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you are welcome. i'm not confident that it will change anything. the u.s.has been onopposing sides of the u.n. before and has a reputation for creating and enforcing the rules while not following them.
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you are welcome. i'm not confident that it will change anything. the u.s.has been onopposing sides of the u.n. before and has a reputation for creating and enforcing the rules while not following them.
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Ask Google to Quit the Chamber of Commerce
Google: Quit the Chamber of Commerce The petition is here - http://civic.moveon.org/googlechambe...1.confemail.g1 Right now we have a huge opportunity to deal a serious blow to one of Washington's most powerful lobbies, the deeply conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce. At Google headquarters, employees are intensely debating whether Google should quit the Chamber in the next few weeks. Google quitting would be a huge blow to the Chamber's credibility. Sign the petition now from Google users to Google employees to ask them to stand up for us and our democracy by quitting the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A compiled petition with your individual comment will be presented to Google employees. http://civic.moveon.org/googlechambe...1.confemail.g1 __________________________________________________ ___________ And if you don't know what the Chamber of Commerce represents, does and affects, learn - http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...erm-elections/ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1...issing-Cousins http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/was...h-rove-chamber |
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Oakland Chamber of Commerce was a HUGE influence in kicking out Occupy Oakland from Oscar Grant Plaza.....they told lies about companies not coming to Oakland because of OO, convinced small business owners that were losing business before OO that it was because of OO and finally scaring people away from downtown cuz OO was dirty nasty and violent.
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Worth the bump - AZ's and Diavolo's links...
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/12...an-we-thought/
This week, the United States Senate passed S. 1867 also known as the National Defense Authorization Act including sections 1031 and 1032 which authorize the military to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens without trial or charge. Despite national outcry over the bill which effectively suspends the Constitutional rights of those suspected of terrorist activities and would allow Americans to be incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, the Senate passed the bill by an overwhelming margin of 93-7. This means that Congress could easily override the President’s threatened veto. But this act of Congress is even more dangerous than we first thought. Included in the bill is Amendment 1068 which was offered by Republican Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire. This part of the bill undermines President Obama’s executive order that bans torture and overrides the list of permissible interrogation techniques in the US Army Field Manual. In other words, the US military could arrest ordinary American citizens without reading them their Miranda Rights, put them in a cell at Gitmo without the benefit of an attorney, a trial, or charges of any kind, and then torture them during interrogation. A secret list of torture techniques would be created without public knowledge... and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley...b_1123848.html SWAT Raids, Stun Guns, And Pepper Spray: Why The Government Is Ramping Up The Use Of Force Posted: 12/ 5/11 11:23 AM ET In February of last year, video surfaced of a marijuana raid in Columbia, Mo. During the raid on Jonathan Whitworth and his family, police took down the door with a battering ram, then within seconds shot and killed one of Whitworth's dogs and wounded the other. They didn't find enough pot in the house to charge Whitworth with even a misdemeanor. (He was, however, charged with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia when police found a pipe.) The disturbing video went viral in May 2010, triggering outrage around the world. On Fox News, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly cautioned not to judge the entire drug war by the video, which they characterized as an isolated incident. In fact, very little about the raid that was isolated or unusual. For the most part, it was carried out the same way drug warrants are served some 150 times per day in the United States. The battering ram, the execution of Whitworth's dog, the fact that police weren't aware Whitworth's 7-year-old child was in the home before they riddled the place with bullets, the fact that they found only a small amount of pot, likely for personal use -- all are common in drug raids. The only thing unusual was that the raid was recorded by police, then released to the public after an open records request by the Columbia Daily Tribune. It was as if much of the country was seeing for the first time the violence with which the drug war is actually fought. And they didn't like what they saw... |
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The 'war on drugs' is a farce and has done nothing to stop drug trafficking or drug use in the country.
Did you know pot is more dangerous than heroin or coke...according to the Schedule I classification. Coke and heroin has some medicinal use and marijuana has NO medical use....at least according to the federal government. All drugs should be legal so we can get some control over the manufacture, distribution and sale. I would be happy to start with completely legalizing marijuana........ Occupy movement should add this to their list. More POC are in jail for pot than white folks and then there is the inconsistency between jail time for powdered coke vs crack. IF you are convicted of a felony you lose your voting rights. You can petition the courts to get your vote back but not many know that.
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It's relevant because of racism, which is one of the hallmarks of corporate greed (in the US). It alo speaks to the militarization of our police (as was pointed out in the article). How in the hell do you think the CIA funds itself?
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personally, i think we should move to suspend the presidential elections until democracy and the rights of the citizens here are restored. i'm tired of participating in a political process designed to imprison us.
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Whenever they declare war on inanimate objects like drugs, terrorism and poverty they are really just finding new ways to continue unchallenged and overly funded with their war on the poor. It's just their fancy way of declaring class warfare.
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I agree but how could we do that? We can't even stop the senate from passing bills erasing our rights as citizens of the United States. And I don't even want to get started on the average citizen awareness of what is happening to our rights. Even when they are aware they are apathetic at best. Percentage wise people just aren't getting it.
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Thanks for the clarification Toughy. I don't see how legalizing drugs aids the OWS movement still. I think it would bring more financial problems still to the middle class and those that can't afford the medication they need now and aid as you say the CIA, law enforcement, and the rich and corporations are the ones who deal it. hmmm.. As for racism. I'm not seeing that either. The people in this movement that are being discriminated against are the middle class and poor and they are the ones being made to pay more for services and product, it doesn't matter what race they are only that they are in a certain income bracket and being taken advantage of. I guess if you could explain further I may see it how legalizing drugs helps anyone that is protesting for equal financial and corporate rights. Thanks.
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