Baby elephant debuts at Berlin Zoo - Rough Cuts. REPORT: Bottom Half Of American Households Have Just 1 Percent Of Nation's Wealth. REPORT: Bottom Half Of American Households Have Just 1 Percent Of Nation’s Wealth | The bottom 50 percent of American households hold just 1.1 percent of the nation’s wealth , after its share declined steadily following the financial crisis, a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found.
The richest one percent, meanwhile, hold 34.5 percent of the wealth, as the chart below shows. The top 10 percent’s share of wealth has risen over the last two decades, the report found, but it has fallen for households in every group below that. (click to enlarge) Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque Site for Data Dumps | Threat Level. Frustrated by the lack of impact from Anonymous’ otherwise famous hacks and data dumps, and the slow pace of material coming out of WikiLeaks, participants in the Anonymous collective have launched a WikiLeaks-like site called Par:AnoIA (Potentially Alarming Research: Anonymous Intelligence Agency). Paranoia, which debuted in March, is a new publishing platform built by Anonymous to host Anonymous data leaks that’s trying to find a solution to a problem that plagues news sites, government transparency advocates, and large-website owners everywhere: how to organize more data than any human could possibly read.
The site marks a departure from the groups’ previous modus operandi, where it would publicly drop the documents, make them available in a torrent — usually as a zip file, and then move on. By contrast, the goal of Paranoia is to curate and present content to a hopefully interested public. “I don’t know. Wikileaks, didn’t your mother teach you to not shit where you eat? SWAT Team Raids Occupy Organizers’ Apartment in Seattle. Seattle police officer at Occupy Seattle action on May Day (photo: Dan Morrill) Early in the morning, on July 10, a SWAT team from the Seattle police department raided an apartment where organizers from the Occupy movement have been living.
A warrant shown to the four people that were sleeping in the apartment at the time indicated the police were looking for “anarchist materials” and the raid was part of an ongoing investigation into militant action that Occupy engaged in on May Day. The organizers raided are also known to be members of the Red Spark Collective (or the Kasama Project). A press spokesperson for the Red Spark Collective, Liam Wright, told Firedoglake the Seattle Police Department used a “battering device” to knock down the door of the apartment.
They went inside. Some kind of a “flash bang grenade” was thrown. Tactical rifles were drawn. Phillip Neel lives in the apartment that was raided (in the topmost unit in the building). The police seized property. Will on a Bathroom Wall WIN.
Russia Sentences Pussy Riot Members to Two Years in Jail. A Russian court jailed three female punk performers for two years for inciting religious hatred and hooliganism, prompting international condemnation of the case that’s become a symbol of President Vladimir Putin’s intolerance for dissent. Prosecutors had sought three-year prison terms for the Pussy Riot band members, who performed a “punk prayer” in the country’s main Christian Orthodox place of worship in February urging Putin’s removal. “They deliberately sought a public scandal and they wanted to insult not only the church workers, but society as a whole,” the judge, Marina Syrova, said today, rejecting defense arguments that the women staged a political act.
“They deeply insulted Orthodox believers.” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Ekaterina Samutsevich, 30, and Maria Alekhina, 24, smiled and waved from inside a glass cage as the sentence was read out. ‘Disproportionate’ Outcome Opposition Movement “Putin has become a hostage of the process of repression,” Bunin said by phone. ‘New Signal’ 16 arrested at janitors' strike in downtown Houston. HOUSTON – More than a dozen supporters were taken into custody during a protest against alleged unfair labor practices. The arrests occurred early Wednesday afternoon in the 1100-block of Louisiana Street where more than a hundred people gathered in support of the janitors’ strike. Air 11 was over the scene as several people were loaded into the back of a police van. SEIU Local 1, the organization representing the janitors, said those taken into custody blocked an intersection in an “act of civil disobedience.”
“The struggle for economic justice led by janitors in Houston is deplorable, especially when we have to engage in civil disobedience just to reach the conscience of the corporate executives,” said Johnny N. The Houston Police Department said 16 protesters were arrested and charged with 'obstructing a roadway,' which is a class B misdemeanor. The union is calling for an hourly wage increase from $8.50 to $10. Operation Save the Arctic. Background On June 7th, 2012, Greenpeace launched a major campaign called Save The Arctic, which called for the designation of the North Pole as an environmental sanctuary and protested against the international oil companies’ plan for drilling in the region. The campaign was announced during the Rio Earth +20 Summit in Brazil with mass pledge of support from more than 100 public figures and celebrities, as well as an elaborately staged viral hoax campaign targeting the corporate image of Shell Oil Company. Throughout June 2012, the campaign continued to gain momentum and began receiving extensive coverage in the news as a result of the viral hoax, which was largely praised as an effective method to raise the public awareness.
Notable Development Operation Save The Arctic: Phase I On June 27th, 2012, international hacktivist collective Anonymous released internal data allegedly obtained from Exxon Mobil Corporation via Pastebin. Greenpeace’s Response Operation Save The Arctic: Phase II. Mark Ames: The One Percent’s Plan for the Rest of Us – Livestock to be Milked for “Rent” Yves here. Mark Ames’ post discusses the institutionalization of a regressive policy, that of trying to eke more corporate growth out of extracting more and more out of workers rather than sharing the benefits of productivity gains with them. As we’ve discussed, Henry Ford, who was hardly a chartable sort, voluntarily doubled the wages of his workers, both to improve retention but also to enable them to be able to afford to buy his products. As Thomas Palley has discussed, and the chart below underscores, the US changed in the early 1980s from a model where rising worker wages were seen as the driver to growth and hence a focus of policy, to one where rising consumer debt levels and asset appreciation were used to substitute for stagnant incomes.
The problem, as we discovered in the crisis, is that that paradigm is self limiting. Yet as Ames reveals, McKinsey and presumably other fonts of orthodox thinking are pushing for an even more aggressive version of that failed model. Alternate Unemployment Charts. The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994.
That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment. Public Commentary on Unemployment Unemployment Data Series (Subscription required.) View Download Excel CSV File Last Updated: July 7th, 2017 The ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate for June 2017 is 22.1%. Republishing our charts: Permission, Restrictions and Instructions (includes important requirements for successful hot-linking) "Anti-Occupy" law ends American's right to protest. WASHINGTON, D.C., August 1, 2012 — I was stunned upon hearing a news report about a protest going on in China. Teachers, parents with their young, school-age children and pro-democracy activitists (one estimate was 90,000 people) marched in Hong Kong to government headquarters last Sunday to publicly protest a new required “Patriotism” class, to be taught in the school system starting in 2015.
The protestors think that the effort of the Chinese government here is to brainwash their kids in favor of communism. What stunned me was that this protest, in China, against the government’s upcoming policy, at the government headquarters, would not now be tolerated here in the United States of America. Thanks to almost zero media coverage, few of us know about a law passed this past March, severely limiting our right to protest. Recent example Number One are the military funeral protests by the Westboro Baptist Church. Last year’s “occupy movement” scared the government.
Write to Congress. We Are the 99 Percent. 14th October 2013 Question with 172 notes Anonymous asked: How can you claim to speak for 99% of people? We don’t claim to speak for anyone, we merely present stories. 14th October 2013 Photo with 186 notes I am 23 years old I am a female (not that it should make a difference, but apparently in our society it does…) From the day I moved out of my parent’s house, I’ve supported myself 100%, not because they don’t love me but because they can’t support my dreams financially.
For over two years I schlepped 2-for-1’s and shots to pay for my rent, a used car, and tuition at a community college. Now I’m attending the University of MN and I depleted all of my savings just so I wouldn’t have to take out a loan this semester. I’m majoring in journalism, a profession I consider a civic duty. I am the 99%. occupywallst.org 14th October 2013 Question with 12 notes Anonymous asked: We are the 99 percent- Why don't we RECALL these extremist NUTS that are in Washington, DC.??!!!!
9th September 2013 Thank you! British Bankers' Association. The British Bankers’ Association (BBA) is a trade association for the UK banking and financial services sector. It represents over 250 members, which are financial service providers registered in the UK. These member banks collectively provide a wide range of banking and financial services. The association lobbies for its members and provides legislative and regulatory system for banking in the UK.
Role[edit] The BBA promotes a legislative and regulatory system for banking and financial services - in the UK, Europe and internationally - which takes account of the needs and concerns of 253 members, including 24 associate and 48 professional members. The BBA engages with the UK government and politicians, devolved administrations and European institutions as well as the media and other key stakeholders to ensure the industry’s voice is heard and to highlight the strength and importance of UK banking. Structure[edit] Activity[edit] Products and services[edit] BBA LIBOR[edit] SME support[edit]