Poverty Is Not an Accident

Poverty Is Not an Accident
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Friday, September 30, 2011

Do Human Races Exist?


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My haplogroupist joke:
Q: How do you get a drink out of a haplogroup C person?
A: Stick your finger down their throat. The cheap bast-erds.
(see, it doesn't work)

More about haplogroups:
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=haplogroup

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Genetic Bucket Chain, Part 1 


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This is the story of how you and Inuk are almost certainly both direct descendants of Confucius.

NOTE: Yes, Julius Caesar was a poor choice, and Cleopatra is not much better. Their heirs may have been part of the 20% that we are NOT related to. Confucius, on the other hand, is much clearer.

Part 2 will be posted when I can finish it, probably on Saturday. My apologies for the sound quality, my microphone is in the slow process of death. I'm sure this one is riddled with math errors. Feel free to point them out.

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http://www.stat.yale.edu/%7Ejtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/NatureCommonAncestors...

http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/Ancestors.pdf

JUST OUT:
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2011 Oct;146(2):242-52.
"No evidence of Neandertal admixture in the mitochondrial genomes of early European modern humans and contemporary Europeans."
"Neandertals, the archaic human form documented in Eurasia until 29,000 years ago, share no mitochondrial haplotype with modern Europeans. "

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Genetic Bucket Chain, part 2


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I know this is counter-intuitive. All the really interesting science is. If you have strong evidence to contradict the research on which these publications are based, by all means present it.

"I don't believe it" is not an adequate argument, though.

There may very well be some isolated populations, but to be truly isolated from the bucket chain, they would have to have no contact with any tribes who ever had contact with more distant tribes. Isolated Pacific Islands seem the best candidate, but the Polynesians were island-hopping the Pacific in the 400s AD.


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http://www.stat.yale.edu/%7Ejtc5/papers/CommonAncestors/NatureCommonAncestors...

http://www.stat.yale.edu/~jtc5/papers/Ancestors.pdf

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Occupy Wall Street, Now


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Occupy Wall Street responds to big banks like Bank of America and fights government control, lobbyist, mainstream media and big business destroying rights and freedoms.

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Occupy Wall Street: Anonymous issues call to action

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Occupy Wall Street: Anonymous issues call to action


Operation Occupy Wall Street continues to grow with the help and support of the nebulous, notorious, international Internet hacktivist collective known as Anonymous. 
Operation Occupy Wall Streetis an ongoing, nonviolent demonstration opposing corporate influence over U.S. politics.
 
Thursday, representatives of Anonymous issued a call to action - the following is an excerpt from “Anonymous Occupy Wall Street Call to Action” distributed by TheAnonPress:
 
Greetings, people of the world. We are Anonymous. As many of you are aware, over the past several days, significant demonstrations have been held in protest of the corrupt financial system that favors the richest 1% of our nation; while the remaining 99% have to deal with things such as abuse of our civil rights, overseas outsourcing of our jobs, and living off minimum wage while gas hovers around $3.50 a gallon. The minimal attention given to these demonstrations has caused growing concern, with rumors of media blackouts and repealed news coverage becoming increasingly harder to deny.
We would like to thank those in our national media that chose to cover the truth about the events of the wall street occupation. Your contribution to society will not go unrecognized.
Unfortunately, this coverage has not been sufficient, we must now take efforts to spread the truth into our own hands. It is now up to us, the people of this great nation, to act for ourselves. We must share the truth through our social networks, by texting, instant/private messaging, posting, and blogging to our friends and relatives. We must take to the streets and speak of the truth in our coffee shops and mall outlets. Our voices will be heard.
 
Inspired by the Arab Spring, the aim of Occupy Wall Street was to begin a sustained occupation of Wall Street and the financial district of New York City.  Originally organized by Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist magazine, the action was subsequently endorsed and promoted by Anonymous. The Operation began on Saturday, September 17. More from “Anonymous Occupy Wall Street Call to Action”:
To those currently occupying, stay strong, always know that you have our support. We will not allow tyrannical police to oppress and bully you. Stay peaceful, stay vigilant, and know that you are making our nation proud.
To the police who wish to remain tyrannical, we will continue to show our support for the peaceful protesters. You will be exposed for the inhumane offences you commit, and everyone will know just who you are and what you have done. Your information will be posted everywhere and mirrored everywhere.
If you strip the freedom away from our peaceful protestors, then we shall strip your privacy away from you.
To the people of the world:
You are Anonymous.
You are Legion.
You are the media.
You are the voice of truth.
You can not forgive.
You can not forget.
They should expect us.
 
Operation Occupy Wall Street began on Saturday, September 17. #OccupyWallStreet
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The Media Takes Notice (Occupy Wall Street)


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From Monday - Day 10 of the Occupy Wall Street Protest.

Apologies for the poor sound quality and occasional jerky camera movement - I'm having equipment difficulties.:D

Thanks to Phil for the interview.

Please note: The subtitles are to the best of my knowledge accurate.

If the people in question object to any of the text in the transcript provided on screen I will be happy to annotate and correct.

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The Media Takes Notice (Occupy Wall Street)


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From Monday - Day 10 of the Occupy Wall Street Protest.

Apologies for the poor sound quality and occasional jerky camera movement - I'm having equipment difficulties.:D

Thanks to Phil for the interview.

Please note: The subtitles are to the best of my knowledge accurate.

If the people in question object to any of the text in the transcript provided on screen I will be happy to annotate and correct.

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

We Have Better Arguments 1


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Response to Atheism, The Next Generation ?
here: http://youtu.be/kVn2YBivg-k
Find my second part here:
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Goxter's first part
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He gave homework:
Michael Payton
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http://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelPayton67
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TheLaughingOut
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http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLaughingOut
thegoodatheist
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Politics & Religion Tour 6.0


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Cross-country tour looking for science-y religious-y politics-y stuff, on my way to #OccupyWallSt, #StopTheMach2011, and #EnoughMarch, and any other trouble I can get into.

Today's episode chronicles my visit to the awful, pagan-owned American Museum of Natural History

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cruising down Wall St. . . . fed up with our bosses!

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Ladies and gentleman, we are currently cruising down Wall Street because we are fed up with our bosses! Pilots stage protest

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Last updated at 9:02 AM on 28th September 2011

Wall Street saw yet another surge in protesters today - as hundreds of Continental and United Airlines pilots demonstrated in New York City's financial district.
Over 700 hundred activists, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, took their grievances to the streets as they protested for wages and benefits in light of a stalled merger between the airlines.
The demonstration coincided with the 11th straight day the Occupy Wall Street encampment, which has seen thousands of demonstrators descend onto downtown Manhattan - and hundreds arrested.

United: Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on Tuesday
United: Over 700 hundred Continental and United pilots, joined by additional pilots from other Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) carriers, demonstrate in front of Wall Street on Tuesday

Organised: The pilots want to draw attention to the lack of progress on negotiations of the pilots' joint collective bargaining agreement ahead of the one-year anniversary of the corporate merger close date
Organised: The pilots want to draw attention to the lack of progress on negotiations of the pilots' joint collective bargaining agreement ahead of the one-year anniversary of the corporate merger close date
Continental's ALPA unit announced the union rally, saying the company needed to 'get serious' about negotiating a joint contract.

United officials have said they want a fair contract and have been meeting with pilots from both unions since August 2010, arguing that none of the major sections dealing with work rules, pay, scope/job protection or retirement/benefits has been resolved.
Management wanted a deal in place by the end of 2011, but said over the summer the target would be missed. No new date has been set.

 

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Without a joint contract that merges seniority and duties, the carrier cannot achieve the full measure of cost and revenue benefits forecast as part of the merger.

The announcement came after pilots at United Airlines asked a federal judge on Monday to halt integration with Continental Airlines, saying the company is moving too fast in its bid to merge operations fully.
The United chapter of the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, sought a stay of Friday's deadline to complete the next phase of training and begin new procedures.
Peaceful protest: United officials have said they want a fair contract and have been meeting with pilots from both unions since August 2010
Peaceful protest: United officials have said they want a fair contract and have been meeting with pilots from both unions since August 2010

'What's a pilot worth?' United management wanted a deal in place by the end of 2011, but said over the summer the target would be missed. No new date has been set
'What's a pilot worth?' United management wanted a deal in place by the end of 2011, but said over the summer the target would be missed. No new date has been set
The union said the proposed level and timeline of training necessary for United Continental Holdings Inc (UAL.N) to earn single operating authority from Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is inadequate.

FAA clearance is the final step in the merger to create the world's biggest airline. The deal closed last year.

Pilots contend interrupting the deadline for new procedures would allow the union and management to either negotiate a resolution or arbitrate the dispute.

A court hearing in Brooklyn is scheduled for Wednesday.

The union said most of the training changes involve United pilots, who are adopting many of Continental's cockpit procedures.

United said the suit was without merit and was a shameful attempt to influence negotiations on a joint contract between United and Continental pilots.

Uniform: Continental's ALPA unit announced the union rally, saying the company needed to 'get serious' about negotiating a joint contract
Uniform: Continental's ALPA unit announced the union rally, saying the company needed to 'get serious' about negotiating a joint contract

Union rally: ALPA represents over 53,000 pilots at 39 airlines in the United States and Canada, including approximately 5000 at Continental and nearly 6,000 at United
Union rally: ALPA represents over 53,000 pilots at 39 airlines in the United States and Canada, including approximately 5000 at Continental and nearly 6,000 at United
United spokeswoman Julie King said in a statement: 'Our training procedures, which are fully approved and closely monitored by the FAA, meet or exceed safety standards and we are a safe airline.'

United's union chairman, Wendy Morse, said safety issues and the union contract are separate, adding: 'United management continues to squander this golden opportunity to create the world class airline it promised to the employees, to the shareholders and to the flying public nearly 17 months ago when the United/Continental merger was announced. The longer these negotiations toward a joint collective bargaining agreement drag on, the less likely the company will be able to enjoy the benefits this merger offers.

'The company has wallowed in the weeds long enough. It's time for management to stop focusing on the minutia and turn its attention toward the issues that really matter to the pilots of United and get this contract completed. The days of our pilots laboring under a bankruptcy contract have to end,' she said.

Captain Jay Pierce, chairman of the Continental pilots union, stated: 'Management may be attempting to portray success with the progress of the merger, but the reality is that it takes more than painting airplanes, hanging new airport signs and revamping a frequent-flier program. We are ready to begin the real work of creating the world's largest and best airline, and that starts with reaching agreement on a pilot contract. Real progress with implementing the merger requires the involvement of pilots and an acknowledgement by management of the contributions that pilots make in creating a successful airline.'

ALPA represents over 53,000 pilots at 39 airlines in the United States and Canada, including approximately 5000 at Continental and nearly 6,000 at United.
 
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

"The TRUTH About The Occupy Wall Street Protests" - MOC #80


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In today's episode I ask "Who's REALLY involved in the Occupy Wall Street protests? Where are these people coming from? When will it end?" And on today's Moment of Clarity I read an email from a former marine that might just make you cry. Get the podcast at www.LeeCamp.net or subscribe for free on iTunes or get the Android app.

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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

"The Police Are On The Wrong Side At The Occupy Wall Street Protests" - ...


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"The Police Are On The Wrong Side At The Occupy Wall Street Protests" - MOC #79 --- Also, the MOC podcast has an interview with political activist heroes THE YES MEN.

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The Poor: Still Here, Still Poor

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The Poor: Still Here, Still Poor


What ever happened to poor people? Even on the left, Cornel West and Tavis Smiley’s Poverty Tour was an exception. Mostly, the talk is of the “middle class”—its stagnant wages, foreclosed houses, maxed-out credit cards and adult kids still living in their childhood bedrooms. The New York Times’s Bob Herbert, the last columnist who covered poverty consistently and with passion, is gone. Among progressive organizations, Rebuild the Dream, a new group co-founded with much fanfare by Van Jones and MoveOn, is typical. It bills its mission as “rebuilding the middle class”—i.e., the “people willing to work hard and play by the rules.” (What are those rules? I always wonder. And do middle-class people really work all that hard compared with a home health aide or a waitress, who cannot get ahead no matter how hard she works and how many rules she plays by?) The ten steps in its “Contract” contain many worthy suggestions—invest in America’s infrastructure, return to fairer tax rates, secure Social Security by lifting the cap on Social Security taxes. There’s nothing wrong with any of this as far as it goes—middle-class people have indeed suffered in the current recession. But let’s not forget that the unemployment rate for white college grads is 4 percent, and every single one of them has been written up in Salon. It’s who’s missing that troubles me: poor people.

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The last time poor people were on the national agenda was during the run-up to welfare reform, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, written by Republicans and signed by President Clinton in 1996. Welfare reform was supposed to transform poor single mothers into full-time or near full-time workers by tying government assistance to employment. Millions of mothers got jobs, which might or might not have had the positive psychological effects reformers promised—but (surprise!) fifteen years later, they and their children are still poor or near poor. “Once they start to make around $13 an hour, they lose the supports that helped them get into the workplace,” feminist economist Randy Albelda told me by phone. “Your costs have gone up, you’re paying for healthcare, you get less in food stamps and you have less time with your kids—so you’re worse off.” “It’s an issue,” liberal economist Robert Cherry acknowledges. “Many women are trapped in near poverty. But once you add in the Earned Income Tax Credit and the childcare tax credit, they’re still better off than they were on welfare.”
Albelda notes the hidden costs of reform: with mothers working and often commuting long hours, adolescents now take care of the house and younger siblings, which means they have less time for school. She points out that most women who had been receiving cash assistance had already been working: welfare helped them out between jobs, or when they quit because of a family emergency. “They decided to reform women, but they didn’t reform the labor market. In the retail and hospitality fields poor women have flooded into, the employer has lots of flexibility—to hire, fire, cut your hours, rearrange your schedule. Workers have none.”
Some of the worst fears of welfare reform opponents seem not to have come to pass: women have not been pushed into relying on abusive men more than they had before. Nor have the more grandiose hopes of reform proponents: marriage rates have not increased for poor women (or, indeed, anyone else); out-of-wedlock births have continued to rise; “fatherhood” programs have not done much to reconnect disaffected fathers with their kids. Cherry argues that welfare reform, by reconceiving low-income single mothers as workers, has indirectly promoted some good policies: some states have made it a bit easier for them to claim unemployment insurance; some have expanded pre-kindergarten programs. But, he quickly adds, “how can you talk about public policy in the world we live in? Money for this, money for that? It’s an alternate universe.” Indeed, by turning welfare from an entitlement into a block grant program, reform made it vulnerable to the economy in a new way: the funding can be cut without much fuss. It certainly didn’t expand to deal with rising numbers of desperate people in the recession. Opponents warned that the boom times wouldn’t last, and they were right.
Could it be that the chief outcome of welfare reform was to take poor women off the table completely? Now that they are less often seen as monstrous stereotypes—welfare queens, mothers of eight, teenagers having a baby to get a free apartment—they are of no interest at all. As political scientist Lawrence Mead, a major proponent of reform, told me in an e-mail, “For most observers, welfare reform has ceased to be a grand issue of justice or inequality, and has become a problem of management.” Rebuild the Dream’s contract has nothing to say about these women, or their brothers: nothing about childcare, income support, housing, the drug wars that have destroyed so many black communities, the prisonification of America or, for that matter, racism and sexism, which still structure the labor market, including for “middle class” people. But it’s a free-market fantasy that all single mothers can work full time and raise a family in decency without significant government help. Once again, on the left as on the right, the ideal worker is conceived of as unencumbered, with the needs and circumstances of mothers, especially single mothers, ignored. But women are half the workforce now, and the vast majority of women have kids.
The failure to talk about the poor, male or female, doesn’t mean they’ve gone away. In 2009 the official poverty rate was 14.3 percent—43.6 million people, up from 39.8 million in 2008. One in three Americans is low income (below 200 percent of the poverty line). What kind of American dream leaves them out?

 
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Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street )


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We want to share insights into the formation of a new social movement as it is still taking shape in real time.
The video was shot during the 5th and 6th day of the occupation.
This idea to occupy the financial district in New York City was inspired by recent uprisings in Spain, Greece, Egypt, and Tunisia
which most of us were following online.
Despite of the corporate media's effort to silence the protests, and Yahoo's attempt to to censor it in e-mail communication,
the occupation is growing in numbers and spreading to other cities in the US and abroad.
Please forward our video to likeminded people via email, facebook, twitter - and make the voices of dissent circulate.

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Occupy Wall Street, Why?


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Occupy Wall Street is a responds to government control, lobbyist, mainstream media and big business destroying rights and freedoms

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Politics & Religion Tour 4.9


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Cross-country tour looking for science-y religious-y politics-y stuff, on my way to #OccupyWallSt, #Oct2011, and #EnoughMarch, and any other trouble I can get into.


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Sweet Pwnage of Fox News & Bill Schultz of Red Eye


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Busted.

If Bill Schultz really thought I didn't recognize him for exactly what he was then the pwnage and winnage on my part is even greater then I could imagine.

It has reached CRITICAL MASS!!!

Fox News Media once again shows everyone exactly what they are; a group of people who are elitist and have a sense of entitlement so great you could shore up a failing bank with it.

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Richard Heinberg: why end of growth means more happiness


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Richard Heinberg- whose latest book describes The End of Growth- isn't looking for when the recession will end and we'll get back to "normal". He believes our decades-long era of growth was based on aberrant set of conditions- namely cheap oil, but also cheap minerals, cheap food, etc- and that looking ahead, we need to prepare for a "new normal".

The problem, according to Heinberg, is our natural resources just aren't so cheap and plentiful anymore, and he's not just talking about Peak Oil, Heinberg believes in Peak Everything (also the title of one of his books).

Heinberg thinks for many, adjusting to a life where everything costs a bit more, could be very hard, but he also thinks the transition to a new normal might actually make life better.

"Particularly in the Western industrialized countries we've gotten used to levels of consumption that are not only environmentally unsustainable, they also don't make us happy. They've in fact hollowed out our lives. We've given up things that actually do give us satisfaction and pleasure so that we can work more and more hours to get more and more money with which to buy more and more stuff- more flatscreen tvs, bigger SUVs, bigger houses and it's not making us happier. Well, guess what, it's possible to downsize, it's possible to use less, become more self sufficient, grow more of your own food, have chickens in your backyard and be a happier person."

This is not all theoretical. In the backyard of the home Heinberg shares with his wife, Janet Barocco, the couple grow most of their food during the summer months (i.e. 25 fruit & nut trees, veggies, potatoes.. they're just lack grains), raise chickens for eggs, capture rainwater, bake with solar cookers and a solar food drier and secure energy with photovoltaic and solar hot water panels.

Their backyard reflects Heinberg's vision for our "new normal" and it's full of experiments, like the slightly less than 120-square-foot cottage that was inspired by the Small Home Movement. It was built with the help of some of Heinberg's college students (in one of the nation's first sustainability classes) using recycled and natural materials (like lime plaster).

Heinberg admits it's not a real tiny house experiment since they don't actually live in it- his wife uses it as a massage studio, he meditates there and sometimes it's used as a guest house (though that's hush hush due to permitting issues). But their tiny cottage points to the bigger point behind why a transition to a less resource intensive future could equal greater happiness.

"Simplify. Pay less attention to all of the stuff in your life and pay more attention to what's really important. Maybe for you it's gardening, maybe for you it's painting or music. You know we all have stuff that gives us real pleasure and most of us find we have less and less time for that because we have to devote so much time to shopping, paying bills and driving from here to there and so on. Well, how about if we cut out some of that stuff and spend more time doing what really feeds us emotionally and spiritually and in some cases even nutritionally."

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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Warren Buffet and Our Economy.



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This video is a re-upload because I messed up the last time I uploaded it.

Warren Buffet says that the US government should stop coddling him and his rich friends but half of America thinks he's wrong. Why do we try so hard to ignore reality?

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Difficult Questions & Difficult Answers (Occupy Wall Street Part 4) -Dea...


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Estimated arrests have risen from twenty up to 100.

Day 8. I ask members of the encampment fo comment.

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

The Mad (Republican) Tea Party


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Jesse Owens Interview (1960)


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Jesse Owens, the son of a sharecropper and grandson of a slave, achieved what no Olympian before him had accomplished. His stunning achievement of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin has made him the best remembered athlete in Olympic history.

The seventh child of Henry and Emma Alexander Owens was named James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama on September 12, 1913. "J.C.", as he was called, was nine when the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his new schoolteacher gave him the name that was to become known around the world. The teacher was told "J.C." when she asked his name to enter in her roll book, but she thought he said "Jesse". The name stuck and he would be known as Jesse Owens for the rest of his life.

His promising athletic career began in 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio where he set Junior High School records by clearing 6 feet in the high jump, and leaping 22 feet 11 3/4 inches in the broad jump. During his high school days, he won all of the major track events, including the Ohio state championship three consecutive years. At the National Interscholastic meet in Chicago, during his senior year, he set a new high school world record by running the 100 yard dash in 9.4 seconds to tie the accepted world record, and he created a new high school world record in the 220 yard dash by running the distance in 20.7 seconds. A week earlier he had set a new world record in the broad jump by jumping 24 feet 11 3/4 inches. Owens' sensational high school track career resulted in him being recruited by dozens of colleges. Owens chose the Ohio State University, even though OSU could not offer a track scholarship at the time. He worked a number of jobs to support himself and his young wife, Ruth. He worked as a night elevator operator, a waiter, he pumped gas, worked in the library stacks, and served a stint as a page in the Ohio Statehouse, all of this in between practice and record setting on the field in intercollegiate competition.

Jesse gave the world a preview of things to come in Berlin, while at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor on May 25, 1935, he set three world records and tied a fourth, all in a span of about 45 minutes. Jesse was uncertain as to whether he would be able to participate at all, as he was suffering from a sore back as a result from a fall down a flight of stairs. He convinced his coach to allow him to run the 100-yard dash as a test for his back, and amazingly Jesse recorded an official time of 9.4 seconds, once again tying the world record. Despite the pain, he then went on to participate in three other events, setting a world record in each event. In a span of 45 minutes, Jesse accomplished what many experts still feel is the greatest athletic feat in history...setting 3 world records and tying a fourth in four grueling track and field events.

His success at the 1935 Big Ten Championships gave him the confidence that he was ready to excel at the highest level. Jesse entered the 1936 Olympics, which were held in Nazi Germany amidst the belief by Hitler that the Games would support his belief that the German "Aryan" people were the dominant race. Jesse had different plans, as he became the first American track & field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad. This remarkable achievement stood unequaled until the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, when American Carl Lewis matched Jesse's feat. Although others have gone on to win more gold medals than Jesse, he remains the best remembered Olympic athlete because he achieved what no Olympian before or since has accomplished. During a time of deep-rooted segregation, he not only discredited Hitler's master race theory, but also affirmed that individual excellence, rather than race or national origin, distinguishes one man from another.
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Occupy Wall St Behind the Scenes


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Activist Marissa Holmes talks about the General Assemblies of Occupy Wall St. Recorded Sept. 21, 2011 Zuccotti Park, Manhattan. Stanley Heller interviews

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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Occupy Wall Street Protest: Watering the Tree of Liberty with Community ...


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The afternoon committee meeting of September 21, 2011. 5th day of protest.

Discussions on signs, childcare and nightly activities take place. A Declaration of initial intent is discussed.

note: I did not mean to infer that September 21 is the only day of the protest. This protest is ongoing .


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Occupy Wall Street Protest: Addressing Accusations from other News Sourc...


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Footage taken on September 21, 2011 at Occupy Wall Street protest at Liberty Plaza Park (Zuccini Park) and Downtown Wall Street area.

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A man is executed without evidence of guilt and his name was Troy Davis.


The most profound pain I feel in this is witnessing the anguish of a young, Black man like you, coming to grips with the cold, calculated methods the machine uses to control you, and all of us. I see in your face the realization that it could be you. And it reminds me there are thousands of men like you, grappling now with this awareness.. I know it could be me. The gentle thoughtfulness of your video shows great character, strength and compassion.
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Occupy Wall Street Protest: At the Foot of the Freedom Tower (part 1)


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Introduction: The Right to Protest.

Footage taken on Day Five of the Occupy Wall Street protest.


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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

I Am Troy Davis



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I am Troy Davis. Strange Fruit


I AM TROY DAVIS. I AM TROY DAVIS. I AM TROY DAVIS.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011

EMERGENCY: Troy Davis Execution 9/21/11



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Monday, September 19, 2011

Wall Street's Fatal Error


There's a total media black out regarding nine thousand people occupying Wall Street. PUBLISH THIS YOURSELVES
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Film: Palmour Street (1957)


Film produced by African Americans to instruct basic child psychology. Set in small, rural town in Georgia in the 1950s. My mother never used a washboard, 'though she told me Grandma had. We had 2 cars. This looks like the 1920s, rather than the 50s, by comparison. See why Mom's family INSISTED we ONLY call ourselves "white?" I grew up in a white suburb of Los Angeles.
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