March, 2012
Occupy Kansas City Evicted
Protesters Set Up Encampment 6 Months Ago KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police and city workers evicted members of the Occupy Kansas City movement from Penn Valley Park Friday.Protesters have been parked on a patch of grass near the Liberty Memorial and the Federal Reserve Building for six months.The protesters said they had been [...]
A Message to the Occupy Movement’s Official Facebook Pages
Planning “Occupy” or any “activist” events on Facebook is the equivalent of doing so on the FBI official servers; adding your friends to the group is the same as mailing their phone number and address to the Department of Homeland Security with a note that says “this person is a terrorist”. Let’s face the facts, [...]
Occupied Economy
Are We Happy Yet? This morning I was pulling poison ivy. It looked like I was up against the withering prospect of pulling more than a hundred individual plants. But I found that if I dug my gloved finger to the root and gently tugged, I could trace it through other roots and stems in [...]
Director of Gun Owners of America: Zimmerman acted in Self Defense, Trayvon should have Run
After 17 year old Trayvon Martin was followed then gunned down, various politicians have condemned the killing. The President weighed in, Rick Santorum and Allen West strongly denounced the actions of George Zimmerman – but not Larry Pratt. Pratt is the executive director of the Second Amendment group Gun Owners of America and he states [...]
Family Of Ramarley Graham, Unarmed Black Teen Killed By NYPD, Rallies For Justice In The Bronx
First Posted: 03/23/2012 11:58 am Updated: 03/23/2012 4:15 pm share this story 1,092 92 25 Get New York Alerts Sign Up Submit this story The family of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed Bronx 18-year-old shot and killed by an NYPD officer in February, says they will hold rallies and marches every Thursday for 18 weeks to demand [...]
Breaking News POLICE HELP STEAL VOTES from Ron PAUL in Missouri
Video of a ARREST of delegates for Peaceful assembly, and FAIL of Delegates to arrest the cops being used by the Romney SHILLs. Compare this shooting with cell phones to what Veterans returning in 1946 used to shoot at cops with. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_T3yor61A
Wrongfully convicted rapist is freed after 17 years just to be hit with $110,000 in back child support
By Daily Mail Reporter UPDATED: 10:16 EST, 28 January 2011 An innocent man jailed for 17 years after being wrongfully convicted of rape will not get any compensation for the time he spent behind bars – but he has been given a $111,000 bill for backdated child maintenance payments. Alan Northrop and co-defendant Larry Davis [...]
Occupy KC Journal Mentioned on Tony’s Kansas City
Waiting For The Occupy KC Springtime Surge! The latest issue of The Occupy KC Journal is out on local streets: Here’s the link: Occupy KC Journal Online “Official” Occupy KC spokespeople called the publication “racist” and even anti-Semitic.The response from the artist behind the work (Jessica Logsdon) was typically convoluted and hard to understand . [...]
Newt: Why does Obama ‘behave the way that people would think’ he’s Muslim?
By MAGGIE HABERMAN| 3/23/12 1:32 PM EDT POLITICO’s Ginger Gibson reports: Newt Gingrich insisted Friday that he has no questions about President Barack Obama’s Christian faith, but said he understands why some Americans might. Asked about polls suggesting many in the public continue to think Obama is a Muslim, Gingrich said in Louisiana that he [...]
Occupying War: A Marine Vet Finds His Mission
by MICHAEL LEVITIN on Mar 23, 2012 There is the military kind of war and then there is the kind of war that happens in the streets. The first produces veterans. The second, gangbangers. Marine Sergeant Shamar Thomas is that rare individual who has experienced life and its destruction on both battlefronts. What makes him even more rare is [...]
Thousands March for Trayvon Martin
by JENNIFER SACKS on Mar 22, 2012 Trayvon Martin, 17, stalked and killed on February 26. Though tensions in Occupied Union Square Park ran high after the March 20 brutality – which left one woman injured at the hands of overzealous, high-ranking officers and resulted in six arrests – hundreds poured into the square at 6 p.m. for a rally for Trayvon Martin, [...]
Please Stop Apologizing by Bill Maher
THIS week, Robert De Niro made a joke about first ladies, and Newt Gingrich said it was “inexcusable and the president should apologize for him.” Of course, if something is “inexcusable,” an apology doesn’t make any difference, but then again, neither does Newt Gingrich. Mr. De Niro was speaking at a fund-raiser with the first [...]
Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords
SEATTLE (AP) — When Justin Bassett interviewed for a new job, he expected the usual questions about experience and references. So he was astonished when the interviewer asked for something else: his Facebook username and password. Bassett, a New York City statistician, had just finished answering a few character questions when the interviewer turned to [...]
3 Months of the Pentagon’s Budget could make Higher Education in the US Free
Graduating into never-ending debt Gary Lapon reports that the student loan debt crisis has reached a new stage. March 19, 2012 Occupy San Francisco marches against the corporatization of education and growing student debt (Eric Wagner) OVERWHELMING STUDENT debt has become a source of worry and financial distress for many millions of people–and even worse [...]
For-Profit Prisons: U.S. has more prisoners than China, a “police state” with 4X our population.
A presentation on March 13th by Corrections Corp of America touted the coming growth of the private prison business. It was geared toward potential investors and had a very bullish outlook on locking people up for profit, which is a good thing for the economy—and since we all want the economy to be good, yay, [...]
Liberating America’s Secret, For-Pay Laws
By Carl Malamud at 10:29 pm Monday, Mar 19 [Editor's note: This morning, I found a an enormous, 30Lb box waiting for me at my post-office box. Affixed to it was a sticker warning me that by accepting this box into my possession, I was making myself liable for nearly $11 million in damages. The [...]
Wheels are turning to build bike lanes from Kansas to downtown
Wheels are turning to build bike lanes from Kansas to downtown Johnson and Wyandotte counties are helping shape a better way to get bikes and people downtown. By MIKE HENDRICKS The Kansas City Star Portland, we’re not. Compared with Oregon’s main metro, often referred to as the bicycling capital of the nation, Kansas City is [...]
Miami Occupier Tells of Violent SWAT Raid
by Chris Mazorra on Mar 17, 2012 • 5:00 pm No Comments Miami Heat: Occupier Chris Mazorra managed to secretly film the March 14 raid of Occupy Miami. Photo: Chris Mazorra The call had been issued by Occupy Atlanta, Occupy Glen Iris and Take Back The Block to occupy Chase Bank and shut it down. [...]
Occupied Reports From the Front Lines
by Jennifer Sacks on Mar 19, 2012 • 8:18 pm YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS Looks Like We Made It: A packed General Assembly in Liberty Square on March 17 marks six months since Wall Street was first #occupied. Screengrab: TimCast This week in Occupy, we turned six months old – and law [...]
Kansas on StateIntegrity.org
Kansas: The story behind the score By Peter Hancock Kansas has a history of enacting major reforms in the wake of scandals. But in the absence of any major uproar, the state is often inclined to leave things as they are, even though there may be significant weaknesses in laws meant to ensure transparency and [...]
Missouri on StateIntegrity.org
Missouri: The story behind the score By Mike Sherry Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver declared in an 1899 speech that “frothy eloquence” neither convinced nor satisfied him. “I am from Missouri. You’ve got to show me.” But today, the Show-Me State is partially opaque. That’s the picture that emerges from the State Integrity Investigation, a collaborative [...]
How Missouri and Kansas Avoided this List is Amazing
Study: 8 states get ‘F’ on corruption Eight state governments received a failing F grade when it comes to transparency, accountability and anti-corruption efforts, while not a single state earned an A, according to a comprehensive new study released Monday. Michigan, North Dakota, South Carolina, Maine, Virginia, Wyoming, South Dakota and Georgia received failing grades [...]
Could Bitcoin Become the Currency of System D?
If zeros and ones are outlawed, only outlaws will use zeros and ones. Cryptography shall always have a place in securing our digital future and most especially in securing our digital value. Advanced public-key encryption for the masses cannot be eliminated nor denied — the genie is out of the bottle and mankind is the [...]
911 Calls Released in Sanford Shooting
911 calls released in Sanford shooting: MyFoxORLANDO.com SANFORD, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) – Sanford Police have released the 911 calls placed on the night of a fatal shooting which took the life of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. LISTEN to the calls above (scroll to see multiple clips) Martin’s parents arrived at Sanford City Hall to listen [...]
Facebook Submission
i’m trying to follow the case of Kathia Casseus, the 16 y.o. girl found dead in the juvenile facility there, but i’m not finding any new information at all for over a week now. In fact, the last item that i saw was before she was even buried and i’m sure that has taken place [...]
Predatory Payday Loan Industry Confusing Voters
Posted on: 7:00 pm, March 15, 2012, by Jason M. Vaughn, updated on: 09:58am, March 16, 2012 KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A petition effort to cap payday loan interest rates at 36 percent is getting some competition that critics say would only serve to confuse voters. Supporters of the ballot initiative are working to collect [...]
Shooter of Trayvon Martin a habitual caller to 911
At the focal point of a shooting scandal: a mild-mannered neighbor who fixated on crime and focused on young, black males. The Martin family came to the Miami Herald newsroom for an interview on March 15, 2012. Editor’s note: This video was taken down, then reposted in expanded form to provide proper context for certain [...]
Robert Fisk: Madness is not the reason for this massacre
I’m getting a bit tired of the “deranged” soldier story. It was predictable, of course. The 38-year-old staff sergeant who massacred 16 Afghan civilians, including nine children, near Kandahar this week had no sooner returned to base than the defence experts and the think-tank boys and girls announced that he was “deranged”. Not an evil, [...]
Judge rules that Kim Dotcom’s cash, cars and property were seized using a court order which should never have been granted.
Expand Kim Dotcom. Photo / Brett Phibbs Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom’s cash, cars and property were seized using a court order which should never have been granted. A judgment from Justice Judith Potter on Friday declared the restraining order “null and void” and having “no legal effect”. The blunder might now lead to the beleaguered [...]
San Diego police arrest man for wearing gladiator-type kilt at gay pride festival. Women in thongs and G-strings still legal.
Will Walters, San Diego Gay Man, Says Police Arrested Him For Wearing Kilt, Underwear in Public Is wearing a underwear and a short “kilt” public nudity? If you’re a 19-year-old woman, maybe not. But if you’re a 30-year-old gay man … maybe so. Southern California’s Will Walters is threatening a lawsuit after he says he [...]
The Dangers of Libertarianism [Story from 2010]
Firefighters watch as home burns to the ground OBION COUNTY, Tenn. – Imagine your home catches fire but the local fire department won’t respond, then watches it burn. That’s exactly what happened to a local family tonight. A local neighborhood is furious after firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground. The [...]
The Weirdest Thing Just Happened
People posing as the leaders of a leaderless movement along side City Hall working together to stifle free speech for personal vendettas. Nothing about this publication is racist, homophobic, or threatening. Are the pictures possibly offensive? Of course, but this is a publication that encourages artists, readers, and businesses to contribute to each issue. There [...]
Tracking Tear Gas
This was written by Allison Brown, Udi Pladott and Maia Ramnath for the OWS Global Justice Working Group. One of the biggest clues to understanding the connections among grassroots democratic uprisings across the world may be found by tracking connections among methods of repression. We know that tear gas canisters, stun grenades and other so-called [...]
Purchasing Prisoners, Creating Criminal & How Occupy Could be Next
Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), owner of the largest private prison system in the United States, recently sent a letter to 48 states offering up to $250 million to manage government-owned detention centers. The letter lists the criteria of eligible purchases, which include an assurance that state corrections agencies “have sufficient inmate population to [...]
How Do We Overturn Citizens United?
To the 99%: Nothing could enhance American democracy more than if Occupy Wall Street helped enact a 28th Constitutional Amendment to end the pretense that corporations are people who speak with money. A united 99% could absolutely halt this privatization of government. There’s an important conversation going on about the goals of Occupy Wall Street [...]
Homeland Security Kept Tabs on Occupy Wall Street
As Occupy Wall Street spread across the nation last fall, sparking protests in more than 70 cities, the Department of Homeland Security began keeping tabs on the movement. An internal DHS report entitled “SPECIAL COVERAGE: Occupy Wall Street,” dated October of last year, opens with the observation that “mass gatherings associated with public protest [...]
Occupied Reports From the Front Lines
Bryant Park, Manhattan: #Occupied. Photo: Eric Walton This week in Occupy, more than 80 Shut Down the Corporations actions on #F29 signaled a spring resurgence, student activists across the nation marched for an affordable education and the Occupy movement introduced the mainstream media—and the country—to the American Legislative Exchange Council. The NYPD: Keeping Zuccotti [...]