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Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Toyota Tacoma Recall
RECALL Subject : Valve Springs may Fail Resulting in Engine Stall
Report Receipt Date: NOV 07, 2013
NHTSA Campaign Number: 13V557000
Component(s): ENGINE
Potential Number of Units Affected: 3,795
Monday, December 9, 2013
6 fullerton cops beat a homeless man to death.
Mary Ann Jaskiewicz shared The Mind Unleashed's photo.
6 fullerton cops beat a homeless man to death. On video
Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old homeless man (whom his Dr's say was mentally slow, and had the mind of an 11 year old), was beaten to death in Fullerton, California... by police officers who felt they were above the law. They are now on trial. Kelly was tasered, beaten with batons, punched and kneed repeatedly, and was even hit in the face with the end of a Taser. After the beating, you can hear Kelly in the video slowly dying as his desperate screams for his father trail off into groans of 'Daddy' and then stop altogether as he loses consciousness. It's important to note that the paramedics treated the officers before tending to Kelly, as he laid in a pool of his own blood.
Video: http://youtu.be/wYQ5nqPQ_gE
Full Video: http://youtu.be/e6yaeD-E_MY
In the video you see Ramos approach Kelly, "It seems like every day, we have to talk to you about something. Do you enjoy it?" Within minutes, Ramos snaps on latex gloves, holding his fists in front of Kelly's face, taunting him, "See my fists? They are getting ready to fuck you up!" Kelly stands up and pulls away while Ramos then tackles him, punching and kneeing him in the ribs as he pins him down for the other officers like a blood-thirsty hyena. Manuel Ramos, who pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, Jay Cicinelli, who pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter and use of excessive force (Both are free on bail), and Joseph Wolfe, who will be tried separately on charges of involuntary manslaughter and excessive force are the three officers being tried. Three other officers, Officer Kenton Hampton, Sergeant Kevin Craig and Corporal James Blatney, were not charged.
Justice For Kelly: https://www.facebook.com/Justice4KellyThomas
Poverty by choice....?
How long will Americans blindly follow 'Trickle Down Economics' or 'VooDoo Ecnomics' before we figure out IT DOESN'T WORK! ?
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Football: Why are taxpayers subsidizing it?
Another taxpayer SCAM? No one is asking? How different is this from subsidizing HORSE RACING?
Occupy Democrats
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/nfl-just-another-taxpayer-parasite/
Occupy Democrats
And why is the NFL exempt from paying taxes?
We love Football, but America has more important things to invest in than the NFL's profit margins.
Football is Great, but Why is the Taxpayer Subsidizing the NFL’s Profits?
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/nfl-just-another-taxpayer-parasite/
Three Ways the Super-Rich Suck Wealth Out of the Rest of Us
And that doesn't consider the promotion of Predatory Gambling, the ultimate SCAM!
Published on Monday, December 9, 2013 by Common Dreams
Published on Monday, December 9, 2013 by Common Dreams
Three Ways the Super-Rich Suck Wealth Out of the Rest of Us
The facts are indisputable, the conclusion painful. The wealthiest people in the U.S. and around the world have used the stock market and the deregulated financial system to lay claim to the resources that should belong to all of us.
This is not a matter of productive people benefiting from their contributions to society. This is a relatively small number of people extracting massive amounts of money through the financial system for accomplishing almost nothing.
1. They've Taken $1.6 Million Per Family in New Wealth Since the Recession
The richest 5% of American families each gained at least that much in five years, mostly from the stock market. Using data from Credit Suisse, the Economic Policy Institute, Pew Research, and the Census Bureau and two separate analyses (shown here and here), this extraordinary wealth grab can be calculated.
To briefly summarize, the richest 5% (six million households) own about two-thirds of the wealth, or about $10 trillion of the $15 trillion in financial wealth gained since the recession. That's $1,667,000 per household. Calculations based on alternate sources resulted in a gain of over $2 million per household.
It is noteworthy that most of their windfall came from stock market gains rather than from job-creating business ventures. The stock market has, once again, been forming an overblown bubble of wealth that does not reflect the relative degrees of productivity of workers around America. The market has more than doubled in value since the recession, and the richest 5% own about 80% of all non-pension stocks.
2. They Create Imaginary Money That Turns Real
The world's wealth has doubled in a little over ten years. The financial industry has, in effect, created a whole new share of global wealth and redistributed much of it to itself.
In the U.S., financial sector profits as a percentage of corporate profits have been rising steadily over the past 30 years. The speculative, non-productive, and fee-generating derivatives market has increased to an unfathomable level of over $1 quadrillion -- a thousand trillion dollars, twenty times more than the world economy.
With the U.S. driving the expansion of this great bubble of wealth, our nation has become the fifth-most wealth-unequal country in the world, while global inequality (between rather than within countries) has become even worse than for any one country. Just 250 individuals have more money than the total annual living expenses of almost half the world - three billion people.
3. They've Stopped Payment on Productive Americans
Reputable sources agree that the working class has not been properly compensated for its productivity, and that the "rent-seeking" behavior of the financial industry, rather than changes in technology, is extracting wealth from society.
As a result, our median inflation-adjusted household wealth has dropped from $73,000 to $57,000 in a little over 25 years. We've lost another five percent of our wealth since the recession.
Shockingly, only one out of four Americans, according to a survey by Bankrate.com, "have six months' worth of expenses for use in emergency, the minimum recommended by many financial
planning experts."
The End Result? That suction-like sound is the financial industry soaking up our country's wealth.
This is not a matter of productive people benefiting from their contributions to society. This is a relatively small number of people extracting massive amounts of money through the financial system for accomplishing almost nothing.
1. They've Taken $1.6 Million Per Family in New Wealth Since the Recession
The richest 5% of American families each gained at least that much in five years, mostly from the stock market. Using data from Credit Suisse, the Economic Policy Institute, Pew Research, and the Census Bureau and two separate analyses (shown here and here), this extraordinary wealth grab can be calculated.
To briefly summarize, the richest 5% (six million households) own about two-thirds of the wealth, or about $10 trillion of the $15 trillion in financial wealth gained since the recession. That's $1,667,000 per household. Calculations based on alternate sources resulted in a gain of over $2 million per household.
It is noteworthy that most of their windfall came from stock market gains rather than from job-creating business ventures. The stock market has, once again, been forming an overblown bubble of wealth that does not reflect the relative degrees of productivity of workers around America. The market has more than doubled in value since the recession, and the richest 5% own about 80% of all non-pension stocks.
2. They Create Imaginary Money That Turns Real
The world's wealth has doubled in a little over ten years. The financial industry has, in effect, created a whole new share of global wealth and redistributed much of it to itself.
In the U.S., financial sector profits as a percentage of corporate profits have been rising steadily over the past 30 years. The speculative, non-productive, and fee-generating derivatives market has increased to an unfathomable level of over $1 quadrillion -- a thousand trillion dollars, twenty times more than the world economy.
With the U.S. driving the expansion of this great bubble of wealth, our nation has become the fifth-most wealth-unequal country in the world, while global inequality (between rather than within countries) has become even worse than for any one country. Just 250 individuals have more money than the total annual living expenses of almost half the world - three billion people.
3. They've Stopped Payment on Productive Americans
Reputable sources agree that the working class has not been properly compensated for its productivity, and that the "rent-seeking" behavior of the financial industry, rather than changes in technology, is extracting wealth from society.
As a result, our median inflation-adjusted household wealth has dropped from $73,000 to $57,000 in a little over 25 years. We've lost another five percent of our wealth since the recession.
Shockingly, only one out of four Americans, according to a survey by Bankrate.com, "have six months' worth of expenses for use in emergency, the minimum recommended by many financial
planning experts."
The End Result? That suction-like sound is the financial industry soaking up our country's wealth.
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Charges Reduced Against Reverend Billy and Choir Director For Toad Hat-Wearing Chase Bank Protest
Charges Reduced Against Reverend Billy and Choir Director For Toad Hat-Wearing Chase Bank Protest
By Anna Merlan | Village Voice
In September, longtime New York activist Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, led by choir director Nehemiah Luckett, went into a Chase Bank in Midtown and made a little music. The two led a group of eight choir members in a musical protest against mountaintop removal, a controversial form of coal-mining that Chase helps to finance. T...he choir sang a song, then Reverend Billy preached a sermon on Chase's fondness for fossil fuel investments. The whole thing lasted about fifteen minutes, according to the choir, who had on fetching yellow toad hats during the performance.
For their trouble, as we told you at the time, Luckett and Reverend Billy (real name William Talen) were charged with riot in the second degree, menacing in the third degree, unlawful assembly, and two counts of disorderly conduct. The rioting and the menacing both carried a possible punishment of one year in prison. But in a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court Monday morning, those charges were greatly reduced. According to the Manhattan District Attorney's office, the prosecution reviewed the footage and decided that the whole thing looked more like a musical protest than a riot.
Read the full story here: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/12/reverend_billy_nehemiah_luckett_chase_bank_protest_rioting_disorderly_conduct.php
By Anna Merlan | Village Voice
In September, longtime New York activist Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, led by choir director Nehemiah Luckett, went into a Chase Bank in Midtown and made a little music. The two led a group of eight choir members in a musical protest against mountaintop removal, a controversial form of coal-mining that Chase helps to finance. T...he choir sang a song, then Reverend Billy preached a sermon on Chase's fondness for fossil fuel investments. The whole thing lasted about fifteen minutes, according to the choir, who had on fetching yellow toad hats during the performance.
For their trouble, as we told you at the time, Luckett and Reverend Billy (real name William Talen) were charged with riot in the second degree, menacing in the third degree, unlawful assembly, and two counts of disorderly conduct. The rioting and the menacing both carried a possible punishment of one year in prison. But in a hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court Monday morning, those charges were greatly reduced. According to the Manhattan District Attorney's office, the prosecution reviewed the footage and decided that the whole thing looked more like a musical protest than a riot.
Read the full story here: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2013/12/reverend_billy_nehemiah_luckett_chase_bank_protest_rioting_disorderly_conduct.php
Sunday, December 8, 2013
Earthquakes, Fracking....who rules?
Nah! No connection! Oh????
There have been twenty minor earthquakes in Ft. Worth, TX suburbs in the past month.
Why? Well, it could be the injection of some 290 million barrels of fracking wastewater underground.
Read more about earthquakes and fracking here: http://bit.ly/FrackingEarthquakes
Why? Well, it could be the injection of some 290 million barrels of fracking wastewater underground.
Read more about earthquakes and fracking here: http://bit.ly/FrackingEarthquakes
As North Texas Shakes, Railroad Commission Sits Still
stateimpact.npr.org
State Agency Says No Changes Needed After Latest Earthquake Swarm After twenty minor earthquakes in a month, residents in the small towns of Azle and Springtown outside of Fort Worth are understandably confused about why their usually-stable towns are shaking on a near-daily basis. Teachers in
Makes you wonder who rules......and when you'll stand up.....
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