#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Marc Calvert on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/marc.calvert1/posts/10201225708183963 A little history most people will never know….but now you will- please share Interesting Veterans Statistics off the Vietnam Memorial Wall There are 58,267 names now listed on that polished black wall, including those added in 2010. The names are arranged in the order in which they were taken from us by date and within each date the names are alphabetized. It is hard to believe it is 36 years since the last casualties. The first known casualty was Richard B. Fitzgibbon, of North Weymouth , Mass. Listed by the U.S. Department of Defense as having been killed on June 8, 1956. His name is listed on the Wall with that of his son, Marine Co…http://www.twitpic.com/cshz9v
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Google hackers wanted to know which Chinese intel operatives were being watched http://www.scmagazine.com/google-hackers-wanted-to-know-which-chinese-intel-operatives-were-being-watched/article/294304/ Attackers who raided Google in 2010 to learn information about Chinese human rights activists were also trying to gain insight on which Chinese intelligence agents were on the radar of U.S. authorities. The intruders, who spearheaded the so-called Aurora attacks that breached more than 30 firms using weaponized PDFs, accessed a database at Google which contained data about court orders that authorized surveillance of certain individuals, presumably included among them Chinese spies. The revelation was reported Monday by The Washington Post, which quoted… RELATED: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-who-breached-google-gained-access-to-sensitive-data-us-officials-say/2013/05/20/51330428-be34-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.htmlhttp://www.twitpic.com/csasc2
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Switch Your Bank10:12 PM – Public [The top 5 Wall Street banks have had 901 lobbyist meetings with regulatory agencies since July 2010. The top 5 consumer protection groups? Only 116.] When an industry gets nearly nine times as many meetings with regulators as people who oppose the industry, you can guarantee that regulators aren't considering both sides of the issue equally. The only hope is an organized, focused, and informed public that will be loud in calling for Wall Street reform. http://www.thenation.com/article/174113/how-wall-street-defanged-dodd-frank?page=fullhttp://www.twitpic.com/cnhnt7
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Alexis Goldstein, Occupy Wall Street Activist, Debates Rep. Jim Himes Over Deregulatory Bill On Twitter http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/01/alexis-goldstein-jim-himes_n_3196206.html Prominent Occupy Wall Street activist Alexis Goldstein engaged Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) on Twitter on Wednesday over the legislator's sponsorship of a bill to deregulate derivatives and provide taxpayer backing for the complex financial products. The bill, H.R. 992, passed the House Agriculture Committee in March with the strong support of Wall Street banks. It repeals a provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform bill that requires banks to push some of their derivatives operations outside of bank divisions that receive explicit government backing….http://www.twitpic.com/cnh7nw
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Erika Eichelberger reports that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew won't adopt his predecessor's stance against banking regulations: http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/04/jack-lew-wont-take-stand-against-wall-street-deregulation “Last year, then-Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner slammed a series of bills that would have deregulated Wall Street banks. But this year, as a slate of nearly identical bills is being considered by the House Financial Services Committee, newly minted Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has declined to oppose them. The bills are presented as technical fixes to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act, which was aimed at preventing another 2008-style financial crisis. Most of them aren't.”…http://www.twitpic.com/clok1y
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #TeaParty [VIDEO] Three Years of SDO http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/sdo/news/first-light-3rd.html In the three years since it first provided images of the sun in the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has had virtually unbroken coverage of the sun's rise toward solar maximum, the peak of solar activity in its regular 11-year cycle. This video shows those three years of the sun at a pace of two images per day. SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly captures a shot of the sun every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The images shown here are based on a wavelength of 171 angstroms, which is in the extreme ultraviolet range and shows solar material at around 600,000 kelvins (about 1.08 million F). In this wavelength it i…http://www.twitpic.com/clhy35
#occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Austerity Is Dangerous http://ideas.time.com/2013/04/18/why-austerity-is-a-dangerous-idea/ Prof. Mark Blyth explains “Why Austerity Is a Dangerous Idea” in Time: “…for people to save, they need to have income from which to save. So if you are, for example, a state in the Eurozone today, and every similar state saves at the same time by cutting spending, the result is the shrinkage of everyone’s economy since they are each other’s trading partners and sources of income. Perversely, their debt goes up, not down, relative to their (shrinking) GDP, which is what has happened to every European country that has undergone an austerity program since 2010. They now have more debt, not less.”http://www.twitpic.com/ckalsf
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] The Ballad of Friday and June http://vimeo.com/11277824 June is a struggling ukelele player, Friday is her talkative roommate. Also, Friday is a dog… “…one of the most exquisite short films to come out of Austin in ages… you've never seen anything quite like (it)… (T. Lynn Mikeska gives) a tour de force performance… At a tight nine minutes, 'Friday and June' eloquently articulates, with equal parts humor and heartache, an unnameable cri de coeur that nevertheless should be instantly recognizable to anyone who's ever chased an artistic dream, stumbled, got back up, and grabbed hold even harder than before. It's that good.” Marc Savlov, The Austin Chronicle “There’s a strong streak of melancholia running through Friday and June that really makes the film absolutely endearing. The premise of pairing a ukulele player and a puppet would seem to anticipate a screwball comedy, but even though there are some very funny parts to the film, it really plays more like a heartwarming drama.” Mike Everleth, Bad Lit “This was a big favorite of mine on the festival circuit last year. It’s short, funny, poignant, heartfelt, and other adjectives that mean 'wonderful.'” Chris Holland, Film Festival Secrets Best Short Film, Indie Memphis, 2009 Official Selection, Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, 2009 Official Selection, Charlotte Film Festival, 2009 Official Selection, Austin Film Festival, 2009 Official Selection, Oxford Film Festival 2010 Official Selection, Sonoma International Film Festival 2010 Official Selection, Atlanta Film Festival 2010 imdb.com/title/tt1432104/ fridayandjune.blogspot.com/ jollyvillepictures.comhttp://www.twitpic.com/cjw2xf
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Mandela back in hospital with lung infection http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/03/28/nelson-mandela-back-in-hospital-with-lung-infection/ Former South African President Nelson Mandela is conscious after his admission to a hospital for a recurring lung infection, the president's office said Thursday. Mandela, 94, was admitted to the hospital just before midnight Wednesday, his second hospitalization this month. The anti-apartheid icon and nation's first black president has become increasingly frail over the years, and he has not appeared in public since 2010. Related: http://0-www.cnn.com.library.ccbcmd.edu/2013/03/28/world/africa/soujth-africa-mandela-hospitalizedhttp://www.twitpic.com/cf168v
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty But Paid Lower Tax Rate As Stocks Gained http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2013/03/06/as-stock-market-recovered-rich-took-bigger-share-of-nations-income-and-paid-lower-tax-rate/ The Internal Revenue Service today released a new report showing that in 2010, as the nation’s stock markets recovered, the richest Americans saw their share of all national income rise and their effective federal income tax rate fall. In 2008 and 2009, the wealthy saw their share of national income decline and their tax rates rise, in large part because their more lightly taxed capital gains fell. But in 2010, the top 1% (the 1.35 million families with adjusted gross income above 9,691), reported 18.87% of all AGI, up from 17.21% in 2009. Meanwhile their average tax bill (as a percentage of AGI) fell to 23.39% in 2010,…http://www.twitpic.com/cee8nf