From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jan  1 11:12:10 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 11:12:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Washington Celebrates Solving Totally
	Unnecessary Crisis They Created
Message-ID: <A262DF62-B854-474B-B855-0B09F3C43F24@att.net>

WASHINGTON CELEBRATES SOLVING TOTALLY UNNECESSARY CRISIS THEY CREATED


WASHINGTON ?Official Washington was in celebration mode on New Year?s Day after kind of averting a completely unnecessary crisis that was entirely of its own creation.

?This deal proves that if we all procrastinate long and hard enough, we can semi-solve any self-inflicted problem at the very last minute in a way that satisfies no one,? said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky).

But even as Sen. McConnell basked in self-congratulation, he warned Congress against the complacency that could come with having sort of fixed its own completely avoidable mess.

?This is a new year, and much work remains to be done,? he said. ?It?s up to us to concoct entirely new optional disasters that we will have to undo at some later date in a more or less half-assed way.?

In a related story, an arsonist received an award for putting out his own fire.



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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan  1 11:55:04 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 11:55:04 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] view and study videos on foreclosure T.H. meeting
Message-ID: <fc15c0ce430d775823a23e918dbc5f23.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

For all who would like a better address for the videos on Foreclosure own
Hall use these courtesy of Richard Karch.

http://www.mendocoasttv.org/OccupyMendocinoForeclosurestownHallMeetingP1.html#featured
  http://www.mendocoasttv.org/OccupyMendocinoForeclosuresTownHallMeeting111612P2.html#featured

Agnes



From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan  1 12:09:52 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:09:52 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Victoria Grant speech 12 yrs. old
Message-ID: <0191ea90be1f00d2be154895a8062b01.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Move OUR Money
www.moveourmoney.net
Divest from Wall Street, Invest in Main Street




From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan  1 17:59:56 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 17:59:56 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: to the Bd of Supes-Jan.8th
Message-ID: <89db84d93ae309dd8c399ed74a0cdb89.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


Here's my offering, please come to a 1:00 meeting at the Senior Center
Jan.3rd to discuss what other needs the county should focus on,ie. Who
else would speak?
1.Advise Recorder refuse suspicious documents.
2.Require signature of foreclosing entity on an affidavit of Authenticity.
3.Present material to Recorder, DA, Supervisors.
4.Present Material to Media.

Who will come to 1:00 Foreclosure Com. mtg.? email agnes at mcn.org

Good Morning Members of the Board of Supervisors:

I wish to speak on the topic of the need for a County Public Bank and
Eminent Domain.

First, we need to understand how banks create money because a public bank
would have the same operations except they would not generate profits for
shareholders or CEOs from high interest rates. A Public Bank would be
transparent and would serve the people and the common good of this county.

Under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 banks are allowed to operate under
the fractional reserve system, that is, banks are required to keep 1/10 or
 10% of their assets on hand in case customers want to withdraw their
money. The Federal Reserve Act allows banks to loan out ten times the
amount of remaining assets, charging interest which is profits for a
private bank's shareholders and CEO.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas explains on its website "Banks actually
create money when they lend it. Here's how it works: Most of a bank's
loans are made to its own customers and are deposited in their checking
accounts. Because the loan becomes a new deposit, just like a paycheck
does, the bank holds a small percentage of that new amount in reserve and
again lends the remainder to someone else, repeating the money-creation
process many times."

This is how the Mendocino County Public Bank could generate money to loan
out to its customers. It takes about six months after the initial
application  for a charter from the state Banking Regulatory Agency, to
establish a mission statement and fulfill requirements.

The Public Bank of Mendocino county can use the county assets, such as
Retirement funds, as well as  the securitized loans the county can take by
Eminent Domain and use them as the base of their fractionalized reserve
banking and  can loan out ten times that amount to its customers for small
for the public good. They would not take in deposits or handle checking
accounts.

Eminent domain can be used to take the loan contracts of the securitized
loans that have been or will be subject to foreclosure. Under conventional
eminent domain property can be taken for the public good and the owner
must be given fair market value. In this case of securitized loans the
county can seize the loan contracts, not the land unless it is vacant.
Because the securitized loans were sold  multiple times the chain of title
has been lost; there is no one to pay. In foreclosures the big banks must
prove they own the note.The county Recorder can require the foreclosing
entity-a bank or financial institution- to sign an Affidavit of
Authorization to prove they own the note, signing under penalty of perjury
and with full knowledge of fines, jail time and loss of attorney's license
for fraud.

      In MA, the Recorder of Essex County, John O"Brien found that none of
these letters of truthfulness were signed and returned.
With robosigned documents he believes once a liar, always a liar, so if
there's a new signature he sends the required Affidavit to be signed.

Since there's no one to pay, then the Mendocino county can re-evaluate the
Eminent Domained mortgage loans to fair market value,charge a 1 or 2%
interest, sell it back to the formerly underwater homeowner and require
mortgages to be paid to the county Public Bank for 30 years, thus creating
a revenue stream for the county.

 Because the county Public Bank does not have to pay investors a profit as
private banks and credit unions do , the money stays in the county for
the county loans for school maintenance, roads, county fairgrounds,paying
off county debt, improving blighted neighborhoods with loans, creating
jobs in the construction industry and benefiting the economy.

In the state of Nevada a law was passed requiring an Affidavit of
Authority be signed by the foreclosing bank or other entity, foreclosures
dropped by 75% in the first month. When home foreclosures stop there will
be jobs and normalizing of home values, home equity accruing and home
sales without the use of short sales. The real estate community benefits
as well. I urge the County Supervisors to take a positive outlook,  apply
for a Public Bank charter. The Public Banking Institute, Marc Armstrong
from Solano County would be glad to guide you.

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey
January 8, 2013

 then set to market value





From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jan  2 06:56:50 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 06:56:50 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FBI-should-investigate-bankers-not-protesters
Message-ID: <FE9BC2A3-918F-45BF-8F02-8216415A6326@mcn.org>



By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
FBI Should Investigate Bankers, Not Protesters
01 January 13

ecember 16th of 2012 marked the 239th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, when activists clad in Native American costumes protested a tax code that benefited a multinational corporation at the cost of taxpayers, and committed one of the biggest acts of property destruction in history by dumping the East India Tea Company's product into the Boston Harbor by the crateful. For nearly fifty years, the act was either shunned or ignored by the populace. But today, those activists' names are among the revered "founding fathers" of our country.

Since September 17, 2011, police have arrested at least 7,719 people affiliated with Occupy Wall Street. But since September of 2008, when banks, ratings agencies, corrupt regulators and complicit economists helped cause the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, not one banker or corrupt government official has been jailed. The fact that the federal government has used extensive resources to help coordinate law enforcement response to the Occupy movement is well-documented. The FBI's budget request for 2013 is $8.2 billion. Surely, with 34,000 employees and an impressive budget, the FBI could glean all the information they needed for the arrests of those who rooked families out of their homes to make excessive short-term profits. There's certainly no shortage of evidence that can be found for free with a simple Google search.

More at   http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/441-occupy/15335-fbi-should-investigate-bankers-not-protesters


According to redacted FBI documents, federal agents had been warning the New York Stock Exchange of a coming "anarchist protest" since August of 2011, a month before the movement even began. Surely they also knew in advance that Moody's and Standard and Poor's were intentionally giving AAA ratings to worthless mortgage-backed securities that Goldman Sachs eagerly sold to state pension funds on the open market, then referred to as "shitty deals" in private emails with one another. If the FBI spent the same amount of time and resources on gathering evidence to use against corrupt bankers in court as they did on profiling Occupy Wall Street activists, we might not even be protesting right now.

It's offensive that our government, which was founded on revolutionary war against tyrannical government and protesting the multinational corporations they colluded with, puts nonviolent protesters in the same classification as terrorists. It's offensive that it is now considered criminal activity to peacefully protest economic inequality. But it's disgusting that our government is letting real terrorists and criminals get away while going after the very people trying to make things right.

It shouldn't shock anyone anymore to say that the United States is now a police state, or that walking on a sidewalk in New York City while protesting can end up with your head in between a cop's knee and a sidewalk, or that the I in FBI stands for Intimidation rather than Investigation. Hoping that President Obama will suddenly start caring about the rights of protesters in the United States or appoint a new Attorney General that will prioritize the protection of the First Amendment is na?ve and silly. But what we should do is continue to build our own evidence locker against the bankers, continue to announce their crimes to all who would hear, and keep risking arrest to get the truth out. Maybe we can finally turn the cops against the real bad guys.

Carl Gibson, 25, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Old Lyme, Connecticut. You can contact Carl at carl at rsnorg.org.

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+17# tomtom 2013-01-01 21:15
I had this weired vision that America was turning a new leaf, by starting the new year by feeding our fellow hungry countrymen, countrywomen and countrychildren . As easy as that would be to do, it isn't being done. We need some systems analysts to do a little flow charting, to clean up and straighten out the way we budget our money and do some serious rearranging of our priorities. I'm trying but I'm not seeing change. If a guy has 500 apples and only needs one to sustain life, and a person living next door has no apples, will get sick and die without an apple; what isn't clear about this picture?
 
 

+12# MidwestTom 2013-01-01 21:23
The OBama administration waited until the statute if Limitation has expired to attack the banks, thus assuring tat no individual bankers can be charged with a crime, thereby causing loses to shareholders, but not to bankers. All bankers still got their bonus this year.
 
 

+23# Holmes 2013-01-01 21:46
"Peoples of the World Unite, you have nothing left to lose!" When that attitude prevailed in the Eastern European Empire, the Empire and the Wall fell. Copy Iceland and tell the bond holders that they, not the people, have to take a cut, and put the locals responsible in jail.
 
 

+1# brux 2013-01-01 22:11
Did Iceland do that ... do you know a link to that story, I had not seen that.
 
 

+8# brux 2013-01-01 22:09
> FBI Should Investigate Bankers, Not Protesters


Short, sweet and to the point! Yes!
 
 

+6# ghostperson 2013-01-01 22:30
Since ordinary citizens are irrelevant, it will take big celebrity firepower to hammer this issue, the Judds, the Afflecks, the Streisand's.

My additional thought was that instead of flash mobs--maybe that too--there could be flash emails, flash face books so that ire is presented in a way that it cannot currently be impeded by those in business and their handmaiden's in law enforcement.

No doubt methods of prevention will be developed but for now, it is something.

Who would have thought that we, the people, would have to fight our own government to exercise our guaranteed right of free speech under the 1st Amendment.
 
 

+8# 4yourinformation 2013-01-01 22:30
Banksters run the place! 

Both parties are owned.

When will we learn?
 
 

+4# JSRaleigh 2013-01-02 04:07
Quoting 4yourinformation:
When will we learn?


Wrong question. We have already learned.

When, and HOW, do we take our country back from the banksters?
 
 

+10# Barkingcarpet 2013-01-01 22:32
Bankers=Legitim ate Rapists.
Politicians are self serving profiteers.
We, the people, ARE the power, and are sleeping in consumerland.
 
 

+2# MainStreetMentor 2013-01-02 05:51
Yes, bankers ARE legal financial rapists; Politicians ARE self-serving profiteers. We, the citizens of the United States, elected those politicians to office, and the largest percentage of them are lawyers. We must do two things: 1. STOP voting for lawyers! 2. Stop watching ?Dancing with the Stars? and sports programs, and GET INVOLVED WITH THE GOVERNMENT OF OUR COUNTRY. Write letters, make phone calls to elected officials; Letter-to-the-E ditors of local newspapers are helpful; speak out at city council/town hall meetings. Be HEARD. Be involved. Use the tools our democracy provides, and defeat our miscreant avarice-loving opponents.
 
 

+7# KrazyFromPolitics 2013-01-02 00:05
If bankers were investigated, much less be indicted, I would need to be treated for anaphylactic shock. The myth of blind justice disappeared years ago, or never exited in the first place. Our legal system is too corrupt to even consider fairness under the law. It's just a tool for corporations, and the wealthy. However,if American citizens ever awaken...
 
 

+5# gdp1 2013-01-02 03:27
...steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king.....Dylan
 
 

+2# Smokey 2013-01-02 06:02
In Dercember, 2011, some of the Occupy folks in Boston reclaimed the Boston Tea Party. 

The new rebels gathered at the site of the original Boston Tea Party - ironically, it was the place where the Occupy camp existed, before it was destroyed by city officials - and there was a lively demonstration. The demonstration was confronted by cops, and ignored by the mass media, but it
brought something good back to Boston.

The first Boston Tea Party was a protest against "crony capitalism" and the political influence of a global corporation. Keep that story in mind.
It should be celebrated every year.

The modern Tea Party - the crowd that gets money from the Koch brothers - is a tool of global capitalsm. It's a sham.
 
 

0# walt 2013-01-02 06:16
Sen. Bernie Sanders said it correctly: "Congress doesn't control Wall Street; Wall Street controls Congress.

A look at our government shows two massive and shameful failures: the refusal to investigate and prosecute those who lied the country into the Iraq invasion, and the prosecution of those responsible for destroying the economy and peoples'pensions.

No matter which party controls the government, this shame remains. The people should demand action or the little faith in government that may remain will perish completely. Failure to take action will haunt the nation as the rest of the world looks on.
 
 

0# Bruce Gruber 2013-01-02 06:25
Unfortunately it took the imperial power of the military against the Bonus Army to embarrass the plutocracy's ever present plan for austerity by the needy. Bayonets and tanks mobilized against poverty, want and citizen petitions of grievance is hardly a new control technique.

That the media, owned and controlled by that same elite gentility, should consistently justify, apologize for, or ignore the excesses of 'order' is not a surprise. Nor is the need for a Bonus Army to OCCUPY the corridors of self-congratula ting pompousness.

Change will require GREAT PAIN and entail universal suffering. Wealth does not share its power and, ultimately, yields only to force.
 
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jan  2 11:33:14 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 11:33:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Reich's Blog- The Ongoing War: The Battle Over
	the Debt Ceiling
Message-ID: <EC361325-A5E7-46FD-90D7-EDE1115A27DD@att.net>

The Ongoing War: the Battle Over the Debt Ceiling


By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

02 January 13

 
t's not all I would have liked," says Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, speaking of the deal on the fiscal cliff, "so on to the debt ceiling."

The battle over the fiscal cliff was only a prelude to the coming battle over raising the debt ceiling - a battle that will likely continue through early March, when the Treasury runs out of tricks to avoid a default on the nation's debt.

The White House's and Democrats' single biggest failure in the cliff negotiations was not getting Republicans' agreement to raise the debt ceiling.

The last time the debt ceiling had to be raised, in 2011, Republicans demanded major cuts in programs for the poor as well as Medicare and Social Security.

They got some concessions from the White House but didn't get what they wanted - which led us to the fiscal cliff.

So we've come full circle.

On it goes, battle after battle in what seems an unending war that began with the election of Tea-Party Republicans in November, 2010.

Don't be fooled. This war was never over the federal budget deficit.

In fact, federal deficits are dropping as a percent of the total economy.

For the fiscal year ending in September 2009, the deficit was 10.1 percent of the gross domestic product, the value of all goods and services produced in America. In 2010, it was 9 percent. In 2011, 8.7 percent. In the 2012 fiscal year, it was down to 7 percent.

The deficit ballooned in 2009 because of the Great Recession. It knocked so many people out of work that tax revenues dropped to the lowest share of the economy in over sixty years. (The Bush tax cuts on the rich also reduced revenues.) The recession also boosted government spending on a stimulus program and on safety nets like unemployment insurance and food stamps.

But as the nation slowly emerges from recession, more people are employed - generating more tax revenues, and requiring less spending on safety nets and stimulus. That's why the deficit is shrinking.

Yes, deficits are projected to rise again in coming years as a percent of GDP. But that's mainly due to the rising costs of health care, along with aging baby boomers who are expected to need more medical treatment.

Health care already consumes 18 percent of the total economy and almost a quarter of the federal budget (mostly in Medicare and Medicaid).

So if the ongoing war between Republicans and Democrats was really over those future budget deficits, you might expect Republicans and Democrats to be focusing on ways to hold down future healthcare costs.

They might be debating how to make the cost controls in the Affordable Care Act more effective, for example, or the merits of moving to a more efficient single-payer system, as every other advanced country has done.

But they're not debating this, because the federal deficit is not what this war is about.

It's about the size of government. Tea-Party Republicans (and other congressional Republicans worried about a Tea-Party challenge in their next primary) want the government to be much smaller.

"My goal," says conservative guru Grover Norquist, "is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

What's behind this zeal to shrink government? It's not that the U.S. government has suddenly become larger. In fact, non-military government spending relative to the size of the U.S. economy remains the smallest of any other rich nation.

Apart from the military, Medicare and Social Security account for almost everything else the federal government does - and these programs continue to be hugely popular, as Republicans learn every time they threaten them.

The animus toward government has more to do with the growing frustrations of many Americans that they're not getting ahead no matter how hard they work.

Government is an easy scapegoat, utilized by much of corporate America to convince average Americans to cut taxes, spending, and regulations - and divert attention from record-high corporate profits and concentration of income and wealth at the top.

The median wage continues to drop, adjusted for inflation, even though the economy is growing. And the share of the economy going to wages rather than to profits is the smallest on record.

Increasingly it's looked like the game is rigged, especially when people see government bailing out Wall Street (the Tea Party movement grew out of the bailout, as did the Occupiers), and handing out corporate welfare to big agriculture, big pharma, oil companies, and the insurance industry, to name but a few of the recipients.

The outrage grows when average working people are told - falsely - that a growing portion of Americans don't pay taxes and live off government handouts.

The battle over the fiscal cliff is over, but the trench warfare will continue.


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From adross at mcn.org  Wed Jan  2 16:46:55 2013
From: adross at mcn.org (Adrienne Ross)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:46:55 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] just in
Message-ID: <E6925BA6-7503-4DFF-816C-8E33D6B688AA@mcn.org>


THE NEW YORKERONLINE ONLY

? Washington Celebrates Solving Totally Unnecessary Crisis They CreatedMain
JANUARY 2, 2013
REPUBLICANS APOLOGIZE TO TOP 1.5 PER CENT
POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ


WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)?In the aftermath of the fiscal-cliff deal, Republicans in Congress issued a heartfelt apology to the top 1.5 per cent richest people in America, offering ?messages of profound condolence? for allowing their taxes to increase slightly.

?Our hearts go out to them,? said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), still teary-eyed after hanging up the phone with a multimillionaire in Orange County, California. ?We came to Washington to do the work of 1.5 per cent of the American people, and we didn?t get it done.?

The House Speaker said that he had spoken to several members of the top 1.5 per cent who were ?understandably despondent? over seeing their taxes rise marginally as a result of the deal: ?Some of them were so upset they even considered moving to Canada, until they found out the taxes were higher there.?

Mr. Boehner said that he tried to offer the wealthy consolation by reminding them that because of an increase in payroll taxes, millions of middle-class and working-class Americans would be suffering more than they would: ?That usually put them in a better mood.?

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) assailed the fiscal-cliff legislation today, calling it ?a classic example of putting 98.5 per cent of the American people ahead of the rest of the country.?

Offering words of hope to the top 1.5 per cent, Mr. Cantor said, ?In a few months we?ll have the next debate about the debt ceiling. As God is my witness, we will try to do a better job of bringing this nation to the brink of Armageddon.?

But to billionaires such as Harland Dorrinson, a longtime super-donor to the G.O.P., such assurances ring hollow: ?If the fiscal-cliff deal is the kind of performance we can expect from Republican politicians, what?s the point of owning them??

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From ttfarm at mcn.org  Wed Jan  2 18:23:38 2013
From: ttfarm at mcn.org (Laurie York)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:23:38 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Anyone protesting at the BofA commercial shoot?
Message-ID: <9C49F0CE-3E1C-412E-8638-B5D88ED1B12E@mcn.org>

Is OM organizing a BofA protest at the upcoming commercial being filmed here on the North Coast?  Seems like a really good time to bring out those foreclosure signs and bullhorns.

Cheers,
Laurie

Here's what a Facebook friend of mine wrote...

I find it odd that so many people would want to be part of the BofA commercial they are filming here in town. Hello, these are the same asshats that sold shitty mortgages that are foreclosing on your neighbors left and right- one look at the public notices and you would realize by supporting these asshats - even for 200 bucks- its blood money, give yourself some respect, your selling your soul to the devil. If it wernt for corporations like BofA we wouldnt be in the situation we are.



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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jan  2 18:30:22 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:30:22 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Anyone protesting at the BofA commercial
	shoot?
In-Reply-To: <9C49F0CE-3E1C-412E-8638-B5D88ED1B12E@mcn.org>
References: <9C49F0CE-3E1C-412E-8638-B5D88ED1B12E@mcn.org>
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When and where is it happening Laurie?
On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Laurie York <ttfarm at mcn.org> wrote:

Is OM organizing a BofA protest at the upcoming commercial being filmed here on the North Coast?  Seems like a really good time to bring out those foreclosure signs and bullhorns.

Cheers,
Laurie

Here's what a Facebook friend of mine wrote...

I find it odd that so many people would want to be part of the BofA commercial they are filming here in town. Hello, these are the same asshats that sold shitty mortgages that are foreclosing on your neighbors left and right- one look at the public notices and you would realize by supporting these asshats - even for 200 bucks- its blood money, give yourself some respect, your selling your soul to the devil. If it wernt for corporations like BofA we wouldnt be in the situation we are.




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From nlnelson at mcn.org  Wed Jan  2 20:01:26 2013
From: nlnelson at mcn.org (Nancy Liela Wallace-Nelson)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 20:01:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Anyone protesting at the BofA commercialshoot?
In-Reply-To: <5FF008B0-3407-41AB-8128-58BE3A50A220@att.net>
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YES - I agree with your Facebook friend, Laurie - let's protest the people willing to make $$$ off of B of A who has/is robbing all of us of the 99%.

WHERE and WHEN are they filming?

Nancy Wallace-Nelson
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mark Safron 
  To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 6:30 PM
  Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] Anyone protesting at the BofA commercialshoot?


  When and where is it happening Laurie?

  On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Laurie York <ttfarm at mcn.org> wrote:


  Is OM organizing a BofA protest at the upcoming commercial being filmed here on the North Coast?  Seems like a really good time to bring out those foreclosure signs and bullhorns.


  Cheers,
  Laurie


  Here's what a Facebook friend of mine wrote...


  I find it odd that so many people would want to be part of the BofA commercial they are filming here in town. Hello, these are the same asshats that sold shitty mortgages that are foreclosing on your neighbors left and right- one look at the public notices and you would realize by supporting these asshats - even for 200 bucks- its blood money, give yourself some respect, your selling your soul to the devil. If it wernt for corporations like BofA we wouldnt be in the situation we are.







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From ttfarm at mcn.org  Wed Jan  2 20:09:37 2013
From: ttfarm at mcn.org (Laurie York)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 20:09:37 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Anyone protesting at the BofA commercial
	shoot?
In-Reply-To: <5FF008B0-3407-41AB-8128-58BE3A50A220@att.net>
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Hi Mark,
Here's the info:
> NOR CAL CASTING
> EXTRAS NEEDED FOR
> BANK OF AMERICA
> COMMERCIAL!!
> $200.00 a Day
> Be a part of a Commercial filming
> January 10th & 11th in Fort Bragg!!!
> We are looking for all types of local
> people - ALL AGES and ETHNICITIES
> (No one under 18)
> *No acting experience necessary*
> Come anytime from 11am ? 6 pm
> Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
> Holiday Inn, Fort Bragg
> Location: 250 Highway 20, Fort Bragg
> CA 95437
> (We will talk briefly on camera and
> production will choose extras)
> norcalcasting at gmail.com
> 
> _______
On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Mark Safron wrote:

> When and where is it happening Laurie?
> On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Laurie York <ttfarm at mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Is OM organizing a BofA protest at the upcoming commercial being filmed here on the North Coast?  Seems like a really good time to bring out those foreclosure signs and bullhorns.
> 
> Cheers,
> Laurie
> 
> Here's what a Facebook friend of mine wrote...
> 
> I find it odd that so many people would want to be part of the BofA commercial they are filming here in town. Hello, these are the same asshats that sold shitty mortgages that are foreclosing on your neighbors left and right- one look at the public notices and you would realize by supporting these asshats - even for 200 bucks- its blood money, give yourself some respect, your selling your soul to the devil. If it wernt for corporations like BofA we wouldnt be in the situation we are.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jan  2 20:21:29 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 20:21:29 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Guerrilla theater
Message-ID: <6AD96BB1-EEA0-4D2D-BD61-2B5450E12E36@att.net>

I suggest those interested show up to be extras. Get hired, and when filming starts, put on hats and get out signs and make our presence known. Let's discuss it at this Sat.'s meeting.



NOR CAL CASTING
EXTRAS NEEDED FOR
BANK OF AMERICA
COMMERCIAL!!
$200.00 a Day
Be a part of a Commercial filming
January 10th & 11th in Fort Bragg!!!
We are looking for all types of local
people - ALL AGES and ETHNICITIES
(No one under 18)
*No acting experience necessary*
Come anytime from 11am ? 6 pm
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
Holiday Inn, Fort Bragg
Location: 250 Highway 20, Fort Bragg
CA 95437
(We will talk briefly on camera and
production will choose extras)
norcalcasting at gmail.com
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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Jan  2 21:05:25 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:05:25 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: RE: message check]
Message-ID: <51c1acce1b868f9f62a550ba1249c215.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

-Occupy,
 please read and print this out, bring it Saturday to the 1:00 pn meeting
at the Senior Center so we can work toward approval.I may need one or two
people to cede their time to me in Ukiah at 9:00 am before the
Supes.actually if you all approve Jessie can read it aloud.

Thank you for your interest and participation.
Agnes

Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: RE: message check
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Wed, January 2, 2013 8:55 pm
To:      "CJ Holmes" <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
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>
I like it very much. I will offer it to the Foreclosure committee and the
General Assembly for their approval so that it can be signed by Occupy
Mendocino, rather than just my name. Otherwise could I add your name as
co-author?
Agnes

Let me know what you think.  I sort of rewrote it.  cj
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: agnes at mcn.org [mailto:agnes at mcn.org]
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 12:10 PM
> To: CJ Holmes
> Cc: agnes at mcn.org
> Subject: message check
>
>
>
> Dear C.J.,
>
>       I hope to speak before the B.O. S. with other Occupy members on Jan
> 8th.
>
> OM will discuss what else we plan to speak about.Wonder if you'd like to
> comment on this?
>
>
>
> Good Morning Members of the Board of Supervisors:
>
>
>
> I wish to speak on two topics:
>
> - The need for a County Public Bank and
>
> - The lucrative Eminent Domain of Securitized Loans.
>
>
>
>
>
> COUNTY PUBLIC BANK
>
> It is in the County's vested interest to establish a Public Bank.  This
> would allow the County to acquire and keep for its own needs the
> significant benefit of credit creation, instead of lining private bond
> investor pockets with County tax dollars.
>
>
>
> A Public Bank would operate similarly to a private bank and would be run
> in a transparent manner by banking professionals paid as regular
> employees, not the millions in salaries typical of private bankers.
> Profits generated would not be kept by shareholders and CEOs, but would be
> returned to the County for the benefit of the county, such as paying off
> debt and funding more road maintenance.  It takes about six months after
> the initial application for a charter from the state Banking Regulatory
> Agency to establish a mission statement and fulfill requirements.
>
>
>
> The County Public Bank would not compete with regional banks and credit
> unions for customer deposits and checking accounts. It would be used to
> generate the credit the county needs for its own infrastructure repairs,
> redevelopment, small business loans and other county projects not
> financeable by the private banking sector, and in the process create local
> jobs and eliminate the need to issue any type of municipal bonds.
>
>
>
> The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas explains on its website "Banks actually
> create money when they lend it. Here's how it works: Most of a bank's
> loans are made to its own customers and are deposited in their checking
> accounts. Because the loan becomes a new deposit, just like a paycheck
> does, the bank holds a small percentage of that new amount in reserve and
> again lends the remainder to someone else, repeating the money-creation
> process many times."
>
>
>
> Under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 banks are allowed to operate under
> the fractional reserve system, that is, banks are required to keep 1/10 or
> 10% of their assets on hand in case customers want to withdraw their
> money. In practice and with mortgage securitization, private mega-banks
> have fractionalized at far greater than 10 times, generating a
> conservative estimate of $70 trillion dollars in fiat credit.  This is one
> of the reasons the country is in such a mess and the federal government is
> worried that the entire financial system will collapse.
>
>
>
> The Public Bank of Mendocino county would be capitalized with county
> assets, such as the land, buildings and pension funds the county owns, as
> well as any securitized loans the county seized via Eminent Domain.
> Holding the county's cash accounts, plus any loan payments the county
> would receive from the seized loans, the public bank would have the
> necessary reserves to generate the credit the county needs to fund its own
> projects.
>
>
>
> Having the ability to fund its own projects at 0% interest rate and at
> will, would be a huge boon to the county.
>
>
>
> EMINENT DOMAIN OF SECURITIZED LOANS
>
> The "Eminent Domain of Securitized Loan Solution" is based on four facts:
>
>
>
> 1.  The "money" created to fund each securitized loan was fiat credit
> created by private bank fractionalization.
>
>
>
> 2.  Banks are NOT modifying loans for owners so they can keep their homes
> in spite of the best efforts of the Federal Government to make banks do
> so.
>
>
>
> 3. The use of MERS and mortgage securitization created a legal morass
> which requires servicers to forge legal documents and break securitization
> investment rules in order to foreclose clouding millions of property
> titles.
>
>
>
> 4.  When a securitized loan defaults, the securitized loan insurance pays
> for that defaulted  loan.  This is proven beyond any doubt by that loan's
> securitization audit.
>
>
>
> So why are banks foreclosing? Not because they lost money on the loan, but
> because the government has made it very lucrative for them to foreclose.
> It is a government give-away designed to stave off systemic failure.
>
>
>
> Each of these facts is a glaring emergency signal to counties and cities
> to eminent domain these loans and modify them to market terms and low
> interest rates for the borrowers as soon as possible.  Doing so will stop
> the foreclosure crisis in that county or city, clear all clouded titles
> created by the securitization fiasco, keep the owners in their homes, and
> generate a new revenue stream revitalizing the community prior to any
> financial system breakdown.
>
>
>
> We can rely on the experience of the Nevada and Massachusetts 'Affidavits
> of Foreclosure Authority', that when a State or Recorder requires the bank
> verify it has foreclosure authority under penalty of perjury and fines or
> jail, the bank stops filing foreclosures.  In California, SB900, which
> took effect on the 1st, states that banks have to prove they have the
> authority to foreclose, but unfortunately penalties are minimal.
>
>
>
> Eminent Domain must be used for the benefit of the public and whatever is
> seized must be paid for at fair market value.  Since banks cannot prove
> under penalty of perjury that they have the right to foreclose, then they
> cannot prove under penalty of perjury they have a right to payment for
> these loans.  They don't.  And they know they don't.
>
>
>
> Therefore, it behooves the County to seize all the loans they can, modify
> the loan principals to a bit less than market value, keep interest rates
> very low, at 1%-2%, and begin generating as quickly as possible this new,
> lucrative 30 year revenue stream for the county.
>
>
>
> Once these new modified loans and payment streams are in place, then the
> County can focus on the eminent domain of vacant foreclosed properties,
> rescinding those foreclosures and reinstating the former owners with the
> same loan program made available to others.  These actions will stabilize
> home values, allow real estate transactions to return to a normal (as
> opposed to a short sale or bank foreclosure), help stabilize the income of
> those that depend on real estate for a living, remove the fear and lawsuit
> costs from owners facing foreclosure, let owners keep their homes, and
> allow the natural process of appreciation to bloom.
>
>
>
> This happy turn of events will increase the ability of the community to
> expand retail operations, which in turn will generate more jobs and
> growth.
>
>
>
> I urge the Board to establish a working committee to collect and review
> the information the Board needs to proceed with the establishment of a
> Public Bank and start the Eminent Domain of securitized loans process.
>
>
>
> CJ Holmes, Founder of Home Owners For Justice, and Marc Armstrong, Public
> Banking Institute, both in Sonoma County, offer their help and support if
> desired.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Agnes Woolsey
>
> January 1, 2013
>
>
>





From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jan  2 23:40:41 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 23:40:41 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?AND_THE_DEBT_DEAL_WINNER_IS=85?=
	=?windows-1252?q?SOMEBODY?=
Message-ID: <168490C8-F1E2-415D-9C91-E4425205BB23@att.net>


http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/fiscal-cliff-averted-010213

AND THE DEBT DEAL WINNER IS?SOMEBODY

By Charles P. Pierce


Bloomberg via Getty Images

This deal leaves the government still in a weird, suspended place, creating tiny mechanisms within itself on the fly just to keep running. Sooner or later, you can't improvise your way out of your basic problems.































I kept drifting in and out of football games all afternoon, checking back in every now and then to see if somebody had managed to get the bats in the House Of Representatives to fly in formation. Come the Orange Bowl, and it looked like the Senate bill was going to come cleanly to the floor of the House for an up-or-down vote. If this whole fiasco ends in an orgy of orgasmic praise for "bipartisanship" and "compromise," let alone a whole vaudeville act set up around the concept of a "new era" of cooperation inside the Beltway, the attitude of the late Keith Moon toward television sets and windows is going to be worth another look. 

It was truly a remarkable spectacle to watch so many congresscritters from both sides of the aisle congratulate themselves for coming to the end of the drama without impaling the entire economy on a spike and leaving it for the daws to peck at. The gorge didn't exactly reach high tide until David Dreier, a Republican from California who is leaving Congress to get rich, got up and said how it was Congress's job "to restore hope and optimism to the American people." Yes, this is the same David Dreier who helped waste a year of the country's time chasing Bill Clinton's penis around the Beltway. "We must always be prepared to compromise in the service of our principles," he said, saying absolutely nothing. He later pointed out that he "was taking the Madisonian directive" and returning to California, where I am sure he will become a gentleman farmer and absolutely have nothing to do with lobbying his former colleagues, and I am also the Tsar of all the Russias. In the name of god, go!

Steny Hoyer, on the other hand, regretted that "this is not a big, bold, balanced plan." I don't. I don't trust either side to develop a big, bold, balanced plan that doesn't pretty much hose most of the country because, in too many cases, their constituencies are no longer most of the people in the country. (How many times have you heard the current deal praised because The Markets were happy and how many times have you heard it praised because it extended unemployment benefits for a niggling 12 months? Thought so.) After a while, I found myself grateful for the Republicans who were holding out against their leadership, because at least their honest contempt for the obligations of governing the nation, and their honest hatred of the Democrats, and their honest loathing for the concept of a political commonwealth, and their resolute insistence on ignoring the election of last November had a simple clarity to it. (I heard Ed Royce talk about how they'd kept off all of us the onerous chains of The Death Tax. The Death Tax! It was like hearing "Free Bird" on your classic rock station.) Sander Levin called bullshit on all of that, and that was good to hear, too, because otherwise, it was like hearing a bunch of guys playing "Kumbaya" on their switchblades. 

Sorry, kids, but this is not the way the system is supposed to work. This whole puppet show was the result of a jerry-rigged burlesque of the legislative process that was devised a year ago because the House had been rendered dysfunctional by a claque of feral children. This whole puppet show likely will be replayed ? with even more spectacular special effects! ? in March when we deal with Fiscal Cliff 2: Sequester Boogaloo because of jerry-rigged burlesques that are part of this new deal of which everyone is so very proud. My man Chuck Todd is calling the sequel, "March Madness." If the pundits are already being cutesy about it, the March thing could be a nightmare.

This is a continuation, not of the proper constitutional order of things, but of Government By Improv. There is no serious coalition in evidence here, no matter how many Democrats offered themselves up to defibrillate John Boehner's career. This was a deal cobbled together by the vice-president and the minority leader of the Senate and passed by a Republican House with more Democratic votes than Republican votes. This leaves the government still in a weird, suspended place, creating tiny mechanisms within itself on the fly just to keep running, and then newer tiny mechanisms on the fly to keep the previous tiny mechanisms running. Sooner or later, you can't improvise your way out of your basic problems, which is that one of your two political parties continues to have a kind of prion disease eating away at its brain. This deal last night did not extinguish the nihilistic streak in the Republican party, nor its delight in legislative vandalism.

The president made it quite clear in his late-night appearance that he's still interested in a Grand Bargain, that he's interested in "reforming" Medicare ? Look out below! ? and that he wants to be sure that everyone knows that there is spending to be cut in the government, and that the deficit is still the primary focus of his economic agenda. He talked tough about the debt ceiling, but there is absolutely nothing he can do unilaterally about it. (Hell, we actually hit the debt ceiling yesterday.) He seems to believe more than anyone else that some sort of precedent was set last night. I think he's very, very wrong about that. Last night, at literally the 11th hour of the first day of 2013, the House Of Representatives condescended to do a little part of its job. To borrow a phrase from Chris Rock, what do they want? A cookie?

And then, after everybody stopped watching, the Republicans adjourned the House without voting on a bill that would have extended aid to the victims of superstorm Sandy. The last act of this glorious night of bipartisan compromise on the part of the House majority was to flip off people who are still picking through the rubble in the middle of winter.

I continue to be pessimistic about the whole business.


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jan  3 00:27:04 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 00:27:04 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] CASTING EXTRAS NEEDED FOR BANK OF AMERICA
	COMMERCIAL
In-Reply-To: <B532EB9C-B5B5-4020-8AFD-08C421FC3D04@mcn.org>
References: <B532EB9C-B5B5-4020-8AFD-08C421FC3D04@mcn.org>
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> This sure seems like a good thing to participate in!  Imagine being able to help the B or A make more money. Maybe they could hire folks who have been foreclosed upon?  rk 
>> NOR CAL CASTING
>> EXTRAS NEEDED FOR
>> BANK OF AMERICA
>> COMMERCIAL!!
>> $200.00 a Day
>> Be a part of a Commercial filming
>> January 10th & 11th in Fort Bragg!!!
>> We are looking for all types of local
>> people - ALL AGES and ETHNICITIES
>> (No one under 18)
>> *No acting experience necessary*
>> Come anytime from 11am ? 6 pm
>> Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013
>> Holiday Inn, Fort Bragg
>> Location: 250 Highway 20, Fort Bragg
>> CA 95437
>> (We will talk briefly on camera and
>> production will choose extras)
>> norcalcasting at gmail.com
> 
> 

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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jan  3 11:31:43 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:31:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nominate a woman for Treasury Secretary
Message-ID: <9ED5F743-AD88-4800-AC79-7DFA18AFE495@att.net>


Hey folks,

With Hillary Clinton leaving her role as Secretary of State, we need an advocate for women and families in the cabinet. Financial regulations have a big impact on women's lives, yet a woman has never held our country's the top financial post--Treasury Secretary. 

President Obama will be back in Washington next week, and he'll start focusing on cabinet nominations right away. Can you sign this petition today asking President Obama toappoint a woman to the Secretary of the Treasury? 

http://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/treasury/?referring_akid=.4014.3mAxuI&source=taf 

Thanks!

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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jan  3 11:45:02 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:45:02 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] CVS-Chase (Goliaths) vs Sebastopol (David)
Message-ID: <8F8C4FA7-1DD9-43BB-ABED-6168C1BB18A8@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/304-justice/15362-cvs-chase-goliaths-vs-sebastopol-david

CVS-Chase (Goliaths) vs Sebastopol (David)


By Shepherd Bliss, Reader Supported News

03 January 12

 
Small town Sebastopol sued by giant CVS Pharmacy - classic David vs. Goliath story continues.

n Christmas Eve, when most were at home with family and friends or out of town, a summons was served at the Sebastopol City Hall. The giant CVS Pharmacy had sued the City and its elected officials.

Sebastopol's recently elected City Council voted unanimously, 5-0, on December 18th to enact a temporary 45-day moratorium against drive-through operations. CVS seeks to nullify that moratorium and proceed with plans that it has been working on since 2009, but which have not been fully approved and permitted, to build two stores with drive-throughs.

A small town with fewer than 8,000 people, Sebastopol is in Sonoma County, Northern California, in what has historically been known as the Redwood Empire. Some also now call it Wine Country, which attracts people from all over. At the crossroads of two highways, Sebastopol suffers increasing traffic problems, especially in its clogged downtown, which is where CVS wants to build.

CVS, its partner Chase Bank, and their Pennsylvania-based developer Armstrong have been trying to convince Sebastopol to allow them to move their two stores, now located at the edge of town, to a prominent downtown corner. A super-majority has opposed that move for various reasons; only a few have supported it, mainly because of financial gain and family loyalties.

CVS claimed in a letter to the Council before the December 18th decision that the ordinance is an "arbitrary, capricious and discriminatory act by the City." CVS feels targeted by the Council's new moratorium, though it refers to all new drive-throughs.

CVS' lawsuit complains that it "has been damaged" because they have an "investment of millions of dollars." It's all about money for CVS/Chase, whereas for the people of Sebastopol and their elected officials, the issue is having local control and deciding what would be best for the residents.

"The City has every right to reevaluate its laws ... and a right to enact a moratorium while it studies those laws," according to City Attorney Larry McLaughlin, who is also Acting City Manager. He explained that a moratorium is not a ban, adding, "It is to maintain the status quo while the Planning Commission and City Council study the subject. Studying a subject does not necessarily lead to a ban."
A defiant McLaughlin later noted, "We're not backing down." He admitted that a defense of the City is likely to cost up to $100,000, which is a lot of money for a small town.

Councilmember Patrick Slayter, an architect, put the topic of drive-throughs on the agenda of the previous Council on November 20th. He is the only remaining member on the new Council who voted to approve the architectural design of the CVS/Chase/Armstrong project in the town's urban core. Sarah Gurney, an attorney, had originally suggested a drive-through moratorium.

"Drive-throughs are outmoded and with our limited urban space, I am not sure devoting traffic lanes to drive-throughs is the best use of our limited space." In an email, he later wrote, "Good urban design is an effective way to move away from the automobile."

Mayor Michael Kyes explained, "The urgency order came about because if we didn't have it, we could potentially have a dozen project applications come in with drive-throughs."

Why might the 18th largest corporation in the US become so involved in the governance of a small town? Such interference by mega-corporations in the running of municipalities is not unusual. Some corporations - such as Wal-Mart and Monsanto - are even more powerful than some small nations, which they also threaten in order to maximize profits, their only concern.

"These corporations use their money, influence over government and ?constitutional rights' to impose their will on communities all over the world," writes Abraham Entin, founder of Move to Amend Sonoma County. This grassroots, national movement seeks a constitutional amendment that states: "Corporations are not people, and money is not speech." Otherwise, corporations will find ways to get around local regulations and use their substantial power to control events, says Entin.

Slightly before CVS/Chase proposed their development, another project was proposed a couple of blocks away on a property ten times as large. The Barlow Project developers were constructive, creative, and cooperative with the City and the community. Their project was approved and is nearly complete. CVS has been combative and threatening; it tried to ignore and dominate the City and its people, whereas The Barlow welcomed their feedback and made real modifications in their plans to meet the felt needs of the town's people.

Sebastopol has been described as a "green town" in The New York Times and elsewhere. The most popular car in the area seems to be a Prius hybrid. Sebastopol has been a magnet for people interested in issues such as sustainability, reducing fossil fuel use and increasing renewable energy, curbing chaotic climate change, and organic farming.

At the same City Council meeting where the drive-thru moratorium was passed, a Vulnerable Users Protection Ordinance also received a 5-0 approval. Proposed by the Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition and brought forward by Councilmember Slayter, it gives pedestrians and cyclists legal recourse against drivers who threaten or harass them.

A number of groups and hundreds of individuals contributed recently to successful campaigns to elect two candidates who oppose the CVS/Chase move, Robert Jacob and John Eder, and defeat the two candidates who supported the move, incumbent Kathleen Schaeffer and former mayor Kathy Austin. Those groups included Sebastopol Tomorrow, Small Town Sebastopol Committee, Sonoma County Conservation Action and Occupy Sebastopol.

"It is key that municipalities be free to design their towns," said long-time activist and former Planning Commissioner Helen Shane, "and not be shoved around by formula organizations eager for a foothold in towns, large and small, across the US." Other communities throughout the US are apparently struggling against CVS/Chase expansionism.

Five days after the Christmas Eve summons, people from around Sonoma County gathered at the weekly Farmers Market in the town's plaza, a couple of blocks from where CVS wants to relocate. When asked how they felt about CVS suing Sebastopol, responses included following:

"It disgusts me that CVS would go against the will of the community. It is a shame when corporations try to force themselves on towns. It will cost all the people of Sebastopol a lot of time, effort, and money that we do not have." 
Caverly Whittemore 

"CVS needs to stay where they are. To move would be to disrupt the trade of smaller businesses in town. The more they do stuff like this, the less likely I am to support them." 
Dwight Sims 

"They sue as a scare tactic. Then cities back down. CVS is not a moral company. They get sued all over the place." 
Kathie Haynes 

"CVS is oblivious to the needs of our community. We do not want them here. They are trying to bulldoze us." 
Amy Schiff 

"CVS wants to plant their trading post in the middle of our town to colonize and exploit us. Their business model is not likely to survive here." 
Lawrence Jaffe 

"Since CVS is not wanted downtown, they could take a small fraction of the money they are spending and improve what they are doing where they are now." 
Marty Roberts 

"A local municipality has the right to impose restrictions on behalf of its citizens. This lawsuit is an aggressive over-reach." 
Kevin Dawn 

"This makes me sad. Nobody I know wants CVS downtown. We just want them to go away. People are starting to get angry, which will not help their business. This small town will continue to fight. They picked the wrong place to go after." 
Gretchen Savidge
Armstrong Development Vice President William McDermott was approached for comments, but did not respond before press time.

Among the strategies being discussed to deal with the suit by various groups and in the streets are the following:

Set up a legal defense fund to support the city's defense.

Picket, leaflet, and boycott the current locations of CVS and Chase, including pulling prescriptions and moving bank accounts. Occupy Sebastopol has already called for a peaceful, informational picket at the current CVS/Chase locations on Saturday, January 19th, from 2-4 pm.

Civil disobedience.
After three years of struggle, CVS vs. Sebastopol may emerge as a classic David vs. Goliath story.


See Also: 
Shepherd Bliss | Big Chase/CVS Threatens Small Town's Future and Soul 
Shepherd Bliss | Frontline Battle Against Big Business


Shepherd Bliss ( 3sb at comcast.net) teaches college, farms, and has contributed to two dozen books.

Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Jan  4 11:16:16 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 11:16:16 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] foreclosure radar and letter toEllen Rosser
Message-ID: <c4c24203910713e3f80003137520602c.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Dear Ellen, Here's an answer to your question:How do I get names of
foreclosure victims in Point Arena?Agnes


In San Francisco, we use one of the same databases used by the vulture
capitalists called Foreclosure Radar (foreclosureradar.com). You can get a
free trial, but it costs $50/month. Drop me an email if you have a
specific question.

In solidarity,

Stardust
Occupy Bernal
Occupy the Auctions and Evictions Campaign

At 08:56 AM 1/4/2013, you wrote:

Susan,
Thanks for keeping us informed. Occupy Mendocino will be speaking to the
Mendocino Board Of Supervisors January 8th at 9:00 am about the banking
system,Eminent Domain and Public Banking. How do foreclosure fighters find
names of homeowners under threat of foreclosure? Point Arena Occupier is
aware of 4 foreclosures looming ahead.
Cheers,
Agnes



From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Jan  4 11:26:11 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 11:26:11 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] letter to BOS for Tues Jan. 8,2013 reminder
Message-ID: <dd33d8a61d71832f5ade820641ad6bfb.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Good Morning Members of the Board of Supervisors:
>
>My name is Agnes Woolsey.
>
> I wish to speak on two topics:
>
> - The need for a County Public Bank and
>
> - The lucrative Eminent Domain of Securitized Loans.
>
>> COUNTY PUBLIC BANK
>
> It is in the County's vested interest to establish a Public Bank.  This
> would allow the County to acquire and keep for its own needs the
> significant benefit of credit creation, instead of lining private bond
> investor pockets with County tax dollars.
>
>
>
> A Public Bank would operate similarly to a private bank and would be run
> in a transparent manner by banking professionals paid as regular
> employees, not the millions in salaries typical of private bankers.
> Profits generated would not be kept by shareholders and C.E.O.s, but
would be returned to the County for the benefit of the county, such as
paying off debt and funding more road maintenance.  It takes about six
months after the initial application for a charter from the state
Banking Regulatory Agency to establish a mission statement and fulfill
requirements.
>
>
>
> The County Public Bank would not compete with regional banks and credit
> unions for customer deposits and checking accounts. It would be used to
> generate the credit the county needs for its own infrastructure repairs,
> redevelopment, small business loans and other county projects not
> financeable by the private banking sector, and in the process create local
> jobs and eliminate the need to issue any type of municipal bonds.
>
>
>
> The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas explains on its website "Banks actually
> create money when they lend it. Here's how it works: Most of a bank's
> loans are made to its own customers and are deposited in their checking
> accounts. Because the loan becomes a new deposit, just like a paycheck
> does, the bank holds a small percentage of that new amount in reserve and
> again lends the remainder to someone else, repeating the money-creation
> process many times."
>
>
>
> Under the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 banks are allowed to operate under
> the fractional reserve system, that is, banks are required to keep 1/10 or
> 10% of their assets on hand in case customers want to withdraw their
> money. In practice and with mortgage securitization, private mega-banks
> have fractionalized at far greater than 10 times, generating a
> conservative estimate of $70 trillion dollars in fiat credit.  This is one
> of the reasons the country is in such a mess and the federal government is
> worried that the entire financial system will collapse.
>
>
>
> The Public Bank of Mendocino county would be capitalized with county
> assets, such as the land, buildings and pension funds the county owns, as
> well as any securitized loans the county seized via Eminent Domain.
> Holding the county's cash accounts, plus any loan payments the county
> would receive from the seized loans, the public bank would have the
> necessary reserves to generate the credit the county needs to fund its own
> projects.
>
>
>
> Having the ability to fund its own projects at 0% interest rate and at
> will, would be a huge boon to the county.
>
>
>
> EMINENT DOMAIN OF SECURITIZED LOANS
>
> The "Eminent Domain of Securitized Loan Solution" is based on four facts:
>
>
>
> 1.  The "money" created to fund each securitized loan was fiat credit
> created by private bank fractionalization.
>
>
>
> 2.  Banks are NOT modifying loans for owners so they can keep their homes
> in spite of the best efforts of the Federal Government to make banks do
> so.
>
>
>
> 3. The use of MERS and mortgage securitization created a legal morass
> which requires servicers to forge legal documents and break securitization
> investment rules in order to foreclose clouding millions of property
> titles.
>
>
>
> 4.  When a securitized loan defaults, the securitized loan insurance pays
> for that defaulted  loan.  This is proven beyond any doubt by that loan's
> securitization audit.
>
>
>
> So why are banks foreclosing? Not because they lost money on the loan, but
> because the government has made it very lucrative for them to foreclose.
> It is a government give-away designed to stave off systemic failure.
>
>
>
> Each of these facts is a glaring emergency signal to counties and cities
> to eminent domain these loans and modify them to market terms and low
> interest rates for the borrowers as soon as possible.  Doing so will stop
> the foreclosure crisis in that county or city, clear all clouded titles
> created by the securitization fiasco, keep the owners in their homes, and
> generate a new revenue stream revitalizing the community prior to any
> financial system breakdown.
>
>
>
> We can rely on the experience of the Nevada and Massachusetts 'Affidavits
> of Foreclosure Authority', that when a State or Recorder requires the bank
> verify it has foreclosure authority under penalty of perjury and fines or
> jail, the bank stops filing foreclosures.  In California, SB900, which
> took effect on the 1st, states that banks have to prove they have the
> authority to foreclose, but unfortunately penalties are minimal.
>
>
>
> Eminent Domain must be used for the benefit of the public and whatever is
> seized must be paid for at fair market value.  Since banks cannot prove
> under penalty of perjury that they have the right to foreclose, then they
> cannot prove under penalty of perjury they have a right to payment for
> these loans.  They don't.  And they know they don't.
>
>
>
> Therefore, it behooves the County to seize all the loans they can, modify
> the loan principals to a bit less than market value, keep interest rates
> very low, at 1%-2%, and begin generating as quickly as possible this new,
> lucrative 30 year revenue stream for the county.
>
>
>
> Once these new modified loans and payment streams are in place, then the
> County can focus on the eminent domain of vacant foreclosed properties,
> rescinding those foreclosures and reinstating the former owners with the
> same loan program made available to others.  These actions will stabilize
> home values, allow real estate transactions to return to a normal (as
> opposed to a short sale or bank foreclosure), help stabilize the income of
> those that depend on real estate for a living, remove the fear and lawsuit
> costs from owners facing foreclosure, let owners keep their homes, and
> allow the natural process of appreciation to bloom.
>
>
>
> This happy turn of events will increase the ability of the community to
> expand retail operations, which in turn will generate more jobs and
> growth.
>
>
>
> I urge the Board to establish a working committee to collect and review
> the information the Board needs to proceed with the establishment of a
> Public Bank and start the Eminent Domain of securitized loans process.
>
>
>
> CJ Holmes, Founder of Home Owners For Justice, and Marc Armstrong, Public
> Banking Institute, both in Sonoma County, offer their help and support if
> desired.
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Agnes Woolsey
>
> January 1, 2013
>
>
>







From jupiter at mcn.org  Sun Jan  6 13:30:46 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:30:46 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Martin Luther King Day celebration
Message-ID: <CCC51A5D-6E28-4CF7-BEB3-0FC236EB2043@mcn.org>

Greetings,

The 2013 MLK event is finally finalized. We hope it poses no conflict.

Our annual celebration of MLK Day here on the coast will be held at  
noon on Monday, January 21, at the Trinity Lutheran Church at 620 E.  
Redwood at Corry, in Fort Bragg.

Please join us in remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We?ll commemorate the Selma bus boycott by marching through Fort Bragg  
from noon to 1 PM (let?s congregate at 11:30 at the Trinity Lutheran  
Church at 620 E. Redwood in Fort Bragg). Then enjoy a hearty lunch  
from 1 to 2 PM.

Our program so far includes the wonderful singing group, River, made  
up of Carolyn Carleton, Cynthia Frank, and Sari Scanlon. Their a  
capella repertoire is spectacular. Another treat will be singing along  
with the Fort Bragg Peace Rappers, led by Irene Malone. They'll sing  
freedom songs in Spanish and English--a treat for both young and old.  
Other music groups, including the Occupy Songsters performing rousing  
songs.

Our panel of activists who worked in the south for civil rights in the  
1960s includes Steve Antler, John Fremont, and Tom Wodetski. It's a  
program that includes hearing from you on what Dr. King would say  
today about workers? rights, unions, bank foreclosures, gun control,  
peace, freedom, and more.

We can use some help in putting on the event and are asking for those  
of you who want to pitch in to step forward. Here are the tasks we  
could use help with:

   1. We need 6 or 7 people to cook a dish to feed around 20 people  
(vegetarian or non-vegetarian). Reimbursement for food supplies is  
available.

   2. We need help with setting up the at the church starting around  
11 am.

   3. We need people to help serve food at lunch.

   4. Last but certainly we need help with cleanup and breakdown.

If you would like to help out, please email john at cypresshouse.com.

Let's make this year's event the best ever!

Thanks,
The MLK Organizing Committee
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Jan  6 18:43:16 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 18:43:16 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?iso-8859-1?q?Fwd=3A_Some_wise_words_on_aging?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?=E2=80=A6etc=2E?=
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>
>>>
>>>
>>>     Never squat with your spurs on...
>>>
>>>     cid:1.1600356786 at web112505.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
>>>
>>>
>>>     Will Rogers, who died in a 1935 plane crash, was one of the
>>>     greatest political sages this country has ever known.
>>>
>>>     Some of his sayings:
>>>     1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
>>>
>>>     2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
>>>
>>>     3. There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.
>>>
>>>     4. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
>>>
>>>     5. Always drink upstream from the herd.
>>>
>>>     6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
>>>
>>>     7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it
back into your pocket.
>>>
>>>     8. There are three kinds of men:    The ones that learn by
reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have
to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
>>>
>>>     9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes
from bad judgment.
>>>
>>>     10. If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every
now and then to make sure it's still there.
>>>
>>>     11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin'
it back.
>>>
>>>     12. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he
started roaring.   He kept it up until a hunter came along and
shot him.
>>>     The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
>>>
>>>
>>>     ABOUT GROWING OLDER...
>>>
>>>     First ~Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about
your age and start bragging about it.
>>>
>>>     Second ~ The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in
line for.
>>>
>>>     Third ~ Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me; I
want people to know 'why' I look this way.
>>>     I've traveled a long way, and some of the roads weren't paved.
>>>
>>>     Fourth ~ When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to
youth, think of Algebra.
>>>
>>>     Fifth ~ You know you are getting old when everything either dries
up or leaks.
>>>
>>>     Sixth ~ I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to
the top.
>>>
>>>     Seventh ~ One of the many things no one tells you about aging is
that it's such a nice change from being young.
>>>
>>>     Eighth ~ One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day
has been.
>>>
>>>     Ninth ~ Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
>>>
>>>     Tenth ~ Long ago, when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks,
it was called witchcraft.
>>>     Today it's called golf.
>>>
>>>     And, finally ~ If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't
have anything to laugh at when you're old.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>     --
>     Jeff Potter
>     www.thepeaceguy.com
>     www.alykat.com

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jan  6 23:41:10 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 23:41:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: From CJ:  First Live show 10a-11a Monday
References: <50B00F5FD69BDA419DEDC29B37E3CC5D091B449E44@MBX11.exg5.exghost.com>
Message-ID: <ACFA8BEE-9DD1-4B2A-8348-A75D65D02A23@mcn.org>

> From CJ: First Live show 10a-11a Monday
> 
> My first guest is a forensic researcher/auditor, expert witness and dedicated foreclosure fighter, Linda Zimmerman.  We'll be discussing the current state of the foreclosure crisis, with the scrapping of the IFR, the SB900 law taking effect, the banks trying to buy off the OCC (http://signon.org/sign/stop-the-occs-secret). 
>  
> We'll also talk about the latest efforts in fighting back, strategies to save our homes, and steps being made towards 'changing the game' in favor of owners. 
>  
> Please watch live or archive from computer, tablet, smartphone:  http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674.  And join the discussion with either a call or video skype:  http://www.hofj.org/default.asp.pg-LivestreamTV.
>  
> 'Til then, cj
>  
> 
> CJ Holmes, Founder
> Home Owners For Justice
> Real Estate Analyst, DRE 01234197
> 
> www.HOFJ.org
> phone (707) 578-5727
> fax (707) 578-5873
>  
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Fri Jan  4 17:51:46 2013
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John Fremont)
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:51:46 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] MLK
In-Reply-To: <B758E86A-643A-4B97-9619-67D74BE8D231@att.net>
References: <B758E86A-643A-4B97-9619-67D74BE8D231@att.net>
Message-ID: <50E78732.1000101@cypresshouse.com>

Can anyone print out this long graphic commemorating civil rights fr the 
MLK hall?
Preferably in color.
Thanks,
John


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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jan  7 11:57:10 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:57:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw
	families from their homes
Message-ID: <7B1A29C0-B22D-4276-8858-9A882180B0BE@att.net>


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/05/pamplona-spain-banks-homes

Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes


Locksmith Iker de Carlos: 'It took us only 15 minutes to reach a decision. We all had stories of jobs we had been on where families had been left on the street.'
He is a locksmith who refuses to open locked doors; neither will he replace their locks with new ones. What may seem a disastrous strategy for Iker de Carlos, a 22-year-old Spaniard starting out in the world of cylinders, pins, bolts and lock springs in his home city of Pamplona, is actually part of a growing civic rebellion in support of the biggest losers in Spain's five-year story of failing, mismanaged banks ? those being thrown out of their homes after falling behind on mortgage payments.

Tired of accompanying court officials to evict unemployed people as banks foreclosed mortgages, De Carlos consulted his fellow Pamplona locksmiths before Christmas. In no time at all, they came to an agreement. They would not do the dirty work of banks whose rash lending pumped up a housing bubble and then, after it popped, helped bring the country to its knees.

"It only took us 15 minutes to reach a decision," says De Carlos amid the racks of keys in the family's shop in the centre of this small northern city best known for its annual bull-runs and the adoration heaped on it by Ernest Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises. "We all had stories of jobs we had been on where families had been left on the street. When you set out all you have is an address and the name of the bank, but I recall an elderly, sick man who was barely given time to put his trousers on."

The logic behind their decision was clear and simple. While Spain's banks mop up billions of euros in public aid, they are also busy reclaiming homes that in some cases they lent silly money for. At the height of Spain's housing madness, banks were, in effect, offering mortgages of more than 100%. They aggressively chased clients ? especially among the immigrants who arrived from Latin America in their millions to build new homes ? creating an uncontrolled spiral of self-fulfilling, but ultimately doomed, demand. Complex networks of guarantors were pieced together by middlemen among immigrants who often barely understood what they were doing.

"Spain must be the only country in the world where banks were allowed to offer 100% mortgages," said Guillermo Perilla, a 31-year-old Colombian immigrant who bought a house on the outskirts of Pamplona for ?240,000 in 2005. "Not only that, but in some cases they also offered further loans to the people taking out mortgages. The bank staff were on commission."

Seven years after buying his house Perilla, an unemployed painter whose wife works part-time, is fighting foreclosure. The bank has told him his house is now only worth ?140,000 and refuses to accept it back in payment for the debt. "But it was their valuer who originally said it was worth a lot more," he said. "Banks inflated prices and now they are making ordinary people pay for them." The bank has now said he can just pay interest for three years: "But that still leaves me with the debt. These things crush you, both morally and physically."

Last month, Spain's banks began to receive what will eventually be more than ?40bn (?32.5bn) in aid. The number of foreclosures, meanwhile, increased by 134% last year. "Social conflict is being created," said Gonzalo Moliner, head of Spain's higher judiciary council. Properties were often reclaimed through the courts on valuations well below levels at which the loans were given. Those unable to pay can be evicted while still saddled with ever-growing debt.

De Carlos believes that Pamplona's locksmiths have now lost 10% of their trade, but recovered their honour and dignity: "This summer we were doing two or three foreclosures a week."

The locksmiths' rebellion follows several widely reported suicides by people about to be evicted from their homes. Amaia Ega?a, a 53-year-old former socialist councillor in the northern town of Barakaldo, threw herself out of a window just as the court authorities ? and their locksmith ? were about to evict her in November.

"It wasn't suicide," demonstrators who marched through her town later that day shouted. "It was murder."

The Roman Catholic bishop of Bilbao called for urgent action to prevent further suicides.

"We had a suicide in Santesteban, too, where someone threw themselves out of the window," said Perilla, who now helps to campaign to stop foreclosures. "Banks still don't want to do anything. As you stop paying you cease to exist for them ? they don't care if you are sick or if you have children. But they can buckle under pressure. They hate the bad publicity."

As Spain enters yet another year of austerity and sky-high unemployment, people such as De Carlos are increasingly fed up with seeing the country's most vulnerable paying for the errors of its banks. Campaigners now regularly form human barricades at the front doors of those due to be evicted from their homes.

But things look unlikely to get better. Unemployment, already at 26%, is set to grow, creating still more people who cannot pay mortgages. Iker is one of the fortunate minority in his age bracket with a job. More than 50% of under-25s fail to find work. Spain lost some 800,000 jobs last year. Only Greece ? Europe's worst disaster story ? can rival the figures.

Even Pamplona, a relatively wealthy city at the centre of Navarra, one of Spain's richest and best-funded regions, is feeling the squeeze. Unemployment in the region is 15%, higher than in any other European country bar Greece, Croatia and Portugal ? but the lowest in Spain. A quarter of those unemployed joined Navarra's dole queues last year as the region discovered that, despite the presence of major employers such as Volkswagen, it was not immune to the downturn.

Like Spaniards elsewhere, people here have almost stopped buying houses. In October only 250 new mortgages were signed in a region of 640,000 people ? a sixth of the monthly rate five years ago. Prices have fallen 38% since Spain's housing bubble burst, but are expected to fall further. Loans no longer come from the once proud local savings bank, Caja Navarra. Like many of Spain's regional savings banks, it sank under the weight of its own toxic real estate assets, losing value rapidly and merging with two others before being taken over by a large Catalan bank, la Caixa.

In Madrid, the locksmiths of Pamplona are being held up as an example to follow. "You have to fight," said 75-year-old Luis Dom?nguez. Last year he called in campaigners to prevent court officials throwing him out of his house in the dormitory town of Parla. Now Luis is part of a group who have spent the past 77 days camped out at the doors of Bankia ? Spain's fourth-largest bank, which has taken ?20bn in rescue money. He is now negotiating a rental agreement with his bank and hopes to pay ?250 a month in rent for the next five years.

Gladys Cerna, 49, is facing foreclosure on her small flat in Madrid's San Blas neighbourhood. Her bank gave her a 120% mortgage in 2007. "When you sign they turn up with lawyers and economists, and I didn't have any real idea what I was letting myself in for," she said.

Spooked by the suicides, prime minister Mariano Rajoy's reformist , pro-austerity government changed the law last year to allow those with large families or very sick dependents to stay longer in their homes. But campaigners say it is not enough.

"They have placed a tiny sticking plaster over the problem," said Perilla. "It only covers really extreme cases. Banks will still do whatever they can to evict people."

In Pamplona, however, they will now find it harder to find a locksmith to help them.


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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jan  7 13:07:33 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:07:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Another "Gotcha" by Michael Moore.
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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/15431-focus-dear-bill-kristol

Dear Bill Kristol


By Michael Moore, Reader Supported News

07 January 13

 
I just sent this to Bill Kristol, the editor of the Weekly Standard magazine and one of the most influential advocates of our invasion of Iraq. He posted something this weekend about my post where I found an old quote from Chuck Hagel about how the Iraq War is all about the oil. I'll let you know when Bill gets back to me. (If you don't know much about Bill, you can find a good introduction here about his pre-war debate with Daniel Ellsberg.)

ear Bill,

Thanks for your post mentioning me! I didn't realize you visited my website so early on Saturday mornings. Man, I wish we had cleaned up after the party last night.

Anyway, I see you're mad that back in 2007 former Sen. Chuck Hagel said that we were obviously "fighting for oil" in Iraq. You explain this was "vulgar and disgusting" and "could be the straw that breaks the back of Hagel's chances" to be Obama's next Defense Secretary.

Since you feel so strongly about this, I wanted to make sure you heard about four other prominent people who've said the same thing. (I should have mentioned them yesterday with the Chuck Hagel stuff, I apologize.)

"I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." - Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, in his 2007 memoir. (Read about it here. Greenspan then lamely tried to walk this back, when he found out just how politically inconvenient it was...while admitting a Bush White House official told him "unfortunately, we can't talk about oil.")

"Of course we should go to war for oil. It's like saying, you're going to war just for oxygen, just for food. We need oil. That's a good reason to go to war." - Ann Coulter, author, April 11, 2011. (Watch her say that here at 37:30.)

"Of course it's about oil, it's very much about oil, and we can't really deny that. From the standpoint of a solider who's now fought in the middle east for six years - my son-in-law's fought there for four years, my daughter's been over there, my son has served the nation - my family has been fighting for a long time." - Gen. John Abizaid, former commander of CENTCOM, October 13, 2007. (Watch Abizaid say this here.)

"We're not in the middle east to bring sweetness and light to the whole world. That's nonsense. We're in the middle east because we and our European friends and our European non-friends depend on something that comes from the middle east, namely oil." - Midge Decter, author, May 21, 2004. (Listen here, at 35:55.)
I like to think the best about people. I know all you're looking for is an open, honest debate about Chuck Hagel's qualifications - with absolutely no smears or bullying. And because you feel that way, I'm sure you'll want to update what you wrote about Hagel with these quotes, and explain that Alan Greenspan and Ann Coulter and John Abizaid and Midge Decter are vulgar and disgusting and far-left too.

Obviously you don't need any incentive to do the right thing. But let me know the second you add them all to that post, and I'll send $1000 to any charity of your choice.

Say hi to Fred "I Read the Iliad" Barnes for me,

Michael Moore

P.S. You probably meet a lot of people, so maybe you don't remember Midge Decter. You can look her up here (speaking at an event honoring your dad), here (signing the founding "Statement of Principles" of your organization Project for the New American Century) and here (where you talked about how "so many of us" have followed "in Midge's footsteps"). Oh, by the way, you were on the 2004 radio program with her when she said the above quote.


Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.


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From adross at mcn.org  Mon Jan  7 15:33:10 2013
From: adross at mcn.org (Adrienne Ross)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:33:10 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] worth a click
Message-ID: <3996C700-721F-403B-A4BF-5085D953445B@mcn.org>


Below is an email from the actor Danny Glover, who worked with the organization Just Foreign Policy to create a petition that's taking off on SignOn.org, the nonprofit site that allows anyone to start their own online petition. If you have concerns or feedback about this petition, click here.


Urge President Obama to Nominate Paul Krugman for Treasury Secretary.

Sign the Petition!
Dear MoveOn member,
Press reports say President Obama will soon nominate a new Treasury Secretary. Press speculation has centered on candidates likely to support the Wall Street agenda of cuts to Social Security and Medicare benefits and other domestic spending rather than government policies to create jobs.  

We want President Obama to nominate Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who opposes austerity and wants the government to focus on creating jobs.

That's why I created a petition on SignOn.org to President Barack Obama, which says:

We urge you to nominate Paul Krugman for Treasury Secretary. Krugman will protect Social Security and Medicare from benefit cuts, promote policies to create jobs, and help defeat the austerity dogma in Washington and around the world.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

?Danny Glover

This petition was created on SignOn.org, the progressive, nonprofit petition site. SignOn.org is sponsored by MoveOn Civic Action, which is not responsible for the contents of this or other petitions posted on the site. Danny Glover didn't pay us to send this email?we never rent or sell the MoveOn.org list.

Want to support our work? MoveOn Civic Action is entirely funded by our 7 million members?no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way. Chip in here.

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jan  7 18:31:48 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 18:31:48 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Cut Corporate Welfare, Not the Safety Net
Message-ID: <CD344E3E-30C0-4FE1-ABCD-47EAB042CE4A@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15413-cut-corporate-welfare-not-the-safety-net

Cut Corporate Welfare, Not the Safety Net



By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News

06 January 13

Reader Supported News | Perspective
 
f your boat is sinking, do you blame the bird sitting on the railing, or on the gallons of water spewing from a gaping hole in the floor?

In Congress' latest "fiscal cliff" deal that supposedly had to be passed in order to avoid economic calamity, we spent $30 billion on extending unemployment benefits for a year, and $205 billion on corporate tax breaks, subsidies and excessive tax loopholes. Most of these Christmas gifts for corporate America are benefiting major, multi-billion-dollar corporations that haven't paid a dime of US income taxes in years, like GE and Boeing. In other words, taxpayers spent six times more on giving free money to companies making record profits than we did to making sure the people who were laid off by these corporations can still feed their families. $205 billion in corporate goodies was okay with Speaker Boehner, but $60 billion in Hurricane Sandy relief apparently wasn't.

One of the most egregious giveaways included in the New Year's Eve fiscal cliff deal negotiated between Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell is an extension of a loophole that allows corporations to book US profits in overseas, tax-free bank accounts. Today, US companies have up to $2 trillion offshored thanks to loopholes like the one in this deal, at the same time Congress is talking about raising the Medicare eligibility age to avoid a fiscal meltdown. Instead of making us give up the pensions and healthcare that we paid for, why not hold rich companies to the same standards as everyone else when it comes to paying taxes?

The dominant topic in the news media for the next few weeks will be raising the debt ceiling. But what likely won't be talked about is the fact that our debt can be easily taken care of by lowering unemployment. The whole reason the economy is in the tank is because of less demand due to more people spending less money. When more people are working, more people are spending money at local businesses, who will then hire more workers to meet demand, meaning less government money is spent on sending unemployment checks, meaning less debt. It's basic math.

During FDR's administration, the economy was recovering until the neoliberal economists in his White House convinced him that cutting spending and lowering the deficit was a bigger priority than creating jobs, which then led to the recession of 1937-1938. The economic recovery was at its peak when FDR cut the unemployment rate in half, largely through the efforts of the Works Progress Administration from 1935-1943, which provided jobs aimed at revitalizing infrastructure, parks and communities. Adjusted for inflation, the WPA would cost roughly $1.5 trillion today. That seems like a large figure, but we could fund that by simply levying a small sales tax on all Wall Street trading of stocks, bonds, options and futures - just like ordinary Americans pay when purchasing goods and services. Such a financial-transaction tax would generate $150 billion a year, or $1.5 trillion in ten years. Not only would such a program lower the unemployment rate, but the resulting economic boom would largely benefit the 99% of Americans that the latest jobless "recovery" of the last few years left behind.

You can count on the corporate-owned media to make the debate into whether or not we have to give up on Social Security or Medicare, instead of talking about the egregious billions that we're throwing at America's richest corporations, or the high volume of tax-free trading done that really only benefits the top 1% of the top 1%. That's why we have to do everything we can to change the conversation between now and the end of January. The best way to do this is with creative, direct action.

Since the 113th Congress is being sworn in this month, and President Obama's inauguration is set for the 21st, we should organize nationwide actions dubbed as the "Crowning of America's Corporate Welfare Kings." Over the next several weeks, activists can don royal garb, roll out the red carpet, and get members of the House and on record saying that they will support ending corporate welfare and implementing a financial-transaction tax rather than ask us to give up Social Security and Medicare benefits. And if they don't agree to it, we'll know that they side with Wall Street over their own constituents, and make a pledge to vote them out of office in the next election cycle. An action could even be as simple as pointing a cell phone camera at a member of Congress and asking them to take a position on the record.

We don't have to make the same mistake of letting the politicians and the media set the tone for debate like we did in the last debt ceiling debacle. This time, we'll come on loud and strong and let them know we're paying attention. And once we set the tone, we win.

Carl Gibson, is co-founder of US Uncut, a nationwide creative direct-action movement that mobilized tens of thousands of activists against corporate tax avoidance and budget cuts in the months leading up to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Carl and other US Uncut activists are featured in the documentary "We're Not Broke," which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. He currently lives in Old Lyme, Connecticut. You can contact Carl at carl at rsnorg.org.



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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Mon Jan  7 23:23:20 2013
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 23:23:20 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Move your money... into clean energy
In-Reply-To: <5cf57-374-50eb00d6@list.rebuildthedream.com>
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----- Forwarded Message -----
From: "Van Jones, Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund" <info at rebuildthedream.com>
To: Liz Helenchild <deejayliz at yahoo.com> 
Sent: Monday, January 7, 2013 9:07 AM
Subject: Move your money... into clean energy
 

 
    
Liz,

A little more than a year ago, hundreds of thousands of Rebuilders came together to craft the Contract for the American Dream, a ten-point plan to get our economy back on track.

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It's important to remember that the Contract isn't just a policy agenda for Congress. It's our shared, crowd-sourced vision of the country that we all commit to help build.

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From cdurkee at mcn.org  Tue Jan  8 06:43:05 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 06:43:05 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] MLK
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Hello all
I was able to print this. 
Thanks, John.
Carrie
On Jan 4, 2013, at 5:51 PM, John Fremont wrote:

> Can anyone print out this long graphic commemorating civil rights fr the MLK hall?
> Preferably in color.
> Thanks,
> John
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jan  8 18:51:00 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:51:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] US Banks Agree to $18.5 Billion Settlement in
	Effort to Clean up Mortgage Crisis
Message-ID: <9EAEE244-D324-41DD-9EE8-172D7DA91673@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/15444-us-banks-agree-to-185-billion-settlement-in-effort-to-clean-up-mortgage-crisis

US Banks Agree to $18.5 Billion Settlement in Effort to Clean up Mortgage Crisis


By Heidi Moore, Guardian UK

08 January 13

 

Deal is good news for regulators and the banks who want to put the housing crisis behind them, but it's less so for homeowners

en US banks announced two huge settlements worth a total of $18.5bn on Monday, in the latest moves to clear up claims relating to the mortgage crisis that foreshadowed the meltdown of the American economy.

Bank of America agreed to pay $10bn to Fannie Mae, the national mortgage guarantor, to settle claims that Bank of America sold Fannie Mae bad loans for 10 years, ending in 2008. As part of the agreement, Bank of America will also buy back $6.75bn of bad mortgage loans. All the money will go straight to Fannie Mae, which will then be forced to hand it straight to the US government. The US Treasury, exasperated with continued losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, long ago barred either of the mortgage giants from keeping any profits.

In another, unrelated settlement 10 banks and financial institutions - including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo - agreed to settle claims of foreclosure abuses for $8.5bn.

About $3.3bn of that is intended to go partly to homeowners who suffered from the abuses in 2009 and 2010, ranging from bad loan modifications to lost or damaged paperwork. That settlement, which Bank of America reached with the Federal Reserve and banking regulator The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, also gives $5.2bn for loan modifications, or friendlier changes in loan terms to help homeowners pay the money back.

These settlements are good for banks, who are now able to put part of the mortgage mess behind them, and good for regulators, who can claim a victory. They are less good for homeowners, who often get caught up in red tape when trying to get mortgage help.

Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan said the agreements were "a significant step" in resolving the institution's issues that related from its purchase of Countrywide in July 2008, just before the financial crisis. Countrywide was one of the biggest mortgage lenders in the US, but was known for approving high-risk loans.

Bradley Lerman, Fannie Mae executive vice-president and general counsel, said in a statement: "Fannie Mae has diligently pursued repurchases on loans that did not meet our standards at the time of origination, and we are pleased to have reached an appropriate agreement to collect on these repurchase requests,"

BoA said it would pay for the Fannie Mae settlement in part from existing reserves. Bank of America also said it would record a $2.7bn hit to its fourth quarter earnings for 2012.

Bank of America fell 8? to $12.01 Monday, after opening slightly up.

The Bank of America settlement represents a good deal for the bank, despite the negative effect on its income on its income, as it closes the door on an estimated $300bn hit from mortgages it sold to Fannie Mae.

The settlement is is also an important acknowledgement, in financial terms, that Bank of America is putting the alleged mortgage abuses at Countrywide behind it.

For regulators, the deals also come at a good time. US housing regulators are likely to get new leaders soon, and this allows them to start fresh.

But the two settlements are less good news for homeowners. The deal between Bank of America and Fannie Mae contains no mechanism by which the money would reach the homeowners who signed bad loans. In the second settlement - between 10 banks, the Federal Reserve and the OCC - homeowners who suffered mortgage abuses should theoretically be able to get $125,000 each. If recent history is any indication, however, it will be hard for them to see much of that money.

Advocates say the regulators let the banks off too lightly in the foreclosure deal. "This was supposed to be about compensating homeowners for the harm they suffered," said Diane Thompson, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center. The payout guidelines already allowed wronged homeowners less compensation than the losses they suffered, she said.

The settlements highlight what Peter Tchir, founder of TF Market Advisors, described as the "black hole" of the mortgage crisis."It's been such an effort to put this past us, at the expense of the underlying economy or people who are hurt directly," said Tchir.

Earlier this year, the nation's major banks signed a $25bn mortgage settlement that was designed to help consumers. Part of that money was designed to go to various US states, which were supposed to use the settlement money for housing programs and other relief. Instead, some of the money was diverted. As ProPublica reported: "Of the $2.5bn going to states, just over a billion dollars has been pledged for housing-related programs, while a roughly equal amount has been diverted to plug budget holes or fund programs unrelated to the foreclosure crisis."


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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jan  9 08:23:55 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 08:23:55 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A Financial Service for People Fed Up With Banks
Message-ID: <FF15F6C4-7A00-4AFD-AB1A-57BB3CA6C4C8@att.net>


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A Financial Service for People Fed Up With Banks

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Shamir Karkal, left, and Josh Reich, center, the founders of Simple.
By JENNA WORTHAM
Published: January 8, 2013
Like many people, Josh Reich got fed up with his bank after it charged him overdraft fees and he endured painful customer service calls to fight them. But unlike most people, Mr. Reich, a software engineer from Australia, decided to come up with a better way to bank.
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From left, Chelsea Hoffer, Erik Wasik and Kelly Behm work on an account at Simple
Mr. Reich and a co-founder, Shamir Karkal, created Simple, an online banking start-up company based in Portland, Ore., that offers its customers free checking accounts and data-rich analysis of their transactions and spending habits.

Few entrepreneurs dare to set their sights on industries as large and entrenched as banking and expect to flourish. But Mr. Reich, 34, a professed data nerd who has built computers and tinkered with the innards of sophisticated cameras, holds a master?s degree in business and has a robust background in financial data analysis. He is confident that Simple?s minimalist approach ? it promises not to charge any fees for any services ? will draw fans and customers.

?Banks make money by keeping customers confused,? Mr. Reich said. ?There?s no incentives to make the experience better.?

Of course, inviting people to trust a start-up with their money is a lot to ask. The company, which began signing up customers late last year in a deliberately slow fashion, now has 20,000 and has processed transactions worth more than $200 million.

It also has the backing of prominent venture capital firms including Shasta Ventures, SV Angel and IA Ventures and has raised more than $13 million. Simple has few, if any, direct competitors, although some services like SmartyPig and Mint offer analysis of bank accounts and financial transactions.

Simple is actually not a bank. It has deals with CBW Bank and Bancorp, federally insured banks, to hold its customers? money.

And it has built slick apps for the Web and mobile devices to give customers an overview of their accounts and transactions. But it encourages customers to treat it as a bank, closing their more traditional accounts and only using Simple.

The company?s biggest challenge, banking analysts say, will be to persuade people to give it a try.

?It is extremely difficult to get consumers to change and leave their banks,? said Jacob Jegher, an analyst at Celent, a research and consulting firm. ?Plus, although they are not a bank, they still operate like a financial institution, and they will face challenges that big banks have decades of experience with.?

After the financial crisis, smaller community banks and credit unions gained customers eager for alternatives to larger corporate banks. Experts say Simple could attract those customers as well.

Early adopters are warming to the service; during a speech last fall at a conference aimed at technology enthusiasts, designers and creative people, Mr. Reich asked how many in attendance were Simple customers. A majority of the crowd raised hands.

Mr. Reich said Simple was keeping its first group of customers small to allow it to work out any kinks. (Already there have been some flaws, like one that briefly locked several users out of their accounts in November.) At this stage, those who want a Simple account have to request an invitation on its site, though these are handed out fairly liberally to those who meet the minimal qualifications of Simple and its bank partners.

Customers receive a plain white card that can be used like a debit card. The company offers most traditional banking features, like direct deposit and money transfers. But there is plenty it does not offer, like joint or business checking accounts, or paper checkbooks, which may be a deal killer for some.

The start-up does not have physical bank branches or automated teller machines, nor does it plan to build any. As a result, Simple customers cannot make cash deposits and must rely on the Internet and phone for service.

Simple tries to make up for what it does not have with modern software design and data analysis.

Each Simple transaction is tagged with detailed information that allows customers to search their accounts with plain English commands like ?Show me how much I spent on meals over $30 last month,? or ?Show me how much money I spent on gifts in December.?

Customers can see transactions plotted on a map or search for all transactions in a particular state or country, something that would be difficult with a traditional bank account.

?Banks throw out a lot of data,? Mr. Reich said. ?There are 80 fields of data per transaction, and banks only show you a few: the dollar amount, the place and the date. We can use much more than that to let people have real-time financial data.? The general approach is intended to appeal to technically adept people who are tuned into the rising interest in analyzing one?s personal data and behavior, as captured by tracking tools like Nike Plus and Jawbone?s Up bracelet.

In the same way that such tools can help people learn more about their physical activity and how many hours a night they sleep, Simple hopes to offer insights into spending behavior.

Simple will have to expand to survive. It makes money by earning interest on the cash it carries and from interchange fees, which it gets from each swipe of the card. It will require a large enough base of deposits and customers to cover its costs.

And there is always the risk that Simple?s greatest advantage ? its data tools ? could be copied by competitors, Mr. Jegher, the Celent analyst, said: ?Can they get to critical mass before banks catch up with their own digital tools to offer a competing experience??

Some of Simple?s early users are big fans, like Chris Lanphear, 30, a Web developer in Fort Collins, Colo., who signed up in July.

Mr. Lanphear said he had been hesitant to try Simple at first because of the company?s lack of physical infrastructure, ?but then I realized it doesn?t ensure better service if you see the face of the person you are talking to.?

He said he had been impressed with Simple?s quick responses, via phone and e-mail, to questions about transactions and charges. The tracking features helped him realize he was spending too much on dining out, so he decided to cut back.

Mr. Lanphear was impressed enough to move over to Simple and close his old bank account. ?I figured it couldn?t be worse than the alternatives,? he said. ?But it?s actually turning out to be much better.?



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jan  9 09:27:04 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 09:27:04 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] B of A Commercial to be shot locally. (US Banks
	Agree to $18.5 Billion Settlement in Effort to CLEAN up
	Mortgage Crisis)
References: <9EAEE244-D324-41DD-9EE8-172D7DA91673@att.net>
Message-ID: <D3466C91-1AE5-4778-B9D6-A0D40FEB21B0@mcn.org>

Keep in mind that on Jan 10,  B of A is selecting people for a commercial to be made locally to improve their image.  Apply, and you might be chosen as an actor and make $200. a day on the shoot. I wonder if they need any assistance from the watching crowd during the taping? Might be good for the curious to go down and give them some attention. rk
> 
> Subject: [Occupymendocino] US Banks Agree to $18.5 Billion Settlement in Effort to Clean up Mortgage Crisis
> Reply-To: rkarch at mcn.org
> 
> 
> http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/320-80/15444-us-banks-agree-to-185-billion-settlement-in-effort-to-clean-up-mortgage-crisis
> 
> US Banks Agree to $18.5 Billion Settlement in Effort to Clean up Mortgage Crisis
> 
> 
> By Heidi Moore, Guardian UK
> 
> 08 January 13
> 
>  
> Deal is good news for regulators and the banks who want to put the housing crisis behind them, but it's less so for homeowners
> 
> en US banks announced two huge settlements worth a total of $18.5bn on Monday, in the latest moves to clear up claims relating to the mortgage crisis that foreshadowed the meltdown of the American economy.
> 
> Bank of America agreed to pay $10bn to Fannie Mae, the national mortgage guarantor, to settle claims that Bank of America sold Fannie Mae bad loans for 10 years, ending in 2008. As part of the agreement, Bank of America will also buy back $6.75bn of bad mortgage loans. All the money will go straight to Fannie Mae, which will then be forced to hand it straight to the US government. The US Treasury, exasperated with continued losses at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, long ago barred either of the mortgage giants from keeping any profits.
> 
> In another, unrelated settlement 10 banks and financial institutions - including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo - agreed to settle claims of foreclosure abuses for $8.5bn.
> 
> About $3.3bn of that is intended to go partly to homeowners who suffered from the abuses in 2009 and 2010, ranging from bad loan modifications to lost or damaged paperwork. That settlement, which Bank of America reached with the Federal Reserve and banking regulator The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, also gives $5.2bn for loan modifications, or friendlier changes in loan terms to help homeowners pay the money back.
> 
> These settlements are good for banks, who are now able to put part of the mortgage mess behind them, and good for regulators, who can claim a victory. They are less good for homeowners, who often get caught up in red tape when trying to get mortgage help.
> 
> Bank of America's CEO Brian Moynihan said the agreements were "a significant step" in resolving the institution's issues that related from its purchase of Countrywide in July 2008, just before the financial crisis. Countrywide was one of the biggest mortgage lenders in the US, but was known for approving high-risk loans.
> 
> Bradley Lerman, Fannie Mae executive vice-president and general counsel, said in a statement: "Fannie Mae has diligently pursued repurchases on loans that did not meet our standards at the time of origination, and we are pleased to have reached an appropriate agreement to collect on these repurchase requests,"
> 
> BoA said it would pay for the Fannie Mae settlement in part from existing reserves. Bank of America also said it would record a $2.7bn hit to its fourth quarter earnings for 2012.
> 
> Bank of America fell 8? to $12.01 Monday, after opening slightly up.
> 
> The Bank of America settlement represents a good deal for the bank, despite the negative effect on its income on its income, as it closes the door on an estimated $300bn hit from mortgages it sold to Fannie Mae.
> 
> The settlement is is also an important acknowledgement, in financial terms, that Bank of America is putting the alleged mortgage abuses at Countrywide behind it.
> 
> For regulators, the deals also come at a good time. US housing regulators are likely to get new leaders soon, and this allows them to start fresh.
> 
> But the two settlements are less good news for homeowners. The deal between Bank of America and Fannie Mae contains no mechanism by which the money would reach the homeowners who signed bad loans. In the second settlement - between 10 banks, the Federal Reserve and the OCC - homeowners who suffered mortgage abuses should theoretically be able to get $125,000 each. If recent history is any indication, however, it will be hard for them to see much of that money.
> 
> Advocates say the regulators let the banks off too lightly in the foreclosure deal. "This was supposed to be about compensating homeowners for the harm they suffered," said Diane Thompson, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center. The payout guidelines already allowed wronged homeowners less compensation than the losses they suffered, she said.
> 
> The settlements highlight what Peter Tchir, founder of TF Market Advisors, described as the "black hole" of the mortgage crisis."It's been such an effort to put this past us, at the expense of the underlying economy or people who are hurt directly," said Tchir.
> 
> Earlier this year, the nation's major banks signed a $25bn mortgage settlement that was designed to help consumers. Part of that money was designed to go to various US states, which were supposed to use the settlement money for housing programs and other relief. Instead, some of the money was diverted. As ProPublica reported: "Of the $2.5bn going to states, just over a billion dollars has been pledged for housing-related programs, while a roughly equal amount has been diverted to plug budget holes or fund programs unrelated to the foreclosure crisis."
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jan  9 13:00:31 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:00:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] INFO ON B OF A COMMERCIAL SHOOT (Too late to get
	a job as an extra...)
Message-ID: <277E1503-E41F-4C27-A5BB-B8ACC915098A@mcn.org>

Be a part of a commercial filming: NOR CAL CASTING needs extras on Jan. 10 & 11 in Fort Bragg

 for a Bank of America commercial. They are looking for all types of local people ? all ages 18

 and older ? and ethnicities, no acting experience necessary. Come anytime between 11 a.m. ? 

6 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 2 at the Holiday Inn, 250 Highway 20, Fort Bragg. They will talk 

briefly on camera; production will choose extras. Pays $200 a day. For more information email 

norcalcasting at gmail.com


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jan  9 13:45:11 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:45:11 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jon Stewart:  Scapegoat Hunter - Gun Control
Message-ID: <679BE8A3-552C-4CE7-B311-DD881BA1E2B2@mcn.org>

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-january-8-2013/scapegoat-hunter---gun-control?xrs=eml_tds

Jon really nails it! rk

From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Jan  9 14:49:52 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 14:49:52 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Presentation to BOS:Public Banking and
	Eminent Domain]
Message-ID: <bec6f27ca5e12566f2eb1d9861a18279.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>



Report to Occupy on presentation to the B.O.S. Jan. 8, 2013

      At 10:00 am Dan Hamburg, newly elected Chairman of the Board, said
he had 10 slips for speakers on the topic of Public Banking and
Eminent Domain and he called Jessie to speak. (She had
told him earlier that she could read faster than anyone else, had
timed it to 8 minutes.) At that point he had said it would be better
to have several people reading for 3 minutes each, could not let
people cede their time if the topic was to be over ten minutes. So several
people were following along as
Jessie read at the podium. The clerk  had his hand on the red light button
but  the green light never went to red until
Jessie finished reading the presentation.Well done,Chairman of the Board.

     I had also spoken to Dan H. at the reception for newly elected
Supervisors,and said that Bruce Anderson, Editor of the AVA, had seen
the letter to the BOS ( he's on
Occupy list serve)and said it was very good and could he print it and
wanted to put it on the AVA website.
      Then Dan H. said, You know the best way to go about this is to ask
two Supervisors to meet with you (plural), talk about it, then it
can be put on the agenda of the BOS. At that time I think, we could have
Marc Armstrong  or Susan Harmon speak about Public Banking and C.J. about
E.D.

When we get the date for a meeting in Boonville we'll let you know. And
when it gets on the Agenda we hope you'll all be there again.
We need to contact Dan Gjerde and Dan Hamburg and arrange a date
convenient to them both, first.

Remember Margaret Mead's words,"Never doubt that a committed and dedicated
group can change the world-indeed that's the only thing that has."
approximate quote.

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey



>





From nsdusoir at mcn.org  Wed Jan  9 15:22:14 2013
From: nsdusoir at mcn.org (Howard Ennes)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:22:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: ReBirth of Religious Coalition for
	Reproductive Choice/Justice in Northern California
References: <CAL14yPVydM=pTTWDVHn72dgO4vGvbr4eY0SsT2jYszgQH23wtg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <C193F051-EEC9-48FA-A2DB-29EF8E6DE0C6@mcn.org>




Begin forwarded message:

> From: Darcy Baxter <dbaxter at uuma.org>
> Date: January 9, 2013 12:32:13 PM PST
> To: Darcy Baxter <dbaxter at uuma.org>
> Cc: Mary Larson <mlarson.telfords at gmail.com>
> Subject: ReBirth of Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice/Justice in Northern California
> 
> Dear Colleagues and Friends,
> 
> My name is Darcy Baxter and I am a new Unitarian Universalist minister and reproductive justice activist, currently serving as an associate minister at the UU congregation in Hayward, CA.  Mary Larson provided me with your email address as someone who has been involved with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice in the past.
> 
> Over the past couple of years, I have been involved with RCRC National as part of their Strategic Planning Committee and transition to becoming an organization grounded in the philosophy and movement of reproductive justice. 
> 
> I am also part of the Center for American Progress' Faith and Reproductive Justice Leadership Institute.
> 
> I am hoping to re-energize religious and reproductive justice activism in the Northern California area.  I supposed you could say, if you would excuse the Christian pun, that I am hoping we can do resurrection work.
> 
> As a launch to this effort of revitalizing and rebirth, I have organized a public service honoring the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  
> 
> I would be honored to hear from you and delighted if you joined me in this service which has strong support from local SF Bay Area reproductive justice organizations.   
> 
> Join in an evening of testimony, song, and community honoring the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade in Oakland's historic Preservation Park. 
> 
> The CA Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Bay Area Coalition for our Reproductive Rights, and the Abortion Conversation Project invite all those dedicated to making reproductive freedom a reality for all people to participate in this service. We will listen to testimony of movement leaders, activists, and advocates and honor the messy and imperfect legacies that have shaped our lives. 
> 
> Sunday January 20th 6:30pm
> Nile Hall in Preservation Park
> 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland
> www.tinyurl.com/LegaciesOfJustice
> https://www.facebook.com/events/139019302920013/
> 
> 
> I would also greatly appreciate if if you would share and circulate this event across your circles and networks.
> 
> After this service, I am hoping to hold an organizational meeting of people interested in continuing this work of religious reproductive justice in the Northern CA area.
> 
> I look forward to speaking and getting to know many of you and am hopeful about future work together.
> 
> In Solidarity and Hope,
> Darcy
> 
> 

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jan  9 16:34:54 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:34:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Presentation to BOS:Public Banking and
	Eminent Domain]
In-Reply-To: <bec6f27ca5e12566f2eb1d9861a18279.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
References: <bec6f27ca5e12566f2eb1d9861a18279.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <6642E707-A0D1-459A-87D1-E43DFAF63391@mcn.org>

Good work crusaders Jessie and Agnes and anyone else
who made the long trek over to Ukiah at the wee hours of 
the morning! Rk 
On Jan 9, 2013, at 2:49 PM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:

> 
> 
> Report to Occupy on presentation to the B.O.S. Jan. 8, 2013
> 
>      At 10:00 am Dan Hamburg, newly elected Chairman of the Board, said
> he had 10 slips for speakers on the topic of Public Banking and
> Eminent Domain and he called Jessie to speak. (She had
> told him earlier that she could read faster than anyone else, had
> timed it to 8 minutes.) At that point he had said it would be better
> to have several people reading for 3 minutes each, could not let
> people cede their time if the topic was to be over ten minutes. So several
> people were following along as
> Jessie read at the podium. The clerk  had his hand on the red light button
> but  the green light never went to red until
> Jessie finished reading the presentation.Well done,Chairman of the Board.
> 
>     I had also spoken to Dan H. at the reception for newly elected
> Supervisors,and said that Bruce Anderson, Editor of the AVA, had seen
> the letter to the BOS ( he's on
> Occupy list serve)and said it was very good and could he print it and
> wanted to put it on the AVA website.
>      Then Dan H. said, You know the best way to go about this is to ask
> two Supervisors to meet with you (plural), talk about it, then it
> can be put on the agenda of the BOS. At that time I think, we could have
> Marc Armstrong  or Susan Harmon speak about Public Banking and C.J. about
> E.D.
> 
> When we get the date for a meeting in Boonville we'll let you know. And
> when it gets on the Agenda we hope you'll all be there again.
> We need to contact Dan Gjerde and Dan Hamburg and arrange a date
> convenient to them both, first.
> 
> Remember Margaret Mead's words,"Never doubt that a committed and dedicated
> group can change the world-indeed that's the only thing that has."
> approximate quote.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Agnes Woolsey
> 
> 
> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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From cdurkee at mcn.org  Wed Jan  9 17:16:24 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:16:24 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Presentation to BOS:Public Banking and
	Eminent Domain]
In-Reply-To: <bec6f27ca5e12566f2eb1d9861a18279.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
References: <bec6f27ca5e12566f2eb1d9861a18279.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <596A34DD-F183-40C1-B564-2815BF2F0B11@mcn.org>

Thanks to all for what you are doing. 
Carrie
On Jan 9, 2013, at 2:49 PM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:

> 
> 
> Report to Occupy on presentation to the B.O.S. Jan. 8, 2013
> 
>      At 10:00 am Dan Hamburg, newly elected Chairman of the Board, said
> he had 10 slips for speakers on the topic of Public Banking and
> Eminent Domain and he called Jessie to speak. (She had
> told him earlier that she could read faster than anyone else, had
> timed it to 8 minutes.) At that point he had said it would be better
> to have several people reading for 3 minutes each, could not let
> people cede their time if the topic was to be over ten minutes. So several
> people were following along as
> Jessie read at the podium. The clerk  had his hand on the red light button
> but  the green light never went to red until
> Jessie finished reading the presentation.Well done,Chairman of the Board.
> 
>     I had also spoken to Dan H. at the reception for newly elected
> Supervisors,and said that Bruce Anderson, Editor of the AVA, had seen
> the letter to the BOS ( he's on
> Occupy list serve)and said it was very good and could he print it and
> wanted to put it on the AVA website.
>      Then Dan H. said, You know the best way to go about this is to ask
> two Supervisors to meet with you (plural), talk about it, then it
> can be put on the agenda of the BOS. At that time I think, we could have
> Marc Armstrong  or Susan Harmon speak about Public Banking and C.J. about
> E.D.
> 
> When we get the date for a meeting in Boonville we'll let you know. And
> when it gets on the Agenda we hope you'll all be there again.
> We need to contact Dan Gjerde and Dan Hamburg and arrange a date
> convenient to them both, first.
> 
> Remember Margaret Mead's words,"Never doubt that a committed and dedicated
> group can change the world-indeed that's the only thing that has."
> approximate quote.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Agnes Woolsey
> 
> 
> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Wed Jan  9 21:44:23 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 21:44:23 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: ReBirth of Religious Coalition for
 Reproductive Choice/Justice in Northern California
In-Reply-To: <C193F051-EEC9-48FA-A2DB-29EF8E6DE0C6@mcn.org>
References: <CAL14yPVydM=pTTWDVHn72dgO4vGvbr4eY0SsT2jYszgQH23wtg@mail.gmail.com>
	<C193F051-EEC9-48FA-A2DB-29EF8E6DE0C6@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt7-k55PHsaTSWGK38wi80WO90P-eCAYVk6eFHhqp6Lm2w@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Occupiers,
     Since killing the baby in the womb is not one of Occupy's stated
goals, I'm sorry that you are supporting the baby-killers by
forwarding their emails.   The baby in the womb is a unique human
being in the first stage of development.  His/her basic character and
appearance are determined by the DNA, which is formed at conception.
He/she is human being who rather soon develops the ability to feel
pain--and abortion is painful for the baby.
      Since Occupy helps those who are being harmed by society, such
as the foreclosed, for whom we spoke at the Board of Supervisors and
for whom we are devising a strategy to help keep them in their homes,
I wish that Occupy would help the most defenseless of all humans, who
are killed daily in the US to a total of 1.2 million a year--the
babies in the womb.  80% of the women are not married and most just
don't want to be bothered having a baby--so they kill it.  I guess it
is not surprising in a society that kills millions of dogs and cats
every year because no one wants them.   But one would think--or
hope--that the sanctity of human life would be respected a bit more
than the sanctity of a dog's or cat's life.
       I have just put one person in Point Arena who is being
foreclosed  in touch with CJ Holmes.  I hope she can solve his
problem.   The other two houses being foreclosed are rental houses and
thus not of interest.
             Peace and blessings,   Ellen

On 1/9/13, Howard Ennes <nsdusoir at mcn.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Darcy Baxter <dbaxter at uuma.org>
>> Date: January 9, 2013 12:32:13 PM PST
>> To: Darcy Baxter <dbaxter at uuma.org>
>> Cc: Mary Larson <mlarson.telfords at gmail.com>
>> Subject: ReBirth of Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice/Justice in
>> Northern California
>>
>> Dear Colleagues and Friends,
>>
>> My name is Darcy Baxter and I am a new Unitarian Universalist minister and
>> reproductive justice activist, currently serving as an associate minister
>> at the UU congregation in Hayward, CA.  Mary Larson provided me with your
>> email address as someone who has been involved with the Religious
>> Coalition for Reproductive Choice in the past.
>>
>> Over the past couple of years, I have been involved with RCRC National as
>> part of their Strategic Planning Committee and transition to becoming an
>> organization grounded in the philosophy and movement of reproductive
>> justice.
>>
>> I am also part of the Center for American Progress' Faith and Reproductive
>> Justice Leadership Institute.
>>
>> I am hoping to re-energize religious and reproductive justice activism in
>> the Northern California area.  I supposed you could say, if you would
>> excuse the Christian pun, that I am hoping we can do resurrection work.
>>
>> As a launch to this effort of revitalizing and rebirth, I have organized a
>> public service honoring the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
>>
>> I would be honored to hear from you and delighted if you joined me in this
>> service which has strong support from local SF Bay Area reproductive
>> justice organizations.
>>
>> Join in an evening of testimony, song, and community honoring the 40th
>> anniversary of Roe v. Wade in Oakland's historic Preservation Park.
>>
>> The CA Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Bay Area Coalition for
>> our Reproductive Rights, and the Abortion Conversation Project invite all
>> those dedicated to making reproductive freedom a reality for all people to
>> participate in this service. We will listen to testimony of movement
>> leaders, activists, and advocates and honor the messy and imperfect
>> legacies that have shaped our lives.
>>
>> Sunday January 20th 6:30pm
>> Nile Hall in Preservation Park
>> 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland
>> www.tinyurl.com/LegaciesOfJustice
>> https://www.facebook.com/events/139019302920013/
>>
>>
>> I would also greatly appreciate if if you would share and circulate this
>> event across your circles and networks.
>>
>> After this service, I am hoping to hold an organizational meeting of
>> people interested in continuing this work of religious reproductive
>> justice in the Northern CA area.
>>
>> I look forward to speaking and getting to know many of you and am hopeful
>> about future work together.
>>
>> In Solidarity and Hope,
>> Darcy
>>
>>
>
>


From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jan  9 22:24:08 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 22:24:08 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Latest Foreclosure Settlement Panned By Critics
	For Letting Banks 'Sweep Past Abuses Under The Rug'
Message-ID: <C6B0CC42-CF32-40EB-BB92-B4244185C9EF@att.net>


http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/01/08/1414841/foreclosure-settlement-sweep-critics/

Latest Foreclosure Settlement Panned By Critics For Letting Banks ?Sweep Past Abuses Under The Rug?

By Pat Garofalo on Jan 8, 2013 at 11:45 am

Federal regulators yesterday announced an $8.5 billion settlement with 10 of the nation?s biggest banks over various foreclosure abuses. According to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, ?The sum includes $3.3 billion in direct payments to eligible borrowers and $5.2 billion in other assistance, such as loan modifications and forgiveness of deficiency judgments.?

This settlement ? which comes in addition to the $25 billion foreclosure fraud settlement crafted last year ? is meant to provide redress to homeowners who had to deal with ?independent? foreclosure reviews that were not so independent. But Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), for one, believes that the settlement gives banks a pass on their contemptible behavior:

?I have serious concerns that this settlement may allow banks to skirt what they owe and sweep past abuses under the rug without determining the full harm borrowers have suffered,? said Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, D.- Md., a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and a vocal critical of the government regulators handling of the mortgage crisis.

Other housing and fair lending advocates agree. ?For many people this will be the end of the line,? said Diane Thompson, an attorney with the National Consumer Law Center. ?This is a much lower number for the banks compared to what they were at risk for.? ?The regulators have decided to replace the fox in the henhouse with the wolf,? added John Taylor, president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

?We commend regulators for their ongoing efforts to hold financial institutions accountable for misdeeds during the foreclosure crisis, but the payments in this settlement represent a mere fraction of the total harm inflicted on borrowers and communities,? said Julia Gordon, Director of Housing Finance and Policy at the Center for American Progress. The last foreclosure settlement was gamed by the banks, who counted aid they were providing anyway towards their settlement total.



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From max at mcn.org  Wed Jan  9 23:28:35 2013
From: max at mcn.org (merry winslow)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 23:28:35 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Presentation to BOS:Public Banking and
	Eminent Domain]
In-Reply-To: <bec6f27ca5e12566f2eb1d9861a18279.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
References: <bec6f27ca5e12566f2eb1d9861a18279.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
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thank you agnes- 
i appreciate this effort and believe
it will bring fruit,
 and be a model for others to follow!

merry
On Jan 9, 2013, at 2:49 PM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:



Report to Occupy on presentation to the B.O.S. Jan. 8, 2013

     At 10:00 am Dan Hamburg, newly elected Chairman of the Board, said
he had 10 slips for speakers on the topic of Public Banking and
Eminent Domain and he called Jessie to speak. (She had
told him earlier that she could read faster than anyone else, had
timed it to 8 minutes.) At that point he had said it would be better
to have several people reading for 3 minutes each, could not let
people cede their time if the topic was to be over ten minutes. So several
people were following along as
Jessie read at the podium. The clerk  had his hand on the red light button
but  the green light never went to red until
Jessie finished reading the presentation.Well done,Chairman of the Board.

    I had also spoken to Dan H. at the reception for newly elected
Supervisors,and said that Bruce Anderson, Editor of the AVA, had seen
the letter to the BOS ( he's on
Occupy list serve)and said it was very good and could he print it and
wanted to put it on the AVA website.
     Then Dan H. said, You know the best way to go about this is to ask
two Supervisors to meet with you (plural), talk about it, then it
can be put on the agenda of the BOS. At that time I think, we could have
Marc Armstrong  or Susan Harmon speak about Public Banking and C.J. about
E.D.

When we get the date for a meeting in Boonville we'll let you know. And
when it gets on the Agenda we hope you'll all be there again.
We need to contact Dan Gjerde and Dan Hamburg and arrange a date
convenient to them both, first.

Remember Margaret Mead's words,"Never doubt that a committed and dedicated
group can change the world-indeed that's the only thing that has."
approximate quote.

Sincerely,
Agnes Woolsey



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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jan 10 11:37:32 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:37:32 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Soul of America
Message-ID: <65407B79-756D-4F0A-A7C3-CF344AB2EA66@att.net>

I think he has it right.

The Soul of America
Bernie Sanders
Jan 10, 2013
espite such terminology as "fiscal cliff" and "debt ceiling," the great debate taking place in Washington now has relatively little to do with financial issues. It is all about ideology. It is all about economic winners and losers in American society. It is all about the power of Big Money. It is all about the soul of America.

In America today, we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of any major country on earth, and more inequality than at any time period since 1928. The top 1 percent owns 42 percent of the financial wealth of the nation, while, incredibly, the bottom 60 percent own only 2.3 percent. One family, the Walton family of Wal-Mart, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent of Americans. In terms of income distribution in 2010, the last study done on this issue, the top 1 percent earned 93 percent of all new income while the bottom 99 percent shared the remaining 7 percent.

Despite the reality that the rich are becoming much richer while the middle class collapses and the number of Americans living in poverty is at an all-time high, the Republicans and their billionaire backers want more, more, and more. The class warfare continues.

My Republican colleagues say that the deficits are a spending problem, not a revenue problem. What these deficit-hawk hypocrites won't talk about is their spending. They won't discuss what they did to dig the country into this $1 trillion deep deficit hole. They waged wars in Afghanistan and Iraq without paying for them. They gave away huge tax breaks for the rich. They squandered taxpayer dollars on the pharmaceutical industry by making it illegal for Medicare to bargain for lower drug prices. They also rescinded financial regulations that enabled Wall Street to operate like a gambling casino, leading to a severe recession that eroded tax revenue and left more than 14 percent of American workers unemployed or underemployed.

Now, despite the deficits their policies helped to create and despite the enormous suffering which exists in our society, the Republicans want to cut Social Security, veterans' programs, Medicare, Medicaid, education, nutrition programs, and virtually every program which benefits low- and moderate-income Americans. They choose to turn their backs on the economic reality facing a significant part of our population: high unemployment, reduced wages, 50 million without health insurance, college graduates saddled with enormous student debt and elderly people living in desperation. And they have tried to slam the door on any further discussion about how to raise revenue by ending tax loopholes and unfair tax breaks.

Republicans like Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell who say the revenue debate is over don't want you to consider these facts:

Federal revenue today, at 15.8 percent of GDP, is lower today than it was 60 years ago. During the last year of the Clinton administration, when we had a significant federal surplus, federal revenue was 20.6 percent of GDP.

Today corporate profits are at an all-time high, while corporate income tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is near a record low.

In 2011, corporate revenue as a percentage of GDP was just 1.2 percent - lower than any other major country in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, including Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Norway, Australia, South Korea, Switzerland, Norway, Italy, Ireland, Poland, and Iceland.

In 2011, corporations paid just 12 percent of their profits in taxes, the lowest since 1972.

In 2005, one out of four large corporations paid no income taxes at all while they collected $1.1 trillion in revenue over that one-year period.
We know where the Republicans are coming from. What about the Democrats? Will President Obama fulfill his campaign pledge to "protect the middle class" or will he surrender to right-wing blackmail? Will Democrats in the House and Senate stand with the vast majority of our citizens and such organizations as AARP, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, the AFL-CIO, the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and every other veterans' organization in the fight against cuts to Social Security and veterans' programs, or will they agree to a disastrous corporate-backed "chained CPI" concept which makes major benefit cuts to those programs and raises taxes on low-income workers?

The simple truth is there are relatively easy ways to deal with the deficit crisis - without attacking the elderly, the children the sick or the poor.

For example, we have got to eliminate loopholes in the tax code that allow large corporations and the wealthy to avoid more than $100 billion in taxes every year by setting up offshore tax shelters in places like the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the Bahamas. This situation has become so absurd that one five-story office building in the Cayman Islands is now the "home" to more than 18,000 corporations.

Further, we must also end tax breaks for companies shipping American jobs overseas. Today, the United State government continues to reward companies that move American manufacturing jobs abroad, despite the fact that millions of American jobs have been outsourced to China, Mexico, and other low wage countries over the past decade. The Joint Committee on Taxation (the official revenue scorekeeper in Congress) has estimated that we could raise more than $582 billion in revenue over the next decade by eliminating these offshore tax loopholes.

We must also recognize that Wall Street recklessness caused the economic crisis, and it has a responsibility to reduce the deficit. Establishing a 0.03 percent Wall Street speculation fee, similar to what we had from 1914-1966, would dampen the dangerous level of speculation and gambling on Wall Street, encourage the financial sector to invest in the productive economy and reduce the deficit by more than $350 billion over 10 years.

We are entering a pivotal moment in the modern history of our country. Do the elected officials in Washington stand with ordinary Americans - working families, children, the elderly, the poor - or will the extraordinary power of billionaire campaign contributors and Big Money prevail? The American people, by the millions, must send Congress the answer to that question.


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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jan 10 12:25:00 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:25:00 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Revenge of the Zombie Mortgages
Message-ID: <310BCD42-3C1F-454A-B92E-EE65D1566DAD@att.net>

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/10/us-usa-foreclosures-zombies-idUSBRE9090G920130110

Special Report: The latest foreclosure horror: the zombie title



By Michelle Conlin
COLUMBUS, Ohio | Thu Jan 10, 2013 1:58pm EST
(Reuters) - Joseph Keller doesn't expect he'll live to see the end of 2013. He blames the house at 190 Avondale Avenue.

Five years ago, Keller, 10 months behind on his mortgage payments, received notice of a foreclosure judgment from JP Morgan Chase. In a few weeks, the bank said, his three-story house with gray vinyl siding in Columbus, Ohio, would be put up for auction at a sheriff's sale.

The 58-year-old former social worker and his wife, Jennifer, packed up their home of 13 years and moved in with their daughter. Joseph thought he would never have anything to do with the house again. And for about a year, he didn't.

Then it started to stalk him.

First, in 2010, the county sued Keller because the house, already picked clean by scavengers, was in a shambles, its hanging gutters and collapsed garage in violation of local housing code. Then the tax collector started sending Keller notices about mounting back taxes, sewer fees and bills for weed and waste removal. And last year, Chase's debt collector began pressing Keller to pay his mortgage, which had swollen, with penalties and fees, from $62,100.27 to $84,194.69.

The worst news came last January, when the Social Security Administration rejected Keller's application for disability benefits; the "asset" on Avondale Avenue rendered him ineligible. Keller's medical problems include advanced liver disease, hepatitis C and inactive tuberculosis. Without disability coverage, he can't get the liver transplant he needs to stay alive.

"I can't make it end," says Keller. "This house, I can't get out."

Keller continues to bear responsibility for the house because on December 23, 2008 - about two months after he received Chase's notice of sale - the bank filed to dismiss the foreclosure judgment and the order of sale. Chase said it sent Keller a copy of its court filing on December 9, 2008. Keller says he never received any notification. Either way, his name remained on the property title.

WITH IMPUNITY

The Kellers are caught up in a little-known horror of the U.S. housing bust: the zombie title. Six years in, thousands of homeowners are finding themselves legally liable for houses they didn't know they still owned after banks decided it wasn't worth their while to complete foreclosures on them. With impunity, banks have been walking away from foreclosures much the way some homeowners walked away from their mortgages when the housing market first crashed.

"The banks are just deciding not to foreclose, even though the homeowners never caught up with their payments," says Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac, a real-estate information company in Irvine, California.

Since 2006, 10 million homes have fallen into foreclosure, according to RealtyTrac, a number that in earlier, more stable times would have taken nearly two decades to reach. Of those foreclosures, more than 2 million have never come out. Some may be occupied by owners who have been living gratis. Others have been caught up in what is now known as the robo-signing scandal, when banks spun out reams of fraudulent documents to foreclose quickly on as many homeowners as they could.

And then there are cases like the Kellers, in which homeowners moved out after receiving notice of a foreclosure sale, thinking they were leaving the house in bank hands. No national databases track zombie titles. But dozens of housing court judges, code enforcement officials, lawyers and other professionals involved in foreclosures across the country tell Reuters that these titles number in the many thousands, and that the problem is worsening.

"There are thousands of foreclosures in limbo, just hanging out there, just sitting, with nothing being done," says Cleveland Housing Court Judge Raymond Pianka, whose pending court cases tied to derelict properties have doubled in the past two years, to 1,000. He says the surge is due largely to homes vacated by people who fled before an imminent foreclosure sale, only to learn later that they remain legally responsible for their house.

When people move out after receiving a notice of a planned foreclosure sale and the bank then cancels, municipalities are left to deal with the mess. Some spend public funds on securing, cleaning and stabilizing houses that generate no tax revenue. Others let the houses rot. In at least three states in recent months, houses abandoned by owners and banks alike have exploded because the gas was never shut off.

THREAT OF JAIL

Unsuspecting homeowners have had their wages garnished, their credit destroyed and their tax refunds seized. They've opened their mail to find bills for back taxes, graffiti-scrubbing services, demolition crews, trash removal, gutter repair, exterior cleaning and lawn clipping. At their front doors they've encountered bailiffs brandishing summonses to appear in court.

In some cities, people with zombie titles can be sentenced to probation - with the threat of jail if they don't bring their houses into compliance.

"These people have become like indentured serfs, with all of the responsibilities for the properties but none of the rights," says retired Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Professor Kermit Lind.

Banks used to almost always follow through with foreclosures, either repossessing a house outright ? known in industry parlance as REO, for real estate owned ? or putting it up for auction at a sheriff's sale. The bank sent a letter notifying the homeowner of an impending foreclosure sale, the homeowner moved out, the house was sold, and the bank applied the proceeds toward the unpaid portion of the original mortgage.

That has changed since the housing crash. Financial institutions have realized that following through on sales of decaying houses in markets swamped with foreclosures may not yield anything close to what is owed on them.

By walking away, banks can at least reap the insurance, tax and accounting benefits from documenting the loss ? without having to take on any of the costs and responsibilities of ownership, according to a 2010 Federal Reserve paper. A walk-away also enables them to "sell the unpaid debt to debt collectors, sometimes noting to the court that the loan has been charged off," according to a Case Western Reserve University study released in 2011.

No regulations require that banks let homeowners know when they change their minds about a foreclosure. So they rarely do, according to housing court judges, homeowners' lawyers and academics who study foreclosure problems. "The banks do not answer inquiries, they do not answer phone calls, they do not answer letters," says Judge Patrick Carney of the Buffalo, New York, Housing Court. His zombie-title caseload has swollen in the past few years to well into the hundreds. "The whole situation is surreal," he says.

CLEAN UP OR ELSE

Marlon Sheafe, a 55-year-old who drove trucks for Sara Lee Corp for 25 years, was sentenced to probation in May. The citation from the Cleveland Housing Court says that if he doesn't fix the problems with the investment property he bought in 2005, the grandfather of three, who suffers from advanced cancer, will go to jail in May 2014.

Ocwen Financial Corp, the servicer of Sheafe's mortgage, foreclosed on the house in 2008, when Sheafe was hospitalized with congestive heart failure and later lost his job, forcing him into default. That was the last he heard about the house until a year and a half ago, when he received a summons to appear in Cleveland Housing Court for code infractions on the property: cracked steps, shredded siding, weeds as tall as the doors. There was also a $300 lawn-mowing bill.

A few weeks later, Sheafe appeared at the drab, brown-paneled chambers of the Cleveland Housing Court, packed, as it is every Tuesday and Thursday lately, with other people in his situation. Sheafe expected his appearance that day would clear up what he thought was a big mistake. Instead he left with the order to get the house up to code.

Sheafe started visiting the tall, crooked house every week. Looters had stripped the place bare. The "dope boys" had left their sneakers on the porch and their empty cans of sausages strewn around inside. Sheafe repaired the steps and spray-painted patches of the exterior where the vinyl siding had been ripped off. He returned every week to check on the house and mow the lawn.

While Sheafe worked on the house, Judge Pianka worked on the mortgage servicer, subpoenaing Ocwen to appear in court. In February, Ocwen released its lien on the house, which Sheafe hoped would enable him to donate it to the local land bank - one of many set up by local governments in recent years to manage abandoned properties.

But Sheafe still can't shake free of the house. The county sold his tax lien to a debt collector, which is now suing Sheafe for foreclosure. He also faces $4,185 for code violations, $185 for court costs and up to $10,000 if the city is forced to tear down the house.

"There's no end to this," Sheafe says. "I can't win."

Asked to comment, Ocwen issued a statement saying: "It is Ocwen's policy not to disclose details about specific customers. In this case, Ocwen has attempted to work with the borrower over a four-year period. Ocwen offered to settle the account with the borrower but never received a response to the offer."

Sheafe says he couldn't afford the amount Ocwen proposed in its settlement offer.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal agency established in the wake of the financial crisis to guard against predatory lending and other abuses, declined to comment for this article.

Joe Smith is the monitor of the National Mortgage Settlement, the agreement struck a year ago between major banks and state attorneys general to, in part, address foreclosure abuses. In a statement responding to a request for comment, he said: "To my knowledge, the servicers' behavior in the situation... is not covered by any standards in the Settlement." He added: "However, it does sound like there are problems with this type of treatment. I recommend the borrowers contact their state's attorney general and remember that the Settlement does not preclude borrowers from taking their own legal action."

Patrick Madigan, Iowa's assistant attorney general, was instrumental in crafting the National Mortgage Settlement. He said that he thought the consent decree would attempt to address the issue of foreclosure limbo, but that in the end, the language in the order was ambiguous. "It's a very difficult situation," Madigan said.

NO RESPONSIBILITY

Banks say that because they are not the legal owners of these homes, they aren't required to maintain them, pay taxes on them, or take any legal responsibility for them. Homeowners legally own their properties until the day of sale. And it's not until that day, the banks point out, that a homeowner's name vanishes from the title.

David Volker found that out the hard way. When the housing market crashed, so did Volker's contractor business, and he was unable to keep up with payments on his barn-like two-story house in Buffalo, New York. His mortgage servicer, HSBC, foreclosed on the home in 2009. A few months later, while he was staying with his girlfriend, he stopped by the house to find an HSBC padlock on the doorknob and bank stickers plastered across the door.

Shattered glass covered his front steps. When he crawled through a broken window, he found the place trashed - by whom, he doesn't know. Even the toilets were gone. Hearing nothing more from the bank, he figured the house was no longer his.

The place continued to decay. Gutters tore loose from the eaves. The yard turned into a dump for balding tires. Volker's neighbors started complaining to the Buffalo Housing Court, which eventually tracked down Volker at the rental where the 49-year-old was living and ordered him to appear in court. That's when Judge Carney told him that he was still the owner.

"I was stunned," Volker says. "I never for a moment thought I still owned this house."

Volker worked with a realtor to try to get HSBC to take several short-sale offers - deals under which the bank would allow Volker to sell the house for less than the amount owed on it - but he says HSBC turned them down. Since then, he's been asking the bank to agree to a deed in lieu, whereby he would give the house back to the bank. So far, he hasn't been able to make that happen. He has $1,000 in water and trash bills and faces up to $30,000 in demolition fees if the city decides his house is a safety hazard and must be torn down.

HSBC declined to comment on Volker's case, citing privacy concerns. In a statement, the bank said it "has a strong commitment to home preservation and regards foreclosure as a last resort, only after alternatives have been exhausted and the borrower is seriously delinquent."

Cases against zombie-title holders are rising due to everything from sewer bills to tilting chimneys, and they are clogging the courts. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, about 900 cases in the foreclosure process involve zombie titles. In South Bend, Indiana, the number is 1,275, up from 600 in 2006. In Memphis, Tennessee, cases have doubled in the past two years to 1,500.

In Cleveland, 15 percent of foreclosures between 2005 and 2009 stalled out in foreclosure limbo, more than a third of them involving homeowners who had fled foreclosure notices, according to the Case Western Reserve study.

STATE ACTION

State tax authorities are getting into the game, too. When IndyMac foreclosed on Richard Chavarry's house in Victorville, California, in 2008, he had already relocated to Los Angeles to escape the 80-mile commute to his job. The renters he had initially relied on to help him keep up payments on the Victorville house were long gone, too. But he had no idea that IndyMac canceled the sale in October 2009. "They never notified me," Chavarry said.

Nearly two years passed before Chavarry started getting citations in the mail for code violations from the city of Victorville. In February, the California Tax Board seized his $631 tax refund to pay the city back for the costs of scrubbing graffiti, removing tumbleweeds and boarding up the windows of Chavarry's house.

In March, Chavarry filed a deed in lieu to try to get IndyMac, now owned by OneWest Bank, to take back the house. The bank rejected it. Chavarry still owes the county $5,731 in back taxes and fees for housing-code violations.

IndyMac declined to comment.

Once a bank walks away from a foreclosure, the real rot begins. Living rooms turn into meth labs. Falling shingles menace passers-by. Squatters' cooking fires turn into infernos. The latest iteration of the trend: gas explosions.

Electric companies usually shut off the juice when homeowners tell the utility they are moving. But natural-gas companies usually don't. In recent months, abandoned homes have exploded in Chicago, Cleveland and Bridgeport, Connecticut. In all cases, foreclosed homeowners had moved out. With no one home to smell the gas, it went undetected - until the houses blew.

"We are seeing more and more close calls," says Mark McDonald, a former natural gas public safety worker who now runs the New England Gas Workers Association. "These houses are a formula for disaster."

Cities are struggling to find ways to cope with growing numbers of blighted properties. Miami, Detroit and Las Vegas have created registries intended to force banks to take more responsibility for vacant houses.

The Mortgage Bankers Association has opposed these measures. Placing "unreasonable" and "onerous" requests upon servicers will only hurt the already ailing mortgage-lending business, the association says on its website.

The association did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Registry advocates say the banking industry's opposition has helped water down some of those actions, such as a recently enacted Georgia law that requires banks to register vacant properties only after a foreclosure has been completed.

A vacant-property ordinance in Los Angeles requires banks to register a house as soon as they file a default notice. Failure to do so could result in a $1,000-a-day fee. However, "it's not being enforced," says Los Angeles Assistant City Attorney Tina Hess. "Part of the problem in L.A. is the building and safety departments have been cut so severely they don't have the inspection staff to monitor these properties."

"TO HELL AND BACK"

In Columbus, Ohio, Joseph Keller recently paid a visit to the empty house on Avondale Avenue. In the living room, the floor was littered with dirty diapers, pill bottles, condoms, sooty mattresses and soda cans. In the kitchen, squatters had hung pink curtains.

"They tore it to hell and back," Keller said, kicking at a dirty mattress. "We never would have left the home if we weren't told to get out."

The Kellers live in their daughter's dining room, where their queen-size bed leaves little room to maneuver. Joseph can't sit, stand or sleep for more than 15 minutes at a time. He can't take pain medication because of his diseased liver. Every few months, he makes a trip to the emergency room, where doctors drain his abdomen of excess fluid.

Last May, Chase's debt collector, Professional Recovery Services, sent Keller a letter: "At this time," it said, "we are able to offer you a settlement of $25,258.41 on this account to be paid within 15 days." He lacks that kind of money, as well as the $11,759.08 he owes to the county in back taxes.

Professional Recovery Services declined to comment.

At a hearing in early December, a Social Security administrative judge told the Kellers that he would review their appeal of the original denial of benefits, a process that he said could take two months. Joseph Keller responded that he might not be around that long. Earlier this month, the judge sent the case back to the local office after it determined that the house was virtually worthless. Keller still has no benefits.

A Social Security Administration spokesperson declined to comment on the case.

"He's dying," says Keller's daughter, Barbara. "He needs his name off this house."


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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Fri Jan 11 01:12:39 2013
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:12:39 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Fwd: Planned Parenthood Defunding Hits Clinics
In-Reply-To: <7F3F8511-EC81-447C-A5F3-2FA2F59722F2@yahoo.com>
References: <B7CAD013-0215-46A6-A0ED-99268C9A11BC@yahoo.com>
	<7F3F8511-EC81-447C-A5F3-2FA2F59722F2@yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1357895559.99628.YahooMailNeo@web161203.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>

News from Texas, a state famous for unenlightenment. Perspective on the range of services of PP might further the local debate on reproductive justice/choice.


>>Planned Parenthood Defunding Hits Clinics
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>>http://abcnews.go.com/Health/texas-planned-parenthood-defunding-hits-patients-clinics/story?id=18173045: 
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From noreply at youtube.com  Thu Jan 10 16:26:06 2013
From: noreply at youtube.com (YouTube Service)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:26:06 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?iso-8859-1?q?woolsey=2Eagnes=40gmail=2Ecom_se?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?nt_you_a_video=3A_=22TalkingStickTV_-_Ellen_Brown_-_Public?=
 =?iso-8859-1?q?_Banks_and_Why_We_Need_Them=22?=
Message-ID: <50ef5c1f.27f73a0a.50d9.4ae4.GMR@mx.google.com>

woolsey.agnes at gmail.com has shared a video with you on YouTube:
        ...Web of Debt demystifies money, but provides some thought provoking and realistic solutions to our nations dangerous dependence on a for-profit banking system  that is sucking the financial lifeblood out of our nation...from Thom Hartmann Review of the Month...


    TalkingStickTV - Ellen Brown - Public Banks and Why We Need Them
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08-yKCvMTTM&feature=em-share_video_user

        Ellen Brown author of "The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free" talking about the public banking system and the Bank of North Dakota October 26, 2011 at Kan Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.

See Part II of this event at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7Bo3D3JzU


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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jan 12 09:06:36 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:06:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Obama is GREAT for the weapons business.
Message-ID: <FF26C43F-F4B8-4CB0-B3A4-F985B03BF769@att.net>

(Hindsight is always 20/20. If I had known that the threat of a black man winning the Presidential election in 2008 would boost gun and ammunition sales to such a frenzied pace, I would have bought stock in gun makers. -- If I were a cynic. Which I should be by now. Why do we distrust our government and other people more than any other "civilized" nation? The weapons mentioned in this article are for killing people, not hunting.  M.S.) 

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/us/as-us-weighs-new-rules-sales-of-guns-and-ammunition-surge.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130112&_r=0

Sales of Guns Soar in U.S. as Nation Weighs Tougher Limits


As Washington focuses on what Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will propose next week to curb gun violence, gun and ammunition sales are spiking in the rest of the country as people rush to expand their arsenals in advance of any restrictions that might be imposed.

People were crowded five deep at the tiny counter of a gun shop near Atlanta, where a pastor from Knoxville, Tenn., was among the customers who showed up in person after the store?s Web site halted sales because of low inventory. Emptying gun cases and bare shelves gave a picked-over feel to gun stores in many states. High-capacity magazines, which some state and federal officials want to ban or restrict, were selling briskly across the country: one Iowa dealer said that 30-round magazines were fetching five times what they sold for just weeks ago.

Gun dealers and buyers alike said that the rapid growth in gun sales ? which began climbing significantly after President Obama?s re-election and soared after the Dec. 14 shooting at a school in Newtown, Conn., prompted him to call for new gun laws ? shows little sign of abating.

December set a record for the criminal background checks performed before many gun purchases, a strong indication of a big increase in sales, according to an analysis of federal data by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a gun industry trade group. Adjusting the federal data to try to weed out background checks that were unrelated to firearms sales, the group reported that 2.2 million background checks were performed last month, an increase of 58.6 percent over the same period in 2011. Some gun dealers said in interviews that they had never seen such demand.

?If I had 1,000 AR-15s I could sell them in a week,? said Jack Smith, an independent gun dealer in Des Moines, referring to the popular style of semiautomatic rifle that drew national attention after Adam Lanza used one to kill 20 children and 6 adults at a Newtown school. ?When I close, they beat on the glass to be let in,? Mr. Smith said of his customers. ?They?ll wave money at me.?

Mr. Smith said many people were stocking up on high-capacity magazines in anticipation that they might be banned. Two weeks ago, he said, a 30-round rifle magazine was $12, but it now fetches $60. Popular online retailers were out of many 20- and 30-round rifle magazines.

In Washington, Mr. Biden said the task force he leads is ?shooting for Tuesday? to make its recommendations to President Obama about preventing gun violence. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, one of the nation?s leading gun control groups, said its top priority was to close the loopholes that currently allow 40 percent of gun sales to be made without background checks.

Some groups that support gun control urged the White House not to focus too much energy on an assault weapons ban, which they said could be hard to persuade Congress to pass. Officials at Third Way, a left-leaning research group in Washington, urged the president to save his political capital for higher-priority goals like universal background checks and cracking down on gun trafficking.

Outside Greta?s Guns, a gun store in Simi Valley, Calif., about an hour northwest of downtown Los Angeles, several customers said that they opposed any assault weapons ban, but would support more thorough background checks.

George Gray, 60, who said that he already owned ?more arms than arms to bear them,? said that he was in favor of more background checks. ?If you own a weapon, you should be stable,? said Mr. Gray, who said he had come from Los Angeles to buy a gun for his daughter. ?You should be accountable for your actions. I don?t mind stricter background checks. What we?ve done with the mental health in this country ? these people used to get care and were in facilities. And in most of these instances, it?s been people with mental problems.


Some customers at Greta?s said that they wanted to buy guns before any new gun control measures made it more difficult. Bob Davis, 64, said that he wanted a new pistol. ?They want to take guns out of citizens? hands,? he said. ?So as a consequence I ordered a gun. And they?re not going to be able to get me a gun for like six months, because of the backlog. They can?t make guns fast enough.?

The gun industry expected a surge in sales even before the Newtown shooting. Gun sales rose after President Obama was first elected in 2008, and many manufacturers expected an increase in gun sales in the event of his re-election. ?We believe the continued economic uncertainty and the outcome of the 2012 presidential election is likely to continue to spur both firearms and ammunition sales,? the Freedom Group, which owns Bushmaster, the company that makes the rifle used in Newtown, wrote in a financial report on the quarter that ended Sept. 30.

The possibility that the federal assault weapons ban ? which lasted from 1994 to 2004 ? might be reinstated was enough to spur sales of semiautomatic rifles with military-style features.

Dale Raby, who manages one of two Gus?s Guns shops in Green Bay, Wis., said his inventory of guns and ammunition was almost cleaned out, and that most of the interest was in AR-15-style rifles.

?I had almost fistfights over the remaining inventory of that type gun,? he said.

Joel Alioto, 44, an Iraq war veteran who lives in the area, said he recently sold an AR-15 rifle at a gun show for $1,700, more than three times what he had paid for it. ?I think the shooting in Connecticut was a terrible thing,? said Mr. Alioto, who is unemployed. ?But before the shooting the gun was worth 500 bucks. I don?t think I did anything wrong. I wanted to get my teeth done, get a computer and pay for my first year of Bible college.?

Brad Williamson, one of the owners of Quint?s Sporting Goods in Saraland, Ala., said the waiting lists for some products are double what they normally are ? especially for guns that are mentioned in the gun control debate. ?Whenever there?s a blip on the news about a particular model, the next day people want to come in wanting whatever they named,? he said. ?When Biden makes his recommendation next week, you?re going to see another surge.?

At Georgia Arms in Villa Rica, Ga., west of Atlanta, the ammunition business was brisk, with dozens of the yellow bins that usually held ammunition empty. The Rev. Laurence Hesser, a pastor at Memorial United Methodist Church near Knoxville, stopped by because he had been unable to buy ammunition on the shop?s Web site, which halted sales because inventory was so low.

He likened the current run on ammunition to the rush to buy Twinkies last year after its maker, Hostess Brands, announced it was closing. ?It?s the same thing,? he said. ?When you are threatened with the possibility that you are going to lose something, you get a bunch of it.?


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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jan 12 12:02:59 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 12:02:59 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Yeah, Right.
Message-ID: <F6535926-787D-42E0-BEDC-C8466AB5E5F2@att.net>

(Unclear on the concept, or just doesn't read history books? M.S.) 

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/11/1435261/pro-gun-advocate-arming-black-people-would-have-prevented-slavery/

Pro-Gun Advocate: Arming Black People Would Have Prevented Slavery

By Aviva Shen on Jan 11, 2013 at 10:58 am

The pro-gun lobby has kicked into overdrive to stifle anti-gun violence efforts in the wake of the Newtown school massacre. Gun advocates are cooking up a national Gun Appreciation Day for the weekend of President Obama?s second inauguration.

Larry Ward, chairman of Gun Appreciation Day, appeared on CNN on Friday to defend his event. When confronted with the fact that Gun Appreciation Day coincides with the celebration of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr, who was assassinated with a gun, Ward insisted that his event ?honors the legacy of Dr. King.? Ward didn?t stop there; he argued that if African slaves had been armed, they would have been able to prevent slavery from ever happening:

WARD: I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country?s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history.

Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoR9t-TmDus&feature=player_embedded


Maria Roach of United for Change USA pointed out that many people were outraged over the attempted co-opting of MLK Day, calling it a ?power play.? Martin Luther King, Jr. a strict disciple of peaceful resistance, was shot by an assassin in 1968. The Gun Control Act of 1968, the nation?s first comprehensive federal firearms regulation, was passed in response to King?s assassination, as well as the murders of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X.

Ward also neglects to mention that in fact there were many armed uprisings by slaves, as early as 1526. Armed revolts almost always failed, and often led to retribution by the slave owners, who had the justice system on their side. Most famously, Nat Turner led a rebellion that resulted in 60 white deaths and 100 black deaths. The state later executed 56 blacks accused of being involved in the insurrection, and white mobs beat and killed at least 200 others in revenge.

Despite the lack of historical evidence, gun advocates have been trying hard to frame their cause in historical terms, comparing the plight of gun owners to the civil rights movement, Nazi Germany, and Cuba.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Jan 12 13:42:58 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 13:42:58 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] SB900-Home Owners Bill of Rights
Message-ID: <24719d5d260872c087e19f7c69731412.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

For Occupiers interested in the Fighting Foreclosure Committee- there is
work needed to inform supervisors about the Laws in the SB 900 which went
into effect January 1, 2013.  An Occupy member , threatened with
foreclosure is willing to go to the Recorder's office with his papers and
the relevant law in S.B. 900. Go to C.J.s website www.hofj.org and search
the state by state column for SB 900. you can send it to yourself or any
Supervisor. TheFighting Foreclosure subcommittee needs to meet Saturday at
1-2:30 at the Library Community room. If you can make it please respond to
me.pronto.Agnes

    Don't Miss - Foreclosure Defense Workshop on 1/15 Tues 11a-Noon PST
    http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674/events/1742486

     Occupy Mendocino,
            I just listened for an hour Friday and gave a report of our 
presentation to the B.O.S. . Then Suzanne of Occupy LA
reported that their
    committee goes to the B.O. S. regularly pushing for implementation
    of the Homeowners Bill of Rights which they talked about to the
    Supervisors . SB 900 law is structured more definitively. ( 0ne of
    five laws) says the bank has to have a real person's signature,
    take in the documents with MERS stamped on it.
    Jed, Please go to www.hofj.org to see this report:SB900 Overview. On
    Jan.15 C.J. will be broadcasting "Foreclosure Defense".
           Also the state has a million dollar grant through the Dept of  
 Justice to implement SB 900.

    Another thing-if you've had a foreclosure from 2008-2011 the Attorney
    General National Mortgage Settlement has a phone # 866.430-8358 where you
    can file your claim before 1/18/13. They give you a claim number with
    which you use , then you can go to a website and fill
    out the form.send it by mail or email by Jan. 18

    Cheers,
    Agnes
	5.4 M  	[ application/pdf ]



From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Jan 12 23:16:44 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:16:44 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Trillion Dollar Coin ?
Message-ID: <F8CDF022-3872-4ACC-9A12-FD3D3D66610F@mcn.org>


New Yorker
January 9, 2013
A PLATINUM COIN AS BIG AS THE RITZ
Posted by Amy Davidson

The story goes like this: Sometime around the end of February, the Treasury will have spent all the money it has, and it will hit the statutory limit on the amount that the federal government can borrow?the debt ceiling. The fiscal-cliff negotiations, which were the product of the recent debt-ceiling fight, just made it worse by deferring another constructed crisis involving automatic cuts?sequestration?to about the same juncture. If Congress doesn?t raise the debt ceiling, the government won?t be able to pay its bills, including things like Social Security, soldiers? pay, and interest on bonds, meaning that the United States of America would go into default and all manner of financial disasters would ensue. The Congressional Republicans, knowing this, plan to use the debt ceiling to force President Obama and the Democrats to agree to things like big cuts in Medicare. Since Obama doesn?t want his Presidency to coincide with a Depression, they think they have all the chips, apart from the one about the public hating them.

continues>>>>   http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/01/a-platinum-coin-as-big-as-the-ritz.html
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Jan 13 14:37:21 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:37:21 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd:Fighting Foreclosures Meeting Sat.-1:00 pm
	at FB Library
Message-ID: <2eb9dacdf38a574c8805c01226fa8db4.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: C.J. on livestream radio. and S.B. 900
find SB 900 on her website.www.hofj ,left hand column, click on Litigation
state by state.scroll down to California.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fighting Foreclosure meeting Saturday Jan. 19 -1:00pm at F.B. Library


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:36 AM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:

> Don't Miss - Foreclosure Defense Workshop on 1/15 Tues 11a-Noon PST

> http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674/events/1742486
>
>  Dear All,
>         I just listened for an hour. Occupy LA Suzanne said their
> committee goes to the B.O. S. regularly pushing for implementation
> of the Homeowners Bill of Rights which they talked about to the
> Supervisors . SB 900 law is structured more definitively. ( 0ne of
> five laws) says the bank has to have a real person's signature,
> take in the documents with MERS stamped on it.
> Jed, Please go to www.hofj.org to see this report:SB900 Overview. On
> Jan.15 C.J. will be broadcasting "Foreclosure Defense".Also the state has
> a million dollar grant through the Dept of Justice to implement SB 900.
>
> Another thing-if you've had a foreclosure from 2008-2011 the Attorney
> General National Mortgage Settlement has a phone # 866.430-8358 where you
> can file your claim before 1/18/13. They give you a claim number with
> which which give you another number, then you can go to a website and fill
> out the form.
>
> Cheers,
> Agnes
>ps. Go to www.CA Senate Bill 900....for...
>Bill Text - SB-900 Mortgages and deeds of trust: foreclosure.




From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Jan 13 19:38:29 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 19:38:29 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Ellen brown, author of Web of Debt,
 speaker @ Conference of  Public Banking
Message-ID: <995e81c858703603ef502cd481fff8c2.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


If you want to know why we need public banks please go to you tube and
click on Ellen Brown's photo "talking stick". She knows banking and speaks
with humor for about an hour, starting with the present economic freeze on
lending to small businesses, telling you the benefits of a state or local
banks.
I sent it to the two Dans, Supervisors.
Agnes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT7Bo3D3JzU




From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jan 14 12:48:14 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:48:14 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Re: Presentation to BOS:Public Banking and
	Em. Domain]
Message-ID: <19106f12137ba3fd84f874dd823568f1.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: Presentation to BOS:Public Banking and Em. Domain
From:    "Jed Davis" <jedasiah at gmail.com>
Date:    Mon, January 14, 2013 3:19 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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Hi Agnes, I think that Tues. the 22 would be best for me. That would allow
me to get all ducks in a row and supporting documents prepared.

Does that work for you?

jed, Yes this works for me.
Agnes

On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 2:18 PM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:

> Dear Jed,
>      I have contacted Occupy Mendocino Fighting Foreclosure subcommittee
> to see if we can
> 1.meet Saturday the 19th at 1:00 in
> Fort Bragg to discuss further action at the Board of Supervisors to urge
> them to utilize S.B. 900 and
> 2.to support the Recorder in wording an Affidavit of Authority such as was
> used in MA. process and
> 3. to accompany you to the Recorder's Office with C.J.o
>
> If you wish to go to the Recorder's Office sooner than next week, I will
> be willing to drive to Ukiah to meet you and C.J. at the Recorder's Office
> with your paperwork.
>  Let me know your preferred date and I will call Occupy Ukiah's Steve
> Scalmanini  and Ellen Faulkner.
> Sincerely,
> Agnes Woolsey
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > I am sure CJ would be happy to accompany us also.
> >
> > jed
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:26 AM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Jed,
> >>       I'm so glad you approached the county B.O.S. re Affidaavits, now
> >> that C.J. gave me the CA Penal Code #115 you and other Occupy
> >> members from Ukiah should go to Susan Ranochak and ask her if she
> >> can send an Affidavit of Authority with the CA Penal Code 115 folded
> >> into the letter which should remedy the flaw that CA is not a
> >> Judicial State. that's why in the past she hesitated to send an
> >> Affidavit, I think, because Kendall Smith told me CA is not a
> >> judicial state like MA where John O"Brien sent numerous affidavits
> >> and created a de facto moratorium on foreclosures. Ranochak, the
> >> Recorder could now do the same.
> >>         Go in person to the Recorder's office with the code 115 printed
> >> out from Wikipedia. I would be willing to go with you from
> >> Mendocino and meet you at her office. She has a copy of the
> >> presentation we gave Tuesday the 8th which has the code # 115 in
> >> it.I'm pretty sure Steve Scalmanini and Bart Caplan and Charlie
> >> Vaughn would support you and accompany you. I will cal two of them
> >> whose phone #s I have. Steve is a friend. He and his wife Annie
> >> Esposito could interview you on KZYX-Corporations and Democracy at
> >> 1:00 Fridays. Just call in and talk about the Penal Code, and the
> >> Affidavit of Authority.
> >> Let me know what you decide,please. I will be talking on radio today,
> >> Friday about our meeting with the B.O.S. at about 10:15 am.
> >> Keep the faith,
> >> Agnes
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Hi Agnes,
> >> > Thank you so much for what you do as a member of Occupy Mendocino.  I
> >> am
> >> > glad that the presentation was a success and that it seems that we
> >> finally
> >> > may have something that the BOS may move forward on. I have presented
> >> to
> >> > them to require and Affidavit of Authority(AOA) (which I got from CJ)
> >> in
> >> > order for banks to foreclose. An AOA makes the foreclosure company
> >> prove
> >> > that they are the rightful party to force the foreclosure. When Nevada
> >> > passed a law requiring an AOA, foreclosures dropped off 97%.  I sure
> >> hope
> >> > that this Eminent Domain and County Bank is something they decide to
> >> do.
> >> >
> >> > Anyway, I would love to participate in the sunday meetings of Occupy,
> >> but
> >> > at this time I am working my but off to get my aquaponic living salad
> >> mix
> >> > lettuce off the ground so that I can make enough money to save my
> >> house.
> >> > That is why I am working to further CJ's actions, my house is in
> >> > foreclosure. I have already gotten the banks to postpone the sale
> >> date.
> >> My
> >> > docs are MERS docs, and I do have forged, robosigned docs in my loan
> >> > files.
> >> > Once I have gotten over the hump of saving my property and getting my
> >> > business up and going, I would love to participate in Occupy.  I am
> >> sorry
> >> > that I can't do more right now, but stopping these fraudclosures hits
> >> > closest to home for me right now.
> >> >
> >> > By the way, If you haven't been listening to CJ's daily live streams,
> >> you
> >> > should, they are incredibly informative. Here is the link:
> >> > http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674/events/1752571
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for all you do.
> >> >
> >> > Jed
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 2:56 PM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi Jed,>
> >> >>         Just wanted to let you know I am a member of OccupyMendocino
> >> and
> >> >> am so glad Occupy Ukiah came out to the B.O.S. to support the
> >> >> presentation. You and your wife had to leave at 9:30. Ellen
> >> >> Faulkner and Steve Scalmanini, Bart Caplan (bobaka2 at comcast.net),
> >> >> had to leave before Jessie read it in 8 minutes.Charley Vaughn
> >> >> gave his support on the phone (roshambo1414 at yahoo.com)from
> >> >> Ukiah.all four are hot on this issue.
> >> >>
> >> >>  Ellen and David Rosser were there from Point Arena.
> >> >>  Dan,Ann,Jessie, Peter Sears and I were from the north coast. Get in
> >> >> touch
> >> >> with Steve (sscalmanini at yahoo.comif you want to attend Sunday
> >> meetings
> >> >> at
> >> >> the MEC with O.U.
> >> >> Cheers,
> >> >> Agnes Woolsey
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> I'll be wherever whenever you need me.  Just say the word.  You guys
> >> are
> >> >> > doing wonderful work which will end up being a template for others
> >> >> around
> >> >> > the country to follow.  Thanks to you both, cj
> >> >> >
> >> >> > From: Jed Davis [mailto:jedasiah at gmail.com]
> >> >> > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:59 AM
> >> >> > To: CJ Holmes
> >> >> > Subject: Fwd: Presentation to BOS:Public Banking and Em. Domain
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hi CJ,
> >> >> > I wanted to let you know that Occupy Ukiah gave a presentation to
> >> the
> >> >> > Mendocino Board of Supervisors  for the Eminent Domain strategy and
> >> it
> >> >> > seems that it may have gotten some traction. I will do what I can
> >> to
> >> >> > participate in this process. Please read the email below from Agnes
> >> of
> >> >> > Occupy Ukiah.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I have been listening your show a 4am when I get up to do office
> >> work.
> >> >> > You're doing a great job! What a great show.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I hear that you're having coffee with Andy Schexnaydre. I hope that
> >> >> the
> >> >> > connection furthers the eminent domain strategy.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> >> > From: <agnes at mcn.org<mailto:agnes at mcn.org>>
> >> >> > Date: Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 2:34 PM
> >> >> > Subject: Re: Presentation to BOS:Public Banking and Em. Domain
> >> >> > To: Jed Davis <jedasiah at gmail.com<mailto:jedasiah at gmail.com>>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> > Yes, Jed,
> >> >> >       At 10:00 am Dan Hamburg said he had 10 slips on the topic of
> >> >> Public
> >> >> > Banking and Eminent Domain and he called Jessie to speak. (She had
> >> >> > told him earlier that she could read faster than anyone else, had
> >> >> > timed it to 8 minutes.) At that point he had said it would be
> >> better
> >> >> > to have several people reading for 3 minutes each, could not let
> >> >> > people cede their time. So several people were following along as
> >> >> > Jessie read at the podium.The green light never went to red until
> >> >> > Jessie finished reading the presentation.
> >> >> >      I had also spoken to Dan H. at the reception and said that
> >> Bruce
> >> >> > Anderson, Editor of the AVA, had seen the letter to the BOS ( he's
> >> on
> >> >> > Occupy list serve)and said it was very good and could he print it
> >> and
> >> >> > wanted to put it on the AVA website.
> >> >> >       Then Dan H. said, You know the best way to go about this is
> >> to
> >> >> ask
> >> >> > two Supervisors to meet with you (plural), talk about it, then it
> >> >> > can be put on the agenda of the BOS. At that time we could have
> >> Marc
> >> >> > Armstrong  or Susan Harmon speak about Public Banking and C.J.
> >> about
> >> >> > E.D.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > When we get the date for a meeting in Boonville we'll let you know.
> >> >> And
> >> >> > when it gets on the Agenda we hope you'll all be there again.
> >> >> > We need to contact Dan Gjerde and Dan Hamburg and arrange a date
> >> >> > convenient to them both, first.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Remember Margaret Mead's words,"Never doubt that a committed and
> >> >> dedicated
> >> >> > group can change the world-indeed that's the only thing that has."
> >> >> > approximate quote.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Sincerely,
> >> >> > Agnes Woolsey
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jan 14 15:34:51 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:34:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Why the Housing Recovery Is Nearly
	Homeowner-Less
Message-ID: <51132e1327286666084084b2bca6fcbd.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

 Holmes talked about in her radio program Monday the 14th.
Very informative.
Agnes


go to
http://truthout.org/news/ite,/13883-why-the-housing-recovery-is-inequitle



From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan 15 09:53:33 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:53:33 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] transfer of the Wealth in Oakland
Message-ID: <9bf9b66603515171d5a2cdb9c0c86066.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Hi All,
   This is a dynamite article by an Oakland Report given airMonday on CJ's
Live radio.
Agnes


http://truth-out.org/news/item/13883-why-the-housing-recovery-is-inequitable



From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan 15 09:53:39 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:53:39 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] transfer of the Wealth in Oakland
Message-ID: <f9fe42fc57487f192099e3c06d112814.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Hi All,
   This is a dynamite article by an Oakland Report given airMonday on CJ's
Live radio.
Agnes


http://truth-out.org/news/item/13883-why-the-housing-recovery-is-inequitable



From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Jan 16 17:19:39 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:19:39 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Re: February 5 or 6 in Boonville?]
Message-ID: <c622cae61654c6ada8d5760d7ea373b2.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

-Occupy,
If any of you want to join us  Jessie and I are planning to meet with the
two Supervisors re: Why they should establish a Public Bank and use 
Eminnent Domain to change the game. The corruption at top levels of
government, Congress and the Federal Reserve Banking System allows them a
winning hand in the Ponzi scheme of Wall Street.
Agnes

--------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: February 5 or 6 in Boonville?
From:    "Jessie VanSant" <vjessielee at gmail.com>
Date:    Wed, January 16, 2013 5:00 pm
To:      "Dan Gjerde" <gjerde at co.mendocino.ca.us>
Cc:      "Dan Hamburg" <hamburgd at co.mendocino.ca.us>
         "Agnes Woolsey" <agnes at mcn.org>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you Dan.  We know you are incredibly busy right now above and beyond
your 'usual' very busy!!  :-)

Either of those dates will work for me and Agnes.  I have forwarded your
email to Agnes and she will forward it to larger OCCUPY group in our
Coast/Ukiah area so folks can sign up for the best day.

Also Dan H.  - where can we meet in Boonville to accommodate a small
crowd?  A public use room the size of say, the FB Library??
We are not familiar with Boonville options other than Agnes says Fire
Station (on weekends)

Thank you for responding to OCCUPY and the illegal foreclosure crime
wave!!  Looking forward to working with you to do good things!!  I know I
am personally heartened and excited by possibilities.

Jessie Lee
OCCUPY Mendocino

On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Dan Gjerde <gjerde at co.mendocino.ca.us> wrote:

> Jessie,
>
> In looking at dates that work for Supervisor Hamburg and myself, it
looks like we can both meet on either Tuesday February 5 or Wednesday
February 6.
>
> You suggested it would be most convenient for folks to meet in
Boonville, and that works for both of us.
>
> If either February 5 or February 6 works for you, please let us know.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dan Gjerde
>
> PS: I'm sorry for taking so long to give you some dates, but I'm still
in the process of getting access to my personal emails when I'm here in
Ukiah (because the county's internet blocks access to netscape/aol, for
some reason).

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jan 17 10:30:42 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:30:42 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Dennis to work for Fox News
Message-ID: <539211F6-FDD9-43F3-B65D-4BB48BE3C878@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/317-65/15585-dennis-kucinich-signs-on-as-fox-news-commentator


Dennis Kucinich Signs on As Fox News Commentator
By Stephen Koff, The Plain Dealer
17 January 13
 
ennis Kucinich has years of experience speaking on the House of Representatives floor, on the stump and in political debates. He likes to mix it up.

So it's only natural that the Fox News Channel should announce him as its newest contributor...
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jan 18 00:04:17 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:04:17 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] gun-murders-vs-terrorism-by-the-numbers
Message-ID: <4620DC16-3875-4D9C-8CC9-973728C45EC6@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/416-gun-control-/15591-gun-murders-vs-terrorism-by-the-numbers



Juan Cole; public intellectual, prominent blogger, essayist and professor of history. (photo: Informed Comment)

Gun Murders vs. Terrorism by the Numbers
By Juan Cole, Informed Comment
17 January 13
 
umber of Americans killed in domestic terrorist attacks, 2002-2011: 30

Number of Americans murdered by firearms, 2000-2011: 115,997

Cost of the War on Terror since 9/11: $5 trillion
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From annxpress at live.com  Fri Jan 18 10:39:11 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 10:39:11 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Mendocino Redwood Company and the Fisher Family:
	Stop the Use of Deadly Herbicides - Sign the Petition!
Message-ID: <SNT145-DS49B6D04DE31A8EAB0C2051DD120@phx.gbl>

Please join this campaign:
 https://www.change.org/petitions/mendocino-redwood-company-and-the-fisher-family-stop-the-use-of-deadly-herbicides?share_id=ihBiTlFYwE&utm_campaign=mailto_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition
The MRC apparently does not drill for gas or frack, but they have other problems like poisoning watersheds and failing to notify the public before logging by neighbors.  Ann
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From adross at mcn.org  Fri Jan 18 15:17:54 2013
From: adross at mcn.org (Adrienne Ross)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:17:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] anyone want a computer?
Message-ID: <D51F7B30-3EAA-4AB7-8402-709265B40213@mcn.org>


My wonderful old G5 Mac desktop has a slightly moribund screen but works perfectly well, and could last for months.
I just bought a new one and would like to get rid of the old one.  Anyone interested?

Thanks...

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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jan 18 21:06:28 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:06:28 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] No, Actually, This Is What a Fascist Looks Like
Message-ID: <86ECED86-1A98-43C9-9D29-3F66343123CD@att.net>

No, Actually, This Is What a Fascist Looks Like
Friday, 18 January 2013 11:07 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take | Op-Ed
 
Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey, doesn?t know what a fascist is.  Speaking with NPR this week, multimillionaire Mackey tried to express how much he hates Obamacare. Back in 2009, he hated Obamacare so much that he called it ?socialism.? But now, in 2013, Mackey thinks Obamacare is ?fascism.?
 
?Technically speaking, [Obamacare] is more like fascism,? he said. ?Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn?t own the means of production, but they do control it, and that?s what?s happening with our healthcare programs and these reforms.?
 
Mackey has since walked back this description saying he ?regrets using that word now? because there?s ?so much baggage attached to it.?
 
But, whether Mackey meant to or not, it?s about time someone injected the word fascism back into our political debate. Especially now that corporations wield more power today than they have in America since the Robber Baron Era.
 
First, let?s take on Mackey?s definitions of socialism and fascism, which he likely procured from the Google machine after typing in, ?What are the differences between socialism and fascism??
 
Yes, socialism encourages more democratic control of the economy. Or, if Mackey insists, more government ownership of the economy ? in particular, ownership of the commons and natural resources.   
 
Fascism, on the other hand, is something completely different. Reporter Sy Mukherjee, who blogged about this story over atThinkProgress.org notes, ?Although fascist nations do often control their ?means of production,? Mackey seems to have forgotten that they usually utilize warfare, forced mass mobilization of the public, and politically-motivated violence against their own peoples to achieve their ends.?
 
The 1983 American Heritage Dictionary defined fascism as: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."

Fascism originated in Italy, and Mussolini claims to have invented the word itself. It was actually his ghostwriter, Giovanni Gentile, who invented it and defined it in the Encyclopedia Italiana in this way: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
 
In other words, fascism is corporate government ? a Libertarian?s wet dream. It?s a government in which the Atlas?s of industry are given free rein to control the economy, just how they?re regulated, how much they pay in taxes, how much they pay their workers. It should be noted here that, ironically, John Mackey describes himself as a Libertarian.  
 
In 1938, Mussolini finally got his chance to bring fascism to fruition. He dissolved Parliament and replaced it with the "Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni" - the Chamber of the Fascist Corporations. Members of the Chamber were not selected to represent particular regional constituencies, but instead to represent various aspects of Italian industry and trade. They were the corporate leaders of Italy.
 
Imagine if the House of Representatives was dissolved and replaced by a Council of America?s most powerful CEOs ? the Kochs, the Waltons, the Blankfeins, the Dimons, the Mackeys, you get the picture.
 
Actually, that?s not too difficult to imagine, huh? But, that?d be similar to what Mussolini defined as fascism.
 
As we know, fascism was eventually defeated in World War 2. But just before the end of the war, with the fascists on the ropes, the Vice President of the United States at the time, Henry Wallace, penned an op-ed for the New York Times warning Americans about the creeping dangers of fascism ? or corporate government.  He defined a fascist as, ?those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.?
 
Under that definition we can throw those CEOs who?ve decided to evade Obamacare?s mandate to provide health insurance to their employees, like New York City Applebee?s franchise owner Zane Terkel, Papa John?s CEO John Schnatter, and executives at Darden Restaurants.
 
Or, perhaps, Wallace is referring to the banksters at Goldman Sachs who knowingly evaded laws and sold investors ?shitty deals? or scammed entire cities into bankruptcy or illegally foreclosed on thousands of Americans through fraudulently robo-signing all in the name of short term profits and all in the name of preserving their monopolistic, too-big-to-fail status.
 
Either way, evading laws meant to protect the public in order to pad your own pockets has become the name of the game in Corporate America today.
 
Wallace goes on to write, ?The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.?
 
Can anyone say Fox News, or the rest of the Conservative media complex? Or, those on the Right who divide working people and turn them against each other: makers versus takes, public sector workers versus private sector workers, and white people versus non-white people.  
 
?They use every opportunity to impugn democracy,? wrote Wallace. Does that sound familiar after months of Republican efforts to disenfranchise large swaths of the electorate with voter suppression ID laws, as well as restrictions on early voting and voter registration in largely Democratic areas?
 
Or what about what Republicans in Pennsylvania are doing right now to rig the next Presidential election by changing how Electoral votes are counted in the state?
 
Wallace continues, ?They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.?
 
We often hear of free enterprise from the likes of Wall Street, Big Oil, and the defense industry. Yet these are the same corporations that also lobby to keep generous taxpayer subsidies, bailouts, and no-bid contracts in place that allow them to reign supreme over the markets and crush their smaller, more independent competition.
 
And the common man suffers as a result. Wages as a percentage of GDP are lower than they?ve ever been. Unionization rates are lower than they?ve ever been in more than a half-century. And yet, corporate profits as a percent of GDP are higher than they?ve ever been in American history.
 
At the time Wallace was writing this op-ed, he was confident that the fascists had been adequately held in check in America by the Roosevelt Administration. As he wrote, ?Happily, it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a predominant place in the outlook of any American section, class or religion.?
 
But, he went on to warn that in the future, ?[Fascism] may be encountered in Wall Street, Main Street or Tobacco Road. Some even suspect that they can detect incipient traces of it along the Potomac.?
 
Sure enough, the bastions of fascism can be found on Wall Street. Main Street, which used to be lined with local independent businesses, is now lined with predatory, transnational giants. And along the Potomac, we find politicians who are more than happy to do the bidding of their corporate overlords.
 
Today in America, we are dangerously close to seeing Wallace?s fascistic, dystopic America come into fruition. We see the traces of it everywhere.
 
Unfortunately, too many Americans just didn?t have a word to define what?s happening. But, thanks to John Mackey, and thanks to the foresight of Vice President Henry Wallace, we do have the right word now: Fascism.
 
 
This article was first published on Truthout and any reprint or reproduction on any other website must acknowledge Truthout as the original site of publication.
 

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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Jan 19 08:14:51 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 08:14:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] reminder: Fighting Foreclosures com.mtg. today at
	1:00 Library FB
Message-ID: <fc8ce0f569a9150f66c6e75887a400d9.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

DearOccupy
Those interested in the Homeowners Bill of Rights, please come to FB
Library today Sat. the 19th of January 2013.
Agnes



From annxpress at live.com  Sat Jan 19 11:34:43 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:34:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] No, Actually,
 This Is What a Fascist Looks Like
In-Reply-To: <86ECED86-1A98-43C9-9D29-3F66343123CD@att.net>
References: <86ECED86-1A98-43C9-9D29-3F66343123CD@att.net>
Message-ID: <SNT002-W173BF8203ABE893455071BEDD110@phx.gbl>

Good article - Facism is not democratic control of our commons like parks, forests, lakes and rivers, oceans and the resources within like minerals and water.  Corporations may "own" vast resources, but they must keep the health of the planet and we citizens in how they leave the areas they control.  Too long they have been extracting resources and despoiling environments for the "bottom line" without factoring in the true cost of cleaning up the air, water and land afterward.  This is why we activists are doing actions and we will not go away until we see real changes before it is too late.   Ann
 



From: marksafron at att.net
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:06:28 -0700
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Occupymendocino] No, Actually, This Is What a Fascist Looks Like


No, Actually, This Is What a Fascist Looks Like
Friday, 18 January 2013 11:07 By Thom Hartmann and Sam Sacks, The Daily Take | Op-Ed
 
Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey, doesn?t know what a fascist is.  Speaking with NPR this week, multimillionaire Mackey tried to express how much he hates Obamacare. Back in 2009, he hated Obamacare so much that he called it ?socialism.? But now, in 2013, Mackey thinks Obamacare is ?fascism.?
 
?Technically speaking, [Obamacare] is more like fascism,? he said. ?Socialism is where the government owns the means of production. In fascism, the government doesn?t own the means of production, but they do control it, and that?s what?s happening with our healthcare programs and these reforms.?
 
Mackey has since walked back this description saying he ?regrets using that word now? because there?s ?so much baggage attached to it.?
 
But, whether Mackey meant to or not, it?s about time someone injected the word fascism back into our political debate. Especially now that corporations wield more power today than they have in America since the Robber Baron Era.
 
First, let?s take on Mackey?s definitions of socialism and fascism, which he likely procured from the Google machine after typing in, ?What are the differences between socialism and fascism??
 
Yes, socialism encourages more democratic control of the economy. Or, if Mackey insists, more government ownership of the economy ? in particular, ownership of the commons and natural resources.   
 
Fascism, on the other hand, is something completely different. Reporter Sy Mukherjee, who blogged about this story over atThinkProgress.org notes, ?Although fascist nations do often control their ?means of production,? Mackey seems to have forgotten that they usually utilize warfare, forced mass mobilization of the public, and politically-motivated violence against their own peoples to achieve their ends.?
 
The 1983 American Heritage Dictionary defined fascism as: "A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."


Fascism originated in Italy, and Mussolini claims to have invented the word itself. It was actually his ghostwriter, Giovanni Gentile, who invented it and defined it in the Encyclopedia Italiana in this way: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
 
In other words, fascism is corporate government ? a Libertarian?s wet dream. It?s a government in which the Atlas?s of industry are given free rein to control the economy, just how they?re regulated, how much they pay in taxes, how much they pay their workers. It should be noted here that, ironically, John Mackey describes himself as a Libertarian.  
 
In 1938, Mussolini finally got his chance to bring fascism to fruition. He dissolved Parliament and replaced it with the "Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni" - the Chamber of the Fascist Corporations. Members of the Chamber were not selected to represent particular regional constituencies, but instead to represent various aspects of Italian industry and trade. They were the corporate leaders of Italy.
 
Imagine if the House of Representatives was dissolved and replaced by a Council of America?s most powerful CEOs ? the Kochs, the Waltons, the Blankfeins, the Dimons, the Mackeys, you get the picture.
 
Actually, that?s not too difficult to imagine, huh? But, that?d be similar to what Mussolini defined as fascism.
 
As we know, fascism was eventually defeated in World War 2. But just before the end of the war, with the fascists on the ropes, the Vice President of the United States at the time, Henry Wallace, penned an op-ed for the New York Times warning Americans about the creeping dangers of fascism ? or corporate government.  He defined a fascist as, ?those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion.?
 
Under that definition we can throw those CEOs who?ve decided to evade Obamacare?s mandate to provide health insurance to their employees, like New York City Applebee?s franchise owner Zane Terkel, Papa John?s CEO John Schnatter, and executives at Darden Restaurants.
 
Or, perhaps, Wallace is referring to the banksters at Goldman Sachs who knowingly evaded laws and sold investors ?shitty deals? or scammed entire cities into bankruptcy or illegally foreclosed on thousands of Americans through fraudulently robo-signing all in the name of short term profits and all in the name of preserving their monopolistic, too-big-to-fail status.
 
Either way, evading laws meant to protect the public in order to pad your own pockets has become the name of the game in Corporate America today.
 
Wallace goes on to write, ?The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.?
 
Can anyone say Fox News, or the rest of the Conservative media complex? Or, those on the Right who divide working people and turn them against each other: makers versus takes, public sector workers versus private sector workers, and white people versus non-white people.  
 
?They use every opportunity to impugn democracy,? wrote Wallace. Does that sound familiar after months of Republican efforts to disenfranchise large swaths of the electorate with voter suppression ID laws, as well as restrictions on early voting and voter registration in largely Democratic areas?
 
Or what about what Republicans in Pennsylvania are doing right now to rig the next Presidential election by changing how Electoral votes are counted in the state?
 
Wallace continues, ?They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.?
 
We often hear of free enterprise from the likes of Wall Street, Big Oil, and the defense industry. Yet these are the same corporations that also lobby to keep generous taxpayer subsidies, bailouts, and no-bid contracts in place that allow them to reign supreme over the markets and crush their smaller, more independent competition.
 
And the common man suffers as a result. Wages as a percentage of GDP are lower than they?ve ever been. Unionization rates are lower than they?ve ever been in more than a half-century. And yet, corporate profits as a percent of GDP are higher than they?ve ever been in American history.
 
At the time Wallace was writing this op-ed, he was confident that the fascists had been adequately held in check in America by the Roosevelt Administration. As he wrote, ?Happily, it can be said that as yet fascism has not captured a predominant place in the outlook of any American section, class or religion.?
 
But, he went on to warn that in the future, ?[Fascism] may be encountered in Wall Street, Main Street or Tobacco Road. Some even suspect that they can detect incipient traces of it along the Potomac.?
 
Sure enough, the bastions of fascism can be found on Wall Street. Main Street, which used to be lined with local independent businesses, is now lined with predatory, transnational giants. And along the Potomac, we find politicians who are more than happy to do the bidding of their corporate overlords.
 
Today in America, we are dangerously close to seeing Wallace?s fascistic, dystopic America come into fruition. We see the traces of it everywhere.
 
Unfortunately, too many Americans just didn?t have a word to define what?s happening. But, thanks to John Mackey, and thanks to the foresight of Vice President Henry Wallace, we do have the right word now: Fascism.
 
 
This article was first published on Truthout and any reprint or reproduction on any other website must acknowledge Truthout as the original site of publication.
 


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jan 20 10:29:59 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:29:59 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Together Site
Message-ID: <FF3CDA2B-F15A-474A-8CA6-174CF1A15D07@mcn.org>

http://www.occupytogether.org/aboutoccupy/#background


From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jan 20 10:47:59 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:47:59 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Daily Kos  Occupy Movement Map
Message-ID: <63A99E3E-1371-488C-9F83-94A65959914D@mcn.org>

We are not alone...


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/04/1022722/-Occupy-Wall-Street-List-and-map-of-over-200-U-S-solidarity-events-and-Facebook-pages

From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jan 21 08:06:50 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:06:50 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] re two appointments and Fighting Foreclosures
Message-ID: <8f96034f222a23ea81c01d26a4e25eca.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

HiOccupy,
      If you can come to Ukiah to support Jed Davis, fighting foreclosure
on this Thursday Jan. 24th at 2:00 pm please let me know. I will
contact Occupy Ukiah also. numbers of supporters is vital.

Also if you can come to Boonville to meet with the two Supervisors on
Wednesday February 6th at 2:00 pm, please let me know and I will give you
the address of the meeting place.

Sincerely, Agnes
P.S.The following email is from Jed Davis with information useful to any
home owner in foreclosure.

Hi CJ,
Thursday at 2 sounds good to me. Let me notify Agnes to make sure it works
for her and the rest of Occupy.

With whom should I make the appointment(s)? The recorders office? the
sheriff? or the DA? or all of them?

Will we be using the LA Affidavit of Auth? or the Essex County one?

How can we get the DA, sheriff, and Recorder to watch the John O'brien
interview? Maybe have it on an iphone or laptop? or give them a thumbdrive
with the file on it?

It also looks like Feb 5 or 6 we may be meeting with Dan Hamburg a
regarding eminent domain in Booneville.

jed

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:49 PM, CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com> wrote:

    I agree.  your county is as friendly as it currently gets, so let?s
talk to everyone and get them to help us move forward.    Thursday
maybe around 2p?



    Here are two more packets of sigs on your docs with different
signatures.  I say let?s definitely go after the notaries.  Everybody
understands notary fraud.  And all the notarization is fraudulent.



    Jane martorana: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/Jane%20Martorana%20-%20different%20sigs.pdf



    Ramon olivas, notary: 
http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/Ramon%20Olivas%20-%20notary%20different%20sigs.pdf



    Let?s have the affidavit of authority for the recorder prepared to
take with us.  doesn?t matter who presents it ? or presents it over
and over.  It just must get done.



    I see steps we need to take:

    1.  get affidavits of authority in place at recorder office to stop
more fraud from being recorded.

    2. get owner affidavits prepared to void fraud on records (use small
claims court?)

    3. get owner affidavits prepared to void past fraud on records ?
nullifying the past foreclosure which nullifies all sales since and
owner gets house backi.

    4. get DA/county actions against the foreclosure mills for restitution
and to shut them down.



    The DA/county should file against MERS like 3 counties in TX are.  I?m
pushing that as I can.  I already have an attorney that said they
would file against MERS for the county for free ? totally on
contingency basis and pay all the fees, too.  let?s push for that.  cj



    From: Jed



From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jan 21 08:41:40 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 08:41:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Important Callfor  Action
Message-ID: <cc7696f78b1e806c53df86c2612ef9fe.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Occupy,
        Your participation to come Thursday for a 2:00 appt. at the
Mendocino County offices of the Recorder, etc. C.J. will be there
and Jed needs our support. Stay well.
Letter from Jed is below.
Cheers,
Agnes


Hi CJ,
Thanks for working on preparing for my filing.  I think we are all
motivated up here to really make a difference, and hopefully this will
plow the way forward and become something others can use. Once we have all
of documents in a packet to file, we can file them with all of the
agencies that the DRE suggests.

Can we ask the Recorders office to ask for an Affidavit of Authority like
Salem does? or does it need to go through the BOS?

Also, John Sakowicz would like to accompany us too.

Attached, are my notes on the Kevin Harvey interview and a summary of
their findings, which may be useful for the Recorders office and the
sheriff to see.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Jed Davis <jedasiah at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi Agnes,
    FYI

    jed





From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jan 21 17:31:46 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:31:46 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting with the two Supervisors
Message-ID: <949785d6fb6d595e4bbbabbb630152c3.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

We have a place and time to meet the two Dans, Supervisors to talk about
Public Banks and Eminent Domain. This is a necessary step if we want to
get these items on the Agenda of the B.O.S. in order to get our experts
from the Public Banking Institute to talk to the rest of the Supervisors.
At he agendized meeting the board can vote on a standing committee to
research this.

If you have a commitment to Fighting foreclosures and will come to meet
with Dan Hamburg and Dan Gjerde let me know and I will send you the
address in Boonville for  a 2:00pm appointment on February 6th Wednesday.

In Solidarity,
Agnes



From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jan 21 17:52:41 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:52:41 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] A song for our time
Message-ID: <176C3235-582C-4177-86AF-9542A2E1A63E@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSIUf2hD6Io


From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Jan 21 20:00:32 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:00:32 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Marijuana Arrests Now Exceed Arrests for Violent
	Crime
Message-ID: <33499545-3262-44E7-BB5A-3C17B882B426@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/345-justice/15648-focus-marijuana-arrests-now-exceed-arrests-for-violent-crime


Marijuana Arrests Now Exceed Arrests for Violent Crime
By Jason Sattler, National Memo
21 January 13
 
n 2011, arrests for marijuana exceeded arrests for violent crime by more than 100,000, according to a report from the FBI.

Though marijuana laws have become liberalized - with 18 states legalizing the drug for medicinal use and two now explicitly allowing recreational use as the result of ballot initiatives - marijuana arrests have doubled since 1980, according to this analysis from the Huffington Post:


Marijuana is still illegal under federal law, presenting a law-enforcement challenge. Late last year, President Obama said that his administration would not go after recreational users of the drug.

"We've got bigger fish to fry," Obama said. "It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it's legal."

A bare majority of Americans support regulating the drug like alcohol. That majority is substantially larger among young people, as it has been for decades...

More on website...
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan 22 09:47:16 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:47:16 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jed has changed the date for a rally in Ukiah at
	Recorder's Off.
Message-ID: <b754430317a073bcaf9487e3155f2b70.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Dear Occupy,
Jed has changed the date to give more time to get the Occupy locals on
board.. Please reserve Thursday , January 31,2013 for  a date at the
County Recorder's Office at 2:00pm with C. J. Holmes and Occupy Mendocino
support for his fight to keep his Potter Valley Farm. He will be bringing
with him his paper's showing fraud and robo-signatures on his documents.
We hope to have video and press coverage because this big time fraud
rampant in the foreclosure industry with MERS losing the chain of title we
could very well, by this action , start a de facto moratorium on
foreclosures.I will contact Bruce Anderson and the UDJ.
please rsvp to agnes at mcn.org

In Solidarity,
Agnes







From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Jan 22 19:36:40 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:36:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jan 5, Occupy GA Minutes
Message-ID: <7C9A2C3A-9CB6-4535-B085-EC61DE6B2ACA@mcn.org>

 
OM Meeting Jan 5, 2013

Facillitator: Jesse
Secretary: Richard
Stacker: Mark
 
13 people in attendance

Four main issues= 20 min each
Introductory remarks:
Sheila talked to newspaper about our relationship with them.  

20 min p/ item
Featured speakers:   Jesse charing  on Foreclosure: featured speaker
Sheila: SCC requirerents for public banks. Doug Hammerstrom has degree in finance and 
banks will come in a month to come and present how a bank works and getting one started.
Pub bank does require more complex than realize. Rules favor bigger instituitions
Other places have started them.  20 states in process. 

Jessie read foreclosure draft letter to present to supes. Discussion. 
They need to follow code and recapture fees that are not being paid. Mark explained the 
affidavit of truthfullness assessor item maybe be excluded now and done as next stage.
RK comments how it is important to simplify, separate issues on presentation to Supervisors. 
  Mark , Jesse and Agnes will meet to  'pound out' addtional things regarding letter.

Martin Luther King Event:  Linda

In the last 15 years MLK put on by Peace and Justice Center This year late and needed to go to Occupy.
Going to be at FB  Trinity Church. Tentative poster announcement getting ready.
March, food, music groups,  panel discussion with Jenny Otter as moderator. 
Separate list of time events needed. Songsters will do tunes at  MLK event.

Financial report: Peace and Justice has checking account to turn over to $ 2000
wanted to give to Occupy. Discussion: we would   have to go to non profit probably. 
Ann and RK commented onthe compexities of this. Rk said it was costly for 501 C3.
Incorporation usually isn't what OM wants to do as a leaderless organization. 


Tech Report: 
 Richard: We seem to be active on both Occupy List serve with
a few people dropping out now an then. Probably around 100 still on list.
Facebook keeps rolling with 1055 people liking the site and commenting. The current headline
stories are" FBI Should Investigate Bankers Not Protesters"  and  "US Prepares to Sign Off on
Foreclosure Fraud Settlement". Foreclosure things there too.
Many interesting postings and communication. People not on FB could send
articles to Richard to post.
Mark:  Reported getting a deal of  $35. a year for Occupymendocino.net website. Will come up again in 9 months.
  

 Treasure report.
Jessie: $260 + 23 for today. Going to find out about donated rental for Senior Center to 
 Agnes will contact Clytie regarding rent of SC room for mettings ? 
 Possible ongoing.
 Does MCTV need to be paid again? 
  Wants to know about the payment of MCN for listserve. (Richard will help look into it)

 Syd payed 2 months on Occupy Listserve and wants reimbursement. (yes)
Jessie will keep the treasurer job.

Pubicity:  Agnes letter sent to Supes was put on AVA website.  Bruce Anderson liked but Agnes
wanted revised and we will send to him when finished.  
Rk need more publicity needed. Jessie suggested having people collaborate on writing a forum letter to paper on progress on OM.
Invite people to join. MOre esposure.  Ellie Rouseer should write letter to FB Advocate. Richard mentioned fundraising letter to go out  as good publicity.

Dates:
 Feb 3nd get letters ready for fund raising. (No OM mtg on Feb 2nd.)
Feb 9 @ Senior Center  1pm for letter stuffing committee.
Feb. 16th GA mtg @Senior Center , Doug Hammerstrom comes, hopefully. Or 2nd.
 Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center
Go back to regular 1st and 3rd of the month meetings in March . . 

Discussed Transition Town meeting on 2nd.  Would we Occupy learn something?
Future of Occupy? Concluded Occupy is alive and doing well.  Recently we have had a number
of projects, Including foreclosure prevention workshop with CJ Homes and bank rally direct action. 
On Tue, Jan 8, OM people are presenting a paper to the County Supervisors about the advantages
 in starting a community bank. to help with foreclosure prevention. Bank Rallies on Street - 9 showed up yesterday. 
Richard: should we pursue the B of A commercial with a protest?  Background of shoot or at the
motel?   


I  PEOPLE WHO NOT ON FACEBOOK SHOUILD SEND ARTICLES TO rkarch at mcn.org
  JUST THE URL ADDRESS PLEASE.  

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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Wed Jan 23 12:42:51 2013
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:42:51 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Foreclosure Town Hall meeting on MCTV
Message-ID: <1358973771.20305.YahooMailNeo@web120606.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Hi OMers, 

?? For anyone who wants to review the tapes from the Nov 16th meeting with CJ Holmes, MCTV is airing the whole program at 8 P.M. tonight. Agnes W. is planning a showing at her house later in the month but for those who can't make that date,? this is a good opportunity to get the facts in support of our future meeting with the Assessor's office in support of Jed Davis who is fighting foreclosure.? For those who do not watch TV, you can access the information through the MCTV website mendocoasttv.org--video on demand option.
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Onward & Upwards, 

???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Sheila Dawn
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jan 23 16:01:34 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:01:34 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Filibuster Reform Petition
Message-ID: <A718A27F-590F-4069-8FE7-D6641CEC3203@mcn.org>

Since 1:10 pm eastern, more than 50,000 people have signed our petition to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, letting him know they will support him if he decides to pass the powerful "flipping the burden" filibuster reform with only Democratic votes.

I have already emailed the first 50,000 signatures to Harry Reid's office. Tomorrow morning, in the event that Mitch McConnell has not agreed to join in on even the most watered down of filibuster reforms, I would love to email Senator Reid another 50,000 supportive signatures as he weighs whether or not to move forward with bolder reform using only Democratic votes.

Please sign our petition to Senate Majority Leader Reid, letting him know that you support him if Mitch McConnell's inaction forces him to pass the powerful "flipping the burden" filibuster reform with only Democratic votes.

Keep fighting,
Chris Bowers
Campaign Director, Daily Kos



From: Chris Bowers, Daily Kos
To: chris at dailykos.com
Sent: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:10 PM
Subject: Filibuster reform: Dramatic Update

Chris, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has sent an ultimatum to Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, giving McConnell until Thursday to agree to a watered down filibuster reform package. The idea is that Reid and McConnell would jointly pass a few small-bore reforms with overwhelming bipartisan support.

However, if McConnell does not agree to the watered down package of reforms, then Sen. Reid has threatened to pass a much stronger filibuster reform package, and to do so with only 51 Democratic votes. Further, according to the Washington Post, this stronger package would include one of our two primary demands?flipping the burden on filibusters to the minority party:


Right now, the majority needs to supply the 60 votes to break a filibuster. The minority only needs one vote on the floor. Under Reid?s backup plan, the burden would be reversed: The minority would have to supply the 41 votes required to keep a filibuster going, while the majority wouldn?t have to do much of anything. That means that if the minority only had 38 votes present in the room, the filibuster would end. It also means the minority could be forced to muster all their people to vote at times of the majority leader?s choosing: say, 3 a.m. on a Saturday. It would make filibustering a much more unpleasant experience.

This would be a pretty dang big deal, and we need to let Senator Reid know that he would have our support if he decides to go that route.

Please sign our petition to Senate Majority Leader Reid, letting him know that you support him if he decides to pass the powerful "flipping the burden" filibuster reform with only Democratic votes. We will email the signatures to his office early tomorrow morning as the final decision is being made.

Keep fighting,
Chris Bowers
Campaign Director, Daily Kos
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jan 25 10:16:57 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:16:57 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] GA Revised Minutes 1/5/13
Message-ID: <0761D611-EA09-4307-A817-A875E40E7C02@mcn.org>

  
OM Meeting Jan 5, 2013  
( Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center)

Facillitator: Jessie
Secretary: Richard
Stacker: Mark
 
13 people in attendance

Four main issues= 20 min each
Introductory remarks:
Sheila talked to newspaper about our relationship with them.  

20 min p/ item
Featured speakers:   Jessie charing  on Foreclosure 
Sheila: SCC requirerents for public banks. Doug Hammerstrom has degree in finance and 
banks will come in a month to come and present how a bank works and getting one started.
Pub bank does require more complex than realize. Rules favor bigger instituitions
Other places have started community banks.  20 states in process. 

Jessie read foreclosure draft letter to present to supes. Discussion. 
They need to follow code and recapture fees that are not being paid. Mark explained the 
affidavit of truthfullness assessor item maybe be excluded now and done as next stage.
RK comments how it is important to simplify, separate issues on presentation to Supervisors. 
  Mark , Jessie and Agnes will meet to  'pound out' addtional things regarding letter.

Martin Luther King Event:  Linda

In the last 15 years MLK put on by Peace and Justice Center This year late and needed to go to Occupy.
Going to be at FB  Trinity Church. Tentative poster announcement getting ready.
March, food, music groups,  panel discussion with Jenny Otter as moderator. 
Separate list of time events needed. Songsters will do tunes at  MLK event.

Other... Peace and Justice has checking account to turn over to $ 2000
wanted to give to Occupy. Discussion: we would have to go to non profit probably. 
Ann and commented on the compexities of this. Richard said it was costly for 501 C3 and
incorporation usually isn't what OM wants to do as a leaderless organization. 


Tech Report: 
 Richard: We seem to be active on both Occupy List serve with
a few people dropping out now an then. Probably around 100 still on list.
Facebook keeps rolling with 1055 people liking the site and commenting. The current headline
stories are" FBI Should Investigate Bankers Not Protesters"  and  "US Prepares to Sign Off on
Foreclosure Fraud Settlement". Foreclosure things there too.
Many interesting postings and communication. People not on FB could sendarticles to Richard to post.
Mark:  Reported getting a deal of $35. a year for Occupymendocino.net website. Will come up again in 9 months.
  

 Treasure report.
Jessie: $260 + 23 for today. Going to find out about donated rental for Senior Center to 
 Agnes will contact Clytie regarding rent of SC room for mettings ? Possible ongoing.
 Does MCTV need to be paid again? 
  Wants to know about the payment of MCN for listserve. (Richard will help look into it)
Syd payed 2 months on Occupy Listserve and wants reimbursement. (yes)
Jessie will keep the treasurer job.

Pubicity:  Agnes letter sent to Supes was put on AVA website.  Bruce Anderson liked but Agnes
wanted revised and we will send to him when finished.  
Richard: more publicity needed. Jessie suggested having people collaborate on writing a forum letter to paper on progress on OM.
Invite people to join. More esposure.  Ellie Rouseer should write letter to FB Advocate. Richard mentioned fundraising letter to go out  as good publicity.

Dates:
 Feb 3nd get letters ready for fund raising. (No OM mtg on Feb 2nd.)
Feb 9 @ Senior Center  1pm for letter stuffing committee.
Feb. 16th GA mtg @Senior Center , Doug Hammerstrom comes, hopefully. Or 2nd.
 Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center
Go back to regular 1st and 3rd of the month meetings in March . . 

Discussed Transition Town meeting on 2nd.  Would we Occupy learn something?
Future of Occupy? Concluded Occupy is alive and doing well.  Recently we have had a number
of projects, Including foreclosure prevention workshop with CJ Homes and bank rally direct action. 
On Tue, Jan 8, OM people are presenting a paper to the County Supervisors about the advantages
 in starting a community bank. to help with foreclosure prevention. Bank Rallies on Street - 9 showed up yesterday. 
Richard: should we pursue the B of A commercial with a protest?  Background of shoot or at the
motel?   


I  PEOPLE WHO NOT ON FACEBOOK SHOUILD SEND ARTICLES TO rkarch at mcn.org
  JUST THE URL ADDRESS PLEASE.  


OM Meeting Jan 5, 2013

Facillitator: Jessie
Secretary: Richard
Stacker: Mark
 
13 people in attendance

Four main issues= 20 min each
Introductory remarks:
Sheila talked to newspaper about our relationship with them.  

20 min p/ item
Featured speakers:   Jessie charing  on Foreclosure: 
Sheila: SCC requirerents for public banks. Doug Hammerstrom has degree in finance and 
banks will come in a month to come and present how a bank works and getting one started.
Pub bank does require more complex than realize. Rules favor bigger instituitions
Other places have started them.  20 states in process. 

Jessie read foreclosure draft letter to present to supes. Discussion. 
They need to follow code and recapture fees that are not being paid. Mark explained the 
affidavit of truthfullness assessor item maybe be excluded now and done as next stage.
RK comments how it is important to simplify, separate issues on presentation to Supervisors. 
  Mark , Jessie and Agnes will meet to  'pound out' addtional things regarding letter.

Martin Luther King Event:  Linda

In the last 15 years MLK was put on by Peace and Justice Center This year late 
and needed Occupy M to help 
To be at FB  Trinity Lutheran Church. Tentative poster announcement getting ready.
March, food, music groups,  panel discussion with Jenny Otter as moderator. 
Separate list of time events needed. Songsters will do tunes at  MLK event.

Financial report: Peace and Justice has checking account to turn over to $ 2000
wanted to give to Occupy. Discussion: we would   have to go to non profit probably. 
Ann and Richard commented onthe compexities of this.Said it was costly for 501 C3.
Incorporation usually isn't what OM wants to do as a leaderless organization. 


Tech Report: 
 Richard: We seem to be active on both Occupy List serve with
a few people dropping out now an then. Probably around 100 still on list.
Facebook keeps rolling with 1055 people liking the site and commenting. The current headline
stories are" FBI Should Investigate Bankers Not Protesters"  and  "US Prepares to Sign Off on
Foreclosure Fraud Settlement". Foreclosure things there too.
Many interesting postings and communication. People not on FB could send
articles to Richard to post.
Mark:  Reported getting a deal of  $35. a year for Occupymendocino.net website. Will come up again in 9 months.
  

 Treasure report.
Jessie: $260 + 23 for today. Going to find out about donated rental for Senior Center to 
 Agnes will contact Clytie regarding rent of SC room for mettings ? 
 Possible ongoing.
 Does MCTV need to be paid again? 
  Wants to know about the payment of MCN for listserve. (Richard will help look into it)

 Syd payed 2 months on Occupy Listserve and wants reimbursement. (yes)
Jessie will keep the treasurer job.

Pubicity:  Agnes letter sent to Supes was put on AVA website.  Bruce Anderson liked but Agnes
wanted revised and we will send to him when finished.  
Rk need more publicity needed. Jessie suggested having people collaborate on writing a forum letter to paper on progress on OM.
Invite people to join. MOre esposure.  Ellie Rouseer should write letter to FB Advocate. Richard mentioned fundraising letter to go out  as good publicity.

Dates:
 Feb 3nd get letters ready for fund raising. (No OM mtg on Feb 2nd.)
Feb 9 @ Senior Center  1pm for letter stuffing committee.
Feb. 16th GA mtg @Senior Center , Doug Hammerstrom comes, hopefully. Or 2nd.
 Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center
Go back to regular 1st and 3rd of the month meetings in March . . 

Discussed Transition Town meeting on 2nd.  Would Occupy learn something?
Future of Occupy? Concluded Occupy is alive and doing well.  Recently we have had a number
of projects, Including foreclosure prevention workshop with CJ Homes and bank rally direct action. 
On Tue, Jan 8, OM people are presenting a paper to the County Supervisors about the advantages
 in starting a community bank. to help with foreclosure prevention. Bank Rallies on Street - 9 showed up yesterday. 
Richard: should we pursue the B of A commercial with a protest?  Background of shoot or at the
motel where they are signing up extras?   


 PEOPLE NOT ON FACEBOOK SHOUILD SEND ARTICLES TO rkarch at mcn.org
  JUST THE URL ADDRESS PLEASE.  

Minutes respectfully submitted by Richard 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jan 25 11:02:22 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:02:22 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Myth Of Living Beyond Our Means
Message-ID: <B5F420F8-0AD0-4F1E-9F75-45381725A2C5@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/15710-focus-the-myth-of-living-beyond-our-means

The Myth of Living Beyond Our Means
By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog
25 January 13
 
race yourself. In coming weeks you'll hear there's no serious alternative to cutting Social Security and Medicare, raising taxes on middle class, and decimating what's left of the federal government's discretionary spending on everything from education and job training to highways and basic research.

"We" must make these sacrifices, it will be said, in order to deal with our mushrooming budget deficit and cumulative debt. But most of the people who are making this argument are very wealthy or are sponsored by the very wealthy: Wall Street moguls like Pete Peterson and his "Fix the Debt" brigade, the Business Roundtable, well-appointed think tanks and policy centers along the Potomac, members of the Simpson-Bowles commission

These regressive sentiments are packaged in a mythology that Americans have been living beyond our means: We've been unwilling to pay for what we want government to do for us, and we are now reaching the day of reckoning... 

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jan 25 21:24:26 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:24:26 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Frontline Aired "The Untouchables"
Message-ID: <99D600D1-1382-4DB4-A898-54D5B421BD06@mcn.org>

https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/01/25-6#.UQMC8Cz9MCo.facebook



In a testament to the power of independent media, the award-winning public television show Frontline this week helped push a top Department of Justice (DOJ) official out the door.

On Tuesday, Frontline aired a report called "The Untouchables" detailing the DOJ's failure to prosecute the big banks for the 2008 financial meltdown and zeroing in on Lanny Breuer, the former White House legal counsel for Clinton who headed the DOJ's criminal division under Obama.

On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that Breuer was stepping down.

Breuer's Legacy: Enshrining "Too Big to Jail" as Legal Precedent

Many had criticized Attorney General Eric Holder and Breuer for failing to take action against the mega banks on Wall Street, and watched with disbelief last December as the DOJ decided to pass on criminal penalties against HSBC for laundering drug money and helping to finance terrorists. The behemoth bank was ordered to pay a record civil fine, but no criminal charges were lodged against any HSBC official. A New York Times editorial called the decision a "dark day for the rule of law."

But this time around, the Frontline crew had unparalleled access to Breuer which generated a number of key revelations...   

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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Jan 26 10:06:51 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:06:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Call to Action to support a farmer fighting
	foreclosure.
Message-ID: <3a5b10f5616b1c5c410ad4a62e3ed5ce.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Dear Richard,
,
> The meeting on January 31, Thursday at 2:00pm is at the Recorder's
> Office to support Jed Davis. CJ has found robo signatures on two
> documents. CJ will be bringing with her a new Affidavit of Authority
> with CA Penal code #115 including penalties for perjury in fines and
> jail time. If Susan Ranochak agrees to send them to the bank which is
> foreclosing for their verification, she will be protecting the integrity
of the land titles
> according to her oath of office.

Thanks,
Agnes



From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Jan 26 10:29:50 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:29:50 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: GA Revised Minutes 1/5/13 perAgnes
In-Reply-To: <24556533-E3B5-41D8-9193-A6B232A8407A@mcn.org>
References: <0761D611-EA09-4307-A817-A875E40E7C02@mcn.org>
	<24556533-E3B5-41D8-9193-A6B232A8407A@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <e312b49160719cf61f6d22e6f310279a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

>> Agnes, You add the statement where you think it should go.
>> Send back to me and I'll post it.  rk
>         You forgot to mention that the letter to the B.OS. was
> co-authored by CJ Holmes and approved by Occupy Mendocino as
> signatory to the letter.a most Important detail ommitted in
> your notes!
>>
>>
>> OM Meeting Jan 5, 2013
>> ( Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center)
>>
>> Facillitator: Jessie
>> Secretary: Richard
>> Stacker: Mark
>>
>> 13 people in attendance
>>
>> Four main issues= 20 min each
>> Introductory remarks:
>> Sheila talked to newspaper about our relationship with them.
>>
>> 20 min p/ item
>> Featured speakers:   Jessie charing  on Foreclosure
>> Sheila: SCC requirerents for public banks. Doug Hammerstrom has degree
>> in finance and
>> banks will come in a month to come and present how a bank works and
>> getting one started.
>> Pub bank does require more complex than realize. Rules favor bigger
>> instituitions
>> Other places have started community banks.  20 states in process.
>>
>> Jessie read foreclosure draft letter to present to supes. Discussion.
>> They need to follow code and recapture fees that are not being paid.
>> Mark explained the
>> affidavit of truthfullness assessor item maybe be excluded now and done
>> as next stage.
>> RK comments how it is important to simplify, separate issues on
>> presentation to Supervisors.
>>   Mark , Jessie and Agnes will meet to  'pound out' addtional things
>> regarding letter.
>>
>> Martin Luther King Event:  Linda
>>
>> In the last 15 years MLK put on by Peace and Justice Center This year
>> late and needed to go to Occupy.
>> Going to be at FB  Trinity Church. Tentative poster announcement getting
>> ready.
>> March, food, music groups,  panel discussion with Jenny Otter as
>> moderator.
>> Separate list of time events needed. Songsters will do tunes at  MLK
>> event.
>>
>> Other... Peace and Justice has checking account to turn over to $ 2000
>> wanted to give to Occupy. Discussion: we would have to go to non profit
>> probably.
>> Ann and commented on the compexities of this. Richard said it was costly
>> for 501 C3 and
>> incorporation usually isn't what OM wants to do as a leaderless
>> organization.
>>
>>
>> Tech Report:
>>  Richard: We seem to be active on both Occupy List serve with
>> a few people dropping out now an then. Probably around 100 still on
>> list.
>> Facebook keeps rolling with 1055 people liking the site and commenting.
>> The current headline
>> stories are" FBI Should Investigate Bankers Not Protesters"  and  "US
>> Prepares to Sign Off on
>> Foreclosure Fraud Settlement". Foreclosure things there too.
>> Many interesting postings and communication. People not on FB could
>> sendarticles to Richard to post.
>> Mark:  Reported getting a deal of $35. a year for Occupymendocino.net
>> website. Will come up again in 9 months.
>>
>>
>>  Treasure report.
>> Jessie: $260 + 23 for today. Going to find out about donated rental for
>> Senior Center to
>>  Agnes will contact Clytie regarding rent of SC room for mettings ?
>> Possible ongoing.
>>  Does MCTV need to be paid again?
>>   Wants to know about the payment of MCN for listserve. (Richard will
>> help look into it)
>> Syd payed 2 months on Occupy Listserve and wants reimbursement. (yes)
>> Jessie will keep the treasurer job.
>>
>> Pubicity:  Agnes letter sent to Supes was put on AVA website.  Bruce
>> Anderson liked but Agnes
>> wanted revised and we will send to him when finished.
>> Richard: more publicity needed. Jessie suggested having people
>> collaborate on writing a forum letter to paper on progress on OM.
>> Invite people to join. More esposure.  Ellie Rouseer should write letter
>> to FB Advocate. Richard mentioned fundraising letter to go out  as good
>> publicity.
>>
>> Dates:
>>  Feb 3nd get letters ready for fund raising. (No OM mtg on Feb 2nd.)
>> Feb 9 @ Senior Center  1pm for letter stuffing committee.
>> Feb. 16th GA mtg @Senior Center , Doug Hammerstrom comes, hopefully. Or
>> 2nd.
>>  Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center
>> Go back to regular 1st and 3rd of the month meetings in March . .
>>
>> Discussed Transition Town meeting on 2nd.  Would we Occupy learn
>> something?
>> Future of Occupy? Concluded Occupy is alive and doing well.  Recently we
>> have had a number
>> of projects, Including foreclosure prevention workshop with CJ Homes and
>> bank rally direct action.
>> On Tue, Jan 8, OM people are presenting a paper to the County
>> Supervisors about the advantages
>>  in starting a community bank. to help with foreclosure prevention. Bank
>> Rallies on Street - 9 showed up yesterday.
>> Richard: should we pursue the B of A commercial with a protest?
>> Background of shoot or at the
>> motel?
>>
>>
>> I  PEOPLE WHO NOT ON FACEBOOK SHOUILD SEND ARTICLES TO rkarch at mcn.org
>>   JUST THE URL ADDRESS PLEASE.
>>
>>
>> OM Meeting Jan 5, 2013
>>
>> Facillitator: Jessie
>> Secretary: Richard
>> Stacker: Mark
>>
>> 13 people in attendance
>>
>> Four main issues= 20 min each
>> Introductory remarks:
>> Sheila talked to newspaper about our relationship with them.
>>
>> 20 min p/ item
>> Featured speakers:   Jessie charing  on Foreclosure:
>> Sheila: SCC requirerents for public banks. Doug Hammerstrom has degree
>> in finance and
>> banks will come in a month to come and present how a bank works and
>> getting one started.
>> Pub bank does require more complex than realize. Rules favor bigger
>> instituitions
>> Other places have started them.  20 states in process.
>>
>> Jessie read foreclosure draft letter to present to supes. Discussion.
>> They need to follow code and recapture fees that are not being paid.
>> Mark explained the
>> affidavit of truthfullness assessor item maybe be excluded now and done
>> as next stage.  The letter to the B.OS. was
co-authored by CJ Holmes and approved by a majority vote of Occupy
Mendocino as
signatory to the letter.a most Important detail ommitted in
your notes!

>> RK comments how it is important to simplify, separate issues on
>> presentation to Supervisors.
>>   Mark , Jessie and Agnes will meet to  'pound out' additional things
>> regarding letter.
>>
>> Martin Luther King Event:  Linda
>>
>> In the last 15 years MLK was put on by Peace and Justice Center This
>> year late
>> and needed Occupy M to help
>> To be at FB  Trinity Lutheran Church. Tentative poster announcement
>> getting ready.
>> March, food, music groups,  panel discussion with Jenny Otter as
>> moderator.
>> Separate list of time events needed. Songsters will do tunes at  MLK
>> event.
>>
>> Financial report: Peace and Justice has checking account to turn over to
>> $ 2000
>> wanted to give to Occupy. Discussion: we would   have to go to non
>> profit probably.
>> Ann and Richard commented onthe compexities of this.Said it was costly
>> for 501 C3.
>> Incorporation usually isn't what OM wants to do as a leaderless
>> organization.
>>
>>
>> Tech Report:
>>  Richard: We seem to be active on both Occupy List serve with
>> a few people dropping out now an then. Probably around 100 still on
>> list.
>> Facebook keeps rolling with 1055 people liking the site and commenting.
>> The current headline
>> stories are" FBI Should Investigate Bankers Not Protesters"  and  "US
>> Prepares to Sign Off on
>> Foreclosure Fraud Settlement". Foreclosure things there too.
>> Many interesting postings and communication. People not on FB could send
>> articles to Richard to post.
>> Mark:  Reported getting a deal of  $35. a year for Occupymendocino.net
>> website. Will come up again in 9 months.
>>
>>
>>  Treasure report.
>> Jessie: $260 + 23 for today. Going to find out about donated rental for
>> Senior Center to
>>  Agnes will contact Clytie regarding rent of SC room for mettings ?
>>  Possible ongoing.
>>  Does MCTV need to be paid again?
>>   Wants to know about the payment of MCN for listserve. (Richard will
>> help look into it)
>>
>>  Syd payed 2 months on Occupy Listserve and wants reimbursement. (yes)
>> Jessie will keep the treasurer job.
>>
>> Pubicity:  Agnes/CJ letter sent to Occupy listserve where Bruce
Anderson found it and asked permission to post it in the AVA and on the
AVA website.  Agnes asked him to wait until Occupy Mendocino had a
chance to approve it and wanted it revised and we will send to him when
finished.

>> Rk need more publicity needed. Jessie suggested having people
>> collaborate on writing a forum letter to paper on progress on OM.
>> Invite people to join. More exposure.  Ellen Rosser should write letter
>> to FB Advocate. Richard mentioned fund raising letter to go out  as good
>> publicity.
>>
>> Dates:
>>  Feb 3nd get letters ready for fund raising. (No OM mtg on Feb 2nd.)
>> Feb 9 @ Senior Center  1pm for letter stuffing committee.
>> Feb. 16th GA mtg @Senior Center , Doug Hammerstrom comes, hopefully. Or
>> 2nd.
>>  Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center
>> Go back to regular 1st and 3rd of the month meetings in March . .
>>
>> Discussed Transition Town meeting on 2nd.  Would Occupy learn something?
>> Future of Occupy? Concluded Occupy is alive and doing well.  Recently we
>> have had a number
>> of projects, Including foreclosure prevention workshop with CJ Homes and
>> bank rally direct action.
>> On Tue, Jan 8, OM people are presenting a paper to the County
>> Supervisors about the advantages
>>  in starting a community bank. to help with foreclosure prevention. Bank
>> Rallies on Street - 9 showed up yesterday.
>> Richard: should we pursue the B of A commercial with a protest?
>> Background of shoot or at the
>> motel where they are signing up extras?
>>
>>
>>  PEOPLE NOT ON FACEBOOK SHOUILD SEND ARTICLES TO rkarch at mcn.org
>>   JUST THE URL ADDRESS PLEASE.
>>
>> Minutes respectfully submitted by Richard
>
>




From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Jan 26 10:52:37 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:52:37 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Addition to GA Meeting Notes 1/5
Message-ID: <8860281A-5F8B-4D03-8E09-2AEC40C72514@mcn.org>


OM Meeting Jan 5, 2013

Facilitator: Jessie
Secretary: Richard
Stacker: Mark
 
13 people in attendance

Four main issues= 20 min each
Introductory remarks:
Sheila talked to newspaper about our relationship with them.  

20 min p/ item
Featured speakers:   Jessie charing  on Foreclosure: 
Sheila: SCC requirements for public banks. Doug Hammerstrom has degree in finance and 
banks will come in a month to come and present how a bank works and getting one started.
Pub bank does require more complex than realize. Rules favor bigger instituitions
Other places have started them.  20 states in process. 

Jessie read foreclosure draft letter to present to supes. Discussion. 
They need to follow code and recapture fees that are not being paid. Mark explained the 
affidavit of truthfullness assessor item maybe be excluded now and done as next stage.
RK comments how it is important to simplify, separate issues on presentation to Supervisors. 
Mark , Jessie and Agnes will meet to  'pound out' addtional things regarding letter. The letter 
to the B.O.S. was co-authored by CJ Holmes and approved by Occupy Mendocino as signatory
to the letter.

Martin Luther King Event:  Linda

In the last 15 years MLK was put on by Peace and Justice Center This year late 
and needed Occupy M to help 
To be at FB  Trinity Lutheran Church. Tentative poster announcement getting ready.
March, food, music groups,  panel discussion with Jenny Otter as moderator. 
Separate list of time events needed. Songsters will do tunes at  MLK event.

Financial report: Peace and Justice has checking account to turn over to $ 2000
wanted to give to Occupy. Discussion: we would   have to go to non profit probably. 
Ann and Richard commented onthe compexities of this.Said it was costly for 501 C3.
Incorporation usually isn't what OM wants to do as a leaderless organization. 


Tech Report: 
 Richard: We seem to be active on both Occupy List serve with
a few people dropping out now an then. Probably around 100 still on list.
Facebook keeps rolling with 1055 people liking the site and commenting. The current headline
stories are" FBI Should Investigate Bankers Not Protesters"  and  "US Prepares to Sign Off on
Foreclosure Fraud Settlement". Foreclosure things there too.
Many interesting postings and communication. People not on FB could send
articles to Richard to post.
Mark:  Reported getting a deal of  $35. a year for Occupymendocino.net website. Will come up again in 9 months.
  

 Treasure report.
Jessie: $260 + 23 for today. Going to find out about donated rental for Senior Center to 
 Agnes will contact Clytie regarding rent of SC room for mettings ? 
 Possible ongoing.
 Does MCTV need to be paid again? 
  Wants to know about the payment of MCN for listserve. (Richard will help look into it)

 Syd payed 2 months on Occupy Listserve and wants reimbursement. (yes)
Jessie will keep the treasurer job.

Pubicity:  Agnes letter sent to Supes was put on AVA website.  Bruce Anderson liked but Agnes
wanted revised and we will send to him when finished.  
Rk need more publicity needed. Jessie suggested having people collaborate on writing a forum letter to paper on progress on OM.
Invite people to join. MOre esposure.  Ellie Rouseer should write letter to FB Advocate. Richard mentioned fundraising letter to go out  as good publicity.

Dates:
 Feb 3nd get letters ready for fund raising. (No OM mtg on Feb 2nd.)
Feb 9 @ Senior Center  1pm for letter stuffing committee.
Feb. 16th GA mtg @Senior Center , Doug Hammerstrom comes, hopefully. Or 2nd.
 Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center
Go back to regular 1st and 3rd of the month meetings in March . . 

Discussed Transition Town meeting on 2nd.  Would Occupy learn something?
Future of Occupy? Concluded Occupy is alive and doing well.  Recently we have had a number
of projects, Including foreclosure prevention workshop with CJ Homes and bank rally direct action. 
On Tue, Jan 8, OM people are presenting a paper to the County Supervisors about the advantages
 in starting a community bank. to help with foreclosure prevention. Bank Rallies on Street - 9 showed up yesterday. 
Richard: should we pursue the B of A commercial with a protest?  Background of shoot or at the
motel where they are signing up extras?   


 PEOPLE NOT ON FACEBOOK SHOUILD SEND ARTICLES TO rkarch at mcn.org
  JUST THE URL ADDRESS PLEASE.  

Minutes respectfully submitted by Richard 

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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Jan 26 18:37:20 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:37:20 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd:  Ammendment to GA Meeting Notes 1/5]
Message-ID: <2e7e745a3d6824c96d855244d174c8d5.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Addition to GA Meeting Notes 1/5
From:    "Richard Karch" <rkarch at mcn.org>
Date:    Sat, January 26, 2013 10:52 am
To:      occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------


OM Meeting Jan 5, 2013

Facilitator: Jessie
Secretary: Richard
Stacker: Mark

13 people in attendance

Four main issues= 20 min each
Introductory remarks:
Sheila talked to newspaper about our relationship with them.

20 min p/ item
Featured speakers:   Jessie charing  on Foreclosure:
Sheila: SCC requirements for public banks. Doug Hammerstrom has degree in
finance and
banks will come in a month to come and present how a bank works and
getting one started.
Pub bank does require more complex than realize. Rules favor bigger
instituitions
Other places have started them.  20 states in process.

Jessie read foreclosure draft letter to present to supes. Discussion.
They need to follow code and recapture fees that are not being paid. Mark
explained the
affidavit of truthfullness assessor item maybe be excluded now and done as
next stage.
RK comments how it is important to simplify, separate issues on
presentation to Supervisors.
Mark , Jessie and Agnes will meet to  'pound out' addtional things
regarding letter. The letter
to the B.O.S. was co-authored by CJ Holmes and approved by Occupy
Mendocino as signatory
to the letter.

Martin Luther King Event:  Linda

In the last 15 years MLK was put on by Peace and Justice Center This year
late
and needed Occupy M to help
To be at FB  Trinity Lutheran Church. Tentative poster announcement
getting ready.
March, food, music groups,  panel discussion with Jenny Otter as moderator.
Separate list of time events needed. Songsters will do tunes at  MLK event.

Financial report: Peace and Justice has checking account to turn over to $
2000
wanted to give to Occupy. Discussion: we would   have to go to non profit
probably.
Ann and Richard commented onthe compexities of this.Said it was costly for
501 C3.
Incorporation usually isn't what OM wants to do as a leaderless organization.


Tech Report:
 Richard: We seem to be active on both Occupy List serve with
a few people dropping out now an then. Probably around 100 still on list.
Facebook keeps rolling with 1055 people liking the site and commenting.
The current headline
stories are" FBI Should Investigate Bankers Not Protesters"  and  "US
Prepares to Sign Off on
Foreclosure Fraud Settlement". Foreclosure things there too.
Many interesting postings and communication. People not on FB could send
articles to Richard to post.
Mark:  Reported getting a deal of  $35. a year for Occupymendocino.net
website. Will come up again in 9 months.


 Treasure report.
Jessie: $260 + 23 for today. Going to find out about donated rental for
Senior Center to
 Agnes will contact Clytie regarding rent of SC room for mettings ?
 Possible ongoing.
 Does MCTV need to be paid again?
  Wants to know about the payment of MCN for listserve. (Richard will help
look into it)

 Syd payed 2 months on Occupy Listserve and wants reimbursement. (yes)
Jessie will keep the treasurer job.

Pubicity:
 letter sent to Supes was put on AVA website.  Bruce Anderson liked but Agnes
wanted it revised to have Occupy sponsor the letter.It will be sent to him
when finished.
Rk need more publicity needed. Jessie suggested having people collaborate
on writing a forum letter to paper on progress on OM.
Invite people to join. MOre esposure.  Ellie Rouseer should write letter
to FB Advocate. Richard mentioned fundraising letter to go out  as good
publicity.

Dates:
 Feb 3nd get letters ready for fund raising. (No OM mtg on Feb 2nd.)
Feb 9 @ Senior Center  1pm for letter stuffing committee.
Feb. 16th GA mtg @Senior Center , Doug Hammerstrom comes, hopefully. Or 2nd.
 Next GA meeting Jan 26 @ 2 pm Senior Center
Go back to regular 1st and 3rd of the month meetings in March . .

Discussed Transition Town meeting on 2nd.  Would Occupy learn something?
Future of Occupy? Concluded Occupy is alive and doing well.  Recently we
have had a number
of projects, Including foreclosure prevention workshop with CJ Homes and
bank rally direct action.
On Tue, Jan 8, OM people are presenting a paper to the County Supervisors
about the advantages
 in starting a community bank. to help with foreclosure prevention. Bank
Rallies on Street - 9 showed up yesterday.
Richard: should we pursue the B of A commercial with a protest? 
Background of shoot or at the
motel where they are signing up extras?


 PEOPLE NOT ON FACEBOOK SHOUILD SEND ARTICLES TO rkarch at mcn.org
  JUST THE URL ADDRESS PLEASE.

Minutes respectfully submitted by Richard


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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Jan 27 23:02:27 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:02:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Washington Post Editorial On Keystone Pipeline -
	Get Ready For The Pipeline
Message-ID: <D8DF110C-5D40-4CC7-9FA8-D44B5DEDDD86@att.net>


http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Get_Ready_For_The_Pipeline

GET READY FOR THE PIPELINE

By Charles P. Pierce


Tom Pennington/Getty Images





























I really hate to make the whole morning about the intellectual monkeyhouse that Fred Hiatt's running at The Washington Post, but the paper's lead editorial today, pushing the president to sign off on the Keystone XL pipeline rather forces us to enter the hallways of flung poo one more time. If whoever wrote the editorial knows anything about the pipeline, the toxic gunk that it will carry through virtually the entire continent, and the events surrounding the controversy both nationally, and in the state of Nebraska, it is not evident from the editorial itself, which is little more than a vague infomercial for TransCanada, which plans to build the pipeline, and which is a large energy company and, therefore, unworthy of the benefit of any doubts. I choose to believe that whoever wrote this mess simply was late for a lunch date and tossed it off.

President Obama rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline this time last year, a result that Canada had every reason to be dismayed by, as did Americans whom the project would have employed. The issue is coming back, and the president has even less reason to nix the project than he did last time.
(Actually, "Canada" is as split over this environmentally calamitous project as we are, and TransCanada, because it is a large energy company, has been lying about the jobs the pipeline would create from the very start of the project. This should give the president pause.)

After years of federal review, there was little question last year that construction of the pipeline, which would transport heavy, oil-like bitumen from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico coast, should proceed. Thousands of miles of pipeline already crisscross this country. An environmental analysis had concluded that the risks of adding this new stretch were low. An economic review had found that Canada would get its bitumen to the world market - if not via pipeline to the gulf, then very likely by ship to China. Supply would make it to demand, one way or another.
(A fair-minded analysis would explain precisely what "heavy, oil-like bitumen" really is, and what it takes to remove it from the ground, and what it does to various lifeforms, including human beings. It also would point out that the thousands of miles of pipelines across the country already leak like sieves, including another Keystone pipeline run by TransCanada. It also would note that the pipeline was dreamed up in the first place because getting the gunk to China via, say Vancouver would put the project crossways with Canadian environmental laws and various treaties with indigenous tribes. Also, too; The Rocky Mountains. They thought up the pipeline because they knew our environmental regulations were lax and that we hadn't given a damn what the Indians thought since 1620. I am so very proud to be an American.)

Environmentalists nevertheless made Keystone XL a rallying issue. Among other things, they pointed to disquiet in Nebraska about the pipeline's proposed route, objecting that it would traverse environmentally sensitive areas, such as the state's Sand Hills.
(Regular readers of the blog know of our devotion here to the Oglalla aquifer, which is based on my long-held belief that we can do without having the Gobi Desert recreated between St. Louis and Denver. You will note that the Post here is limiting the "disquiet" in Nebraska to concern about the Sand Hills. This is the same bait-and-switch Governor Dave Heineman pulled the other day when he approved the revised pipeline route that avoids the Sand Hills but still crosses a piece of the aquifer. Also, a good part of the "disquiet" ? nice word, Post ? in Nebraska was occasioned because TransCanada was granted the power of eminent domain and has every intention of taking people's land away, which would "disquiet" me.)

The election is past, TransCanada has reapplied with a new proposed route, and this week Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) signed off on the plan, following an analysis from the state's Department of Environmental Quality. The regulators found that the new route would avoid the Sand Hills and other areas of concern. Though there is always some risk of spill, they said, "impacts on aquifers from a release should be localized, and Keystone would be responsible for any cleanup." TransCanada will have to buy at least $200 million in insurance to cover any cleanup costs.
(We have discussed Heineman's bait-and-switch already. The survey he relied on is mischaracterized here. The aquifer is certainly an "area of concern," as we have said. And, applied to an energy company, the last two sentences are a joke, as half-a-million pelicans in the Gulf will testify. TransCanada found the $200 million for insurance under the cushions of the sofa.)

Mr. Obama should ignore the activists who have bizarrely chosen to make Keystone XL a line-in-the-sand issue, when there are dozens more of far greater environmental import. He knows that the way to cut oil use is to reduce demand for the stuff, and he has begun to put that knowledge into practice, setting tough new fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks. That will actually make a difference, unlike blocking a pipeline here or there.
(Ah, and now we come to the Post's main point ? hippie punching. It has made no serious attempt to address the legitimate environmental concerns regarding tar sands development and its implementation, the legitimate environmental concerns about the pipeline itself, or the legitimate environmental concerns regarding investing any trust in the good faith of an oil company. All it's really concerned about is that "activists" ? to whom it condescends to explain what issues should be of "far greater environmental import" ? somehow got in the way of The Way Things Are Supposed To Work. They have inconvenienced the Very Serious People with whom Fred Hiatt lunches between editing George F. Will's latest defense of climate-change denial. That's all the paper has here. The Post's dedication to actual democracy would embarrass the Plantagenets.)

Alas, though, the fix seems to be in. The wheels of the giant Not Giving A Damn machine in our nation's capital seem thoroughly greased. You can tell because the 53 senators ? including two utterly useless Democrats ? aren't even trying to come up with good lies anymore.

At a news conference Wednesday, senators from both parties said the Nebraska decision leaves Obama with no other choice but to approve the pipeline, which would carry up to 800,000 barrels of oil a day from tar sands in western Canada to refineries in Houston and other Texas ports. The pipeline also would travel though Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. "No more excuses. It's time to put people to work," Baucus said. "Back home, we call this a no-brainer," added Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. Hoeven, of North Dakota, said the tar sands oil will be produced whether or not the U.S. approves the project. "Our choice is, the oil comes to us or it's going to China," he said.
You're only putting a very few people to work, and that's if you count the strippers. "No-brainer" is not a word Joe Manchin should toss around idly. And Hoeven's just lying. Either that, or he's too stupid to understand the phrase, "the world market." In actual fact, the gunk comes through us to refineries in Texas, whence it's just as likely to go to China as it would be if it sailed there from Vancouver, which it never would because the Canadians aren't as reckless with their land as we are with ours. You can pretend to be with this project because of jobs, or because of a spurious claim of energy independence. But, if you are in favor of this pipeline, and the gunk it will carry, you cannot claim to be serious about climate change. That, Joe, is a no-brainer.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jan 28 16:15:28 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:15:28 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: here is my first draft of affidavit
Message-ID: <596a13c8fcca84277d3cbee9c7c83e41.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Fwd: here is my first draft of affidavit
From:    "Jed Davis" <jedasiah at gmail.com>
Date:    Mon, January 28, 2013 3:57 pm
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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Hi Agnes,and Occupy Mendocino,
Here is the affidavit of False Documents that CJ is working on.
Unfortunately, we have to postpone our date with the Recorders office until
(hopefully) Wednesday Feb. 13.  We really want to make sure that everything
is in order, that we can accumulate a few more people facing foreclosure to
present their affidavits on the same day, that we can preclude our meeting
with an email full of information for the Recorder, sheriff, etc to look
over before our meeting.  I know its a bummer to keep postponing the
meeting, but I would rather have it done right than be unprepared. Please
notify the others as to this change and any feedback on whether Wednesday
the 13 works for them.

jed

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:30 PM
Subject: here is my first draft of affidavit
To: Jed Davis <jedasiah at gmail.com>


I'll send both pdf and word doc.  later I'll work through you docs with you
so we have what we need for thurs.  cj****
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jan 28 19:33:40 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:33:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Thunderclap:
References: <799130678.-32634068@afl.aflDB.mail.democracyinaction.org>
Message-ID: <2EC69D50-FD70-48CA-B635-B5704D902246@att.net>



Begin forwarded message:





Mark,

Have you heard of a Thunderclap?

It?s pretty cool. Lots of groups and people get together to pledge to tweet or Facebook a message, all at the same time, on the same day, for maximum effect. You know when someone puts up a megaphone at a rally and everyone yells back their response? It?s kind of like that, but online.

We?re partnering with our friends at Americans for Tax Fairness to make sure the labor movement gets the message out on stopping cuts to benefit programs and ending tax loopholes for Wall Street and the richest 2%. Why don?t you join us and send a message to Congress?

It?s easy: Click on the link above and you?ll get taken to the Thunderclap. It will ask you to ?Support with Twitter? and ?Support with Facebook.? It should quickly add your name to the Thunderclap with your accounts. On Jan. 30, the day the Thunderclap goes out, everyone who has signed up will post automatically on whatever account they connect.

We?ll be sending a message to Congress: Oppose benefits cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid and end tax loopholes for Wall Street and the richest 2%. Period.

Sign up to let Congress know we?re not letting up:

go.aflcio.org/thunderclap

In Solidarity,

Damon Silvers
Director of Policy, AFL-CIO


    
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jan 28 19:37:15 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:37:15 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Public banking in the making /info accumulating
Message-ID: <812e2d787c6d8dc9db3a356939c2f9cf.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


thanks.  I'm copying agnes on this response.  cj

-----Original Message-----
From: waltmcree at gmail.com [mailto:waltmcree at gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:55 AM
To: CJ Holmes
Cc: 'Mike Krauss'; 'Marc Armstrong'
Subject: RE: [Fwd: [Occupymendocino] re Public Bank presentation to County]

No CJ , not to my knowledge.  It requires a banking license, of course,
but that
license can be purchased through buying a bank that's currently available
(as many
are).  That said, you will definitely want banker experience and
participation, but
that's talent you can hire.  What is required to set up a public bank is
multifaceted and will require state specific regulation knowledge.  I'm
sharing this
with Marc Armstrong (ED of
PBI) and with Mike Krauss for their input -- Marc will know the CA lay of
the land
and Mike has been working directly with municipal and state level
authorities on the
subject of getting one started.

WALT





From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan 29 11:40:53 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:40:53 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: 18 pages of families in Foreclosures in this
	County
Message-ID: <7a20f780eec4d7a49e336d24881acb17.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

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Dear Occupy Mendocino ,

Concerning the following information below:
      Fighting foreclosure committee and others , We need to meet Friday ,
Feb. at 4:00 pm at the Library Community Room to decide whether we
want to contact F.B. residents or others with postcards. Please
leave me with a message. 937-2377.from Agnes
*******

Are you facing foreclosure in Mendocino county?  Many current foreclosures
are fraudulent and illegal.  Check your mortgage foreclosure papers for
robosigned notary signatures ,ie.notary residing and stamp showing two
different counties.   Robo signing and other illegal methods make those
documents invalid.  Many businesses/banks filing foreclosure do not 'hold'
the actual 'note' and cannot legally foreclose on property which they
don't even own, even if they are the servicer of your loan!! It's against
the LAW!!
Tentatively on Feb 13, 2013 join with a group of homeowners who plan to go
to the County Recorder and present their mortgage and loan documents which
have been fraudulently robo-signed or otherwise filed in an illegal or
untimely  manner,   If you think your name is on the Real Estate document
enclosed  contact CJ Holmes at www.hofj.org and bring copies of
your documents to the Recorder's Office at 2:00 pm.on 1/13/13 This action
will start the process of  asking County law enforcement (DA/Sheriff) to
start prosecuting the banks and mortgage lenders which are trying to
illegally seize family homes and businesses.

If you find your property on the list with an auction date or on a
preforeclosure column examine your documents make copies, bring them, come
join us for a more powerful impact. You don't have to try to fight
foreclosure alone.
There are 18 pages of properties and names of people due to be served
foreclosure at the bottom of Jed's email to me. Please contact Jed or me
agnes at mcn.org if you wish to fight fraud4closure with us.

------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Fwd: Occupy Ukiah
From:    "Jed Davis" <jedasiah at gmail.com>
Date:    Tue, January 29, 2013 5:40 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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Hi Agnes,
Here is a list of the families facing foreclosure. does Occupy Mendocino
have any budget to send out post cards to these people?

jed

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: CJ Holmes <cjholmes at cjholmes.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:39 PM
Subject: RE: Occupy Ukiah
To: Jed Davis <jedasiah at gmail.com>


here's the 154 families facing foreclosure auction in mendo county right
now.  cj****


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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan 29 20:07:54 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:07:54 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Battle Plan to save our homes from the banksters.
Message-ID: <4cf788e3f5fd31a1a96f4dcc7dd84844.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Go to C.J.s radio show for Jan. 29th to hear in the second half her Battle
Plan for homeowners and activists.

Fighting Foreclosures Activists, please inform yourselves at today's radio
livestream.
   http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674  1/29/13

Here's a short summary of the Action Plan to send to interested homeowners
of the 154 Mendocino county residents whom you have on the spreadsheet or
pdf. sent earlier today. 100,000 homes are facing foreclosure in CA.

Mega-Banks are still using robosigners even though they signed a consent
Decree with the Attorney General agreeing to stop.This is a violation of
Federal Law. They've been getting away with it in court. All securitized
loans have fraud because they've lost who owns the note in the electronic
mortgage registration system- MERS-in the belly of the beast. So people
have to prove robosigned documments are fraud.
This is how to fight back:

1) Fill out an OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) Complaint
form downloading it from www.hofj.org.this is your best chance to buy time
to stall foreclosure, while you search your documents for fraud at the
Recorder's Office.  From the OCC office you will receive a file number.
Send a copy of this to the As long as a complaint is in process in return
mail from OCC you will have an OCCC file number that the bank must honor
and stand aside.You may choose from the list of complaints,fill it out and
send it from CJ Holmes website:www.hofj.org.

2) Also file a Notary complaint from same site. On your documents find the
notary's name fill out and send a journal entry letter request form,and a
money order for $1.00 for the copy, include a self addressed envelope and
ask the postal worker to stamp the date when it comes back. You will have
a copy of the notariy's signature and driver's license number. Send the
complaint on the Notary to the Secretary of State, then take her response,
get a copy of her response to the legal dept of the Foreclosure  Trustee.
If the notarization is false those are void documents on the property.

Nothing is recorded until the Notice of Default is sent, but before it is
sent the bank has filed an assignment, a trustee substitution, and a
notice of default to give the veneer of legality.
All documents are fake on securitized loans.

3)Go to the Recorder's Office and get certified copies of your list of
documents,for the Sheriff, copies for



From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan 29 20:07:56 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:07:56 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Battle Plan to save our homes from the banksters.
Message-ID: <d08ada1e81ebc312434bc8ce9114ee91.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Go to C.J.s radio show for Jan. 29th to hear in the second half her Battle
Plan for homeowners and activists.

Fighting Foreclosures Activists, please inform yourselves at today's radio
livestream.
   http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674  1/29/13

Here's a short summary of the Action Plan to send to interested homeowners
of the 154 Mendocino county residents whom you have on the spreadsheet or
pdf. sent earlier today. 100,000 homes are facing foreclosure in CA.

Mega-Banks are still using robosigners even though they signed a consent
Decree with the Attorney General agreeing to stop.This is a violation of
Federal Law. They've been getting away with it in court. All securitized
loans have fraud because they've lost who owns the note in the electronic
mortgage registration system- MERS-in the belly of the beast. So people
have to prove robosigned documments are fraud.
This is how to fight back:

1) Fill out an OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) Complaint
form downloading it from www.hofj.org.this is your best chance to buy time
to stall foreclosure, while you search your documents for fraud at the
Recorder's Office.  From the OCC office you will receive a file number.
Send a copy of this to the As long as a complaint is in process in return
mail from OCC you will have an OCCC file number that the bank must honor
and stand aside.You may choose from the list of complaints,fill it out and
send it from CJ Holmes website:www.hofj.org.

2) Also file a Notary complaint from same site. On your documents find the
notary's name fill out and send a journal entry letter request form,and a
money order for $1.00 for the copy, include a self addressed envelope and
ask the postal worker to stamp the date when it comes back. You will have
a copy of the notariy's signature and driver's license number. Send the
complaint on the Notary to the Secretary of State, then take her response,
get a copy of her response to the legal dept of the Foreclosure  Trustee.
If the notarization is false those are void documents on the property.

Nothing is recorded until the Notice of Default is sent, but before it is
sent the bank has filed an assignment, a trustee substitution, and a
notice of default to give the veneer of legality.
All documents are fake on securitized loans.

3)Go to the Recorder's Office and get certified copies of your list of
documents,for the Sheriff, copies for



From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jan 29 20:15:34 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:15:34 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Battle Plan to save our homes from the
	banksters.]
Message-ID: <cf729200fe1c8940d394262f5e89ff26.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Battle Plan to save our homes from the banksters.
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Tue, January 29, 2013 8:07 pm
To:      occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Go to C.J.s radio show for Jan. 29th to hear in the second half her Battle
Plan for homeowners and activists.

Fighting Foreclosures Activists, please inform yourselves at today's radio
livestream.
   http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674  1/29/13

Here's a short summary of the Action Plan to send to interested homeowners
of the 154 Mendocino county residents whom you have on the spreadsheet or
pdf. sent earlier today. 100,000 homes are facing foreclosure in CA.

Mega-Banks are still using robosigners even though they signed a consent
Decree with the Attorney General agreeing to stop.This is a violation of
Federal Law. They've been getting away with it in court. All securitized
loans have fraud because they've lost who owns the note in the electronic
mortgage registration system- MERS-in the belly of the beast. So people
have to prove robosigned documments are fraud.
This is how to fight back:

1) Fill out an OCC (Office of the Comptroller of the Currency) Complaint
form downloading it from www.hofj.org.this is your best chance to buy time
to stall foreclosure, while you search your documents for fraud at the
Recorder's Office.  From the OCC office you will receive a file number.
Send a copy of this to the As long as a complaint is in process in return
mail from OCC you will have an OCCC file number that the bank must honor
and stand aside.You may choose from the list of complaints,fill it out and
send it from CJ Holmes website:www.hofj.org.

2) Also file a Notary complaint from same site. On your documents find the
notary's name fill out and send a journal entry letter request form,and a
money order for $1.00 for the copy, include a self addressed envelope and
ask the postal worker to stamp the date when it comes back. You will have
a copy of the notariy's signature and driver's license number. Send the
complaint on the Notary to the Secretary of State, then take her response,
get a copy of her response to the legal dept of the Foreclosure  Trustee.
If the notarization is false those are void documents on the property.

Nothing is recorded until the Notice of Default is sent, but before it is
sent the bank has filed an assignment, a trustee substitution, and a
notice of default to give the veneer of legality.
All documents are fake on securitized loans.

3)Go to the Recorder's Office and get certified copies of your list of
documents,for the Sheriff, copies for the DA,for the  Recorder,for the
State Attorney General, Kamala Harris and for the Supervisors.

Please see the pdf file of Homeowners on the mega-bankers'hit list in my
previous letter.
Agnes Woolsey




From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jan 30 10:16:01 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:16:01 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] We're getting dangerous spam.
Message-ID: <47DAA144-5F4D-4133-9C3F-E6C38825FEEE@att.net>

Remember: DO NOT INCLUDE ANY OTHER ADDRESSES IN EMAILS TO OCCUPY!


From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jan 30 10:21:29 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:21:29 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: DO NOT INCLUDE ANY OTHER ADDRESSES IN EMAILS
	TO OCCUPY! We're getting dangerous spam.
References: <47DAA144-5F4D-4133-9C3F-E6C38825FEEE@att.net>
Message-ID: <FCD066EF-6181-43ED-B36B-69B94F99C7CE@mcn.org>


> Subject: [Occupymendocino] We're getting dangerous spam.
> 
> Remember: DO NOT INCLUDE ANY OTHER ADDRESSES IN EMAILS TO OCCUPY!
> 
> 
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jan 31 12:31:51 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:31:51 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] meeting at F.B. Library-4:00 pm Fri. 2/1/13
In-Reply-To: <CB1D9916-B5AA-4052-9E19-B8EE0B8F47B1@mac.com>
References: <282181d515fc1682d5e96de7df6cc3a5.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
	<8C45CB35-0982-43F8-95E4-7ABD6E443D3D@mac.com>
	<45320b6930ba9f70e18ffc41368ded69.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
	<CB1D9916-B5AA-4052-9E19-B8EE0B8F47B1@mac.com>
Message-ID: <c0d3be3e8cd1fc6d6e4bf04eb10cd0e9.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Foreclosure fighters, et al,
Anyone who would like to help notify the 154 homeowners whose property is
in foreclosure or at auction, please come to the F.B. Library at 4:00 pm
this
Friday 2/1/13 for an hour and bring a pen, a yellow highlighter and some
coffee or tea. We will have the stamped postcards.  CJ has sent the names
via the Foreclosure Radar.com and has suggested a message for the back of
the card. The more help we can get maybe we can fill out all 154 and send
them before 5:00 pm at the P.O.




From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jan 31 15:14:37 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:14:37 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: RE: message on the post card back]
Message-ID: <6ffeaf7efe16b5e744e4d9d721f7f6b1.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

This is the message we want to squeeze or paste onto a postcard. Can
anyone come and help us at the Library Fri. 2/1 at 4:00 pm.??????

Your property is one of 154 facing foreclosure in Mendocino County.

You may postpone the auction -no guarantee- but many times these steps
delay the sale.

1. File a complaint with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
(OCC).  Instructions and links are at www.HOFJ.org. Inform your
Foreclosure Trustee's legal dept about the OCC response so they postpone
the auction.

2. File notary complaints on each foreclosure document.  Instructions,
examples, sample letters at www.HOFJ.org.  Ask C.J. Holmes
(HOFJ at cjholmes.com) to send a property document list. The printout may be
3 weeks behind actual recordings so check the Recorder's Office.

Please fax (707-578-5873) or scan/email (HOFJ at cjholmes.com) your
foreclosure docs to help build the Suspicious Signature database.  Same
names are often signed with different signatures.

Keep informed by watching live or archive at
http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2292674 a 1hr show at 10:00a, Mon-Fri. 
Archives are stored behind the Icons.

Join Mendocino county home owners on Feb. 13, 2013, 2:00pm at the
Recorder's Office.

-



From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jan 31 22:56:40 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:56:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] GA Cancelled
Message-ID: <BDCB459D-0560-4F77-85A6-D31EFA4B552E@mcn.org>

This Saturday, Feb 6,  GA meeting cancelled.

Next GA is Feb 9.  We will meet and prepare fund raising letter for mailing.


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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jan 31 14:19:40 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:19:40 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Eminent Domain in CA is in the 2/4/13 issue of
	The New Yorker.
Message-ID: <4AB6F560-0D38-4315-A120-AC6296A18CF4@att.net>

LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA
Home Economics
LETTER FROM CALIFORNIA about Steven Gluckstern?s solution for the foreclosure crisis. At sixty-one, Steven Gluckstern has extensive experience handicapping risk propositions on Wall Street. This past fall, Gluckstern, the chairman of a San Francisco-based group called Mortgage Resolution Partners, was in the midst of a tour of Southern?
BY TAD FRIEND


Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/search?qt=dismax&sort=score+desc&query=home+economics&submit=#ixzz2JatX4i8b
Along with this great cartoon.
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