Bulletin N°500
Subject: ON THE STRUGGLE FOR NEW LIFE WITHIN THE SHELL OF THE OLD. |
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from Mark Crispin Miller :
Date: 1 October 2011
Subject: An interview on Wall Street with 26-year old Jason McGauhey: Reporting from the Streets.
http://markcrispinmiller.com
James McGauhey, a 26-year-old from Carthage, works with individuals with developmental disabilities. Or at least he did. McGauhey quit his job to come organize and camp out at the-now-occupied-and-renamed Liberty Plaza, located approximately a thousand yards from Wall Street.
As trading came to a close on Sept. 28, Day 12 of the Occupy Wall Street movement, hundreds of protesters took part in what has become a now-regular march on the U.S.’s leading financial institutions.
As the demonstrators filed by Wall Street’s iconic statue, calls to “castrate the bull” erupted. While passing One Chase Manhattan Plaza they chanted, “The banks got bailed out, we got sold out.”
From the bank bailouts to the ongoing wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the protesters say the government is acting on behalf of an elite few, while serious needs continue to go unmet.
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from Reader Supported News :
Date: 29 September 2011
Subject: "Take the Bull by the Horns".
http://lists.readersupportednews.org/
The aim of OCCUPYWALLSTREET is to draw protesters to New York's financial district in a non-violent protest to spark a mass movement against corporate dominance. While the corporate media ignores the protest, Reader Supported News will continue to report on the latest developments.
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from Democracy Now! :
Date: 25 September 2011
Subject: A US Autumn Responding to Arab Spring.
http://www.democracynow.org/
It's impossible to translate the issue of the greed of Wall Street into one demand, or two demands. We're talking about a democratic awakening.... you're talking about raising political consciousness so it spills over all parts of the country, so people can begin to see what's going on through a set of different lens.
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from Richard Charnin :
Date: 22 June 2011
Subject: On believing that Bush won the 2004 elections....
http://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/
Do you believe the Final 2004 National Exit Poll? If so, you must also believe that there were 6 million more returning Bush 2000 voters than were still living in 2004.
Based on the Final National Exit Poll vote shares, in order for Bush to win by his 3.0 million recorded vote margin, he needed a 90% turnout of living Bush 2000 voters and just 62% of returning Gore voters. If you believe that, there is a great Chinese restaurant in lower Manhattan near a famous old bridge that’s for sale.
Assuming 90% Bush 2000 voter turnout, Kerry needed just 71% Gore turnout to win by 360,000 votes. Consider the following 36 myths and anomalies about the 2004 election.
1- Myth: The media exhaustively analyzed state and national pre-election /exit poll data and documented evidence of vote suppression and miscounts.
Fact: Raw exit poll precinct data has never been made public.
2- Myth: There are many explanations as to why the exit polls were wrong: Kerry voters were more approachable to be interviewed; Bush voters were reluctant to be interviewed; interviewers sought out Kerry voters; returning Gore voters told exit pollsters that they voted for Bush in 2000; exit polls are not random samples; exit polls in the U.S. are not designed to catch election fraud; early polling overstated the Kerry vote; women voted early; Republicans voted late; Gore voters defected to Bush at twice the rate that Bush voters defected to Kerry, etc.
Fact: None of these claims are supported by the evidence.
3- Myth: The votes were fairly counted.
Fact: 2004 U.S. Census vote data indicates that 125.7 million votes were cast. Only 122.3m were recorded. Investigative reporter Greg Palast provided government data which documented 3 million uncounted votes.
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from Reader Supported News :
Date 30 September 2011
Subject: Is the World Too Big to Fail?
http://www.readersupportednews.org/
Elections have become a charade, run by the public relations industry. After his 2008 victory, Obama won an award from the industry for the best marketing campaign of the year. Executives were euphoric. In the business press they explained that they had been marketing candidates like other commodities since Ronald Reagan, but 2008 was their greatest achievement and would change the style in corporate boardrooms. The 2012 election is expected to cost $2bn, mostly in corporate funding. Small wonder that Obama is selecting business leaders for top positions.