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If You Are Anti War Please Share This!
If you are Anti War, if you believe that the U.S., Great Britain and France should stay out of Iran, that there should be NO Sanctions NO War! Please Share this! Think of all the children that we WILL save by ENDING WARS!
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Forbes magazine has named Miami the most miserable city in the United States by analyzing factors including crime and unemployment.
The magazine said it considered factors including violent crime, unemployment rates, foreclosures, taxes, home prices, political corruption, commute times, weather and performance of local sports teams to determine Miami is the most miserable city in the United States.
“While sports, commuting and weather can be considered trivial by many, they can be the determining factor in the level of misery for a significant number of people,” the magazine said.
Miami was followed on the list by Detroit; Flint, Mich.; West Palm Beach, Fla.; Sacramento; Chicago; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Toledo, Ohio; Rockford, Ill., and Warren, Mich.
http://www.theinset.com/2012/02/forbes-report-miami-miserable/Forbes magazine has named Miami the most miserable city in the United States by... more
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Nicole Sandler hosted The Nicole Sandler Show on Air America radio until the network called it quits. She’s now taken her show online, and welcomes listeners into her home studio! With the camera rolling, she’s free to say, do and play anything… Radio or Not! Listen live Monday through Thursday mornings 10-noon ET, or any time via the archives!I will let her ustream bio speak for it’s self.
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If you use an Android or Blackberry phone, likely it houses a piece of hidden software which logs the content of your text messages, web searches, and other activities, and transmits the information back to company headquarters. Android developer Trevor Eckhart last week released information and started an uproar about a widespread rootkit, called Carrier IQ, that's capable of logging everything you do and comes preinstalled on a ton of smartphones-including various Androids, Nokia phones, and BlackBerrys. Here's how it works and how you can get rid of it.
What Is Carrier IQ?
Last week, 25-year old Eckhart discovered a hidden application on some mobile phones that had the ability to log anything and everything on your device—from location to web searches to the content of your text messages. The program is called Carrier IQ, and unlike the Android malware that's been causing such a stir, it actually comes preinstalled by the manufacturer of your phone. In fact, you can find it on a bunch of different devices, including Android, Nokia, and BlackBerry phones. It's what's known as a rootkit—a program with massive amounts of privileges that hides its presence from the user. It was originally designed to log things like dropped calls and bad data connections for troubleshooting purposes, but manufacturers like HTC and Samsung have modified it to run in the background, completely undetectable, with no option to opt out of its "services". At best, it slows down your phone, and at worst, anyone on the other end of the application could, in theory, read your text messages, see what you search on the web, and much more.
Worst of all, after being confronted, phone manufacturers, wireless carriers, and Carrier IQ themselves have tossed around blame, saying they aren't doing anything wrong. Some have and their privacy policies aren't super specific on what they collect and use. Sprint claims they are "unable to look at the contents of messages, photos, or videos" using Carrier IQ, but Eckhart claims differently. I highly recommend reading Eckhart's article for a deeper look at how Carrier IQ works and how it's manifested itself on certain devices.
Update: Our original article stated that the software also came preinstalled on iPhones and dumphones, which has not been confirmed. That information came from this article at Geeks.com, and we actually believe that to be a typo. Considering it hasn't been mentioned in any other source, and that the iPhone isn't on Eckhart's list of affected devices, we're removing it until other sources say otherwise. Thanks to everyone who pointed this out.
Update #2: It looks like Carrier IQ does, in fact, run on iOS, but in a much more stripped down version that isn't so offensive to the privacy-conscious. It's also very easy to turn off. Check out this blog post for more information.
How to Tell If It's Running On Your Phone
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Right now, Android users are the only ones able to detect and remove the program. However, depending on your phone, you may have to be rooted to do so. Once rooted, running the "CIQ Checks" task in this app on XDA will tell you whether it's running on your system. On HTC phones, you can also search for the app in Settings > Applications as described in the video above, but using the Logging Checker app is the most reliable way to check.
Note also that if you're running an Android Open Source Project (AOSP) based ROM—like CyanogenMod—you do not have Carrier IQ installed on your system. These apps are based on the original, open source version of Android, and don't include any carrier or manufacturer additions like Carrier IQ. If you're using a modded version of your manufacturer's ROM, however—for example, a modded HTC Sense or Samsung TouchWiz ROM—you could still have it installed. To avoid this, either flash AOSP based ROMs, or flash ROMs with Carrier IQ specifically removed (many will say NOCIQ or something similar on their description pages).
How to Remove It From Your Device
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If you want to remove it from your device, you have two choices. Either flash a custom ROM that doesn't contain Carrier IQ (as described above), or use Eckhart's Logging Test App to remove it. Both solutions require rooting your phone.
To remove it with the Logging Test App, download the original app and then buy the $1 pro license from the Android Market. Then, open it up, hit the Menu button, and tap "Remove CIQ". This will completely remove it from your device.
Update: Some of you are noting problems with this function of the Logging Test App, So be wary if your phone isn't one of the devices it's confirmed to work on. As always, make a backup before you use anything with heavy root permissions. If you'd rather not deal with the Logging Test App, I highly recommend flashing a custom ROM like CyanogenMod instead.If you use an Android or Blackberry phone, likely it houses a piece of hidden software... more
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The United States is a country that has received many blessings, and once upon a time you could assume that Americans would come together to take advantage of them. But you can no longer make that assumption. The country is more divided and more clogged by special interests. Now we groan to absorb even the most wondrous gifts.
http://goo.gl/mJ1xXThe United States is a country that has received many blessings, and once upon a time... more
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Around 5:00 p.m. PST Oakland’s Mayor Jean Quan and her fellow officials held a press conference.
They said that the city had sustained minimal damage during the day’s protest, but that the police were calling in reinforcements from other cities anyway. She also said that the crowds preparing to march on the Port of Oakland were peaceful.
Most importantly, she said there were only around 4,500 marchers. According to pictures, and reports from other media outlets, to us, that estimate seems low.
From here in New York, we at Business Insider watched the protests escalate from a peaceful demonstration, to a powerful show of frustration from police, occupiers, and Oakland residents. There were fires, there was tear gas, and there were people who got very badly hurt. You can see it all in these photos from the Associated Press.
Last night the Occupation showed that it is a force to be reckoned with. That, if it so desires, it can put enough people on the street to cause chaos. Bodies, after all are power. But that power comes at a cost, not just to the city of Oakland, but to the public’s perception of the occupation.
Listen: stay peaceful.Around 5:00 p.m. PST Oakland’s Mayor Jean Quan and her fellow officials held a... more
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In the late 1930's with the U.S. economy depressed and the march to world war seemingly irreversible, the great American humorist Will Rogers offered his solution to the dire times: Stupidity got us into this mess, he observed, and perhaps stupidity is the only way out!
http://www.cinemapen.persfly.com/index.php/news/137-stupidity-may-be-the-answerIn the late 1930's with the U.S. economy depressed and the march to world war... more
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Two weeks ago, Cornel West, Princeton professor and activist, showed up at a tent city erected by Occupy Wall Street protesters across the street from the Federal Reserve building in Boston. As he finished delivering an impromptu speech, a man who had been standing off to the side leaned in and gave him a hug. He was in his mid-thirties, with gray-dusted hair, a round face and dimples. Most people who witnessed this moment probably didn't think anything of it -- but then, most people aren't familiar with the faces of the online movement known Anonymous.
The man was Gregg Housh, an Internet technology consultant and one of the few people associated with Anonymous whose real name is known to the public. Housh occupies a special place in Anonymous lore. In 2008, he was among a small group of "Anons" who came up with the idea of releasing a video that declared war on the Church of Scientology, which in turn led to thousands of people protesting outside of Scientology centers around the world and heralded the moment when Anonymous first coalesced into something resembling a political movement.
Back then, Housh couldn't have been less interested in political or social change. Scientologists had provoked Anons by removing an embarrassing and, to the Anons, hilarious video of Tom Cruise from the Internet, and the Anons thought it would be funny to get back at them by standing around outside their centers wearing masks and shouting insults.
As for Housh himself, he had hardly lived the life of a typical activist. When in his twenties, he was arrested for helping to run a software piracy group, and spent three months in a maximum-security prison. This was just one episode in what he described as a long history of criminal mischief.
Within about two weeks of the first protesters descending on Wall Street, however, he was spending nearly every day at the Occupy Boston site, where he quickly fell into a central logistical and public relations role, talking to reporters, city officials and unions -- and, indeed, rubbing shoulders with none other than Cornel West, that prominent and cufflinked icon of progressivism.
"I've gone from not caring about anything at all but myself to pretty much a full-time activist," he said on the phone recently, sounding a bit surprised. "And I'm pretty happy with the transformation. It feels good to care about the world."
Housh is one of many participants in the Occupy Wall Street protests who trace their roots in the movement to the constellation of online networks and chat rooms that make up the Anonymous universe. A few days ago, I gave myself an online alias ("sakiknafo"), logged into one of the main Anonymous online networks (AnonOps) and entered a chat room labeled "#occupywallstreet," where I introduced myself as a reporter to someone with the handle "Velveeta."
More @ link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/occupy-wall-street-anonymous-connection_n_1021665.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003Two weeks ago, Cornel West, Princeton professor and activist, showed up at a tent city... more
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A US Cybersecurity alert from Homeland Security -- exposed today by Anonymous -- reveals the United States is concerned about Anonymous and its new hacktivist agenda targeting corporations, including the Tar Sands energy companies and Monsanto.
The concern focuses on the Anonymous Operation Green Rights Project Tarmaggedon.
The alert states that Anonymous appears to now have a "hactivist" agenda and that most of the damage is by way of harassment, embarrassment and denials of service.
However, the report also attributes the successful protest of Tar Sands energy companies in Montana this summer to Anonymous.
"On 12 July 2011, Anonymous released a press report on a website titled 'Anonymous Operation Green Rights Project Tarmaggedon.'The report outlined Anonymous’ hacktivists concerns with global warming and called for protests against the Alberta Tar Sands (Canada) project along Highway 12 in Montana. As quoted from its posting, 'Anonymous Operation Green Rights calls your attention to an urgent situation in North America perpetuated by the boundless greed of the usual suspect: Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands Ltd. Imperial Oil, the Royal Bank of Scotland and many others.'"
"On 13 July 2011, according to open source reporting, seventy protesters ascended on the Montana state capitol building to protest the Alberta Tar Sands project and the Keystone, XL 36 inch underground pipeline project.e The NCCIC assesses that Anonymous’ participation in peaceful protests carries a moderate likelihood of being accompanied by cyber attacks or exploitations, though no malicious cyber activity was reported in association with this protest."
The report is the titled the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center Bulletin, and quotes Anonymous and national news articles.
The Bulletin also shares a concern for Monsanto.
"Monsanto is a U.S.-based global biotech seed company. Tom Helscher, the company director of corporate affairs, in an e-mail to msnbc.com confirmed that Monsanto 'experienced a disruption to its website that appeared to be from an organized cyber group.'"
Read the Bulletin:
http://info.publicintelligence.net/NCCIC-AnonymousICS.pdf
More @ link http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2011/10/hackin-green-homeland-security-puts-out.htmlA US Cybersecurity alert from Homeland Security -- exposed today by Anonymous --... more
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A second senior New York police officer is being formally investigated over allegations that he assaulted an Occupy Wall Street protester, raising fresh questions over the NYPD's deployment of supervisors on the front line in volatile public order situations.
The officer, who has been named in news reports as deputy inspector Johnny Cardona, was filmed on Friday grabbing the protester from behind, spinning him round and appearing to punch him in the face so hard that he fell to the ground.
The New York Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent mayoral agency that deals with allegations of excessive or unnecessary force against police, is now investigating the incident, along with a number of other complaints over policing of the protests.
This is the second inquiry the board has launched in the last month into an alleged assault by a senior NYPD officer on Occupy Wall Street protesters. It is also investigating the use of pepper spray on peaceful female protesters by another deputy inspector, Anthony Bologna, who is also the subject of an internal NYPD inquiry.
Linda Sachs, a spokeswoman for the CCRB, said she could not comment on individual officers, but confirmed that the alleged assault was among several being investigated.
"We have several ongoing investigations involving police interactions with protesters. That includes events that occurred on Friday. Those events were videotaped," Sachs told the Guardian.
The victim of the alleged assault, Felix Rivera Pitre, has called for an investigation into Cardona's conduct. Over the weekend, new video was released of an earlier demonstration which appears to show him roughly handling a female protester from the same group that was later pepper-sprayed by Bologna.
Pitre's lawyer, Ron Kuby, who specialises in cases of alleged police brutality, has written to the New York district attorney, Cyrus Vance, demanding a "full, complete and lengthy investigation" into Friday's incident.
The NYPD has neither confirmed nor denied the identity of Cardona as the officer involved in both incidents. A senior police spokesman, Paul Browne, said Rivera was wanted for questioning for allegedly having provoked the confrontation by trying to elbow a police officer, which the officer deflected.
More @ link http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/17/occupy-wall-street-cardona-investigationA second senior New York police officer is being formally investigated over... more
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A little after 11:25PM, there was a big commotion on the south side of Zuccotti Park as someone mic checked that the NYPD was moving into to remove the “medical tent” (tents are a violation of the park’s rules.). Occupy Wall Street protesters immediately locked arms and vowed to protect it. Out of nowhere, civil rights activist Jesse Jackson swooped in and briefly spoke face to face with the NYPD as officers continued to amass on Cedar Street.
A demonstrator asked him to join the “human barricade” to which he immediately agreed. She took his hand and led him over to the tent, which he then proceeded to guard, locking arms with others who formed a circle around it.
After a few tense minutes, the police dispersed and the crowd cheered. The tent will not be removed tonight.
More pictures @ link http://animalnewyork.com/2011/10/jesse-jackson-occupies-medical-tent-saves-it-from-being-evicted-by-nypd/A little after 11:25PM, there was a big commotion on the south side of Zuccotti Park... more
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At Occupy Wall Street, a woman is brutally punched in the face by a New York Police Officer.At Occupy Wall Street, a woman is brutally punched in the face by a New York Police... more
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Shepard Fairey, the graphic designer behind Barack Obama's iconic "Hope" posters, is showing his support for Occupy Wall Street protestors with an invitation to join demonstrations as they move uptown to Times Square on Saturday.
The invitation strikes up a 1960's, Black Power movement theme with an image of an African American woman wearing an Afro hairstyle. Underneath the woman, Fairey calls to "the Awake and Inspired" to join protestors:
...with music, performance and a message that the people of this country - not the banks, not the corporations - hold the true power.participate in a stunning moment expressing hope and a new vision for the future - and showing our solidarity with the people who have already been occupying Wall Street for weeks.
Editor of art blog Hyperallergic Hrag Vartanian underscores the significance of Fairey's design to WNYC by noting, "I think it’s really great that it’s an upward looking positive image, as well as it tries to tie together a little bit of the radicalism of the 60’s with today."
Back in 2008, Fairey vaulted onto pop culture phenomenon territory with his symbolic "Hope" image supporting then presidential candidate Barack Obama. Fairey discussed how the poster went viral and became the symbolic answer for many Americans who wanted to show their support:
I think what then happened was that there were a lot of people who were digging Obama but they didn't have any way to symbolically show their support. Once there was an image that represented their support for Obama then that became their Facebook image or their email signature or something they use on their MySpace page.
From the beginning, Occupy Wall Street protestors have creatively used posters to convey their frustrations and demands. Fairey's Times Square invitation could have the potential to be the new face uniting all protestors' messages.Shepard Fairey, the graphic designer behind Barack Obama's iconic... more
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The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-0 today to formally support the Occupy LA protesters who have taken over the lawns of City Hall as part of a campaign to draw attention to corporate America’s influence over government.
The one sticking point of the resolution, which was introduced by Councilmen Richard Alarcon and Bill Rosendahl, was its connection to the Responsible Banking Ordinance that has languished in committee for more than a year. Ultimately, the council reached a compromise to hear the banking issue in the Budget and Finance Committee on or before Nov. 21, with the item going to the full council for a discussion — but not a vote — that same week.
Members of Occupy LA addressed the council for more than an hour and a half before the vote. Though speakers were a bit more focused than they were during yesterday’s meeting, their messages still ranged from regulating banks to ending all wars to extending Los Angeles Unified School District’s academic year. None of those issues are overseen by the Los Angeles City Council.
The proposed Responsible Banking Ordinance would require financial institutions that do business with the city of Los Angeles to report annually on their lending activities and community reinvestment goals.
Whereas yesterday’s public comment period included a violinist, today City Hall was treated to a spoken word performance and a song performed by a man with a ukulele.
Absent from the vote were Councilmen Mitch Englander, Paul Krekorian and Ed Reyes.
Occupy-LA-Resolution link http://www.docstoc.com/docs/98082296/Occupy-LA-ResolutionThe Los Angeles City Council voted 11-0 today to formally support the Occupy LA... more
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Hundreds of office cleaners and guards marched on Wednesday near Wall Street demanding good jobs and protesting economic inequality, while a smaller group of demonstrators rallied at JPMorgan Chase's skyscraper.
The marches were part of a growing Occupy Wall Street movement, the month-long protests that have inspired solidarity rallies planned for Thursday at some 90 U.S. college campuses. Demonstrations have occurred in more than 1,400 cities around the world.
The movement began on Sept. 17, when protesters set up camp in a park near Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, upset that the billions of dollars in bank bailouts doled out during the recession allowed them to resume earning huge profits while average Americans have had no relief from high unemployment and job insecurity.
Participants also say they are angry that the richest 1 percent of Americans do not pay their fair share of taxes.
More than 750 cleaners, security guards and other building service workers converged on the financial district to march for better-paying jobs, while at a nearby rally outside a JPMorgan Chase skyscraper police said about 100 people simply walked around the building and then returned to their camp in the park.
Police said they arrested four people at the bank building.
Barricades had been placed outside the JPMorgan Chase building in preparation for the protest, and many police officers stood on duty.
The building service workers union, the Service Employees International Union, which organized the march, said contracts for tens of thousands of workers are about to expire.
"We're out here because there's no jobs and we're about to lose our jobs. We're tired and we're fed up and we need these people in here to hear us," said Carla Thomas, 47, a building security guard, gesturing toward Wall Street.
At a rally in San Francisco, 11 protesters were arrested on Wednesday when up to 200 people demonstrated at the Wells Fargo corporate headquarters, blocking entrances and sticking posters on the building, one which read: "My bank went to bail-out land and all I got was a lousy recession."Hundreds of office cleaners and guards marched on Wednesday near Wall Street demanding... more
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The wild story put out by the Justice Department about an Iranian assassination plot smells suspiciously like something passed through a bull’s digestive tract. But the U.S. should hope that it’s true. Because it makes Iran’s fiercest terrorist organization look like blithering idiots.
According to the criminal complaint brought against Mansour Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri on Tuesday, agents from Iran’s feared Qods Force, a buck-wild branch of the already buck-wild Revolutionary Guards Corps, plotted to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. in Washington, D.C. They might move on to the Israeli embassy to raise hell. And if the prospect of starting a regional war — the likeliest outcome of murdering diplomats from Iran’s Mideast rivals, on U.S. soil no less — weren’t bad enough, the Qods Force allegedly sought inroads with Mexican drug cartels.
It’s a fusion-cuisine salad bar of U.S. security anxieties. Crazy Iranian terrorists and violent Mexican narcotraffickers. No wonder FBI Director Robert Mueller called the plot straight out of Hollywood.
But here’s why you should hope it really went down the way the government describes, as hard as that is to believe.
In the narrative spun by the criminal complaint, a naturalized U.S. citizen, Arbabsiar, approached a Mexican man he believed to be tied to a “large, sophisticated and violent drug-trafficking cartel” in the spring of 2011. Arbabsiar, who boasted that his cousin was a big cheese in an Iranian military unit, wanted to pay the guy $1.5 million to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubair. The two men had never met before.
What Arbabsiar didn’t know was that his interlocutor was a paid informant of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Arbabsiar, claiming to be acting on behalf of his cousin, Qods force bigwig Abdul Reza Shahlai, wired the Mexican cash. It went straight into a bank account controlled by the FBI.
If any of this is remotely true, then the crack intelligence work of the Qods Force is stunning to behold. The Mexican informant taped Arbabsiar’s telephone calls. They reveal some laughably insipid code words. Icing al-Jubair is referred to as “painting the house” — Arbabsiar made sure to remind his interlocutor that the house couldn’t be left half-painted — and al-Jubair himself was “Chevrolet.”
Such a crack operative doesn’t suspect that when he’s summoned to Mexico in September, he’s going to be arrested at an airport. In custody, Arbabsiar cracked and blamed the Qods Force for the plot. U.S. officials even got Arbabsiar to call his cousin’s enforcer, Shakuri, and implicate him. “You mean you are buying all of [the Chevrolet]?” asked Shakuri, supposedly a wheeler-dealer in the Qods Force himself.
The Qods Force is no joke — or, until the release of the criminal complaint, it was hard to think of it as a joke. The U.S. accused it of smuggling deadly bombs into Iraq (though sometimes without much evidence). As Thomas Jocelyn the Weekly Standard reminds, the Qods Force — and specifically Shahlai — was behind one of the most sophisticated and brazen attacks on U.S. forces of the whole Iraq war, an ambush on a Karbala facility. And it’s believed to be responsible for training and funding Iran’s various terrorist proxies, chiefly Hezbollah.
Which raises an obvious question: Why would such a sophisticated organization with ties to known terrorists risk establishing a new partnership with an unknown Mexican drug gang for an operation with such high stakes? Many have speculated that the plot as described in the complaint simply can’t be true — that either Shakuri wasn’t really a Qods Force operative, or that senior levels of the Iranian government were unaware of the outlandish plot. “The Quds are better than this,” ex-CIA officer Robert Baer told the Washington Post. “If they wanted to come after you, you’d be dead already.”
Perhaps. But let’s give the government the benefit of the doubt. If the plot really went down the way the government alleges, then Iran’s most feared military/intelligence arm looks like a bunch of miscalculating buffoons. And these are the people, David Petraeus has recounted, whom Iran’s regime relies upon to cultivate Iranian influence throughout the Mideast. Miscalculation is indeed dangerous in foreign policy. But the U.S. — and Jubair — might be able to find comfort in the fact that nine times out of 10, incompetence is far worse.The wild story put out by the Justice Department about an Iranian assassination plot... more
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While the Occupy Wall Street movement is sweeping the country and peaceful arrests are mounting, Chicagoans took to the streets this week to hold the big banks accountable for crashing the economy and to demand city, state and federal policies that work for working families.
For many, the goal was stopping the foreclosure mill, creating jobs, and telling the big banks it was time to pay us back for the $4.7 trillion bailout. For others, the demands focused on the fallout from the financial crisis, including contentious contract negotiations with the administration of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel.
For most, the range of issues were inextricably linked.
Emanuel Goes to Bat for the Big Banks
At the height of the financial crisis in March of 2009, a new president was grappling with an unprecedented meltdown. Huddled with his closest advisers, his instincts were sound.
As described in Ron Suskind's riveting new book, Confidence Men, Obama wanted to restructure the largest insolvent banks to "strike a blow for prudence" and "change the reckless behavior of Wall Street to show accountability flows in both directions."
His economic advisers chewed it over, discussing the pros (Larry Summers and Christina Romer) and cons (Tim Geithner) of breaking up a big bank, but when the President left the room for a moment, his chief of staff spoke up.
"Listen, its not going to fucking happen. We have no fuckin' credibility. So give it up. The job of everyone in this room is to move the President, when he gets back, to a solution that works," said Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel's last foray into the global economy was as President Clinton's point man on NAFTA, a trade agreement that cost the United States some 700,000 manufacturing jobs.
After this display of tough love and a subsequent trillion dollar bailout, Wall Street bonuses are bouncing back. The U.S. economy, however, remains in a in a dead stall with zero job creation, massive foreclosures and rapidly rising poverty.
Take Back Chicago!
Now Rahm Emanuel is Mayor of Chicago his team is working hard to balance budget deficits on the back of public workers. Rahm and his CEO of Chicago Public Schools (really, that's his title) want the teachers union to forgo a contractual raise and do 30 percent more time for the same salary.
Why create sweatshops abroad when you can do it at home?
On Monday, 10,000 Chicagoans marched in the streets to tell Emanuel and his friends on Wall Street that enough is enough. Under the rubric of "Take back Chicago," community, labor and faith groups rallied for jobs, homes and schools. Occupy Chicago voted to endorse the march and were smart to target the big money at a futures trading conference.
More @ link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-bottari/chicago-wall-street-protest_b_1006777.htmlWhile the Occupy Wall Street movement is sweeping the country and peaceful arrests are... more
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A group of South Korean activists said Wednesday they will occupy the streets of Seoul this weekend to protest financial inequality, joining the "Occupy Wall Street" movement that originated in the United States.
The association of 30 civic groups said it will hold a two-day "Occupy Seoul" protest downtown and in other parts of the capital, including the financial district Yeouido, on Saturday and Sunday.
It said the rally is aimed at galvanizing "99 percent of Koreans" to stand up against the superwealthy "1 percent" they see in control and benefiting from a toxic financial environment, echoing claims by anti-Wall Street protesters.
"We will join the global movement and gather the voices of desperate Koreans," the group said in a release.A group of South Korean activists said Wednesday they will occupy the streets of Seoul... more
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