#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The chilling reality of America's jobs crisis http://www.jimhightower.com/node/8036#.UZ1vD6L7JaY “Stock Market Soars,” exulted a typical headline in early May, when the Dow Jones Average topped 15,000. But this index of Wall Street wealth gives a false picture of our nation's true economic health. Yes, the privileged few are doing extremely well. But the workaday many are struggling – and falling further and further behind as the jobs market sinks steadily from mere recession down into depression. The monthly unemployment reports don't tell the depths of misery out here in the real world, beyond the view of Wall Street and Washington elites. For example, President Obama hailed the news that unemployment dipped to …http://www.twitpic.com/csi5sd
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty San Diego Labor Leader Wins State Assembly Race in a Landslide http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/In-The-States/San-Diego-Labor-Leader-Wins-State-Assembly-Race-in-a-Landslide Lorena Gonzalez, 41, secretary-treasurer of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Labor Council, defeated rival Steve Castaneda on Tuesday in a special election to fill the vacant 80th Assembly District in California, the U-T San Diego reports. ‘I'm humbled by the broad support I have received,’ Gonzalez said in an interview shortly after she received a congratulatory call from Assembly Speaker John Pérez, D-Los Angeles. ‘Now it's time to get down to the business of creating jobs, protecting health care and improving our schools.’http://www.twitpic.com/csidub
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 9-month-old Florida firm donates 0,000 to Scott and state GOP, gets million state deal http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/22/1210988/-9-month-old-Florida-firm-donates-140-000-to-Scott-and-state-GOP-gets-52-million-state-deal If this isn't crooked, it's only because we've defined crookedness down so much that it doesn't exist anymore: Two months after contributing 0,000 to Gov. Rick Scott's re-election campaign, an upstart property insurance company is likely to reap a million windfall, paid from the coffers of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Here's the deal. Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is a state-run Florida insurance company. Because Florida has hit a lucky streak over the last years and not had as much hurricane damage as they had feared, they're sitting on a cash surplus of …http://www.twitpic.com/cshst4
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Jamie Dimon Escapes Shareholder Censure—For Now http://www.thenation.com/article/174508/jamie-dimon-escapes-shareholder-censure-now?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter# Using familiar Wall Street tactics, JPMorgan Chase rigged the rules in his favor. But the movement for corporate accountability lives on. As JPMorgan Chase’s annual shareholder meeting ended on Tuesday, the conveners played Bruce Hornsby’s song “The Way It Is.” The celebratory DJ-ing came after shareholders voted down a proposal that would separate the role of the Board’s Chairman from that of the CEO; Jamie Dimon currently fills both roles. JPMorgan, who have been so successful in their fight to escape any accountability from regulators, has now also triumphed over the “threat” of an independent board chair more acco…http://www.twitpic.com/cshhjc
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty I'M HUNTING DOWN THE FAT FETISHIST WHO HAS MY STOLEN LAPTOP http://www.vice.com/read/plumbergeddon?utm_source=vicetwitterus There's nothing like the feeling that washes over you when you realize you've had something important stolen. It's an unsettling blend of confusion and sorrow that should really only be reserved for the sudden death of a relative or times you watch Gaspar Noé films after a night of weird, powdered psychedelics. The worst thing about it is that, unless you're the Koch brothers and the stuff that's been pinched is the contents of your safe, it's unlikely that you're ever going to see your stolen belongings again. The police just don't have enough time to follow up every phone that goes missing at 4 AM. Howe…http://www.twitpic.com/csbwut
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Occupy Protesters Shut Down Wells Fargo Over ‘Fraudulent Foreclosures’ http://www.citywatchla.com/8br-hidden/5027-occupy-protesters-shut-down-wells-fargo-over-fraudulent-foreclosures Upset with Wells Fargo’s foreclosure practices, protesters held a demonstration Wednesday that briefly shut down one of the bank’s branches in downtown Los Angeles. The action was organized by Occupy Fights Foreclosures, an Occupy Los Angeles subcommittee that has been assisting homeowners fight what they consider are fraudulent foreclosures. About 80 activists, which included foreclosed homeowners, stood in front of the bank’s entrance for a half hour before joining the nearby May Day demonstration held by the Southern California Immigration Coalition. “Too many families are being thrown…http://www.twitpic.com/cp1w1y
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 30,000 march down Broadway in New York May Day event http://www.peoplesworld.org/30-000-march-down-broadway-in-new-york-may-day-march/ Some 30,000 flag-waving demonstrators marched down Broadway here on May Day demanding labor rights and immigration reform. They were among additional thousands who marched in other U.S. cities and millions who marched all over the world. The peaceful crowd was composed mostly of union members, immigrants and supporters of immigration reform. After rallying at Union Square, delegations from practically every union in the city marched into the streets and made their way down Broadway on the five-mile trek to City Hall. Sometimes an individual union had had so many members marching that the one group stretched for …http://www.twitpic.com/cnpu4i
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty 'Ultimate Soho Penthouse' Returns, Seeking .25 Million http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/04/23/ultimate_soho_penthouse_returns_seeking_1725_million.php#517692a2f92ea17d250226d7 Ah, penthouse 6S at 459 West Broadway, we meet again. At our last encounter (after several photo shoots), billionaire Leonard Stern had purchased this property for .25 million. Stern (who bought the apartment from high-profile recruiter Joseph B. Goldsmith at a bit of a discount from the .5 million asking price) is the man who built the Tribeca Grand and Soho Grand hotels and donated his name to NYU's Stern School of Business. At the time of his buy, we wondered whether he'd picked up the penthouse as just another trophy. Maybe, maybe not—but after two and a half years, the romance is winding down. The …http://www.twitpic.com/cngy7f
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] THE SKY IS PINK by Josh Fox and the GASLAND Team http://vimeo.com/44367635 An emergency short film from Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of GASLAND addressing the urgent crisis of drilling and fracking in New York state. Go to NYAgainstfracking.org for more info and to get involved. PINK LINKS: Selected Compiled Research The Sky Is Pink- Annotated industry documents featured in the film: .rollingstone.com/extras/theskyispink_annotdoc-gasl4final.pdf Affirming GASLAND- Our responses to industry charges against GASLAND gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking/affirming-gasland 1trickpony.cachefly.net/gas/pdf/Affirming_Gasland_Sept_2010.pdf Flaming Faucets foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509857,00.html hcn.org/blogs/goat/flaming-water/ cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-4879509.html planetsave.com/2009/03/20/flammable-water-pours-from-faucets-in-colorado-home/ propublica.org/series/fracking ecopolitology.org/2009/03/19/leaking-gas-well-causes-flammable-water-to-pour-from-faucets-in-colorado-home-video/ Well Failures/Gas Leaks youtube.com/watch?v=fjaRwh4xRiM&feature=player_embedded gasdrillinginbalcombe.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/44-of-wells-leaking-at-australian-gas-field/ nytimes.com/1992/05/03/us/abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells-become-pollution-portals.html?src=pm bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-17656307 frack-off.org.uk/gas-wells-leaking/ telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/oilandgas/9168645/Total-admits-it-could-take-six-months-to-stop-gas-leak.html Well Construction/Integrity slb.com/~/media/Files/resources/oilfield_review/ors03/aut03/p62_76.ashx boemre.gov/tarprojects/008/008DE.pdf naturalgaswatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/well_integrity_failure_presentation.pdf ptil.no/news/new-report-well-integrity-challenges-on-the-norwegian-shelf-article2762-79.html spe.org/ejournals/jsp/journalapp.jsp?pageType=Preview&jid=EDC&mid=SPE-106817-PA Climate Change youtube.com/watch?v=XXyTpY0NCp0 Breast Cancer texassharon.com/2011/09/02/big-gas-mafia-irony-burnsta-tas/ dentonrc.com/local-news/special-projects/gas-well-drilling-headlines/20110831-breast-cancer-rate-climbs-up.ece damascuscitizensforsustainability.org/2011/09/breast-cancer-rates-jump-in-the-barnett-shale/ dallasdrilling.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/breast-cancer-rates-jump-in-the-barnett-shale/ abcalliance.org/?p=1725 nbc11news.com/home/headlines/85259117.html Pittsburgh Fracking Ban groundswell.gs/2011/10/28/city-councilman-doug-shields-on-the-success-of-pittsburghs-rights-based-fracking-ban/ Water Contamination propublica.org/article/colorado-study-links-methane-in-water-drilling-422 bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-08/gas-fracking-chemicals-detected-in-wyoming-aquifer-epa-says.html pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/04/19/gas-drilling-industry-makes-stunning-admission/ static.ewg.org/reports/2011/fracking/cracks_in_the_facade.pdf pnas.org/content/early/2011/05/02/1100682108.full.pdf+html?sid=bde16321-e169-437d-a59c-798e7f65c479 grist.org/article/2011-02-28-pittsburgh-drinking-water-radioactive-fracking-natural-gas-times/ nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us/27gas.html?_r=1&ref=drillingdown essentialpublicradio.org/story/2011-12-01/salts-drilling-drinking-water-danger-still-showing-rivers-9616 postindependent.com/article/20100813/VALLEYNEWS/100819931 Profiles/Contacts cee.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=ari1 history.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/oreskes-naomi.html ‘Drilling Down’ nytimes.com/interactive/us/DRILLING_DOWN_SERIES.html PR/Hill and Knowlton prwatch.org/spin/2009/11/8680/hill-knowltons-carbon-two-step sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hill_%26_Knowlton prwatch.org/books/tsigfy10.html prwatch.org/search/node/knowlton naturalgaswatch.org/?p=939 csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p25s02-cogn.html State Government Documents mines.industry.qld.gov.au/assets/petroleum-pdf/tara_leaking_well_investigation_report.pdf cogcc.state.co.us/Library/WQCC_WQCD_AnnualReports/WQCC09_10RPT.pdf ‘Reality Tour’ Marcellus Shale youtube.com/watch?v=iPM64kseP30 Merchants of Doubt bloomsburypress.com/books/catalog/merchants_of_doubt_hc_104 Colbert Report mnn.com/earth-matters/politics/blogs/stephen-colbert-and-tom-ridge-get-awkward-over-fracking desmogblog.com/tom-ridge-claimed-i-m-not-lobbyist-colbert-report-facts-prove-otherwise keystonepolitics.com/2011/06/tom-ridge-shills-for-fracking-on-colbert-report/ Gas Industry Conference: naturalgaswatch.org/?p=970http://www.twitpic.com/cn06o0
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Vermont Yankee asked to pay 0,000 in 2014 http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013304290022&gcheck=1 Every year, it seems, the Vermont Legislature looks for ways to tax, punish or shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. Every year, Vermont Yankee fights them on it, sometimes in court. This legislative session has been remarkably free of talk about the Vernon plant. It’s as if the two warring parties have retreated to neutral corners to lick their wounds, amass their arsenal and plot their next move. The one exception this year is a little item in the 2014 budget bill. The state wants Vermont Yankee to pay 0,000 over the next four years to help the American Red Cross prepare an evacuation plan that includes…http://www.twitpic.com/cn0d26