Citi Group gets great deal for $285 million and NO jail time for anyone....OCCUPY!!

Citigroup issued a statement:  ”We are pleased to put this matter behind us and are focused on contributing to the economic recovery, serving our clients and growing responsibly”.

OF COURSE we believe you...except that you ARE a liar a thief AND a fucking WHORE SLUT BANKER FUCKER...

GO.READ

Picture of me leaving bright and early in the morning on the first trip to Metro Metals in Portland with this new truck/trailer loaded with scrap metal:

The trip went well as shake down cruises go.  I learned some things about my new 1979 GMC and salvage salvage trailer - as hoped.  The trip was worthwhile. Please use our handy CLICK TO BIGGIFY to make pic larger.

Glen Greenwald: Immunity and Impunity in Elite America

“As intense protests spawned by Occupy Wall Street continue to grow, it is worth asking: Why now? The answer is not obvious. After all, severe income and wealth inequality have long plagued the United States. In fact, it could reasonably be claimed that this form of inequality is part of the design of the American founding -- indeed, an integral part of it. Many Americans who once accepted or even cheered such inequality now see the gains of the richest as ill-gotten, as undeserved, as cheating.”

PLEASE HELP STOP THE MEGALOADS (built in Korea, NOT in Canada or the US) FROM TRAVELLING TWO LANE ROADS THROUGH WASHINGTON IDAHO AND MONTANA OVER THE ROCKIES TO THE TAR SANDS MEGACOMPLEX IN ALBERTA

"...if ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan," Reuters quotes Karzai.

"God forbid, if ever there is a war between Pakistan and America, Afghanistan will side with Pakistan," Reuters quotes Karzai. 

ALRIGHTY THEN - ADIOS MOTHERFUCKER, AND GOOD LUCK WITH THAT SHIT-HOLE YOU CALL A COUNTRY AND WE HOPE YOUR PRETTY CLOTHES ATTRACT AN RPG UP YOUR ASS....

PRESIDENT OBAMA - END THIS WAR NOW AND GET AS FAR AWAY FROM THESE WEASEL FUCKERS AS WE CAN GET!

 

Mortgage CEO Gets 40-Month Sentence for $3 Billion Fraud, Homeless Man Gets 15 Years for Taking $100

If anyone you know still doesn't understand what the Occupy Wall Street protesters are angry about, please point him to this.

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MORE DIRTY MONEY FOR THE 1% WHO DO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANYTHING BUT MONEY:

ROBERT REDFORD'S PLEA TO STOP CONSTRUCTION OF THE KEYSTONE XL TAR SANDS PIPELINE:


MORE INFORMATION HERE

Congress Officially 'Friends' Coal Ash

14 October 2011, 11:33 AM

Terry Winckler

Congress Officially 'Friends' Coal Ash

Earthjustice President Denounces Vote in Congress

Coal ash

Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen is strongly denouncing a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives today, passing H.R. 2273, which would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from strongly regulating coal ash:

"Nearly three years after the tragic spill of more than 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash in Kingston, Tennessee, it’s obvious that federally enforceable safeguards for the disposal of this toxic waste are long overdue. In fact, 267 members of the House of Representatives have taken the disturbing step of moving us even further away from this important public safety goal.

“This Congress is turning their backs on what hundreds of communities living near coal ash ponds and landfills really need. Instead, these elected officials are paying attention only to the needs of corporate polluters intent on preserving their old, dangerous way of doing business. Coal ash is a toxic menace. We cannot afford another spill like the one in Tennessee, and the cold truth is that there are dozens of sites that could become another tragedy any day. Moreover, at hundreds of other coal ash sites, drinking water is contaminated with toxic heavy metals that can cause cancer and other diseases.

“A recent study by Tufts University found that federal regulations for coal ash could provide 28,000 new jobs every year. At a time when our economy is struggling and so many Americans are out of work and trying to make ends meet, it’s shameful that 267 members of the House are turning their backs on real jobs. Rather than acting to protect America’s health and environment, it’s obvious that some members of Congress are only acting to protect polluter profits.”

 

OCCUPY WALL STREET!

A MESSAGE FROM OCCUPY WALL STREET:

Dear Readers,

What follows is the first official, collective statement of the protesters in Zuccotti Park:

As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.

As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known.

• They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage.
• They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses.
• They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one's skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation.
• They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.
• They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless animals, and actively hide these practices.
• They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions.
• They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right.
• They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers’ healthcare and pay.
• They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility.
• They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance.
• They have sold our privacy as a commodity.
• They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press.
• They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit.
• They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce.
• They have donated large sums of money to politicians, who are responsible for regulating them.
• They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil.
• They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people’s lives or provide relief in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantial profit.
• They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit.
• They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media.
• They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt.
• They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad.
• They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas.
• They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts.*

To the people of the world, We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power.

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal.

Join us and make your voices heard!

WEBSITES 1  AND 2

money and politics

Stunning Statistics of the Week:

• 12: Number of members of the supercommittee charged with reducing the debt 

• $41 million: The amount the supercommittee lawmakers have received from the finance, insurance and real estate sector while they have been in Congress 

• $900,000: The amount given by JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo alone to these members