Archive for 2011/10/01

You know what is so impressive… you were talking about an Arab Spring. We
could be on the verge of American Autumn. These young people are so impressive.
They are out there. They are speaking for millions of people. These banksters
are some of the worst people in the world. They’re horrible people, because they
would be homeless if they were treated based on their performance. The American
people stood up and bailed them out. We stood up. Taxpayers and homeowners gave
them money to keep them in business.

They won’t even return the phone calls of American homeowners now trying to
get their mortgages redone, students with student loans who need help. Give me a
break, I can’t a job. I got a two year unpaid internship. They won’t even return
their phone calls so these people have gone to the scene of the crime against
our future, Wall Street. So now you’ve got this face off between some of the
most selfish people in American politics and some of the most selfless, and I
think we should stand with them. I’m so proud of them. I don’t know what to do
with myself.

http://www.inquisitr.com/146899/video-van-jones-appears-on-bill-maher-predicts-american-autumn-revolution/

Cops arrested protesters from the Occupy Wall Street Group Saturday afternoon  after they marched onto the Brooklyn Bridge.

It was not immediately clear how many were taken into custody, but several  could be seen being taken away in cuffs on a live video feed provided by the  organization.

Organizers said that just before 4:40 p.m., around 20 people had been  arrested, according to spokesman Patrick Brunner.

The protesters appeared to be corralled on the Bridge’s Brooklyn-bound  roadway in orange nets.

At one point they chanted “Let us go! Let us go!” and “We’re not the  criminals!

http://www.dnainfo.com/20111001/downtown/occupy-wall-street-protesters-arrested-on-brooklyn-bridge

 

Dutch language news article:
http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2630361/krakers-demonstreren-in-amsterdam.html

Previously:
17 protesters arrested in The Netherlands. They were protesting against the 1-year-old anti-squatting law
http://vrritti.com/2011/10/01/17-protesters-arrested-in-the-netherlands-they-were-protesting-against-the-1-year-old-anti-squatting-law/

The signing is a step towards bringing into effect the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which is designed to strengthen the legal framework for intellectual property rights, said Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).

“As with many of the challenges we face in today’s global economy, no government can single-handedly eliminate the problem of global counterfeiting and piracy,” Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Miriam Sapiro said at the ceremony, according to a copy of her remarks released in Washington.

“Signing this agreement is therefore an act of shared leadership and determination in the international fight against intellectual property (IP) theft,” Sapiro said.

More:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/10/01/uk-japan-trade-counterfeiting-idUKTRE79018620111001

In tonight’s Fireside Friday Alyona expresses her support for the Occupy Wall St. movement, saying it’s about time that people stand up and express their anger peacefully against the powers at be- the media, politicians and the bankers. Standing up is what hope and change is really about.

Army serviceman  Ward  Reilly posted the following on Facebook, “I’m  heading up there tonight in my dress blues. So far, 15 of my fellow marine  buddies are meeting me there, also in Uniform.

I want to send the following message to Wall St and Congress:

I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America. Now it’s Congress’ turn.

http://www.in5d.com/occupy-wall-street-the-marines-are-coming-to-protect-the-protestors.html

The state and corporate forces are determined to crush this. They are not going
to wait for you. They are terrified this will spread. They have their long
phalanxes of police on motorcycles, their rows of white paddy wagons, their foot
soldiers hunting for you on the streets with pepper spray and orange plastic
nets.

They have their metal barricades set up on every single street leading
into the New York financial district, where the mandarins in Brooks Brothers
suits use your money, money they stole from you, to gamble and speculate and
gorge themselves while one in four children outside those barricades depend on
food stamps to eat. Speculation in the 17th century was a crime. Speculators
were hanged. Today they run the state and the financial markets.

They disseminate the lies that pollute our airwaves. They know, even better than you,
how pervasive the corruption and theft have become, how gamed the system is
against you, how corporations have cemented into place a thin oligarchic class
and an obsequious cadre of politicians, judges and journalists who live in their
little gated Versailles while 6 million Americans are thrown out of their homes,
a number soon to rise to 10 million, where a million people a year go bankrupt
because they cannot pay their medical bills and 45,000 die from lack of proper
care, where real joblessness is spiraling to over 20 percent, where the
citizens, including students, spend lives toiling in debt peonage, working
dead-end jobs, when they have jobs, a world devoid of hope, a world of masters
and serfs.

More:
http://www.alternet.org/world/152592/no_excuses_–_join_the_occupy_wall_st._movement_or_stand_on_the_wrong_side_of_history

 

One of the women arrested, Carolyn Grant, told the Herald: “We had to set a stand to let Bank of America know they cannot foreclose on families and put them out on the street.”

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/223216/20111001/bank-of-america-protest-boston-foreclosure-mortgage.htm

Some got arrested for carrying banners partially made out of wood, as the government feels that those could be used as weapons. Others were arrested for having their faces covered with clothing

Dutch language news article:

http://www.nu.nl/binnenland/2630361/krakers-demonstreren-in-amsterdam.html
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/10654794/__Krakers_demonstreren__.html?p=1,1

The NRB released a report at the National Press Club Thursday analyzing the various content policies of social networking websites. What they found was disturbing: new media platforms Facebook, Apple, Comcast, AT&T and Google have adopted policies to censor lawful viewpoints expressing Christian views or controversial ideas on “hot button issues.” Some platforms, such as Apple’s iTunes App Store and Google’s search engine, have already started to use those policies to remove orthodox Christian viewpoints considered “offensive” or too controversial.

Former Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth said, “The irony is the companies listed in this report are some of the most open companies in the world.”

In a January 2010 interview with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg praised social networking for opening people up to share “more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people.”

However, Zuckerberg’s social network has removed content deemed “anti-gay,” according to the NRB report. It is unclear whether that censored material contained any religious expression. However, the NRB report warns, “The position of Facebook on the issue of homosexuality and its collaboration with gay right group the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Discrimination (GLAAD), coupled with its troublesome written policies, are all strong indicators that its social networking platform poses a high index of risk for anti-Christian discrimination.”

The Associated Press caught Comcast blocking or at least delaying peer-to-peer file sharing of the King James Bible.

Google has also committed a number of free speech violations, the NRB report alleges. The world’s most powerful search engine initially prohibited the English Christian Institute from purchasing space for an advertisement about abortion. It also allegedly blocked a Massachusetts pro-family website because of its conservative Christian content. Google also has also excluded churches and other faith groups from free or discounted use of its web tool Google for nonprofits.

Colby May, senior counsel and director for the American Center for Law and Justice, said of new media’s apparent split personality, “Something else is in play.” He and others attending a panel discussion of the report suggested that social networking platforms are under a tremendous amount of pressure from various special interest groups.

For example, Google removed pages of a Norwegian anti-Church of Scientology site after it was pressured to do so by Church of Scientology lawyers.

And when Facebook, citing its outlined responsibility policies, abruptly yanked a fairly innocuous photo of two fully clothed male actors kissing from the blog post of gay rights activist Richard Metzger, it sparked criticism in the gay community, leading Facebook to repost the photo.

Facebook issued a formal apology and reposted the picture. The report contrasts this incident with several others where Facebook “has permanently and unapologetically removed sexual content.”

The grossest act of anti-Christian censorship, according to the report, is Apple’s removal of the Exodus International and Manhattan Declaration apps.

More:
http://www.gospelherald.net/article/international/47532/facebook-google-apple-censoring-religious-speech.htm

Previously:

It’s the algorithm, stupid! Do algorithms offer the ultimate grounds for exoneration? Can they fail, or only the people writing them?
http://vrritti.com/2011/09/30/its-the-algorithm-stupid-do-algorithms-offer-the-ultimate-grounds-for-exoneration-can-they-fail-or-only-the-people-writing-them/

 

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RT reports: Occupy Wall Street – a revolution?

The other eight organizations expected to join in the October 5 rally, based on its Facebook page, are United NY, Strong Economy for All Coalition, Working Families Party, VOCAL-NY, Community Voices Heard, Alliance for Quality Education, New York Communities for Change, Coalition for the Homeless, which have a collective membership of over 1 million.

http://lewrockwell.com/slavo/slavo61.1.html

The brave men and women, many of them young people without jobs, who have been demonstrating around-the-clock for nearly two weeks in New York City are speaking out for the many in our world. We are fed up with the corporate greed, corruption and arrogance that have inflicted pain on far too many for far too long.

Our union has been standing up and fighting these captains of finance who promote Wall Street over Main Street. We know firsthand the devastation caused by a global economy where workers, their families, the environment and our futures are sacrificed so that a privileged few can make more money on everyone’s labor but their own.

Wall Street and its counterparts on Bay Street (Toronto), The City (London) and across the world tanked our economy in 2008. They caused a crisis that we’re still suffering from – record job losses, home foreclosures, cuts to schools, public services, police, fire and so much more. They’ve gambled with our pension funds and our futures for far too long.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/30/3951832/usw-supports-the-occupy-wall-street.html

The workers who build America – the half-million men and women of LIUNA – are united behind the fight against corporate tyranny and for economic prosperity for all and stand with the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City and across the United States.

The half-million members of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – are on the forefront of the construction industry, a powerhouse of workers who are proud to build America.

SOURCE Laborers’ International Union of North America

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/30/3951641/statement-of-terry-osullivan-general.html

Although police came ready for mass arrests, carrying rolls of orange mesh used to pen in crowds, the demonstration passed off peacefully.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/1001/wallstreet.html