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Monday, October 31, 2011
Occupy Oakland General Assembly Approves General Strike by 96.9%! 10/26
other areas have called for a general strike as well. Might be a good "blue flu" day for folks.
note: good day "not" to do shopping, buy gas, do the atm thing or anything else. when it comes to money, our masters do pay attention.
good day to call politcos and tell them your support for occupy wall street:
McCaskill, Claire - (D - MO) Class I
506 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6154
Blunt, Roy - (R - MO) Class III
260 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5721
Durbin, Richard J. - (D - IL) Class II
711 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2152
Kirk, Mark - (R - IL) Class III
524 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2854
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Joplin tornado hero is denied workers comp for injuries
Joplin tornado hero is denied workers comp for injuries
click link above for full story:
from article
"JOPLIN, Mo. • By all accounts, Mark Lindquist is a hero, a social worker who nearly gave his life trying to save three developmentally disabled adults from the Joplin tornado. Both houses of the Missouri Legislature honored Lindquist, the Senate resolution calling him "a true hero and inspiration to others."
But heroism doesn't pay the bills. The tornado's 200 mph wind tossed Lindquist nearly a block, broke every rib, obliterated a shoulder, knocked out most of his teeth and put him in a coma for about two months.
Lindquist's medical expenses exceed $2.5 million, and the bills keep coming. He requires 11 daily prescriptions and will need more surgery.
But he has no medical insurance. Lindquist, 51, couldn't afford it on a job paying barely above minimum wage. He assumed workers' compensation would cover his bills, but his claim was denied "based on the fact that there was no greater risk than the general public at the time you were involved in the Joplin tornado," according to a letter to Lindquist from Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, his company's workers' comp provider.
That reasoning has angered Lindquist's family, employer, even lawmakers.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/missouri/article_cb4b252a-5617-5cdd-bc18-9c6522c68b12.html#ixzz1bhqkxQ7v
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comment: and some folks wonder why folks protesting in the streets. this sucks and should not be allowed
click link above for full story:
from article
"JOPLIN, Mo. • By all accounts, Mark Lindquist is a hero, a social worker who nearly gave his life trying to save three developmentally disabled adults from the Joplin tornado. Both houses of the Missouri Legislature honored Lindquist, the Senate resolution calling him "a true hero and inspiration to others."
But heroism doesn't pay the bills. The tornado's 200 mph wind tossed Lindquist nearly a block, broke every rib, obliterated a shoulder, knocked out most of his teeth and put him in a coma for about two months.
Lindquist's medical expenses exceed $2.5 million, and the bills keep coming. He requires 11 daily prescriptions and will need more surgery.
But he has no medical insurance. Lindquist, 51, couldn't afford it on a job paying barely above minimum wage. He assumed workers' compensation would cover his bills, but his claim was denied "based on the fact that there was no greater risk than the general public at the time you were involved in the Joplin tornado," according to a letter to Lindquist from Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, his company's workers' comp provider.
That reasoning has angered Lindquist's family, employer, even lawmakers.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/state-and-regional/missouri/article_cb4b252a-5617-5cdd-bc18-9c6522c68b12.html#ixzz1bhqkxQ7v
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comment: and some folks wonder why folks protesting in the streets. this sucks and should not be allowed
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Paul Krugman: The whining lords of finance
Paul Krugman: The whining lords of finance
click link above
from article
"As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, the response from the movement's targets has gradually changed: contemptuous dismissal has been replaced by whining. (A reader of my blog suggests that we start calling our ruling class the "kvetchocracy.") The modern lords of finance look at the protesters and ask, Don't they understand what we've done for the U.S. economy?
The answer is: Yes, many of the protesters do understand what Wall Street and more generally the nation's economic elite have done for us. And that's why they're protesting.
On Saturday, The New York Times reported what people in the financial industry are saying privately about the protests. My favorite quote came from an unnamed money manager who declared, "Financial services are one of the last things we do in this country and do it well. Let's embrace it."
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/paul-krugman/article_c7a4eaba-d777-5760-8924-59bbe37c0db5.html#ixzz1bc5rSDRW
click link above
from article
"As the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to grow, the response from the movement's targets has gradually changed: contemptuous dismissal has been replaced by whining. (A reader of my blog suggests that we start calling our ruling class the "kvetchocracy.") The modern lords of finance look at the protesters and ask, Don't they understand what we've done for the U.S. economy?
The answer is: Yes, many of the protesters do understand what Wall Street and more generally the nation's economic elite have done for us. And that's why they're protesting.
On Saturday, The New York Times reported what people in the financial industry are saying privately about the protests. My favorite quote came from an unnamed money manager who declared, "Financial services are one of the last things we do in this country and do it well. Let's embrace it."
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/paul-krugman/article_c7a4eaba-d777-5760-8924-59bbe37c0db5.html#ixzz1bc5rSDRW
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Senator Blunt on 93.9 The Eagle with Tom Bradley 10/20/2011
not onboard with a lot of Mr. Blunt's efforts. However, he is a senator from Missouri and worth keeping track
Senator Blunt Speaks on Senate Floor Regarding Impact of 3% Withholding ...
good senator against jobs---teachers, cops and more
Thursday, October 20, 2011
10-19-11 1a - GOP Vs. OWS, with Markos Moulitsas - Countdown with Keith ...
Soar 11-3 agree with protestors
Orly Taitz Exposes Barack Obama for Social Security Fraud.
old one, but merits repeating
what a moron
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Sunday, October 16, 2011
‘Occupiers’ are here in KC, but they’re not sure why - KansasCity.com
‘Occupiers’ are here in KC, but they’re not sure why - KansasCity.com
click link above
note: why are these folks doing this? same as all the other demonstrations, occupations and more: basic injustice to the people across the board. folks have economic rights and those rights being trodden down by a corrupt system.
what we have today is not capitolism, but piracy by the 1%
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note: why are these folks doing this? same as all the other demonstrations, occupations and more: basic injustice to the people across the board. folks have economic rights and those rights being trodden down by a corrupt system.
what we have today is not capitolism, but piracy by the 1%
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Let's All Occupy Wall Street Together - Fox News, Henican, Varney
indeed some teabaggers have joined this movement
Friday, October 14, 2011
Editorial: What do you call Occupy Wall Street? A start.
Editorial: What do you call Occupy Wall Street? A start.
click link above
from article:
What is happening these days at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, at Kiener Plaza in St. Louis and in dozens of other cities around the country, may or may not be of lasting national significance.
To watch MSNBC is to see the Occupy Wall Street and its spin-off demonstrations described as the first stirrings of class revolt. To watch Fox News is see them ridiculed and dismissed as theater.
To delve into news accounts, blogs and Facebook posts of the Occupy groups is to come away confused about their goals, baffled by their tactics, shocked their political naïveté and disappointed in their weak grasp of detail.
But it's useful to remember that the whole thing began only a month ago. It's too young to be a full-bore movement, too scattershot to be very effective. It is, however, an outcry — a recognition that some fundamental tenets of the American social contract are in tatters.
Will it spread and coalesce? It's too early to say. When the rains of November and snows of December start to fall, will people still be willing to live in tents pitched on concrete? Or will it have a metamorphosis into something else, perhaps more radical, perhaps more effective?
It's possible, maybe even probable. The problems the Occupiers have sort of identified really are far worse than they know.
The Occupiers style themselves as the heirs of the Arab Spring protesters in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, which is to overestimate the burdens of, say, overdue student loans and underestimate those of, say, government torture and corruption.
America has its own set of problems. Massive wealth inequality has converged with structural economic dislocation caused by globalization and digitalization. The result is an economy that doesn't offer much promise of a middle-class lifestyle.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/article_2cf0ba6d-b380-5d43-9683-136aa1123563.html#ixzz1akyjJt4b
click link above
from article:
What is happening these days at Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, at Kiener Plaza in St. Louis and in dozens of other cities around the country, may or may not be of lasting national significance.
To watch MSNBC is to see the Occupy Wall Street and its spin-off demonstrations described as the first stirrings of class revolt. To watch Fox News is see them ridiculed and dismissed as theater.
To delve into news accounts, blogs and Facebook posts of the Occupy groups is to come away confused about their goals, baffled by their tactics, shocked their political naïveté and disappointed in their weak grasp of detail.
But it's useful to remember that the whole thing began only a month ago. It's too young to be a full-bore movement, too scattershot to be very effective. It is, however, an outcry — a recognition that some fundamental tenets of the American social contract are in tatters.
Will it spread and coalesce? It's too early to say. When the rains of November and snows of December start to fall, will people still be willing to live in tents pitched on concrete? Or will it have a metamorphosis into something else, perhaps more radical, perhaps more effective?
It's possible, maybe even probable. The problems the Occupiers have sort of identified really are far worse than they know.
The Occupiers style themselves as the heirs of the Arab Spring protesters in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, which is to overestimate the burdens of, say, overdue student loans and underestimate those of, say, government torture and corruption.
America has its own set of problems. Massive wealth inequality has converged with structural economic dislocation caused by globalization and digitalization. The result is an economy that doesn't offer much promise of a middle-class lifestyle.
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/the-platform/article_2cf0ba6d-b380-5d43-9683-136aa1123563.html#ixzz1akyjJt4b
National Day of Action — Saturday, October 15 Saint Louis
Wake-up St. Louis!
We need your support this Saturday.
Join us to celebrate this national day of action by hitting the streets to talk to people in St. Louis about the Occupy Wall Street movement. We will gather at Kiener Plaza at 2pm and then break out into teams to go to Cherokee, Grand, the Loop, Soulard, and other neighborhoods to reach out to people. We will talk together first about different ways to engage people and spread the word before heading out.
note: watch out for politicians--some on board and some out making voter brownie points
We need your support this Saturday.
Join us to celebrate this national day of action by hitting the streets to talk to people in St. Louis about the Occupy Wall Street movement. We will gather at Kiener Plaza at 2pm and then break out into teams to go to Cherokee, Grand, the Loop, Soulard, and other neighborhoods to reach out to people. We will talk together first about different ways to engage people and spread the word before heading out.
note: watch out for politicians--some on board and some out making voter brownie points
The Sixth Official Statement of the Occupy St Louis General Assembly
Occupy St. Louis issues the following statement of solidarity in response to the police actions taken against various Occupy Movements in the last 48 hours:
1. We specifically condemn all attacks and arrests made by the Boston police force against the persons of Occupy Boston, as well as all attacks and arrests made by any police force against any Occupy Movement.
2. We specifically condemn the destruction of the property of the Boston Occupiers.
3. We stand by our brothers and sisters as they assert their right to assemble peacefully and create a space in which their voices can be heard.
4. We support all occupations within the Occupy Movement in their efforts to maintain and occupy their chosen spaces.
5. We condemn all coordinated actions made against any occupation within the Occupy Movement.
6. We condemn all media bans of Occupy Movements worldwide.
7. We specifically support the cooperative spirit of the Mayor of Seattle in his requests to the Seattle police force to pull back from its actions against the Seattle Occupiers.
8. We specifically condemn the breakdown in cooperation between the Mayor of Seattle and the Seattle police force, primarily because of its potential to facilitate violent police action.
9. We wish to express our support for the continued, collaborative efforts of all Occupy Movements to disseminate information and updates about police actions taken against any Occupy Movement.
10. We wish to express our support for the continuation of every city’s Occupy Movement, no matter the opposition it has faced.
1. We specifically condemn all attacks and arrests made by the Boston police force against the persons of Occupy Boston, as well as all attacks and arrests made by any police force against any Occupy Movement.
2. We specifically condemn the destruction of the property of the Boston Occupiers.
3. We stand by our brothers and sisters as they assert their right to assemble peacefully and create a space in which their voices can be heard.
4. We support all occupations within the Occupy Movement in their efforts to maintain and occupy their chosen spaces.
5. We condemn all coordinated actions made against any occupation within the Occupy Movement.
6. We condemn all media bans of Occupy Movements worldwide.
7. We specifically support the cooperative spirit of the Mayor of Seattle in his requests to the Seattle police force to pull back from its actions against the Seattle Occupiers.
8. We specifically condemn the breakdown in cooperation between the Mayor of Seattle and the Seattle police force, primarily because of its potential to facilitate violent police action.
9. We wish to express our support for the continued, collaborative efforts of all Occupy Movements to disseminate information and updates about police actions taken against any Occupy Movement.
10. We wish to express our support for the continuation of every city’s Occupy Movement, no matter the opposition it has faced.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
More Jobs for Americans: Stand with President Obama to Continue the Figh...
too little, too lame and will not pass congress if I could guess--my opinion
if the bill is broken up, gop will pass what they want and ignore the rest. some folks seem never to learn
Fox News' Bill Kristol Encourages Occupy Wall Street Protestors To Defea...
I suspect these folks full of horsepucky
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Paul Krugman: Debasing the dollar
Paul Krugman: Debasing the dollar
click link above for story
note: usw did lobby last week in DC for some actions along this line
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note: usw did lobby last week in DC for some actions along this line
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Friday, October 7, 2011
Dana MIlbank: The Obamacare obsession
Dana MIlbank: The Obamacare obsession
click link for good analysis
snip from article:
By most of the usual measures, President Obama has no business being re-elected. Here's why he might be anyway.
On Wednesday morning, as Senate Democratic leaders were scrambling to find a way to enact part of Obama's jobs bill, a dozen Republican lawmakers assembled outside the Capitol to complain about ... health care reform.
"Every day I get up, I do at least something to fight Obamacare," Rep. Steve King of Iowa announced to the cameras.
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina proclaimed that the year-and-a-half-old law meant the 'socialization of medicine."
"Monstrous!" contributed Rep. Joe Pitts pf Pennsylvania. "This was a 2,733-page bill! ... No amendments! ... Partisan vote!"
Maybe so, gentlemen, but don't you have something better to do with your time?
The president's support is mired in the low 40s in opinion polls, and three-quarters of Americans think the country is on the wrong track — an obvious opportunity for the opposition party. But rather than exploit Obama's vulnerability on the economy, the tea party faithful are stuck in 2010, demanding repeal of the health care law.
That has allowed Obama, despite his own belated focus on unemployment, to jump way out in front of Republicans on the issue: In the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, Obama has a 15-point advantage over congressional Republicans on job creation, and his jobs package enjoys majority support. The Republicans who assembled Wednesday on a patch of the Capitol lawn known as the "Senate Swamp" claimed that they, too, have a jobs plan: repealing Obamacare. "If the president wants a jobs bill, this is it: Repealing Obamacare is a jobs bill," proposed Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana. "We don't have to go through all the shenanigans of him coming up here and talking to a joint session of Congress."
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/dana-milbank/article_961692b3-a392-5307-a18f-f09853099397.html#ixzz1a7aD6isS
click link for good analysis
snip from article:
By most of the usual measures, President Obama has no business being re-elected. Here's why he might be anyway.
On Wednesday morning, as Senate Democratic leaders were scrambling to find a way to enact part of Obama's jobs bill, a dozen Republican lawmakers assembled outside the Capitol to complain about ... health care reform.
"Every day I get up, I do at least something to fight Obamacare," Rep. Steve King of Iowa announced to the cameras.
Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina proclaimed that the year-and-a-half-old law meant the 'socialization of medicine."
"Monstrous!" contributed Rep. Joe Pitts pf Pennsylvania. "This was a 2,733-page bill! ... No amendments! ... Partisan vote!"
Maybe so, gentlemen, but don't you have something better to do with your time?
The president's support is mired in the low 40s in opinion polls, and three-quarters of Americans think the country is on the wrong track — an obvious opportunity for the opposition party. But rather than exploit Obama's vulnerability on the economy, the tea party faithful are stuck in 2010, demanding repeal of the health care law.
That has allowed Obama, despite his own belated focus on unemployment, to jump way out in front of Republicans on the issue: In the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, Obama has a 15-point advantage over congressional Republicans on job creation, and his jobs package enjoys majority support. The Republicans who assembled Wednesday on a patch of the Capitol lawn known as the "Senate Swamp" claimed that they, too, have a jobs plan: repealing Obamacare. "If the president wants a jobs bill, this is it: Repealing Obamacare is a jobs bill," proposed Rep. Jeff Landry of Louisiana. "We don't have to go through all the shenanigans of him coming up here and talking to a joint session of Congress."
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/dana-milbank/article_961692b3-a392-5307-a18f-f09853099397.html#ixzz1a7aD6isS
George Will: Liberalism's collectivist impulse/ another senseless view from right
George Will: Liberalism's collectivist impulse
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from article:
"Elizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor and former Obama administration regulator (for consumer protection), is modern liberalism incarnate. As she seeks the Senate seat Democrats held for 57 years before 2010, when Scott Brown impertinently won it, she clarifies the liberal project, and the stakes of contemporary politics.
The project is to dilute the concept of individualism, thereby refuting respect for the individual's zone of sovereignty. The regulatory state, liberalism's instrument, constantly tries to contract that zone — for the individual's own good, it says. Warren says:
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. ... You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea — God bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/george-will/article_c7eea365-ee11-545e-afc8-439e31a02134.html#ixzz1a7Yv33Yx
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comment and my opinion:
George, you are full of it. read and see if you agree
Warren is correct and you are wrong
click link above
from article:
"Elizabeth Warren, Harvard law professor and former Obama administration regulator (for consumer protection), is modern liberalism incarnate. As she seeks the Senate seat Democrats held for 57 years before 2010, when Scott Brown impertinently won it, she clarifies the liberal project, and the stakes of contemporary politics.
The project is to dilute the concept of individualism, thereby refuting respect for the individual's zone of sovereignty. The regulatory state, liberalism's instrument, constantly tries to contract that zone — for the individual's own good, it says. Warren says:
"There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there — good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. ... You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea — God bless, keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/opinion/columns/george-will/article_c7eea365-ee11-545e-afc8-439e31a02134.html#ixzz1a7Yv33Yx
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comment and my opinion:
George, you are full of it. read and see if you agree
Warren is correct and you are wrong
OccupySTL demonstrators remain at Kiener--soar 11-3 supports these folks
OccupySTL demonstrators remain at Kiener
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Soar 11-3 supports these folks and proud of that fact
We believe such actions should have taken place during the healthcare debates and prior to last election as a matter of fact.
click link above
Soar 11-3 supports these folks and proud of that fact
We believe such actions should have taken place during the healthcare debates and prior to last election as a matter of fact.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Brunner enters U.S. Senate race
wonder how fec complaint going?
dems need a better canidate. Claire not the best and this fellow not worthy
Elizabeth Warren on Wall Street's Favorite Senator
I doubt soar 11-3 will get Wall street award as well
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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