Most certainly if you are poor Justice is a mirage. But even more
than effecting the Poor, Justice is not an option for any person who
is not one of the, "Truly First Class Citizens".
And that includes not only the poor, or persons of Color, or Women, or
Elderly, or Disabled, but it includes the majority of people believing
that they are Citizens of the United States of America.
Justice is working just fine, if you are one of the small privileged
minority. The owners of this American government make the laws and
rules to serve their needs. These laws and rules also keep us cowed
and confused. By telling us that we are fortunate to be part of this
Free Society, we can't seem to figure out why we keep getting slammed
to the mat. If times are good, it's because of the clever maneuvers
of our Wall Street CEO's. If times are bad, it's the fault of the
American Workers who are mismanaging their lives. The fact that we
are seen by the, "True First Class Citizens" as a resource to serve
their needs, we are consumers to be exploited, and sucked dry of our
meager resources.
Justice is alive and well. The problem is not with Justice, but with
whose Justice we are dealing with.
Leaking like the dykes in New Orleans, there are not enough, "Truly
First Class Citizens" to plug them all. And the leaks are growing.
Look around at the dissatisfaction abroad in the Land. Like Climate
Change, Social Change is rolling like a snowball heading down a steep
slope. We are in for a time of serious oppression, but the People
will roll over the Privilege, and establish a new Justice. Justice
for All.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/18/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> The Mirage of Justice
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_mirage_of_justice_20160117/
>
> Posted on Jan 17, 2016
> By Chris Hedges
>
> The online documentary "Making a Murderer" illuminates the corruption and
> unfairness of the American system of justice. Above, Steven Avery, one of
> the subjects of the film. (Netflix)
> If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial-instead you will be
> forced to accept a plea deal offered by government prosecutors. If you are
> poor, the word of the police, who are not averse to fabricating or
> tampering
> with evidence, manipulating witnesses and planting guns or drugs, will be
> accepted in a courtroom as if it was the word of God. If you are poor, and
> especially if you are of color, almost anyone who can verify your innocence
> will have a police record of some kind and thereby will be invalidated as a
> witness. If you are poor, you will be railroaded in assembly-line
> production
> from a town or city where there are no jobs through the police stations,
> county jails and courts directly into prison. And if you are poor, because
> you don't have money for adequate legal defense, you will serve sentences
> that are decades longer than those for equivalent crimes anywhere else in
> the industrialized world.
> If you are a poor person of color in America you understand this with a
> visceral fear. You have no chance. Being poor has become a crime. And this
> makes mass incarceration the most pressing civil rights issue of our era.
> The 10-part online documentary "Making a Murderer," by writer-directors
> Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, chronicles the endemic corruption of the
> judicial system. The film focuses on the case of Steven Avery and his
> nephew, Brendan Dassey, who were given life sentences for murder without
> any
> tangible evidence linking them to the crime. As admirable as the
> documentary
> was, however, it focused on a case where the main defendant, Avery, had
> competent defense. He was also white. The blatant corruption of, and
> probable conspiracy by, the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office in Wisconsin
> and then-Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz is nothing compared
> with
> what goes on in the well-oiled and deeply cynical system in place in
> inner-city courts. The accused in poor urban centers are lined up daily
> like
> sheep in a chute and shipped to prison with a startling alacrity. The
> attempts by those who put Avery and Dassey behind bars to vilify them
> further after the release of the film misses the point: The two men, like
> most of the rest of the poor behind bars in the United States, did not
> receive a fair trial. Whether they did or did not murder Teresa Halbach-and
> the film makes a strong case that they did not-is a moot point.
> Once you are charged in America, whether you did the crime or not, you are
> almost always found guilty. Because of this, as many activists have
> discovered, the courts already are being used as a fundamental weapon of
> repression, and this abuse will explode in size should there be widespread
> unrest and dissent. Our civil liberties have been transformed into
> privileges-what Matt Taibbi in "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age
> of
> the Wealth Gap" calls "conditional rights and conditional citizenship"-that
> are, especially in poor communities, routinely revoked. Once rights become
> privileges, none of us are safe.
> In any totalitarian society, including an American society ruled by its own
> species of inverted totalitarianism, the state invests tremendous amounts
> of
> energy into making the judicial system appear as if it functions
> impartially. And the harsher the totalitarian system becomes, the more
> effort it puts into disclaiming its identity. The Nazis, as did the Soviet
> Union under Stalin, broke the accused down in grueling and psychologically
> crippling interrogations-much the same way the hapless and confused Dassey
> is manipulated and lied to by interrogators in the film-to make them sign
> false confessions. Totalitarian states need the facade of justice to keep
> the public passive.
> The Guardian newspaper reported: "The Innocence Project has kept detailed
> records on the 337 cases across the [United States] where prisoners have
> been exonerated as a result of DNA testing since 1989. The group's
> researchers found that false confessions were made in 28 percent of all the
> DNA-related exonerations, a striking proportion in itself. But when you
> look
> only at homicide convictions-by definition the most serious cases-false
> confessions are the leading cause of miscarriages of justice, accounting
> for
> a full 63% of the 113 exonerations."
> "[T]he interrogator-butcher isn't interested in logic," Alexander
> Solzhenitsyn writes in "The Gulag Archipelago," "he just wants to catch two
> or three phrases. He knows what he wants. And as for us-we are totally
> unprepared for anything. From childhood on we are educated and trained-for
> our own profession; for our civil duties; for military service; to take
> care
> of our bodily needs; to behave well; even to appreciate beauty (well, this
> last not really all that much!). But neither our education, nor our
> upbringing, nor our experience prepares us in the slightest for the
> greatest
> trial of our lives: being arrested for nothing and interrogated about
> nothing."
> If the illusion of justice is shattered, the credibility and viability of
> the state are jeopardized. The spectacle of court, its solemnity and
> stately
> courthouses, its legal rituals and language, is part of the theater. The
> press, as was seen in the film, serves as an echo machine for the state,
> condemning the accused before he or she begins trial. Television shows and
> movies about crime investigators and the hunt for killers and terrorists
> feed the fictitious narrative. The reality is that almost no one who is
> imprisoned in America has gotten a trial. There is rarely an impartial
> investigation. A staggering 97 percent of all federal cases and 95 percent
> of all state felony cases are resolved through plea bargaining. Of the 2.2
> million people we have incarcerated at the moment-25 percent of the world's
> prison population-2 million never had a trial. And significant percentages
> of them are innocent.
> Judge Jed S. Rakoff in an article in The New York Review of Books titled
> "Why Innocent People Plead Guilty" explains how this secretive plea system
> works to thwart justice. Close to 40 percent of those eventually exonerated
> of their crimes originally pleaded guilty, usually in an effort to reduce
> charges that would have resulted in much longer prison sentences if the
> cases had gone to trial. The students I teach in prison who have the
> longest
> sentences are usually the ones who demanded a trial. Many of them went to
> trial because they did not commit the crime. But if you go to trial you
> cannot bargain away any of the charges against you in exchange for a
> shorter
> sentence. The public defender-who spends no more than a few minutes
> reviewing the case and has neither the time nor the inclination to do the
> work required by a trial-uses the prospect of the harshest sentence
> possible
> to frighten the client into taking a plea deal. And, as depicted in "Making
> a Murderer," prosecutors and defense attorneys often work as a tag team to
> force the accused to plead guilty. If all of the accused went to trial, the
> judicial system, which is designed around plea agreements, would collapse.
> And this is why trial sentences are horrific. It is why public attorneys
> routinely urge their clients to accept a plea arrangement. Trials are a
> flashing red light to the accused: DO NOT DO THIS. It is the inversion of
> justice.
> The wrongly accused and their families, as long as the fiction of justice
> is
> maintained, vainly seek redress. They file appeal after appeal. Those
> convicted devote hundreds of hours of study in the law library in prison.
> They believe there has been a "mistake." They think that if they are
> patient
> the "mistake" will be rectified. Playing upon such gullibility, authorities
> allowed prisoners in Stalin's gulags to write petitions twice a month to
> officials to proclaim their innocence or decry mistreatment. Those who do
> not understand the American system, who are not mentally prepared for its
> cruelty and violence, are largely helpless before authorities intoxicated
> with the god-like power to destroy lives. These authorities advance
> themselves or their agendas-Joe Biden when he was in the Senate and Bill
> Clinton when he was president did this-by being "tough" concerning law and
> order and national security. Those who administer the legal system wield
> power largely in secret. They are accountable to no one. Every once in a
> while-this happened even under the Nazis and Stalin-someone will be
> exonerated to maintain the fiction that the state is capable of rectifying
> its "mistakes." But the longer the system remains in place, the longer the
> legal process is shrouded from public view, the more the crime by the state
> accelerates.
> The power elites-our corporate rulers and the security and surveillance
> apparatus-rewrite laws to make their criminal behavior "legal." It is a
> two-tiered system. One set of laws for us. Another set of laws for them.
> Wall Street's fraud and looting of the U.S. Treasury, the obliteration of
> our privacy, the ability of the government to assassinate U.S. citizens,
> the
> revoking of habeas corpus, the neutralizing of our Fourth Amendment right
> against unreasonable searches and seizures, the murder of unarmed people in
> the streets of our cities by militarized police, the use of torture, the
> criminalizing of dissent, the collapse of our court system, the waging of
> pre-emptive war are rendered "legal." Politicians, legislators, lawyers and
> law enforcement officials, who understand that leniency and justice are
> damaging to their careers, and whom Karl Marx called the "leeches on the
> capitalist structure," have constructed for their corporate masters our
> system of inverted totalitarianism. They serve this system. They seek to
> advance within it. They do not blink at the victims destroyed by it. And
> most of them know it is a sham.
> "We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right
> to repress others," Solzhenitsyn warned. "In keeping silent about evil, in
> burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we
> are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When
> we
> neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their
> trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from
> beneath new generations."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/
> The Mirage of Justice
> http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_mirage_of_justice_20160117/
>
> Posted on Jan 17, 2016
> By Chris Hedges
>
> The online documentary "Making a Murderer" illuminates the corruption and
> unfairness of the American system of justice. Above, Steven Avery, one of
> the subjects of the film. (Netflix)
> If you are poor, you will almost never go to trial-instead you will be
> forced to accept a plea deal offered by government prosecutors. If you are
> poor, the word of the police, who are not averse to fabricating or
> tampering
> with evidence, manipulating witnesses and planting guns or drugs, will be
> accepted in a courtroom as if it was the word of God. If you are poor, and
> especially if you are of color, almost anyone who can verify your innocence
> will have a police record of some kind and thereby will be invalidated as a
> witness. If you are poor, you will be railroaded in assembly-line
> production
> from a town or city where there are no jobs through the police stations,
> county jails and courts directly into prison. And if you are poor, because
> you don't have money for adequate legal defense, you will serve sentences
> that are decades longer than those for equivalent crimes anywhere else in
> the industrialized world.
> If you are a poor person of color in America you understand this with a
> visceral fear. You have no chance. Being poor has become a crime. And this
> makes mass incarceration the most pressing civil rights issue of our era.
> The 10-part online documentary "Making a Murderer," by writer-directors
> Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi, chronicles the endemic corruption of the
> judicial system. The film focuses on the case of Steven Avery and his
> nephew, Brendan Dassey, who were given life sentences for murder without
> any
> tangible evidence linking them to the crime. As admirable as the
> documentary
> was, however, it focused on a case where the main defendant, Avery, had
> competent defense. He was also white. The blatant corruption of, and
> probable conspiracy by, the Manitowoc County Sheriff's Office in Wisconsin
> and then-Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz is nothing compared
> with
> what goes on in the well-oiled and deeply cynical system in place in
> inner-city courts. The accused in poor urban centers are lined up daily
> like
> sheep in a chute and shipped to prison with a startling alacrity. The
> attempts by those who put Avery and Dassey behind bars to vilify them
> further after the release of the film misses the point: The two men, like
> most of the rest of the poor behind bars in the United States, did not
> receive a fair trial. Whether they did or did not murder Teresa Halbach-and
> the film makes a strong case that they did not-is a moot point.
> Once you are charged in America, whether you did the crime or not, you are
> almost always found guilty. Because of this, as many activists have
> discovered, the courts already are being used as a fundamental weapon of
> repression, and this abuse will explode in size should there be widespread
> unrest and dissent. Our civil liberties have been transformed into
> privileges-what Matt Taibbi in "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age
> of
> the Wealth Gap" calls "conditional rights and conditional citizenship"-that
> are, especially in poor communities, routinely revoked. Once rights become
> privileges, none of us are safe.
> In any totalitarian society, including an American society ruled by its own
> species of inverted totalitarianism, the state invests tremendous amounts
> of
> energy into making the judicial system appear as if it functions
> impartially. And the harsher the totalitarian system becomes, the more
> effort it puts into disclaiming its identity. The Nazis, as did the Soviet
> Union under Stalin, broke the accused down in grueling and psychologically
> crippling interrogations-much the same way the hapless and confused Dassey
> is manipulated and lied to by interrogators in the film-to make them sign
> false confessions. Totalitarian states need the facade of justice to keep
> the public passive.
> The Guardian newspaper reported: "The Innocence Project has kept detailed
> records on the 337 cases across the [United States] where prisoners have
> been exonerated as a result of DNA testing since 1989. The group's
> researchers found that false confessions were made in 28 percent of all the
> DNA-related exonerations, a striking proportion in itself. But when you
> look
> only at homicide convictions-by definition the most serious cases-false
> confessions are the leading cause of miscarriages of justice, accounting
> for
> a full 63% of the 113 exonerations."
> "[T]he interrogator-butcher isn't interested in logic," Alexander
> Solzhenitsyn writes in "The Gulag Archipelago," "he just wants to catch two
> or three phrases. He knows what he wants. And as for us-we are totally
> unprepared for anything. From childhood on we are educated and trained-for
> our own profession; for our civil duties; for military service; to take
> care
> of our bodily needs; to behave well; even to appreciate beauty (well, this
> last not really all that much!). But neither our education, nor our
> upbringing, nor our experience prepares us in the slightest for the
> greatest
> trial of our lives: being arrested for nothing and interrogated about
> nothing."
> If the illusion of justice is shattered, the credibility and viability of
> the state are jeopardized. The spectacle of court, its solemnity and
> stately
> courthouses, its legal rituals and language, is part of the theater. The
> press, as was seen in the film, serves as an echo machine for the state,
> condemning the accused before he or she begins trial. Television shows and
> movies about crime investigators and the hunt for killers and terrorists
> feed the fictitious narrative. The reality is that almost no one who is
> imprisoned in America has gotten a trial. There is rarely an impartial
> investigation. A staggering 97 percent of all federal cases and 95 percent
> of all state felony cases are resolved through plea bargaining. Of the 2.2
> million people we have incarcerated at the moment-25 percent of the world's
> prison population-2 million never had a trial. And significant percentages
> of them are innocent.
> Judge Jed S. Rakoff in an article in The New York Review of Books titled
> "Why Innocent People Plead Guilty" explains how this secretive plea system
> works to thwart justice. Close to 40 percent of those eventually exonerated
> of their crimes originally pleaded guilty, usually in an effort to reduce
> charges that would have resulted in much longer prison sentences if the
> cases had gone to trial. The students I teach in prison who have the
> longest
> sentences are usually the ones who demanded a trial. Many of them went to
> trial because they did not commit the crime. But if you go to trial you
> cannot bargain away any of the charges against you in exchange for a
> shorter
> sentence. The public defender-who spends no more than a few minutes
> reviewing the case and has neither the time nor the inclination to do the
> work required by a trial-uses the prospect of the harshest sentence
> possible
> to frighten the client into taking a plea deal. And, as depicted in "Making
> a Murderer," prosecutors and defense attorneys often work as a tag team to
> force the accused to plead guilty. If all of the accused went to trial, the
> judicial system, which is designed around plea agreements, would collapse.
> And this is why trial sentences are horrific. It is why public attorneys
> routinely urge their clients to accept a plea arrangement. Trials are a
> flashing red light to the accused: DO NOT DO THIS. It is the inversion of
> justice.
> The wrongly accused and their families, as long as the fiction of justice
> is
> maintained, vainly seek redress. They file appeal after appeal. Those
> convicted devote hundreds of hours of study in the law library in prison.
> They believe there has been a "mistake." They think that if they are
> patient
> the "mistake" will be rectified. Playing upon such gullibility, authorities
> allowed prisoners in Stalin's gulags to write petitions twice a month to
> officials to proclaim their innocence or decry mistreatment. Those who do
> not understand the American system, who are not mentally prepared for its
> cruelty and violence, are largely helpless before authorities intoxicated
> with the god-like power to destroy lives. These authorities advance
> themselves or their agendas-Joe Biden when he was in the Senate and Bill
> Clinton when he was president did this-by being "tough" concerning law and
> order and national security. Those who administer the legal system wield
> power largely in secret. They are accountable to no one. Every once in a
> while-this happened even under the Nazis and Stalin-someone will be
> exonerated to maintain the fiction that the state is capable of rectifying
> its "mistakes." But the longer the system remains in place, the longer the
> legal process is shrouded from public view, the more the crime by the state
> accelerates.
> The power elites-our corporate rulers and the security and surveillance
> apparatus-rewrite laws to make their criminal behavior "legal." It is a
> two-tiered system. One set of laws for us. Another set of laws for them.
> Wall Street's fraud and looting of the U.S. Treasury, the obliteration of
> our privacy, the ability of the government to assassinate U.S. citizens,
> the
> revoking of habeas corpus, the neutralizing of our Fourth Amendment right
> against unreasonable searches and seizures, the murder of unarmed people in
> the streets of our cities by militarized police, the use of torture, the
> criminalizing of dissent, the collapse of our court system, the waging of
> pre-emptive war are rendered "legal." Politicians, legislators, lawyers and
> law enforcement officials, who understand that leniency and justice are
> damaging to their careers, and whom Karl Marx called the "leeches on the
> capitalist structure," have constructed for their corporate masters our
> system of inverted totalitarianism. They serve this system. They seek to
> advance within it. They do not blink at the victims destroyed by it. And
> most of them know it is a sham.
> "We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right
> to repress others," Solzhenitsyn warned. "In keeping silent about evil, in
> burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we
> are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future. When
> we
> neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their
> trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from
> beneath new generations."
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Monday, January 18, 2016
Sunday, January 17, 2016
another "insider" terrorist attack?
Sorry for the messy post. I can copy but not clean up articles.
Still, this is another Terrorist Act that is flying under our Nation's
radar.
Carl Jarvis
EARTHWORKS / CC 2.0 BY
Since October, people across the nation have been monitoring a massive
leak at SoCal Gas' natural gas storage facility in the San Fernando
Valley. This
is the largest underground methane storage facility in the western
United States, and the leak is one of the largest environmental
disasters ever in Southern
California. At a recent public hearing on the gas leak, frustration at
the manmade environmental disaster threatened to boil over.
Earthjustice is working
with groups who want the storage facility shut down because the laws
and regulations are not in place to allow this old and deteriorated
facility to operate
safely.
Porter Ranch
Porter Ranch town center
PHOTO
BY KENT KANOUSE /
CC BY-NC 2.0
Lawsuits
have been filed, California's elected leaders
have vowed
to take action and Governor Brown has even
declared
a State of Emergency. The leak, called the Aliso Canyon leak or the
Porter Ranch leak, is a local nightmare that has led to
health impacts,
such as headaches and nausea, and a dramatic reduction in quality of
life for local residents.
The effects of this leak are immense. Thousands of people have been
displaced and
two schools have been relocated.
But that's not all. The implications for climate change are also
severe, especially given California's desire to be a climate leader.
One University of
California, Davis scientist estimated that the nearly 100,000 pounds
of greenhouse gases spewed into the atmosphere every hour from the
methane leak is
equivalent to "
the weight of a U.S. Navy super carrier every month
." The EPA has stated that, "
Pound for pound, the comparative impact of [methane] on climate change
is more than 25 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year period
."
Still, this is another Terrorist Act that is flying under our Nation's
radar.
Carl Jarvis
EARTHWORKS / CC 2.0 BY
Since October, people across the nation have been monitoring a massive
leak at SoCal Gas' natural gas storage facility in the San Fernando
Valley. This
is the largest underground methane storage facility in the western
United States, and the leak is one of the largest environmental
disasters ever in Southern
California. At a recent public hearing on the gas leak, frustration at
the manmade environmental disaster threatened to boil over.
Earthjustice is working
with groups who want the storage facility shut down because the laws
and regulations are not in place to allow this old and deteriorated
facility to operate
safely.
Porter Ranch
Porter Ranch town center
PHOTO
BY KENT KANOUSE /
CC BY-NC 2.0
Lawsuits
have been filed, California's elected leaders
have vowed
to take action and Governor Brown has even
declared
a State of Emergency. The leak, called the Aliso Canyon leak or the
Porter Ranch leak, is a local nightmare that has led to
health impacts,
such as headaches and nausea, and a dramatic reduction in quality of
life for local residents.
The effects of this leak are immense. Thousands of people have been
displaced and
two schools have been relocated.
But that's not all. The implications for climate change are also
severe, especially given California's desire to be a climate leader.
One University of
California, Davis scientist estimated that the nearly 100,000 pounds
of greenhouse gases spewed into the atmosphere every hour from the
methane leak is
equivalent to "
the weight of a U.S. Navy super carrier every month
." The EPA has stated that, "
Pound for pound, the comparative impact of [methane] on climate change
is more than 25 times greater than CO2 over a 100-year period
."
Re: [blind-democracy] sanders says snyder shoud resign
Sanders does not go far enough. He needs to check in with Michael
Moore, and support demands that those responsible for this tragic
decision come before a judge and jury.
This is a fine example of how Greed takes over rational thought. No
"right thinking" person would put little children, elderly and
disabled and indeed, every man, woman and child, in harms way by
polluting their public water. This is the wet dream of every
Terrorist. Contaminate an entire cities water system and cause long
term health problems. What a way to bring down an enemy. Without
firing a single shot, without losing a single warrior, a mighty nation
can be beaten into substandard existence. And to think! It was done
to us by America's own Citizens.
Greed, my friends. Greed is our real enemy. Greed must be hunted
down and destroyed before it destroys us all. But Greed is often
disguised, and fools us into thinking we are dealing with normal,
rational people. It is well past time that we change our basic values
and declare open war on Greed. Human Respect, and respect for all
life on our planet should be our driving force. We have been
mesmerized by Greed, believing that our lives would be better if we
had all the gold, bobbles and bangles that are dangled before our
eyes. We have too long listened to the lies fanned by Greed, through
our Masters, the Ruling Class. But at a closer look, this Ruling
Class is being led down the same path to self destruction as are we.
Unless we Citizens of the World find a way of living with our Planet
Earth, instead of raping and plundering her, we will all go down.
It is still not too late. But Greed is relentless and never lets up
the pressure. Religious folk call Greed, Satan. Some folk prefer,
Lust. But whatever name it goes under, Greed is still our number one
enemy.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/17/16, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@comcast.net> wrote:
> Another reason to vote for Sanders?
>
> Joe
> Sanders: Snyder should resign over Flint water crisis Chad Livengood,
> Detroit News Lansing Bureau Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont
> Sen. Bernie
>
> Sanders said Saturday that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should resign over
> Flint's lead-contaminated water supply, calling it "one of the worst public
> health
>
> crises in the modern history of this country. In an exclusive interview
> Saturday with The Detroit News, Sanders said Snyder's multiple apologies for
> his
>
> administration allowing Flint water to go untreated for preventing corrosion
> of lead-soldered pipes "is just not good enough. "And I think the governor
>
> has got to take the responsibility and say, 'You know what, my
> administration was absolutely negligent and a result of that negligence,
> many children may
>
> suffer for the rest of their lives and the right thing to do is to resign,'"
> Sanders said in a telephone interview from Vermont. State health officials
>
> have confirmed 43 cases of elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint
> residents, who complained since April 2014 that the brownish Flint River
> smelled
>
> and caused rashes. Lead can cause irreversible brain and developmental
> damage in children and infants who ingest it through water or lead-based
> paint.
>
> "What we are looking at in Flint is one of the worst public health crises in
> the modern history of this country," Sanders said. "We don't know what the
>
> exact outcome will be, but thousands of children have been poisoned. And the
> poisoning may have long-term impacts of their health and the future of
> their
>
> lives. A spokesman for Snyder said Saturday that the Republican governor is
> focused on securing federal aid to assist Flint residents and government
> institutions
>
> in the recovering after he declared a state of emergency in Genesee County
> on Jan. 4 and deployed the National Guard to Flint this week to assist in
> distributing
>
> bottled water and filters. "The best thing for the people of Flint is that
> every effort is focused on solving this emergency, getting the aid needed
> to
>
> help the residents, and ensuring that clean drinkable water is restored to
> the city," Snyder press secretary Dave Murray said Saturday in an email to
> The
>
> Detroit News. "Political statements and finger pointing from political
> candidates not involved in finding solutions for Flint, only serve to
> distract from
>
> solving this crisis. Sanders is a close race in the early voting states of
> Iowa and New Hampshire against Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary
> Clinton,
>
> who has been sharply critical this week of Snyder's handling of Flint's
> water crisis. In October, Snyder secured $6 million in state funding to pay
> half
>
> of the cost to switch Flint back to Detroit's Lake Huron water source. The
> Flint-based Mott Foundation donated $4 million and Flint had to chip in $2
> million
>
> toward the cost. Sanders said the state-appointed emergency manager
> money-saving use of Flint River water was shortsighted given the long-term
> damage caused
>
> to Flint's water pipeline and residents' health. "It just tells me that we
> have a lot of these anti-government folks running administrations all over
> this
>
> country who could care less about the well being of our children, whether
> it's in education, whether it's in health, whether it's environmentally,"
> Sanders
>
> said. "It's just unacceptable. "You don't save money while poisoning our
> children, that is is not acceptable. Sanders noted Flint is a majority
> African
>
> American city whose residents "don't have a whole lot of money. "It's an
> outrage and it's unacceptable and I think the governor has got to accept
> this
>
> responsibility and do the right thing, and that is to resign," Sanders told
> The News. Snyder has apologized for the state Department of Environmental
> Quality's
>
> mistakes in not requiring Flint to add a chemical to the river water that
> helps prevent corrosion. "I think the resignation would show that he really
> understands
>
> the extent of the crisis that he caused," Sanders said. Snyder has said he
> didn't become aware of elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint residents
>
> until Oct. 1, even after his office quietly coordinated in August the
> distribution of 1,500 faucet filters that remove lead from water. Sanders
> was traveling
>
> Saturday from Vermont to South Carolina for Sunday night's Democratic
> presidential debate with Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
> The independent
>
> Vermont senator, who is a democratic-socialist but votes with Democrats in
> the U.S. Senate, said he wasn't weighing in on Flint's crisis just because
> Clinton
>
> has been all week. "It's not Sen. Clinton ... it's not a question of
> compelled, it's a question of understanding that when you have a crisis of
> this proportion,
>
> it's absolutely imperative that the governor accept his responsibility, show
> the people of Flint and Michigan that he does appreciate the calamity that
>
> he caused and has the courage to the right thing, which is step down,"
> Sanders said. clivengood@detroitnews.com (517) 371-3660
> Twitter.com/ChadLivengood
>
>
>
Moore, and support demands that those responsible for this tragic
decision come before a judge and jury.
This is a fine example of how Greed takes over rational thought. No
"right thinking" person would put little children, elderly and
disabled and indeed, every man, woman and child, in harms way by
polluting their public water. This is the wet dream of every
Terrorist. Contaminate an entire cities water system and cause long
term health problems. What a way to bring down an enemy. Without
firing a single shot, without losing a single warrior, a mighty nation
can be beaten into substandard existence. And to think! It was done
to us by America's own Citizens.
Greed, my friends. Greed is our real enemy. Greed must be hunted
down and destroyed before it destroys us all. But Greed is often
disguised, and fools us into thinking we are dealing with normal,
rational people. It is well past time that we change our basic values
and declare open war on Greed. Human Respect, and respect for all
life on our planet should be our driving force. We have been
mesmerized by Greed, believing that our lives would be better if we
had all the gold, bobbles and bangles that are dangled before our
eyes. We have too long listened to the lies fanned by Greed, through
our Masters, the Ruling Class. But at a closer look, this Ruling
Class is being led down the same path to self destruction as are we.
Unless we Citizens of the World find a way of living with our Planet
Earth, instead of raping and plundering her, we will all go down.
It is still not too late. But Greed is relentless and never lets up
the pressure. Religious folk call Greed, Satan. Some folk prefer,
Lust. But whatever name it goes under, Greed is still our number one
enemy.
Carl Jarvis
On 1/17/16, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@comcast.net> wrote:
> Another reason to vote for Sanders?
>
> Joe
> Sanders: Snyder should resign over Flint water crisis Chad Livengood,
> Detroit News Lansing Bureau Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont
> Sen. Bernie
>
> Sanders said Saturday that Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder should resign over
> Flint's lead-contaminated water supply, calling it "one of the worst public
> health
>
> crises in the modern history of this country. In an exclusive interview
> Saturday with The Detroit News, Sanders said Snyder's multiple apologies for
> his
>
> administration allowing Flint water to go untreated for preventing corrosion
> of lead-soldered pipes "is just not good enough. "And I think the governor
>
> has got to take the responsibility and say, 'You know what, my
> administration was absolutely negligent and a result of that negligence,
> many children may
>
> suffer for the rest of their lives and the right thing to do is to resign,'"
> Sanders said in a telephone interview from Vermont. State health officials
>
> have confirmed 43 cases of elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint
> residents, who complained since April 2014 that the brownish Flint River
> smelled
>
> and caused rashes. Lead can cause irreversible brain and developmental
> damage in children and infants who ingest it through water or lead-based
> paint.
>
> "What we are looking at in Flint is one of the worst public health crises in
> the modern history of this country," Sanders said. "We don't know what the
>
> exact outcome will be, but thousands of children have been poisoned. And the
> poisoning may have long-term impacts of their health and the future of
> their
>
> lives. A spokesman for Snyder said Saturday that the Republican governor is
> focused on securing federal aid to assist Flint residents and government
> institutions
>
> in the recovering after he declared a state of emergency in Genesee County
> on Jan. 4 and deployed the National Guard to Flint this week to assist in
> distributing
>
> bottled water and filters. "The best thing for the people of Flint is that
> every effort is focused on solving this emergency, getting the aid needed
> to
>
> help the residents, and ensuring that clean drinkable water is restored to
> the city," Snyder press secretary Dave Murray said Saturday in an email to
> The
>
> Detroit News. "Political statements and finger pointing from political
> candidates not involved in finding solutions for Flint, only serve to
> distract from
>
> solving this crisis. Sanders is a close race in the early voting states of
> Iowa and New Hampshire against Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary
> Clinton,
>
> who has been sharply critical this week of Snyder's handling of Flint's
> water crisis. In October, Snyder secured $6 million in state funding to pay
> half
>
> of the cost to switch Flint back to Detroit's Lake Huron water source. The
> Flint-based Mott Foundation donated $4 million and Flint had to chip in $2
> million
>
> toward the cost. Sanders said the state-appointed emergency manager
> money-saving use of Flint River water was shortsighted given the long-term
> damage caused
>
> to Flint's water pipeline and residents' health. "It just tells me that we
> have a lot of these anti-government folks running administrations all over
> this
>
> country who could care less about the well being of our children, whether
> it's in education, whether it's in health, whether it's environmentally,"
> Sanders
>
> said. "It's just unacceptable. "You don't save money while poisoning our
> children, that is is not acceptable. Sanders noted Flint is a majority
> African
>
> American city whose residents "don't have a whole lot of money. "It's an
> outrage and it's unacceptable and I think the governor has got to accept
> this
>
> responsibility and do the right thing, and that is to resign," Sanders told
> The News. Snyder has apologized for the state Department of Environmental
> Quality's
>
> mistakes in not requiring Flint to add a chemical to the river water that
> helps prevent corrosion. "I think the resignation would show that he really
> understands
>
> the extent of the crisis that he caused," Sanders said. Snyder has said he
> didn't become aware of elevated lead levels in the blood of Flint residents
>
> until Oct. 1, even after his office quietly coordinated in August the
> distribution of 1,500 faucet filters that remove lead from water. Sanders
> was traveling
>
> Saturday from Vermont to South Carolina for Sunday night's Democratic
> presidential debate with Clinton and former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley.
> The independent
>
> Vermont senator, who is a democratic-socialist but votes with Democrats in
> the U.S. Senate, said he wasn't weighing in on Flint's crisis just because
> Clinton
>
> has been all week. "It's not Sen. Clinton ... it's not a question of
> compelled, it's a question of understanding that when you have a crisis of
> this proportion,
>
> it's absolutely imperative that the governor accept his responsibility, show
> the people of Flint and Michigan that he does appreciate the calamity that
>
> he caused and has the courage to the right thing, which is step down,"
> Sanders said. clivengood@detroitnews.com (517) 371-3660
> Twitter.com/ChadLivengood
>
>
>
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Re: [blind-democracy] rolling stone the best rock and roll song ever
Back in the day, when I was known to have a tote or two, a fine
looking young friend of my second wife moved into our basement for
several months, needing to hide out from several bad choices of male
companionship. Mary loved her heroes, the Rolling Stones, and blasted
the back end of the house, shaking the dishes on the shelf. But along
with this torture, she also had albums of almost everything ever
recorded by Bob Dylan. She also had my favorite band, Moody Blues. I
spent several hours copying those old records to my two-track, reel to
reel recorder. It was all monaural, but the quality was solid and
remains clear even after more than 40 years. In all of that priceless
collection, the only one Cathy will allow to be played within her
dainty ears is Moody Blues at Red Rock. Above all, the Rolling
Stones, the Beetles, Janice Joplin, Peter, Paul and Mary, and Bert and
Ernie singing Rubber Ducky, I consider this to be my finest album. I
even bought the CD, which is in full stereo. But that old reel to
reel tape has some sort of magic, pulling me back to those days in
sunny Spokane. I would lay on the living room carpet with the doors
wide open, playing that album over and over. Suddenly I would jump
up, grab my cane and jog to the corner store and buy a box of candy
bars, usually Peanut Butter Cups or Mars Bars, dash back home and
resume my position on the floor, finally dozing off with the music in
my ears and chocolate on my lips.
Ah, sweet memories!
Carl Jarvis
On 1/15/16, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@comcast.net> wrote:
> Of course, Rolling Stone Magazine dubbed Dylan's Rolling Stone the greatest
> rock song ever. In the interest of examination of art which impacts me,
> purely subjective mind you, and not everyone's cup of tea...Did that ryme or
> what?
>
> Whatever, though pedestrian to some and silly to others I present you with
> this, which is poetry of meaning to some and again pedestrian to others, but
> I think it art:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNLBJ_Lq9E
>
looking young friend of my second wife moved into our basement for
several months, needing to hide out from several bad choices of male
companionship. Mary loved her heroes, the Rolling Stones, and blasted
the back end of the house, shaking the dishes on the shelf. But along
with this torture, she also had albums of almost everything ever
recorded by Bob Dylan. She also had my favorite band, Moody Blues. I
spent several hours copying those old records to my two-track, reel to
reel recorder. It was all monaural, but the quality was solid and
remains clear even after more than 40 years. In all of that priceless
collection, the only one Cathy will allow to be played within her
dainty ears is Moody Blues at Red Rock. Above all, the Rolling
Stones, the Beetles, Janice Joplin, Peter, Paul and Mary, and Bert and
Ernie singing Rubber Ducky, I consider this to be my finest album. I
even bought the CD, which is in full stereo. But that old reel to
reel tape has some sort of magic, pulling me back to those days in
sunny Spokane. I would lay on the living room carpet with the doors
wide open, playing that album over and over. Suddenly I would jump
up, grab my cane and jog to the corner store and buy a box of candy
bars, usually Peanut Butter Cups or Mars Bars, dash back home and
resume my position on the floor, finally dozing off with the music in
my ears and chocolate on my lips.
Ah, sweet memories!
Carl Jarvis
On 1/15/16, joe harcz Comcast <joeharcz@comcast.net> wrote:
> Of course, Rolling Stone Magazine dubbed Dylan's Rolling Stone the greatest
> rock song ever. In the interest of examination of art which impacts me,
> purely subjective mind you, and not everyone's cup of tea...Did that ryme or
> what?
>
> Whatever, though pedestrian to some and silly to others I present you with
> this, which is poetry of meaning to some and again pedestrian to others, but
> I think it art:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNLBJ_Lq9E
>
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
tweeking the edges
This article should be read once a week until everyone understands and
agrees with the message.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/6/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org)
> Home > Inequality is Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges
> Will
> Accomplish Nothing
> ________________________________________
> Inequality is Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges Will
> Accomplish Nothing
> By Steven W. Thrasher [1] / The Guardian [2]
> December 5, 2015
> The economic hoarding by those at the top has been termed "income
> inequality", but that's neither a strong nor accurate enough phrasing. I
> have never heard poor people complain about "income inequality"; poor
> people
> complain about being screwed out of housing [3] , or about working more
> hours for less pay [4] or about having to choose between medicine and food
> [5].
> "Inequality" sounds like something that happens by accident and can be
> remedied by fiddling around the edges. It is not as if the rich are a
> little
> more equal and the poor a little less equal, and if we shift a bit we'll
> all
> come out in the middle. What we've been calling "income inequality" might
> be
> better understood as a war waged by US political and economic policy on the
> poor.
> A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies [6] issued this week
> analyzed the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans [7] and found that
> "the wealthiest 100 households now own about as much wealth as the entire
> African American population in the United States". That means that 100
> families - most of whom are white - have as much wealth as the 41,000,000
> black folks [8] walking around the country (and the million or so [9]
> locked
> up) combined.
> Similarly, the report also stated [6] that "the wealthiest 186 members of
> the Forbes 400 own as much wealth as the entire Latino population" of the
> nation. Here again, the breakdown in actual humans is broke down [10]: 186
> overwhelmingly white folks have more money than that an astounding
> 55,000,000 [11] Latino people.
> The disparities in wealth that we term "income inequality" are no accident,
> and they can't be fixed by fiddling at the edges of our current economic
> system. These disparities happened by design, and the system structurally
> disadvantages those at the bottom. The poorest Americans have no realistic
> hope of achieving anything that approaches income equality; even their very
> chances for access to the most basic tools of life are almost nil.
> President Lyndon Johnson's so-called War on Poverty didn't angle to take
> anything from the rich so that the poor could see equality. It was designed
> to keep some of the poor just alive enough that they wouldn't rebel, and
> designed to let other poor people perish as an object lesson to the rest of
> us to keep scampering.
> Income inequality is better termed structural racism. White people earn
> more
> money with less education [12] than black people and consistently have half
> the unemployment [13] of black people. And, as new research [14] has shown,
> "family wealth" predicts outcomes for 10 to 15 generations. Those with
> extreme wealth owe it to events going back "300 to 450" years ago,
> according
> to research published by the New Republic [14] - an era when it wasn't
> unusual for white Americans to benefit from an economy dependent upon
> widespread, unpaid black labor in the form of slavery.
> Income inequality is better viewed as structural sexism. Women earn 78
> cents
> on the dollar [15] overall compared to white men, but black women only earn
> 64 cents and Latinas 56. Women are also routinely [16] discriminated
> against
> economically for bearing children.
> Income equality is better viewed as structural child abuse. In the United
> States, one in five [17] children needs government help to eat. As Aisha
> Sultan recently wrote [18]in the Education Writers Association, if a
> 30-child classroom looked like the nation at large, seven of the children
> would be living in poverty, six would be victims of abuse and one would be
> homeless. These kids aren't just unequal; they are never offered the
> opportunity to achieve equality.
> Income inequality is better viewed as economic genocide, which shortens the
> lives of the poor. As the New York Times bluntly put it [19] last year,
> "where income is higher, life spans are longer". For one of the most
> jarring
> examples of how this plays out, look no further than the Ferguson Report
> [20], which shows how just in St Louis County, the average life expectancy
> ranges from 91 in the whitest neighborhood to 56 in the poorest, blackest
> neighborhood.
> Too often, the answer by those who have hoarded everything is they will
> choose to "give back" in a manner of their choosing - just look at Mark
> Zuckerberg [21] and his much-derided plan to "give away" [22] 99% of his
> Facebook stock. He is unlikely to help change inequality or poverty any
> more
> than "giving away" of $100m [23]helped children in Newark schools.
> Allowing any of the 100 richest Americans to choose how they fix "income
> inequality" will not make the country more equal or even guarantee more
> access to life. You can't take down the master's house with the master's
> tools [24], even when you're the master; but more to the point, who would
> tear down his own house to distribute the bricks among so very many others?
> Share on Facebook Share
> Share on Twitter Tweet
>
> Report typos and corrections to 'corrections@alternet.org'. [25]
> [26]
> ________________________________________
> Source URL:
> http://www.alternet.org/economy/inequality-fundamental-us-capitalism-tweakin
> g-edges-will-accomplish-nothing
> Links:
> [1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/steven-w-thrasher-0
> [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/
> [3]
> http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gentrification-doesn-poor-report-shows-a
> rticle-1.2393396
> [4]
> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speed-up-american-workers-long-h
> ours
> [5]
> http://www.salon.com/2015/06/03/america_despises_its_elderly_why_seniors_hav
> e_to_choose_between_food_and_medicine_partner/
> [6] http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/
> [7] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/2/#version:static
> [8]
> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special
> _editions/cb12-ff01.html
> [9] http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet
> [10] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broke+down
> [11]
> http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/25/u-s-hispanic-population-grow
> th-surge-cools/
> [12]
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/10/white-high-school-dro
> pouts-are-wealthier-than-black-and-hispanic-college-graduates-can-a-new-poli
> cy-tool-fix-that/
> [13]
> http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/08/04/black-unemployment-falls-below-10-
> still-twice-the-rate-for-whites/
> [14]
> https://newrepublic.com/article/116462/family-wealth-lasts-ten-fifteen-gener
> ations
> [15] http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/equal-pay-day-2015/
> [16]
> http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/when-bosses-discriminate
> -against-pregnant-women/380623/
> [17] http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-16.html
> [18] http://www.ewa.org/blog-educated-reporter/when-grit-isnt-enough
> [19]
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/income-gap-meet-the-longevity-gap
> .html
> [20]
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/15/the-ferguson-commission
> -wont-bring-social-change-black-lives-matter-will
> [21] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/gallery/mark-zuckerberg
> [22]
> http://gawker.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-donate-massive-fortune-to-own-blin-17
> 45573343
> [23]
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-newark-schools-partially-squande
> red-a-great-prize/2015/10/20/ffff660c-7743-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html
> [24] http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/lordedismantle.html
> [25] mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on Inequality is
> Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges Will Accomplish Nothing
> [26] http://www.alternet.org/
> [27] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
>
> Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org)
> Home > Inequality is Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges
> Will
> Accomplish Nothing
>
> Inequality is Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges Will
> Accomplish Nothing
> By Steven W. Thrasher [1] / The Guardian [2]
> December 5, 2015
> The economic hoarding by those at the top has been termed "income
> inequality", but that's neither a strong nor accurate enough phrasing. I
> have never heard poor people complain about "income inequality"; poor
> people
> complain about being screwed out of housing [3] , or about working more
> hours for less pay [4] or about having to choose between medicine and food
> [5].
> "Inequality" sounds like something that happens by accident and can be
> remedied by fiddling around the edges. It is not as if the rich are a
> little
> more equal and the poor a little less equal, and if we shift a bit we'll
> all
> come out in the middle. What we've been calling "income inequality" might
> be
> better understood as a war waged by US political and economic policy on the
> poor.
> A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies [6] issued this week
> analyzed the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans [7] and found that
> "the wealthiest 100 households now own about as much wealth as the entire
> African American population in the United States". That means that 100
> families - most of whom are white - have as much wealth as the 41,000,000
> black folks [8] walking around the country (and the million or so [9]
> locked
> up) combined.
> Similarly, the report also stated [6] that "the wealthiest 186 members of
> the Forbes 400 own as much wealth as the entire Latino population" of the
> nation. Here again, the breakdown in actual humans is broke down [10]: 186
> overwhelmingly white folks have more money than that an astounding
> 55,000,000 [11] Latino people.
> The disparities in wealth that we term "income inequality" are no accident,
> and they can't be fixed by fiddling at the edges of our current economic
> system. These disparities happened by design, and the system structurally
> disadvantages those at the bottom. The poorest Americans have no realistic
> hope of achieving anything that approaches income equality; even their very
> chances for access to the most basic tools of life are almost nil.
> President Lyndon Johnson's so-called War on Poverty didn't angle to take
> anything from the rich so that the poor could see equality. It was designed
> to keep some of the poor just alive enough that they wouldn't rebel, and
> designed to let other poor people perish as an object lesson to the rest of
> us to keep scampering.
> Income inequality is better termed structural racism. White people earn
> more
> money with less education [12] than black people and consistently have half
> the unemployment [13] of black people. And, as new research [14] has shown,
> "family wealth" predicts outcomes for 10 to 15 generations. Those with
> extreme wealth owe it to events going back "300 to 450" years ago,
> according
> to research published by the New Republic [14] - an era when it wasn't
> unusual for white Americans to benefit from an economy dependent upon
> widespread, unpaid black labor in the form of slavery.
> Income inequality is better viewed as structural sexism. Women earn 78
> cents
> on the dollar [15] overall compared to white men, but black women only earn
> 64 cents and Latinas 56. Women are also routinely [16] discriminated
> against
> economically for bearing children.
> Income equality is better viewed as structural child abuse. In the United
> States, one in five [17] children needs government help to eat. As Aisha
> Sultan recently wrote [18]in the Education Writers Association, if a
> 30-child classroom looked like the nation at large, seven of the children
> would be living in poverty, six would be victims of abuse and one would be
> homeless. These kids aren't just unequal; they are never offered the
> opportunity to achieve equality.
> Income inequality is better viewed as economic genocide, which shortens the
> lives of the poor. As the New York Times bluntly put it [19] last year,
> "where income is higher, life spans are longer". For one of the most
> jarring
> examples of how this plays out, look no further than the Ferguson Report
> [20], which shows how just in St Louis County, the average life expectancy
> ranges from 91 in the whitest neighborhood to 56 in the poorest, blackest
> neighborhood.
> Too often, the answer by those who have hoarded everything is they will
> choose to "give back" in a manner of their choosing - just look at Mark
> Zuckerberg [21] and his much-derided plan to "give away" [22] 99% of his
> Facebook stock. He is unlikely to help change inequality or poverty any
> more
> than "giving away" of $100m [23]helped children in Newark schools.
> Allowing any of the 100 richest Americans to choose how they fix "income
> inequality" will not make the country more equal or even guarantee more
> access to life. You can't take down the master's house with the master's
> tools [24], even when you're the master; but more to the point, who would
> tear down his own house to distribute the bricks among so very many others?
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
> Report typos and corrections to 'corrections@alternet.org'. [25]
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.[26]
>
> Source URL:
> http://www.alternet.org/economy/inequality-fundamental-us-capitalism-tweakin
> g-edges-will-accomplish-nothing
> Links:
> [1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/steven-w-thrasher-0
> [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/
> [3]
> http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gentrification-doesn-poor-report-shows-a
> rticle-1.2393396
> [4]
> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speed-up-american-workers-long-h
> ours
> [5]
> http://www.salon.com/2015/06/03/america_despises_its_elderly_why_seniors_hav
> e_to_choose_between_food_and_medicine_partner/
> [6] http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/
> [7] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/2/#version:static
> [8]
> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special
> _editions/cb12-ff01.html
> [9] http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet
> [10] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broke+down
> [11]
> http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/25/u-s-hispanic-population-grow
> th-surge-cools/
> [12]
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/10/white-high-school-dro
> pouts-are-wealthier-than-black-and-hispanic-college-graduates-can-a-new-poli
> cy-tool-fix-that/
> [13]
> http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/08/04/black-unemployment-falls-below-10-
> still-twice-the-rate-for-whites/
> [14]
> https://newrepublic.com/article/116462/family-wealth-lasts-ten-fifteen-gener
> ations
> [15] http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/equal-pay-day-2015/
> [16]
> http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/when-bosses-discriminate
> -against-pregnant-women/380623/
> [17] http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-16.html
> [18] http://www.ewa.org/blog-educated-reporter/when-grit-isnt-enough
> [19]
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/income-gap-meet-the-longevity-gap
> .html
> [20]
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/15/the-ferguson-commission
> -wont-bring-social-change-black-lives-matter-will
> [21] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/gallery/mark-zuckerberg
> [22]
> http://gawker.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-donate-massive-fortune-to-own-blin-17
> 45573343
> [23]
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-newark-schools-partially-squande
> red-a-great-prize/2015/10/20/ffff660c-7743-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html
> [24] http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/lordedismantle.html
> [25] mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on Inequality is
> Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges Will Accomplish Nothing
> [26] http://www.alternet.org/
> [27] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
>
>
>
agrees with the message.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/6/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org)
> Home > Inequality is Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges
> Will
> Accomplish Nothing
> ________________________________________
> Inequality is Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges Will
> Accomplish Nothing
> By Steven W. Thrasher [1] / The Guardian [2]
> December 5, 2015
> The economic hoarding by those at the top has been termed "income
> inequality", but that's neither a strong nor accurate enough phrasing. I
> have never heard poor people complain about "income inequality"; poor
> people
> complain about being screwed out of housing [3] , or about working more
> hours for less pay [4] or about having to choose between medicine and food
> [5].
> "Inequality" sounds like something that happens by accident and can be
> remedied by fiddling around the edges. It is not as if the rich are a
> little
> more equal and the poor a little less equal, and if we shift a bit we'll
> all
> come out in the middle. What we've been calling "income inequality" might
> be
> better understood as a war waged by US political and economic policy on the
> poor.
> A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies [6] issued this week
> analyzed the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans [7] and found that
> "the wealthiest 100 households now own about as much wealth as the entire
> African American population in the United States". That means that 100
> families - most of whom are white - have as much wealth as the 41,000,000
> black folks [8] walking around the country (and the million or so [9]
> locked
> up) combined.
> Similarly, the report also stated [6] that "the wealthiest 186 members of
> the Forbes 400 own as much wealth as the entire Latino population" of the
> nation. Here again, the breakdown in actual humans is broke down [10]: 186
> overwhelmingly white folks have more money than that an astounding
> 55,000,000 [11] Latino people.
> The disparities in wealth that we term "income inequality" are no accident,
> and they can't be fixed by fiddling at the edges of our current economic
> system. These disparities happened by design, and the system structurally
> disadvantages those at the bottom. The poorest Americans have no realistic
> hope of achieving anything that approaches income equality; even their very
> chances for access to the most basic tools of life are almost nil.
> President Lyndon Johnson's so-called War on Poverty didn't angle to take
> anything from the rich so that the poor could see equality. It was designed
> to keep some of the poor just alive enough that they wouldn't rebel, and
> designed to let other poor people perish as an object lesson to the rest of
> us to keep scampering.
> Income inequality is better termed structural racism. White people earn
> more
> money with less education [12] than black people and consistently have half
> the unemployment [13] of black people. And, as new research [14] has shown,
> "family wealth" predicts outcomes for 10 to 15 generations. Those with
> extreme wealth owe it to events going back "300 to 450" years ago,
> according
> to research published by the New Republic [14] - an era when it wasn't
> unusual for white Americans to benefit from an economy dependent upon
> widespread, unpaid black labor in the form of slavery.
> Income inequality is better viewed as structural sexism. Women earn 78
> cents
> on the dollar [15] overall compared to white men, but black women only earn
> 64 cents and Latinas 56. Women are also routinely [16] discriminated
> against
> economically for bearing children.
> Income equality is better viewed as structural child abuse. In the United
> States, one in five [17] children needs government help to eat. As Aisha
> Sultan recently wrote [18]in the Education Writers Association, if a
> 30-child classroom looked like the nation at large, seven of the children
> would be living in poverty, six would be victims of abuse and one would be
> homeless. These kids aren't just unequal; they are never offered the
> opportunity to achieve equality.
> Income inequality is better viewed as economic genocide, which shortens the
> lives of the poor. As the New York Times bluntly put it [19] last year,
> "where income is higher, life spans are longer". For one of the most
> jarring
> examples of how this plays out, look no further than the Ferguson Report
> [20], which shows how just in St Louis County, the average life expectancy
> ranges from 91 in the whitest neighborhood to 56 in the poorest, blackest
> neighborhood.
> Too often, the answer by those who have hoarded everything is they will
> choose to "give back" in a manner of their choosing - just look at Mark
> Zuckerberg [21] and his much-derided plan to "give away" [22] 99% of his
> Facebook stock. He is unlikely to help change inequality or poverty any
> more
> than "giving away" of $100m [23]helped children in Newark schools.
> Allowing any of the 100 richest Americans to choose how they fix "income
> inequality" will not make the country more equal or even guarantee more
> access to life. You can't take down the master's house with the master's
> tools [24], even when you're the master; but more to the point, who would
> tear down his own house to distribute the bricks among so very many others?
> Share on Facebook Share
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>
> Report typos and corrections to 'corrections@alternet.org'. [25]
> [26]
> ________________________________________
> Source URL:
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> g-edges-will-accomplish-nothing
> Links:
> [1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/steven-w-thrasher-0
> [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/
> [3]
> http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gentrification-doesn-poor-report-shows-a
> rticle-1.2393396
> [4]
> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speed-up-american-workers-long-h
> ours
> [5]
> http://www.salon.com/2015/06/03/america_despises_its_elderly_why_seniors_hav
> e_to_choose_between_food_and_medicine_partner/
> [6] http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/
> [7] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/2/#version:static
> [8]
> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special
> _editions/cb12-ff01.html
> [9] http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet
> [10] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broke+down
> [11]
> http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/25/u-s-hispanic-population-grow
> th-surge-cools/
> [12]
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/10/white-high-school-dro
> pouts-are-wealthier-than-black-and-hispanic-college-graduates-can-a-new-poli
> cy-tool-fix-that/
> [13]
> http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/08/04/black-unemployment-falls-below-10-
> still-twice-the-rate-for-whites/
> [14]
> https://newrepublic.com/article/116462/family-wealth-lasts-ten-fifteen-gener
> ations
> [15] http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/equal-pay-day-2015/
> [16]
> http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/when-bosses-discriminate
> -against-pregnant-women/380623/
> [17] http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-16.html
> [18] http://www.ewa.org/blog-educated-reporter/when-grit-isnt-enough
> [19]
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/income-gap-meet-the-longevity-gap
> .html
> [20]
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/15/the-ferguson-commission
> -wont-bring-social-change-black-lives-matter-will
> [21] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/gallery/mark-zuckerberg
> [22]
> http://gawker.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-donate-massive-fortune-to-own-blin-17
> 45573343
> [23]
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-newark-schools-partially-squande
> red-a-great-prize/2015/10/20/ffff660c-7743-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html
> [24] http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/lordedismantle.html
> [25] mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on Inequality is
> Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges Will Accomplish Nothing
> [26] http://www.alternet.org/
> [27] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
>
> Published on Alternet (http://www.alternet.org)
> Home > Inequality is Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges
> Will
> Accomplish Nothing
>
> Inequality is Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges Will
> Accomplish Nothing
> By Steven W. Thrasher [1] / The Guardian [2]
> December 5, 2015
> The economic hoarding by those at the top has been termed "income
> inequality", but that's neither a strong nor accurate enough phrasing. I
> have never heard poor people complain about "income inequality"; poor
> people
> complain about being screwed out of housing [3] , or about working more
> hours for less pay [4] or about having to choose between medicine and food
> [5].
> "Inequality" sounds like something that happens by accident and can be
> remedied by fiddling around the edges. It is not as if the rich are a
> little
> more equal and the poor a little less equal, and if we shift a bit we'll
> all
> come out in the middle. What we've been calling "income inequality" might
> be
> better understood as a war waged by US political and economic policy on the
> poor.
> A new report from the Institute for Policy Studies [6] issued this week
> analyzed the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans [7] and found that
> "the wealthiest 100 households now own about as much wealth as the entire
> African American population in the United States". That means that 100
> families - most of whom are white - have as much wealth as the 41,000,000
> black folks [8] walking around the country (and the million or so [9]
> locked
> up) combined.
> Similarly, the report also stated [6] that "the wealthiest 186 members of
> the Forbes 400 own as much wealth as the entire Latino population" of the
> nation. Here again, the breakdown in actual humans is broke down [10]: 186
> overwhelmingly white folks have more money than that an astounding
> 55,000,000 [11] Latino people.
> The disparities in wealth that we term "income inequality" are no accident,
> and they can't be fixed by fiddling at the edges of our current economic
> system. These disparities happened by design, and the system structurally
> disadvantages those at the bottom. The poorest Americans have no realistic
> hope of achieving anything that approaches income equality; even their very
> chances for access to the most basic tools of life are almost nil.
> President Lyndon Johnson's so-called War on Poverty didn't angle to take
> anything from the rich so that the poor could see equality. It was designed
> to keep some of the poor just alive enough that they wouldn't rebel, and
> designed to let other poor people perish as an object lesson to the rest of
> us to keep scampering.
> Income inequality is better termed structural racism. White people earn
> more
> money with less education [12] than black people and consistently have half
> the unemployment [13] of black people. And, as new research [14] has shown,
> "family wealth" predicts outcomes for 10 to 15 generations. Those with
> extreme wealth owe it to events going back "300 to 450" years ago,
> according
> to research published by the New Republic [14] - an era when it wasn't
> unusual for white Americans to benefit from an economy dependent upon
> widespread, unpaid black labor in the form of slavery.
> Income inequality is better viewed as structural sexism. Women earn 78
> cents
> on the dollar [15] overall compared to white men, but black women only earn
> 64 cents and Latinas 56. Women are also routinely [16] discriminated
> against
> economically for bearing children.
> Income equality is better viewed as structural child abuse. In the United
> States, one in five [17] children needs government help to eat. As Aisha
> Sultan recently wrote [18]in the Education Writers Association, if a
> 30-child classroom looked like the nation at large, seven of the children
> would be living in poverty, six would be victims of abuse and one would be
> homeless. These kids aren't just unequal; they are never offered the
> opportunity to achieve equality.
> Income inequality is better viewed as economic genocide, which shortens the
> lives of the poor. As the New York Times bluntly put it [19] last year,
> "where income is higher, life spans are longer". For one of the most
> jarring
> examples of how this plays out, look no further than the Ferguson Report
> [20], which shows how just in St Louis County, the average life expectancy
> ranges from 91 in the whitest neighborhood to 56 in the poorest, blackest
> neighborhood.
> Too often, the answer by those who have hoarded everything is they will
> choose to "give back" in a manner of their choosing - just look at Mark
> Zuckerberg [21] and his much-derided plan to "give away" [22] 99% of his
> Facebook stock. He is unlikely to help change inequality or poverty any
> more
> than "giving away" of $100m [23]helped children in Newark schools.
> Allowing any of the 100 richest Americans to choose how they fix "income
> inequality" will not make the country more equal or even guarantee more
> access to life. You can't take down the master's house with the master's
> tools [24], even when you're the master; but more to the point, who would
> tear down his own house to distribute the bricks among so very many others?
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
> Report typos and corrections to 'corrections@alternet.org'. [25]
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.[26]
>
> Source URL:
> http://www.alternet.org/economy/inequality-fundamental-us-capitalism-tweakin
> g-edges-will-accomplish-nothing
> Links:
> [1] http://www.alternet.org/authors/steven-w-thrasher-0
> [2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/
> [3]
> http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/gentrification-doesn-poor-report-shows-a
> rticle-1.2393396
> [4]
> http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speed-up-american-workers-long-h
> ours
> [5]
> http://www.salon.com/2015/06/03/america_despises_its_elderly_why_seniors_hav
> e_to_choose_between_food_and_medicine_partner/
> [6] http://www.ips-dc.org/billionaire-bonanza/
> [7] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/list/2/#version:static
> [8]
> https://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special
> _editions/cb12-ff01.html
> [9] http://www.naacp.org/pages/criminal-justice-fact-sheet
> [10] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broke+down
> [11]
> http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/06/25/u-s-hispanic-population-grow
> th-surge-cools/
> [12]
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/10/white-high-school-dro
> pouts-are-wealthier-than-black-and-hispanic-college-graduates-can-a-new-poli
> cy-tool-fix-that/
> [13]
> http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/08/04/black-unemployment-falls-below-10-
> still-twice-the-rate-for-whites/
> [14]
> https://newrepublic.com/article/116462/family-wealth-lasts-ten-fifteen-gener
> ations
> [15] http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/13/news/economy/equal-pay-day-2015/
> [16]
> http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/09/when-bosses-discriminate
> -against-pregnant-women/380623/
> [17] http://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-16.html
> [18] http://www.ewa.org/blog-educated-reporter/when-grit-isnt-enough
> [19]
> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/business/income-gap-meet-the-longevity-gap
> .html
> [20]
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/15/the-ferguson-commission
> -wont-bring-social-change-black-lives-matter-will
> [21] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/gallery/mark-zuckerberg
> [22]
> http://gawker.com/mark-zuckerberg-will-donate-massive-fortune-to-own-blin-17
> 45573343
> [23]
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-newark-schools-partially-squande
> red-a-great-prize/2015/10/20/ffff660c-7743-11e5-a958-d889faf561dc_story.html
> [24] http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/lordedismantle.html
> [25] mailto:corrections@alternet.org?Subject=Typo on Inequality is
> Fundamental to U.S. Capitalism: Tweaking the Edges Will Accomplish Nothing
> [26] http://www.alternet.org/
> [27] http://www.alternet.org/%2Bnew_src%2B
>
>
>
Friday, December 4, 2015
Re: [blind-democracy] Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
"Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business".
These mouthings from murderers only go to the point that weapon
manufacturers are not concerned about the safety of Americans. It's
all about *Profit*.
Endless war? Fuck the People. It's good for business. Who cares
about the people?
Little children and average every day folks, like your grandma or
grandpa, murdered as they sit in restaurants or stroll the Malls.
To us Working Class folks it hurts deeply when the murderers strike
our Home-Land, but we shrug and go back to our mindless entertainment
when it is happening in other Lands.
Allowing the Weapons Barron's to control our lives puts the blood of
all the world's murders on our hands. We are guilty through failure
to take the guns away from those evil War Mongers who are profiting at
the expense of so much suffering.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/4/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Fang writes: "The Intercept reviewed investor transcripts for gun
> companies,
> ammunition manufacturers, and sporting stores, and found many instances of
> industry executives discussing mass shooting incidents and the resulting
> political dynamics as lucrative."
>
> Gun sales continue to break records. (photo: Cengiz Yar Jr.AFP/Getty
> Images)
>
>
> Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
> By Lee Fang, The Intercept
> 03 December 15
>
> Behind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the
> gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money.
> Ordinary people are despairing about the frequency of tragic events like
> the
> murderous rampage in San Bernardino on Wednesday, or the Planned Parenthood
> massacre last week. And the cycle of mass killing, media frenzy, and
> political stalemate starts anew each time.
> But meanwhile, gun sales continue to break records, a fact that has not
> gone
> ignored by financial analysts.
> The Intercept reviewed investor transcripts for gun companies, ammunition
> manufacturers, and sporting stores, and found many instances of industry
> executives discussing mass shooting incidents and the resulting political
> dynamics as lucrative.
> Here's how it works. Following a mass shooting, there is talk of gun
> control, which the National Rifle Association and other gun advocates
> attack
> as an assault on the Second Amendment. Notably, gun and ammunition
> manufacturers often donate, either directly or as a portion of each sale,
> to
> the NRA. The fear of losing gun rights leads to panic buying, which brings
> greater profits to gun retailers, gun companies and their investors.
> Gun Distributors
> "The gun business was very much accelerated based on what happened after
> the
> election and then the tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook," Ed Stack, the
> chief executive of Dick's Sporting Goods, a leading gun and ammunition
> retailer, said in September 2014 at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing
> Conference. Stack noted that the industry saw "panic buying" when customers
> "thought there were going to be some very meaningful changes in our gun"
> laws. The new sales "didn't bring hunters in" but rather "brought shooters
> into the industry," he added.
> In 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff
> members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
> Last year, Tommy Millner, the chief executive of Cabela's, a retailer that
> sells guns, boasted at an investor conference in Nebraska that his company
> made a "conscious decision" to stock additional weapons merchandise before
> the 2012 election, hoping Obama's reelection would result in increased
> sales. After the election, the Newtown mass shooting happened, and "the
> business went vertical . I meant it just went crazy," Millner said,
> according to a transcript of the event. Describing the "tailwinds of
> profitability," Millner noted Cabela's "didn't blink as others did to stop
> selling AR-15 platform guns," and so his company "got a lot of new
> customers." The AR-15 is a high-powered assault rifle based on the
> military's M-16 model but without the full automatic capacity,
> Steven Miller, the chief executive of Big 5 Sporting Goods, another gun
> retailer, was asked by investor analysts in 2013 to describe the state of
> the market during a conference call that year. The "real surge" in firearm
> sales, Miller said, "took place following the tragedy in Sandy Hook."
> Gun and Ammunition Manufacturers
> Smith & Wesson chief executive James Debney, speaking to the Roth Capital
> Partners conference in 2013, explained that "the tragedy in Newtown and the
> legislative landscape" resulted in sales that were "significantly up." The
> "fear and uncertainty that there might be increased gun control," Debney
> said, "drove many new people to buy firearms for the first time.
> "You can see after a tragedy, there's also a lot of buying," Jeff Buchanan,
> the chief financial officer of Smith & Wesson, told investors at the RBC
> Capital Markets conference in September of this year. Buchanan noted that
> the political landscape of 2016 is uncertain, but that fear of gun control
> could be on the horizon.
> Michael Fifer, the chief executive of Sturm Ruger, one of the largest
> gunmakers in America, discussed the role of politics in gun sales during a
> conference call with investors in 2013. "If you look back at historical
> patterns back in late '08, early '09, you saw a huge spike in accessory
> sales which then tapered off, and then we saw it again with the really
> tragic events at Sandy Hook that started again as soon as the politicians
> started talking about restricting legal gun use," Fifer said.
> Wall Street Analysts
> Market analysts, including consultants who often hold executives
> accountable
> to investors, have been keen to ask gun companies about how they are able
> to
> respond to surging sales following mass shootings.
> Gautam Khanna, an analyst with Cowen & Co., a market research firm,
> interviewed Mark DeYoung, then the chief executive of ATK, an ammunition
> manufacturer, at the Cowen Aerospace conference in 2013. Khanna asked
> DeYoung if he would make pricing decisions based in part by the "Newtown
> shooting tragedy."
> DeYoung responded that "obviously we are all shocked" by "what happened in
> Newtown and what happened in Aurora, Colorado, and what happened in Tucson,
> Arizona, with Gabby Giffords." But, he added, the company will continue to
> "respond to market pressures," including increases in demand. On a separate
> conference call that year, DeYoung noted that certain "spikes" in demand
> have driven sales.
> James Holmes killed 12 people and injured more than 70 others after opening
> fire in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012.
> In 2011, Jim Barrett, a financial analyst, asked Ruger's Fifer during a
> call
> with investors if the "recent shooting incident in Tucson" - referring to
> the shooting that year of Rep. Gabby Giffords - "has stirred gun owners and
> prospective gun owners to go visit the stores?"
> Bob Sales, another analyst, asked Fifer how his company was preparing for
> future gun sales, given that "a combination of the election in 2012 and the
> Sandy Hook incident . spurred a massive binge of gun buying."
> On a conference call with investors, Millner, the chief executive of
> Cabela's, fielded a question about the Aurora mass shooting from an analyst
> with Imperial Capital, who asked him if the incident had "any impact on
> your
> business." Millner responded, "I would say that the trends that you read
> about in the press, we are experiencing at least thus far since the
> incident."
> The business rhetoric around mass shootings "doesn't surprise me at all,"
> says Ladd Everitt, the director of communications of the Coalition to Stop
> Gun Violence. Everitt noted that the National Rifle Association, which is
> funded by gun manufacturers, often uses similar language following mass
> shootings.
> "This just shows the guys in the suits understand this and are utterly
> cynical about it."
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. Error! Hyperlink reference not
> valid.
>
> Gun sales continue to break records. (photo: Cengiz Yar Jr.AFP/Getty
> Images)
> https://theintercept.com/2015/12/03/mass-shooting-wall-st/https://theinterce
> pt.com/2015/12/03/mass-shooting-wall-st/
> Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
> By Lee Fang, The Intercept
> 03 December 15
> ehind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the
> gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money.
> Ordinary people are despairing about the frequency of tragic events like
> the
> murderous rampage in San Bernardino on Wednesday, or the Planned Parenthood
> massacre last week. And the cycle of mass killing, media frenzy, and
> political stalemate starts anew each time.
> But meanwhile, gun sales continue to break records, a fact that has not
> gone
> ignored by financial analysts.
> The Intercept reviewed investor transcripts for gun companies, ammunition
> manufacturers, and sporting stores, and found many instances of industry
> executives discussing mass shooting incidents and the resulting political
> dynamics as lucrative.
> Here's how it works. Following a mass shooting, there is talk of gun
> control, which the National Rifle Association and other gun advocates
> attack
> as an assault on the Second Amendment. Notably, gun and ammunition
> manufacturers often donate, either directly or as a portion of each sale,
> to
> the NRA. The fear of losing gun rights leads to panic buying, which brings
> greater profits to gun retailers, gun companies and their investors.
> Gun Distributors
> "The gun business was very much accelerated based on what happened after
> the
> election and then the tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook," Ed Stack, the
> chief executive of Dick's Sporting Goods, a leading gun and ammunition
> retailer, said in September 2014 at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing
> Conference. Stack noted that the industry saw "panic buying" when customers
> "thought there were going to be some very meaningful changes in our gun"
> laws. The new sales "didn't bring hunters in" but rather "brought shooters
> into the industry," he added.
> In 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff
> members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
> Last year, Tommy Millner, the chief executive of Cabela's, a retailer that
> sells guns, boasted at an investor conference in Nebraska that his company
> made a "conscious decision" to stock additional weapons merchandise before
> the 2012 election, hoping Obama's reelection would result in increased
> sales. After the election, the Newtown mass shooting happened, and "the
> business went vertical . I meant it just went crazy," Millner said,
> according to a transcript of the event. Describing the "tailwinds of
> profitability," Millner noted Cabela's "didn't blink as others did to stop
> selling AR-15 platform guns," and so his company "got a lot of new
> customers." The AR-15 is a high-powered assault rifle based on the
> military's M-16 model but without the full automatic capacity,
> Steven Miller, the chief executive of Big 5 Sporting Goods, another gun
> retailer, was asked by investor analysts in 2013 to describe the state of
> the market during a conference call that year. The "real surge" in firearm
> sales, Miller said, "took place following the tragedy in Sandy Hook."
> Gun and Ammunition Manufacturers
> Smith & Wesson chief executive James Debney, speaking to the Roth Capital
> Partners conference in 2013, explained that "the tragedy in Newtown and the
> legislative landscape" resulted in sales that were "significantly up." The
> "fear and uncertainty that there might be increased gun control," Debney
> said, "drove many new people to buy firearms for the first time.
> "You can see after a tragedy, there's also a lot of buying," Jeff Buchanan,
> the chief financial officer of Smith & Wesson, told investors at the RBC
> Capital Markets conference in September of this year. Buchanan noted that
> the political landscape of 2016 is uncertain, but that fear of gun control
> could be on the horizon.
> Michael Fifer, the chief executive of Sturm Ruger, one of the largest
> gunmakers in America, discussed the role of politics in gun sales during a
> conference call with investors in 2013. "If you look back at historical
> patterns back in late '08, early '09, you saw a huge spike in accessory
> sales which then tapered off, and then we saw it again with the really
> tragic events at Sandy Hook that started again as soon as the politicians
> started talking about restricting legal gun use," Fifer said.
> Wall Street Analysts
> Market analysts, including consultants who often hold executives
> accountable
> to investors, have been keen to ask gun companies about how they are able
> to
> respond to surging sales following mass shootings.
> Gautam Khanna, an analyst with Cowen & Co., a market research firm,
> interviewed Mark DeYoung, then the chief executive of ATK, an ammunition
> manufacturer, at the Cowen Aerospace conference in 2013. Khanna asked
> DeYoung if he would make pricing decisions based in part by the "Newtown
> shooting tragedy."
> DeYoung responded that "obviously we are all shocked" by "what happened in
> Newtown and what happened in Aurora, Colorado, and what happened in Tucson,
> Arizona, with Gabby Giffords." But, he added, the company will continue to
> "respond to market pressures," including increases in demand. On a separate
> conference call that year, DeYoung noted that certain "spikes" in demand
> have driven sales.
> James Holmes killed 12 people and injured more than 70 others after opening
> fire in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012.
> In 2011, Jim Barrett, a financial analyst, asked Ruger's Fifer during a
> call
> with investors if the "recent shooting incident in Tucson" - referring to
> the shooting that year of Rep. Gabby Giffords - "has stirred gun owners and
> prospective gun owners to go visit the stores?"
> Bob Sales, another analyst, asked Fifer how his company was preparing for
> future gun sales, given that "a combination of the election in 2012 and the
> Sandy Hook incident . spurred a massive binge of gun buying."
> On a conference call with investors, Millner, the chief executive of
> Cabela's, fielded a question about the Aurora mass shooting from an analyst
> with Imperial Capital, who asked him if the incident had "any impact on
> your
> business." Millner responded, "I would say that the trends that you read
> about in the press, we are experiencing at least thus far since the
> incident."
> The business rhetoric around mass shootings "doesn't surprise me at all,"
> says Ladd Everitt, the director of communications of the Coalition to Stop
> Gun Violence. Everitt noted that the National Rifle Association, which is
> funded by gun manufacturers, often uses similar language following mass
> shootings.
> "This just shows the guys in the suits understand this and are utterly
> cynical about it."
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>
>
>
These mouthings from murderers only go to the point that weapon
manufacturers are not concerned about the safety of Americans. It's
all about *Profit*.
Endless war? Fuck the People. It's good for business. Who cares
about the people?
Little children and average every day folks, like your grandma or
grandpa, murdered as they sit in restaurants or stroll the Malls.
To us Working Class folks it hurts deeply when the murderers strike
our Home-Land, but we shrug and go back to our mindless entertainment
when it is happening in other Lands.
Allowing the Weapons Barron's to control our lives puts the blood of
all the world's murders on our hands. We are guilty through failure
to take the guns away from those evil War Mongers who are profiting at
the expense of so much suffering.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/4/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>
> Fang writes: "The Intercept reviewed investor transcripts for gun
> companies,
> ammunition manufacturers, and sporting stores, and found many instances of
> industry executives discussing mass shooting incidents and the resulting
> political dynamics as lucrative."
>
> Gun sales continue to break records. (photo: Cengiz Yar Jr.AFP/Getty
> Images)
>
>
> Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
> By Lee Fang, The Intercept
> 03 December 15
>
> Behind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the
> gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money.
> Ordinary people are despairing about the frequency of tragic events like
> the
> murderous rampage in San Bernardino on Wednesday, or the Planned Parenthood
> massacre last week. And the cycle of mass killing, media frenzy, and
> political stalemate starts anew each time.
> But meanwhile, gun sales continue to break records, a fact that has not
> gone
> ignored by financial analysts.
> The Intercept reviewed investor transcripts for gun companies, ammunition
> manufacturers, and sporting stores, and found many instances of industry
> executives discussing mass shooting incidents and the resulting political
> dynamics as lucrative.
> Here's how it works. Following a mass shooting, there is talk of gun
> control, which the National Rifle Association and other gun advocates
> attack
> as an assault on the Second Amendment. Notably, gun and ammunition
> manufacturers often donate, either directly or as a portion of each sale,
> to
> the NRA. The fear of losing gun rights leads to panic buying, which brings
> greater profits to gun retailers, gun companies and their investors.
> Gun Distributors
> "The gun business was very much accelerated based on what happened after
> the
> election and then the tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook," Ed Stack, the
> chief executive of Dick's Sporting Goods, a leading gun and ammunition
> retailer, said in September 2014 at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing
> Conference. Stack noted that the industry saw "panic buying" when customers
> "thought there were going to be some very meaningful changes in our gun"
> laws. The new sales "didn't bring hunters in" but rather "brought shooters
> into the industry," he added.
> In 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff
> members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
> Last year, Tommy Millner, the chief executive of Cabela's, a retailer that
> sells guns, boasted at an investor conference in Nebraska that his company
> made a "conscious decision" to stock additional weapons merchandise before
> the 2012 election, hoping Obama's reelection would result in increased
> sales. After the election, the Newtown mass shooting happened, and "the
> business went vertical . I meant it just went crazy," Millner said,
> according to a transcript of the event. Describing the "tailwinds of
> profitability," Millner noted Cabela's "didn't blink as others did to stop
> selling AR-15 platform guns," and so his company "got a lot of new
> customers." The AR-15 is a high-powered assault rifle based on the
> military's M-16 model but without the full automatic capacity,
> Steven Miller, the chief executive of Big 5 Sporting Goods, another gun
> retailer, was asked by investor analysts in 2013 to describe the state of
> the market during a conference call that year. The "real surge" in firearm
> sales, Miller said, "took place following the tragedy in Sandy Hook."
> Gun and Ammunition Manufacturers
> Smith & Wesson chief executive James Debney, speaking to the Roth Capital
> Partners conference in 2013, explained that "the tragedy in Newtown and the
> legislative landscape" resulted in sales that were "significantly up." The
> "fear and uncertainty that there might be increased gun control," Debney
> said, "drove many new people to buy firearms for the first time.
> "You can see after a tragedy, there's also a lot of buying," Jeff Buchanan,
> the chief financial officer of Smith & Wesson, told investors at the RBC
> Capital Markets conference in September of this year. Buchanan noted that
> the political landscape of 2016 is uncertain, but that fear of gun control
> could be on the horizon.
> Michael Fifer, the chief executive of Sturm Ruger, one of the largest
> gunmakers in America, discussed the role of politics in gun sales during a
> conference call with investors in 2013. "If you look back at historical
> patterns back in late '08, early '09, you saw a huge spike in accessory
> sales which then tapered off, and then we saw it again with the really
> tragic events at Sandy Hook that started again as soon as the politicians
> started talking about restricting legal gun use," Fifer said.
> Wall Street Analysts
> Market analysts, including consultants who often hold executives
> accountable
> to investors, have been keen to ask gun companies about how they are able
> to
> respond to surging sales following mass shootings.
> Gautam Khanna, an analyst with Cowen & Co., a market research firm,
> interviewed Mark DeYoung, then the chief executive of ATK, an ammunition
> manufacturer, at the Cowen Aerospace conference in 2013. Khanna asked
> DeYoung if he would make pricing decisions based in part by the "Newtown
> shooting tragedy."
> DeYoung responded that "obviously we are all shocked" by "what happened in
> Newtown and what happened in Aurora, Colorado, and what happened in Tucson,
> Arizona, with Gabby Giffords." But, he added, the company will continue to
> "respond to market pressures," including increases in demand. On a separate
> conference call that year, DeYoung noted that certain "spikes" in demand
> have driven sales.
> James Holmes killed 12 people and injured more than 70 others after opening
> fire in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012.
> In 2011, Jim Barrett, a financial analyst, asked Ruger's Fifer during a
> call
> with investors if the "recent shooting incident in Tucson" - referring to
> the shooting that year of Rep. Gabby Giffords - "has stirred gun owners and
> prospective gun owners to go visit the stores?"
> Bob Sales, another analyst, asked Fifer how his company was preparing for
> future gun sales, given that "a combination of the election in 2012 and the
> Sandy Hook incident . spurred a massive binge of gun buying."
> On a conference call with investors, Millner, the chief executive of
> Cabela's, fielded a question about the Aurora mass shooting from an analyst
> with Imperial Capital, who asked him if the incident had "any impact on
> your
> business." Millner responded, "I would say that the trends that you read
> about in the press, we are experiencing at least thus far since the
> incident."
> The business rhetoric around mass shootings "doesn't surprise me at all,"
> says Ladd Everitt, the director of communications of the Coalition to Stop
> Gun Violence. Everitt noted that the National Rifle Association, which is
> funded by gun manufacturers, often uses similar language following mass
> shootings.
> "This just shows the guys in the suits understand this and are utterly
> cynical about it."
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. Error! Hyperlink reference not
> valid.
>
> Gun sales continue to break records. (photo: Cengiz Yar Jr.AFP/Getty
> Images)
> https://theintercept.com/2015/12/03/mass-shooting-wall-st/https://theinterce
> pt.com/2015/12/03/mass-shooting-wall-st/
> Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business
> By Lee Fang, The Intercept
> 03 December 15
> ehind closed doors, speaking with investors and Wall Street analysts, the
> gun industry views mass shootings as an opportunity to make lots of money.
> Ordinary people are despairing about the frequency of tragic events like
> the
> murderous rampage in San Bernardino on Wednesday, or the Planned Parenthood
> massacre last week. And the cycle of mass killing, media frenzy, and
> political stalemate starts anew each time.
> But meanwhile, gun sales continue to break records, a fact that has not
> gone
> ignored by financial analysts.
> The Intercept reviewed investor transcripts for gun companies, ammunition
> manufacturers, and sporting stores, and found many instances of industry
> executives discussing mass shooting incidents and the resulting political
> dynamics as lucrative.
> Here's how it works. Following a mass shooting, there is talk of gun
> control, which the National Rifle Association and other gun advocates
> attack
> as an assault on the Second Amendment. Notably, gun and ammunition
> manufacturers often donate, either directly or as a portion of each sale,
> to
> the NRA. The fear of losing gun rights leads to panic buying, which brings
> greater profits to gun retailers, gun companies and their investors.
> Gun Distributors
> "The gun business was very much accelerated based on what happened after
> the
> election and then the tragedy that happened at Sandy Hook," Ed Stack, the
> chief executive of Dick's Sporting Goods, a leading gun and ammunition
> retailer, said in September 2014 at the Goldman Sachs Global Retailing
> Conference. Stack noted that the industry saw "panic buying" when customers
> "thought there were going to be some very meaningful changes in our gun"
> laws. The new sales "didn't bring hunters in" but rather "brought shooters
> into the industry," he added.
> In 2012, 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children and 6 adult staff
> members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
> Last year, Tommy Millner, the chief executive of Cabela's, a retailer that
> sells guns, boasted at an investor conference in Nebraska that his company
> made a "conscious decision" to stock additional weapons merchandise before
> the 2012 election, hoping Obama's reelection would result in increased
> sales. After the election, the Newtown mass shooting happened, and "the
> business went vertical . I meant it just went crazy," Millner said,
> according to a transcript of the event. Describing the "tailwinds of
> profitability," Millner noted Cabela's "didn't blink as others did to stop
> selling AR-15 platform guns," and so his company "got a lot of new
> customers." The AR-15 is a high-powered assault rifle based on the
> military's M-16 model but without the full automatic capacity,
> Steven Miller, the chief executive of Big 5 Sporting Goods, another gun
> retailer, was asked by investor analysts in 2013 to describe the state of
> the market during a conference call that year. The "real surge" in firearm
> sales, Miller said, "took place following the tragedy in Sandy Hook."
> Gun and Ammunition Manufacturers
> Smith & Wesson chief executive James Debney, speaking to the Roth Capital
> Partners conference in 2013, explained that "the tragedy in Newtown and the
> legislative landscape" resulted in sales that were "significantly up." The
> "fear and uncertainty that there might be increased gun control," Debney
> said, "drove many new people to buy firearms for the first time.
> "You can see after a tragedy, there's also a lot of buying," Jeff Buchanan,
> the chief financial officer of Smith & Wesson, told investors at the RBC
> Capital Markets conference in September of this year. Buchanan noted that
> the political landscape of 2016 is uncertain, but that fear of gun control
> could be on the horizon.
> Michael Fifer, the chief executive of Sturm Ruger, one of the largest
> gunmakers in America, discussed the role of politics in gun sales during a
> conference call with investors in 2013. "If you look back at historical
> patterns back in late '08, early '09, you saw a huge spike in accessory
> sales which then tapered off, and then we saw it again with the really
> tragic events at Sandy Hook that started again as soon as the politicians
> started talking about restricting legal gun use," Fifer said.
> Wall Street Analysts
> Market analysts, including consultants who often hold executives
> accountable
> to investors, have been keen to ask gun companies about how they are able
> to
> respond to surging sales following mass shootings.
> Gautam Khanna, an analyst with Cowen & Co., a market research firm,
> interviewed Mark DeYoung, then the chief executive of ATK, an ammunition
> manufacturer, at the Cowen Aerospace conference in 2013. Khanna asked
> DeYoung if he would make pricing decisions based in part by the "Newtown
> shooting tragedy."
> DeYoung responded that "obviously we are all shocked" by "what happened in
> Newtown and what happened in Aurora, Colorado, and what happened in Tucson,
> Arizona, with Gabby Giffords." But, he added, the company will continue to
> "respond to market pressures," including increases in demand. On a separate
> conference call that year, DeYoung noted that certain "spikes" in demand
> have driven sales.
> James Holmes killed 12 people and injured more than 70 others after opening
> fire in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012.
> In 2011, Jim Barrett, a financial analyst, asked Ruger's Fifer during a
> call
> with investors if the "recent shooting incident in Tucson" - referring to
> the shooting that year of Rep. Gabby Giffords - "has stirred gun owners and
> prospective gun owners to go visit the stores?"
> Bob Sales, another analyst, asked Fifer how his company was preparing for
> future gun sales, given that "a combination of the election in 2012 and the
> Sandy Hook incident . spurred a massive binge of gun buying."
> On a conference call with investors, Millner, the chief executive of
> Cabela's, fielded a question about the Aurora mass shooting from an analyst
> with Imperial Capital, who asked him if the incident had "any impact on
> your
> business." Millner responded, "I would say that the trends that you read
> about in the press, we are experiencing at least thus far since the
> incident."
> The business rhetoric around mass shootings "doesn't surprise me at all,"
> says Ladd Everitt, the director of communications of the Coalition to Stop
> Gun Violence. Everitt noted that the National Rifle Association, which is
> funded by gun manufacturers, often uses similar language following mass
> shootings.
> "This just shows the guys in the suits understand this and are utterly
> cynical about it."
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>
>
>
Re: [blind-democracy] WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
What is the percentage of information within our Federal Government
that is so secret that the American People are not permitted to know
about, before our so called democracy is removed from the Public's
control?
How can we be, "We, The People", when we do not have a clue as to what
is going on in our name?
What will it take for the American People to wake up to the fact that
we are no longer Citizens? At best we are Consumers. At worst we are
Servants or Subjects held ignorant of the dealings of the government.
When I hear phrases like, "Justice for All", I have to wonder just
who, "All" is.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/4/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> v
> Excerpt: "WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the huge Trade in
> Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being negotiated by the US, EU and 22
> other countries that account for 2/3rds of global GDP. Coinciding with the
> ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's publication touches on issues of
> crucial relevance including the regulation of energy, industrial
> development, workers' rights and the natural environment."
>
> Wikileaks. (image: Guardian UK)
>
>
> WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
> By Press Release | WikiLeaks
> 03 December 15
>
> Today, Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
> documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being
> negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of
> global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's
> publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation
> of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural
> environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents.
> The Trade In Services Agreement is the largest trade treaty of its kind in
> history. The economies of the 52 countries involved in the negotiation,
> which is being led by the United States, are mostly the supply of services.
> According to World Bank figures, services comprise 75% of the EU economy,
> 80% of the US economy and the majority of the global economy. Notably
> excluded in the TiSA negotiations are the emerging economies and the BRICS
> (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
> The "Energy Related Services Annex Proposal: Questions and Answers"
> document
> sets out TiSA designs to create an international market in energy-related
> services for foreign suppliers. While heads of state prepare to sign
> climate
> accords in Paris, TiSA negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in
> Geneva
> to forge new limits on energy regulation.
> The "Annex on Environmental Services" reveals that TiSA will aim to ensure
> that national environmental protections within TiSA countries will be
> "harmonized down", promoting the interests of multinational companies
> providing water purification, sanitation and refuse disposal services over
> worker safety, public health and the natural environment. Assessing the
> agreement, Friends of the Earth calls TiSA "an environmental hazard",
> pointing out that public services of an environmentally sensitive nature
> are
> in danger of being privatized. Commenting on the "Annex on Road Freight
> Transport and Related Logistical Services", the International Transport
> Workers Federation (ITF) calls TiSA a "race to the bottom," observing that
> the Annex joins other Annexes published by WikiLeaks to form an overarching
> trade liberalization agenda, fragmenting the trucking industry, opening up
> sensitive areas of the transport sector to international competition, and
> contributing to the ongoing privatization of public services, undercutting
> workers' rights, public health and safety, and the ability of national
> governments to plan and direct their own industrial and infrastructural
> development.
> While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and
> Investment Pact (TTIP) have received attention, the TiSA is the largest
> component of the United States' "Big Three," the triumvirate of strategic
> neoliberal trade deals being advanced by the Obama administration.
> Together,
> the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for
> transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which
> excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
>
> READ MORE
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. Error! Hyperlink reference not
> valid.
>
> Wikileaks. (image: Guardian UK)
> https://wikileaks.org/tisa/press.htmlhttps://wikileaks.org/tisa/press.html
> WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
> By Press Release | WikiLeaks
> 03 December 15
> oday, Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
> documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being
> negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of
> global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's
> publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation
> of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural
> environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents.
> The Trade In Services Agreement is the largest trade treaty of its kind in
> history. The economies of the 52 countries involved in the negotiation,
> which is being led by the United States, are mostly the supply of services.
> According to World Bank figures, services comprise 75% of the EU economy,
> 80% of the US economy and the majority of the global economy. Notably
> excluded in the TiSA negotiations are the emerging economies and the BRICS
> (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
> The "Energy Related Services Annex Proposal: Questions and Answers"
> document
> sets out TiSA designs to create an international market in energy-related
> services for foreign suppliers. While heads of state prepare to sign
> climate
> accords in Paris, TiSA negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in
> Geneva
> to forge new limits on energy regulation.
> The "Annex on Environmental Services" reveals that TiSA will aim to ensure
> that national environmental protections within TiSA countries will be
> "harmonized down", promoting the interests of multinational companies
> providing water purification, sanitation and refuse disposal services over
> worker safety, public health and the natural environment. Assessing the
> agreement, Friends of the Earth calls TiSA "an environmental hazard",
> pointing out that public services of an environmentally sensitive nature
> are
> in danger of being privatized. Commenting on the "Annex on Road Freight
> Transport and Related Logistical Services", the International Transport
> Workers Federation (ITF) calls TiSA a "race to the bottom," observing that
> the Annex joins other Annexes published by WikiLeaks to form an overarching
> trade liberalization agenda, fragmenting the trucking industry, opening up
> sensitive areas of the transport sector to international competition, and
> contributing to the ongoing privatization of public services, undercutting
> workers' rights, public health and safety, and the ability of national
> governments to plan and direct their own industrial and infrastructural
> development.
> While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and
> Investment Pact (TTIP) have received attention, the TiSA is the largest
> component of the United States' "Big Three," the triumvirate of strategic
> neoliberal trade deals being advanced by the Obama administration.
> Together,
> the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for
> transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which
> excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>
>
>
that is so secret that the American People are not permitted to know
about, before our so called democracy is removed from the Public's
control?
How can we be, "We, The People", when we do not have a clue as to what
is going on in our name?
What will it take for the American People to wake up to the fact that
we are no longer Citizens? At best we are Consumers. At worst we are
Servants or Subjects held ignorant of the dealings of the government.
When I hear phrases like, "Justice for All", I have to wonder just
who, "All" is.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/4/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> v
> Excerpt: "WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the huge Trade in
> Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being negotiated by the US, EU and 22
> other countries that account for 2/3rds of global GDP. Coinciding with the
> ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's publication touches on issues of
> crucial relevance including the regulation of energy, industrial
> development, workers' rights and the natural environment."
>
> Wikileaks. (image: Guardian UK)
>
>
> WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
> By Press Release | WikiLeaks
> 03 December 15
>
> Today, Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
> documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being
> negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of
> global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's
> publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation
> of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural
> environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents.
> The Trade In Services Agreement is the largest trade treaty of its kind in
> history. The economies of the 52 countries involved in the negotiation,
> which is being led by the United States, are mostly the supply of services.
> According to World Bank figures, services comprise 75% of the EU economy,
> 80% of the US economy and the majority of the global economy. Notably
> excluded in the TiSA negotiations are the emerging economies and the BRICS
> (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
> The "Energy Related Services Annex Proposal: Questions and Answers"
> document
> sets out TiSA designs to create an international market in energy-related
> services for foreign suppliers. While heads of state prepare to sign
> climate
> accords in Paris, TiSA negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in
> Geneva
> to forge new limits on energy regulation.
> The "Annex on Environmental Services" reveals that TiSA will aim to ensure
> that national environmental protections within TiSA countries will be
> "harmonized down", promoting the interests of multinational companies
> providing water purification, sanitation and refuse disposal services over
> worker safety, public health and the natural environment. Assessing the
> agreement, Friends of the Earth calls TiSA "an environmental hazard",
> pointing out that public services of an environmentally sensitive nature
> are
> in danger of being privatized. Commenting on the "Annex on Road Freight
> Transport and Related Logistical Services", the International Transport
> Workers Federation (ITF) calls TiSA a "race to the bottom," observing that
> the Annex joins other Annexes published by WikiLeaks to form an overarching
> trade liberalization agenda, fragmenting the trucking industry, opening up
> sensitive areas of the transport sector to international competition, and
> contributing to the ongoing privatization of public services, undercutting
> workers' rights, public health and safety, and the ability of national
> governments to plan and direct their own industrial and infrastructural
> development.
> While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and
> Investment Pact (TTIP) have received attention, the TiSA is the largest
> component of the United States' "Big Three," the triumvirate of strategic
> neoliberal trade deals being advanced by the Obama administration.
> Together,
> the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for
> transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which
> excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
>
> READ MORE
> Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. Error! Hyperlink reference not
> valid.
>
> Wikileaks. (image: Guardian UK)
> https://wikileaks.org/tisa/press.htmlhttps://wikileaks.org/tisa/press.html
> WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents
> By Press Release | WikiLeaks
> 03 December 15
> oday, Thursday, December 3, 10am EST, WikiLeaks releases new secret
> documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being
> negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of
> global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's
> publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation
> of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural
> environment. WikiLeaks is also publishing expert analyses of the documents.
> The Trade In Services Agreement is the largest trade treaty of its kind in
> history. The economies of the 52 countries involved in the negotiation,
> which is being led by the United States, are mostly the supply of services.
> According to World Bank figures, services comprise 75% of the EU economy,
> 80% of the US economy and the majority of the global economy. Notably
> excluded in the TiSA negotiations are the emerging economies and the BRICS
> (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
> The "Energy Related Services Annex Proposal: Questions and Answers"
> document
> sets out TiSA designs to create an international market in energy-related
> services for foreign suppliers. While heads of state prepare to sign
> climate
> accords in Paris, TiSA negotiators are meeting behind closed doors in
> Geneva
> to forge new limits on energy regulation.
> The "Annex on Environmental Services" reveals that TiSA will aim to ensure
> that national environmental protections within TiSA countries will be
> "harmonized down", promoting the interests of multinational companies
> providing water purification, sanitation and refuse disposal services over
> worker safety, public health and the natural environment. Assessing the
> agreement, Friends of the Earth calls TiSA "an environmental hazard",
> pointing out that public services of an environmentally sensitive nature
> are
> in danger of being privatized. Commenting on the "Annex on Road Freight
> Transport and Related Logistical Services", the International Transport
> Workers Federation (ITF) calls TiSA a "race to the bottom," observing that
> the Annex joins other Annexes published by WikiLeaks to form an overarching
> trade liberalization agenda, fragmenting the trucking industry, opening up
> sensitive areas of the transport sector to international competition, and
> contributing to the ongoing privatization of public services, undercutting
> workers' rights, public health and safety, and the ability of national
> governments to plan and direct their own industrial and infrastructural
> development.
> While the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and
> Investment Pact (TTIP) have received attention, the TiSA is the largest
> component of the United States' "Big Three," the triumvirate of strategic
> neoliberal trade deals being advanced by the Obama administration.
> Together,
> the three treaties form not only a new legal order hospitable for
> transnational corporations, but a new economic "grand enclosure", which
> excludes China and all other BRICS countries.
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
> http://e-max.it/posizionamento-siti-web/socialize
>
>
>
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