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.
Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque Site for Data Dumps. 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. 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.
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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. The judge said she decided on a shorter jail term because two of the women were young mothers and none had a criminal record. 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. 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.
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.
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.) The ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate for June 2017 is 22.1%. "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. 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. 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]