How can we take it back?

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Our Priorities Are Backward!

That’s right, the state of California now spends $62,300 per prison inmate per year while only $9,200 to educate a child in a K-12 school.

If that statistic doesn’t disturb you, the corrections budget has grown from $622 million in 1980 to $9.2 billion in 2011, an increase of more than 1300%.

The for profit Prison Industrial Complex has got to go!

Read more here & lots of #’s here​
 
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I tend to think that capitalism, socialism, whatever, they are all not possible because more fundamental and basic things have been destroyed by cultural changes kicked into being by consumerism and welfarism.
 
I don’t want to give up so easily.
 
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I don’t know why this info graphic lists Canada specifically when it is obvious that the US still blows them away…whatever…I’m sure you all can read just fine.
 
The real reason for the creation of the Federal Reserve…WAR.


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True.
 
[video=youtube;K4NRJoCNHIs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=K4NRJoCNHIs[/video]

Hilarious and sad all at once.
 
It’s still going on…I say it’s time people really fight back.

Judge Says Poor Have No Right To Clean Water,
Allows Detroit Water Shutoffs To Continue

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Protesters with the Detroit Water Brigade outside federal bankruptcy court last week.

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Saying there is no such thing as a legal right to clean running water, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes dismissed a request from Detroit residents to impose a six-month moratorium on water shutoffs by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) on Monday.

The plaintiffs had argued last week that the DWSD shutoffs over delinquent water bills violated the human rights of impoverished citizens who had no ability to pay what the city says they owe, and who were left without access to clean water by the shutoff policy.

“There is no such right or law,” Rhodes said, according to the Detroit News. He also rejected the idea that citizens have a right to “service based on an ability to pay.”

Those remarks are notable because Rhodes didn’t even have to speak to the substance of the plaintiffs’ arguments.
Bankruptcy law doesn’t give him the power to force the city to take the sort of action the plaintiffs requested, so Rhodes could have dismissed the request on simple procedural grounds.

By choosing instead to rebuke the notion that the health and safety implications of being cut off from running water service due to dire financial straits constitutes a violation of Detroiters’ rights, Rhodes positioned himself opposite the United Nations.

After activists made a formal request for U.N. intervention in June, a trio of U.N. experts called the DWSD’s aggressive approach to a multi-million-dollar backlog of water bills “a violation of the human right to water and other international rights.”

The U.N. Special Rapporteur on drinking water issues said that “when there is a genuine inability to pay, human rights simply forbids disconnections.” The city of Detroit has raised water rates by triple-digit percentages in recent years despite having one of the poorest customer bases in the country.

DWSD has been shutting off thousands of water pipes every month since the spring, with one brief break in late summer after the policy attracted months of negative press attention.

Activists allege that the department has been far more willing to shut off water to individuals than to businesses even though delinquent bills from businesses are much larger on average and make up a disproportionate share of the total revenue DWSD is owed. (A DWSD official disputed that portrayal to ThinkProgress over the summer and promised to provide numbers proving those allegations are false, but never did.)

When the water shutoffs began, the city’s path out of bankruptcy was still rocky and complicated.
The thorniest part of the city’s unpayable debts had always been the $5 billion in borrowing tied to the DWSD.

When the future of the water department was up in the air, it made a certain brutal kind of sense to get aggressive about clearing up $175 million in unpaid bills in order to make the water department a more attractive asset in various negotiations.

Since then, the city has struck an agreement with neighboring counties to put a regional water authority in place – something that should help to make service more affordable for Detroit residents in the long run while also bringing in much-needed revenue for repairs to the aging pipes and filtration infrastructure.

The chief financial officer of the DWSD told the Detroit Free Press that it must keep the pressure up on poor Detroiters in order to fulfill its agreement with the suburban counties and maintain its bond rating.

The total outstanding water bills have been cut in half to less than $90 million since the spring.

As the water shutoffs were getting underway in April, Rhodes approved the city’s request to pay that same amount of money to a trio of banks over some legally questionable financial deals tied to casino revenue.

Rhodes had previously said the city should sue to cancel those deals rather than buying their way out of the bad debts.

 
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Kanamori said:
Well, lately, if you assert your rights, you might just get a police APC to run you over.
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I know…scary shit.
Shoot first, ask questions later…especially if you’re black.
It’s funny how there are a bunch of videos of crazy-ass old Nazi white guys waving around an AK-47 or other gun and they don’t shoot them…and they say their is no racial divide by the police…bullshit.
 
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JPMorgan Admits Massive Data Breach - 76 Million Households, 7 Million Businesses Compromised

JPMorgan Chase has issued a statement confirming that a cyber-attack against the bank's Chase.com and JPMorganOnline.com websites on October 2nd breaches customer data:

  • *JPMORGAN: COMPROMISED DATA IMPACTS ABOUT 76M HOUSEHOLDS, 7M SMALL BUSINESSES
  • *JPMORGAN HASN'T SEEN UNUSUAL CUSTOMER FRAUD RELATED TO INCIDENT
The bank noted it is cooperating with government agencies on their investigations.

Full JPMorgan Statement:
On October 2, 2014, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (“JPMorgan Chase” or the “Firm”) updated information for its customers, on its Chase.com and JPMorganOnline websites and on the Chase and J.P. Morgan mobile applications, about the previously disclosed cyberattack against the Firm. The Firm disclosed that:

  • User contact information — name, address, phone number and email address — and internal JPMorgan Chase information relating to such users have been compromised.
  • The compromised data impacts approximately 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.
  • However, there is no evidence that account information for such affected customers — account numbers, passwords, user IDs, dates of birth or Social Security numbers — was compromised during this attack.
  • As of such date, the Firm continues not to have seen any unusual customer fraud related to this incident.
  • JPMorgan Chase customers are not liable for unauthorized transactions on their account that they promptly alert the Firm to.
The Firm continues to vigilantly monitor the situation and is continuing to investigate the matter. In addition, the Firm is fully cooperating with government agencies in connection with their investigations.
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76 million households and 7 million businesses sure sounds a whole lot like... everyone!
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It gets worse... As The NY Times reports,




By the time JPMorgan first suspected the breach in late July, hackers had already “rooted” more than 90 computer servers— hacker-speak for gaining the highest level of privilege to those machines— according to several people briefed on the results of the bank’s forensics investigation who were not allowed to discuss it publicly.

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More disturbing still, these people say, hackers made off with a list of the applications and programs that run on every standard JPMorgan computer— a hacker’s roadmap of sorts— which hackers could cross check with known vulnerabilities in each program and web application, in search of an entry point back into the bank’s systems.

These people said it would take months for the bank to swap out its programs and applications and renegotiate licensing deals with its technology suppliers, leaving hackers plenty of time to mine the bank’s systems for unpatched, or undiscovered, vulnerabilities that would allow them reentry into JPMorgan’s systems.

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Violence is the only answer.
 
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