Archive for October, 2011
These are my links for October 13th through October 14th:
- Rick Perry: Playing the victim card – This is not Perry’s worst problem, but it sure is emblematic of his incompetent campaign. Consider the fact that only when his poll numbers have plummeted and no one much cares does he roll out a jobs plan. He allows the Jeffress issue to fester, irking voters who could be receptive to his message. He was unprepared to defend policies like tuition breaks for illegal immigrants and his enterprise funds that bear an eerie resemblance to Solyndra. (As Kim Strassel writes, “Mr. Perry’s response has been to say that ‘the federal government shouldn’t be involved in that kind of investment, period,’ but that it is ‘fine for states’ to pick winners and losers in the economy.”)
A presidential campaign is not the same as the presidency. We sure learned that with Barack Obama. But if you can’t survive criticism by fellow conservative; prepare for debates; extinguish negative stories and roll out policies on a timely basis, how are you supposed to function as president, let alone win the presidency?
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Put a fork in Perry – He's Done
- Obama pulls plug on part of health overhaul law – The Obama administration Friday pulled the plug on a major program in the president's signature health overhaul law – a long-term care insurance plan dogged from the beginning by doubts over its financial solvency.
Targeted by congressional Republicans for repeal, the program became the first casualty in the political and policy wars over the health care law. It had been expected to launch in 2013.
"This is a victory for the American taxpayer and future generations," said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., spearheading opposition in the Senate. "The administration is finally admitting (the long-term care plan) is unsustainable and cannot be implemented."
Proponents, including many groups that fought to pass the health care law, have vowed a vigorous effort to rescue the program, insisting that Congress gave the administration broad authority to make changes. Long-term care includes not only nursing homes, but such services as home health aides for disabled people.
Known as CLASS, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program was a longstanding priority of the late Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Although sponsored by the government, it was supposed to function as a self-sustaining voluntary insurance plan, open to working adults regardless of age or health. Workers would pay an affordable monthly premium during their careers, and could collect a modest daily cash benefit of at least $50 if they became disabled later in life. The money could go for services at home, or to help with nursing home bills.
But a central design flaw dogged CLASS. Unless large numbers of healthy people willingly sign up during their working years, soaring premiums driven by the needs of disabled beneficiaries would destabilize it, eventually requiring a taxpayer bailout.
After months insisting that could be fixed, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, finally admitted Friday she doesn't see how.
"Despite our best analytical efforts, I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time," Sebelius said in a letter to congressional leaders.
The law required the administration to certify that CLASS would remain financially solvent for 75 years before it could be put into place.
But officials said they discovered they could not make CLASS both affordable and financially solvent while keeping it a voluntary program open to virtually all workers, as the law also required.
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-14 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-14 #tcot #catcot
- Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
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- Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – RE: Who cares?
Please……
Care to elaborate on your general class warfare mantra.
- Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – RE: Sorry but color me skeptical….looks and smells like astroturf to me.
- Calling All Ice Cream Sandwich Lovers
– YouTube – RT @google: Give a warm Twitter welcome to @Android… & a new friend who arrived on campus today:
- Variations of Oral Bacteria May Signal Pancreatic Cancer | Smiles For A Lifetime – Temporary (Locum Tenens) Dentistry – Variations of Oral Bacteria May Signal Pancreatic Cancer
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Prostate Cancer Experts Condemn USPSTF PSA Test Recommendations – Prostate Cancer Experts Condemn USPSTF PSA Test Recommendations
- Flap’s Links and Comments for October 11th through October 13th | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for October 11th through October 13th #tcot #catcot
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani on the Sean Hannity radio show
How did I know that Rudy would not tolerate the Occupy Wall Street protesters as much as current Mayor Bloomberg?
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani told Sean Hannity on his talk show yesterday that, if he was still mayor, he would have told the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters, “You are not allowed to sleep on the streets.”
On his show, Hannity asked Giuliani how he would have dealt with the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement if he was still mayor of New York City – to which Giuliani replied, “Well I had a rule and I enforced it as best I could and pretty effectively. The rule was: You’re not allowed to sleep on the streets. Sorry, not allowed to sleep on the streets. Streets are not for sleeping.”
“Sleeping on the streets is a dysfunctional act. It harms the person, it harms society, it leads to unsanitary conditions that affect public health,” added Giuliani. “The first one who decided to sleep there should have been removed and then the second one, and the third one, and the fourth one and the fifth one.”
“They can protest during the daytime if they want to, but if you want to stay over in New York City overnight, you got to rent a room, and if you’re homeless we got plenty of shelters for you,” said Giuliani
A No nonsense, yet compassionate POL.
Listen to it all……
I cannot think that the appeasement that Mayor Bloomberg is allowing will work out well for the protesters or the New York City workers on Wall Street.
Tags: Occupy Wall Streeet, Rudy Giuliani
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US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcome South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak and First Lady Kim Yoon-Ok at the North Portico of the White House in Washington, DC
Why?
Oh yeah, this is a vital United States interest. NOT.
President Obama said Friday that he is sending 100 U.S. troops to Uganda to aid in the fight against the Lord’s Resistance Army, a band of rebels in central Africa accused of murder, rape, and kidnap during their 20-year fight against Ugandan security forces.
Obama said that the primary mission of the troops would be aiding Ugandan forces in removing Joseph Kony, head of the guerrilla group, from the battlefield. Kony has been charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court, including murder, sexual enslavement, cruel treatment of civilians, and the forced enlistment of children into rebel ranks. The LRA has continued to pillage the region even after the Ugandan civil war ended in 2006 after a peace process was brokered.
The president said that the troops could also deploy to South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Congo, according to a letter Obama sent to congressional leaders.
“The support provided by U.S. forces will enhance regional efforts against the LRA,” Obama wrote. “However, although the U.S. forces are combat-equipped, they will only be providing information, advice, and assistance to partner nation forces, and they will not themselves engage LRA forces unless necessary for self-defense.”
An initial team of troops deployed to Africa on Wednesday, with a second combat-equipped team and logistics personnel to follow later this month. The United States has provided support to regional forces fighting the LRA since 2008, but Obama said those efforts have proven futile.
“Even with some limited U.S. assistance, however, regional military efforts have thus far been unsuccessful in removing LRA leader Joseph Kony or his top commanders from the battlefield,” Obama wrote.
A bill authorizing Obama to aid Uganda in stopping Kony passed unanimously in the Senate in March and unanimously in the House in May.
Bring those troops home…..
No way should the United States be involved in another useless war and put American troops at risk.
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These are my links for October 11th through October 13th:
- Occupy Wall Street Protests Peril for Obama – As the early '70s repeat themselves with the chaotic Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in lower Manhattan, we need to grasp what a peril this movement is to President Obama and the entire Democratic Party. It is like the Obama campaign run wild without Obama in it. It is as if the bandwagon has taken off and left the president behind. And he and his party are racing to catch up. "There go my followers," they seem to be saying, "and I must go with them because I am their leader."
Just as the civil rights movement of the late '50s and early '60s and the youthful enthusiasm that animated JFK's candidacy in 1960 energized a generation, so the Obama campaign did in 2008. But just as frustration with Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon and the entire political system turned the idealism of the young into sour cynicism, so the Obama campaign's young enthusiasts have become cynical, bitter opponents of the entire political/economic system. If the Obama campaign harkened back to memories of the civil rights demonstrations of the '60s, so the Occupy Wall Street effort reminds us of SDS, SNCC, hippies, yuppies, the Chicago Seven and Jerry Rubin.
The fact is that Obama is less a socialist than a corporatist. His objective is not government ownership, but government management. To control the economy — and all of our lives — he needs to get rid of small banks and small business and consolidate it all in a few big banks and big corporations; hence his friendliness to Goldman-Sachs and General Motors. When wealthy tycoons go to dinners and give Obama $35,000 donations, they know what they are doing. It is not liberal Democratic masochism at work, it is a conscious investment in central planning where big labor, big government, big business and big banks meet and divvy up the pie, just as they do in Germany and France. That is Obama's game.
His former supporters have taken to the streets to protest his corporatist alliances. Sure, they oppose the Republicans and the conservatives, but they have more in common with the Tea Party than they realize. Both are acting out against big business. Wall Street is as much the enemy of Main Street as it is of college campuses.
The unions and the professional left are scrambling, along with Obama and the Democrats, to head off the stampede among their followers in the Occupy Wall Street movement. They are trying to make up for their pro-Wall Street policies by seeming to take on rich people in their tax program. But the young demonstrators will not be fooled. They invested their dreams for Obama in 2008 and, since then, have gotten only compromises, half-measures, incompetence and a ruined economy in return.
The conservatives and Republicans no longer own the anti-Obama movement. They have to share ownership with disenchanted liberals, those who recognize incompetence when they see it, and the many who are turned off by the growing perception of corruption in the wake of Solyndra. The bad economy has led to an impression of presidential weakness and inability akin to that which took over the image of Jimmy Carter in the late '70s. More and more, the opposition to Obama is based on the outcomes of his policies, not on their ideological bias or their liberal intent.
Will the Republicans drive these new converts to the anti-Obama cause back into the arms of the Democrats? The likes of Mitt Romney won't. Rick Perry might, particularly as he explains his designs on the Social Security system. But even if they are worried by the possibility of a Republican victory in 2012, their more likely reaction is to vote with their feet and stay home. Obama cannot muster the same enthusiasm he did in 2008. It's out there, but it is now opposed to him, not for him. That's what Occupy Wall Street is all about.
- California OKs Political Donations Via Text Message » Flap’s California Blog – Unlimited political contributions via text message, what could go wrong?
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- CA-30 Rep. Howard Berman Hauls in $819 K in Third Quarter Fundraising » Flap’s California Blog – CA-30 Rep. Howard Berman Hauls in $819 K in Third Quarter Fundraising
- Ventura County Democratic Party Adopting Occupy Ventura? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Ventura County Democratic Party Adopting Occupy Ventura? #tcot #catcot
- Log In – The New York Times – Log In – The New York Times
- Log In – The New York Times – Log In – The New York Times
- Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Occupy Wall Street: Who is Behind the Protests? #tcot #catcot
- Log In – The New York Times – Ben Nelson’s Ads May Break New Ground
- “Super PAC’ American Crossroads seeks permission to feature candidates in ads” – Worth reading this WaPo report. Fred Wertheimer predicted this back in Aug. 2010: “In fact, under the new FEC regulation, a Representative or Senator, or other congressional candidate, will be able to sit down with a corporate executive, draft an ad promoting his or her campaign and have the executive’s corporation pay for broadcasting the ad when and where the candidate wants – and none of this constitutes “coordination” in the view of the FEC, so long as the ad is run after the candidate’s primary and more than 90 days before the election, and does not expressly say “vote for” the candidate or its functional equivalent.”
- Ben Nelson’s Ads May Break New Ground – The Nebraska ads, which have cost Democrats more than $600,000 to run so far, could change that practice in a way that has wide implications for the 2012 elections, when 33 Senate seats and all 435 House seats will be up for grabs.
Indeed, American Crossroads — the powerful and well-financed Republican group formed with the help of the former White House aide Karl Rove — filed a request on Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission asking for a formal ruling on whether it could “adopt the tactics” of Mr. Nelson in coordinating footage of politicians up for re-election.
American Crossroads said in its request that it “may wish to produce and distribute similar television and radio advertisements” featuring incumbents in the 2012 campaigns. The group said that because it was “especially sensitive” about rules banning improper coordination with a candidate, it wanted to check with the F.E.C. first to make sure such ads would be legal.
American Crossroads ran into “headaches” in 2010 when it ran ads supporting Rob Portman, then a Senate candidate from Ohio, said Jonathan Collegio, spokesman for the group. To avoid charges of improperly working with Mr. Portman, the group used only publicly available footage of the candidate — yet Democrats still filed a complaint asserting that the advertisements crossed the line.
If the F.E.C. now says outside groups can film candidates and work with them to produce ads — as Mr. Nelson’s do — “that would open up a whole new avenue in advertising and advocacy that previously has not existed for us,” Mr. Collegio said.
The maneuver may ultimately haunt Democrats, Mr. Collegio added. “By trying to be clever in helping Nelson,” he said, “they may be opening up a can of worms they may not have wanted to open up.”
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- California Field Poll Watch: Voters Oppose Changes to Initiative Process » Flap’s California Blog – California Field Poll Watch: Voters Oppose Changes to Initiative Process
- (404) http://www.flapsblog.net/2011/10/morning-drill-october-13-2011.html – The Morning Drill: October 13, 2011
- Video: Occupy Wall Street – It is What I Want | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Hey Warren Buffett! Can you help a brother out?:
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Morning Drill: October 13, 2011 – Today's dentistry and health headlines…..:
- Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan: the good, the bad, and the ugly « The Enterprise Blog – RT @JimPethokoukis: Why Cain's tax plan is really an 18% VAT
- President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Cain 29% Vs. Romney 29% Vs. Gingrich 11% – Gingrich Moves Into Show | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Newt Gingrich movin' on up…..:
- (403) http://americanresearchgroup.com/pres2012/primary/rep/fl/ – President 2012 GOP Florida Poll Watch: Cain 34%, Romney 28%, Gingrich 11%, Perry 5% #tcot
- Dilbert October 13, 2011 – Brilliant? » Flap’s California Blog – Dilbert and Scott Adams look at brilliant observations today….
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- The Chicago Way: Two Union Pensions for the Same Job | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – The Chicago Way: It is ONLY taxpayer money after all….
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- Poll Watch: Support for Death Penalty Falls to 61% – a 39-year low | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Poll Watch: Support for Death Penalty Falls to 61% – a 39-year low #tcot #catcot
- Day By Day October 13, 2011 – Represent | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day October 13, 2011 – Represent #tcot #catcot
- PPP Memo: How NC Democrats took it to the Tea Party…and won: a blueprint for 2012 – Public Policy Polling – > maybe RT @ppppolls Bashing Republicans for Tea Party ties will be a winning issue for Dems nationally in 2012:
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-13 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-13 #tcot #catcot
- foursquare – Pork chops after a 3 mile run
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- foursquare
:: Chez Cole – I just became the mayor of Chez Cole on @foursquare!
- Romney Healthcare Adviser: ObamaCare Based Off RomneyCare | RealClearPolitics – Why Herman Cain is looking pretty good: Romney Healthcare Adviser: ObamaCare Based On RomneyCare #tcot
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Video: Dr. Dan Fischer, UltraDent Products and the History of Tissue Management Products – Dr. Dan Fischer discusses Ultradent and the history of his products…:
- President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Cain 27% Vs. Romney 23% Vs. Perry 16% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Another good poll for Herman Cain….
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- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Marathon Runner Disqualified After Riding Bus to Complete the Race – This fellow collected the bronze medal too….:
- President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Cain 30% Vs. Romney 22% Vs. Gingrich 15% Vs. Perry 14% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Cain 30% Vs. Romney 22% Vs. Gingrich 15% Vs. Perry 14% #tcot #catcot
- President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Romney 23% Vs. Cain 19% Vs. Paul 13% Vs. Perry 10% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Romney 23% Vs. Cain 19% Vs. Paul 13% Vs. Perry 10% #tcot #catcot
- Marty Wilson Heading Over to the California Chamber of Commerce » Flap’s California Blog – Marty Wilson Heading Over to the California Chamber of Commerce
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Daily Extraction: October 12, 2011 – The Daily Extraction: October 12, 2011
- Smokers Suffer Heart Attacks at a Younger Age | Smiles For A Lifetime – Temporary (Locum Tenens) Dentistry – Smokers Suffer Heart Attacks at a Younger Age
- Flap’s California Afternoon Collection: October 12, 2011 » Flap’s California Blog – Flap’s California Afternoon Collection: October 12, 2011
- President 2012 Poll Watch: Romney, Perry and Cain All Beat Obama | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Mitt Romney is not the only Republican polling well against Obama…:
- Day By Day October 12, 2011 – Dahling Democrats | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day October 12, 2011 – Dahling Democrats | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog
- Dilbert October 12, 2011 – Working Late » Flap’s California Blog – Dilbert October 12, 2011 – Working Late
- Day By Day October 12, 2011 – Dahling Democrats | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – RE: Yes, Chris, WRH San Simeon style…..
- Vitamin E Supplements May Increase Risk for Prostate Cancer? | Smiles For A Lifetime – Temporary (Locum Tenens) Dentistry – Vitamin E Supplements May Increase Risk for Prostate Cancer?
- Poll Watch: Congress Approval 13% Vs. Disapproval 81% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – The political environment is toxic for 2012….:
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: The Morning Drill: October 12, 2011 – Today's top dentistry and health headlines…..:
- California Cities Warn of Public Safety Crisis Over Prison Realignment » Flap’s California Blog – California Cities Warn of Public Safety Crisis Over Prison Realignment
- Day By Day October 12, 2011 – Dahling Democrats | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day October 12, 2011 – Dahling Democrats #tcot #catcot
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-12 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-10-12 #tcot #catcot
- Occupy Wall Street Vs. The Tea Party and the Double Standard » Flap’s California Blog – Occupy Wall Street Vs. The Tea Party and the Double Standard
- President 2012: New Hampshire GOP Debate Reaffirms the Polls – Romney Remains Front-Runner As Perry Fades | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012: New Hampshire GOP Debate Reaffirms the Polls – Romney Remains Front-Runner As Perry Fades #tcot #catcot
- Bloomberg Television: Live TV – Bloomberg – @Caleb_Luke Bloomberg television or online here:
- Flap’s California Afternoon Collection: October 11, 2011 » Flap’s California Blog – Flap’s California Afternoon Collection: October 11, 2011
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Florida’s Pinellas County Commission Votes to End Water Fluoridation – Sometimes you cannot mandate good public health…..:
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 Ventura County Democratic Party E-mail
Certainly looks like it.
The Conejo Valley Democratic Party sent out this missive earlier today.
So, the questions abound.
Do the Ventura County Democrats subscribe to the principles of Occupy Together’s Collective Statement?
Occupy Ventura website
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!
So, who are they?
- President Obama?
- Congress?
- The Tea Party?
- Democrats?
- Republicans?
Or, are the Democrats just co-opting this movement to support their partisan agenda?
Inquiring minds would like to know, as the Democrats hit the bricks in a day or so.
Tags: Occupy Ventura, Occupy Wall Street, Ventura County Democratic Party
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