.ly/V9FA3s
pixplz ?@pixplz
Did you know a cop was livestreaming on the roof of #Oakland City Hall on #MayDay? Check out this view
Retweeted by Courtney Harrop
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Anon Street Medics ?@AnonMedics
@pixplz Do their cameras really not record audio, or was the audio removed to hide the cops' no-doubt terrible chatter?
pixplz ?@pixplz
@AnonMedics I asked if they removed the audio and was told they didn't. My guess, with the videos I've uploaded so far, is that they muted.
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Anon Street Medics ?@AnonMedics
Did they actually get a human cop to hold the camera in this video dump from @pixplz, or did they just strap the camera to a trained seal?
Anon Street Medics ?@AnonMedics
Oh good! Now the seal is apparently looking for ants.
Anon Street Medics ?@AnonMedics
Also of great concern to Officer Seal: Trees, squirrels (?), street signs
Anon Street Medics ?@AnonMedics
His camera expertly trained upon an empty patch of sky, Officer Seal keeps vigilant watch for Black Bloc Terror Helicopters
Anon Street Medics ?@AnonMedics
Elite tactical agents from OPD's TEAM BRAVO will make sure no tree or plaza tile goes unfilmed.
Congress Disgracefully Approves the FISA Warrantless Spying Bill for Five More Years
Congress Disgracefully Approves the FISA Warrantless Spying Bill for Five More Years, Rejects All Privacy Amendments
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/congress-disgracefully-approves-fisa-warrantless-eavesdropping-bill-five-more
Today, after just one day of rushed debate, the Senate shamefully voted on a five-year extension to the FISA Amendments Act, an unconsitutional law that openly allows for warrantless surveillance of Americans' overseas communications.
Incredibly, the Senate rejected all the proposed amendments that would have brought a modicum of transparency and oversight to the government's activities, despite previous refusals by the Executive branch to even estimate how many Americans are surveilled by this program or reveal critical secret court rulings interpreting it.
The common-sense amendments the Senate hastily rejected were modest and written with the utmost deference for national security concerns. The Senate had months to consider them, but waited until four days before the law was to expire to bring them to the floor, and then used the contrived time crunch to stifle any chances of them passing.
(More at the link. Via @Thomas_Drake1 and @_cypherpunks_ )
Stunning photographs from Delhi Protests
AM ?@cyclingsultan
Stunning photographs from #DelhiProtests:
http://bit.ly/UtrH2L
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Amount of homeless and at-risk Iraq and Afghanistan vets doubles in last two years.
IVAW ?@IVAW
Amount of homeless and at-risk #Iraq and #Afghanistan vets doubles in last two years. #Veterans
http://www.stripes.com/news/veterans/number-of-homeless-at-risk-veterans-doubles-1.202007?localLinksEnabled=false&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+starsandstripes%2Fgeneral+%28Stars+and+Stripes%29&utm_content=Google+Reader …
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The number of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who are homeless or at risk of losing a roof over their heads has more than doubled in the past two years, according to government data.
Through the end of September, 26,531 of them were living on the streets, at risk of losing their homes, staying in temporary housing or receiving federal vouchers to pay rent, the Department of Veterans Affairs reports.
That's up from 10,500 in 2010. The VA says the numbers could be higher because they include only the homeless the department is aware of.
The increase arrives as President Obama's goal of ending homelessness for all veterans is showing some results.
Occupy Wall Street "OWS Week" Year in Review (Video)
OMC ?@OMCorg
New Episode! Final of the season!
Press TV is Iranian State Television.
OWS Week Year in Review
OMC ?@OMCorg
New Episode! Final of the season!
Press TV is Iranian State Television.
Fort Hernandez evicted by 100 sheriffs (six items of foreclosure fraud unreported by media)
Cross-posted from Occupy underground. Note that both mainstream media reports demonize the family and make zero mention of their having been tricked into foreclosure, much less the six fraudulent items in the foreclosure.
The story NOT told by KTLA (family tricked into foreclosure, attempted to work with the bank for years, found six items of foreclosure fraud). If you've ever wanted to see how the media LIE this is it, through omission:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12524691
Family Evicted from “Fort Hernandez” in Van Nuys
http://ktla.com/2012/12/27/family-evicted-from-fort-hernandez-in-van-nuys/
VAN NUYS, Calif. (KTLA) — Deputies have evicted a family from a Van Nuys home that’s been the site of an ongoing anti-foreclosure demonstration by Occupy protesters.
The Hernandez family was evicted from their home in the 14600 block of Leadwell Street early Thursday morning without incident.
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department carried out the eviction with armored vehicles and nearly 100 police personnel. Dump trucks were brought in to break down the encampment.
The home had become known as “Fort Hernandez,” after the family of Javier Hernandez tried to save the foreclosed property by refusing to leave.
Thursday morning’s ouster comes after four years of neglected payments by the owner.
Police said that 18 protesters and five dogs were cleared away from the home. The group had been camped out for more than 100 days to protest the eviction.
(The comments all run on the premise that the eviction was due to the family not paying rent. Bear much false witness, KTLA? Told by banks and the 1% what to report?)
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Protesters Removed From Van Nuys Home in Eviction Operation
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Sheriff-Van-Nuys-Foreclosure-Occupy-LA-Eviction-184938271.html
Nearly 100 personnel from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department carried out an eviction operation Thursday morning at a foreclosed Van Nuys home that became a rallying point for protesters.
The home at 14620 Leadwell St. was at the center of a long-running neighborhood dispute. In 2007, Javier Hernandez bought the home, but his payments stopped after his adjustable rate increased.
The home became a make-shift fortress that included a sign that read, "Save Our Community, Stop Foreclosures." A group of Occupy LA protesters had been living at the home in protest of the homeowners' eviction for nearly two months, according to the sheriff's department.
(More text at the link. Gee. NBC also seemed to somehow miss reporting that the family were tricked into foreclosure and that there were six items of FRAUD against them.)
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Your Tax Dollars Just Paid For Armored Vehicles and 100 Law Enforcement Personnel to Evict A Family.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/27/1174207/-Your-Tax-Dollars-Just-Paid-For-Armored-Vehicles-and-100-Law-Enforcement-Personnel-to-Evict-A-Family#
Fort Hernandez stood for more than four months, surviving police harassment and even the sic'ing of the Department of Public Health and the Department of Child Services (responding to bogus complaints that the residence did not have running water) on the Hernandez' by the powers that be.
I don't know why Bank of America wouldn't negotiate a deal with the Hernandez family. But one thing we can be pretty sure of given all we know about the practices of BofA and other large banks -- they are almost certainly lying:
(More at the link.)
Fort Hernandez evicted by 100 LAPD
The story NOT told by KTLA (family tricked into foreclosure, attempted to work with the bank for years, found six items of foreclosure fraud). If you've ever wanted to see how the media LIE this is it, through omission:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12524691
Family Evicted from “Fort Hernandez” in Van Nuys
http://ktla.com/2012/12/27/family-evicted-from-fort-hernandez-in-van-nuys/
VAN NUYS, Calif. (KTLA) — Deputies have evicted a family from a Van Nuys home that’s been the site of an ongoing anti-foreclosure demonstration by Occupy protesters.
The Hernandez family was evicted from their home in the 14600 block of Leadwell Street early Thursday morning without incident.
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department carried out the eviction with armored vehicles and nearly 100 police personnel. Dump trucks were brought in to break down the encampment.
The home had become known as “Fort Hernandez,” after the family of Javier Hernandez tried to save the foreclosed property by refusing to leave.
Thursday morning’s ouster comes after four years of neglected payments by the owner.
Police said that 18 protesters and five dogs were cleared away from the home. The group had been camped out for more than 100 days to protest the eviction.
(The comments all run on the premise that the eviction was due to the family not paying rent. Bear much false witness, KTLA? Told by banks and the 1% what to report?)
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Protesters Removed From Van Nuys Home in Eviction Operation
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/LA-Sheriff-Van-Nuys-Foreclosure-Occupy-LA-Eviction-184938271.html
Nearly 100 personnel from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department carried out an eviction operation Thursday morning at a foreclosed Van Nuys home that became a rallying point for protesters.
The home at 14620 Leadwell St. was at the center of a long-running neighborhood dispute. In 2007, Javier Hernandez bought the home, but his payments stopped after his adjustable rate increased.
The home became a make-shift fortress that included a sign that read, "Save Our Community, Stop Foreclosures." A group of Occupy LA protesters had been living at the home in protest of the homeowners' eviction for nearly two months, according to the sheriff's department.
(More text at the link. Gee. NBC also seemed to somehow miss reporting that the family were tricked into foreclosure and that there were six items of FRAUD against them.)
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Van Nuys' 'Fort Hernandez' sit-in ends; deputies evict Occupy protesters, family
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_22271889/van-nuys-fort-hernandez-sit-ends-deputies-evict
Gee, another story which SOMEHOW fails to mention that the family were TRICKED INTO FORECLOSURE BY BANK OF AMERICA.
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Your Tax Dollars Just Paid For Armored Vehicles and 100 Law Enforcement Personnel to Evict A Family.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/12/27/1174207/-Your-Tax-Dollars-Just-Paid-For-Armored-Vehicles-and-100-Law-Enforcement-Personnel-to-Evict-A-Family#
Fort Hernandez stood for more than four months, surviving police harassment and even the sic'ing of the Department of Public Health and the Department of Child Services (responding to bogus complaints that the residence did not have running water) on the Hernandez' by the powers that be.
I don't know why Bank of America wouldn't negotiate a deal with the Hernandez family. But one thing we can be pretty sure of given all we know about the practices of BofA and other large banks -- they are almost certainly lying:
(More at the link.)
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samslovick ?@samslovick
LAPD rolls out "Red Carpet" for Bank of America / #FuerzaHernandez EVICTION (VIDEO)
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Fuerza Hernandez announce that their case is now at the Federal level and that as such, the LA sheriffs have made a violation!
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Hernandez Family Foreclosure Sparks Anti-Eviction Outrage
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2012/12/257797.php
Javier Hernandez purchased the property for his mother seven years ago. At the recommendation of the bank, he stopped making payments in order to receive a loan modification but was met with repeated rejections. His story is typical of those people, predominantly Black and Brown, who were sold subprime mortgages at the height of the housing boom. Like so many others, Javier's father was deported, Javier lost his job, and the value of the house plummeted. His younger brother Ulises' affiliation with community activists and an eviction notice led to the encampment action. Javier has since found employment, so, just days before the bank ordered the eviction, he came to a settlement with the mortgage trustees and was waiting for court approval. He elaborated, “We presented sufficient income to make the payments, and yet they still came in and evicted us right before New Year's Eve.”
With the block closed off by police vehicles, the protestors gathered a block and a half from the home. Heather commented on the scene right after the eviction. “Mama Lupe is sitting on the curb, the guy shows up in his Mustang with six trucks, a moving truck and a tow truck, he tells the police 'I'm with the bank,' and the police just wave him on. When we started yelling at him, the police surrounded his car in protection.”
A police cruiser pulls out, and someone shouts, “Donut run!” The early morning scene is a game of taunting the police and dueling video cameras, interrupted by media crews. But the protestors' underlying determination is implacable. As Adam explains, “The LAPD and the Los Angeles Police Department committed a gross and violent of violation of the United Nations Declaration's human right to housing under Article 25. What we see here is an extension of the police state. Look at this: forty sheriffs' deputies, a hundred and some odd cops, this is ridiculous, all with messed up attitudes, all standing there like they're not messing up this family. There's something in court to stop all this but they don't care. The justice system is not designed for the people. It's an injustice system, it's only a justice system if you have money. That's done.”
Bilal adds, “Multitudes and masses of police officers came for an eviction. We're not done, we're not through, we're going to keep up the resistance, we going to keep up the fight for the human right to housing.” Jesus frames the events in the worldwide economic failure: “It's another clear example of why capitalism doesn't work. Profit before people, right? Isn't that the logo? The fact that we think still have people who think we have the courts on our side, that's crazy. At least we made it through Christmas.”
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