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Welcome to 2015! If you thought 2014 was rough hold on to your seats! With the pro-corporate 114th Congress and a pliable pro-corporatist at the helm of The United States things will get much worse for the 99% while the Lame Stream Media will tell you some sycophantic rant about how Everything is Just Fine despite the avalanche of bad news from police arming-up and more protests to evil trade deals that potentially will make the U.S. and the EU on par with third world countries while the planet continues to burn and countless biospheres, microbial, plant and animal species disappear. As we transition from the 113th Congress Produces 22% of “Do-Nothing” 1947-1948 Counterpart to the newly-elected (by only about 20% of voters nationwide on average) GOPher-controlled 114th Congress we predict more crazy corporate-friendly legislation and the umpteenth challenge to The Affordable Health Care Act plus gutting any and all regulation authority to every department from the EPA to the SEC and more. We're not sure why these peeps are so hell-bent on destroying their constituents' lives and The Planet Earth (except for their 1% financial backers) except for GREED of MONEY. What we DO KNOW is that they are on a mission NOT for the Greater Good and perserving The GLOBAL Commons (earth, water, air) for We Da Peeps BUT to give handouts to their corporate polluters in any and every which way possible. Brick TeeVee will continue to bring you the most pertinent stories of 2015 and try to urge you to ACTION! Progressives need to start NOW to get candidates on ballots for the 2016 Elections - we have precious little time - so we peeps have something to VOTE FOR. The 2014 midterm election was an abberation: there's WAY MORE OF US than there is of THEM (Reference Ralph Nader's UNSTOPPABLE). Regardless of who are the presidential candidates it is VITALLY IMPORTANT we get PROGRESSIVE candidates on down-ticket races. The 2004 Election had a 70%+ turnout and back then it was EVANGELICALS (and OH SoS Ken Blackwell) who decided the election. Ten years later WE NOW have the upper hand and according to Nader BIG majorites across ideologies are OPPOSED to the corporate staus-quo agenda. The 2016 Republican National Convention Circle Jerk will be in our backyard. We at the Brick TeeVee Compound are working with groups to get a website going to help direct protesters to housing and events as they become available. Your work needs to START NOW and as we move through 2015 you will see just how DESTRUCTIVE and OUTRIGHT MEAN the GOPhers really are. You might even find some tea-bag right-wingers in your social circles and neighborhoods who may be swayed over to some common-sense thinking. Knock on some doors, make some flyers up, engage peeps and you'll find some unexpected allies. It all starts with US & YOU! RIGHT NOW. You'll be mildly surprised with the reaction once you start! Be sure to look up all your local orgs to help get started cuz they've been at it for some time too! OR even INFILTRATE the teabag groups with INFO and TRUTH they've not seen! Blow their minds! Then TAKE OVER! YOU CAN DO THIS. WE CAN DO THIS. Let's get busy!
CASE IN POINT: The PEW Research Center outlines what we've know for years: America’s wealth gap between middle-income and upper-income families is widest on record A new Pew Research Center analysis of wealth finds the gap between America’s upper-income and middle-income families has reached its highest level on record. In 2013, the median wealth of the nation’s upper-income families ($639,400) was nearly seven times the median wealth of middle-income families ($96,500), the widest wealth gap seen in 30 years when the Federal Reserve began collecting these data. In addition, America’s upper-income families have a median net worth that is nearly 70 times that of the country’s lower-income families, also the widest wealth gap between these families in 30 years.
..................... As a result, the estimated wealth gap between upper-income and middle-income families has increased during the recovery. In 2010, the median wealth of upper-income families was 6.2 times the median wealth of middle-income families. By 2013, that wealth ratio grew to 6.6. To be sure, the wealth gap between upper-income and middle-income families also widened during the Great Recession. The median wealth of all three income groups declined from 2007 to 2010. But upper-income families were not hit nearly as hard as lower- and middle-income families. Median wealth declined by 17% from 2007 ($718,000) to 2010 ($595,300) among upper-income families. In contrast, middle-income (-39%) and lower-income (-41%) families had larger declines in wealth. The larger losses among middle-income families resulted in the wealth gap between upper- and middle-income families rising from 2007 (4.5) to 2010 (6.2). ............... The latest data reinforce the larger story of America’s middle class household wealth stagnation over the past three decades. The Great Recession destroyed a significant amount of middle-income and lower-income families’ wealth, and the economic “recovery” has yet to be felt for them. Without any palpable increase in their wealth since 2010, middle- and lower-income families’ wealth levels in 2013 are comparable to where they were in the early 1990s. ................ While most American families remain financially stuck, upper-income families have seen their median wealth double from $318,100 in 1983 to $639,400 in 2013. The typical wealth level of these families increased each decade over the past 30 years. The Great Recession did set back the median wealth of upper-income families, but over the past three years these families have recouped some of their losses. WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Paul Buchheit at AlterNet tells us How American Corporations and the Super Rich Steal From the Rest of Us

1. The Corporations. As schools and local governments are going broke around the country, companies who built their businesses with American research and education and technology and infrastructure are paying less in taxes than ever before. Incredibly, over half of U.S. corporate foreign profits are now being held in tax havens, double the share of just twenty years ago. Corporations are stealing from the nation that made them rich.Corporations are stealing from the nation that made them rich. There are many examples of greed among individual firms. Based largely on 2014 SEC documents submitted by the companies themselves:

• ---Exxon has almost 80% of its productive oil and gas wells in the U.S. but declared only 17% of its income here. The company used a theoretical tax to account for 83% of last year's income tax bill, and paid less than 2% of its total income in current U.S. taxes.
  
• ---Chevron has about 75% of its oil and gas wells and almost 90% of its pipeline mileage in the United States, yet the company claimed only 13% of last year's income in the U.S., and paid almost nothing (less than 1/10 of 1%) in current U.S. taxes.
  
• ------Pfizer had 40% of last year's sales in the U.S., but claimed losses in the U.S. and $17 billion in profits overseas.

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2. The Forbes 40 Defenders of inequality argue that fortunes are deserved because of innovation and hard work. But many of the 40 Americans who own as much as the poorest half of the country have relied on less deserving means of accumulating great fortunes (details here). .............
3. The Deniers After 35 years of wealth theft there are still inequality deniers -- notably the American Enterprise Institute, which claims that income inequality has been shrinking since 1989, and that we should be asking whether or not the bottom 60% are paying their fair share. Another insult from The Federalist: Income Inequality Is Good For The Poor. The Reason Foundation tops it off, advising us that the best way to defuse the situation is to teach tolerance for inequality... All of which suggests that the theft of society's wealth may be due to ignorance as well as to greed. At AlterNet.com Lee Fang discusses Round Goes the Revolving Door: Black Water Lobbyist to Run House Intel Committee After lobbyist-run SuperPACs and big money efforts dominated the last election, legislators are now appointing lobbyists to literally manage the day-to-day affairs of Congress. For the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees government intelligence operations and agencies, the changing of the guard means a lobbyist for Academi, the defense contractor formerly known as Blackwater, is now in charge. Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA), the incoming chairman of the Intelligence Committee when the House reconvenes in January, announced that Jeff Shockey will be the new Staff Director of the committee. As a paid representative of Academi, Shockey and his firm have earned $80,000 this year peddling influence on behalf of Academi. In previous years, the House Intelligence Committee has investigated Blackwater over secret contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, the shoe is on the other foot. As Staff Director, the highest position on a committee for a staff member, Shockey will oversee the agencies that do business with his former employer. Shockey also represents a number of other companies with business before defense agencies: General Dynamics, Koch Industries, Northrop Grumman, United Launch Alliance, Innovative Defense Technologies and Boeing. The role reversal, for lobbyists to take brief stints in Congress after an election, has become a normalized. In a previous investigation for The Nation, we found that some corporate firms offer employment contracts with special bonuses for their staff to return to government jobs, ensuring the paycut the receive for passing through the revolving door to become public servants doesn’t have to alter their K Street lifestyle. Other committees are also hiring lobbyists. Congessman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) replacement as chair of the Oversight Committee, just hired Podesta Group lobbyist Sean McLaughlin as his new Staff Director. McLaughlin’s client list includes the Business Roundtable, a trade association for corporate CEOs of large firms. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) also hired a new chief of staff, Mark Isakowitz, who represents BP. So right there in a nutshell is what we can expect from the 114th Congress in 2015 just to start! And here's just one example of dark-of-night legislation the GOPhers are infamous for. Lambert Strether has a guest post at NakedCapitalism.com Cromnibus Pension Provisions Gut Forty Years of Policy, Allow Existing Pensions to Be Slashed Oddly, or not, “progressive” and Democratic loyalist commentary on the Cromnibus bill has — with occasional honorable exceptions – focused almost exclusively on Elizabeth Warren’s fight against a derivatives provision that might benefit big banks, as we saw yesterday, and has been silent about a provision that could do far worse and far more immediate harm to working people who made their retirement plans based on the belief that their pension rights were secure and backed by legislation, and the idea that a contract was a contract. Oldthink, I know! So in this post I want to rectify that mysterious silence, and take a look at the truly nauseating Kline-Miller amendment, passed by the House, and part of the Senate bill forwarded to Obama for his signature. David Dayen summarizes:

Under the bill, trustees would be enabled to cut pension benefits to current retirees, reversing a 40-year bond with workers who earned their retirement packages.

Michael Hilzick:

Under ERISA, the 1974 law governing pensions in the private sector, benefits already earned by a worker can’t be cut.

Now they can. That’s right. Even if you’re retired and vested in a private pension plan, your benefits could be cut. Congress retraded the deal (if I have the finance jargon right). That’s nauseating even for today’s official Washington. And the bill was passed in a thoroughly bipartisan fashion: Kline is a Minnesota Republican, and Miller is a “liberal” California Democrat. [Reach me that bucket, wouldja?] Who Does Kline-Miller Affect? I said your pension could be cut, so here’s how Kline-Miller works and who it applies to. ....................... Wait, you say. 1.5 million workers isn’t very many, and besides, I have a single employer pension, and so I’m safe from the chopping block. Not so fast! What matters is that a precedent has been set. The Wall Street Journal is practically rubbing its hands:

[The] measure included in Congress’s mammoth spending bill permits benefit cuts for retirees in one type of pension plan, a big shift that lawmakers and others believe could set a precedent for other troubled retirement programs. Lawmakers and experts, while divided over the merits of the change, largely agreed that it could well be the first of many.

Alicia Munnell, director of Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research says the change:

“is letting the genie out of the bottle. Once it becomes legal to cut accrued benefits, then it’s a different world. It’s really precedent-making change. [While not opposed to giving trustees flexibility, she said] “It needs to be applied very, very judiciously.”

What could go wrong? The bottom line here is that the legalities and the contractual relations and whatever moral commitments were made don’t really matter. What does matter is that whenever there’s a big pot of money lying around that theoreticallly should go to working people — say, retirement funds, but it could be anything — Congress can retrade whatever deal put the money into the pot, and years after the fact, too. Oh, and workers lose the right to challenge the cuts in court. Nice! ......................... Third, the think tank behind Kline-Miller is the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans. Here’s their report. It’s titled:

“Solutions not Bailouts”

But what would be so very wrong with — work with me, here — just bailing the pension plans out? I can’t see why bailing out workers isn’t a solution. It certainly was for the banksters! International Business Times:

While Congress responded to the 2008 financial crisis by rescuing the banking industry with an $700 billion bailout [and that’s only TARP!], there’s no rescue on the way for retirees. Lawmakers are offering no bailout to close multiemployer plans’ aggregate $42 billion deficit.

$42 billion? Spread out over decades? That’s chicken feed! What’s wrong with these people? READ the whole detailed sordid thing! If you don't have a pension then why care? Lambert explains this point very succinctly: What’s the point of a union contract if Congress can unilaterally retrade the deal after the fact? I thought contracts were supposed to be sacred. Or doesn’t that apply when workers are involved? We caught this interview with Thom Harmann and Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT Half of all Children will be Autistic by 2025... Thom Hartmann talks with Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Website: http://web.mit.edu/ about data showing a remarkably consistent correlation between the use of Roundup on crops (and the creation of Roundup-ready GMO crop seeds) with rising rates of autism. As a follow-up we have Christina Sarich at naturalsociety.com MIT Scientist Exposes Consequence of Monsanto’s Glyphosate & Aluminum Cocktail and here is the PDF of the study on glyphosate by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases and here is another interview with Dr. Seneff OneRadioNetwork.com When Food Is Poison: GMO’s and Glyphosate: Slow Poison Over Time and also at mercola.com Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide May Be Most Important Factor in Development of Autism and Other Chronic Disease Of course we recommend these documentaries:

• The World According to Monsanto
  
• David vs Monsanto
  
• The Future of Food

AND If you haven't watched this yet then see Flow: For Love of Water Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?" Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround. Also read About Water and you can also view TRALER and TopDocumentaryFilms.com also has the whole documentary HERE. IN A RELATED MATTER At EcoWatch.com Anastasia Pantsios explains a new study that has determined BP Oil Spill Left Rhode Island-Sized ‘Bathtub Ring’ on Ocean Floor. What does this all mean for the 114th Congress? You can bet your last paper dollar they will try to pass legislation favorable to multinational corporations as these documentaries illustrate. And anything that actually HELPS regular peeps like us? FUGGETABOUTIT. Keep in mind there will be MANY "Democrats" willing to "go along to get along" to push ahead these regressive laws. And the GOPher specialty will be to manuever their favorite Chamber of Commerce backed bill into something like a "must pass" legislation like the CROMNIBUS BILL without debate or hearings in the dead of night. Look for President Obomber to veto the most heinous proposals except those multinational trade deals like the TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP) or the even more destabalizing TRANS ATLANTIC TRADE AND PARTNERSHIP (TIPP) deal As George Monbiot says, "Plans to create an EU-US single market will allow corporations to sue governments using secretive panels, bypassing courts and parliaments". ONLY IF true Dems can peel off enough pricipled tea baggers who "stand up for The Constitution" can any of these terrible deals be defeated. But with Obomber leading the way he's sure to get huge support from the bought-n-paid-for-by-big-buzness 114th Congress. The only thing we can offer is to support the PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS and other outside organizations and unions who vehmently oppose these trade pacts. Don't count on the Lame Stream Media to keep you informed on this! YOU have to dig up info for your own Opposition Research and the Brick TeeVee Crew will certainly help out! We give the first 2015 BTV LAST WORD to James Fallows at The Atlantic who explains The Tragedy of the American Military The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win. ............... This reverent but disengaged attitude toward the military—we love the troops, but we’d rather not think about them—has become so familiar that we assume it is the American norm. But it is not. When Dwight D. Eisenhower, as a five-star general and the supreme commander, led what may have in fact been the finest fighting force in the history of the world, he did not describe it in that puffed-up way. On the eve of the D-Day invasion, he warned his troops, “Your task will not be an easy one,” because “your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped, and battle-hardened.” As president, Eisenhower’s most famous statement about the military was his warning in his farewell address of what could happen if its political influence grew unchecked. At the end of World War II, nearly 10 percent of the entire U.S. population was on active military duty—which meant most able-bodied men of a certain age (plus the small number of women allowed to serve). Through the decade after World War II, when so many American families had at least one member in uniform, political and journalistic references were admiring but not awestruck. Most Americans were familiar enough with the military to respect it while being sharply aware of its shortcomings, as they were with the school system, their religion, and other important and fallible institutions. Now the American military is exotic territory to most of the American public. As a comparison: A handful of Americans live on farms, but there are many more of them than serve in all branches of the military. (Well over 4 million people live on the country’s 2.1 million farms. The U.S. military has about 1.4 million people on active duty and another 850,000 in the reserves.) The other 310 million–plus Americans “honor” their stalwart farmers, but generally don’t know them. So too with the military. Many more young Americans will study abroad this year than will enlist in the military—nearly 300,000 students overseas, versus well under 200,000 new recruits. As a country, America has been at war nonstop for the past 13 years. As a public, it has not. A total of about 2.5 million Americans, roughly three-quarters of 1 percent, served in Iraq or Afghanistan at any point in the post-9/11 years, many of them more than once. The difference between the earlier America that knew its military and the modern America that gazes admiringly at its heroes shows up sharply in changes in popular and media culture. ................... Let’s skip to today’s Iraq-Afghanistan era, in which everyone “supports” the troops but few know very much about them. The pop-culture references to the people fighting our ongoing wars emphasize their suffering and stoicism, or the long-term personal damage they may endure. The Hurt Locker is the clearest example, but also Lone Survivor; Restrepo; the short-lived 2005 FX series set in Iraq, Over There; and Showtime’s current series Homeland. Some emphasize high-stakes action, from the fictionalized 24 to the meant-to-be-true Zero Dark Thirty. Often they portray military and intelligence officials as brave and daring. But while cumulatively these dramas highlight the damage that open-ended warfare has done—on the battlefield and elsewhere, to warriors and civilians alike, in the short term but also through long-term blowback—they lack the comfortable closeness with the military that would allow them to question its competence as they would any other institution’s. ................... For two decades after World War II, the standing force remained so large, and the Depression-era birth cohorts were so small, that most Americans had a direct military connection. Among older Baby Boomers, those born before 1955, at least three-quarters have had an immediate family member—sibling, parent, spouse, child—who served in uniform. Of Americans born since 1980, the Millennials, about one in three is closely related to anyone with military experience. ....................... If I were writing such a history now, I would call it Chickenhawk Nation, based on the derisive term for those eager to go to war, as long as someone else is going. It would be the story of a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously. As a result, what happens to all institutions that escape serious external scrutiny and engagement has happened to our military. Outsiders treat it both too reverently and too cavalierly, as if regarding its members as heroes makes up for committing them to unending, unwinnable missions and denying them anything like the political mindshare we give to other major public undertakings, from medical care to public education to environmental rules. The tone and level of public debate on those issues is hardly encouraging. But for democracies, messy debates are less damaging in the long run than letting important functions run on autopilot, as our military essentially does now. A chickenhawk nation is more likely to keep going to war, and to keep losing, than one that wrestles with long-term questions of effectiveness............. Much more including "Why does civilian technology grow ever cheaper and more reliable while military technology does the opposite? An animated explainer narrated by James Fallows." GREAT ITEM! The FIRST-EVER college football playoffs took place on New Year's Day at the 101st Rose Bowl and the 81st Sugar Bowl. We go to The Oregonian's Ducks beat writer Andrew Greif Oregon Ducks rout Florida State in a 59-20 knockout that's been in the works long before New Year's Day. Then AP National Writer Paul Newberry at The Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum with Sweet as Sugar: Buckeyes upset Alabama 42-35! So it's the Ducks vs. the Bucks for the FIRST-EVER college football playoff Championship Game January 12 in Arlington, Texas (yeah, in Jerry's place). ESPN's Mark Schlabach explains how the Ducks, Bucks change everything at abcnews.go.com: "Oregon won by 40?" Meyer asked, after a reporter told him the final score. "Oh, oh," said OSU tailback Ezekiel Elliott, who was sitting next to him on a podium during the postgame news conference..... who broke the game open on his fourth quarter 3rd down 85-yard touchdown run. "I gotta go," Meyer said, as he started to climb out of his chair. "We gotta go get ready for that one." Haha! DUCKS vs. BUCKS! Shout out to our BTV Ducks viewers in The Great Northwest! You have Kshama Sawant and Pete DeFazio! We have John K-SICK and a solid two thirds of da OH State House controlled by the ALEC-led GOPhers. But we DO HAVE Senator Sherrod Brown and Dennis too! Go Buckeyes! Hope everybody had a great holiday season of merriment! THROW BRICKs every chance you get in 2015! See you next week!

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Headlines Monday, December 29, 2014

• Matthieu Aikins, journalist based in Kabul & Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence The Afghan War is Not Over: U.S. Ends 13-Year Combat Mission, But 10,000+ Troops Continue the Fight Matthieu Aikins' recent report for Rolling Stone magazine is "Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State."
  
• Kathy Kelly Peace Activist Kathy Kelly Heads to Prison for Protesting U.S. Drone War
  
• Matthieu Aikins The Worst Narco-State in History? After 13-Year War, Afghanistan’s Opium Trade Floods the Globe
  
• Adhyl Polanco, officer with the New York City Police Department since 2005 NYPD Officer Speaks Out on Fellow Cops Who Turned Backs to Mayor & Why People of Color Fear Police
  

Headlines Tuesday, December 30, 2014

• Philip Balboni, president and CEO of GlobalPost, Gary Noesner, former chief of the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit & and Sarah Shourd, who was was held prisoner by Iran for 410 days As American Captives Die While Others Walk Free, Is U.S. Hostage Policy Costing Citizens’ Lives?
  
• Stanley Cohen, longtime human rights attorney Did the U.S. Abandon an American Hostage in Syria? Inside the Secret Bid to Free Peter Kassig
  

Headlines Wednesday, December 31, 2014

• Austen Ivereigh, a British writer, commentator and co-founder of Catholic Voices Pope Francis Calls for Action on Climate Change & Capitalism on a Planet "Exploited by Human Greed"
  
• More Austen Ivereigh "The Great Reformer": Pope Francis Biographer on How Pontiff Became Star Diplomat & Voice for Change
  
• Climate activist and author Bill McKibben At End of Warmest Year on Record, "Alternative Nobel" Winner Bill McKibben Urges Action on Climate We play an excerpt of McKibben’s speech earlier this month in Stockholm, Sweden, where he received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the alternative Nobel Prize.
  

Headlines Thursday, January 1, 2015

• Matt Taibbi, award-winning journalist with Rolling Stone magazine & Alayne Fleischmann, JPMorgan Chase whistleblower Matt Taibbi and "The $9 Billion Witness" Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy
  
• MORE Matt Taibbi Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Police & Noam Chomsky
  

Headlines Friday, January 2, 2015

• Julian Assange, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks Exclusive: Julian Assange on "When Google Met WikiLeaks" While He was Under House Arrest
  
• Russell Brand, British comedian, actor, radio host, author and activist Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap"
  
  

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The 1st Amendment is Our Permit Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment. Quickly sign the following statement which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country:

Our permit to occupy public squares and parks is in The First Amendment, which affirms "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." When people across the Middle East occupied public squares, leaders in Washington mostly cheered those protesters and warned Middle Eastern governments not to use force to clear them. Those other societies don’t have a First Amendment. Yet Washington affirmed the universal right to assembly and protest. We do have a First Amendment. The force being used to clear nonviolent protesters from public squares in our country is unacceptable. It must stop.

StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org! A bailout of the people by the people Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal. Debt resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits. ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme

Community-Wealth.org community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity. Featuring Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth Something important is happening in Cleveland. The Democracy Collaborative—the host of C-W.org—in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Shorebank Enterprise Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, and the city's major hospitals and universities—is helping to implement a new model of large-scale worker-owned and community-benefiting businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy. Increasingly, this model is being referred to nationally as The Cleveland Model. Initial planning is now underway to assist other cities in Ohio and nationwide to replicate and adapt this innovative approach to economic development, green job creation, and neighborhood stabilization. Find more many resources at Community-Wealth.org!

NET NEUTRALITY! SaveTheInternet.com Declaration of Internet Freedom Tired of fighting bad bills like SOPA, PIPA and CISPA? Want to stand up against those who are trying to control what we do and say online? It's time for something different. A group of more than 1,500 organizations, academics, startup founders and tech innovators has come together to produce a Declaration of Internet Freedom, a set of five principles that put forward a positive vision of the open Internet. Our goal: Get millions of Internet users to sign on to this Declaration. Build political power for Internet users to make sure that we get a seat at the table whenever, and wherever, the future of the Internet is being decided. It's time to stop playing defense and start going on the offensive. The open Internet is central to people’s freedom to communicate, share, advocate and innovate in the 21st century. But powerful interests want to censor free speech, block the sharing of information, hinder innovation and control how Internet users get online. And all too often, people in power are making political decisions behind closed doors about how the Internet should operate — and they're doing this without the involvement of actual Internet users. The result: policies that could close down the open Internet and destroy our freedom to connect. It’s time for us to reclaim the Internet for its users. Take action now and sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom. ACTION! Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality The FCC is considering a new plan that has the same big problems we’ve been protesting against all year. Tell the agency we’ll accept nothing less than REAL Net Neutrality. Just how bad is it? This new proposal: • Would allow broadband providers to cut specialized deals with companies to reach Internet users. • Still gives us slow lanes and gives users no real protection against discrimination from Internet service providers. • Rests on shaky legal arguments that won’t stand up in court. This isn't what millions of us have been fighting for. SIGN NOW at Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality at freepress.net NOW.

Stop Media Consolidation! Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is trying to change the agency’s ownership rules to pave the way for Murdoch to get exactly what he wants. Worse, Genachowski and Murdoch are keeping this all very hush-hush, hoping you won't notice. These changes wouldn’t just benefit Murdoch. If the FCC proposal passes, one company could own the major daily newspaper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in your town. And that one company could be your Internet provider, too. What is the FCC thinking?!? We can still stop the agency from taking this perilous step — but we have less than a month to do it. By taking action, you’re joining a movement of millions who are working to stop big media from getting even bigger. Please take action today. Click HERE to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger! GO THERE NOW!

CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: No more silent majority. The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) to monitor the media’s coverage and representation of the American Majority views as they go into covering the big deficit fight. But we want to enlist YOU too. Send us accounts of unbalanced coverage in the national media and in your local newspapers and television. Call up reporters, editors, assignment people and tell them when they are under-representing the views of the American Majority. We should have at least half the experts, pundits, quotes and real people represented in their coverage. In a debate as important as the one we are going into, we can’t allow the media to ignore the American Majority. Much more at www.ourfuture.org

MOVE TO AMEND! www.movetoamend.org SIGN HERE NOW! And check out more actions on the Move to Amend Calendar for more! UPDATE! Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21 Move to Amend is thrilled to announce that the premiere of our mini documentary, Legalize Democracy, will be airing on Free Speech TV (FSTV) next week to coincide with the "anniversary" of Citizens United. Legalize Democracy is a 28 minute film by Dennis Trainor, Jr. about the movement to amend -- why it is needed, and how you can get involved. Watch live on our website here. Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site www.savedemocracy.net GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at CongressmanWithGuts.com and check out his latest effort DontAttackSyria.com!

REPRESENT.US IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US. Represent.Us is a fresh campaign to pass the American Anti-Corruption Act: a law that would overhaul campaign finance, impose strict lobbying and conflict of interest laws, and end secret political money. We are mobilizing millions of Americans — conservatives and progressives, young and old, every issue group fighting K Street, online and offline — to join this campaign. Represent.Us is not just building a movement to pass the Act. The campaign will use hard-hitting accountability tactics to unseat politicians who fail to endorse the Act. If passed, the Act will completely reshape American politics and policy-making and give people a voice. See this Guest Blog at Greenpeace by Executive Director Josh Silver The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics for more information!

SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT See CourageToResist.org and Bradley Manning Support Network From the Chelsea Manning Support Network Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" March 19, 2014. By CMSN. PVT Manning has filed to change her name legally to "Chelsea Elizabeth Manning" and to receive hormone therapy. To show our support in this struggle, we are renaming ourselves to the "Chelsea Manning Support Network." ..... UPDATE! ACLU honors Chelsea on her birthday AND Birthday Messages to Chelsea from Snowden, Gilliam & more public icons Dec 16, 2014. Public icons send birthday greetings and support to prisoner of conscience Chelsea Manning, including: Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam, Michael Stipe, Vivienne Westwood, Molly Crabapple, JM Coetzee, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Slavoj Žižek, Alan Moore, Joe Sacco, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Tatchell, Billy Martin, Saul Williams..........

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CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at CellPhoneTaskForce.org The Cellular Phone Task Force is dedicated to halting the expansion of wireless technology because it cannot be made safe. We provide: education to the public concerning electromagnetic pollution (electrosmog); advocacy for an electromagnetically cleaner environment; support for individuals disabled by radiation from wireless technology and other sources. WATCH THIS MOVIE at Top Documentary Films Resonance: Beings of Frequency Now we live an an ocean of electromagnetic radiation. It’s all around us now, invisible, but we know it’s there. Every time you lift up your mobile phone you know it’s there. It is very hard to turn the clock back, in fact it is impossible, but we need to be aware of the adverse health effects so that we can have the choice of taking precautions against the exposures. How we could have possibly thought that putting microwaves to our brain was safe. We just don’t fully understand what we’re doing. "Resonance: Beings of Frequency" is the first documentary to investigate the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. The film takes a deeper look at how humanity is reacting to the most profound environmental change the planet has ever seen. Read more HERE!!

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  • KEISER REPORT [KR700] Keiser Report: Big Kaputski of 2015 We celebrate the first day of 2015 with some regular guests who attempt to predict the big themes of the New Year. First, we talk to Dominic Frisby of Moneyweek.com about where it all might kick off this year – perhaps Japan? Next, Professor Steve Keen talks Minsky moments, debt deflation and the Bancor. Last, but not least, they speak to Liam Halligan of BNE.eu for his predictions on Europe, China, Russia and dividend yields in 2015.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR701] Keiser Report: Deglobalization & Internet 2.0 We celebrate the second day of 2015 with some regular guests who attempt to predict the big themes of the new year. First up, we talk to Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about a printing press for wage earners and whether or not we are in a period of deglobalisation. Next they speak to Mark McGowan – aka ‘The Artist Taxi Driver’ about General Election 2015, which political party is not in the pocket of the corporations and whether or not the Met Police working with RBS on financial crime will lead to more or less in the new year. In the second half, they talk to Chris Powell of GATA.org about the CME’s letter to the CFTC exposing the fact that the central banks have ‘volume discounts’ for their trading accounts. And, finally, they talk to Reggie Middleton of BoomBustBlog.com and UltraCoin about the upcoming year as the one in which the blockchain technology is finally recognised as Internet 2.0 and whether or not IBM, and other share buybacking corporations like it, will just one day evaporate.
  

  
  

• The Scott Horton Radio Show
  
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  • Scott Horton Radio Show Progress Report: All right, yall, welcome back to the show to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!
  • 12/29/14 Vijay Prashad: Vijay Prashad, a writer for al-Araby, discusses an overlooked footnote in the Senate report on CIA torture that describes how the US tried to justify torture by citing an Israeli Supreme Court ruling on the subject.
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  • 12/29/14 Eric Margolis: Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses the never-ending war in Afghanistan; the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq; and Libya’s descent into another civil war.
  • 12/30/14 Will Grigg: Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the “tribal Leninism” that keeps Americans divided and prevents popular opposition to the unaccountable police state; and how to level the legal playing field between public law enforcement and private security.
  • 12/30/14 James Carden: James Carden, a Contributing Editor for The National Interest, discusses his article “Dangerous Escalation: US Backs Putin Into a Corner;” and how the ultra-confrontational neoconservative foreign policy agenda makes Henry Kissinger sound like the voice of moderation.
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