Racist David Duke Joins The Unions, Maoists, Communists, Socialists, & Anti-Semites at OWS
October 25, 2011 No Comment
The 99% have a another new voice. Former Louisiana Congressman, former Grand Wizard of the KKK, and unabashed anti-Semite David Duke has joined the fight. Mr. Duke dreams of a very different country than most of us desire. Among his twisted desires, he wants segregation brought back to America: “Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 21/10/2011 02:11 Number of articles : 3
Continue reading …Racist David Duke Joins The Unions, Maoists, Communists, Socialists, & Anti-Semites at OWS
October 25, 2011 No Comment
The 99% have a another new voice. Former Louisiana Congressman, former Grand Wizard of the KKK, and unabashed anti-Semite David Duke has joined the fight. Mr. Duke dreams of a very different country than most of us desire. Among his twisted desires, he wants segregation brought back to America: “Our clear goal must be the advancement of the white race and separation of the white and black races. This… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Blaze Discovery Date : 21/10/2011 02:11 Number of articles : 3
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Founder announces suspension of publishing and says site has been deprived of 95% of its revenue and could fold by new year WikiLeaks could be driven out of existence by the new year if it is unable to challenge a financial blockade by banks and credit card companies including Visa, MasterCard and PayPal, the website’s founder Julian Assange has said. Announcing a “temporary suspension” of the whistleblowing website’s publishing activities, Assange said the site had been deprived of 95% of its revenue by the “dangerous, oppressive and undemocratic” blockade, and now needed to direct its energy purely into “aggressive fundraising” to fight for the organisation’s survival. “This financial blockade is an existential threat to WikiLeaks. If the blockade is not borne down by the end of the year the organisation cannot continue its work,” Assange told a news conference in central London. The announcement is the most open acknowledgement of the site’s perilous financial situation since a clutch of financial operators blocked donations in the days after its publication of leaked US embassy cables in November last year. Paypal, Visa, MasterCard, Bank of America, Western Union and Post Finance cut financial ties following the release, through the Guardian and other media partners, while Every DNS withdrew its domain hosting service. The website has begun “pre-litigation action” in Britain, Iceland, Denmark, Belgium, the United States and Australia against the blockade, said Assange, and an action pressing the European competition authorities to investigate the “wrongdoing of Visa and MasterCard” is ongoing. Assange said the financial companies had bowed to pressure from “a political grouping in the US” to block payments to the site, while the US treasury, among other organisations, had found no grounds for the blockade. “The most powerful players in the banking industry have been shown to be an arm of rightwing America,” he said, adding: “A handful of US financial companies cannot be allowed to decide how the whole world votes with its pocket.” Donations had slumped from a monthly average of €100,000 (£87,000) at the end of 2010 to an average of €6-7,000 during 2010. Based on the rate of donations on the day the blockade was imposed, WikiLeaks argues it has been deprived of between €40m and €50m. Assange, 40, remains on bail pending a ruling on his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of rape and sexual assault. Asked about his own legal fees in that case, he said: “WikiLeaks collected monies have never gone to the Swedish case to which I am subject.” He is soliciting donations towards his personal legal fees, but through separate accounts, he said. The website needs $3.5m (£2.2m) to get through the next 12 months, Assange said. “Unusually for a hi-tech organisation,” he said, “it is now accepting cheques and cash sent in the post as well as donations via more modern means such as by text message.” A new fundraising page on the WikiLeaks website urges supporters to use bank transfers, post cash or cheques or buy “revenue-generating gifts” – WikiLeaks- or Assange-branded merchandise including T-shirts and wallets and “dog bandanas” – to raise money. A number of smaller online suppliers including BitCoin and Flattr will process WikiLeaks donations. Assange acknowledged, however, that the organisation would also need to recruit “a constellation of wealthy individuals from different nations” to help it to meet legal and publishing costs. • James Ball on why the bankers’ blockade of WikiLeaks must end WikiLeaks Julian Assange Esther Addley guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …In honor of World Food Day Monday, the United Farm Workers launched an action alert to help spread the word about the issues related to world hunger and to thank the farmers who feed the world. UFW and other groups are also lobbying Congress on a set of issues related to food and farming. Dozens of organizations are partners in supporting World Food Day. They are asking supporters to e-mail Congress to support a set of goals that would help lessen world hunger, improve health and farm working conditions and increase food security: Reduce diet-related disease by promoting safe, healthy foods Support sustainable farms & limit subsidies to big agribusiness Expand access to food and alleviate hunger Protect the environment & animals by reforming factory farms Promote health by curbing junk-food marketing to kids Support fair conditions for food and farm workers The United Farm Workers action alert : An unprecedented number of consumers across America are questioning the system that puts food on their tables. From examining high fructose corn syrup to buying local to tracking food miles to supporting organic production, consumers are demanding more sustainable sources of food. Yet all too often, farm workers are left out of this discussion. In California, farm workers have literally been paying with their lives when their employers fail to provide shade and drinking water during extreme temperatures. Nationally, farm workers die in workplace incidents five times more often than non-agricultural workers. Agriculture for most farm workers is hardly a sustainable profession. Yet it should be, as we depend upon farm workers to put the wine, milk, fruits, vegetables and other products on our tables every day. Today, consumers around the country are celebrating Food Day. Please add our voice to this movement for a healthier, more nutritious, just, humane and sustainable food supply. We ask that you take a moment not only to remember but to thank the workers who are in the fields rain or shine, hot or cold, to make sure our families enjoy the rich bounty of food we have come to expect. We’ve drafted a message below you can send to farm workers. We encourage you to personalize that message. We’ll take your responses, print them and distribute them to the thousands of UFW members across the U.S. so they know how important you think they are in creating a more just food system.
Continue reading …In honor of World Food Day Monday, the United Farm Workers launched an action alert to help spread the word about the issues related to world hunger and to thank the farmers who feed the world. UFW and other groups are also lobbying Congress on a set of issues related to food and farming. Dozens of organizations are partners in supporting World Food Day. They are asking supporters to e-mail Congress to support a set of goals that would help lessen world hunger, improve health and farm working conditions and increase food security: Reduce diet-related disease by promoting safe, healthy foods Support sustainable farms & limit subsidies to big agribusiness Expand access to food and alleviate hunger Protect the environment & animals by reforming factory farms Promote health by curbing junk-food marketing to kids Support fair conditions for food and farm workers The United Farm Workers action alert : An unprecedented number of consumers across America are questioning the system that puts food on their tables. From examining high fructose corn syrup to buying local to tracking food miles to supporting organic production, consumers are demanding more sustainable sources of food. Yet all too often, farm workers are left out of this discussion. In California, farm workers have literally been paying with their lives when their employers fail to provide shade and drinking water during extreme temperatures. Nationally, farm workers die in workplace incidents five times more often than non-agricultural workers. Agriculture for most farm workers is hardly a sustainable profession. Yet it should be, as we depend upon farm workers to put the wine, milk, fruits, vegetables and other products on our tables every day. Today, consumers around the country are celebrating Food Day. Please add our voice to this movement for a healthier, more nutritious, just, humane and sustainable food supply. We ask that you take a moment not only to remember but to thank the workers who are in the fields rain or shine, hot or cold, to make sure our families enjoy the rich bounty of food we have come to expect. We’ve drafted a message below you can send to farm workers. We encourage you to personalize that message. We’ll take your responses, print them and distribute them to the thousands of UFW members across the U.S. so they know how important you think they are in creating a more just food system.
Continue reading …Fox & Friends: Protesting Mom ‘More Disgusting Than Any of the Filth Down on Wall Street’
October 24, 2011 No Comment
Click here to view this media The Fox & Friends kids’ reaction to the Stacey Hessler story was the same sort of predictable nonsense you’d expect from people paid primarily to get outraged over the latest liberal/marxist attack on America. The weekend edition though just might be outdoing their weekday counterparts in hysteria. According to them, Hessler is (a) an unfit mother of four young kids for leaving them behind in Florida as she lives on the street in Manhattan; (b) who probably wasn’t ‘putting out’ for her banker husband anyway (hmm…oh, nevermind); and is now (c) shacked up with some young waiter from Brooklyn. BRIGGS: I want to reiterate what Ali mentioned, this 38 year old Hessler, mother of four says, “Military people leave their families all the time, so why should I feel bad? I’m fighting for a better world.” That is more disgusting than any of the filth down there on Wall Street. Equating what she’s doing with military service, Joe Biden would be embarrassed by that. MORRIS: Her husband also works for a bank. CAMEROTA: He’s a banker. He works at a bank. MORRIS: Why not just protest at home? CAMEROTA: Maybe she has… MORRIS: Yeah, maybe that’s been part of the problem. CAMEROTA: Her husband banker used to work at Bank of America and now works for a local bank in Florida. She’s clearly having a mid-life crisis of some sort to leave your kids. And she said that she doesn’t plan to go home. Actually she’s going to stay there for the duration. MORRIS: So good. A role model. BRIGGS: Mother of the year . Jonah Goldberg at The National Review used that as an epithet first. This “unfit mother” though seems awfully committed to her kids. From her Facebook Wall : I have a plea for my friends. I need your help and support. I want to stay occupying wall st. I feel my presence is very important in the support of non-violent communication and sanitation(keeping the park clean) I am willing to work tirelessly on these efforts. I need help with getting my kids to activities and stepping up with the things I help lead, such as one small village, jr roller derby, bee-attitudes, 4H, for his glory co-op. Please respond if you are willing to help my kids so I can stay here and help this movement. I have a train ticket for tomorrow that I want to change but I need to know I have support from my community back home for my family in order to change the ticket. Their fantasies run amuck they then turn to an Associated Press poll that they say says 56% of Americans don’t support the Occupy Wall Street protests. Except that poll says no such thing. It asks: OWS1. Do you consider yourself a supporter of the Wall Street protests, or are you not a supporter of the Wall Street protests? ….which is an entirely different question than asking if you agree or disagree with the goals of the movement, or if you oppose, as a recent Gallup survey asked. For comparisons’ sake, a recent Time poll had only 6% of the respondents saying they considered themselves members or followers of the Tea Party. But such is life in Foxland, where facts really don’t matter if you have another narrative to sell. Here is Stacey Hessler reacting to the NY Post article about her that sparked all this vileness.
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MSNBC's Joe Scarborough continued his almost relentless attacks on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain Monday this time also throwing an unnecessary barb at former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. When the “Morning Joe” discussion turned to what the Cain campaign is doing in Iowa to prepare for the upcoming caucuses, the supposedly conservative co-host said to Time magazine's Mark Halperin, “You may want to tell him next time you see him to read Foreign Affairs and the New York Times” (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary): “I'm dead serious,” Scarborough continued. “If Sarah Palin had read Foreign Affairs and the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal and actually studied up on foreign policy, might have helped.” In one breath, Scarborough bashed two Tea Party favorites. Seemingly feeling the need to defend Cain from Scarborough's attacks, Halperin responded, “He is studying up on foreign policy.” But the former Republican Congressman turned MSNBC commentator was having none of it. “He needs to study fast. It's not cute.” “Ignorance is not cute,” the so-called conservative continued. “I guess what I'm saying is, you know, you can spend all the money on grassroots campaigns that you want. If you still can't answer basic questions on foreign policy and keeping America safe, it does you no good.” Regular viewers know that Scarborough believes the only serious GOP candidate is Mitt Romney, and that everyone else currently in the field is a joke that Republican primary voters will not support. As such, when you see attacks like this by him on such an accomplished individual like Cain, you wonder if he's in Wall Street parlance “talking his book.” For those unfamiliar, this means Scarborough's constantly bashing all the other candidates to prove he's right. Makes you hope someone other than Romney wins just to prove Scarborough wrong.
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Julian Assange says banking bans have destroyed 95% of whistleblowing site’s revenues Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus on fighting a financial blockade and raise new funds. Assange, speaking at a press conference in London on Monday, said a banking blockade had destroyed 95% of WikiLeaks’ revenues. He added that the blockade posed an existential threat to WikiLeaks and if it was not lifted by the new year the organisation would be “simply not able to continue”. The website, behind the publication of hundreds of thousands of controversial US embassy cables in late 2010 in partnership with newspapers including the Guardian and New York Times, revealed that it was running on cash reserves after “an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade” by the Bank of America, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Western Union. WikiLeaks said in a statement: “The blockade is outside of any accountable, public process. It is without democratic oversight or transparency. “The US government itself found that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a US financial blockade. But the blockade of WikiLeaks by politicised US finance companies continues regardless.” Assange said donations to WikiLeaks were running at €100,000 a month in 2010, but had dropped to a monthly figure of €6,000 to €7,000 this year. This had cost the organisation a cumulative €40m to €50m, he claimed, assuming donations had stayed at their 2010 level without the financial blockade. Assange said WikiLeaks was facing legal cases in Denmark, Iceland, the UK and Australia, as well as an existing action in the EU. He is also fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct. The Guardian, New York Times, El País, Der Spiegel and Le Monde worked with WikiLeaks in publishing carefully selected and redacted US embassy cables in December, but have since criticised the website’s decision to publish its full archive of 251,000 unredacted documents in early September . •
Continue reading …Julian Assange says banking bans have destroyed 95% of whistleblowing site’s revenues Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus on fighting a financial blockade and raise new funds. Assange, speaking at a press conference in London on Monday, said a banking blockade had destroyed 95% of WikiLeaks’ revenues. He added that the blockade posed an existential threat to WikiLeaks and if it was not lifted by the new year the organisation would be “simply not able to continue”. The website, behind the publication of hundreds of thousands of controversial US embassy cables in late 2010 in partnership with newspapers including the Guardian and New York Times, revealed that it was running on cash reserves after “an arbitrary and unlawful financial blockade” by the Bank of America, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and Western Union. WikiLeaks said in a statement: “The blockade is outside of any accountable, public process. It is without democratic oversight or transparency. “The US government itself found that there were no lawful grounds to add WikiLeaks to a US financial blockade. But the blockade of WikiLeaks by politicised US finance companies continues regardless.” Assange said donations to WikiLeaks were running at €100,000 a month in 2010, but had dropped to a monthly figure of €6,000 to €7,000 this year. This had cost the organisation a cumulative €40m to €50m, he claimed, assuming donations had stayed at their 2010 level without the financial blockade. Assange said WikiLeaks was facing legal cases in Denmark, Iceland, the UK and Australia, as well as an existing action in the EU. He is also fighting extradition from the UK to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct. The Guardian, New York Times, El País, Der Spiegel and Le Monde worked with WikiLeaks in publishing carefully selected and redacted US embassy cables in December, but have since criticised the website’s decision to publish its full archive of 251,000 unredacted documents in early September . •
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New flooding around Bangkok has forced displaced Thais to move again. The country’s capital remained on alert Monday. (Oct. 24)
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