How can we take it back?
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OH MY FUKIN GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
"They can still hold ceremonies and such as long as it's safe... " Safe??? What the hell! This is outrageous.
I remember signing the petition against this. Wowwww....They sure are being blatant about it all now....aren't they?
I find this absolutely disgusting.
I hope they find some good lawyers to Pro Bono them and tie these idiots up in court for decades.
Ugh.
At least up here where I live the protesters hanging off the bridge in Portland turned around the icebreaker successfully…at least for now.
I really feel that once this country wakes up a bit more, folks like John McCain and all the other corporate whores in Congress will be held accountable for their destructive actions.
One can dream anyhow.
I think it’s pretty awesome that Donald Trump is leading the Republican polls and here is why.
It just makes them look even more insane and racist with every word that he emits from his mouth-hole.
They are making it easy for themselves to lose by swinging so far to the extreme right.
It just makes them look even more insane and racist with every word that he emits from his mouth-hole.
They are making it easy for themselves to lose by swinging so far to the extreme right.
[video=youtube;1iDxKskmB_k]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=1iDxKskmB_k[/video]
This is very insightful and much of what he talks about easily applies to the US as well, if not more so in some instances.
This is very insightful and much of what he talks about easily applies to the US as well, if not more so in some instances.
Wasn't this the plot to Avatar? What was it again they're mining for? Unobtanium?
Hopefully word will spread and get it repealed.
I know, right?
But I guess unless they are giant blue aliens flying on dragons then no one cares.
I can’t believe this is even being allowed to happen.
Those guys are so disgusting selling out the Native Americans yet again.
THIS! ...is what is being said will unfold in the next year or so.
Keep dreaming of this! Let it flower in your mind's eye as you sit in silence. I am doing it along with many many others... and some are seeing it happen while others of us can feel it coming.
'See' the truth on all visual media being told/shown 24/7 around the globe.
'See' the true criminals confessing their actions before the people and asking for forgiveness.
"See" the people waking up and asking 'what the hell is going on here?" everywhere...in the grocery check out lines...in the ATM queue....on the bus...the EL...the train.
...and whatever else you do will you please put in some of us boomer faces in your visualizations? my god my generation needs all the help it can get to wake up. Thank you. This has been a public service announcement to shill for help. Hahahahahaha....
You know what I mean. :w:
Keep on dreaming!
BREAKING: City of Spokane, Washington, Sues Monsanto.
The city of Spokane has filed a lawsuit against the international agrichemical giant Monsanto, alleging that the company sold chemicals for decades that it knew were a danger to human and environmental health.
Marlene Feist, the city’s utilities spokeswoman, called the suit “long-term litigation,” and noted that the city will spend $300 million to keep PCBs and other pollutants from entering the river in coming years...
READ more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2015/aug/03/spokane-sues-monsanto-pcb-contamination/
This has actually changed!! And it changed because people petitioned and wrote to make it happen!
Here is the result! - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mpt-status-why-that-ends-up-helping-them-out/
Great Job!!
Why conservative billionaires have started talking like Bernie Sanders:
“We are creating a caste system from which it’s almost impossible to escape”
This is Kenneth Langone, the founder of Home Depot and a longtime GOP donor.
His biggest fear?
Income inequality
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/11/why..._its_almost_impossible_to_escape/?sc=alternet
“We are creating a caste system from which it’s almost impossible to escape”
This is Kenneth Langone, the founder of Home Depot and a longtime GOP donor.
His biggest fear?
Income inequality
http://www.salon.com/2015/08/11/why..._its_almost_impossible_to_escape/?sc=alternet
I’ve written previously about the growing fear among elites that they’ve pushed economic inequality too far.
That fear is proliferating, according to a New York Times Op-Ed this weekend by former marketing conglomerate CEO Peter Georgescu.
Joined by his friend Ken Langone, founder of Home Depot, Georgescu warns his fellow 1 percenters that “[w]e are creating a caste system from which it’s almost impossible to escape.” The column raises the specter of “major social unrest” if inequality is not addressed.
Georgescu writes:
I’m scared. The billionaire hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones is scared. My friend Ken Langone, a founder of the Home Depot, is scared. So are many other chief executives. Not of Al Qaeda, or the vicious Islamic State or some other evolving radical group from the Middle East, Africa or Asia. We are afraid where income inequality will lead.
He told his fellow elites that “We are destroying the middle classes at this stage and it will affect us.”
Like Georgescu and Langone, Rupert feared unrest and asked, “How is society going to cope with structural unemployment and the envy, hatred and the social warfare?”
But while Rupert only mused about the prospects for continuing to hawk jewelry and the restfulness of his nights amid the tumult, Georgescu and Langone are being proactive. Georgescu writes that he and Langone “have been meeting with chief executives, trying to get action on inequality,” taking advantage of Langone’s tremendous access to business leaders.
“You’d be hard-pressed to find a major CEO that wouldn’t take his call,” said a close associate of Rudy Giuliani of Langone in 2012.
Georgescu and Langone are telling their patrician peers that if “inequality is not addressed, the income gap will most likely be resolved in one of two ways: by major social unrest or through oppressive taxes.”
The word seems to be getting around at the global aristocracy’s water cooler, and Georgescu writes that they “find almost unanimous agreement on the nature of the problem and the urgent need for solutions.”
It is remarkable that Langone is partnered with Georgescu on this crusade for social justice.
Langone served on the board of a leading populist philanthropy group called the New York Stock Exchange, and his deep concern for the downtrodden led him to chair that gang of do-gooders.
He’s a longtime generous contributor to Republican presidential candidates who have been on the front lines of the battle to institute supply-side and neoliberal economics. “[T]here’s nobody better than him,” said Rudy Giuliani last year about Langone’s prowess as a bundler for GOP politicians.
And when he isn’t giving money and raising funds for the political friends of big business, Langone gives the invaluable gift of his careful insight, last year comparing progressives’ attention to income inequality to Hitler’s political project in 1933.
The only thing Langone had right was the year: 1933.
It was in that year that President Franklin Roosevelt took office at the height of the Great Depression, inequality peaked to record levels, and fears of revolt circulated among that era’s fat-cat elite.
Capitalism, unreined during the 1920s, had hit another of its cyclical failures, this time its worst yet.
The powerful feared revolution, and the New Deal constituted a sort of bargain made between capitalists and the people: A bit of socialism to save capitalism from itself.
That year, John Maynard Keynes issued an open letter to the newly inaugurated Roosevelt in the New York Times, whose two opening sentences of the more than 2,500-word manifesto defined the stakes and posed revolution as the price of failure of severely altering capitalism as it was practiced.
Keynes was no radical.
He urged the new president to work “within the framework of the existing social system,” that is, to reform capitalism without allowing it to be abandoned or abolished.
“The president remarked that this would mean calling out the troops to preserve order,” wrote a cabinet member in his diary. “It might even mean a revolution, or an attempted revolution.”
Georgescu and Langone’s mission perhaps finds its best Depression-era analog in Joseph Kennedy, the millionaire father of the eventual president John F. Kennedy, who said of the Depression that “in those days I felt and said I would be willing to part with half of what I had if I could be sure of keeping, under law and order, the other half.”
Kennedy, like many (but hardly all) of his elite colleagues, knew that capitalism had to be bridled if it was to survive.
“I knew that big drastic changes had to be made in our economic system,“ he later told Joe McCarthy. “I wanted him in the White House for my own security.”
Langone and Georgescu – like Kennedy, Roosevelt and Keynes – are urging another radical reformation of capitalism so that truly radical change doesn’t come.
But they make serious mistakes in their judgment and prescription.
They warn of “punitive,” “oppressive” levels of taxation – an 80 percent upper marginal rate with a low upper-bracket threshold – as a potentiality if their upper class doesn’t self-correct.
But those levels of taxation wouldn’t be levied to punish or oppress; it would be to redistribute their collected wealth to the rest of us.
Sharing isn’t being punished.
This seems to ignore fundamental laws of competition.
Even if some degree of consensus was reached, any dissenters would gain a fantastic advantage over their competitors in the form of profit levels far exceeding those of their rivals.
It would be asking corporations to enter the ring with one arm tied behind their back and face off against unrestrained competitors.
They seem to know this and concede that “the most obvious choice is our government” to guide and enforce the change.
Every major gain against the greed that animates capitalism has been implemented by mandate: the minimum wage, the right to collectively bargain, the 40-hour work week, the weekend, and a host of other rules of the road that marked the post-war economic and civil peace.
“But the current Congress has been paralyzed,” they acknowledge.
And why is it paralyzed?
Has President Obama not faced resistance to his efforts to restore a modicum of equality by politicians bought by the very class to whom Georgescu and Langone make their appeal? They might try not shoveling hundreds of millions of dollars into the coffers of “pro-business” politicians who dutifully defy virtually any tax increase, regulation, and pro-union effort.
Bernie Sanders forbids big-dollar donations of the sort sent to pro-business politicians of both parties, but they might consider, as I argued previously, working to elect him as a bulwark against the upheaval they fear.
Sanders is merely proposing that we return to the bargain achieved in the 1930s and post-war years.
I’m sure they’d scoff at the idea, but it’s not crazy.
What’s crazy is to believe that capitalism can be saved by the capitalists themselves, like all lions agreeing to hunt without claws.
Not another one….for fucks sake.
'Beyond Unacceptable': Judge OKs Uranium Mine at Grand Canyon
Slamming ruling, conservationists warn of irreversible contamination of the canyon's underground aquifers.
Full story - http://www.alternet.org/environment/beyond-unacceptable-judge-oks-uranium-mine-grand-canyon?sc=fb
[video=youtube;AOhvkAMQdVo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AOhvkAMQdVo[/video]
Slamming ruling, conservationists warn of irreversible contamination of the canyon's underground aquifers.
Full story - http://www.alternet.org/environment/beyond-unacceptable-judge-oks-uranium-mine-grand-canyon?sc=fb
[video=youtube;AOhvkAMQdVo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AOhvkAMQdVo[/video]
Planned Parenthood Can No Longer Offer
Cancer Screenings To Poor Women In Texas.
Thanks, GOP
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/0...screenings-to-poor-women-in-texas-thanks-gop/
Cancer Screenings To Poor Women In Texas.
Thanks, GOP
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/0...screenings-to-poor-women-in-texas-thanks-gop/
If we're not building any more Nuclear Power plants...and we're in nuclear disarmament....then what do we need another uranium mine for?