From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Jun  1 11:00:15 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 11:00:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Elizabeth Warren inspires serious debate about
	student loandebt
Message-ID: <5B68E006-6D41-462F-9E10-E5BA9E104236@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/340-187/17554-elizabeth-warren-inspires-serious-debate-about-student-loan-debt

From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Jun  3 13:07:32 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 13:07:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Manning Trial Starting
Message-ID: <5487B54D-35EF-489F-A1CE-60FF0F48FAE8@mcn.org>

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/bradley-manning-court-martial-starts-today/




By Luis Martinez
@LMartinezABC
Follow on Twitter
Jun 3, 2013 1:57pm

Updated at 1:57 p.m. ET
As the court martial of Army Private First Class Bradley Manning got underway Monday, prosecutors argued that the former Army intelligence analyst ?knowingly gave intelligence to the enemy? when he leaked 700,000 U.S. government documents to Wikileaks.
Manning?s defense attorney did not deny that his client had leaked the documents but did so because he was ?young, na?ve and good-intentioned?.  The release of the documents has been described as the most extensive leak of classified information in U.S. history.
In the three years since first being detained during a combat deployment to Iraq, the former Army intelligence analyst has become a cause c?l?bre for civil liberties and anti-secrecy advocates who consider him a whistle-blower.
The court-martial for Manning, 25, is taking place at Fort Meade, Md., north of Washington D.C and is expected to last three months.
The most serious of the 22 charges Manning faces is aiding the enemy for which Manning could face life in prison if convicted. The additional charges include wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet knowing that it is accessible to the enemy; theft of public property or records; transmitting defense information; fraud and related activity in connection with computers.
In his opening arguments Army prosecutor Captain Joe Morrow presented detailed computer forensic evidence of Manning?s computer activity that indicated he began passing along classified information to Wikileaks within two weeks of his deployment to Baghdad in November, 2009.
The prosecutor said the computer evidence indicated that in following months Manning gathered information in bulk, ?not onesies or twosies?these were massive, massive downloads.?  Morrow said the information gathered by Manning was of ?great value to our adversaries and in particular to our enemies.?
Morrow said Manning ?knew the consequences of his actions? as he ?literally dumped that information onto the Internet in the hands of the enemy.?
Morrow presented chat logs of Manning?s contacts with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange about some of the information that was released to his website. In particular he tried to link Manning?s computer searches with a ?most wanted? list of items the anti-secrecy website had published in 2009.  Assange has not been charged in the case.
In his arguments David Coombs, Manning?s attorney, described a young na?ve soldier who decided to release the classified documents he had access to ?because he thought he could make the world a better place.?
He said from among the ?literally hundreds of millions of documents? Manning had access to he chose the documents he released not because of  Wikileaks? most wanted list but because  ?he believed this information needed to be made public.?  ?He was young, na?ve, good intentioned,? said Coombs.
Challenging the prosecution?s narrative Coombs pointed to a roadside blast on Christmas Eve, 2009 as being the prime motivator for Manning?s leaks.
Coombs said that for Manning the good news that colleagues had escaped injury in a roadside blast that night was offset by the fact that a car carrying five Iraqi civilians took the brunt of the blast, killing one.
The defense attorney said Manning was transformed by incident because ?he couldn?t forget the lives lost that day? and ?led him to feel that he needed to do something?to make a difference in this world.?
Ultimately he said Manning began to look for information that he could make public.  In doing so Coombs said Manning purposefully looked for information that he believed ?could not be used against the U.S. ?
He said Manning leaked hundreds of thousands of battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan out of a belief that ?the American public should know what is happening on a day to day basis? in the two countries.  He said Manning?s research indicated the reports  did not include intelligence sourcing, were historical in nature and did not contain information about future operations.
He said  Manning first became aware of the 250,000 diplomatic cables he leaked when his supervisor urged his team to use them in their intelligence reports.  Coombs said Manning found State Department regulations which said most of the cables were unclassified.  He said Manning felt the documents were important because they ?showed how we deal with other countries.?
In February, Manning pleaded guilty 10 lesser charges that carried a 20-year prison sentence.   At a pre-trial hearing, Manning read for an hour from a 35-page statement in which he explained his motivations in releasing the classified documents.  He said he had wanted ?to spark a debate about foreign policy? and show ?the true cost of war.?
Army prosecutors decided soon after that they would continue to pursue prosecution for the most serious charges against him.
Prosecutors will try to prove that Manning?s leaks aided the enemy by calling as a witness a Navy SEAL who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.   They say that copies of the documents Manning leaked to WikiLeaks were found on the computer hard-drives recovered by U.S. special operations forces during the raid.
Read More: Osama Bin Laden
That portion of the trial will likely be closed to the public and the media.
Now being held at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Manning?s initial detention at the Marine brig at Quantico, Va., became the subject of controversy.   Supporters claimed the conditions of his detention there had amounted to cruel and unlawful punishment, which his attorneys said merited dismissing the case against him.
After a lengthy pre-trial hearing, the judge in the case found there was validity to some of the allegations and reduced his potential prison sentence by four months.
Related: Bradley Manning?s Former Guards Testify About Controversial Incident
Sunday night Coombs posted a statement on his website thanking supporters for their financial support and for raising awareness of the case.
?On behalf of both myself and Pfc. Manning,? he said, ?I would like to thank everyone for their continued support over the last three years.?
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun  3 14:13:48 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:13:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Issa Demands Hearings Into Why No One
	Listens to Him
Message-ID: <094E148B-1386-4030-9CDB-88E65CC1D35E@att.net>

(The "Honorable" Mr. Issa brings to mind a quote about Bush Sr: "A small toothache of a man." M.S.) 
ISSA DEMANDS HEARINGS INTO WHY NO ONE LISTENS TO HIM


WASHINGTON ?The House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California) today called for hearings to investigate why no one has paid any attention to him in the weeks of hearings he has called for thus far.

?There is mounting evidence that no one listens to me, not even one little bit,? he told reporters on Capitol Hill. ?The goal of these hearings is to find out why.?

He said that he first became aware that people might not be listening to him when he read a recent poll indicating that Americans? primary concerns are jobs and the economy.

?Anyone in his right mind would know that this nation?s No. 1 problem right now is Benghazi talking points,? he said.

The California congressman said that he also intended ?to investigate the chain of events that have led to people changing the channel the moment they see my face.?

?There is a consensus out there that I am an odious, self-serving tool who uses congressional hearings to advance my own petty political agenda,? he said. ?I think it?s important to know who created that impression.?

Finally, Mr. Issa said, he hoped that the new hearings would ?determine, once and for all, to what extent my moral authority has been undermined by allegations that I have been involved in car theft and arson.?

?The question is, what do the American people know about me and when did they know it?? he said.



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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun  3 22:00:56 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 22:00:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Militarization of North American Life
Message-ID: <BDD8E8AA-AEB3-4764-BD3E-0BB720B6675C@att.net>

(Better living through military spending? I was taught that one of the main causes of WW l was so many new weapons were being built by the industrialized nations that it became imperative for a war to start. Just one spark - at Sarajevo - was needed to set it off. Isn't that what we're doing today? The war in Syria is being fought by weapons built in Russia and the U.S. We are a major arms supplier to over half the world. We already know what happens when you give a loaded gun to a child. The NRA shills for the gun manufacturers and, the State Dept. shills for our "Defense" Industry.  M.S.)  

The Militarization of North American Life

I live in Bath, Maine where Navy Aegis destroyers are built.  These ships are outfitted with so-called ?missile defense? systems that the Pentagon is today using to help surround Russia and China.  Few people in my community, including some activists, are interested in where these ships go (places like Jeju Island in South Korea.)  It?s not popular to raise these questions ? especially when Bath Iron Works is the largest industrial employer in our state.

In fact today weapons are the number one industrial export product of the US.  And when weapons are your number one industrial export product, what is your global marketing strategy for that product line? What does it say about the soul of our nation when we have to keep selling weapons and killing people in order to provide jobs?
The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the public a window into the stunning militarization of our nation. During that incident the entire domestic surveillance/military response system was field-tested and culminated in the dramatic closing down of an entire urban center.
 
We have become an occupied nation.  For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the US have benefited from the government?s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training.
 
Obama has announced that 30,000 drones will be flying around the US in the coming years.  Thirty-seven states have applied to host one of six military drone test sites planned across the country.  Much debate has begun in local communities about whether police should be required to have warrants before they can snoop on us with drones.  Should domestic drones be allowed to carry weapons? 

More than 500 aerospace companies are eager to develop this new drone market across the US.  The drone industry lawyers say we have nothing to fear ? that all we have to do is ask local police and they will be transparent about their drone use. 

Infrared and radio-band sensors used by the military can peer through clouds and foliage and can even detect and hear people inside their homes. During the last few years of the US military occupation of Iraq, drones monitored Baghdad 24/7, turning the entire city into the equivalent of a convenience store crammed full of security cameras. This technology is being brought home to control us.

There is a $2 billion, 1-million-square-foot facility being built by the National Security Agency outside Salt Lake City. It?s a phone, fax, email, data storage and analysis warehouse called Utah Data Station - everything about the facility is secret. It is scheduled to open this summer. 

Today drones buzzing over Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Mali are ?flown? by pilots back in the US at places like Creech AFB, Nevada or Hancock Air Field, New York.  This is possible because the military satellites in orbit link the pilot to the drone in ?real time? - split-second time.  Space Command downlink ground stations spread around the globe help relay those signals.  The Pentagon brags that this high-tech warfare increases ?the kill chain?.
 
In a way, you could call the military satellites the ?triggers? that make the drones work.  These satellites allow the military to see everything, hear everything, and to target virtually every place on the planet.

In June 2012 the second flight of the new military space plane (X-37) touched down at Vandenberg AFB after 469 days in orbit.  This unmanned super drone is a first-strike attack system, part of the Global Strike doctrine now underway at the Strategic Command.  In annual computer war games at the Space Command, set in the year 2016, the Pentagon launches a first-strike attack on China?s nuclear forces and this new military space plane is the first weapon used.  It?s called the ?successor? to the recently retired space shuttle, which was paraded through streets of Los Angeles in late 2012?. 400 trees were cut down to prepare its red carpeted path to a waiting museum.  It is the perfect symbol of our worship of the gods of metal.  Technology trumps nature.
 
A friend in Maine has a son who recently spent a year in Afghanistan; my friend worried every day.  His son was then sent to Germany and he could breathe a sigh of relief.  The son thought about getting out of the military but there are no jobs.  The Army offered him a sizeable reenlistment bonus and he took it.
 
In the US today 57% of every federal discretionary tax dollar goes (to the Pentagon) to fund the cancerous war machine.  Our communities have become addicted to military spending.  There is virtually no money for anything else these days as we witness austerity cuts in social programs like so many other nations around the globe.  
 
Colorado Springs, Colorado headquarters of the Air Force Space Command) has 357,000 people living there, and 47% of the population work for the military industrial complex. 
 
The aerospace and military production industry in Alabama is a major job provider as well. Huntsville, Alabama now calls itself the ?Pentagon of the South?.
 
In 1950, the U.S. Army moved former Nazi Wernher von Braun, and his team of 100 German rocket scientists, to Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville to create the US space program. Von Braun and his team also took over NASA?s Marshall Space Flight Center and helped ensure that the ?civilian? space program came under military control. The Nazi rocket team brought ?culture? to Huntsville by creating the local symphony and ballet and lived on a hill overlooking the town. 
 
Was there an ideological contamination that came with these Nazi scientists?  One can easily note the similarity between the Nazi slogan ?Deutschland uber alles? and the Space Command logo that reads ?Master of Space?. 
 
By the way, California is currently the #2 recipient of Pentagon spending in the nation.  The Republicans and Democrats now work together to ensure an endless flow of war money into their states.  They understand that it?s the only game in town anymore for creating jobs.  Both parties get nicely rewarded with campaign donations from the weapons industry.
 
An activist friend in Halifax, Nova Scotia is now organizing weekly protests outside a shipyard in her community that has begun building expensive new warships for the Canadian Navy.  The funding for warship building has necessitated cuts in human needs programs.  ?Progressive? political parties are going along with this largest military appropriation in Canada?s history because of the jobs issue. (The ships will be used by NATO to control the melting Arctic Region on behalf of big oil.)

The Pentagon says that our role in the US under corporate globalization of the world economy will be ?Security export? ? thus we won?t have conventional jobs making products useful to our communities. Instead we will build weapons for endless war and send our kids overseas to die for the oil corporations.

A couple years ago I heard that the Sears department store had a new kids clothing line so I went to see it in a nearby town. Military uniforms for young boys were on the racks ? the message ?this is all you can ever be? ? it?s youth mind colonization.

The military industrial complex has become the primary resource extraction service for corporate globalization and is preparing the future generations for their dead end street.

In the US, approximately 40% of all scientists, engineers and technical professionals currently work in the military sector. This is a colossal waste of talent and intellectual resources as we face the coming reality of climate change.
 
Due to the fiscal crisis across the nation engineering, computer science, mathematics, astronomy, and chemistry departments in colleges and universities have become increasingly dependent on Pentagon funding.  At the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque there are ?top secret? areas on campus these days.
 
The Defense Alliance in St. Paul, Minnesota seeks to expand the weapons industry?s presence in higher education, and among its members are military contractors like Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics.
 
The Navy granted the University of Minnesota?s Center for Transportation Studies $150,000 to look into improving tracking, surveillance and intelligence communications systems.
 
In 2011 the University of Minnesota reported the Pentagon was trying to ?restrict? the open publishing of research resulting from a military-funded project.  This indicates quite clearly that the Pentagon is not really trying to further the state of education but instead views the students and faculty as nothing more than military production workers doing classified work.

The militarization of everything around us is a spiritual sickness.  Lakota holy man Lame Deer talked about the green frog skin ? the dollar bill ? and how the white man was blinded by his love for the paper money.  His spiritual connection to the Mother Earth was broken. 

Abolitionist Frederick Douglas reminded us that power concedes nothing without a demand, it never did and it never will.  When it comes to our current dark evil economic system, called militarism, we should be talking about its conversion and the jobs that would result from that transformation.

Good jobs can be created by home weatherization, building rail systems, creating a solar society, and hiring unemployed workers to plant town and city organic gardens.  As we transform our industrial base we lessen the impact of the military machine on our lives and help deal with our major environmental crisis. 

There is no other way to pay for such a redirection without massive cuts in the war machine budget now.
 
Join me in saying ?? US out of North America!
 

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
PO Box 652
Brunswick, ME 04011
(207) 443-9502
globalnet at mindspring.com
www.space4peace.org 
http://space4peace.blogspot.com/  (blog)

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun  3 22:13:34 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 22:13:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Good Business.
Message-ID: <AE60579F-D5F1-4CB4-AF93-7A0710DB19DD@att.net>

The secret to a successful business is to make you pay for something that used to be free. 
It may not be in my lifetime (hopefully) but some day people will have to buy clean air.

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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Tue Jun  4 11:03:10 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:03:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Hello from PBI conference
Message-ID: <8ECF7484-B9A5-4E79-A069-85C03CC06C25@gmail.com>

Agnes and Jessie Lee traveled down to San Rafael Saturday 1 June to attend the 2013 Public Banking Institute conference - Funding the New Economy.  Conference is 2-4 June ending this afternoon about 4 p.m.

It is being really, really wonderful for us.  Many attendees, great speakers and presenters, tremendous ideas and encouragements and appreciations.  Best of all, the message:  
 /WE ARE NOT ALONE!!!/

It is awesome to be here and be immersed in this milieu.  Dominican Univ is a beautiful small campus and people have been very welcoming.  Things have been going along pretty well for the most part.

We will have a lot more to report when we get back and can use the program and Agnes's extensive notes to share as much as we can.  Dan Hamburg participated on a panel Monday eve of elected people or staff of municipal gov't talking about getting grass roots change going.  

Whole conference is being live streamed and recorded so there may be DVD's for sale some time soon.

Anyway - we're having a grand time.  Homeward Wednesday morning.

Best to all
Jessie Lee
"The Time is always right to do the right thing."  MLK Jr.

From annxpress at live.com  Wed Jun  5 08:14:27 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 08:14:27 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: AlterNet: Bradley Manning Trial: WikiLeaks
 Lawyer Sees Spurious "Enemy" Claims and Bid to Scare Whistleblowers
In-Reply-To: <20130605150012.37085A40A2@vps717.getcadre.com>
References: <20130605150012.37085A40A2@vps717.getcadre.com>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W7567B426C8494FECAA685CDD9F0@phx.gbl>


 
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: AlterNet: Bradley Manning Trial: WikiLeaks Lawyer Sees Spurious "Enemy" Claims and Bid to Scare Whistleblowers
From: annxpress at live.com
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:00:12 -0400

This story has been forwarded to you from

http://www.alternet.org by annxpress at live.com





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Bradley Manning Trial: WikiLeaks Lawyer Sees Spurious "Enemy"
Claims and Bid to Scare Whistleblowers

http://www.alternet.org/world/bradley-manning-trial-wikileaks-lawyer-sees-spurious-enemy-claims-and-bid-scare-whistleblowers



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun  5 09:50:44 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:50:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senator Elizabeth Warren's bill to lower student
	loan interest rates.
Message-ID: <EAC297D4-D199-4C4F-A897-43F7BD0D1A88@mcn.org>


URGENT: The Senate is expected to vote this week on important student loan reform legislation. Your senators need to hear from you: Send them a note right now asking them to support Senator Elizabeth Warren's bill to lower student loan interest rates.

Richard,

Just a few weeks ago, I sat in my cap and gown with thousands of other graduating students. As our parents applauded, speaker after speaker told us, "You're going to change the world!" It was a nice change of pace -- every other day, I hear about how my generation is made up of "lazy, entitled narcissists" [1] who spend all of our time posting photos of ourselves on Facebook.

But a lot of us were wondering how we're going to change the world when we're saddled with mountains of debt. Student debt now tops $1 trillion nationwide, and if we do nothing, student loan interest rates will double in less than a month.

That's why I'm spending this summer organizing to stop the student debt crisis. The first step is to make Congress pass Senator Elizabeth Warren's awesome new bill, the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act, which would cut student loan interest rates to the same super-low rate big banks pay when they borrow from the government.

The Senate will be voting on key student loan legislation this week. Join me, Working Families, and Democracy for America in sending a message to your senators today, urging them to support Senator Warren's bill.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun  5 14:24:59 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 14:24:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Get the Fracking out of here!
Message-ID: <7A8A12D9-E20C-4683-9CFD-C148D2863B47@mcn.org>

Sign an anti fracking petition.

http://civic.moveon.org/fax/oneoffs/index_1937.html?cp_id=1937&id=69005-11588-PgXdV5x




Or, send a fax

Click below to fax Governor Brown:
Governor Brown has the power to stop fracking from polluting California's water and air.

Click the button below to send a free fax urging Gov. Brown to ban fracking in California?to protect our drinking water, our air quality, our farmland, and the climate.



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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Jun  5 20:05:07 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 20:05:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Educate the constituents of Mendocino County
Message-ID: <6c807f673a0eefb80f9e54123909ff33.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

     Hi Occupy,
This is an important fact I learned at the Public Banking Conference with
a panel of elected officials, at which Supervisor Dan Hamburg spoke and he
took note of this. If we vote to become a charter county we can establish
a public bank without violating the CA Constitution.Yes!!!

Cheers!
Agnes



Oakland / Alameda County

Kathe, did you hear S. F. County Supervisor Avalos' announcement of the
opinion by the county counsel? Charter cities, if they establish a public
bank, are not in violation of the CA Constitution. O... read more ?

Kathe Welch and Marc Armstrong contributed to this conversation.



From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Wed Jun  5 21:37:29 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 00:37:29 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Educate the constituents of Mendocino County
In-Reply-To: <6c807f673a0eefb80f9e54123909ff33.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
References: <6c807f673a0eefb80f9e54123909ff33.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt4JQDyqeeQE-84Zr4Y5CH18evsWnKoBxUjeOYYKmrcEDA@mail.gmail.com>

Dear All,

    Although charter cities seem like a good idea giving more power to the
people, would Ft. Bragg, Ukiah, Point Arena, etc., all need to have their
own city public bank?    I thought the information on the legality of
public banks indicated that a public  bank is not contrary to state law, as
determined by the Supreme Court in l9l8 (I think that was the year).

Isn't that a better way to go with a Mendocino County Bank?

                  Peace and blessings,  Ellen

Foundational Aspects of Charter Cities

*What is the Constitutional Framework for Charter Cities?*

Article XI, section 3(a) of the California Constitution authorizes the
adoption of a city charter and provides such a charter has the force and
effect of state law. Article XI, section 5(a), the "home rule" provision,
affirmatively grants to charter cities supremacy over "municipal affairs."
However, the California Constitution does not define the term "municipal
affair."

*What are "Municipal Affairs?"*

The home rule provision of the California Constitution authorizes a charter
city to exercise plenary authority over municipal affairs, free from any
constraint imposed by the general law and subject only to constitutional
limitations. *See *Cal. Const. art. XI ? 5(a); *Ex Parte Braun*, 141 Cal.
204, 209 (1903)*; Bishop v. City of San Jose*, 1 Cal. 3d 56, 61 (1969); *Comm.
of Seven Thousand v. Super. Ct. (City of Irvine)*, 45 Cal.3d 491 (1988).

*How Do the Courts Distinguish Between Municipal and Statewide Concerns?*

Whether a given activity is a municipal affair over which a city has
sovereignty, or a statewide concern, over which the legislature has
authority, is a legal determination for the courts to resolve. Thus, the
determination of whether a given activity is a municipal affair or
statewide concern is done on a case-by-case basis. The court's
determination will depend on the particular facts and circumstances of each
case. *See In Re Hubbard*, 62 Cal. 2d 119, 128 (1964). Keep in mind that
the concept of "municipal affairs" is a fluid one that changes over time as
local issues become statewide concerns. *See Issac v. City of Los Angeles*,
66 Cal. App. 4th 586 (1998).

*What Activities Have the Courts Classified As Municipal Affairs?*

There are some areas that the courts have consistently classified as
municipal affairs. Examples include the following:

Municipal Election Matters. *See Mackey v. Thiel*, 262 Cal. App. 2d 362
(1968). Procedures for Initiative, Referendum and Recall. *See Lawing v.
Faul*, 227 Cal.

App. 2d 23, 29 (1964).

Procedures for Adopting Ordinances. *See Brougher v. Board of Public Works*,
205 Cal. 426 (1928).

Compensation of City Officers and Employees. Cal. Const. art. XI, ? 5(b); *See
Sonoma County Organization of Public Employees v. County of Sonoma*, 23
Cal. 3d 296 (1979); *but see San Leandro Police Officers Association v.
City of San Leandro*, 55 Cal. App. 3d 553 (1976) (labor relations is not a
municipal affair; Charter cities are subject to the Meyers-Milias Brown
Act. Cal. Gov?t Code ? 3500.

Processes Associated with City Contracts. *See First Street Plaza Partners
v. City of Los Angeles*, 65 Cal. App. 4th 650 (1998); *but see Domar
Electric, Inc. v. Cityof Los Angeles*, 41 Cal. App. 4th 810 (1995) (state
law establishing employment policy may preempt local regulation of bidding
criteria).

Financing Public Improvements. *See City of Santa Monica v. Grubb*, 245
Cal. App. 2d 718 (1996).

Making Charitable Gifts of Public Funds for Public Purposes*. See *Cal.
Const. art. XVI, ? 6; *Tevis v. City and County of San Francisco*, 43 Cal.
2d 190 (1954).

Term Limits for Council Members. *See Cawdrey v. City of Redondo Beach*, 15
Cal. App. 4th 1212 (1993); *but see *Cal. Gov't Code ? 36502(b) (regulating
term limits).

Land Use and Zoning Decisions (with a few exceptions). *See Brougher v. Bd.
of Pub. Works*, 205 Cal. 426 (1928).

*What Activities Have the Courts Classified as Statewide Concerns?*

The following have consistently been classified by the courts as matters of
statewide concern:

School Systems. *Whisman v. San Francisco Unified Sch. Dist.*, 86 Cal. App.
3d 782, 789 (1978).

Traffic and Vehicle Regulation. Cal. Veh. Code ? 21. Licensing of Members
of a Trade or Profession. *City and County of San*

*Francisco v. Boss*, 83 Cal. App. 2d 445 (1948). Tort Claims Against a
Governmental Entity. *Helbach v. City of Long Beach*, 50

Cal. App. 2d 242, 247 (1942).

Open and Public Meetings. Ralph M. Brown Act. Cal. Gov?t Code ?? 54951,
54953(a).

Exercise of the Power of Eminent Domain. *Wilson v Beville*, 47 Cal. 2d
852, 856 (1957).

*What is a Charter?*

A city charter is a unique document that, in many ways, acts like a
constitution for the city adopting it. It can only be adopted, amended or
repealed by a majority vote of a city's voters. The primary advantage of a
charter is that it allows greater authority for a city?s governance than
that provided by state law. For example, a city may tailor its organization
and elective offices, taking into account the unique local conditions and
needs of the community.

A charter transfers the power to adopt legislation affecting municipal
affairs from the state legislature to the city adopting it. A city
operating under a charter can acquire full control over its municipal
affairs. These affairs are unaffected by the general laws

passed by the state legislature on the same subject matters. This, in
effect, gives the local voters more control over their local government and
the affairs of the city. However, a city operating under a charter is still
subject to the general laws, as passed by the state legislature, on affairs
that are not municipal in nature, and are of statewide concern (e.g.,
California Vehicle Code).

It is the scope of the term "municipal affairs" that provides the
opportunity for uncertainty. No easy analytical test exists. The threshold
issue is whether there is a conflict between state law and a charter city
enactment. The next issue is whether the state regulation addressed an
issue of "state wide concern." Courts analyze these conflicts on a case-
by-case basis.

*What is in a Charter?*

While a city charter is not required to have any particular provisions in
it, a city will often reserve for itself the greatest amount of power it
can when it adopts a charter. To accomplish this goal, the charter must
include a declaration that it is the intention of the city to avail itself
of the full power provided by the state constitution to charter cities.
However, the city is not required to extend the breadth of its charter any
further than it wishes.

Some of the common areas that are explicitly regulated in a charter are:
The date and conduct of city elections; Regulations on the appointment of
municipal officials; The terms and payment of municipal officials;

The process for removal of municipal officials;

Form of government;

Budget adoption;

The number, pay, qualifications, and appointment of deputies, clerks, and
other employees that each municipal officer will have;

Sub-government in all or part of the city; The tenure of office for
deputies, clerks, and other employees; The process for removal of such
deputies, clerks, and other employees; and The constitution, regulation,
and government of the local police force.

A number of California cities' charters are available online. The National
Civic League also has a model charter project.

*Process Used to Adopt a Charter*

There are two ways to draft and adopt a city charter. The first is to elect
a charter commission. The commission then has the responsibility of
debating over the provisions and the drafting of the charter. The other
alternative allows the governing board of the city, on its own motion, to
draft the charter. In either case, the charter is not adopted by the city
until it is ratified by a majority vote of the city's voters.

When using the charter commission approach, the first step is to elect the
commission. The vote to elect a charter commission is called for by either
a majority vote of the city's governing body or by a petition signed by not
less than fifteen percent of the registered voters within the city. If the
formation of a charter commission is requested by a petition, the authority
in charge of the city's registration records must verify the signatures on
the petition. The expense of this verification must be paid for by the
city's governing board. If the petition is verified, the city's governing
board must call for an election in accordance with sections 1000 and 10403
of the California Elections Code. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34452.

Once it has been decided that a charter commission election will take
place, candidates for commissioners must be nominated. Candidates for the
office of charter commissioner are nominated either in the same manner as
officers of the city or by petition. A candidate for charter commissioner
must be a registered voter of the city. After the election of
commissioners, any vacancy on the commission will be filled by a mayoral
appointment. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34452.

At an election for charter commission members, the voters will vote first
on the following question: "Shall a charter commission be elected to
propose a new charter?" After voting on this question, the voters will then
vote for the charter commission candidates. If a majority of the voters
vote for the formation of a charter commission, then the top fifteen
candidates for the office of charter commissioner will be organized as the
city's charter commission. No commission will be formed if a majority of
voters vote against the election of a charter commission. *See *Cal. Gov't
Code section 34453.

Once formed, the charter commission will have the responsibility of
developing the city's charter. After a simple majority of commissioners
have decided that the proposed charter is appropriate, they file the
charter with the city's clerk in preparation for a vote by the city's
electorate. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34455. However, instead of
sending the whole charter at once, periodically the commission may send
portions of the charter to the city's electorate for a vote. *See *Cal.
Gov't Code section 34462*.*

After the charter (or portions of it) has been filed, it must be copied in
type greater than 10 point and either mailed to all the voters of the city
or made available to those citizens who wish to review it before the
election. The city may show the difference between existing provisions of
law and the new charter through the use of distinguished type styles, but
this is not required. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34456.

After the charter has been filed with the city clerk, the city's governing
board must decide whether to call a special election or to wait until the
next established municipal election to submit the charter to the voters. If
the city's governing board determines that a special election should be
held, then they must call for that special election within 14 days of the
charter being filed. The special election must be set at least 95 days
after the date from which the special election was called. *See *Cal. Gov't
Code section 34457. In any case, the charter commission must send the
charter to the voters within two years of the vote

that formed the commission. Upon the expiration of the two-year time
period, the commission is abolished. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34462.

The alternative to electing a charter commission is to have the city's
governing board develop and draft the charter. An election to decide on the
adoption of a charter may be called by initiative or the city council. *See
*Cal. Const. art. XI, ? 3. On its own motion, the city's governing board
may propose a charter and submit it to the voters for adoption. *See *Cal.
Gov't Code section 34458. With this option, the governing board can call a
special election or allow the charter to be voted on at any established
election date, as long as that election date is at least 88 days after the
proposed charter was filed with the city clerk. *See *Cal. Gov't Code
section 34458. As a practical matter, an election may have to be called
sooner than 88 days before the election in order to meet certain notice and
ballot printing deadlines.

In either case, the majority of voters must vote in favor of the proposed
charter for it to be ratified. The charter will not go into effect until it
has been filed and accepted by the Secretary of State. *See *Cal. Gov't
Code section 34459. After a charter is approved by a majority vote of the
voters, the mayor and city clerk shall certify that the charter was
submitted to the voters of the city and that it was approved by a majority
vote. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34460. One copy of the approved charter
shall be filed with the County Recorder's office and one shall be kept in
the City's archive. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34460. A third copy of
the charter must be submitted to the Secretary of State with (1) copies of
all publications and notices in connection with the calling of the
election; (2) certified copies of any arguments for or against the charter
proposal which were mailed to the voters; (3) a certified abstract of the
vote at the election on the charter. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34460.

*How to Amend/Repeal a Charter*

If a citizens group, or the city's governing body, wishes to amend or
repeal a portion of the city's charter, the steps remain largely the same
as they are for drafting a charter. There are, however, two notable
exceptions. First, the petition calling for the repeal or amendment needs
only ten percent of the electorate's signatures, instead of the previous
fifteen percent. *See *Cal. Elec. Code sections 9215 and 9255. The other
notable difference has to do with the charter itself. A city charter may
establish different rules for the municipal elections process than those
laid out by the state legislature in the Elections Code. If this is the
case, the city's charter will govern the elections process used to appeal
or amend the city's charter, instead of the general laws laid out in the
Elections Code.


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:05 PM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:

>      Hi Occupy,
> This is an important fact I learned at the Public Banking Conference with
> a panel of elected officials, at which Supervisor Dan Hamburg spoke and he
> took note of this. If we vote to become a charter county we can establish
> a public bank without violating the CA Constitution.Yes!!!
>
> Cheers!
> Agnes
>
>
>
> Oakland / Alameda County
>
> Kathe, did you hear S. F. County Supervisor Avalos' announcement of the
> opinion by the county counsel? Charter cities, if they establish a public
> bank, are not in violation of the CA Constitution. O... read more ?
>
> Kathe Welch and Marc Armstrong contributed to this conversation.
>
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From ndevall at mcn.org  Thu Jun  6 06:05:30 2013
From: ndevall at mcn.org (Norman de Vall)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 06:05:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?A_suggestion=85=85?=
Message-ID: <D7CFF080-5607-4DA3-9927-50D53C8FB94D@mcn.org>

Why doesn't an accomplished fiscal person run for
County Treasurer?  Isn't it already functioning as a
public bank?

The Treasurer holds funds from numerous public
entities which receive revenues through property 
taxes and loans out the money (usually to the banks)
on a one day or more basis.

When the County issues a bond, (such as a Pension
Obligation bond) the County issues the bond but 
usually not to members of the community or public.
The Bank of Ireland purchased $75m of the last 
issue.

During the apartheid years in South Africa I asked then Treasurer
Irene Lange to stop our assisting the Bank of America which was
supporting the practice at the time.  

The BofA interest rate offer was higher than competitive banks
and the County continued to loan to the bank which supported apartheid.

When the Treasuer supports Public Banking were half way there.

Norman



From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jun  6 08:11:59 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:11:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: A Letter to Verizon Customers from
	President Obama
Message-ID: <E8761C66-7E5F-4EF5-95F5-99B5F5482A43@att.net>

A LETTER TO VERIZON CUSTOMERS


WASHINGTON?Today, President Obama issued the following letter to all Verizon customers:

Dear Verizon Customers,

Yesterday it came to light that the National Security Agency has been collecting millions of phone records from you each and every day. Since that news was released, many of you have called the White House with questions and concerns about this new program. To save my time and yours, here are answers to three of the F.A.Q.s (Frequently Asked Questions) we?ve been hearing from you:

1. Will I be charged extra for this service?

I?m happy to say that the answer is no. While the harvesting and surveillance of your domestic phone calls were not a part of your original Verizon service contract, the National Security Agency is providing this service entirely free of charge.

2. If I add a phone to my account, will those calls also be monitored?

Once again, the answer is good news. If you want to add a child or any other family member to your Verizon account, their phone calls?whom they called, when, and the duration of the call?will all be monitored by the United States government, at no additional cost.

3. Can the National Security Agency help me understand my Verizon bill?

Unfortunately, no. The National Security Agency has tried, but failed, to understand Verizon?s bills. Pease call Verizon customer service and follow the series of electronic prompts.

I hope I?ve helped clear up some of the confusion about this exciting new program. But if you have any further questions, please don?t hesitate to call the White House. Joe Biden is standing by.

God bless America,

President Obama



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From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 15:30:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bradley Manning trial with sketch of him by Kay
	Rudin
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http://readersupportednews.org/trial-of-bradley-manning

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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jun  6 15:42:00 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 15:42:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: Educate the constituents of
	Mendocino County]]
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---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: RE: [Fwd: Educate the constituents of Mendocino County]
From:    "Dan Hamburg" <vote at pacific.net>
Date:    Thu, June 6, 2013 1:22 pm
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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our county counsel thinks that only charter counties can sponsor a public
bank

that's what we need to confirm...Sup. Avalos is sending me the opinion of
the SF city attorney whose opinion was that charter cities can utilize
public banks

-----Original Message-----
From: agnes at mcn.org [mailto:agnes at mcn.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:03 AM
To: vote at pacific.net
Subject: [Fwd: Educate the constituents of Mendocino County]

Dan,
      Does this information apply to counties, as in charter county?
Agnes-


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Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] Educate the constituents of Mendocino County
From:    "ELLEN ROSSER" <ellen.rosser at gmail.com>
Date:    Wed, June 5, 2013 9:37 pm
To:      "agnes" <agnes at mcn.org>
Cc:      "occupymendocino" <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>
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Dear All,

    Although charter cities seem like a good idea giving more power to the
people, would Ft. Bragg, Ukiah, Point Arena, etc., all need to have their
own city public bank?    I thought the information on the legality of
public banks indicated that a public  bank is not contrary to state law, as
determined by the Supreme Court in l9l8 (I think that was the year).

Isn't that a better way to go with a Mendocino County Bank?

                  Peace and blessings,  Ellen

Foundational Aspects of Charter Cities

*What is the Constitutional Framework for Charter Cities?*

Article XI, section 3(a) of the California Constitution authorizes the
adoption of a city charter and provides such a charter has the force and
effect of state law. Article XI, section 5(a), the "home rule" provision,
affirmatively grants to charter cities supremacy over "municipal affairs."
However, the California Constitution does not define the term "municipal
affair."

*What are "Municipal Affairs?"*

The home rule provision of the California Constitution authorizes a charter
city to exercise plenary authority over municipal affairs, free from any
constraint imposed by the general law and subject only to constitutional
limitations. *See *Cal. Const. art. XI ? 5(a); *Ex Parte Braun*, 141 Cal.
204, 209 (1903)*; Bishop v. City of San Jose*, 1 Cal. 3d 56, 61 (1969);
*Comm.
of Seven Thousand v. Super. Ct. (City of Irvine)*, 45 Cal.3d 491 (1988).

*How Do the Courts Distinguish Between Municipal and Statewide Concerns?*

Whether a given activity is a municipal affair over which a city has
sovereignty, or a statewide concern, over which the legislature has
authority, is a legal determination for the courts to resolve. Thus, the
determination of whether a given activity is a municipal affair or statewide
concern is done on a case-by-case basis. The court's determination will
depend on the particular facts and circumstances of each case. *See In Re
Hubbard*, 62 Cal. 2d 119, 128 (1964). Keep in mind that the concept of
"municipal affairs" is a fluid one that changes over time as local issues
become statewide concerns. *See Issac v. City of Los Angeles*,
66 Cal. App. 4th 586 (1998).

*What Activities Have the Courts Classified As Municipal Affairs?*

There are some areas that the courts have consistently classified as
municipal affairs. Examples include the following:

Municipal Election Matters. *See Mackey v. Thiel*, 262 Cal. App. 2d 362
(1968). Procedures for Initiative, Referendum and Recall. *See Lawing v.
Faul*, 227 Cal.

App. 2d 23, 29 (1964).

Procedures for Adopting Ordinances. *See Brougher v. Board of Public Works*,
205 Cal. 426 (1928).

Compensation of City Officers and Employees. Cal. Const. art. XI, ? 5(b);
*See Sonoma County Organization of Public Employees v. County of Sonoma*, 23
Cal. 3d 296 (1979); *but see San Leandro Police Officers Association v.
City of San Leandro*, 55 Cal. App. 3d 553 (1976) (labor relations is not a
municipal affair; Charter cities are subject to the Meyers-Milias Brown Act.
Cal. Gov?t Code ? 3500.

Processes Associated with City Contracts. *See First Street Plaza Partners
v. City of Los Angeles*, 65 Cal. App. 4th 650 (1998); *but see Domar
Electric, Inc. v. Cityof Los Angeles*, 41 Cal. App. 4th 810 (1995) (state
law establishing employment policy may preempt local regulation of bidding
criteria).

Financing Public Improvements. *See City of Santa Monica v. Grubb*, 245 Cal.
App. 2d 718 (1996).

Making Charitable Gifts of Public Funds for Public Purposes*. See *Cal.
Const. art. XVI, ? 6; *Tevis v. City and County of San Francisco*, 43 Cal.
2d 190 (1954).

Term Limits for Council Members. *See Cawdrey v. City of Redondo Beach*, 15
Cal. App. 4th 1212 (1993); *but see *Cal. Gov't Code ? 36502(b) (regulating
term limits).

Land Use and Zoning Decisions (with a few exceptions). *See Brougher v. Bd.
of Pub. Works*, 205 Cal. 426 (1928).

*What Activities Have the Courts Classified as Statewide Concerns?*

The following have consistently been classified by the courts as matters of
statewide concern:

School Systems. *Whisman v. San Francisco Unified Sch. Dist.*, 86 Cal. App.
3d 782, 789 (1978).

Traffic and Vehicle Regulation. Cal. Veh. Code ? 21. Licensing of Members of
a Trade or Profession. *City and County of San*

*Francisco v. Boss*, 83 Cal. App. 2d 445 (1948). Tort Claims Against a
Governmental Entity. *Helbach v. City of Long Beach*, 50

Cal. App. 2d 242, 247 (1942).

Open and Public Meetings. Ralph M. Brown Act. Cal. Gov?t Code ?? 54951,
54953(a).

Exercise of the Power of Eminent Domain. *Wilson v Beville*, 47 Cal. 2d 852,
856 (1957).

*What is a Charter?*

A city charter is a unique document that, in many ways, acts like a
constitution for the city adopting it. It can only be adopted, amended or
repealed by a majority vote of a city's voters. The primary advantage of a
charter is that it allows greater authority for a city?s governance than
that provided by state law. For example, a city may tailor its organization
and elective offices, taking into account the unique local conditions and
needs of the community.

A charter transfers the power to adopt legislation affecting municipal
affairs from the state legislature to the city adopting it. A city operating
under a charter can acquire full control over its municipal affairs. These
affairs are unaffected by the general laws

passed by the state legislature on the same subject matters. This, in
effect, gives the local voters more control over their local government and
the affairs of the city. However, a city operating under a charter is still
subject to the general laws, as passed by the state legislature, on affairs
that are not municipal in nature, and are of statewide concern (e.g.,
California Vehicle Code).

It is the scope of the term "municipal affairs" that provides the
opportunity for uncertainty. No easy analytical test exists. The threshold
issue is whether there is a conflict between state law and a charter city
enactment. The next issue is whether the state regulation addressed an issue
of "state wide concern." Courts analyze these conflicts on a case- by-case
basis.

*What is in a Charter?*

While a city charter is not required to have any particular provisions in
it, a city will often reserve for itself the greatest amount of power it can
when it adopts a charter. To accomplish this goal, the charter must include
a declaration that it is the intention of the city to avail itself of the
full power provided by the state constitution to charter cities.
However, the city is not required to extend the breadth of its charter any
further than it wishes.

Some of the common areas that are explicitly regulated in a charter are:
The date and conduct of city elections; Regulations on the appointment of
municipal officials; The terms and payment of municipal officials;

The process for removal of municipal officials;

Form of government;

Budget adoption;

The number, pay, qualifications, and appointment of deputies, clerks, and
other employees that each municipal officer will have;

Sub-government in all or part of the city; The tenure of office for
deputies, clerks, and other employees; The process for removal of such
deputies, clerks, and other employees; and The constitution, regulation, and
government of the local police force.

A number of California cities' charters are available online. The National
Civic League also has a model charter project.

*Process Used to Adopt a Charter*

There are two ways to draft and adopt a city charter. The first is to elect
a charter commission. The commission then has the responsibility of debating
over the provisions and the drafting of the charter. The other alternative
allows the governing board of the city, on its own motion, to draft the
charter. In either case, the charter is not adopted by the city until it is
ratified by a majority vote of the city's voters.

When using the charter commission approach, the first step is to elect the
commission. The vote to elect a charter commission is called for by either a
majority vote of the city's governing body or by a petition signed by not
less than fifteen percent of the registered voters within the city. If the
formation of a charter commission is requested by a petition, the authority
in charge of the city's registration records must verify the signatures on
the petition. The expense of this verification must be paid for by the
city's governing board. If the petition is verified, the city's governing
board must call for an election in accordance with sections 1000 and 10403
of the California Elections Code. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34452.

Once it has been decided that a charter commission election will take place,
candidates for commissioners must be nominated. Candidates for the office of
charter commissioner are nominated either in the same manner as officers of
the city or by petition. A candidate for charter commissioner must be a
registered voter of the city. After the election of commissioners, any
vacancy on the commission will be filled by a mayoral appointment. *See
*Cal. Gov't Code section 34452.

At an election for charter commission members, the voters will vote first on
the following question: "Shall a charter commission be elected to propose a
new charter?" After voting on this question, the voters will then vote for
the charter commission candidates. If a majority of the voters vote for the
formation of a charter commission, then the top fifteen candidates for the
office of charter commissioner will be organized as the city's charter
commission. No commission will be formed if a majority of voters vote
against the election of a charter commission. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section
34453.

Once formed, the charter commission will have the responsibility of
developing the city's charter. After a simple majority of commissioners have
decided that the proposed charter is appropriate, they file the charter with
the city's clerk in preparation for a vote by the city's electorate. *See
*Cal. Gov't Code section 34455. However, instead of sending the whole
charter at once, periodically the commission may send portions of the
charter to the city's electorate for a vote. *See *Cal.
Gov't Code section 34462*.*

After the charter (or portions of it) has been filed, it must be copied in
type greater than 10 point and either mailed to all the voters of the city
or made available to those citizens who wish to review it before the
election. The city may show the difference between existing provisions of
law and the new charter through the use of distinguished type styles, but
this is not required. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34456.

After the charter has been filed with the city clerk, the city's governing
board must decide whether to call a special election or to wait until the
next established municipal election to submit the charter to the voters. If
the city's governing board determines that a special election should be
held, then they must call for that special election within 14 days of the
charter being filed. The special election must be set at least 95 days after
the date from which the special election was called. *See *Cal. Gov't Code
section 34457. In any case, the charter commission must send the charter to
the voters within two years of the vote

that formed the commission. Upon the expiration of the two-year time period,
the commission is abolished. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34462.

The alternative to electing a charter commission is to have the city's
governing board develop and draft the charter. An election to decide on the
adoption of a charter may be called by initiative or the city council. *See
*Cal. Const. art. XI, ? 3. On its own motion, the city's governing board may
propose a charter and submit it to the voters for adoption. *See *Cal.
Gov't Code section 34458. With this option, the governing board can call a
special election or allow the charter to be voted on at any established
election date, as long as that election date is at least 88 days after the
proposed charter was filed with the city clerk. *See *Cal. Gov't Code
section 34458. As a practical matter, an election may have to be called
sooner than 88 days before the election in order to meet certain notice and
ballot printing deadlines.

In either case, the majority of voters must vote in favor of the proposed
charter for it to be ratified. The charter will not go into effect until it
has been filed and accepted by the Secretary of State. *See *Cal. Gov't Code
section 34459. After a charter is approved by a majority vote of the voters,
the mayor and city clerk shall certify that the charter was submitted to the
voters of the city and that it was approved by a majority vote. *See *Cal.
Gov't Code section 34460. One copy of the approved charter shall be filed
with the County Recorder's office and one shall be kept in the City's
archive. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34460. A third copy of the charter
must be submitted to the Secretary of State with (1) copies of all
publications and notices in connection with the calling of the election; (2)
certified copies of any arguments for or against the charter proposal which
were mailed to the voters; (3) a certified abstract of the vote at the
election on the charter. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34460.

*How to Amend/Repeal a Charter*

If a citizens group, or the city's governing body, wishes to amend or repeal
a portion of the city's charter, the steps remain largely the same as they
are for drafting a charter. There are, however, two notable exceptions.
First, the petition calling for the repeal or amendment needs only ten
percent of the electorate's signatures, instead of the previous fifteen
percent. *See *Cal. Elec. Code sections 9215 and 9255. The other notable
difference has to do with the charter itself. A city charter may establish
different rules for the municipal elections process than those laid out by
the state legislature in the Elections Code. If this is the case, the city's
charter will govern the elections process used to appeal or amend the city's
charter, instead of the general laws laid out in the Elections Code.


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:05 PM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:

>      Hi Occupy,
> This is an important fact I learned at the Public Banking Conference
> with a panel of elected officials, at which Supervisor Dan Hamburg
> spoke and he took note of this. If we vote to become a charter county
> we can establish a public bank without violating the CA
Constitution.Yes!!!
>
> Cheers!
> Agnes
>
>
>
> Oakland / Alameda County
>
> Kathe, did you hear S. F. County Supervisor Avalos' announcement of
> the opinion by the county counsel? Charter cities, if they establish a
> public bank, are not in violation of the CA Constitution. O... read
> more ?
>
> Kathe Welch and Marc Armstrong contributed to this conversation.
>
>
>
> 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 rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jun  6 19:27:10 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 19:27:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Democracy Now Manning Trial Video  June 4
Message-ID: <2A4A94E8-A382-4C37-AD3C-EF9DB2FDE0ED@mcn.org>

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/4/bradley_manning_trial_wikileaks_lawyer_sees?autostart=true&get_clicky_key=suggested_related

The military trial of Army whistleblower Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, Maryland, began Monday with the defense and prosecution presenting starkly contrasting accounts. Manning is accused of giving a cache of diplomatic cables and government documents to WikiLeaks in the largest leak of state secrets in U.S. history. The military prosecutor, Captain Joe Morrow, accused Manning of "dumping" hundreds of thousands of documents "into the lap of the enemy," and painted a picture of close ties between Manning and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Manning?s defense lawyer, David Coombs, said Manning wanted to reveal the human cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. "He believed [the leaked] information showed how we value human life," Coombs said. "He was troubled by that. He believed that if the American public saw it, they too would be troubled." We?re joined by Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a lawyer to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. Ratner attended the opening session of Manning?s trial.
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Thu Jun  6 21:32:48 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 00:32:48 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: RE: [Fwd: Educate the constituents of
 Mendocino County]]
In-Reply-To: <1efe2afe42add18734e658229395b86f.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
References: <1efe2afe42add18734e658229395b86f.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt5254HvJjSH2miY5BKnUaaWhDEf31R8XJeP328RNXHhbw@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Agnes and All,
     If Tehama, CA, can be a charter county, so can we!   Can the BOS put
it on the next ballot?
          Peace and blessings,  Ellen


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:42 PM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:

> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: RE: [Fwd: Educate the constituents of Mendocino County]
> From:    "Dan Hamburg" <vote at pacific.net>
> Date:    Thu, June 6, 2013 1:22 pm
> To:      agnes at mcn.org
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> our county counsel thinks that only charter counties can sponsor a public
> bank
>
> that's what we need to confirm...Sup. Avalos is sending me the opinion of
> the SF city attorney whose opinion was that charter cities can utilize
> public banks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: agnes at mcn.org [mailto:agnes at mcn.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:03 AM
> To: vote at pacific.net
> Subject: [Fwd: Educate the constituents of Mendocino County]
>
> Dan,
>       Does this information apply to counties, as in charter county?
> Agnes-
>
>
> --------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] Educate the constituents of Mendocino County
> From:    "ELLEN ROSSER" <ellen.rosser at gmail.com>
> Date:    Wed, June 5, 2013 9:37 pm
> To:      "agnes" <agnes at mcn.org>
> Cc:      "occupymendocino" <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear All,
>
>     Although charter cities seem like a good idea giving more power to the
> people, would Ft. Bragg, Ukiah, Point Arena, etc., all need to have their
> own city public bank?    I thought the information on the legality of
> public banks indicated that a public  bank is not contrary to state law, as
> determined by the Supreme Court in l9l8 (I think that was the year).
>
> Isn't that a better way to go with a Mendocino County Bank?
>
>                   Peace and blessings,  Ellen
>
> Foundational Aspects of Charter Cities
>
> *What is the Constitutional Framework for Charter Cities?*
>
> Article XI, section 3(a) of the California Constitution authorizes the
> adoption of a city charter and provides such a charter has the force and
> effect of state law. Article XI, section 5(a), the "home rule" provision,
> affirmatively grants to charter cities supremacy over "municipal affairs."
> However, the California Constitution does not define the term "municipal
> affair."
>
> *What are "Municipal Affairs?"*
>
> The home rule provision of the California Constitution authorizes a charter
> city to exercise plenary authority over municipal affairs, free from any
> constraint imposed by the general law and subject only to constitutional
> limitations. *See *Cal. Const. art. XI ? 5(a); *Ex Parte Braun*, 141 Cal.
> 204, 209 (1903)*; Bishop v. City of San Jose*, 1 Cal. 3d 56, 61 (1969);
> *Comm.
> of Seven Thousand v. Super. Ct. (City of Irvine)*, 45 Cal.3d 491 (1988).
>
> *How Do the Courts Distinguish Between Municipal and Statewide Concerns?*
>
> Whether a given activity is a municipal affair over which a city has
> sovereignty, or a statewide concern, over which the legislature has
> authority, is a legal determination for the courts to resolve. Thus, the
> determination of whether a given activity is a municipal affair or
> statewide
> concern is done on a case-by-case basis. The court's determination will
> depend on the particular facts and circumstances of each case. *See In Re
> Hubbard*, 62 Cal. 2d 119, 128 (1964). Keep in mind that the concept of
> "municipal affairs" is a fluid one that changes over time as local issues
> become statewide concerns. *See Issac v. City of Los Angeles*,
> 66 Cal. App. 4th 586 (1998).
>
> *What Activities Have the Courts Classified As Municipal Affairs?*
>
> There are some areas that the courts have consistently classified as
> municipal affairs. Examples include the following:
>
> Municipal Election Matters. *See Mackey v. Thiel*, 262 Cal. App. 2d 362
> (1968). Procedures for Initiative, Referendum and Recall. *See Lawing v.
> Faul*, 227 Cal.
>
> App. 2d 23, 29 (1964).
>
> Procedures for Adopting Ordinances. *See Brougher v. Board of Public
> Works*,
> 205 Cal. 426 (1928).
>
> Compensation of City Officers and Employees. Cal. Const. art. XI, ? 5(b);
> *See Sonoma County Organization of Public Employees v. County of Sonoma*,
> 23
> Cal. 3d 296 (1979); *but see San Leandro Police Officers Association v.
> City of San Leandro*, 55 Cal. App. 3d 553 (1976) (labor relations is not a
> municipal affair; Charter cities are subject to the Meyers-Milias Brown
> Act.
> Cal. Gov?t Code ? 3500.
>
> Processes Associated with City Contracts. *See First Street Plaza Partners
> v. City of Los Angeles*, 65 Cal. App. 4th 650 (1998); *but see Domar
> Electric, Inc. v. Cityof Los Angeles*, 41 Cal. App. 4th 810 (1995) (state
> law establishing employment policy may preempt local regulation of bidding
> criteria).
>
> Financing Public Improvements. *See City of Santa Monica v. Grubb*, 245
> Cal.
> App. 2d 718 (1996).
>
> Making Charitable Gifts of Public Funds for Public Purposes*. See *Cal.
> Const. art. XVI, ? 6; *Tevis v. City and County of San Francisco*, 43 Cal.
> 2d 190 (1954).
>
> Term Limits for Council Members. *See Cawdrey v. City of Redondo Beach*, 15
> Cal. App. 4th 1212 (1993); *but see *Cal. Gov't Code ? 36502(b) (regulating
> term limits).
>
> Land Use and Zoning Decisions (with a few exceptions). *See Brougher v. Bd.
> of Pub. Works*, 205 Cal. 426 (1928).
>
> *What Activities Have the Courts Classified as Statewide Concerns?*
>
> The following have consistently been classified by the courts as matters of
> statewide concern:
>
> School Systems. *Whisman v. San Francisco Unified Sch. Dist.*, 86 Cal. App.
> 3d 782, 789 (1978).
>
> Traffic and Vehicle Regulation. Cal. Veh. Code ? 21. Licensing of Members
> of
> a Trade or Profession. *City and County of San*
>
> *Francisco v. Boss*, 83 Cal. App. 2d 445 (1948). Tort Claims Against a
> Governmental Entity. *Helbach v. City of Long Beach*, 50
>
> Cal. App. 2d 242, 247 (1942).
>
> Open and Public Meetings. Ralph M. Brown Act. Cal. Gov?t Code ?? 54951,
> 54953(a).
>
> Exercise of the Power of Eminent Domain. *Wilson v Beville*, 47 Cal. 2d
> 852,
> 856 (1957).
>
> *What is a Charter?*
>
> A city charter is a unique document that, in many ways, acts like a
> constitution for the city adopting it. It can only be adopted, amended or
> repealed by a majority vote of a city's voters. The primary advantage of a
> charter is that it allows greater authority for a city?s governance than
> that provided by state law. For example, a city may tailor its organization
> and elective offices, taking into account the unique local conditions and
> needs of the community.
>
> A charter transfers the power to adopt legislation affecting municipal
> affairs from the state legislature to the city adopting it. A city
> operating
> under a charter can acquire full control over its municipal affairs. These
> affairs are unaffected by the general laws
>
> passed by the state legislature on the same subject matters. This, in
> effect, gives the local voters more control over their local government and
> the affairs of the city. However, a city operating under a charter is still
> subject to the general laws, as passed by the state legislature, on affairs
> that are not municipal in nature, and are of statewide concern (e.g.,
> California Vehicle Code).
>
> It is the scope of the term "municipal affairs" that provides the
> opportunity for uncertainty. No easy analytical test exists. The threshold
> issue is whether there is a conflict between state law and a charter city
> enactment. The next issue is whether the state regulation addressed an
> issue
> of "state wide concern." Courts analyze these conflicts on a case- by-case
> basis.
>
> *What is in a Charter?*
>
> While a city charter is not required to have any particular provisions in
> it, a city will often reserve for itself the greatest amount of power it
> can
> when it adopts a charter. To accomplish this goal, the charter must include
> a declaration that it is the intention of the city to avail itself of the
> full power provided by the state constitution to charter cities.
> However, the city is not required to extend the breadth of its charter any
> further than it wishes.
>
> Some of the common areas that are explicitly regulated in a charter are:
> The date and conduct of city elections; Regulations on the appointment of
> municipal officials; The terms and payment of municipal officials;
>
> The process for removal of municipal officials;
>
> Form of government;
>
> Budget adoption;
>
> The number, pay, qualifications, and appointment of deputies, clerks, and
> other employees that each municipal officer will have;
>
> Sub-government in all or part of the city; The tenure of office for
> deputies, clerks, and other employees; The process for removal of such
> deputies, clerks, and other employees; and The constitution, regulation,
> and
> government of the local police force.
>
> A number of California cities' charters are available online. The National
> Civic League also has a model charter project.
>
> *Process Used to Adopt a Charter*
>
> There are two ways to draft and adopt a city charter. The first is to elect
> a charter commission. The commission then has the responsibility of
> debating
> over the provisions and the drafting of the charter. The other alternative
> allows the governing board of the city, on its own motion, to draft the
> charter. In either case, the charter is not adopted by the city until it is
> ratified by a majority vote of the city's voters.
>
> When using the charter commission approach, the first step is to elect the
> commission. The vote to elect a charter commission is called for by either
> a
> majority vote of the city's governing body or by a petition signed by not
> less than fifteen percent of the registered voters within the city. If the
> formation of a charter commission is requested by a petition, the authority
> in charge of the city's registration records must verify the signatures on
> the petition. The expense of this verification must be paid for by the
> city's governing board. If the petition is verified, the city's governing
> board must call for an election in accordance with sections 1000 and 10403
> of the California Elections Code. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34452.
>
> Once it has been decided that a charter commission election will take
> place,
> candidates for commissioners must be nominated. Candidates for the office
> of
> charter commissioner are nominated either in the same manner as officers of
> the city or by petition. A candidate for charter commissioner must be a
> registered voter of the city. After the election of commissioners, any
> vacancy on the commission will be filled by a mayoral appointment. *See
> *Cal. Gov't Code section 34452.
>
> At an election for charter commission members, the voters will vote first
> on
> the following question: "Shall a charter commission be elected to propose a
> new charter?" After voting on this question, the voters will then vote for
> the charter commission candidates. If a majority of the voters vote for the
> formation of a charter commission, then the top fifteen candidates for the
> office of charter commissioner will be organized as the city's charter
> commission. No commission will be formed if a majority of voters vote
> against the election of a charter commission. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section
> 34453.
>
> Once formed, the charter commission will have the responsibility of
> developing the city's charter. After a simple majority of commissioners
> have
> decided that the proposed charter is appropriate, they file the charter
> with
> the city's clerk in preparation for a vote by the city's electorate. *See
> *Cal. Gov't Code section 34455. However, instead of sending the whole
> charter at once, periodically the commission may send portions of the
> charter to the city's electorate for a vote. *See *Cal.
> Gov't Code section 34462*.*
>
> After the charter (or portions of it) has been filed, it must be copied in
> type greater than 10 point and either mailed to all the voters of the city
> or made available to those citizens who wish to review it before the
> election. The city may show the difference between existing provisions of
> law and the new charter through the use of distinguished type styles, but
> this is not required. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34456.
>
> After the charter has been filed with the city clerk, the city's governing
> board must decide whether to call a special election or to wait until the
> next established municipal election to submit the charter to the voters. If
> the city's governing board determines that a special election should be
> held, then they must call for that special election within 14 days of the
> charter being filed. The special election must be set at least 95 days
> after
> the date from which the special election was called. *See *Cal. Gov't Code
> section 34457. In any case, the charter commission must send the charter to
> the voters within two years of the vote
>
> that formed the commission. Upon the expiration of the two-year time
> period,
> the commission is abolished. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34462.
>
> The alternative to electing a charter commission is to have the city's
> governing board develop and draft the charter. An election to decide on the
> adoption of a charter may be called by initiative or the city council. *See
> *Cal. Const. art. XI, ? 3. On its own motion, the city's governing board
> may
> propose a charter and submit it to the voters for adoption. *See *Cal.
> Gov't Code section 34458. With this option, the governing board can call a
> special election or allow the charter to be voted on at any established
> election date, as long as that election date is at least 88 days after the
> proposed charter was filed with the city clerk. *See *Cal. Gov't Code
> section 34458. As a practical matter, an election may have to be called
> sooner than 88 days before the election in order to meet certain notice and
> ballot printing deadlines.
>
> In either case, the majority of voters must vote in favor of the proposed
> charter for it to be ratified. The charter will not go into effect until it
> has been filed and accepted by the Secretary of State. *See *Cal. Gov't
> Code
> section 34459. After a charter is approved by a majority vote of the
> voters,
> the mayor and city clerk shall certify that the charter was submitted to
> the
> voters of the city and that it was approved by a majority vote. *See *Cal.
> Gov't Code section 34460. One copy of the approved charter shall be filed
> with the County Recorder's office and one shall be kept in the City's
> archive. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34460. A third copy of the charter
> must be submitted to the Secretary of State with (1) copies of all
> publications and notices in connection with the calling of the election;
> (2)
> certified copies of any arguments for or against the charter proposal which
> were mailed to the voters; (3) a certified abstract of the vote at the
> election on the charter. *See *Cal. Gov't Code section 34460.
>
> *How to Amend/Repeal a Charter*
>
> If a citizens group, or the city's governing body, wishes to amend or
> repeal
> a portion of the city's charter, the steps remain largely the same as they
> are for drafting a charter. There are, however, two notable exceptions.
> First, the petition calling for the repeal or amendment needs only ten
> percent of the electorate's signatures, instead of the previous fifteen
> percent. *See *Cal. Elec. Code sections 9215 and 9255. The other notable
> difference has to do with the charter itself. A city charter may establish
> different rules for the municipal elections process than those laid out by
> the state legislature in the Elections Code. If this is the case, the
> city's
> charter will govern the elections process used to appeal or amend the
> city's
> charter, instead of the general laws laid out in the Elections Code.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 11:05 PM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:
>
> >      Hi Occupy,
> > This is an important fact I learned at the Public Banking Conference
> > with a panel of elected officials, at which Supervisor Dan Hamburg
> > spoke and he took note of this. If we vote to become a charter county
> > we can establish a public bank without violating the CA
> Constitution.Yes!!!
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Agnes
> >
> >
> >
> > Oakland / Alameda County
> >
> > Kathe, did you hear S. F. County Supervisor Avalos' announcement of
> > the opinion by the county counsel? Charter cities, if they establish a
> > public bank, are not in violation of the CA Constitution. O... read
> > more ?
> >
> > Kathe Welch and Marc Armstrong contributed to this conversation.
> >
> >
> >
> > TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list send an email to
> > occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject.
> >
> > For listserv technical problems please contact: listmanager at mcn.org
> >
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Thu Jun  6 21:32:43 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 21:32:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bradley Manning trial with sketch of him by
	Kay Rudin
In-Reply-To: <AA83E349-C535-4E74-9350-88320C3704D3@mcn.org>
References: <AA83E349-C535-4E74-9350-88320C3704D3@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <4B62430B-2C7A-4E29-BB66-8F151742F6AC@gmail.com>

Way to go Kay!!!

OCCUPY Mendocino helped!!  :-)

On Jun 6, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

> http://readersupportednews.org/trial-of-bradley-manning
> 
> What Would You Do in Bradley Manning's Shoes?
> By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News
> 
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Thu Jun  6 21:47:09 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 00:47:09 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] good phone calls to make to cut the military
	budget
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt4VbjByGyyPFRjQCGDgbEv65uvMUEUUxJ4Fr8nUdD8v9Q@mail.gmail.com>

Next week the House of Representatives will vote on one of the bills that
funds the Pentagon ? The National Defense Authorization Act of 2014
(NDAA).

Our allies and others who believe in cutting Pentagon bloat will offer
amendments to rid us of the burden of boondoggles.

Call your Representative NOW at 202-224-3121 and say:
"Please support upcoming amendments that cut the Pentagon budget without
affecting troop benefits and bring all our troops home from Afghanistan
before 2014."

Believe it or not, Congress is trying to give nearly $640 billion to the
Pentagon ? billions more than the law allows and billions more than the
Pentagon wants.  Fortunately, there are likely to be amendments that will:

*Cut various weapons pork such as the F-35 Jet, V-22 Osprey plane and
Abrams tank;

*Reduce nuclear weapons and troops abroad;

*Bring troops home from Afghanistan as soon as possible and ban permanent
bases;

Your Representative needs to hear from you.  You can reach their
Washington, DC office by calling 202-224-3121 between 9-6 PMEastern.  Or
you can find their local number here:
www.contactingthecongress.org<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uRJf8cRkftMUguYWMHIrPzpxo3r8%2BAM2>

A representative that has been voting right on these issues is Rep. Markey
(D-MA).  He is running for Senate for an election to be held this month on
the 25th.  Please help him get elected
here<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W%2B3sONDUEiGLFhLCpwaSuDpxo3r8%2BAM2>
.

So, please take a moment to call your Representative today and help put
Rep. Markey in the Senate.

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Executive Director
Peace Action

P.S.  You can help cut wasteful Pentagon spending by calling your Rep. now
at 202-224-3121 and help elect a champion on getting rid of nuclear weapons
to the Senate<http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FVf0hLd3Ik9xmweSuBRBdjpxo3r8%2BAM2>
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jun  7 00:03:40 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 00:03:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] First Friday Bank Rally Today from 4-6 PM
Message-ID: <38474FA0-7B7D-43D5-B925-8F5E4B7A0C0B@mcn.org>

> First Friday Rally at the B of A and Chase Banks from 4-6 PM.
See ya there!


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From rkarch at mcn.org  Fri Jun  7 13:27:52 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:27:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Matt Taibbi: As Bradley Manning Trial Begins,
	Press Predictably Misses the Point
Message-ID: <97FD1BE8-117B-4A19-BE24-15C8C488451B@mcn.org>

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As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
07 June 13
 

 
ell, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn't have scripted the headlines any better.

In the now-defunct Starz series Boss, there's a reporter character named "Sam Miller" played by actor Troy Garity who complains about lazy reporters who just blindly eat whatever storylines are fed to them by people in power. He called those sorts of stories Chumpbait. If the story is too easy, if you're doing a piece on a sensitive topic and factoids are not only reaching you freely, but publishing them is somehow not meeting much opposition from people up on high, then you're probably eating Chumpbait.

There's an obvious Chumpbait angle in the Bradley Manning story, and most of the mainstream press reports went with it. You can usually tell if you're running a Chumpbait piece if you find yourself writing the same article as 10,000 other hacks.

The Trials of Bradley Manning

The Trials of Bradley Manning

The CNN headline read as follows: "Hero or Traitor? Bradley Manning's Trial to Start Monday." NBC went with "Contrasting Portraits of Bradley Manning as Court-Martial Opens." Time magazine's Denver Nicks took this original approach in their "think" piece on Manning, "Bradley Manning and our Real Secrecy Problem":

Is he a traitor or a hero? This is the question surrounding Bradley Manning, the army private currently being court-martialed at Fort Meade for aiding the enemy by wrongfully causing defense information to published on the Internet.
The Nicks thesis turned out to be one chosen by a lot of editorialists at the Manning trial, who have decided that the "real story" in the Manning case is what this incident showed about our lax security procedures, our lack of good due diligence in vetting the folks we put in charge of our vital information.

"With so many poorly protected secrets accessible to so many people, it was only a matter of time," Nicks wrote. "We can be grateful that Bradley Manning rather than someone less charitably inclined perpetrated this leak."

Dr. Tim Johnson of the Telegraph took a similar approach, only he was even less generous than Nicks, calling Manning the "weirdo [who] tried to bring down the government," a man who was "guilty as hell" and "deserves to do time."

"Private Manning was a self-absorbed geek who should never have enjoyed the level of access that he did," Johnson wrote. He went on to argue that Manning's obvious personality defects should have disqualified him for sensitive duty, and the fact that he was even hired in the first place is the real scandal of this trial:

His personality breakdown was there for all to see ? criticising US policy on Facebook, telling friends, "Bradley Manning is not a piece of equipment", and even entertaining "a very internal private struggle with his gender". He told hacker Adrian Lamo that he "listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga's Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history." You go, girl.
All of this shit is disgraceful. It's Chumpbait.

If I was working for the Pentagon's PR department as a hired press Svengali, with my salary eating up some of the nearly five billion dollars the armed services spends annually on advertising and public relations, I would be telling my team to pump reporters over and over again with the same angle.

I would beat it into the head of every hack on this beat that the court-martial is about a troubled young man with gender identity problems, that the key issue of law here rests inside the mind of young PFC Manning, that the only important issue of fact for both a jury and the American people to decide is exactly the question in these headlines.

Is Manning a hero, or a traitor? Did he give thousands of files to Wikileaks out of a sense of justice and moral horror, or did he do it because he had interpersonal problems, because he couldn't keep his job, because he was a woman trapped in a man's body, because he was a fame-seeker, because he was lonely?

You get the press and the rest of America following that bouncing ball, and the game's over. Almost no matter what the outcome of the trial is, if you can convince the American people that this case is about mental state of a single troubled kid from Crescent, Oklahoma, then the propaganda war has been won already.

Because in reality, this case does not have anything to do with who Bradley Manning is, or even, really, what his motives were. This case is entirely about the "classified" materials Manning had access to, and whether or not they contained widespread evidence of war crimes.

This whole thing, this trial, it all comes down to one simple equation. If you can be punished for making public a crime, then the government doing the punishing is itself criminal.

Manning, by whatever means, stumbled into a massive archive of evidence of state-sponsored murder and torture, and for whatever reason, he released it. The debate we should be having is over whether as a people we approve of the acts he uncovered that were being done in our names.

Slate was one of the few outlets to approach the Manning trial in a way that made sense. Their story took the opportunity of the court-martial to remind all of us of the list of horrors Manning discovered, including (just to name a very few):

During the Iraq War, U.S. authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape, and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers, according to thousands of field reports?

There were 109,032 "violent deaths" recorded in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, including 66,081 civilians. Leaked records from the Afghan War separately revealed coalition troops' alleged role in killing at least 195 civilians in unreported incidents, one reportedly involving U.S. service members machine-gunning a bus, wounding or killing 15 passengers?

In Baghdad in 2007, a U.S. Army helicopter gunned down a group of civilians, including two Reuters news staff?
This last incident was the notorious video in which our helicopter pilots lit up a group of civilians, among other things wounding two children in a van, to which the pilots blithely commented, "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle."

Except that there had been no battle, none of the people on the street were armed, it was an attack from space for all these people knew ? and oh, by the way, we were in their country, thanks to a war that history has revealed to have been a grotesque policy error.

It's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle. It's lines like this, truly horrific stuff that's evidence of a kind of sociopathic breakdown of our society, that this trial should be about. Not Manning's personal life.

Unfortunately, the American people would rather make it about Manning, because they know they were complicit in those and other murders, because they loudly brayed for war in Iraq for years, no matter how often and how loudly it was explained to them that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were not the same person.

Hacks like Johnson reassure the public that they have the right to have the results of their own moral decisions kept well hidden from them. His kind of propaganda soothes people into believing that Manning was just a freak and a weirdo, a one-off kink in the machinery, who hopefully will be thrown in the hole forever or at least for a very long time, so that we don't have to hear about any of this awful stuff again. At the very least, according to Johnson, we shouldn't have to listen to anyone call Manning a hero:

At the centre of the storm is a person who one suspects should never have been in uniform, let along enjoying access to military intelligence, who has blundered into the history books by way of a personality crisis. Incredibly, some people actually want to celebrate him as a gay icon. Who next, the Kray twins?
Wow. We're the ones machine-gunning children, and yet Manning is the one being compared to the murdering Kray twins? And Jesus, isn't being charged with the Espionage Act enough? Is Manning also being accused of not representing gay America skillfully enough on the dock?

Here's my question to Johnson: What would be the correct kind of person to have access to videos of civilian massacres? Who's the right kind of person to be let in the know about the fact that we systematically turned academics and other "suspects" over to the Iraqi military to be tortured? We want people who will, what, sit on this stuff? Apparently the idea is to hire the kind of person who will cheerfully help us keep this sort of thing hidden from ourselves.

The thing is, when it comes to things like the infamous "Collateral Murder" video, whether it's Bradley Manning or anyone else, any decent human being would have had an obligation to come forward. Presented with that material, you either become part of a campaign of torture and murder by saying nothing, or you have to make it public. Morally, there's no option.

Yes, Manning went beyond even that. One can definitely quibble about the volume of the material he released and the manner in which he released it. And I get that military secrets should, in a properly functioning society, be kept secret.

But when military secrets cross the line into atrocities, the act of keeping these secrets secret ceases to have much meaning.

The issues to be debated at this trial are massive in scope. They're about the character of the society we've all created, not the state of mind of one troubled Army private. If anyone tries to tell you anything else, he's selling you something.

 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Jun  7 13:55:40 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 13:55:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fr. Agnes: New NAFTA on Steriods --from Max Dashu
 "The TPP is accelerating the most dangerous free market policies of
 previous U.S. administrations."]
Message-ID: <540c706b092aca759bc4af05007cc8d8.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: New NAFTA on Steriods  --from Max Dashu  "The TPP is
accelerating the most dangerous free market policies of previous U.S.
administrations."
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Fri, June 7, 2013 1:52 pm
To:      "Janie Rezner" <jrezner at mcn.org>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi,
This is an extremely anti-democratic bill. I urge you and those on your
email list to call your Congress members and urge them to vote against
Fast-Tack. Fast track expired and Obama wants to renew it so that the bill
would not be debated by Congress, but would go directly to the President
to sign. There would be no amendments, nor debate by congress. This is a
violation of Constitutional law, the people would have no say. Obama is
wanting dictatorial powers. Urge your Congresspersons to vote no on Fast
Track for  TPP.

Agnes




> This comes from Max Dashu--on a list-serve that we share:
>
> "Recently i had mentioned about Hilary pushing NAFTA back when; turns out
> that Obama has had her working on a new one, even worse, as Sec'y of
> State, called TPP or Pacific Pivot. It will repress Internet freedom
> (stringent copyright enforcement for Big Media), AIDS prevention (controls
> set in place by Big Pharma), and workers' rights, for starters.
>
>
> ", bestowing unprecedented powers and privileges upon Trans-National
> Corporations (TNCs) while dismantling regulations and laws without any
> democratic oversight or input... the TPP was intended to deal with "behind
> the border" issues, typically decided by domestic policy, and "which go
> beyond the normal scope of trade agreements" including issues of labor,
> environmental and intellectual property standards."
> http://truth-out.org/news/item/12857-the-trans-pacific-partnership-this-is-what-corporate-governance-looks-like
> "
>
>
> In other words, the treaty overrules the (protective) laws of signatory
> countries and the rights of their citizens.
>
>
> See also:
> http://www.globalresearch.ca/trans-pacific-partnership-obamas-secret-trade-agreement-will-push-the-deindustrialization-of-america-into-overdrive/5337667
>
>
> "Did you know that this agreement will impose very strict Internet
> copyright rules, ban all "Buy American" laws, give Wall Street banks much
> more freedom to trade risky derivatives and force even more domestic
> manufacturing offshore? Opponents of this treaty refer to it as "the NAFTA
> of the Pacific", and if it is enacted it will push the deindustrialization
> of America into overdrive. The agreement, under negotiation since 2008,
> would set new rules for everything from food safety and financial markets
> to medicine prices and Internet freedom. One thing that we have discovered
> is that this new treaty would reportedly ban all "Buy American laws". It
> is being reported that most of the provisions of SOPA (rigid internet
> control rules) have been quietly inserted into this treaty. If this treaty
> is enacted, those provisions will become law and the American people will
> not be able to do anything about it. And yet another leak revealed that
> the deal would include even more expansive incentives to relocate domestic
> manufacturing offshore than were included in Nafta - a deal that drained
> millions of manufacturing jobs from the American economy...
>
>
>  it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including
> the toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place."
>
>
> Max Dashu
> Woman Shaman dvd  http://www.suppressedhistories.net/womanshamandvd.html
> Trailer:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Be9SFJ_vuY
>
>
>
>





From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun  5 09:24:48 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:24:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bradley Manning Faces His Accuser
Message-ID: <2BD6683D-8950-4D36-A753-EE747D21B8ED@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/367-wikileaks/17767-bradley-manning-faces-his-accuser


Self-professed "Grey-Hat Hacker" Adrian Lamo was a feature witness for the Army. (art: Kay Rudin/RSN)

Bradley Manning Faces His Accuser By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News
04 June 13
 

 
radley Manning came face-to-face on Tuesday with the man who turned him in to military law enforcement - Adrian Lamo, a convicted computer hacker, who testified about the six days of computer chats he had with Manning in May of 2010.

David Coombs, Manning's defense lawyer, used the cross-examination of Lamo to show his client's true motivations for leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents. Lamo also testified to Manning's state of mind.

During the chats, Manning told Lamo that he had decided to leak the information as a way of instigating a worldwide debate.

Lamo, dressed in black, told the court that he was a" grey-hat hacker," meaning he would hack into systems without malicious intent.

When asked by Coombs if Manning had indicated in the course of the conversations that he knew the witness had donated to WikiLeaks, Lamo said he had. Coombs pressed further. "He told you he reached out to you as someone who might understand him?" Coombs asked.

"That is correct," Lamo replied.

Lamo agreed that at the time of their chats Manning described himself as an emotional wreck who thought his life was falling apart and was considering suicide. Manning said he was too traumatized to care what the consequences to him would be. He was more afraid of being misunderstood.

Coombs asked, "[Manning] told you he was the kind of person who would always investigate the truth?"

"That was something I could appreciate," Lamo said.

Lamo admitted that Manning told him that it was important the information got out, and that if it got out it might actually change something. Coombs then elicited a series of responses from the Manning-Lamo web chats: In summary, Manning told Lamo that he did not believe in good guys and bad guys anymore, only a plethora of states acting in self interest. Manning thought he was maybe too idealistic. Based on what he had seen, Manning said he couldn't let the information stay inside. He said he felt connected to everybody, that we were all distant family. And he said he cared.

Manning called himself a humanist and said he had custom dog tags where he had written humanist on the back. Pfc. Manning said that we are all human and we are killing ourselves and no one seems to care. He was bothered that nobody seemed to care, that apathy was far worse than active participation. He said that he preferred the painful truth over blissful fantasy.

To each of these statements above, Lamo replied: "He did."

At one point Lamo admitted that it wasn't lost on him that he and Manning were a lot alike.

During Lamo's questioning by the prosecutor, he focused on the technical issues surrounding the chats rather than their content.

Lamo came under fire in 2010 for turning in Manning. Manning supporters called him a "snitch" and a "rat." What would have happened had Lamo not gone from grey-hat hacker to government informant and turned Manning over to the authorities?

This report is being filed from the Fort Meade Bowling Alley, as we are still not allowed in the Media Center where other journalists are allowed to file their reports.


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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+32# Lowflyin Lolana 2013-06-04 19:38
Thank you so much Scott for your reporting. 

Bowling Alley or no, this case is going down in history. This is where it's happening. Right now.
 
 

+3# anntares 2013-06-04 19:44
Check out BradAss87 on Facebook
 
 

+37# Douglas Jack 2013-06-04 20:24
When any soldier or person is held without trial for coming on 3 years, is tortured over years to extract false confession, is denied habeas corpus, is declared guilty by a sitting president before any judicial process, is denied counsel from the beginning, is following superior human laws of greater import & status, than for which he is being charged, then these violations of military & civil law render the judicial process, pleas & judgments to be null & void under the laws of all nations including the USA rogue nation.
Manning approached his superiors, at great risk to his life, tested the waters to see if they would be responsible to receive communication about war crimes. For many reasons typical in a culture of fear & loathing, these supposed 'superiors', were completely unable to receive or process such vital information. Bradley Manning understanding the complete failure of the US war machine & all individuals within it to fulfill human obligations under all national & international treaties, then considered his responsible options of which only one choice remained. cont'd
 
 

+37# Douglas Jack 2013-06-04 20:26
MANNING's CHOICE cont'd.
Given: the evidence of war crimes & his obligation to report both as a soldier to his superiors & as a human being to the human-race:
1) if Manning pressed for resolution at a superior level, the information would be suppressed by superiors & himself discharged in the process. This choice does not resolve his obligation as a soldier or as a human.
2) Manning's remaining choice as a responsible human being in a completely rotten system with little time or resources was to didact the information for possible exposure of innocents, which he did to the limits of his capacities. In a rare opportunity precipitous to Manning's own research & connection with Julian Assange, Manning arranged for further vetting of files to eliminate exposure of innocents & then its worldwide release.
The USA has pushed its criminality beyond limits of all human standards. Manning & Assange decided to give the human race information essential to its survival & further evolution. Manning & Assange on behalf of innocents everywhere, present & future generations decided to act responsibly in the release of information upon which the survival of the human race is dependent as well as for all life on earth. www.indigenecommunity.info
 
 

+29# Activista 2013-06-04 21:30
... we are all human and we are killing ourselves and no one seems to care. He was bothered that nobody seemed to care, that apathy was far worse than active participation. He said that he preferred the painful truth over blissful fantasy...
Nominate Bradley Manning for the Peace Nobel Price ... nobody did for Peace as this brave moral man ...
 
 

+33# L H 2013-06-04 21:35
Thank you, Scott, thank you RSN! This is such important coverage. The pressure of public opinion may help Manning. We need to know. This cannot be silenced. Manning is a Hero, and Julian Assange must be cleared. 

The corruption of an illegal & murderous war had to be exposed. When are military & government wrong-doings confessed? Do they never say, we did wrong? Shouldn't it be the war machine and its politicians on trial?

Maybe, by the end of this, the results will be the same because in our eyes the military and the government, including this administration, IS ON TRIAL here!
 
 

+6# ritaague 2013-06-05 03:43
Soooo frustrating for real McCoy, truthtelling reporters (unlike 'mess' media MSDers, manipulators, spinners, distractors), to not be able to be present at this anything but true justice for Brad or humanity seeking military tribunal. 

Thankfully, transcripts have been made available on Brad's past proceedings, through justice activist Alexa O'Brien, who, with no recording devices allowed, transcribed by hand. Today, in the U.S. of (greed and power) A.(ddiction), a.k.a. POLICE STATE AIN'T GREAT, it takes courage and determination to truthfully report on our heroic whistleblowers and truthtellers, like Brad M. and Julian A.. 

One ray of hope - truly massive signings, from folks across the globe, of a petition to award Brad with the Nobel Peace Prize is already occurring. With such mass support, Brad has already been, in fact, been deemed a Nobel Peace winner.
 
 

+5# no jojo 2013-06-05 03:45
And Obama and Bush team go scot free. It did work just fine for the military since Saint Manning got arrested, no one dared to do the same. Americans are mostly made up of whimps! Land of freeloaders and Land of one brave man :^(
 
 

+15# walt 2013-06-05 03:58
And the biggest question remains unanswered: 
Why have Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz never faced a formal investigation for lying the nation into the Iraq invasion that cost us 4500 soldiers' lives, over 100,000 injuries and $3 trillion debt? Yet we will prosecute a low ranking soldier for blowing the whistle on what went on in the war.
 
 

+6# turtleislander 2013-06-05 04:14
This is so impressive. Manning is the one for the Peace prize indeed. It is now time for the San Francisco Pride committee to stop being nervous lapdogs to unseen masters and allow the legitimate nomination of Bradley Manning be reinstated as grand marshal of the Pride parade in San Francisco. He and Assange both have unveiled the rogue states, as well as the multiple repeats in Iraq and Afghanistan of My Lai(a horrible massacre of a small Vietnamese village by US soldiers). In those days though, Americans and the mainstream news was outraged.
 
 

+10# Collkito 2013-06-05 04:50
Manning is a peculiar hero, without firing a shot or throwing a punch...by hitting a few keyboard strokes he released truth from it's hellish imprisonment... .a good man, many f us are very grateful for the cyber courage and new generation of warriors for the common good.
 
 

+2# MariRaho 2013-06-05 06:50
Thank you Scott and RSN - bowling alley or no - please keep up the good work!
 
 

+1# David Starr 2013-06-05 07:15
Why did Lamo really snitch on Manning? Was he threatened? Bribed? A slime ball? Doing his duty?

I'm highly doubting the last question. The first three may be combined, or not.
 
 

0# tbcrawford8 2013-06-05 07:52
Congressional hearing: Military big guns, hiding behind their ribbons, all in a row refusing to accept outside, trained legal opinion to protect our volunteer soldiers from basic protection from sexual predation. Afraid to trust others.

Military courtroom: Bradley Manning, his attorney, a few hand-picked media, no decorations, a young man, quietly telling us decency and truth matter. What more can one do for one's country and our fellow humans? We must stand up for each other. 

Who do you respect and admire?
 
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Sat Jun  8 23:24:53 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 02:24:53 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fukishimo effects petition
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt4wwzxiZFMa9hEre0tZpu7rWYXmke5a6MArCzhKEkf_aA@mail.gmail.com>

Update about 'West Coast Senators: : Investigate the ongoing danger from
the Fukushima nuclear reactors' on Change.org
Inbox
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Carol Wolman <mail at change.org>
12:09 AM (2 hours ago)
to me

http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors<http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors?utm_source=supporter_message&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_message_notice>


Dear Friends,

The pattern of lies and coverups about the dangers from Fukushima Daiichi
continue. Authorities seek to reassure us about health consequences, amount
of leakage, etc. The first article, widely republished, states that there
have been no ill health effects, despite the numerous reports of illness
from Japan. The second article documents increased thyroid cancers among
children in the region- the article states that we can't be sure they are
due to radiation, because it took 5 years, not 2 years, for cancers to
appear after Chernobyl! Go figure.

The next three items document ongoing release of radiation and its probable
consequences. Japan is not dealing adequately with the situation, which
will have more and more impact on the US West Coast. Please continue to
send out this petition, and sponsor it to your facebook, twitter, etc
websites.
http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors<http://www.change.org/petitions/west-coast-senators-investigate-the-ongoing-danger-from-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactors?utm_source=supporter_message&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petition_message_notice>

Peace, Carol Wolman, MD
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From jessie at mac.com  Sat Jun  8 15:02:04 2013
From: jessie at mac.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 15:02:04 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agnes and Jessie Lee's good adventure
Message-ID: <45F203AA-A00C-4026-AB45-315FF8F104C3@mac.com>

Agnes and Jessie Lee attended the Public Banking Institute conference 2013 Sunday to Tues 2 to 4 June held at Dominican University in San Rafael.

It was a wonderful event with many excellent speakers, almost all of whom offered a positive view and great SOLUTIONS!!

Agnes purchased the DVD "The SEcret of OZ" and Jessie Lee got "The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"

We could have a viewing party???  And share these DVD's together perhaps?

If others are interested, please respond to list serve so an estimate of interest can be ascertained.

jlv

From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun  9 08:35:13 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 08:35:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Public Banking Adventure
Message-ID: <BDC552CB-8934-4C1A-B368-740F1346F165@mcn.org>

From Jessie:

Agnes and Jessie Lee attended the Public Banking Institute conference =
2013 Sunday to Tues 2 to 4 June held at Dominican University in San =
Rafael.

It was a wonderful event with many excellent speakers, almost all of =
whom offered a positive view and great SOLUTIONS!!

Agnes purchased the DVD &quot;The SEcret of OZ&quot; and Jessie Lee got &quot;The =
Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve&quot;

We could have a viewing party???  And share these DVD's together =
perhaps?

If others are interested, please respond to list serve so an estimate of =
interest can be ascertained.

jlv=



From marksafron at att.net  Sun Jun  9 12:58:59 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 12:58:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] What is this trial really about?
Message-ID: <7DE5CDFE-FA0E-493C-990B-AFD65A768551@att.net>

(Emphasis added. M.S.) 


As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, 
Press Predictably Misses the Point

By MATT TAIBBI
POSTED: June 6, 3:35 PM ET


Bradley Manning
Alex Wong/Getty Images
Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn't have scripted the headlines any better.

In the now-defunct Starz series Boss, there's a reporter character named "Sam Miller" played by actor Troy Garity who complains about lazy reporters who just blindly eat whatever storylines are fed to them by people in power. He called those sorts of stories Chumpbait. If the story is too easy, if you're doing a piece on a sensitive topic and factoids are not only reaching you freely, but publishing them is somehow not meeting much opposition from people up on high, then you're probably eating Chumpbait.

There's an obvious Chumpbait angle in the Bradley Manning story, and most of the mainstream press reports went with it. You can usually tell if you're running a Chumpbait piece if you find yourself writing the same article as 10,000 other hacks.

The Trials of Bradley Manning

The CNN headline read as follows: "Hero or Traitor? Bradley Manning's Trial to Start Monday." NBC went with "Contrasting Portraits of Bradley Manning as Court-Martial Opens." Time magazine's Denver Nicks took this original approach in their "think" piece on Manning, "Bradley Manning and our Real Secrecy Problem":

Is he a traitor or a hero? This is the question surrounding Bradley Manning, the army private currently being court-martialed at Fort Meade for aiding the enemy by wrongfully causing defense information to published on the Internet.

The Nicks thesis turned out to be one chosen by a lot of editorialists at the Manning trial, who have decided that the "real story" in the Manning case is what this incident showed about our lax security procedures, our lack of good due diligence in vetting the folks we put in charge of our vital information.

"With so many poorly protected secrets accessible to so many people, it was only a matter of time," Nicks wrote. "We can be grateful that Bradley Manning rather than someone less charitably inclined perpetrated this leak."

Dr. Tim Stanley of the Telegraph took a similar approach, only he was even less generous than Nicks, calling Manning the "weirdo [who] tried to bring down the government," a man who was "guilty as hell" and "deserves to do time."

"Private Manning was a self-absorbed geek who should never have enjoyed the level of access that he did," Stanley wrote. He went on to argue that Manning's obvious personality defects should have disqualified him for sensitive duty, and the fact that he was even hired in the first place is the real scandal of this trial:

His personality breakdown was there for all to see ? criticising US policy on Facebook, telling friends, "Bradley Manning is not a piece of equipment", and even entertaining "a very internal private struggle with his gender". He told hacker Adrian Lamo that he "listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga's Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history." You go, girl.

All of this shit is disgraceful. It's Chumpbait.

If I was working for the Pentagon's PR department as a hired press Svengali, with my salary eating up some of the nearly five billion dollars the armed services spends annually on advertising and public relations, I would be telling my team to pump reporters over and over again with the same angle.

I would beat it into the head of every hack on this beat that the court-martial is about a troubled young man with gender identity problems, that the key issue of law here rests inside the mind of young PFC Manning, that the only important issue of fact for both a jury and the American people to decide is exactly the question in these headlines.

Is Manning a hero, or a traitor? Did he give thousands of files to Wikileaks out of a sense of justice and moral horror, or did he do it because he had interpersonal problems, because he couldn't keep his job, because he was a woman trapped in a man's body, because he was a fame-seeker, because he was lonely?

You get the press and the rest of America following that bouncing ball, and the game's over. Almost no matter what the outcome of the trial is, if you can convince the American people that this case is about mental state of a single troubled kid from Crescent, Oklahoma, then the propaganda war has been won already.

Because in reality, this case does not have anything to do with who Bradley Manning is, or even, really, what his motives were. This case is entirely about the "classified" materials Manning had access to, and whether or not they contained widespread evidence of war crimes.

This whole thing, this trial, it all comes down to one simple equation. If you can be punished for making public a crime, then the government doing the punishing is itself criminal.

Manning, by whatever means, stumbled into a massive archive of evidence of state-sponsored murder and torture, and for whatever reason, he released it. The debate we should be having is over whether as a people we approve of the acts he uncovered that were being done in our names.

Slate was one of the few outlets to approach the Manning trial in a way that made sense. Their story took the opportunity of the court-martial to remind all of us of the list of horrors Manning discovered, including (just to name a very few):

During the Iraq War, U.S. authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape, and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers, according to thousands of field reports?

There were 109,032 "violent deaths" recorded in Iraq between 2004 and 2009, including 66,081 civilians. Leaked records from the Afghan War separately revealed coalition troops' alleged role in killing at least 195 civilians in unreported incidents, one reportedly involving U.S. service members machine-gunning a bus, wounding or killing 15 passengers?
In Baghdad in 2007, a U.S. Army helicopter gunned down a group of civilians, including two Reuters news staff?
This last incident was the notorious video in which our helicopter pilots lit up a group of civilians, among other things wounding two children in a van, to which the pilots blithely commented, "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle."

Except that there had been no battle, none of the people on the street were armed, it was an attack from space for all these people knew ? and oh, by the way, we were in their country, thanks to a war that history has revealed to have been a grotesque policy error.

It's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle. It's lines like this, truly horrific stuff that's evidence of a kind of sociopathic breakdown of our society, that this trial should be about. Not Manning's personal life.

Unfortunately, the American people would rather make it about Manning, because they know they were complicit in those and other murders, because they loudly brayed for war in Iraq for years, no matter how often and how loudly it was explained to them that Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were not the same person.

Hacks like Stanley reassure the public that they have the right to have the results of their own moral decisions kept well hidden from them. His kind of propaganda soothes people into believing that Manning was just a freak and a weirdo, a one-off kink in the machinery, who hopefully will be thrown in the hole forever or at least for a very long time, so that we don't have to hear about any of this awful stuff again. At the very least, according to Stanley, we shouldn't have to listen to anyone call Manning a hero:

 At the centre of the storm is a person who one suspects should never have been in uniform, let along enjoying access to military intelligence, who has blundered into the history books by way of a personality crisis. Incredibly, some people actually want to celebrate him as a gay icon. Who next, the Kray twins?

Wow. We're the ones machine-gunning children, and yet Manning is the one being compared to the murdering Kray twins? And Jesus, isn't being charged with the Espionage Act enough? Is Manning also being accused of not representing gay America skillfully enough on the dock?

Here's my question to Johnson: What would be the correct kind of person to have access to videos of civilian massacres? Who's the right kind of person to be let in the know about the fact that we systematically turned academics and other "suspects" over to the Iraqi military to be tortured? We want people who will, what, sit on this stuff? Apparently the idea is to hire the kind of person who will cheerfully help us keep this sort of thing hidden from ourselves.

The thing is, when it comes to things like the infamous "Collateral Murder" video, whether it's Bradley Manning or anyone else, any decent human being would have had an obligation to come forward. Presented with that material, you either become part of a campaign of torture and murder by saying nothing, or you have to make it public. Morally, there's no option.

Yes, Manning went beyond even that. One can definitely quibble about the volume of the material he released and the manner in which he released it. And I get that military secrets should, in a properly functioning society, be kept secret.

But when military secrets cross the line into atrocities, the act of keeping these secrets secret ceases to have much meaning.

The issues to be debated at this trial are massive in scope. They're about the character of the society we've all created, not the state of mind of one troubled Army private. If anyone tries to tell you anything else, he's selling you something.



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/as-bradley-manning-trial-begins-press-predictably-misses-the-point-20130605#ixzz2VkZy3juP 
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Jun  9 15:22:17 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 15:22:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Hey folks, it's not just take-out...
Message-ID: <E8E1AB04-19FF-4755-86A6-7D47F25F6024@att.net>

http://seekingalpha.com/article/1487312-meet-your-new-boss-buying-large-employers-will-enable-china-to-dominate-thousands-of-u-s-communities?source=yahoo

Meet Your New Boss: Buying Large Employers Will Enable China To Dominate Thousands Of U.S. Communities
Jun 7 2013, 08:43  
Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States? Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen. Chinese acquisition of U.S. businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is on pace to absolutely shatter that record this year. Meanwhile, China is voraciously gobbling up real estate and is establishing economic beachheads all over America. If China continues to build economic power inside the United States, it will eventually become the dominant economic force in thousands of small communities all over the nation. Just think about what the Smithfield Foods (SFD) acquisition alone will mean. Smithfield Foods is the largest pork producer and processor in the world. It has facilities in 26 U.S. states and it employs tens of thousands of Americans. It directly owns 460 farms and has contracts with approximately 2,100 others. But now a Chinese company has bought it for $4.7 billion, and that means that the Chinese will now be the most important employer in dozens of rural communities all over America. If you don't think that this is important, you haven't been paying much attention to what has been going on in the world. Thanks in part to our massively bloated trade deficit with China, the Chinese have trillions of dollars to spend. They are only just starting to exercise their economic muscles.

And it is important to keep in mind that there is often not much of a difference between "the Chinese government" and "Chinese corporations". In 2011, 43 percent of all profits in China were produced by companies that the Chinese government had a controlling interest in. Americans are accustomed to thinking of "government" and "business" as being separate things, but in China they are often one and the same. Even when there is a separation in ownership, the reality is that no major Chinese corporation is going to go against the authority and guidance of the Chinese government. The relationship between government and business in China is much different than it is in the United States.

Over the past several years, Chinese companies have become increasingly aggressive. Last year a Chinese company spent $2.6 billion to purchase AMC entertainment - one of the largest movie theater chains in the United States. Now that Chinese company controls more movie ticket sales than anyone else in the world. At the time, that was the largest acquisition of a U.S. firm by a Chinese company, but now the Smithfield Foods deal has greatly surpassed that.

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But China is not just relying on acquisitions to expand its economic power. The truth is that "economic beachheads" are being established all over America. For example, Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group, Inc. recently broke ground on a $100 million plant in Thomasville, Alabama. I am sure that many of the residents of Thomasville, Alabama will be glad to have jobs, but it will also become yet another community that will now be heavily dependent on communist China.

And guess where else Chinese companies are putting down roots? Detroit.

Yes, the poster child for the deindustrialization of America is being invaded by the Chinese. The following comes from a recent CNBC article...

Dozens of companies from China are putting down roots in Detroit, part of the country's steady push into the American auto industry.

Chinese-owned companies are investing in American businesses and new vehicle technology, selling everything from seat belts to shock absorbers in retail stores, and hiring experienced engineers and designers in an effort to soak up the talent and expertise of domestic automakers and their suppliers.

If you recently purchased an "American-made vehicle", there is a really good chance that it has Chinese parts in it.

In fact, it is becoming harder and harder to get auto parts that are actually made in America by American companies. A lot of those companies are dying off. One example of this is a battery maker that had received $132 million from the federal government that was recently gobbled up by a huge Chinese corporation ...

Industry analysts are hard-pressed to put a number on the Chinese suppliers operating in the United States. "We simply don't know how many there are," said David Andrea, an official with the Original Equipment Suppliers Association, a trade organization for auto parts makers.

In one of the more prominent deals, the Wanxiang Group bought most of the assets of the battery maker A123 Systems, which filed for bankruptcy last year despite receiving $132 million of $249 million in federal grants to build two factories in Michigan.

Congressional Republicans criticized the deal, saying A123's technology could support military applications in China. Still, the buyout was approved this year by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a federal government panel.

China seems particularly interested in acquiring energy resources in the United States. For example, did you know that China is actually mining for coal in the mountains of Tennessee?

Guizhou Gouchuang Energy Holdings Group spent 616 million dollars to acquire Triple H Coal Co. in Jacksboro, Tennessee. At the time, that acquisition really didn't make much news, but now a group of conservatives in Tennessee is trying to stop the Chinese from blowing up their mountains and taking their coal. The following is from a Wall Street Journal article back in March ...

The Tennessee Conservative Union began airing an ad Tuesday that says lawmakers have failed to protect the state's scenic mountains and are allowing the "Chinese to destroy our mountains and take our coal?the same folks who hold our debt."

But when it comes to our energy resources, China has been most interested in our oil and natural gas. It is a complete and total mystery why the federal government would allow China to buy up our precious domestic sources of energy, but it is happening. The following is a list of some of the oil and natural gas deals that China has been involved in during the last few years that was compiled by the Wall Street Journal...

China is gathering oil and gas assets across the U.S., The Wall Street Journal reports today. State-run giants Cnooc and Sinopec are scooping up minority stakes and signing joint-ventures, to the tune of $17 billion in U.S. and Canadian deals since 2010, to feed the energy thirsty nation.


Associated Press
Here?s a list of the assets, by state, that China?s energy giants have bought:

Colorado: Cnooc gained a one-third stake in 800,000 acres in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming in a $1.27 billion pact with Chesapeake Energy Corp.

Louisiana: Sinopec has a one-third interest in 265,000 acres in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale after a broader $2.5-billion deal with Devon Energy.

Michigan: Sinopec gained a one-third interest in 350,000 acres in a larger $2.5 billion deal with Devon Energy.

Ohio: Sinopec acquired a one-third stake in Devon Energy?s 235,000 Utica Shale acres in a larger $2.5 billion deal.

Oklahoma: Sinopec has a one-third interest in 215,000 acres in a broader $2.5 billion deal with Devon Energy.

Texas: Cnooc acquired a one-third interest in Chesapeake Energy?s 600,000 acres in the Eagle Ford Shale in a $2.16-billion deal.

Wyoming: Cnooc has a one-third stake in 800,000 acres in northeast Colorado and southeast Wyoming after a $1.27 billion pact with Chesapeake Energy. Sinopec gained a one-third interest in Devon Energy?s 320,000 acres as part of a larger $2.5 billion deal.

Gulf of Mexico: Cnooc Ltd. separately acquired minority stakes in some of Statoil ASA?s leases as well as six of Nexen Inc.?s deep-water wells.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun  9 15:27:09 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013 15:27:09 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] RSN: Our Media Access Action in the Manning Case
Message-ID: <57C819FB-EBE3-4DA4-9EEC-DDD73CE09CAB@mcn.org>

Our Media Access Action in the Manning Case
By Marc Ash, Reader Supported News
09 June 13
 
eader Supported News has filed an action with the Army court at Fort Meade, Maryland, alleging our organization was denied media credentials to cover the court-martial of Bradley Manning.

Bill Simpich, our attorney, has written at some length regarding the merits of the case and the facts, and there will be more to come from him in the days ahead.

What makes media access so central to the Manning case is that ? at its core ? the Manning case itself is a media access case. What Julian Assange did and what Bradley Manning is accused of doing is to bring evidence of war crimes into the light of day. That is the type of journalism the US is literally dying for. It is oxygen for a democracy on life support.

What the case is clearly not about is "aiding the enemy." Whether or not Bradley Manning coordinated his actions with Julian Assange remains to be determined. However the government certainly has not presented any evidence that Pfc. Manning or Mr. Assange coordinated their actions in any way with anyone the government defines as a "terrorist." The intent of Mr. Assange and perhaps Pfc. Manning was to bring these documents to the public's view. So far, no evidence of intent to aid the enemy on the part of Assange or Manning has been presented by the government.

Part of the methodology employed by the military to manage the media is "vetting." Before you qualify to have access to the trial of Bradley Manning or the siege of Fallujah, or any documentation of who is being killed and why, you must first be vetted. Vetting is obviously not a clearly defined term or process. It can entail a wide variety of procedures and be motivated by an unlimited array of agendas. One of the most essential questions we are asking the Army is: What are the criteria? So far, that question remains unanswered.

Starting with the first Bush administration's invasion of Kuwait and Iraq, the US military began to institute a far more aggressive and coordinated campaign of media control. Gone were the days when journalists could simply arrive in the region of conflict and ? if they chose to accept the dangers ? place themselves in as close proximity to the conflict as they were prepared to go.

From the Civil War to Vietnam, stark images and accounts of the horror of war have served as jolt of reality to Americans who would otherwise have formed their perceptions of war through exposure to commercial news accounts. The camera in particular has proved as powerful as any weapon of war.

To understand the US government's fear and loathing of media interaction with their wars, it is critical to understand how important media coverage was to the strategy of Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese. Ho understood that the North Vietnamese had little chance of defeating the overwhelmingly superior US Military. But he also understood that the American public, through images of the true impact of the conflict, could be brought to reasonably reject the violence. Ho made the camera his most powerful weapon against the Americans, and the American military would never forget it.

In 1991, former CIA director and then-president George H.W. Bush set out to make sure his Gulf War would not be cast in an unflattering light. Suddenly war correspondents were corralled, herded, and directed by the military. For their safety, of course. The US military had developed a robust public relations component to its campaigns. Media was seen as a potential tool of the enemy and a force that could move the hearts and minds of civilians and turn the tide of military campaigns. The Pentagon began to develop strategies to control the media component. Controlling media coverage became "an extension of the battlefield."

Enter the Australian. Julian Assange decided to get off the media tour bus. He would not be herded into the safety of the press corral. Assange chose instead to place himself in close proximity to the conflict. Assange began a high-profile campaign of disseminating documents to the public that were embarrassing to empire builders. Bradley Manning stands accused of providing Mr. Assange with classified documents that appear on their surface to make crimes of war public.

All of this evolves the ongoing conflict between those who pursue social and economic agendas through military means and those who stand opposed with sharp lenses.

We at Reader Supported News feel it is imperative to stand for the freedom of the press, however inconvienient that may be in the short term for the military.

The military is historically quick to point out that they are fighting for our freedoms. They would do well to remember what those freedoms are.

Marc Ash was formerly the founder and Executive Director of Truthout, and is now founder and Editor of Reader Supported News.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jun 10 08:44:52 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 08:44:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Marty Lombbardi]
Message-ID: <7fdb197b10092779bd8714f46c4ef235.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Marti is retiring from the County Bank of Mendocino.He deserves praise for
only 2 foreclosures during the mortgage meltdown.
Agnes

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Marty Lombbardi
From:    sako4 at comcast.net
Date:    Sun, June 9, 2013 3:26 pm
To:      "John and Shannon" <sako4 at comcast.net>
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Dear friends and neighbors,


Tomorrow, Monday, June 10, at 9 am, Marty Lombardi -- community banker,
children's advocate, and philanthropist -- will be honored with a
proclamation from the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors at the Board
chambers in the County Administrative Building at 501 Low Gap Road in
Ukiah.


Let's all honor Marty. See you there!


And...pass the word!


http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/bos/meetings/MG29995/AS30000/AI30250/DO30313/1.PDF


Thank you.


John Sakowicz
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From tammysue_123 at att.net  Mon Jun 10 10:48:55 2013
From: tammysue_123 at att.net (Tammy Davis)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:48:55 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agnes and Jessie Lee's good adventure
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I am interested. Thank you ladies!
Tammy

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jessie Lee VanSant
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 3:02 PM
To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org Serve
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agnes and Jessie Lee's good adventure

Agnes and Jessie Lee attended the Public Banking Institute conference 2013 
Sunday to Tues 2 to 4 June held at Dominican University in San Rafael.

It was a wonderful event with many excellent speakers, almost all of whom 
offered a positive view and great SOLUTIONS!!

Agnes purchased the DVD "The SEcret of OZ" and Jessie Lee got "The Creature 
from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"

We could have a viewing party???  And share these DVD's together perhaps?

If others are interested, please respond to list serve so an estimate of 
interest can be ascertained.

jlv

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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 10 10:59:31 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 10:59:31 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: N.S.A. ENFORCES ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY
	ON CONSCIENCE
Message-ID: <09CA4B4A-76E0-4CAA-ABD6-0596CD9E3221@att.net>

N.S.A. ENFORCES ZERO-TOLERANCE POLICY ON CONSCIENCE


WASHINGTON ?The National Security Agency moved swiftly and forcefully today to remind its employees of its longstanding zero-tolerance policy on conscience, warning that any violation of that policy would result in immediate termination.

?When you sign on to work at the N.S.A. you swear to uphold the standards of amorality and soullessness that this agency was founded upon,? said N.S.A. director General Keith B. Alexander. ?Any evidence of ethics, decency, or a sense of right and wrong will not be tolerated. These things have no place in the intelligence community.?

To enforce the policy, General Alexander said that once a month all N.S.A. employees will be wired to a computer to take full inventory of what is going on in their minds: ?We want to be sure they are spending their free time playing Call of Duty, not reading the Federalist Papers.?

The N.S.A. director attempted to reassure the American people that despite ?unfortunate recent events,? the agency remains ?one of the most heartless and cold-blooded organizations on the face of the earth.? He added, ?We refuse to let one good apple spoil the whole bunch.?

He said that going forward, the N.S.A. would try to recruit people who had already demonstrated ?a commitment to invading people?s privacy? by working at Google or Facebook.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jun 10 22:19:02 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:19:02 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agnes and Jessie Lee's good adventure
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Jessie,
I am interested in The Creature from Jekyll Island. It's about the secret
meeting of money men drawing up the Federal Reserve Bank and fractional
reserve system of banking. Count me in.

The Secret of Oz is 101 minutes long- it's about American History and
banking including alternative money used to pay for the Revolutionary and
Civil Wars. Please specify which film you want to see and we will try to
reserve the Library Community Room to show it.
Agnes

> I am interested. Thank you ladies!
> Tammy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jessie Lee VanSant
> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 3:02 PM
> To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org Serve
> Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agnes and Jessie Lee's good adventure
>
> Agnes and Jessie Lee attended the Public Banking Institute conference 2013
> Sunday to Tues 2 to 4 June held at Dominican University in San Rafael.
>
> It was a wonderful event with many excellent speakers, almost all of whom
> offered a positive view and great SOLUTIONS!!
>
> Agnes purchased the DVD "The SEcret of OZ" and Jessie Lee got "The
> Creature
> from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"
>
> We could have a viewing party???  And share these DVD's together perhaps?
>
> If others are interested, please respond to list serve so an estimate of
> interest can be ascertained.
>
> jlv
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jun 10 22:29:46 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:29:46 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Public Banking 2013 - Funding the New
	Economy Daily Update]
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Hi occupy,
Here's a view into one of the slide presentations on the Post offices that
are up for sale in many large cities, selling off our heritage of Works
Project Art Work during the New Deal Era.


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All good and I for one appreciate the input about various
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 10 22:30:40 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:30:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Are You Too Weak to Live With Freedom?
Message-ID: <ED696E60-2D0E-41BF-9AB8-DD19A5B03A06@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/17868-are-you-too-weak-to-live-with-freedom

Are You Too Weak to Live With Freedom?


By Briana Madden, Reader Supported News

10 June 13

 
en years ago, I might've been able to dismiss my father's cracks about the FBI listening in on his phone calls as paranoia or an overly-active imagination. Now, everywhere I look there is glaring evidence of a colossal and ever-growing surveillance state that is quietly stomping all over our freedoms of speech and of privacy.

Alan Kors, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, said this about university and college policies limiting speech: "What universities are saying - to women, to blacks, to Hispanics, to gay and lesbian students - is, 'You are too weak to live with freedom.' ... If someone tells you you are too weak to live with freedom, they have turned you into a child." Well, ladies and gentlemen, the United States government has turned you into a child.

Among the very first handful of ideas the founders of the United States sought to protect was freedom of speech. So important was this inherent human right to the creators of our country that they wasted no time making sure it was codified into law. Today, our lawmakers twist and turn this basic freedom and bend it to their various corporate-poisoned wills so much that it is close to unrecognizable. Today, we are denied the information necessary to hold those in power accountable. Today, we have become too weak to live with freedom.

The "white paper" published by NBC earlier this year revealed not only a disgusting truth about the policies of the Obama administration but also a stark revelation about the resolve of the American people. Despite countless hollow promises of transparency regarding the "War on Terror" made by President Obama during his first term and again during his State of the Union address in February, a classified Justice Department document leaked to reporter Michael Isikoff illustrates just how little transparency we have achieved. The "white paper" asserts Obama's right to play judge, jury and executioner in cases of American citizens suspected as terrorists.

As terrifying as this information is, it is only one piece of the extensive puzzle that is the U.S. government's disregard for the Constitution. Despite lawsuits filed by both The New York Times and the American Civil Liberties Union requesting the release of classified legal opinions on the targeted killings - information only recently issued to Congress - the American people are being denied the opportunity to react to the actions of their government. Even the judge who issued the denial was skeptical about the lawfulness of the White House's actions. The worst part: no one cares. We are not rioting in the streets. We are not bombarding the Justice Department with lawsuits. We are not putting up a fight. We have consented to this secrecy.

We can see quite clearly through Bradley Manning's experiences what happens to those who actively withhold their consent for government secrecy. After three years of more than rough treatment at the hands of his accuser, Manning's court-martial is happening under a nearly impenetrable veil of secrecy, a reality reported on by RSN's own Scott Galindez, Bill Simpich and Kay Rudin upon their attempts to gain access to the trial. This, of course, raises the question of the government's ethical footing in this case. As Juan Cole spells out here, the charges facing Manning carry with them the stench of hypocrisy:

"The US Government has been gleefully getting access to your private correspondence and that gave the Government Class an inherent superiority over ordinary Americans. Manning announced that turnabout is fair play, and we should be able to see their correspondence, too, especially given the war crimes in Iraq. That's why they're trying to execute him."
It appears the truth will not set you free in dealing with the Obama administration, and the war on whistleblowers may see yet another casualty. Edward Snowden revealed his identity yesterday as the man responsible for leaking proof of the NSA's massive domestic surveillance program, and he is prepared to accept the consequences. In an interview conducted by Glenn Greenwald, Snowden said his sole motivation was to inform the public of the truth and acknowledged the possible actions the U.S. could take against him. He appeared calm and at peace with his future, saying "I am not afraid, because this is the choice I've made."

To say the world needs more brave souls like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden would be a gross simplification of the problem. The world would indeed benefit from more of those with access to the facts stepping up and taking great personal risk to bring important information into the public eye. However, we shouldn't need to depend on whistleblowers and leaks. We need to withdraw our consent for government secrecy and be strong enough to not only live with, but demand, our freedom.


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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Mon Jun 10 22:42:40 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:42:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agnes and Jessie Lee's good adventure
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I have not watched the entire DVD yet and there is nothing on the DVD or case saying how long it is.  But yes, it is about the secret meeting to create the Federal Reserve Bank and what it started.

It will be great to share it with whoever wants to watch it.

Jessie Lee
On Jun 10, 2013, at 10:19 PM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:

> Jessie,
> I am interested in The Creature from Jekyll Island. It's about the secret
> meeting of money men drawing up the Federal Reserve Bank and fractional
> reserve system of banking. Count me in.
> 
> The Secret of Oz is 101 minutes long- it's about American History and
> banking including alternative money used to pay for the Revolutionary and
> Civil Wars. Please specify which film you want to see and we will try to
> reserve the Library Community Room to show it.
> Agnes
> 
>> I am interested. Thank you ladies!
>> Tammy
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jessie Lee VanSant
>> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 3:02 PM
>> To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org Serve
>> Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agnes and Jessie Lee's good adventure
>> 
>> Agnes and Jessie Lee attended the Public Banking Institute conference 2013
>> Sunday to Tues 2 to 4 June held at Dominican University in San Rafael.
>> 
>> It was a wonderful event with many excellent speakers, almost all of whom
>> offered a positive view and great SOLUTIONS!!
>> 
>> Agnes purchased the DVD "The SEcret of OZ" and Jessie Lee got "The
>> Creature
>> from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve"
>> 
>> We could have a viewing party???  And share these DVD's together perhaps?
>> 
>> If others are interested, please respond to list serve so an estimate of
>> interest can be ascertained.
>> 
>> jlv
>> 
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 10 22:45:03 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:45:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Obama pressured over NSA snooping as US senator
	denounces 'act of treason'
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/10/obama-pressured-explain-nsa-surveillance

Obama pressured over NSA snooping as US senator denounces 'act of treason'


Officials in European capitals denounced the practice of secretly gathering digital information on Europeans as unacceptable. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
Barack Obama was facing a mounting domestic and international backlash against US surveillance operations on Monday as his administration struggled to contain one of the most explosive national security leaks in US history.

Political opinion in the US was split with some members of Congress calling for the immediate extradition from Hong Kong of the whistleblower, Edward Snowden. But other senior politicians in both main parties questioned whether US surveillance practices had gone too far.

Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the national intelligence committee, has ordered the NSA to review how it limits the exposure of Americans to government surveillance. But she made clear her disapproval of Snowden. "What he did was an act of treason," she said. (Treason? For exposing an illegal activity? M.S.) 

Officials in European capitals demanded immediate answers from their US counterparts and denounced the practice of secretly gathering digital information on Europeans as unacceptable, illegal and a serious violation of basic rights. The NSA, meanwhile, asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation and said that it was assessing the damage caused by the disclosures.

Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst who revealed secrets of the Vietnam war through the Pentagon Papers in 1971, described Snowden's leak as even more important and perhaps the most significant leak in American history.

Snowden disclosed his identity in an explosive interview with the Guardian, published on Sunday, which revealed he was a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Snowden worked at the National Security Agency for the past four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell.

In his interview, Snowden revealed himself as the source for a series of articles in the Guardian last week, which included disclosures of a wide-ranging secret court order that demanded Verizon pass to the NSA the details of phone calls related to millions of customers, and a huge NSA intelligence system called Prism, which collects data on intelligence targets from the systems of some of the biggest tech companies.

Snowden said he had become disillusioned with the overarching nature of government surveillance in the US. "The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to," he said.

"My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them."

As media interest intensified on Monday, Snowden checked out of the Hong Kong hotel where he had been staying, and moved to an undisclosed location.

Reacting to Snowden's revelations, Paul Ryan, the former Republican vice-presidential nominee, raised questions about whether privacy was being unduly threatened. "I'm sure somebody can come up with a great computer program that says: 'We can do X, Y, and Z,' but that doesn't mean that it's right," he told a radio station in Wisconsin. "I want to learn a lot more about it on behalf of the people I represent," he added.

Pressure was growing on the White House to explain whether there was effective congressional oversight of the programmes revealed by Snowden. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said in an NBC interview that he had responded in the "least untruthful manner" possible when he denied in congressional hearings last year that the NSA collected data on millions of Americans.

Clapper also confirmed that Feinstein had asked for a review to "refine these NSA processes and limit the exposure to Americans' private communications" and report back "in about a month".

In Europe, the German chancellor Angela Merkel indicated she would press Obama on the revelations at a Berlin summit next week, while deputy European Commission chief Viviane Reding said she would press US officials in Dublin on Friday, adding that "a clear legal framework for the protection of personal data is not a luxury or constraint but a fundamental right".

Peter Schaar, Germany's federal data protection commissioner told the Guardian that it was unacceptable that US authorities have access to the data of European citizens "and the level of protection is lower than what is guaranteed for US citizens." His Italian counterpart, Antonello Soro, said that the data dragnet "would not be legal in Italy" and would be "contrary to the principles of our legislation and would represent a very serious violation".

In London, the British foreign secretary William Hague was forced to defend the UK's use of intelligence gathered by the US. In the House of Commons, Hague told MPs that British laws did not allow for "indiscriminate trawling" for information. "There is no danger of a deep state out of control in some way," he said.

But Hague was reluctant to go into detail on how Britain handled information offered by US intelligence agencies, as opposed to information requested, or whether it was subject to the same ministerial oversight, including warrants.

Civil liberties groups ask for review of 'secret law'

The Obama administration offered no indication on Monday about what it intended to do about Snowden. The White House did however say he had sparked an "appropriate debate" and hinted it might welcome revision of the Patriot Act, legislation introduced in 2001 which it claims gives legal authority for the programmes carried out by the National Security Agency.

"If [congressional] debate were to build to a consensus around changes [to the Patriot Act] the president would look at that," said spokesman Jay Carney. "Although this is hardly the manner of discussion we hoped for, we would still like to have the debate."

The first polls since the leak stories first broke indicated that the majority of Americans oppose the government scooping up their phone data. According to the Rasmussen poll just 26% of voters are in favour of the government's collection of data from Verizon while 59% are opposed. In total 46% of Americans think that their own data has been monitored. But a poll by the Pew Research Center, asking a more general question, said 56% respondents approved of the NSA surveillance program.

The ACLU and Yale Law School's Media Freedom and Information Clinic filed a motion on Monday asking for secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions on the Patriot Act to be made public in the light of the Guardian's revelations.

The motion asks for any documents relating to the court's interpretation of the scope, meaning and constitutionality of Section 215 of the Patriot Act ? which authorises government to obtain "any tangible thing" relevant to foreign intelligence or terrorism investigations ? to be published "as quickly as possible" and with only minimal redaction.

"In a democracy, there should be no room for secret law," said Jameel Jaffer, ACLU deputy legal director. "The public has a right to know what limits apply to the government's surveillance authority, and what safeguards are in place to protect individual privacy."

There was support for Snowden among civil liberty activists. Ellsberg wrote for the Guardian: "In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material ? and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago".

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an internet rights group, called for a "new Church committee" to investigate potential government infringements on privacy and to write new rules protecting the public. In the wake of the Watergate affair in the mid-1970s, a Senate investigation led by Idaho senator Frank Church uncovered decades of serious abuse by the US government of its eavesdropping powers. The committee report led to the passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and set up the Fisa courts that today secretly approve surveillance requests.

Both Snowden and the Obama administration appeared to be considering their options on Monday. Hong Kong, which has an extradition treaty with the US, is unlikely to offer Snowden a permanent refuge. But Snowden could buy time by filing an asylum request, thanks to a landmark legal ruling that has thrown the system into disarray.

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Hong Kong said the case could be a "strong test" of the Chinese province's commitment to freedom of expression. "The FCC will watch closely how the SAR [Hong Kong] government handles his case, and in particular how it responds to any pressure from authorities both in Washington and Beijing to restrict his activities or to impede access by the media," it said in a statement.

In New York, the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, cancelled at very short notice a planned photo opportunity with the Hong Kong chief executive, Leung Chun-ying. "It would have been a circus, so we decided to catch up with him another time," a mayoral spokesman told the Guardian.

Additional reporting by Matt Williams and Tom McCarthy in New York.


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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jun 11 23:12:22 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:12:22 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] USA = Unforgiving, Spiteful, Angry
Message-ID: <539AC0D4-EF03-419F-A962-16F30EC97DBC@att.net>


http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/304-justice/17878-usa-unforgiving-spiteful-angry

USA = Unforgiving, Spiteful, Angry


By Scott Galindez, Reader Supported News

11 June 13

 

 
n February 28th, Bradley Manning pleaded guilty to 10 charges that would have put him in prison for 20 years. This should have been enough to satisfy everyone, but it wasn't enough for the unforgiving, spiteful, and angry.

It was no surprise that the security state apparatus was not satisfied with twenty years. They always want blood in a case like this; I don't think life in prison would be enough for them.

The Army itself probably made the decision, but one would think that pressure from the commander in chief could have gotten them to accept the deal. I don't expect generals to show compassion. I don't even expect compassion from a president who comes from the right wing of either political party. But from the "community organizer" who ran on a plank of hope and change, I thought we could expect some compassion.

Twenty years in prison is a long time. It is a punishment that fits the crime. That is if you consider whistleblowing to be a crime. I don't, and a decade ago I didn't think candidate Obama did either. This quote about whistleblowers from candidate Obama, "Such acts of courage and patriotism ... should be encouraged rather than stifled," indicated he didn't. Well, now his record as president is one of ruthless action against whistleblowers.

The real criminals who destroyed our economy with their moneymaking schemes, causing people to lose their homes, and even in some cases their families and their lives, are shown compassion ? while those who are trying to expose the truth are prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

As I sit here watching witness after witness testify to what Bradley Manning already admitted he did, I have to wonder how much could have been saved if the government had just accepted Manning's guilty plea.

Bradley Manning brought the ugly truth to the American people. He even admitted he violated the law and pleaded guilty. The reason it wasn't enough is it exposed the fact that America is not always right, that America is not a shining beacon on a hill that shows the world what is right.

It is the bravery of people like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden that may one day lead us to a country that sets a good example for the rest of the world.



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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jun 11 09:04:26 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:04:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: USEFUL PHRASES FOR THE SURVEILLANCE
	STATE
Message-ID: <E240C4F5-5BE4-4853-828F-BA4D2E861EB7@att.net>


 USEFUL PHRASES FOR THE SURVEILLANCE STATE


NEW YORK ?In the event that the U.S. government is monitoring your conversations, here are some useful phrases to insert into your phone calls, texts, or e-mails:

I think the N.S.A. is awesome.

I just reread ?Nineteen Eighty-Four??it actually has a lot of good ideas in it!

There?s no such thing as a ?bad? drone.

Sure am glad that I never talk to any foreigners.

I wouldn?t know the first thing about making ricin.

The Fourth Amendment is overrated.

If you ask me, Guant?namo is full of nothing but complainers.

Just changed my Facebook status from ?Single? to ?In a Relationship with America.?

I?m pretty sure my neighbor is cheating on his taxes.



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun 12 23:42:54 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 23:42:54 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] can-justice-sotomayor-stop-the-nsa?
Message-ID: <B5525293-3173-4727-8599-FE76394C4002@mcn.org>

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/06/can-justice-sotomayor-stop-the-nsa.html

JUNE 7, 2013
CAN JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR STOP THE N.S.A.?
POSTED BY LYNN OBERLANDER
The Verizon Business customers who learned, this week, that the company had given records of every call they made within and from the United States to the National Security Agency might also have been surprised to find out that, under current law, the government did not need a warrant (or probable cause) to access that information. The records are not considered private, and all the government needed was an order from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court. That might sound like a safeguard against government overreach, but the court approved all but one of the five thousand one hundred and eightyapplications submitted for surveillance and physical searches between 2010 and 2012. It is hardly what you would call a watchdog...
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Thu Jun 13 00:01:49 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:01:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] petition to tell county and state treasurers to
	do their job!!
Message-ID: <2FE9F807-2B03-4078-8A5A-881E790DA78B@gmail.com>

Subject: State and County Treasurers: Do Your Fiduciary Duty!

Hi,

49 of the 50 State Treasurers and all County Treasurers deposit our taxpayer revenues (state income tax, property tax, sales tax, etc.) into private banks.  What is their plan to prevent city, county and state governments from becoming creditors for the too-big-to-fail banks, the next time these banks lose a multi-billion dollar bet? Because of their fiduciary responsibility to the public, we request that our public finance officials answer the question: what is the risk we have in doing business with too-big-to-fail banks that, as demonstrated in Cyprus, are apparently now able to seize deposits and convert them to capital?

That's why I signed a petition to All County Treasurers in the USA and All State Treasurers in the USA (except the North Dakota Treasurer, who deposits tax receipts into their public bank).

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/state-and-county-treasurers-1?source=s.icn.em.cp&r_by=7244206

Thanks!



From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jun 13 10:16:00 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:16:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] From a former Ft. Bragg employee
Message-ID: <BD90C227-FEFE-4833-A4B0-7D14D2BBC904@att.net>

Re: State and County Treasurers: Do Your Fiduciary Duty!


A very good idea.  And the deeper you dig into public finances and things like Municipal Bonds, the more tangled things become.

I learned far more than I wanted to know about Fort Bragg's finances during my employment there.  Fort Bragg's $$ are deposited in the local branch of BofA.

Some Credit Unions accept govt funds, but some do not.  When I worked for the Hoopa Tribal Council, the checks came from Coast Central Credit Union. The Vashon Island set-up has been part of another e-mail distribution.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jun 13 10:39:12 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:39:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] two videos:David Cobb and Victoria Grant
Message-ID: <1c5976cd36a2423cd87e0be0f5a8776e.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Here's two dynamite speeches from the Public Banking conference, courtesy
of Steve Scalmanini.
Agnes

20130604  08.45  Public Banking Conference - Q&A Session on Public Banking
 [24.06].mp3




From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jun 13 10:45:30 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:45:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] RSN interviews Matt Taibbi about Financial and
	Banking System
Message-ID: <CB2FC2B4-6F32-4465-B0B7-1C4F3AB69642@mcn.org>

arl Gibson: So I'm Carl Gibson of readersupportednews.org, and I'm sitting here with Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone magazine, author of several books and all-around storyteller of the financial finagling of our system. And Matt, you have a unique gift, I gotta say, of taking abstract concepts like the financial and banking system, and making it really simple in a way that people can understand. Now, with public banking, do you see this as a way for people to understand this concept in simple, concrete terms?

Rest of story:   http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/17911-my-chat-with-matt-taibbi
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jun 13 12:33:53 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:33:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Murdoch Divorce Stuns Satan
Message-ID: <58EF2E6B-28ED-4C51-B96F-F6CD81EDC1D3@att.net>


MURDOCH DIVORCE STUNS SATAN



HELL ?Word that the News Corporation chief executive Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his wife, Wendi Deng, came as a ?total surprise? to longtime Murdoch confidant Satan, the Lord of the Underworld said today.

?I am totally blindsided by this,? Satan told reporters. ?He and I talk every day.?

Citing his long history with the media titan, the Hound of Hell said, ?We go way back. I gave him the idea for Fox News. I told him to hire Roger Ailes. That?s why this is such a shock.?

A frequent dining companion of the Murdochs, Satan said he ?didn?t have a clue that they were having problems.?

?I?ve had dozens of dinners with them in the Hamptons,? he said. ?Did they bicker? No more than other couples. But they seemed to be on the same page about all the important things, like creating corrupt media monopolies and buying politicians. I thought they were for keeps.?

Adding that he ?cares deeply about his friends,? Satan said the news about the Murdochs had hit him especially hard: ?I was just starting to get over the Putins.?

The Prince of Darkness said he first got word of the Murdoch divorce about an hour before the official announcement: ?My banker at Goldman Sachs called and told me to sell my News Corp. stock right away.?



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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jun 14 07:48:46 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:48:46 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Your Hormones Tell You How To Vote
Message-ID: <D8EDEA9C-1B69-404B-A36D-0F9733BFE6E6@att.net>


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/how-hormones-influence-our-political-opinions

Your Hormones Tell You How To Vote

Andrei Zarubaika/Shutterstock
Today we're witnessing an explosion of research on the biological factors that may underlie our political views. This new body of science is, slowly but surely, upending the old "I vote Democrat because Mom and Dad did" view of where our ideologies come from, and substituting an explanation based on genes, personalities, and emotions.

But to draw a seamless connection between a person's genes and his or her political orientation poses a formidable scientific challenge. What's more, there's a crucial biological step that, thus far, has been largely missing. Genes, after all, are simply the code or template that our cells use to make proteins. So what are those proteins doing in the body to create political leanings?

Today's political psychologists and biologists are homing in on a possible answer: Genetic differences may influence the body's production of hormones (such as testosterone) and neurotransmitters (such as dopamine). These chemical messengers flow through the bloodstream and in between nerve cells, shaping our patterns of attention, response, emotions, and much else. Such patterns, the thinking goes, then come together to create our values and personalities; and these, along with input from our surroundings, impel our political ideologies and behaviors.

"Those people who don't vote are the people who tend to have fairly high cortisol levels. Because politics is pretty stressful."
"The variation between people in hormone levels is just tremendous, and I don't think we really appreciate that," explains John Hibbing, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who has been a pioneer in studying the biology of ideology.

This is a very new field, but already researchers have homed in on some hormones and neurotransmitters that may be involved in politics:

Cortisol: This stress hormone may also influence us politically, according to recent research by Hibbing and his collaborators. "You can see people's cortisol levels go up dramatically when you stress them out," Hibbing says?for instance, by requiring them to prepare to give a speech that is going to be videotaped. "We are finding there are relationships between cortisol and not voting. Those people who don't vote are the people who tend to have fairly high cortisol levels. Because politics is pretty stressful."

Testosterone. "There is genetic variance in how much testosterone someone has at birth, and there are certain things that can enhance or diminish that," explains Brown University political scientist Rose McDermott, a prominent researcher on the science of ideology who authored a recent book chapter on hormones and politics. "One of those things that enhance that is muscle mass?if you build muscle mass, you enhance" your testosterone levels.

What might this have to do with politics? While direct research linking testosterone to ideology is lacking, researchers have recently published data tying muscle mass to political preferences. One study shows that rich men with large biceps are more opposed to wealth redistribution than rich men with small biceps. Another study finds that weightlifting ability correlates with support for, er, a more muscular foreign policy. Plus, get this: Men with wider faces (an indicator of testosterone levels) have been found to be more willing to outwardly express prejudicial beliefs than their thin-faced counterparts.

Oxytocin: Often dubbed the "love hormone" because of its role in forging ties between lovers (and parents and children), oxytocin may also have a role in politics. Paul Zak, a neuroeconomist at Claremont Graduate University, describes research in which a nasal spray containing oxytocin made research subjects more generous in sharing money to with one another. But before you jump to the conclusion that oxytocin simply fuels generosity, consider another study, in which the hormone seemed to promote cooperation with your in-group or tribe, but quite the opposite with an outside group or tribe that threatens you. Clearly there are strong political implications here?and not entirely cuddly ones.

Dopamine: This neurotransmitter shapes our need for pleasure, rewards, and novel sensations. Indeed, "sensation seeking" has been associated with particular dopamine receptors in the brain whose numbers vary, for genetic reasons, from individual to individual. A particular variant of the gene that codes for these receptors has, in turn, been associated with political liberalism; one study found that people who had the key gene variant in question were more likely to be political liberals.

None of which is to say that researchers can definitively say how any of the four chemicals discussed here?cortisol, testosterone, oxytocin, and dopamine?may affect us politically. Nor are they the only candidate hormones or neurotransmitters that may do so. "I think it would be a mistake to kind of lead people to believe that in the near future this is going to be tied up with a ribbon," says Hibbing.

For Hibbing that's good news, because studying political hormones could help lay to rest the concern that the new biology-of-politics research is focused on simplistic genetic explanations for why we think as we do. "It moves us a little bit away from the nature-nurture debate, because clearly, the nature of your endocrine system and how it's released, it's influenced by genetics, but also by your experiences in your early life," he says. Our hormones pulse and cascade, in part, in response to what happens to us?and what has happened to us. And over time, a pattern of response can be laid down. Nobody disputes that?but what scientists are now saying is that the pattern itself may influence our political leanings.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Jun 14 10:19:03 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:19:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Re: County Recorders Association of
	California]
Message-ID: <89160d05770bb273f0be00b960cd5c5a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Occupy activists, Please print and send or email Jed's letter to state and
federal representatives.
Agnes

Here is the template for the representative letter.

DATE



To: YOUR REPRESENTATIVE

From: YOUR NAME



Re: Legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to Record Foreclosure
Documents



Dear ____________________,

My name is _____________________. I am concerned about the integrity of our
Public Records, the safety of land ownership, and the possibility of
millions of clouded titles across the nation for generations to come.

The United States has always been one of the most secure and safest
countries in the world for property ownership. This security of property
ownership is substantiated in the fact that the chain of title can be
traced back hundreds of years to the original land grant through
transparent, public records.

The integrity of our Public Records has already been compromised thousands,
if not millions of times over by foreclosures in which there have been
numerous legal and procedural violations. These violations nullify the
Notice of Default and thus any sale and transfer of the property. Many of
these violations are criminal violations, which carry large fines as well
as prison time, yet no one from any of these banks or foreclosure
institutions has yet been prosecuted.

This massive transfer of real property through foreclosures using documents
that in fact nullify the sale, poses serious risks to the future of public
records and the sale of future properties as well as the property values of
every land owner in America, even those *who currently have properties with
clear titles. *

The banks are using many improper tactics to forcefully foreclose on
properties. These tactics violate two (2) California Penal Codes, five (5)
California Commercial Codes, three (3) US Commercial Codes, five (5)
Judgments, an IRS Bulletin, ALL SEC Pooling and Servicing Agreements, ALL
OCC Cease and Desist Orders, and ALL Federal Consent Judgments.

All of these violations either nullify the NOD and thus any future
foreclosure and sale, or negate the legal interest in any property that the
current Trustee and Servicer claim to have. This question of ?who legally
has beneficial rights to the note?? raises unquestionably serious doubt as
to whom a borrower is legally obligated to pay.

In fact, millions of homeowners in good standing may be unknowingly making
payments to a lender who does not have *legal* beneficial rights to the
payments, due to the fact the banks violated the Trust?s Pooling and
Serving Agreement Section 2.01 regarding assignments, and chose instead to
make impossible or illegal assignments, substitutions, attorney-in-fact
designations, and/or agency claims.

 The violations that many documents contain include the following:

1.     False notarizations

2.     Forged signatures

3.     Illegal Servicer Beneficial Assignment

4.     Impossible Beneficiary Designation

5.     Impossible Substitution

6.     Fake Agency Designation

7.     False Beneficiaries as in Defunct Lenders

8.     Assignments Recorded long AFTER Mortgage Backed Security?s Pooling
and Servicing Agreement limit of 90 days

9.     No evidence that any transfer of interest was accompanied by
consideration as stated in the recorded documents

10. Violations of the Holder in Due Course Doctrine

11. Impossible Principal/Agent Designations

12. MERS Conveyance from a defunct lender

13. Violation of OCC Cease and Desist Orders of April 13, 2011

14. Contempt of Court by violating the April 4, 2012 Consent Judgments

It should seem VERY obvious that what is currently happening to our public
records will definitely have huge, adverse ramifications to the well-being
of our society and individual homeowners.  This destruction and muddling of
our public records must stop immediately!

The Public Recorders are the custodians of our public records and they see
first hand what the banks have done and continue to do to our records.
While it is their constitutional duty to record documents without bias, it
is also their fiduciary responsibility to maintain and protect the
integrity of these recorded documents, yet they do not have the authority
to make recording requirement changes. These changes must be made at the
state level.

That is why I am asking you to make the necessary, immediate changes to
stop further obfuscation and destruction of our records by requiring that
an Affidavit of Authority be recorded along with all foreclosure documents.

Luckily, there is some recent precedent that can be examined regarding this
issue.



John O?Brien, Register of Deeds in the Southern Essex District in Salem
Massachusetts took it upon himself and his office to perform an audit of
the public records.  He now refuses to record any document with a known
forged signature without an Affidavit of Authority.



He recently succeeded in getting an Anti-Foreclosure Ordinance passed in
his town of Lynn, MA.

Fact Sheet:  http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/ObrienLynnOrdFactsheet.pdf

Ordinance:  http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/ObrienLynnCityOrdinance.pdf



His public presentation of rampant forged foreclosure documents can be
viewed at the following link:
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458



The findings of Mr. O?Brien?s audit can be found at the following link:

http://www.salemdeeds.com/pdf/Audit.pdf



Mr. O?Brien?s Affidavit for Restitution in the case against Doc X (a
foreclosure mill similar to Recontrust here in California), which has been
found guilty of foreclosure fraud, can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/JohnOBrienAffidavit.pdf



The Supreme Court of Illinois recently enacted new rules regarding mortgage
foreclosure case effective May 1, 2013. These seem to be the most
comprehensive requirements to date that deal with* *all of the violations
that are being made on a routine basis. Here is the link to the opinion
written by Stahl Cowen Law Firm:
http://www.stahlcowen.com/?t=11&la=2329&format=xml



The Nevada State Assembly passed AB284 in May 2011, requiring an Affidavit
of Authority be included with foreclosure documents presented for
recordation.  Here is the link to that bill:
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB284_EN.pdf

After the passage of this bill, foreclosures dropped nearly 97%, because
the mega-banks are unwilling to risk having to prove their legal right to
foreclose. This indicates what is going on in recorder?s offices everywhere
around the country.

As you can see, stopping these fraudulent foreclosures is paramount the
integrity of our public records and the future of real property ownership,
and demands our immediate attention.

I respectfully urge you to do everything in your power to maintain the
integrity of our public records and stop the banks from running roughshod
over our legal system, our public records, and our ownership rights.

For the benefit of your constituents, your family, your friends, public
records, and the future of secure property ownership, please pass
legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to be included and recorded
with each assignment, trustee substitution, and foreclosure document.  I
ask you to address this issue immediately.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.



Sincerely,





YOUR NAME




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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jun 14 17:03:32 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:03:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Meeting?
Message-ID: <83141136-A625-440B-8091-21A084C85EDD@att.net>

I don't know where it is. If nobody tells me, I'll go to the Senior Center Barbecue and crank up my cholesterol.
Regards, Mark 

From nsdusoir at mcn.org  Fri Jun 14 19:28:43 2013
From: nsdusoir at mcn.org (Howard Ennes)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:28:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Saturday's OCCUPY General Assembly
Message-ID: <3002B50F-5C55-4271-81A1-10ADBD0841A0@mcn.org>


 I'm not sure that this is the best way to let everyone know that our regular OCCUPY GENERAL ASSEMBLY will meet at my home in Fort Bragg tomorrow, Saturday June 15, from 2 to 4 p.m.

	The address is 160 Woodland Drive, Fort Bragg ?? that is opposite Dana School, off Chestnut Street, in Fort Bragg.  My phone is 964-7860 if you get lost!

	See you tomorrow . . . there's much to discuss.

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From agnes at mcn.org  Fri Jun 14 20:16:01 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:16:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Ellen Brown's article-The Confiscation scheme
 planned for US and UK depositors
Message-ID: <ac6c3df7d2afde1cf240733d23828f3a.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Sheila, Be sure to read this:


CounterPunch by email for only $35 per year.
March 28, 2013
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It Can Happen Here
The Confiscation Scheme Planned for US and UK Depositors
by ELLEN BROWN

Confiscating the customer deposits in Cyprus banks, it seems, was not a
one-off, desperate idea of a few Eurozone ?troika? officials scrambling to
salvage their balance sheets. A joint paper by the US Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation and the Bank of England dated December 10, 2012,
shows that these plans have been long in the making; that they originated
with the G20 Financial Stability Board in Basel, Switzerland (discussed
earlier here); and that the result will be to deliver clear title to the
banks of depositor funds.

New Zealand has a similar directive, discussed in my last article here,
indicating that this isn?t just an emergency measure for troubled Eurozone
countries. New Zealand?s Voxy reported on March 19th:

    The National Government [is] pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank
failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of
their savings to fund big bank bailouts . . . .

    Open Bank Resolution (OBR) is Finance Minister Bill English?s favoured
option dealing with a major bank failure. If a bank fails under OBR,
all depositors will have their savings reduced overnight to fund the
bank?s bail out.

Can They Do That?

Although few depositors realize it, legally the bank owns the depositor?s
funds as soon as they are put in the bank. Our money becomes the bank?s,
and we become unsecured creditors holding IOUs or promises to pay. (See
here and here.) But until now the bank has been obligated to pay the money
back on demand in the form of cash. Under the FDIC-BOE plan, our IOUs will
be converted into ?bank equity.?  The bank will get the money and we will
get stock in the bank. With any luck we may be able to sell the stock to
someone else, but when and at what price? Most people keep a deposit
account so they can have ready cash to pay the bills.

The 15-page FDIC-BOE document is called ?Resolving Globally Active,
Systemically Important, Financial Institutions.?  It begins by explaining
that the 2008 banking crisis has made it clear that some other way besides
taxpayer bailouts is needed to maintain ?financial stability.? Evidently
anticipating that the next financial collapse will be on a grander scale
than either the taxpayers or Congress is willing to underwrite, the
authors state:

    An efficient path for returning the sound operations of the G-SIFI to
the private sector would be provided by exchanging or converting a
sufficient amount of the unsecured debt from the original creditors of
the failed company [meaning the depositors] into equity [or stock]. In
the U.S., the new equity would become capital in one or more newly
formed operating entities. In the U.K., the same approach could be
used, or the equity could be used to recapitalize the failing
financial company itself?thus, the highest layer of surviving
bailed-in creditors would become the owners of the resolved firm. In
either country, the new equity holders would take on the corresponding
risk of being shareholders in a financial institution.

No exception is indicated for ?insured deposits? in the U.S., meaning
those under $250,000, the deposits we thought were protected by FDIC
insurance. This can hardly be an oversight, since it is the FDIC that is
issuing the directive. The FDIC is an insurance company funded by premiums
paid by private banks.  The directive is called a ?resolution process,?
defined elsewhere as a plan that ?would be triggered in the event of the
failure of an insurer . . . .? The only  mention of ?insured deposits? is
in connection with existing UK legislation, which the FDIC-BOE directive
goes on to say is inadequate, implying that it needs to be modified or
overridden.

An Imminent Risk

If our IOUs are converted to bank stock, they will no longer be subject to
insurance protection but will be ?at risk? and vulnerable to being wiped
out, just as the Lehman Brothers shareholders were in 2008.  That this
dire scenario could actually materialize was underscored by Yves Smith in
a March 19th post titled When You Weren?t Looking, Democrat Bank Stooges
Launch Bills to Permit Bailouts, Deregulate Derivatives.  She writes:

    In the US, depositors have actually been put in a worse position than
Cyprus deposit-holders, at least if they are at the big banks that
play in the derivatives casino. The regulators have turned a blind eye
as banks use their depositaries to fund derivatives exposures. And as
bad as that is, the depositors, unlike their Cypriot confreres, aren?t
even senior creditors. Remember Lehman? When the investment bank
failed, unsecured creditors (and remember, depositors are unsecured
creditors) got eight cents on the dollar. One big reason was that
derivatives counterparties require collateral for any exposures,
meaning they are secured creditors. The 2005 bankruptcy reforms made
derivatives counterparties senior to unsecured lenders.

One might wonder why the posting of collateral by a derivative
counterparty, at some percentage of full exposure, makes the creditor
?secured,? while the depositor who puts up 100 cents on the dollar is
?unsecured.? But moving on ? Smith writes:

    Lehman had only two itty bitty banking subsidiaries, and to my
knowledge, was not gathering retail deposits. But as readers may
recall, Bank of America moved most of its derivatives from its Merrill
Lynch operation [to] its depositary in late 2011.

Its ?depositary? is the arm of the bank that takes deposits; and at B of
A, that means lots and lots of deposits. The deposits are now subject to
being wiped out by a major derivatives loss. How bad could that be? Smith
quotes Bloomberg:

    . . . Bank of America?s holding company . . . held almost $75 trillion
of derivatives at the end of June . . . .

    That compares with JPMorgan?s deposit-taking entity, JPMorgan Chase
Bank NA, which contained 99 percent of the New York-based firm?s $79
trillion of notional derivatives, the OCC data show.

$75 trillion and $79 trillion in derivatives! These two mega-banks alone
hold more in notional derivatives each than the entire global GDP (at $70
trillion). The ?notional value? of derivatives is not the same as cash at
risk, but according to a cross-post on Smith?s site:

    By at least one estimate, in 2010 there was a total of $12 trillion in
cash tied up (at risk) in derivatives . . . .

$12 trillion is close to the US GDP.  Smith goes on:

    . . . Remember the effect of the 2005 bankruptcy law revisions:
derivatives counterparties are first in line, they get to grab assets
first and leave everyone else to scramble for crumbs. . . . Lehman
failed over a weekend after JP Morgan grabbed collateral.

    But it?s even worse than that. During the savings & loan crisis, the
FDIC did not have enough in deposit insurance receipts to pay for the
Resolution Trust Corporation wind-down vehicle. It had to get more
funding from Congress. This move paves the way for another TARP-style
shakedown of taxpayers, this time to save depositors.

Perhaps, but Congress has already been burned and is liable to balk a
second time. Section 716 of the Dodd-Frank Act specifically prohibits
public support for speculative derivatives activities. And in the
Eurozone, while the European Stability Mechanism committed Eurozone
countries to bail out failed banks, they are apparently having second
thoughts there as well. On March 25th, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen
Dijsselbloem, who played a leading role in imposing the deposit
confiscation plan on Cyprus, told reporters that it would be the template
for any future bank bailouts, and that ?the aim is for the ESM never to
have to be used.?

That explains the need for the FDIC-BOE resolution. If the anticipated
enabling legislation is passed, the FDIC will no longer need to protect
depositor funds; it can just confiscate them.

Worse Than a Tax

An FDIC confiscation of deposits to recapitalize the banks is far
different from a simple tax on taxpayers to pay government expenses. The
government?s debt is at least arguably the people?s debt, since the
government is there to provide services for the people. But when the banks
get into trouble with their derivative schemes, they are not serving
depositors, who are not getting a cut of the profits. Taking depositor
funds is simply theft.

What should be done is to raise FDIC insurance premiums and make the banks
pay to keep their depositors whole, but premiums are already high; and the
FDIC, like other government regulatory agencies, is subject to regulatory
capture.  Deposit insurance has failed, and so has the private banking
system that has depended on it for the trust that makes banking work.

The Cyprus haircut on depositors was called a ?wealth tax? and was written
off by commentators as ?deserved,? because much of the money in Cypriot
accounts belongs to foreign oligarchs, tax dodgers and money launderers.
But if that template is applied in the US, it will be a tax on the poor
and middle class. Wealthy Americans don?t keep most of their money in bank
accounts.  They keep it in the stock market, in real estate, in
over-the-counter derivatives, in gold and silver, and so forth.

Are you safe, then, if your money is in gold and silver? Apparently not ?
if it?s stored in a safety deposit box in the bank.  Homeland Security has
reportedly told banks that it has authority to seize the contents of
safety deposit boxes without a warrant when it?s a matter of ?national
security,? which a major bank crisis no doubt will be.

The Swedish Alternative: Nationalize the Banks

Another alternative was considered but rejected by President Obama in
2009: nationalize mega-banks that fail. In a February 2009 article titled
?Are Uninsured Bank Depositors in Danger??, Felix Salmon discussed a
newsletter by Asia-based investment strategist Christopher Wood, in which
Wood wrote:

    It is . . . amazing that Obama does not understand the political
appeal of the nationalization option. . . . [D]espite this latest
setback nationalization of the banks is coming sooner or later because
the realities of the situation will demand it. The result will be
shareholders wiped out and bondholders forced to take debt-for-equity
swaps, if not hopefully depositors.

On whether depositors could indeed be forced to become equity holders,
Salmon commented:

    It?s worth remembering that depositors are unsecured creditors of any
bank; usually, indeed, they?re by far the largest class of unsecured
creditors.

President Obama acknowledged that bank nationalization had worked in
Sweden, and that the course pursued by the US Fed had not worked in Japan,
which wound up instead in a ?lost decade.?  But Obama opted for the
Japanese approach because, according to Ed Harrison, ?Americans will not
tolerate nationalization.?

But that was four years ago. When Americans realize that the alternative
is to have their ready cash transformed into ?bank stock? of questionable
marketability, moving failed mega-banks into the public sector may start
to have more appeal.

ELLEN BROWN is an attorney and president of the Public Banking Institute. 
In Web of Debt, her latest of eleven books, she shows how a private
banking oligarchy has usurped the power to create money from the people
themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her websites are
http://WebofDebt.com, http://EllenBrown.com, and
http://PublicBankingInstitute.org.



Counterpunch
Tells the Facts and Names the Names
Published since 1996
Copyright ? CounterPunch
All rights reserved.
counterpunch at counterpunch.org



From vjessielee at gmail.com  Sat Jun 15 00:26:21 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:26:21 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Saturday's OCCUPY General Assembly
In-Reply-To: <3002B50F-5C55-4271-81A1-10ADBD0841A0@mcn.org>
References: <3002B50F-5C55-4271-81A1-10ADBD0841A0@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <295FF43E-382E-467B-A4B8-F084BB5C51BB@gmail.com>

Thank you Howard.

JL
On Jun 14, 2013, at 7:28 PM, Howard Ennes <nsdusoir at mcn.org> wrote:

> 
> <FYI Howard.jpg> I'm not sure that this is the best way to let everyone know that our regular OCCUPY GENERAL ASSEMBLY will meet at my home in Fort Bragg tomorrow, Saturday June 15, from 2 to 4 p.m.
> 
> 	The address is 160 Woodland Drive, Fort Bragg ?? that is opposite Dana School, off Chestnut Street, in Fort Bragg.  My phone is 964-7860 if you get lost!
> 
> 	See you tomorrow . . . there's much to discuss.
> 
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Sat Jun 15 00:57:15 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:57:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: [MCN-Discussion]- Fwd: Revenue Blues: The
	Case for Higher Taxes
References: <85FCC697-9EC5-449A-9FF3-711C3806BF65@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <84E389EE-F3CA-493A-9C2D-B8552E3D034F@gmail.com>

>>> 	
>>> Revenue Blues: The Case for Higher Taxes
>>> 
>>> 
>>> By Colin Gordon
>>> June 11, 2013
>>> Dissent: A Quarterly of Politics and Culture
>>> 
>>> There is no conceivable benchmark?in our past, or in comparison to our international peers?by which one could sustain the argument that we are taxed too much, or ?taxed enough already.?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> , Photo by Bob Simmons, 2012, Flickr creative commons,
>>> 
>>> 	
>>> The tempest surrounding the IRS has cemented the view on the right that the American tax system is out of control. We are ?taxed enough already,? Tea Partiers complain. When a Senate committee detailed corporate tax-dodging by Apple and others, the most notable response was Rand Paul?s suggestion that the Senate apologize to Apple.
>>> 
>>> It didn?t use to be this way. From the 1940s into the 1970s, as Beth Pearson points out, taxes were widely understood as essential investments in the public good, and the anti-tax crackpots?at least until the passage of California?s infamous Proposition 13 in 1978?occupied the political fringes. Even Donald Duck happily filed his 1943 return, with any doubts allayed by his understanding and appreciation that ?taxes beat the Axis.? Much of the anti-tax rhetoric, of course, serves a ?starve the beast? strategy by which diminished revenue yields budget deficits, spending cuts, impoverished public services, and demands for further tax cuts. But that?s not the way the argument is made. Instead we are told that the administration (or ?Washington?) has engaged in an unsustainable orgy of taxing and spending.
>>> 
>>> This couldn?t be farther from the truth. As Dean Baker and others have tirelessly reminded us, the deficit is a creature of the recession (which placed new demands on public programs as it strangled revenues) and not of some willful spending spree. In fact, discretionary government spending, as a share of gross domestic product (GDP), has never been lower.
>>> 
>>> But the real howler here is on the tax side. There is no conceivable benchmark?in our past, or in comparison to our international peers?by which one could sustain the argument that we are taxed too much, or ?taxed enough already.? Here are four ways of underscoring that point.
>>> 
>>> 1.Tax rates are falling, for everyone.
>>> 
>>> Average household tax rates have fallen, for all income groups, since 1979.This graph, drawing on a recent work by the Congressional Budget Office, includes all federal tax liabilities (income, payroll, excise, business).On the whole, the federal taxes are progressive?high earners pay more, both in absolute dollars and as a share of their income. But no one is paying more in taxes now than they were thirty years ago, or twenty years ago, or ten years ago.
>>> 
>>> 2.Tax rates have fallen dramatically for the very rich.
>>> 
>>> One of the hallmarks of the postwar compact was a relatively robust redistribution of incomes (and funding of social programs) through the tax system. Since then we have seen a dramatic decline in the top marginal tax rate (see graph), which climbed steeply in response to the demands of depression and war and was over 90 percent during most of the peak years of postwar growth (1945-1964). The top marginal rate dropped to 70 percent with the Kennedy-Johnson cuts of 1964, to 50 percent (1982) and then 30 percent (1988) under Reagan, climbed back to 40 percent under Clinton, and then was pushed back to 35 percent by the Bush tax cuts.
>>> 
>>> And what do get in return? Across the OECD, inequality is increasing fastest where the top marginal rate has fallen the farthest, and the tax gap may account for as much as 60 percent of difference between upper-end inequality in the United States and upper-end inequality in continental Europe. And, in exchange for diminished revenues and rising inequality, we see none of the benefits that are supposed to follow from unshackling investors and job creators. ?Supply-side? cheerleaders have willfully and wildly overestimated the ?elasticity? of taxable income?that is, the likelihood that high earners will invest when taxes are low and sit on their hands when taxes are high. Historical and contemporary evidence (see recent work by Christina Romer, Emmanuel Saez and Thomas Piketty, and Andrew Fieldhouse) suggest that there is substantial room to raise rates without triggering any disincentives or lost revenue.
>>> 
>>> 3. Taxes have fallen even more dramatically for business.
>>> 
>>> Over the last generation, we have also seen a marked shift in the tax burden. Individual income taxes have accounted for between 40 and 50 percent of federal revenues since the end of the Second World War, but over the same span corporate income taxes and payroll taxes have traded places as the next largest contributor. In 1943, corporate income taxes account for 40 percent of federal revenues and payroll taxes about 13 percent. In 2010, corporate income taxes accounted for only 9 percent of federal revenues, while payroll taxes had grown to 40 percent.
>>> 
>>> The magnitude of this shift?and its implications for inequality?are clear. For much of the postwar era (see graph), corporate profits represented a declining share of GDP, falling from 12 percent in 1950 to 6 percent in the early 1980s.Over this span, revenue from corporate income taxes fell from about 6 percent to about 3 percent of GDP. But after that, corporate profits rebounded (exceeding 12 percent of GDP just before [2006] and after the recession), while corporate tax receipts continued to slide, bottoming out at 1 percent of GDP in 2009.
>>> 
>>> The net result? The corporate tax burden (taxes as a share of profits, the grey bars on the graph) collapsed?from over 50 percent in the mid-1950s, to under 30 percent in the early 1980s, to barely 10 percent in 2010.And the income share of the richest 1 percent (the blue line on the graph) took off. And again, as Thomas Hungerford shows, we get perilously little in return. While lower effective business tax rates have contributed to higher corporate profits, they have not yielded new growth or employment.  
>>> 
>>> 4. We don?t collect enough money.
>>> 
>>> Beyond the distribution of the tax burden (who pays and who doesn?t), an even bigger challenge is its capacity. We simply don?t collect enough revenue to sustain a decent threshold of public goods and public services, or to make much of a dent in the maldistribution of income. Among its OECD peers (see graph), the United States has one of the lowest rates of taxation as a share of gross national product?and it has moved steadily down this list since the 1970s.
>>> 
>>> If we look beyond the tax system itself to the net impact of taxes and transfers, the United States is a stark outlier. Across the OECD, taxes and transfers have the net effect of reducing poverty by more than half?from about 25 percent to about 11 percent of households. In the United States, the poverty rate before taxes and transfers is close to the OECD average, but is dampened only slightly (to about 18 percent) by taxes and transfers. The net effect of tax and benefit policies in the United States is to reduce overall inequality by only about 20 percent, one of the lowest rates in the OECD.
>>> 
>>> Taxed enough? Not by a long shot.
>>> 
>>> Colin Gordon is a professor of history at the University of Iowa.  He writes widely on the history of American public policy and is the author, most recently, of Growing Apart: A Political History of American Inequality, published by the Institute for Policy Studies at www.inequality.org.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 	
>>> Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 



From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Jun 15 07:54:13 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:54:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Re: book and article -- "Elizabeth Warren's
	QE for Students"]
Message-ID: <7d51ee1edcb4588a63bd96bd1ee3fdde.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Hi Occupy,
        Here's Ellen Brown's new book-and an article about Student debt.
Agnes



On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Ellen Brown <ellenbrown33 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi, thanks for coming to our conference!
>
> Here is my latest article, posted on Counterpunch --
>
> "Elizabeth Warren's QE for Students: Populist Demagoguery or Economic
> Breakthrough?"
> http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/14/elizabeth-warrens-qe-for-students/
>
> My website is also up now for book orders for *The Public Bank Solution*.
> It's here:
>
> http://ThePublicBankSolution.com
>
>> Best wishes,
>
> Ellen
>
> http://webofdebt.com
>
> http://publicbankinginstitute.org
>
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From moxie at mcn.org  Fri Jun 14 21:16:06 2013
From: moxie at mcn.org (moxie at mcn.org)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:16:06 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bradley Manning report back
In-Reply-To: <mailman.19.1370113229.29727.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
References: <mailman.19.1370113229.29727.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
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Dear Occupants! ~

Thanks to the generous support of Occupy Mendocino & many other friends,
and the Reader Supported news Service, I have survived week #1 of the
Bradley Manning court martial in Ft. Meade, Md. RSN.org is delighted &
wants to send us back as soon as possible ~ prolly mid July! I am almost
through with a surprisingly aggressive 'airline cough' ~ NOT contagious! ~
and plan to be 'under the stairs' by 2 pm tomorrow to show You all the
drawings & tell the stories! Let me know if there are any changes:
time/place, etc. & I'll see Youse there! For The Revolution! K. Rudin!



From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Sat Jun 15 12:16:07 2013
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 12:16:07 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: NYTimes.com: The Pianist Davide Martello
	Calms Istanbul Tensions
Message-ID: <1371323767.16844.YahooMailNeo@web161205.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>





 
 
 
  
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Sun Jun 16 01:16:47 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:16:47 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bradley Manning report back
In-Reply-To: <44580c95b87baad13a6d815d27493bfc.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
References: <mailman.19.1370113229.29727.occupymendocino@lists.mcn.org>
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Message-ID: <4C3CE714-7D81-4A93-AD42-88B883467D1D@gmail.com>

Way to go Kay!!!

Jessie Lee
On Jun 14, 2013, at 9:16 PM, moxie at mcn.org wrote:

> Dear Occupants! ~
> 
> Thanks to the generous support of Occupy Mendocino & many other friends,
> and the Reader Supported news Service, I have survived week #1 of the
> Bradley Manning court martial in Ft. Meade, Md. RSN.org is delighted &
> wants to send us back as soon as possible ~ prolly mid July! I am almost
> through with a surprisingly aggressive 'airline cough' ~ NOT contagious! ~
> and plan to be 'under the stairs' by 2 pm tomorrow to show You all the
> drawings & tell the stories! Let me know if there are any changes:
> time/place, etc. & I'll see Youse there! For The Revolution! K. Rudin!
> 
> 
> 
> 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  Sat Jun 15 10:32:23 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:32:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Letter to the CRAC]
Message-ID: <fe03b6e6ed4e245ffc16b2f2d11904c4.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Here's one courageous activist of OM to the CA Recorders' Assoc.
Read the pdf for proof of B of A. dirty tricks.
Agnes



---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Letter to the CRAC
From:    "Jed Davis" <jedasiah at gmail.com>
Date:    Sat, June 15, 2013 1:52 am
To:      ranochas at co.mendocino.ca.us
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Susan,

First I would like to thank you for referring me to the president of the
County Recorders' Association of California, Gina Alcomendras. She has been
very accommodating and open to the information I have presented to her. She
has also said that she would present my letter to the association at the
next quarterly meeting in July.  A copy of this letter is attached.

She also said, contrary to what you told myself, Agnes Woolsey, and Robin
Sunbeam, that no letter has been sent the the state legislature from the
association. I have been very disappointed at your lack of willingness to
do anything outside of your normal job description to protect the integrity
of your office's public records as well as for the well being of your
constituents and fellow citizens.

It is my sincere hope that you support this letter at the quarterly meeting
and that you do everything in your power help my requests gain traction at
the meeting. Perhaps you personally could write a letter to our state
representatives.

I am also including a copy of an affidavit by an ex BofA employee which
highlights how the banks will stop at no end to make money. This displays
why it is important that we stop these banks, and that can be done by
halting the foreclosures that legally should not be valid.

Sincerely,
Jed Davis
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From jupiter at mcn.org  Sun Jun 16 09:59:11 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 09:59:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Former Employess of BAC admit to lying
References: <3ABD2A1E-F9D8-4DB0-BF28-1E9A324E3BBD@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <6AAEE7FA-891D-451A-A03A-C16E1891EF05@mcn.org>

> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>> http://finance.yahoo.com/news/former-bank-america-workers-allege-214159027.html
>> Former Bank of America workers allege it lied to home owners
>> Reuters ? 3 hours ago
>>
>>
>> By Michelle Conlin and Peter Rudegeair
>> (Reuters) - Six former Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) employees have  
>> alleged that the bank deliberately denied eligible home owners loan  
>> modifications and lied to them about the status of their mortgage  
>> payments and documents.
>>
>> The bank allegedly used these tactics to shepherd homeowners into  
>> foreclosure, as well as in-house loan modifications. Both yielded  
>> the bank more profits than the government-sponsored Home Affordable  
>> Modification Program, according to documents recently filed as part  
>> of a lawsuit in Massachusetts federal court.
>>
>> The former employees, who worked at Bank of America centers  
>> throughout the United States, said the bank rewarded customer  
>> service representatives who foreclosed on homes with cash bonuses  
>> and gift cards to retail stores such as Target Corp (TGT.N) and Bed  
>> Bath & Beyond Inc (BBBY.O).
>> For example, an employee who placed 10 or more accounts into  
>> foreclosure a month could get a $500 bonus. At the same time, the  
>> bank punished those who did not make the numbers or objected to its  
>> tactics with discipline, including firing.
>>
>> About twice a month, the bank cleaned out its HAMP backlog in an  
>> operation called "blitz," where it declined thousands of loan  
>> modification requests just because the documents were more than 60  
>> months old, the court documents say.
>> The testimony from the former employees also alleges the bank  
>> falsified information it gave the government, saying it had given  
>> out HAMP loan modifications when it had not.
>> Rick Simon, a Bank of America Home Loans spokesman, said the bank  
>> had successfully completed more modifications than any other  
>> servicer under HAMP.
>> "We continue to demonstrate our commitment to assisting customers  
>> who are at risk of foreclosure and, at best, these attorneys are  
>> painting a false picture of the bank's practices and the dedication  
>> of our employees," Simon said in a email, adding the declarations  
>> were "rife with factual inaccuracies."
>> Borrowers filed the civil case against Bank of America in 2010 and  
>> are now seeking class certification. The affidavits, dated June 7,  
>> are the latest accusations over the mishandling of mortgage  
>> modifications by some top U.S. banks.
>> Mortgage problems have dogged Bank of America since its disastrous  
>> purchase of Countrywide Financial in 2008. The bank paid $42  
>> billion to settle credit crisis and mortgage-related litigation  
>> between 2010 and 2012, according to SNL Financial.
>> Bank of America and four other banks reached a $25 billion landmark  
>> settlement with regulators in 2012, following a scandal in late  
>> 2010 when it was revealed employees "robo signed" documents without  
>> verifying them as is required by law.
>> But problems have persisted. Since 2012, more than 18,000  
>> homeowners have filed complaints about Bank of America with the  
>> Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a new agency created to help  
>> protect consumers. Recently, the attorney generals of New York and  
>> Florida accused Bank of America of violating the terms of last  
>> year's settlement.
>> The government created HAMP in 2009 in response to the foreclosure  
>> epidemic and to encourage banks to give homeowners loan  
>> modifications, allowing some borrowers to stay in their homes.
>> THE BLITZ
>> The court documents paint a picture of customer service operations  
>> where managers roamed the floor with headsets, able to listen into  
>> any call without warning. Service representatives were told to lie  
>> to homeowners, telling them their paperwork and payments had not  
>> been received, when in reality they had.
>> "This is exactly what's been happening to homeowners for years,"  
>> said Danielle Kelley, a foreclosure defense lawyer in Florida. "No  
>> matter how many times they send in their paperwork, or how often  
>> they make their payments, they simply can't get loan modifications.  
>> They wind up in foreclosure instead."
>> The former employees said they were told to falsify electronic  
>> records and string homeowners along in foreclosure as long as  
>> possible. The problem was exacerbated because the bank did not have  
>> enough employees handling modifications, adding to the backlog of  
>> cases purged during the "blitz" operations.
>> Once a HAMP application was delayed or rejected, Bank of America  
>> would offer an in-house alternative, charging as high as 5 percent  
>> when the loan could have been modified for 2 percent under HAMP,  
>> according to an affidavit by William Wilson, who worked at the  
>> bank's Charlotte, North Carolina office.
>> Wilson, who was a case management team manager, said he told his  
>> supervisors the practices were "ridiculous" and "immoral." He said  
>> he was fired in August 2012.
>> Bank of America said it was not at liberty to discuss personnel  
>> matters.
>> (Reporting By Michelle Conlin and Peter Rudegeair in New York;  
>> Editing by Paritosh Bansal)
>>
>>
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 17 08:29:46 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:29:46 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Crispin Hollinshead
References: <a06240800cde4d5c9181b@[192.168.1.117]>
Message-ID: <68056751-5FEE-495E-869B-2ECE4AB9D389@att.net>

(Some of you may remember Crispin from when he lived on the Coast.)

Begin forwarded message:

Howdy folks,

Last week the Board of Supervisors voted to kill going forward with a clean energy program to fund energy efficiency and renewable installation throughout the county.  This would be a voluntary program which has been successful in many other counties and cities, funded through an assessment on the tax bill of participating home owners.  The financial industry lobbied heavily against this measure, and the Board never really considered the long term threat of extreme climate change.

In my opinion, this is very short term thinking with disastrous long term consequences.  As you may know, we have now passed 400 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere.  The last time the planet supported that much CO2 was about 3.5 million years ago, and the sea level was several hundred feet higher.  Take a moment to imagine the adverse economic impact of that kind of sea level change.  While we might not still be alive when the full effect comes to pass, this is a sad legacy to leave our descendants.

Keith Rutledge has put together an online petition requesting the Supervisors reconsider this vote.  I am forwarding you the link, and asking that you sign it, and email this out to anyone else you think would be concerned about the future of our civilization.

Cheers.




From: Keith Rutledge [mailto:keithr at pacific.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2013 2:27 PM
Subject: Mendocino Board of Supervisors: Develop an Energy and Water Efficiency Assessment District under Mello-Roos - Sign the Petition!
 
Please support this petition for the Board of Supervisors to reconsider developing the Clean Energy Assessment financing program for Mendocino County : http://chn.ge/11DpArX
Please pass this email on to others. We should reach out to others like businesses, banks, real estate agents, landlords, service organizations and any Mendocino County property owners or voters.


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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 17 10:59:31 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:59:31 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Dick Cheney Laughs Off Privacy Concerns Over
	Government Surveillance
Message-ID: <0E8A9EB4-641A-4B6D-A15E-BCD6E58397E5@att.net>

(Yeah, right. Just like we trusted your "intelligence" on Iraq. How did that work out, Dick?

 M.S.) 

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/06/16/2164401/dick-cheney-trust-surveillance/

Dick Cheney Laughs Off Privacy Concerns Over Government Surveillance

Former Vice President Dick Cheney (R), whose false statements helped propel the United States into an eight year war in Iraq, said Sunday that citizens should simply ?trust? the federal government on matters of privacy and security.


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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 17 11:20:10 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:20:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Brilliant, but sadly true.
Message-ID: <561DE74E-3868-4BFC-8A71-4D5C6A92B14A@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0hmfBtk0WaE


From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jun 17 16:31:40 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:31:40 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Conference speakers on youtube.
Message-ID: <f8859fc42a00122ecbca3224587f8e95.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Please accept my apologies for sending email that you couldn't open. I had
a conficker worm that has been remedied by Francis Rutherford's FSRT: a
malicious software Removal Tool.

Please look at this excellent video of short interviews with PBI
conference speakers by---

Lauren Steiner


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXri6Owp7Y




From lisa.alternativethinking at gmail.com  Tue Jun 18 12:05:58 2013
From: lisa.alternativethinking at gmail.com (Lisa Matthews)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:05:58 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Section 8 list is open
Message-ID: <CA+G_Z3tPwnGR06DAACXjk+FE6FZQbB50zD7eAs4aO+6G7cK3dA@mail.gmail.com>

For those out there that are interested, or might know someone who is, the
Mendocino County section 8 list is now open and is to remain open. This
program provides rental assistance for low income households. Eligibility
is determined by income for the family size, citizenship status, and
criminal history.

Family Size Maximum Annual Income
1 $ 20,200
2 $ 23,050
3 $ 25,950
4 $ 28,800
5 $ 31,150
6 $ 33,450
7 $ 35,750
8 $ 38,050

PLEASE NOTE: The income for your family size must be at or under the income
limits as shown here.

Applications can be picked up here:

*Fort Bragg*
*
*
Avila Center
Mendocino County Health and Human Services
764 South Franklin Street Fort Bragg, CA
Monday --Thursday 7-5 (closed 12-1)

Safe Passage Family Resource Center
208 Dana Street Fort Bragg, CA
Monday-Thursday 9-5

Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center
468 S. Franklin Street, Fort Bragg, CA
Monday-Thursday 1-5

Mendocino Coast Clinics, Inc.
Behavioral Medicine Case Manager
205 South Street Fort Bragg, CA
Monday-Friday 8-5*
*
*
*
*There are also pick up locations in Willits and Ukiah.* More information
can be found here:*
*

http://mendocino.craigslist.org/apa/3849360985.html

Lisa
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jun 18 13:03:01 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:03:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Taxation without representation?
Message-ID: <69F27B6B-08B0-4BB3-A101-DC769DC1717E@att.net>

Walmart's CEO is Paid 1,034 Times More ($23,150,000) Than The Median Walmart Worker: $22,400 




Even if you never shop at a Walmart in your area, your tax dollars are helping to support the store because of the lack of benefits employees receive.
Check it out:
http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/ceo-income

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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jun 18 13:03:17 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:03:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Taxation without representation?
Message-ID: <C3D1F61E-7F5D-4CE0-BF8B-9715947B5881@att.net>

Walmart's CEO is Paid 1,034 Times More ($23,150,000) Than The Median Walmart Worker: $22,400 




Even if you never shop at a Walmart in your area, your tax dollars are helping to support the store because of the lack of benefits employees receive.
Check it out:
http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/ceo-income

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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Tue Jun 18 20:46:29 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:46:29 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Divest from Caterpillar--a good cause. Peace and
	blessings, Ellen
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt6ic1ifMVaJ9OiXu5OFnNEwDVm4AsUErW_P5yTwGkJR+w@mail.gmail.com>

*
*

**
**
Divest Campaign <idc.ca.divest at gmail.com>
Jun 17 (1 day ago)
to ca.divest.sc, bcc: me
*


CAMPAIGN UPDATE ? June 2013

Check out the IDC protest at CalPERS and our new campaign focusing on
Caterpillar?s complicity in Palestine and abuse of workers:
www.israeldivestmentcampaign.org

As you might already know, the ?engagement process? that CalPERS initiated
with both Veolia and Elbit as a result of our campaign was suddenly aborted
in March 2013. IDC supporters protested this reversal at the May 2013
meeting of the Investment Committee. A dozen of us spoke (and at least that
many more were present in support) in protest of this sudden end to PERS?
engagement as well as its consistent refusal to hold Caterpillar
accountable. You can watch, hear and read our remarks by scrolling down to
"IDC Campaign Updates" on the home page, and selecting "Video clips and
transcripts."

While we are not letting CalPERS or CalSTRS off the hook, at the same time,
we have initiated a new campaign, emphasizing both Caterpillar?s complicity
in violations of Palestinian human rights and its direct violations of
North American worker rights.

We thank you for already signing the new appeal to the boards of various
public employee pension funds. In this regard, please let us know if you
are a member of one of the county or city public pension fund around the
state and/or a member of a public employee union.

Here are some of the ways that you can help make this new campaign
successful:

   - Visit our home page and download the fact sheet on Caterpillar?s
   abuses.
   - Encourage everyone you know to sign the appeal to the boards of the
   various public employee pension funds: www.idc-calif.org/letter.
   - Invite us to do a short presentation to your social justice groups,
   especially your union.
   - Download the resolution calling for the public pension funds to divest
   from Caterpillar and introduce it to these groups if and when you think it
   would be productive to do so. Download at: www.idc-calif.org/resolution
    or www.idc-calif.org/union-resolution.(Please feel free to discuss with
   IDC leadership.)

We thank you for your ongoing support of the Israel Divestment Campaign.

Bernie, David, Emily, Jane, Mary, Mikos, Sherna- IDC Coordinating Committee
<ca.divest.sc at gmail.com>

ca.divest.sc at gmail.com
*

*
*

*
*

*CalPERS, CalSTRS, LACERA Investments in Caterpillar*

*CalPERS CalSTRS LACERA*

*$159 million (Equities) $168.4 million (Equities), $6.million+ (Fixed
income) $2,173,466 (Equities), $7,001,243 (Fixed Income)*

*It?s time to insist that our tax dollars not be used to violate human
rights, including workers rights.*

*It?s time to call on the public employee pension funds to divest from
Caterpillar*

*Let?s tell them ? Invest in human rights, not their violation!*

_____________________________________________________________________

*We Call on the Public Employee Pension Funds to Divest from Caterpillar*

*WHEREAS, *Caterpillar is complicit in Israel?s human rights and
international law violations in the occupied West Bank, including eastern
Jerusalem, and Gaza by providing it with bulldozers used in the
construction of the Apartheid Wall (?Separation Barrier?) and segregated
roads; the demolition of tens of thousands of Palestinian homes; and the
uprooting of olive orchards -- all serious violations of international law;

*WHEREAS, *Caterpillar has consistently violated the rights of North
American unionized workers, most recently by locking Canadian workers out
and closing down its Ontario plant, then paying drastically reduced wages
to ?replacement workers? at the newly opened U.S. plant; and has engaged in
massive layoffs.

*THEREFORE, *we call on the public employee pension funds in which public
employees have contributed during their employment (including but not
limited to LACERA, CalPERS and CalSTRS) to begin the process of divesting
their funds from Caterpillar.

Passed by _______________________[Organization name] On:
________________________ Signed by:
________________________________/Position: _____________________
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Tue Jun 18 20:53:37 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:53:37 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] petition to Feinstein about spying and Snowden.
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt7rAHP43OVPD6-sEsGuLwOFyAPDkoavMhg_+iki6T=7Og@mail.gmail.com>

CODEPINK San Francisco spent Saturday, June 15th, surveilling and
monitoring Senator Dianne Feinstein's Mansion--giving her a taste of what
it feels like to be spied on. We dressed as secret agents, held magnifying
glasses, and flew our very own drone copters over her front yard while
spy-themed music played in the background. *Watch the video
here!*<http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=35C%2F3hvy80s9cgiOqQfrQO%2FsiyOblyRd>

Within days after Edward Snowden, the 29 year old whistleblower, leaked the
vast surveillance capabilities of US spy agencies, Senator Dianne
Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused him of
committing treason. In support of whistleblowing, we will be delivering *a
petition*<http://codepink.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qVPC23wFELdTMNHHCMg2Te%2FsiyOblyRd>
to
the senator to let her know that truthtelling is NOT treason.

*Don't miss the opportunity to show your support for another truth-teller,
Bradley Manning, over Pride Weekend!*


*CODEPINK will be out in full force June 28-30th to say Free Brad!*


You're invited to join us in the official Bradley Manning contingent in the
Pride Parade, march in the Trans and Dyke march, and dance at Pink Saturday!
We need volunteers as parade monitors, sign holders and distributing
stickers. To volunteer,
<maggie.codepink at gmail.com?subject=Pride%20Parade%20Inquiry>
*email Maggie* <maggie.codepink at gmail.com?subject=Pride%20Parade%20Inquiry>.

*In search of the truth,***

*Hannah, Maggie, Nancy, Renay, Sam, Sarah and the rest of CODEPINK SF*
------------------------------

*P.S.*- Join the Close Guantanamo solidarity protest on*Wednesday, June 26
from 12-1pm*, outside Senator Dianne Feinstein's office: 1 Post St., San
Francisco, CA (assemble at Market & Montgomery St.)
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun 19 00:16:10 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:16:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Single Payer Healthcare /Film screening this
	weekend?
References: <20130618.170823.22716.0@webmail11.dca.untd.com>
Message-ID: <3DC6AE44-EFEC-4BE7-B971-74B7BC63C1C6@mcn.org>

> Someone sent this to me...  Anyone want to see "The Healthcare Movie"?   We would need to have a location with a video player and bigger screen.  Richard
> Subject: Single Payer Healthcare /Film screening this weekend?
> 
> Dear Toni and Richard,
> 
> Your names were given to me by Jim Tarbell.  Since 2005, I have been working for Single Payer Healthcare, aka Expanded, Improved Medicare for All.  That's Congressman John Conyers' new name for his Single Payer bill, HR-676.
> 
> I am currently a lay member of the Sonoma County chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP).  There are seven PNHP Chapters in California.  With a number of co-sponsors, PNHP had a screening of an award winning Healthcare documentary at the Rialto Theater in Sebastopol on April 25.  Following the screening, we had an enthusiastic 45 minutes Q&A/ discussion session, presided over by three PNHP doctors.  [Please see attached flyer for details, co-sponsors, etc.].
> 
> PNHP is a 25 year old national organization with a membership of about 20,000 physicians dedicated to bringing Single Payer Healthcare to the  U.S. and California. [reference: www.pnhp.org].
> 
> The film, narrated by actor Kiefer Sutherland, is the story of how Single Payer Healthcare originated in Canada during the 1960ies, how Canadians feel about their healthcare system, and how it compares with healthcare in the U.S..  I have a DVD copy of the film (65 minutes), and a license to screen it for the public in any venue.
> 
> My wife is taking a watercolor class at the Mendocino Art Center this coming weekend, Friday through Sunday, June 21,22, and 23.  
> I will be accompanying her but will not be taking any class.  We have confirmed lodging reservations at:  Hill House Inn, 10701 Palette Drive, in Mendocino (hotel phone: 707-937-0554).
> 
> I contacted Jim Tarbell earlier, hoping that a pretty good sized group of people could be gotten together for a showing of "The Healthcare Movie" (that's the title of the film!) sometime this weekend, but Jim is out of town.   Do either, or both, of you wish to undertake trying to gather together an audience on such short notice?  The location does not matter to me, as long as there is available either a TV screen (with DVD player) large enough to be seen by everyone, OR a laptop computer with the required software, cables, and a projector.
> 
> Is this doable?  I will be checking into the Hill House Inn sometime Thursday afternoon, and I don't think that they have any computers available for guests.  I would appreciate an expedited e-mail with your phone numbers, so that I can contact you, once I reach Mendocino.  Thanks.
> 
> In Solidarity for a Healthier Tomorrow,
> -- Stan Gold
> 
> 615 King Road
> Petaluma, CA 94952-1009
> home phone: 707-763-1925

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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jun 19 09:52:48 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:52:48 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: U.S. Promises Smooth Transfer of
	Quagmire from Afghanistan to Syria
Message-ID: <93489F3B-F102-4CDB-8547-313DFBEB3652@att.net>

U.S. PROMISES SMOOTH TRANSFER OF QUAGMIRE FROM AFGHANISTAN TO SYRIA

DAMASCUS?Supporters of the United States? twelve-year quagmire in Afghanistan cheered the news today that the U.S. would strive to achieve a seamless transfer of that quagmire to Syria, effective immediately.

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sought to reassure those who were concerned that the U.S. withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan signalled a wavering of the nation?s commitment to being mired in open-ended military muddles.

?I can tell you, right here and right now, that the U.S. is every bit as determined to engage in an ill-defined, ill-advised and seemingly interminable mission in Syria as we were in Afghanistan,? Gen. Dempsey said. ?All that?s changing is the Zip Code.?

General Dempsey said that the same tribal hatreds, sectarian violence, and untrustworthy alliances that made Afghanistan a quicksand-like morass are very much in evidence in Syria: ?I am confident that we could be involved in Syria for many, many years before figuring out why we are there.?

Harland Dorrinson, executive director of the National Quagmire Institute, a think tank dedicated to promoting the United States? involvement in intractable conflicts around the globe, said he found General Dempsey?s words about Syria reassuring: ?I felt a lot better after hearing what he had to say, and I know a lot of defense contractors felt the same way.?



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun 19 15:20:44 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:20:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Watch "The Healthcare Movie" 7 p.m. Monday,
	April 29, On Line.  Healthcare versus Medical Insurance Companies:
Message-ID: <506029F1-4EF4-442B-8E8D-8A6D2AAB09A3@mcn.org>

Healthcare versus Medical Insurance Companies: Watch The Healthcare Movie 7 p.m. Monday, April 29, Houston Media Source & GreenWatch TV, www.HMSTV.org
YOU ARE HERE : Home | Healthcare versus Medical Insurance Companies: Watch The Healthcare Movie 7 p.m. Monday, April 29, Houston Media Source & GreenWatch TV, www.HMSTV.org
Date:  Monday, April 29, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
"The Healthcare Movie" will be shown 7 p.m. Monday, April 29 on Houston Public Access TV, Channel 17. Tune in for the panel discussion until 9 p.m. This is one of the finest films made comparing the Canadian and US healthcare systems.

Call in your questions or comments to the on-air panel discussing the film, 713.807.1794.

No cable, no problem: Watch the streaming video online in real time at www.HMSTV.org

This documentary provides the real story of how the health care systems in Canada and the United States evolved to be so completely different, when at one point they were
essentially the same. Most people under the age of 50, in both countries, are not aware of the intensity of the political struggle that led to the universal medical care system in
Canada. Nor are they aware of the public relations campaigns, still active today, that have been prevalent in the United States since the early 1900?s to dissuade the public
from supporting national health care.

Every day people are dying or going bankrupt due to the ills of the United States system. If you agree that people are more important than profits, then you must watch.

The battles over the implementation of The Affordable Care Act are intensifying. The Healthcare Movie keeps our eyes on the real goal.

We need a system that truly promotes and protects public health instead of our current system that promotes and protects private wealth.

The Healthcare Movie is 65 minutes long. There will be an on-air panel discussing the film and accepting phone calls with questions and comments afterwards until 9pm.

The fight for health care is far from over.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Jun 19 17:13:24 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:13:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: Petition Confirmation
Message-ID: <0a1d392b52c30c4d41ae47c1f5cddcf9.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Please sign this petition to stop the Sequester and restore our privacy.
See attachment and send tofriends and family allover the U.S.
Agnes
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jun 20 08:46:26 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 08:46:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Quite interesting
Message-ID: <A0194045-21FA-4C57-B3D4-37B3213A4D17@att.net>

There was no "White Race" until the American colonies were established. A unique look at the scam run by the colonial very rich. This guy is worth listening to.


Tim Wise: On White Privilege (Clip)  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J3Xe1kX7Wsc#at=260


Full lecture here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN8pmhQwcnY


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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jun 20 09:14:59 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:14:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Taliban Named Best Place to Work 2013
Message-ID: <AFD6B845-B0D9-467D-A574-7D29DF05F06C@att.net>

TALIBAN NAMED BEST PLACE TO WORK 2013


DOHA, QATAR ?In the latest publicity coup for the Afghan insurgent group, the Taliban today finished first in a newly released survey of the ?Best Places to Work 2013.?

For the Taliban, who had just opened their office in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, the honor was ?totally unexpected and incredibly humbling,? a spokesman for the group said.

?This is the first office we?ve ever opened, so naturally we wanted it to be nice and all,? he said. ?But to be named a better place to work than Apple and Google and the other amazing places on this list?whoa.?

Cited in the poll was the atmosphere at Taliban headquarters, which numerous employees described as ?relaxed? and ?fun.?

?People think that just because we observe Sharia law, we walk around with frowny faces all day,? the spokesman said. ?The fact is, we have a lot of laughs here.?

One person not amused by the survey results, however, was the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who threatened to break off peace talks with the Taliban if they do not immediately admit that the poll was a ?total fraud.?

?Who was behind this so-called poll? The Taliban, that?s who,? an angry Karzai told reporters. ?When they did their little ribbon-cutting for their office on Tuesday, I thought they were publicity whores, but they are really taking it to a new sick level.?

Hours later, the Taliban spokesman offered this response: ?Hamid Karzai doesn?t sound very chill. He?d really have to dial it back if he wanted to fit in at a workplace like this.?



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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jun 20 09:17:18 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:17:18 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: legislation requiring an Affidavit of
 Authority to Record Foreclose documents]
Message-ID: <de62d5d383d5e7d990969351536ecd24.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

All,
Please send this to Chesbro's aide at   ruth.valenzuela at asm.ca.gov-


--------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [Fwd: legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to Record
Foreclose documents]
From:    agnes at mcn.org
Date:    Thu, June 20, 2013 9:11 am
To:      ruth.valenzuela at asm.ca.gov
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       put your address here and date

To: Assembly member Wesley Chesbro;

Re: Legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to Record Foreclosure
Documents

Dear Assembly member Wesley Chesbro;

My name is _________________. I am
concerned about the integrity of our
Public Records, the safety of land ownership, and the possibility of
millions of clouded titles across the nation for generations to come.

The United States has always been one of the most secure and safest
countries in the world for property ownership. This security of property
ownership is substantiated in the fact that the chain of title can be
traced back hundreds of years to the original land grant through
transparent, public records.

The integrity of our Public Records has already been compromised thousands,
if not millions of times over by foreclosures in which there have been
numerous legal and procedural violations. These violations nullify the
Notice of Default and thus any sale and transfer of the property. Many of
these violations are criminal violations, which carry large fines as well
as prison time, yet no one from any of these banks or foreclosure
institutions has yet been prosecuted.

This massive transfer of real property through foreclosures using documents
that in fact nullify the sale, poses serious risks to the future of public
records and the sale of future properties as well as the property values of
every land owner in America, even those *who currently have properties with
clear titles. *

The banks are using many improper tactics to forcefully foreclose on
properties. These tactics violate two (2) California Penal Codes, five (5)
California Commercial Codes, three (3) US Commercial Codes, five (5)
Judgments, an IRS Bulletin, ALL SEC Pooling and Servicing Agreements, ALL
OCC Cease and Desist Orders, and ALL Federal Consent Judgments.

All of these violations either nullify the NOD and thus any future
foreclosure and sale, or negate the legal interest in any property that the
current Trustee and Servicer claim to have. This question of ?who legally
has beneficial rights to the note?? raises unquestionably serious doubt as
to whom a borrower is legally obligated to pay.

In fact, millions of homeowners in good standing may be unknowingly making
payments to a lender who does not have *legal* beneficial rights to the
payments, due to the fact the banks violated the Trust?s Pooling and
Serving Agreement Section 2.01 regarding assignments, and chose instead to
make impossible or illegal assignments, substitutions, attorney-in-fact
designations, and/or agency claims.

 The violations that many documents contain include the following:

1.     False notarizations

2.     Forged signatures

3.     Illegal Servicer Beneficial Assignment

4.     Impossible Beneficiary Designation

5.     Impossible Substitution

6.     Fake Agency Designation

7.     False Beneficiaries as in Defunct Lenders

8.     Assignments Recorded long AFTER Mortgage Backed Security?s Pooling
and Servicing Agreement limit of 90 days

9.     No evidence that any transfer of interest was accompanied by
consideration as stated in the recorded documents

10. Violations of the Holder in Due Course Doctrine

11. Impossible Principal/Agent Designations

12. MERS Conveyance from a defunct lender

13. Violation of OCC Cease and Desist Orders of April 13, 2011

14. Contempt of Court by violating the April 4, 2012 Consent Judgments

It should seem VERY obvious that what is currently happening to our public
records will definitely have huge, adverse ramifications to the well-being
of our society and individual homeowners.  This destruction and muddling of
our public records must stop immediately!

The Public Recorders are the custodians of our public records and they see
first hand what the banks have done and continue to do to our records.
While it is their constitutional duty to record documents without bias, it
is also their fiduciary responsibility to maintain and protect the
integrity of these recorded documents, yet they do not have the authority
to make recording requirement changes. These changes must be made at the
state level.

That is why I am asking you to make the necessary, immediate changes to
stop further obfuscation and destruction of our records by requiring that
an Affidavit of Authority be recorded along with all foreclosure documents.

Luckily, there is some recent precedent that can be examined regarding this
issue.



John O?Brien, Register of Deeds in the Southern Essex District in Salem
Massachusetts took it upon himself and his office to perform an audit of
the public records.  He now refuses to record any document with a known
forged signature without an Affidavit of Authority.



He recently succeeded in getting an Anti-Foreclosure Ordinance passed in
his town of Lynn, MA.

Fact Sheet:  http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/ObrienLynnOrdFactsheet.pdf

Ordinance:  http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/ObrienLynnCityOrdinance.pdf



His public presentation of rampant forged foreclosure documents can be
viewed at the following link:
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458



The findings of Mr. O?Brien?s audit can be found at the following link:

http://www.salemdeeds.com/pdf/Audit.pdf



Mr. O?Brien?s Affidavit for Restitution in the case against Doc X (a
foreclosure mill similar to Recontrust here in California), which has been
found guilty of foreclosure fraud, can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/JohnOBrienAffidavit.pdf



The Supreme Court of Illinois recently enacted new rules regarding mortgage
foreclosure case effective May 1, 2013. These seem to be the most
comprehensive requirements to date that deal with* *all of the violations
that are being made on a routine basis. Here is the link to the opinion
written by Stahl Cowen Law Firm:
http://www.stahlcowen.com/?t=11&la=2329&format=xml



The Nevada State Assembly passed AB284 in May 2011, requiring an Affidavit
of Authority be included with foreclosure documents presented for
recordation.  Here is the link to that bill:
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB284_EN.pdf

After the passage of this bill, foreclosures dropped nearly 97%, because
the mega-banks are unwilling to risk having to prove their legal right to
foreclose. This indicates what is going on in recorder?s offices everywhere
around the country.

As you can see, stopping these fraudulent foreclosures is paramount the
integrity of our public records and the future of real property ownership,
and demands our immediate attention.

I respectfully urge you to do everything in your power to maintain the
integrity of our public records and stop the banks from running roughshod
over our legal system, our public records, and our ownership rights.

For the benefit of your constituents, your family, your friends, public
records, and the future of secure property ownership, please pass
legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to be included and recorded
with each assignment, trustee substitution, and foreclosure document.  I
ask you to address this issue immediately.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Sincerely,
Ms. Agnes Woolsey




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jun 20 10:19:20 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:19:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis
Message-ID: <A92C8330-E2C3-41E5-AF8B-2F57EFEF8172@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/279-82/18018-the-last-mystery-of-the-financial-crisis


The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis
By Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
20 June 2013
It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it.
hat about the ratings agencies?

That's what "they" always say about the financial crisis and the teeming rat's nest of corruption it left behind. Everybody else got plenty of blame: the greed-fattened banks, the sleeping regulators, the unscrupulous mortgage hucksters like spray-tanned Countrywide ex-CEO Angelo Mozilo.

But what about the ratings agencies? Isn't it true that almost none of the fraud that's swallowed Wall Street in the past decade could have taken place without companies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's rubber-stamping it? Aren't they guilty, too?...
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jun 20 10:26:23 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:26:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] This seems to be one of the only places
	information about the Bradley Manning trial can be found.
Message-ID: <A5C13247-1BC8-4DBC-8506-62108927F774@mcn.org>

Kay Rudin's courtroom art is displayed in a number of the articles.


http://readersupportednews.org/trial-of-bradley-manning


From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jun 20 12:38:33 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:38:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?_Bank_of_America_whistle-blowe?=
 =?windows-1252?q?r=92s_bombshell=3A_=93We_were_told_to_lie=94?=
Message-ID: <7E7BED26-A3FC-46BD-8BCD-3DD6587387A5@mcn.org>

TUESDAY, JUN 18, 2013 04:45 AM PDT
Bank of America whistle-blower?s bombshell: ?We were told to lie?

(Credit: Sashkin via Shutterstock/Salon)
Bank of America?s mortgage servicing unit systematically lied to homeowners, fraudulently denied loan modifications, and paid their staff bonuses for deliberately pushing people into foreclosure: Yes, these allegations were suspected by any homeowner who ever had to deal with the bank to try to get a loan modification ? but now they come from six former employees and one contractor, whose sworn statements were added last week to a civil lawsuit filed in federal court in Massachusetts.

?Bank of America?s practice is to string homeowners along with no apparent intention of providing the permanent loan modifications it promises,? said Erika Brown, one of the former employees. The damning evidence would spur a series of criminal investigations of BofA executives, if we still had a rule of law in this country for Wall Street banks.

The government?s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), which gave banks cash incentives to modify loans under certain standards, was supposed to streamline the process and help up to 4 million struggling homeowners (to date, active permanent modifications number about 870,000). In reality, Bank of America used it as a tool, say these former employees, to squeeze as much money as possible out of struggling borrowers before eventually foreclosing on them. Borrowers were supposed to make three trial payments before the loan modification became permanent; in actuality, many borrowers would make payments for a year or more, only to find themselves rejected for a permanent modification, and then owing the difference between the trial modification and their original payment. Former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner famously described HAMP as a means to ?foam the runway? for the banks, spreading out foreclosures so banks could more readily absorb them.


These Bank of America employees offer the first glimpse into how they pulled it off. Employees, many of whom allege they were given no basic training on how to even use HAMP, were instructed to tell borrowers that documents were incomplete or missing when they were not, or that the file was ?under review? when it hadn?t been accessed in months. Former loan-level representative Simone Gordon says flat-out in her affidavit that ?we were told to lie to customers? about the receipt of documents and trial payments. She added that the bank would hold financial documents borrowers submitted for review for at least 30 days. ?Once thirty days passed, Bank of America would consider many of these documents to be ?stale? and the homeowner would have to re-apply for a modification,? Gordon writes. Theresa Terrelonge, another ex-employee, said that the company would consistently tell homeowners to resubmit information, restarting the clock on the HAMP process.

Worse than this, Bank of America would simply throw out documents on a consistent basis. Former case management supervisor William Wilson alleged that, during bimonthly sessions called the ?blitz,? case managers and underwriters would simply deny any file with financial documents that were more than 60 days old. ?During a blitz, a single team would decline between 600 and 1,500 modification files at a time,? Wilson wrote. ?I personally reviewed hundreds of files in which the computer systems showed that the homeowner had fulfilled a Trial Period Plan and was entitled to a permanent loan modification, but was nevertheless declined for a permanent modification during a blitz.? Employees were then instructed to make up a reason for the denial to submit to the Treasury Department, which monitored the program. Others say that bank employees falsified records in the computer system and removed documents from homeowner files to make it look like the borrower did not qualify for a permanent modification.

Senior managers provided carrots and sticks for employees to lie to customers and push them into foreclosure. Simone Gordon described meetings where managers created quotas for lower-level employees, and a bonus system for reaching those quotas. Employees ?who placed ten or more accounts into foreclosure in a given month received a $500 bonus,? Gordon wrote. ?Bank of America also gave employees gift cards to retail stores like Target or Bed Bath and Beyond as rewards for placing accounts into foreclosure.? Employees were closely monitored, and those who didn?t meet quotas, or who dared to give borrowers accurate information, were fired, as was anyone who ?questioned the ethics ? of declining loan modifications for false and fraudulent reasons,? according to William Wilson.

Bank of America characterized the affidavits as ?rife with factual inaccuracies.? But they match complaints from borrowers having to resubmit documents multiple times, and getting denied for permanent modifications despite making all trial payments. And these statements come from all over the country from ex-employees without a relationship to one another. It did not result from one ?rogue? bank branch.

Simply put, Bank of America didn?t want to hire enough staff to handle the crush of loan modification requests, and used these delaying tactics as a shortcut. They also pushed people into foreclosure to collect additional fees from them. And after rejecting borrowers for HAMP modifications, they would offer an in-house modification with a higher interest rate. This was all about profit maximization. ?We were regularly drilled that it was our job to maximize fees for the Bank by fostering and extending delay of the HAMP modification process by any means we could,? wrote Simone Gordon in her affidavit.

It is a testament to the corruption of the federal regulatory and law enforcement apparatus that we?re only hearing evidence from inside Bank of America now, in a civil class-action lawsuit from wronged homeowners, when the behavior was so rampant for years. For example, the Treasury Department, charged with specific oversight for HAMP, didn?t sanction a single bank for failing to follow program guidelines for three years, and certainly did not uncover any of this criminal conduct. Steven Cupples, a former underwriter at Bank of America, explained in his statement how the bank falsified records to Treasury to make it look like they granted more modifications. But Treasury never investigated. Meanwhile, the Justice Department joined with state Attorneys General and other federal regulators to essentially bless this conduct in a series of weak settlements that incorporated other bank crimes as well, like ?robo-signing? and submitting false documents to courts.

These affidavits, however, should return law enforcement to the case. William Wilson, the case management supervisor, alleges in his statement that this ?ridiculous and immoral? conduct continued through August of 2012, when he was eventually fired for speaking up. That means Bank of America persisted with these activities for at least six months AFTER the main, $25 billion settlement to which they were a party. So state and federal regulators could sue Bank of America over this new criminal conduct, which post-dates the actions for which they released liability under the main settlement. Attorneys general in New York andFlorida have accused Bank of America of violating the terms of the settlement, but they could simply open new cases about these new deceptive practices.

They would have no shortage of evidence, in addition to the sworn affidavits. According to Theresa Terrelonge, most loan-level representatives conducted their business through email; in fact, various email communications have already been submitted under seal in the Massachusetts civil case. State Attorneys General or US Attorneys would have subpoena power to gather many more emails.

And they would have very specific targets: the ex-employees listed specific executives by name who authorized and directed the fraudulent process. ?The delay and rejection programs were methodically carried out under the overall direction of Patrick Kerry, a Vice President who oversaw the entire eastern region?s loan modification process,? wrote William Wilson. Other executives mentioned by name include John Berens, Patricia Feltch and Rebecca Mairone (now at JPMorgan Chase, and already named in a separate financial fraud case). These are senior executives who, if this alleged conduct is true, should face criminal liability.

Bank accountability activists have already seized on the revelations. ?This is not surprising, but absolutely sickening,? said Peggy Mears, organizer for the Home Defenders League. ?Maybe finally our courts and elected officials will stand with communities over Wall Street and prosecute, and then lock up, these criminals.?

Sadly, it?s hard to raise hopes of that happening. Past experience shows that our top regulatory and law enforcement officials are primarily interested in covering for Wall Street?s crimes. These well-sourced allegations amount to an accusation of Bank of America stealing thousands of homes, and lying to the government about it. Homeowners who did everything asked of them were nevertheless pushed into foreclosure, all to fortify profits on Wall Street. There?s a clear path to punish Bank of America for this conduct. If it doesn?t result in prosecutions, it will once again confirm the sorry excuse for justice we have in America.


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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jun 20 20:30:42 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 20:30:42 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [send to chesbro's aide during office hours.
Message-ID: <33cda7604cc9d8ef9895304503467591.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


All,this letter was written by Jed Davis, he's asking all to send copies to:
Chesbro's aide at   ruth.valenzuela at asm.ca.gov-



To:      ruth.valenzuela at asm.ca.gov
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                      put your address here and date

To: Assembly Member Wesley Chesbro;

Re: Legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to Record Foreclosure
Documents

Dear Assembly Member Wesley Chesbro;

My name is _________________. I am
concerned about the integrity of our
Public Records, the safety of land ownership, and the possibility of
millions of clouded titles across the nation for generations to come.

The United States has always been one of the most secure and safest
countries in the world for property ownership. This security of property
ownership is substantiated in the fact that the chain of title can be
traced back hundreds of years to the original land grant through
transparent, public records.

The integrity of our Public Records has already been compromised thousands,
if not millions of times over by foreclosures in which there have been
numerous legal and procedural violations. These violations nullify the
Notice of Default and thus any sale and transfer of the property. Many of
these violations are criminal violations, which carry large fines as well
as prison time, yet no one from any of these banks or foreclosure
institutions has yet been prosecuted.

This massive transfer of real property through foreclosures using documents
that in fact nullify the sale, poses serious risks to the future of public
records and the sale of future properties as well as the property values of
every land owner in America, even those *who currently have properties with
clear titles. *

The banks are using many improper tactics to forcefully foreclose on
properties. These tactics violate two (2) California Penal Codes, five (5)
California Commercial Codes, three (3) US Commercial Codes, five (5)
Judgments, an IRS Bulletin, ALL SEC Pooling and Servicing Agreements, ALL
OCC Cease and Desist Orders, and ALL Federal Consent Judgments.

All of these violations either nullify the NOD and thus any future
foreclosure and sale, or negate the legal interest in any property that the
current Trustee and Servicer claim to have. This question of ?who legally
has beneficial rights to the note?? raises unquestionably serious doubt as
to whom a borrower is legally obligated to pay.

In fact, millions of homeowners in good standing may be unknowingly making
payments to a lender who does not have *legal* beneficial rights to the
payments, due to the fact the banks violated the Trust?s Pooling and
Serving Agreement Section 2.01 regarding assignments, and chose instead to
make impossible or illegal assignments, substitutions, attorney-in-fact
designations, and/or agency claims.

The violations that many documents contain include the following:

1.     False notarizations

2.     Forged signatures

3.     Illegal Servicer Beneficial Assignment

4.     Impossible Beneficiary Designation

5.     Impossible Substitution

6.     Fake Agency Designation

7.     False Beneficiaries as in Defunct Lenders

8.     Assignments Recorded long AFTER Mortgage Backed Security?s Pooling
and Servicing Agreement limit of 90 days

9.     No evidence that any transfer of interest was accompanied by
consideration as stated in the recorded documents

10. Violations of the Holder in Due Course Doctrine

11. Impossible Principal/Agent Designations

12. MERS Conveyance from a defunct lender

13. Violation of OCC Cease and Desist Orders of April 13, 2011

14. Contempt of Court by violating the April 4, 2012 Consent Judgments

It should seem VERY obvious that what is currently happening to our public
records will definitely have huge, adverse ramifications to the well-being
of our society and individual homeowners.  This destruction and muddling of
our public records must stop immediately!

The Public Recorders are the custodians of our public records and they see
first hand what the banks have done and continue to do to our records.
While it is their constitutional duty to record documents without bias, it
is also their fiduciary responsibility to maintain and protect the
integrity of these recorded documents, yet they do not have the authority
to make recording requirement changes. These changes must be made at the
state level.

That is why I am asking you to make the necessary, immediate changes to
stop further obfuscation and destruction of our records by requiring that
an Affidavit of Authority be recorded along with all foreclosure documents.

Luckily, there is some recent precedent that can be examined regarding this
issue.



John O?Brien, Register of Deeds in the Southern Essex District in Salem
Massachusetts took it upon himself and his office to perform an audit of
the public records.  He now refuses to record any document with a known
forged signature without an Affidavit of Authority.



He recently succeeded in getting an Anti-Foreclosure Ordinance passed in
his town of Lynn, MA.

Fact Sheet:  http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/ObrienLynnOrdFactsheet.pdf

Ordinance:  http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/ObrienLynnCityOrdinance.pdf



His public presentation of rampant forged foreclosure documents can be
viewed at the following link:
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458



The findings of Mr. O?Brien?s audit can be found at the following link:

http://www.salemdeeds.com/pdf/Audit.pdf



Mr. O?Brien?s Affidavit for Restitution in the case against Doc X (a
foreclosure mill similar to Recontrust here in California), which has been
found guilty of foreclosure fraud, can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/JohnOBrienAffidavit.pdf



The Supreme Court of Illinois recently enacted new rules regarding mortgage
foreclosure case effective May 1, 2013. These seem to be the most
comprehensive requirements to date that deal with* *all of the violations
that are being made on a routine basis. Here is the link to the opinion
written by Stahl Cowen Law Firm:
http://www.stahlcowen.com/?t=11&la=2329&format=xml



The Nevada State Assembly passed AB284 in May 2011, requiring an Affidavit
of Authority be included with foreclosure documents presented for
recordation.  Here is the link to that bill:
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB284_EN.pdf

After the passage of this bill, foreclosures dropped nearly 97%, because
the mega-banks are unwilling to risk having to prove their legal right to
foreclose. This indicates what is going on in recorder?s offices everywhere
around the country.

As you can see, stopping these fraudulent foreclosures is paramount the
integrity of our public records and the future of real property ownership,
and demands our immediate attention.

I respectfully urge you to do everything in your power to maintain the
integrity of our public records and stop the banks from running roughshod
over our legal system, our public records, and our ownership rights.

For the benefit of your constituents, your family, your friends, public
records, and the future of secure property ownership, please pass
legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to be included and recorded
with each assignment, trustee substitution, and foreclosure document.  I
ask you to address this issue immediately.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Sincerely,




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From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:47:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 4 Ways GOP Governors Wage Class War
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http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/18019-focus-4-ways-gop-governors-wage-class-war

4 Ways GOP Governors Wage Class War


By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News

20 June 13

 
hen a team's coaches, cheerleaders, and spectators start booing the players on the field, that's when the team has officially lost. Even if they're up in points, the game isn't going to end in their favor. This can be said for Republican governors up for re-election next year in several states. Here are four ways that open class war is being waged in more euphemistic terms:



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From annxpress at live.com  Fri Jun 21 07:59:23 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 07:59:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: AlterNet: Noam Chomsky: American Government
 and Corporations Are at War With the American People
In-Reply-To: <50585CBD-8DC4-41FF-B2BC-E0ED424F4854@mcn.org>
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> Subject: Re: AlterNet: Noam Chomsky: American Government and Corporations Are at War With the American People
> From: rkarch at mcn.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:40:36 -0700
> To: annxpress at live.com
> 
> If you think it is important, why not post on the Occupy List?
> 
> On Jun 20, 2013, at 9:08 AM, annxpress at live.com wrote:
> 
> > This story has been forwarded to you from
> > http://www.alternet.org by annxpress at live.com
> > 
> > 
> > -------------------------------------
> > Noam Chomsky: American Government and Corporations Are at War With the American People
> > http://www.alternet.org/chomsky-nsa
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jun 21 14:21:45 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:21:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] If I pay a "consultant" a billion dollars are
	they really going to criticize me?
Message-ID: <DB68D8F0-F6D2-4756-B1EA-7B0E5C9699FE@att.net>


http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/senator-criticizes-lack-of-supervision-for-banks-consultants/?nl=afternoonupdate&emc=edit_au_20130621

Senator Criticizes Lack of Supervision for Banks? Consultants

Charles Dharapak/Associated PressSenator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. He said he would ask top banking regulators for ?written guidelines and transparent processes.?
When federal regulators told Congress in April that they lacked basic plans for the oversight of consulting firms that advise big banks, one lawmaker had blunt advice: start adopting guidelines ?this afternoon.?

With changes yet to materialize, the lawmaker, Senator Sherrod Brown, plans to ratchet up the pressure on Friday in a letter to the nation?s top banking regulators.

In the letter ? a draft of which was reviewed by The New York Times ? Mr. Brown will urge the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to keep a closer watch on the multibillion-dollar consulting industry, which has become something of a shadow regulatory force on Wall Street.

?Without written guidelines and transparent processes, it is impossible to ensure the integrity of a system that relies upon consultants paid by banks to report on their regulatory compliance,? Mr. Brown, an Ohio Democrat who is a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee, is expected to say in the letter. ?This lax system undermines financial regulation at every level and puts our economy at risk.?

The pressure from Capitol Hill comes as fresh details emerge about one of the consulting industry?s most lucrative assignments. When several consulting firms were enlisted to pore over home foreclosures as part of a federal enforcement action, they collectively received about $2 billion for their work, even though the consultants reviewed only a fraction of the loans.

New documents suggest that the Promontory Financial Group, which examined loans for Wells Fargo, Bank of America and PNC, was the highest paid of the consultants. The firm, run by a former comptroller of the currency, Eugene Ludwig, received $927 million for reviewing more than 250,000 loan files, according to documents provided to the Senate Banking Committee and reviewed by The Times.

PricewaterhouseCoopers, which reviewed files for four banks, was paid about $425 million. Deloitte, which handled JPMorgan?s foreclosure review, was paid $465 million.

The substantial payments have raised questions about the independence of the consulting firms, which Mr. Brown said were paid and handpicked by the same banks they were expected to help change.

After reviewing an early version of the letter, a spokeswoman for the Fed said, ?We have received the letter and plan to respond.? A spokesman for the comptroller?s office said it was ?actively at work on a set of standards,? and would finish them ?in the near future.?

Some federal authorities who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that they were quietly rethinking their reliance on consultants. They also said that they could punish banks that failed to improve and could tell a bank to replace any consulting firm that had erred.

Yet Mr. Brown is calling on federal regulators to take a more public stance.

His letter comes on the heels of an effort in New York State to rein in the consulting industry. Mr. Brown praised New York for introducing a new ?common sense? code of conduct for consultants while also raising questions about why federal authorities had yet to adopt similar standards.

?I urge the O.C.C. and the Federal Reserve to act immediately to create a similar set of written standards for independent consultants,? Mr. Brown said in the draft of the letter.

As part of the overhaul in New York, the state?s top financial regulator took action against Deloitte on Tuesday, imposing a $10 million fine and a one-year ban. The accusations by the state regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky, stemmed from Deloitte?s work for Standard Chartered, the British bank accused of illicitly transferring billions of dollars on behalf of Iran.

Under a 2004 agreement with state and federal regulators, Standard Chartered hired Deloitte to look for suspicious money transfers routed through its New York branches. But when Deloitte submitted a report to regulators, Mr. Lawsky said, it relented to pressure from the bank and watered down its recommendations for rooting out money laundering.

In a statement, Deloitte said that it had not been accused of intentionally aiding and abetting the bank.

?As a leading professional services firm, Deloitte has an important responsibility to continually elevate the standards that govern our work and that of our profession,? the statement said.

Federal authorities have yet to impose a similar crackdown. Grappling with scarce resources, they rely on consultants to help remedy flaws at big banks. More recently, however, they have indicated a willingness to rethink their ties with consultants.

?While the use of independent consultants can be an effective supervisory tool, there are certainly lessons to be learned from our experience, and we believe we can improve the process going forward,? Daniel P. Stipano, who supervises enforcement at the comptroller?s office, said in testimony at the hearing in April.

But when Mr. Brown asked whether the agency had adopted written standards for the consulting firms, Mr. Stipano conceded that the agency had not yet ?put pen to paper.?

A version of this article appeared in print on 06/21/2013, on page B3 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Senator Criticizes Lack of Supervision for Banks? Consultants.


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From annxpress at live.com  Sat Jun 22 08:51:37 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:51:37 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: AlterNet: The Evil Lies of Crazy Bankers: 6
 Former Employees Expose Inhuman Greed of BofA
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To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: AlterNet: The Evil Lies of Crazy Bankers: 6 Former Employees Expose Inhuman Greed of BofA
From: annxpress at live.com
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 11:50:57 -0400

This story has been forwarded to you from

http://www.alternet.org by annxpress at live.com





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The Evil Lies of Crazy Bankers: 6 Former Employees Expose Inhuman Greed of
BofA

http://www.alternet.org/economy/bank-americas-former-employees-expose-inhuman-greed



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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jun 22 09:50:30 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 09:50:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: U.S. Seemingly Unaware of Irony in
	Accusing Snowden of Spying
Message-ID: <F355BFD4-91A5-44C5-B2A2-3FDD9987ED2C@att.net>


U.S. SEEMINGLY UNAWARE OF IRONY IN ACCUSING SNOWDEN OF SPYING


WASHINGTON?The United States government charged former intelligence analyst Edward Snowden with spying on Friday, apparently unaware that in doing so it had created a situation dripping with irony. 

At a press conference to discuss the accusations, an N.S.A. spokesman surprised observers by announcing the spying charges against Mr. Snowden with a totally straight face.

?These charges send a clear message,? the spokesman said. ?In the United States, you can?t spy on people.?

Seemingly not kidding, the spokesman went on to discuss another charge against Mr. Snowden?the theft of government documents: ?The American people have the right to assume that their private documents will remain private and won?t be collected by someone in the government for his own purposes.?

?Only by bringing Mr. Snowden to justice can we safeguard the most precious of American rights: privacy,? added the spokesman, apparently serious.



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From annxpress at live.com  Sat Jun 22 10:07:28 2013
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 10:07:28 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: [Opcsteering] Arctic Drilling EIR - Comments
	deadline June 27
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From: jugglestone at comcast.net
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 01:07:39 -0700
To: OPC at lists.mcn.org; opcsteering at lists.mcn.org
Subject: [Opcsteering] Arctic Drilling EIR - Comments deadline June 27

.
Some people think BOEMRE is just a new say to say BUMMER, and they would be right.
You see, the "Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement," otherwise known os BOEMRE, is just a new name for what was previously known as the Minerals Management Service (MMS), an agency so mired in corruption, pay-off scandals, and drunken, incestuous corpo-government party bingeing, that it had to change it's name.
Right now, public comment is being taken by BOEMRE on an environmental impact report regarding the affects of offshore oil drilling and exploration in the Arctic, a huge area of ocean off the northern and northwestern coasts of Alaska.  This vast area of Alaska's Arctic ocean is being put on the chopping block in the name of offshore oil drilling.
In the areas of the Arctic covered by the recent EIR, the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, the proposed take of marine mammals is astonishing.  According to the report, the highest level of exploration and test drilling will cost a death toll of 9,965 Bowhead Whales, 6,610 Beluga Whales, 1,720 Gray Whales, 113 Humpback Whales, 113 Minke Whales, 90 Fin Whales, 105 Killer Whales, along with 118,570 Ringed Seals and 2,568 Bearded Seals, porpoises, seals, fish, birds - and who knows what else. These are just estimates, and this is just the exploration phase.
And this doesn't figure in for an oil spill (which is inevitable.) The report states in every category, that if the worst happens - a VLOP as they call it (Very Large Oil Spill) - each and every species will suffer a catastrophe.  Or as they say in the EIR report: "a VLOS could have a major impact on?."  Fill in the blank, and say good bye to  your favorite marine mammal, including polar bears.
To paraphrase a letter from the NRDC: "The amount of oil and gas activity that the Fisheries Service has proposed is staggering, with up to 24 surveys and drilling operations taking place at any given time. This scale of activity will transform the Arctic: industrializing it, bombarding its wildlife populations with deafening and lethal seismic testing, and risking this sensitive ecosystem with an oil spill that, in those remote and hazardous waters, will be virtually impossible to contain."
Your environmental review does not meaningfully address the cumulative effects of Arctic industrialization on species that depend on sound for their survival, or the cumulative risk of oil spills from exploratory drilling."

You have only a few more days to submit your comments on this EIR.  Please urge NOAA and BOEMRE to reject this proposal of expanded Arctic oil exploration, a proposal that the public has thoroughly rejected.  Ask these agencies to adopt Alternative 1 - the no action alternative that says we want to put a stop to Arctic oil drilling!
For info on how to submit your comments, go to:
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/eis/arctic.htm

The deadline to submit is June 27th.

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And pass this email on to your friends!

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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Sat Jun 22 16:10:23 2013
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:10:23 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Minutes of June 15th GA Meeting-- part1
Message-ID: <1371942623.46806.YahooMailNeo@web120604.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Facilitator: Jessie; Secretary Sheila; Stacker; Richard
? ? Reports:
???? Agnes reported recieving an Email from Robin Sunbeam of Occupy Ukiah requesting a needed $200 for filing fees, mailing costs and public education related to get a petition on the next election ballot. A question was raised as to the timeline for the petition procedure. Agnes will follow through by contacting the Registrar of Voters.
??? Jessie reported OM's finances are currently at $995. At this time no further plans for fundraising were made outside of the discussion at the May 18th meeting to try to get local stores to sell our hats & T-shirts. Richard, Ann & Linda agreed to contact various owners with Sheila to follow up with the merchandise.
??? Public Banking:
??? Both Agnes & Jessie reported on the Public Banking Institute Conference(PBI)? they attended June 2-4. Dan Hamburg sat on a local gov't panel. Agnes gave details from Matt Tabbai 's talk where he investigated why oil prices are rising. The short of it is that in 1991, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission allowed numerous letters of exception that allowed banks & financial institutions to speculative standing in the Futures markets well above the percentages of the Roosevelt era.? Future markets include oil, gas, corn wheat, soy & other necessities. More info in Taibbi's book,'Griftopia.'
??? A follow up meeting with PBI? is planned to learn how to create an affiliate coalition chapter consisting of OM & OU (Occupy Ukiah) members-- the purpose being to learn how to steer Mendocino County towards establishing a Public Bank. A meeting with Robin Sunbeam will be postponed till late July.
???? More on banking news on which to be proactive. 
??? Under the name of the Trans Pacific Partnership, (TTP) a move is being made by multinational corporations (U.S. and Pacific Rim countries) to devise a major trade pact that would give corporations the power to sue governments in order to get them to abandon environmental? & other policies that protect the rights of workers. These negotiations are secretive and have the threat of being "fast tracked" to a Presidential approval without an open discussion by the public &? Congress. OM urges a vigorous stand of opposition to prevent this assault on democratic procedure by contacting Congressional representatives on this issue.
??? On PBI.org, attorney and author Ellen Brown wrote several articles on a letter between the U.S.(along w/ FDIC) & the Bank of England that instructs the confiscation of savings deposits (a la Cyprus) in the event of a future bank failure. The Dodd-Frank bill prevents future taxpayer bailouts. This would be a practice of "bail-in"
??? Richard suggested that OM create a synopsis of these news items to hand out at our street protests and public gatherings. ? ? ? ??? ( upcoming parades)
??? Jessie brought back a selection of Occucards that were given out for free at the PBI conference. They are postcard size summaries on different aspects of the corporate state (health care, A.L.E.C.,corporate media, Walmart, etc.) that would make an excellent educational and funding resource. wwwoccucards.com for more info.
??? Discussion took place on whether to recruit candidates to run against the County Recorder and County Treasurer in the 2014 election. It seems the Treasurer is unaware of the turmoil in the banking situation although she did respond to efforts made by the public to divest County money from two toxic businesses.
??? KNYO Report
??? Jessie, Sheila & Agnes went to the KNYO (107.7) studio on Tues., June 12th and were given an hour of air time to update the Ft.Bragg listeners on the recent activities of OM.? Topics discussed included our foreclosure efforts with petitions to the County Recorder & BOS, Jessie's petition for a fully funded Junior College due to the current lack of services at the College of the Redwoods & the Friday street rallies in front of B of A. We also spoke to the desire to have a storefront with other grassroots organizations. We were invited to return by host, Red John,? in a few months. His show is from 3-5 p.m.
??? Sheila will inquire whether the show was recorded. The possibility of showing OM movies acquired at the PBI conference as well as that of sharing the storefront was mentioned. Sheila will follow through with an E mail to the station owner.

??? Foreclosures:
??? Jed Davis of Potter Valley sent the County Recorder a letter requesting that she ask for an affidavit of authenticity to prevent the filing of fraudulent documents. He also asked for an audit of County records to ferret out fraudulent foreclosures. Davis also wrote to the Calif. Recorders Assoc. to ask support for his requests to the County Recorder
??? Agnes reported that Dan Hamburg said it would be about 5 weeks till a budget discussion involving the funding of an audit would be before the BOS.
??? Discussion of whether another housing bubble is coming. Housing prices are up 15% this month and have been over 10%in recent months. (NPR News) The report said people are pooling money to buy low market value housing.

??? MCTV Update:
??? Linda reported an appeal is being filed by Elizabeth Swenson to question mistakes made in Judge Nadel's decision such as the amount of cash assets currently available at MCTV. The appeal will be handled in Nadel's court. Offers of support, such as commitments to appear in court for the hearing in Ukiah were voiced.
??? Supervisor Dan Gjerde is on the MCTV Board. More members would be advantageous.
?? The decision was made by MCTV not to share space with the TV channel housed in the Company Store.
??????????? To be continued on? Email--part 2
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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Sat Jun 22 16:44:30 2013
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (Sheila Dawn)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 16:44:30 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] GA minutes of June 15th--Part 2
Message-ID: <1371944670.19064.YahooMailNeo@web120601.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

Tech Committee:
???? Mark emphasized when sending attachments or requests for action, only put the OM @lists in the sender space. Separate Emails must be sent to others or the Email will get bounced back to Mark as a virus protection.
???? Richard suggested making the Email brief and to send a separate Email for different topics. He asked when sending links, to send the link to yourself first to insure that it is correct.

??? ?? Other items:
???? Mark agreed to pick up a key for the Senior Center and sign OM up for the 1st &3rd Saturdays of the month to provide a regular meeting location.


??? Report on College of the Redwoods petition- The online petition, composed by Jessie, has 800 signatures. Will Smith & Gloria Liner expressed interest in a future meeting. A front page article was in the June 13th issue of the Advocate News.

??? A free showing of The Secrets of Oz will take place after the regularly scheduled GA meeting of July 6th.? Movie time:4-6 P.M.
Donations welcomed.? The movie was acquired by Agnes at the PBI conference and is an explanation of how the original Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum was intended to be an allegorical story of the monetary picture at the time it was written. Many of the references were revised by Hollywood into the popular, non political story of our youth.
??? Another movie acquired by Jessie, Jeckyl Island--a story about the Federal Reserve, will be shown at a later date.

Next meeting: July 6th at the Senior Center --2-4 P.M.? Facilitator: Agnes 
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jun 22 18:09:14 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:09:14 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Banks Are Failing To Comply With The Terms Of The
	Foreclosure Settlement
Message-ID: <9C460DCF-D7F3-492D-B677-C449A32BA3C3@att.net>

(Just on more reason for Public Banks.  Shouldn't someone be in jail for this? M.S.) 
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/06/21/2193571/banks-are-failing-to-comply-with-the-terms-of-the-foreclosure-settlement/

Banks Are Failing To Comply With The Terms Of The Foreclosure Settlement

By Alan Pyke on Jun 21, 2013 at 9:30 am

Four of the nation?s largest banks are still failing to play straight on mortgage modification applications, which violates the terms of a 2012 settlement over wrongful foreclosures, the independent monitor of the settlement reported Thursday. The results of the monitor?s tests to verify whether banks were complying with the settlement reinforce tens of thousands of consumer complaints and allegations of ongoing bank misdeeds from two state Attorneys General.

Of 29 separate compliance tests, CitiMortgage failed three, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase each failed two, and Wells Fargo failed one. The report notes that JP Morgan tried to remedy one of its settlement violations, involving duplicate homeowner?s insurance, by refunding wrongfully charged premiums to more than 2,000 borrowers.

While the banks complied with between 26 and 28 of the monitor?s tests, the report summarizes about 60,000 individual borrower complaints over bank actions that violate the settlement in just a six month window. The report is based on complaints filed by elected officials on behalf of constituents, but the numbers may be much higher, as it doesn?t include complaints to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or any other misdeeds.

Those official complaints include 12,340 borrowers who said they were not given a single contact person to work on their case and 7,620 who said their designated bank contact was nonresponsive. In 4,587 official complaints, banks foreclosed on borrowers with pending loan modification applications, a process known as dual-tracking. There were also 3,050 instances of banks incorrectly applying payments or refusing to accept them.

This means that many of the abuses common in the foreclosure crisis, which the 2012 settlement sought to remedy, have continued. Dual-tracking, declined or misapplied payments, and shoddy staff work that complicates an already complex legal process for borrowers are common culprits in wrongful foreclosures. Deborah Castillo, one of the ?Covington 7? homeowners arrested for a sit-in to protest the government?s failure to prosecute foreclosure fraud, is a victim of dual-tracking. So is Etienne Syldor, who was actually making payments in excess of what the bank asked for during a trial loan modification. Jo-Ann Seipp had her house sold in foreclosure despite being current on her mortgage due to Wells Fargo?s paperwork and staffing errors. These are not isolated incidents, as Thursday?s report makes clear.

All this comes within the parameters of a settlement critics say was insufficient and poorly designed. As if to reinforce those arguments, Thursday?s report includes a depressing note: If the failures it identifies are not corrected, the settlement monitor can pursue fines of up to $5 million per bank, an amount unlikely to mean much to institutions that count their profit in the billions.
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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Sat Jun 22 21:17:30 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:17:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Minutes of June 15th GA Meeting-- part1
In-Reply-To: <1371942623.46806.YahooMailNeo@web120604.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
References: <1371942623.46806.YahooMailNeo@web120604.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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Thank you Sheila Dawn.

jl


From cdurkee at mcn.org  Sat Jun 22 21:33:08 2013
From: cdurkee at mcn.org (Carrie Durkee)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 21:33:08 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Minutes of June 15th GA Meeting-- part1
In-Reply-To: <86D8278C-1FE6-40FB-891F-E8454A9CD530@gmail.com>
References: <1371942623.46806.YahooMailNeo@web120604.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
	<86D8278C-1FE6-40FB-891F-E8454A9CD530@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <2906453F-E14C-4A03-8D5B-FABE8375D5C9@mcn.org>

Thanks to all for all your hard work. 
I just ordered some occucards. 
Will I see you all in the 4th of July Parade?
Carrie
On Jun 22, 2013, at 9:17 PM, Jessie Lee VanSant wrote:

> Thank you Sheila Dawn.
> 
> jl
> 
> 
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jun 22 23:32:45 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 23:32:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Great quote from Edward Snowden
Message-ID: <966161A6-817B-4471-B187-46B3F592AFFF@att.net>

Edward Snowden: "Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American? If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school."
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun 23 06:50:59 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 06:50:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Secret of Oz movie  Sat. July 6, 4-6 PM
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Jun 23 09:44:22 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 09:44:22 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: ]listen Friday at 9:00 KZYX
Message-ID: <5ee1c2c5acffea83d014454c54f8d705.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Dear Occupiers,
In this scheduled interview I sent two questions for Marti Lombardi about
the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and fractional reserve banking. Please
listen to the interview.You can call in a question too at 895-2448 Friday
,9-10 am, June 28th.
Agnes



http://www.kzyx.org/index.php/talk-shows/politics-and-public-affairs/all-about-the-money/entry/marty-lombardi-on-kzyx-friday-june-28-at-9-am





From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun 23 12:38:13 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 12:38:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Take off those masks!
Message-ID: <D2C23639-6DFB-41AB-9549-8DFA24C5634C@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/18021-wearing-a-mask-at-a-riot-is-now-a-crime


Wearing a mask at a riot is now a crime. 
Who defines what a riot is? 
Will this affect our local rallies when people wear Robin Hood masks?  Wait and see!

From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Mon Jun 24 09:18:59 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:18:59 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Sign the campaign of Rabbis for Human Rights to
 stop transfer of 40, 000 Bedouins in the Negev
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt7pmHLJLy3kCM8dnu0ZJeJvsU_GdSeK_caEC7+SLACGVQ@mail.gmail.com>

*From:* Rabbi Arik Ascherman
[mailto:rhr at itnewsletter.co.il<rhr at itnewsletter.co.il>
]
*Sent:* Monday, June 24, 2013 5:47 AM*
Subject:* "Tevye" Angers Israeli Government: Less Than 24 Hours to Stop The
Transfer of 40,000 Israeli Bedouin

If you have trouble reading this newsletter, view the web version
here<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2fitnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il%2fsending%2fwebpage.aspx%3fd%3d10328469874866734987648065739279693275%26w%3d1%26ar%3d0%26isDe%3dTrue%26rfl%3dFalse%26pl%3d0%26l%3d1812285%26sll%3d0%26mlt%3dTrue&l=1812285&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>

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Dear Friends and Supporters,****

 It is late, time is short, and there is very little to add to what I have
already written. ****

The first vote on demolishing villages, expelling some 40,000 Israeli
Bedouin from their homes and dispossessing them of most of their land is*today
(Monday)*, at approximately 5:00 pm, Israel time.****

This bill can be stopped, but *we need your help*:****

1.* Please click here to send urgently needed
letters<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2frhr.nationbuilder.com%2fstop_the_dispossession_of_negev_bedouin&l=1812286&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
* to stop this *Khilul HaShem*, this desecration of God's Name. *Even if
you have already signed letters, we now need you to ask everybody you know
to do the same*.
<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2frhr.nationbuilder.com%2fstop_the_dispossession_of_negev_bedouin&l=1812287&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
 British rabbinic leadership from Orthodox to Reform have spoken
out.<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2fhe.scribd.com%2fdoc%2f146653947%2fLetter-to-Minister-Prime-Minister-Netanyahu.&l=1812288&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
 In
the U.S., the Reform<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2frac.org%2fArticles%2findex.cfm%3fid%3d23200%26pge_prg_id%3d16390%26pge_id%3d2541&l=1812289&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
 and Renewal<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2fohalah.org%2fresolution-on-bedouin-settlement-in-the-negev%2f&l=1812290&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
Movements
have taken a stand, and a Reconstructionist statement is pending.  The
Israeli government has taken notice. Now we need you. ****

2. Please spread our video clip far and
wide<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dfLeWQ470G6o%26feature%3dyoutu.be&l=1812291&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
.****

3. Please make a black flag with "40,000" written on it your facebook
profile picture.<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=https%3a%2f%2ffbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.net%2fhphotos-ak-frc1%2f944127_619635088048247_1274655960_n.jpg&l=1812292&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
And
yes, ask everybody you know to do the same.****

These three steps are the entire Torah on one foot, and now here is the
commentary:****

In the Knesset last week, Benny Begin, a driving force behind this
legislation, expressed his fury with Rabbis For Human Rights and "That
Tevye" (Theodore Bikel) expressing his pain that the descendents of those
expelled from the real Anatevkas are about to transfer their fellow
citizens to a new Bedouin pale of settlement.
<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dfLeWQ470G6o%26feature%3dyoutu.be&l=1812293&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
****

Part of that anger seems to have been because it is somehow anti-Israel to
tell our fellow Israelis the truth. Government representatives have done
everything to lull concerned MK's, acknowledging that the Bedouin will need
to give up their land claims, but saying "Not so many villages will be
destroyed, and only a few people will be displaced." They have avoided
answering when asked, "Give us your numbers, and how you arrive at them."
Of course, the numbers are there for all to see if one reads the bill and
the Begin Plan<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2fwww.acri.org.il%2fen%2fwp-content%2fuploads%2f2013%2f01%2fBegin-Report-English-January-2013.pdf&l=1812294&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
it
is based on. ****

This last Shabbat we read the Torah portion Balak (Numbers 22:2-25:9).  The
Midrashic commentary acknowledges that prophecy is not limited to the
Jewish people alone, but says that while so many prophets sought only to
sooth and lull their people, while attacking others, the prophets of Israel
warned their own people of potential wrongdoing.  They did so out of
compassion both for their fellow Jews, and for non-Jews. (BaMidbar Rabbah
20:1).****

The obfuscators know what our soon to be released public opinion poll shows
? when Israelis know the facts, the majority think that it is perfectly
fair that the Bedouin be allowed to hold on to the mere 5.4% of the Negev
they claim to own.  A few weeks ago, the radical right wing group
"Regavim," that argues that even the current bill is "Giving away Jewish
land," took Israeli media personality Avri Gilad for a one sided tour of
the Negev. On his return, he too was convinced "The Bedouin are taking over
the Negev."  This last week he had the decency to come and see the other
side.  After meeting with the Bedouin and seeing pre Israel aerial
photographs of a Negev cultivated by the Bedouin, he publicly acknowledged
that he had judged too quickly, and expressed the belief that a fair
solution could be worked out if the Government would sit down with the
Bedouin as equal fellow citizens. ****

We Israelis have all too often committed unjust acts when they happen in
the shadows.  When we know the truth, we do not wish to uproot and
dispossess our fellow citizens. ****

Simply put, we are better than that.  That is not who we are as a people.***
*

We are asking you to be "Pro-Israel" by holding up the prophetic mirror
helping us Israelis to be who we really wish to be.  We have less than 24
hours. Please act
now.<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2frhr.nationbuilder.com%2fstop_the_dispossession_of_negev_bedouin&l=1812295&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
  ****

B'Vrakha,****

Arik****

P.S. If you click to send
letters<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2frhr.nationbuilder.com%2fstop_the_dispossession_of_negev_bedouin&l=1812296&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>,
you will have your choice of sending one letter to 5 key Government
ministers, or to write individualized letters to one or all of them. You
will also see links to all the background information you might care to
read.  (There are a few bugs, but our high tech person is on vacation, and
we need those letters now. Supposedly you can edit the letters, but that
doesn't seem to work yet.  Be sure to choose one letter or individualized
letters only from the links at the top of the webpage, because some of the
links further down lead you to old petitions.)

P.S.S.  We know that many of you are still confused as to how to donate to
RHR in North America after our fiscal split with Truah.  Please click here
for current donation information.
<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2frhr.org.il%2feng%2flinks%2f&l=1812297&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>

(We are pleased that Truah is one of our North American partners in this
Bedouin campaign, along with Partners for Progressive Israel, Jewish
Alliance For Change, British Friends of RHR, Canadian Friends of RHR.  In
Israel, our partners/organizations we coordinate with include The
Recognition Forum,  The Council of Unrecognized Villages, SHATIL, ACRI,
Adallah, Bimkom, etc.)

P.S.S.S.  Please join RHR's Jewish Leadership Human Rights Study Tour
October 2nd-9th.<http://itnewsletter.itnewsletter.co.il/r.ashx?h=http%3a%2f%2frhr.org.il%2feng%2f2013%2f06%2fthree-days-left-to-register-at-this-price-join-our-human-rights-tour-for-jewish-leadership-october-2nd-9th%2f&l=1812298&d=10328469874866734987648065739279693275>
For
more information, write to me or to Ayala Levy,ayala at rhr.israel.net.

P.S.S.S.S.  I will be in Ireland in August and in the U.S. in December,
including Berkely on December 8th and Cleveland on December 20th.  For more
information, or to arrange for me or another RHR speaker to come to your
community, please write to Ela Greenberg,ela at rhr.israel.net****

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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Jun 24 17:27:11 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:27:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority
 to Record Foreclose documents]]
Message-ID: <3c6a743f90366f04f4146c7cd1645780.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Dear Occupiers,
       Please copy the letter below, adding your name and address and at
the end add your signature. The original letter was written by Jed
Davis. The more letters sent adds pressure to the legislature.
email to Chesbro's aide at Ruth.Valenzuela at ASM.CA.GOV.



Subject: RE: [Fwd: legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to
Record Foreclose documents]

Ruth Valenzuela
Principal Field Representative
Assemblyman Wesley Chesbro
200 S. School St. Suite D
Ukiah, CA  95482
707-463-5770 phone
707-463-5773 fax


-----Original Message-----
From: agnes at mcn.org [mailto:agnes at mcn.org]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 9:19 AM
To: Valenzuela, Ruth
Subject: [Fwd: legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to Record
Foreclose documents]


To: Assembly member Wesley Chesbro;

Re: Legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to Record Foreclosure
Documents

Dear Assembly member Wesley Chesbro;

My name is          , from -----------------. I am concerned about the
integrity of our Public Records, the safety of land ownership, and the
possibility of millions of clouded titles across the nation for
generations to come.

The United States has always been one of the most secure and safest
countries in the world for property ownership. This security of property
ownership is substantiated in the fact that the chain of title can be
traced back hundreds of years to the original land grant through
transparent, public records.

The integrity of our Public Records has already been compromised
thousands, if not millions of times over by foreclosures in which there
have been numerous legal and procedural violations. These violations
nullify the Notice of Default and thus any sale and transfer of the
property. Many of these violations are criminal violations, which carry
large fines as well as prison time, yet no one from any of these banks or
foreclosure institutions has yet been prosecuted.

This massive transfer of real property through foreclosures using
documents that in fact nullify the sale, poses serious risks to the future
of public records and the sale of future properties as well as the
property values of every land owner in America, even those *who currently
have properties with clear titles. *

The banks are using many improper tactics to forcefully foreclose on
properties. These tactics violate two (2) California Penal Codes, five (5)
California Commercial Codes, three (3) US Commercial Codes, five (5)
Judgments, an IRS Bulletin, ALL SEC Pooling and Servicing Agreements, ALL
OCC Cease and Desist Orders, and ALL Federal Consent Judgments.

All of these violations either nullify the Notice of default (NOD) and
thus any future foreclosure and sale, or negate the legal interest in any
property that the current Trustee and Servicer claim to have. This
question of "who legally has beneficial rights to the note?" raises
unquestionably serious doubt as to whom a borrower is legally obligated to
pay.

In fact, millions of homeowners in good standing may be unknowingly making
payments to a lender who does not have *legal* beneficial rights to the
payments, due to the fact the banks violated the Trust's Pooling and
Serving Agreement Section 2.01 regarding assignments, and chose instead to
make impossible or illegal assignments, substitutions, attorney-in-fact
designations, and/or agency claims.

 The violations that many documents contain include the following:

1.     False notarizations

2.     Forged signatures

3.     Illegal Servicer Beneficial Assignment

4.     Impossible Beneficiary Designation

5.     Impossible Substitution

6.     Fake Agency Designation

7.     False Beneficiaries as in Defunct Lenders

8.     Assignments Recorded long AFTER Mortgage Backed Security's Pooling
and Servicing Agreement limit of 90 days

9.     No evidence that any transfer of interest was accompanied by
consideration as stated in the recorded documents

10. Violations of the Holder in Due Course Doctrine

11. Impossible Principal/Agent Designations

12. MERS Conveyance from a defunct lender

13. Violation of OCC Cease and Desist Orders of April 13, 2011

14. Contempt of Court by violating the April 4, 2012 Consent Judgments

It should seem VERY obvious that what is currently happening to our public
records will definitely have huge, adverse ramifications to the well-being
of our society and individual homeowners.  This destruction and muddling
of our public records must stop immediately!

The Public Recorders are the custodians of our public records and they see
first hand what the banks have done and continue to do to our records.
While it is their constitutional duty to record documents without bias, it
is also their fiduciary responsibility to maintain and protect the
integrity of these recorded documents, yet they do not have the authority
to make recording requirement changes. These changes must be made at the
state level.

That is why I am asking you to make the necessary, immediate changes to
stop further obfuscation and destruction of our records by requiring that
an Affidavit of Authority be recorded along with all foreclosure
documents.

Luckily, there is some recent precedent that can be examined regarding
this issue.

John O'Brien, Register of Deeds in the Southern Essex District in Salem
Massachusetts took it upon himself and his office to perform an audit of
the public records.  He now refuses to record any document with a known
forged signature without an Affidavit of Authority.

He recently succeeded in getting an Anti-Foreclosure Ordinance passed in
his town of Lynn, MA.

Fact Sheet:  http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/ObrienLynnOrdFactsheet.pdf

Ordinance:  http://hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/ObrienLynnCityOrdinance.pdf

His public presentation of rampant forged foreclosure documents can be
viewed at the following link:
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/video?&clipId=7691458

The findings of Mr. O'Brien's audit can be found at the following link:

http://www.salemdeeds.com/pdf/Audit.pdf

Mr. O'Brien's Affidavit for Restitution in the case against Doc X (a
foreclosure mill similar to Recontrust here in California), which has been
found guilty of foreclosure fraud, can be viewed at the following link:
http://www.hofj.org/virtualoffice_files/JohnOBrienAffidavit.pdf


The Supreme Court of Illinois recently enacted new rules regarding
mortgage foreclosure case effective May 1, 2013. These seem to be the most
comprehensive requirements to date that deal with* *all of the violations
that are being made on a routine basis. Here is the link to the opinion
written by Stahl Cowen Law Firm:
http://www.stahlcowen.com/?t=11&la=2329&format=xml


The Nevada State Assembly passed AB284 in May 2011, requiring an Affidavit
of Authority be included with foreclosure documents presented for
recordation.  Here is the link to that bill:

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Bills/AB/AB284_EN.pdf

After the passage of this bill, foreclosures dropped nearly 75%, in the
first month, because the mega-banks are unwilling to risk having to prove
their legal right to foreclose. This indicates what is going on in
recorder's offices everywhere around the country.

As you can see, stopping these fraudulent foreclosures is paramount the
integrity of our public records and the future of real property ownership,
and demands our immediate attention.

I respectfully urge you to do everything in your power to maintain the
integrity of our public records and stop the banks from running roughshod
over our legal system, our public records, and our ownership rights.

For the benefit of your constituents, your family, your friends, public
records, and the future of secure property ownership, please pass
legislation requiring an Affidavit of Authority to be included and
recorded with each assignment, trustee substitution, and foreclosure
document.  I ask you to address this issue immediately.

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

Sincerely,









From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 24 17:56:29 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:56:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Targeted domestic hit?
Message-ID: <73A94987-08D4-4916-9C29-EAD0DD72C33A@att.net>

Someone else suggested this last week.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/06/23/michael_hastings_sent_panicked_email_hours_before_car_crash.html

From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jun 25 10:01:29 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:01:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Snowden Passed Through Norway to Iceland -
 Pirate Party Norway]
Message-ID: <83f35f9cebf00b1dafb74d4e798c82f5.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Snowden Passed Through Norway to Iceland - Pirate Party Norway
From:    "CLG_News" <clg_news at legitgov.org>
Date:    Mon, June 24, 2013 8:04 pm
To:      "CLG News" <clg_news at legitgov.org>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government
24 Jun 2013
http://www.legitgov.org/
All links are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

Snowden Passed Through Norway to Iceland - Pirate Party Norway
--Organization Pirate Party Norway claims that accused spy Edward Snowden
landed at Oslo Gardermon Airport last night. 24 Jun 2013 The party leader
?ystein Jakobsen would meet with Snowden when he landed on Sunday evening,
according to the party's twitter account. "We have received information
from our international umbrella party, the Pirate Parties International
(PPI), that he will stop in Norway. The reason is that this is probably
the quickest and easiest way to fly to Iceland," says Tale ?str?dal from
the Pirate Party to TV2 Norway. ?sr?dal also said that Pirate Party in
Iceland confirmed Snowden's stay in the country.

Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance
--Fugitive whistle-blower reveals for first time he took job at US
government contractor with the sole aim of collecting proof of spying
activities 25 Jun 2013 Edward Snowden secured a job with a US government
contractor for one reason alone - to obtain evidence of Washington's
cyberspying networks, the South China Morning Post can reveal. For the
first time, Snowden has admitted he sought a position at Booz Allen
Hamilton so he could collect proof about the US National Security Agency's
secret surveillance programmes ahead of planned leaks to the media. "My
position with Booz Allen Hamilton granted me access to lists of machines
all over the world the NSA hacked," he told the Post on June 12. "That is
why I accepted that position about three months ago."

Report: Man who executed Saddam Hussein killed in Iraq 22 Jun 2013 One of
the executioners involved in the hanging of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
has been killed, the outlawed Baath Party said in a statement on Friday.
While not providing a date for when the executioner was killed, the
statement identified him as Mohammed Nassif al-Maliki, who allegedly
appeared in the video of Saddam's execution. The statement said Maliki was
the masked man standing on the left side of the former Iraqi strongman and
slipping the noose around his neck.

NORAD plans Wednesday training flights east of Denver --NORAD has been
monitoring domestic air traffic since the 9/11 attacks [and, on that day,
too, until Dick Cheney gave the order for NORAD to stand down and to allow
the attacks to proceed]. 24 Jun 2013 If you live east of Denver, you may
get a free air show Wednesday as aircraft from the North American
Aerospace Defense Command fly overhead during a training exercise. The
training flights are planned to test NORAD's ability to deal with aerial
threats. NORAD is headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base. The flights
will involve F-15 interceptors and C-21 transport planes, NORAD said in a
news release.

Six arrested in French anti-terrorist raid: source 25 Jun 2013 Six people
were arrested in the Paris region on Monday in coordinated raids on
members of a suspected radical Islamist cell allegedly planning "terrorist
acts" on French soil, a source close to the investigation told AFP. The
suspects, aged between 22 and 38, were "all known to police for serious
delinquency" and are being detained by the police anti-terrorist unit in
the Paris suburb of Levallois. The members of the suspected Islamist cell
include one man from Benin, another from the Comoros and four French
nationals, a source close to the case said.

Leahy: Border security measure reads 'like a Christmas wish list for
Halliburton' 22 Jun 2013 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy
(D-Vt.) has panned a proposal to fast-track billions of dollars in
spending on 'border security' as a boondoggle for government contractors.
Leahy said a proposal drafted by Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and John
Hoeven (R-N.D.) "reads like a Christmas wish list for Halliburton." The
amendment requires implementation and activation of $4.5 billion in
technology and equipment to achieve full surveillance of the U.S.-Mexico
border. Leahy criticized the GOP-sponsored language for waiving standard
federal contracting rules.

Senate $38 Billion 'Border Plan' Boosts Immigration Law Prospects 24 Jun
2013 The Senate advanced the costliest plan ever to bolster security
corpora-terrorists' coffers at the U.S.-Mexico border, drawing enough
Republican support to indicate that a broad revision of immigration law
will pass by week's end. The 67-27 vote allows the measure to move
forward. It would double the size of the U.S. Border Patrol and require
another 350 miles of fencing at the boundary with Mexico -- at a[n INSANE]
price tag its authors say will reach *38 billion. "Some people have
described this as a border surge," said Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee
Republican who proposed the measure...

Justices Step Up Scrutiny of Race in College Entry 25 Jun 2013 Courts must
take a skeptical look at affirmative-action programs at public colleges
and universities, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, in a decision that is
likely to set off a wave of challenges to race-conscious admissions
policies nationwide. The 7-to-1 decision avoided giving a direct answer
about the constitutionality of the program, used by the University of
Texas at Austin, that was before the court. The program will continue for
now, but the justices ordered an appeals court to reconsider the case
under a demanding standard that appears to jeopardize the program.

Fed official likens current market behavior to 'feral hogs' 24 Jun 2013
Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher said Monday in an interview that
"feral hogs" are testing the central b*nk, as bond yields have spiked
higher. "Markets tend to test things," Fisher told the Financial Times.
"We haven't forgotten what happened to the Bank of England [on Black
Wednesday]. I don't think anyone can break the Fed...?But I do believe
that big m*ney does organize itself somewhat like feral hogs. If they
detect a weakness or a bad scent, they'll go after it."

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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jun 25 11:20:20 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:20:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Who stands to profit :Dismantling of the
 Postal Art Legacy of the New Deal]
Message-ID: <5773ed6319920b07055f371a8afaee56.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

occupiers,Please copy and send the letter below with your name and address
in the heading and ending.to heidi.dickerson at mail.house.gov
Cheers,
Agnes


--------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Who stands to profit :Dismantling of the Postal Art Legacy of the N
To:      heidi.dickerson at mail.house.gov
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Dear Heidi,
        Here's photos and support for repealing the law passed by congress
to put the U.S. postal Service(mandated in the U.S.constitution)
into debt for the next ten years, requiring them to fund
retirement 75 years into the future.Please send to Jared Huffman
urging him to introduce repeal of the unconstitutional law to
privatize the postal service. Richard Blum, Diane Feinstein's
husband, has control over this high priced real estate in large
cities and stands to profit by stealing our legacy. No such postal
art exists in any other country and visitors from other countries
have come to see them.
I urge Rep. Huffman to look at this legacy and help save it.

Sincerely,




Dismantling a Legacy | Save the Post Office
www.savethepostoffice.com/new-deal-post-offices - Cached






From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jun 25 11:34:17 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:34:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Supreme Court Frees Americans from
	Burden of Voting
Message-ID: <684831BD-A037-4CF1-B7E8-4BC2256E8703@att.net>


SUPREME COURT FREES AMERICANS FROM BURDEN OF VOTING


WASHINGTON  ? By a five-to-four vote, the Supreme Court today acted, in the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, ?to relieve millions of Americans from the onerous burden of having to vote.?

Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia stated, ?Since 1965, citizens across the nation have lived under the tyranny of being forced to elect people to represent them. This is an important step to free them from that unfair and heinous obligation.?

Justice Scalia added that the Voting Rights Act had ?thrust upon the shoulders of millions of Americans the terrible and unwanted burden of exercising their rights in a democracy.?
?Many of them have been forced to drive to polling places, wait in line, and then cast their vote because of the oppressive requirements of this Act,? he wrote. ?It is our honor and duty to free them from those hardships.?

In conclusion, Justice Scalia wrote, ?Our message today to the American people is simple: we are voting so you won?t have to.?



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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Jun 25 12:05:34 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:05:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: SF city attorney re public banking]
Message-ID: <c2458f0edc3e6d499902f832a0a59372.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: SF city attorney re public banking
From:    "Dan Hamburg" <vote at pacific.net>
Date:    Tue, June 25, 2013 11:38 am
To:      "'ELLEN ROSSER'" <ellen.rosser at gmail.com>
         "'Jessie VanSant'" <jessie at mac.com>
         "'Steve Scalmanini'" <sscalmanini at yahoo.com>
         agnes at mcn.org
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fyi--feel free to circulate
see below
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Jun 25 15:43:12 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 15:43:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Save the Post Office- sign the petition
Message-ID: <70AD4C37-95D5-4F3D-AC78-08996FD0A139@mcn.org>

http://www.savethepostoffice.com/new-deal-post-offices


Save the Post Office
Closures, Consolidations, Suspensions: Stories, Analysis, Opinion


New Deal Post Offices for Sale
Dismantling a Legacy
http://www.savethepostoffice.com/new-deal-post-offices
During the New Deal, the federal government built over 1,100 post offices, and many of them are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  According to the National Register website, during the decade of the New Deal the government built three times the number of post offices it had built in the previous 50 years.  Many of these post offices were built by the Public Works administration, and while there was a strong desire to complete projects quickly, "the PWA also stressed the importance of high quality in order to ensure 'public works of an ensuring character and lasting benefits, according to its 1939 report.  That's partly why so many of these post offices are now on the National Register.

The New Deal also commissioned murals and sculptures for many of these post offices, as well as for libraries, schools and other public buildings.  A thousand post offices in the country "continue to house this uniquely American art for people to enjoy as they go about their daily lives" (US Postal Service website).

As Marlene Park and Gerald Markowitz write in Democratic Vistas: Post Office and Public Art in the New Deal, "The New Deal sought to make the national government's presence felt in even the smallest, most remote communities. . .   The post office was 'the one concrete link between every community of individuals and the Federal government' that funtioned 'importantly in the human structure of the community.'"  The post office "brought to the locality a symbol of government efficiency, permanence, service, and even culture."

The US Postal Service is dismantling the institution of the community post office and the rich legacy of the New Deal.  The USPS has announced that it will be...go to web site for more of story. 

SIGN THE PETITION


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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Wed Jun 26 04:30:19 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:30:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Save the Post Office- sign the petition
In-Reply-To: <70AD4C37-95D5-4F3D-AC78-08996FD0A139@mcn.org>
References: <70AD4C37-95D5-4F3D-AC78-08996FD0A139@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <FE24094F-31E6-4543-94B4-32645D8A7EC4@gmail.com>

The petitions are no longer active because they did not receive enough signatures in the allotted time but another petition can be created?


On Jun 25, 2013, at 3:43 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

> http://www.savethepostoffice.com/new-deal-post-offices
> 
> 
> Save the Post Office
> Closures, Consolidations, Suspensions: Stories, Analysis, Opinion
> 
> 
> New Deal Post Offices for Sale
> Dismantling a Legacy
> http://www.savethepostoffice.com/new-deal-post-offices
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Wed Jun 26 07:16:36 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:16:36 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Viable Save the Post Office Petition ( Tried
	and tested!) http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-our-post-office
In-Reply-To: <FE24094F-31E6-4543-94B4-32645D8A7EC4@gmail.com>
References: <70AD4C37-95D5-4F3D-AC78-08996FD0A139@mcn.org>
	<FE24094F-31E6-4543-94B4-32645D8A7EC4@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0DD3CDF4-ADC2-452E-A59E-551373409ABB@mcn.org>

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/save-our-post-office                  27,000+ signatures!  





 
Save Our Post Office
By Jerry Stidman (Contact)

To be delivered to: Postmaster General, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama

PETITION STATEMENT
1. Stop closing US Postal Service mail processing plants.
2. Stop closing rural post offices.
3. Keep 6 day delivery of mail in America.
4. Return the postal service to the delivery standards prior to July 2012.
5. Return the overfunding of retirement accounts to the postal service.
Petition Background
Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic overpayments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. The goal of this petition is also to have congress address the hostile working conditions in the US Postal Service and "Union Busting" tactics.

There are currently 27,187 signatures











































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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Jun 24 08:23:19 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 08:23:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Agency Busy Spying on Three Hundred
	Million People Failed to Notice One Dude Working for It
Message-ID: <0C8C191B-0DB9-4EA5-B4E8-2155B7C834D9@att.net>

AGENCY BUSY SPYING ON THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE FAILED TO NOTICE ONE DUDE WORKING FOR IT


WASHINGTON?A U.S. intelligence agency was so busy spying on three hundred million Americans that it failed to notice one dude who was working for it, a spokesman for the agency acknowledged today.

?I guess we were so busy monitoring the everyday communications of every man, woman, and child in the nation that we didn?t notice that a contractor working for us was downloading tons of classified documents,? the agency spokesman said. ?It?s definitely embarrassing, for sure.?

Despite having an annual budget in the neighborhood of ten billion dollars, the agency had no idea that a dude who was working for it five days a week was getting ready to send those classified documents to a journalist who would then tell everybody in the world.

?Maybe if we hadn?t been so busy keeping our eye on those other three hundred million people, we would have noticed that this one guy who was working right under our noses was up to something totally fishy,? the spokesman said. ?But you know what they say about hindsight.?

As for where that guy who leaked the documents was planning to go next, the spokesman admitted, ?We don?t have a clue.?

?I know what you?re thinking?an intelligence agency probably should know that Hong Kong has an international airport and that its departures board lists flights to Moscow and whatnot,? the spokesman said. ?I don?t know what to say. Maybe we need a bigger budget or something.?



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From moxie at mcn.org  Tue Jun 25 21:45:45 2013
From: moxie at mcn.org (moxie at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 21:45:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Bradley Manning Report-back / Event / articles
Message-ID: <f6ccdc3012448a05b4a4853007f34f63.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


Hey There OCCUPANTS! ~

I'm back from Ft. Meade and would like to have a medium size
gathering where I can tell ALL, show pictures, raffle off a couple of
T-shirts, & brainstorm re: WHAT'S NEXT? etc.
I am hoping to get an actual Public space: the Library? Town Hall????

Frank Hartzell & the Advocate/Beacon want to do a feature about my trip{s}
and work on this case. Depending on the TIMING, we could Promote such an
event!

I WILL be going Back to Ft. Meade in mid-July: if You've been following
the Trial You've noticed that Da Judge, Hon.Col.Mme.Denise Lind, has done
some Very Strange scheduling: the first (& second) weeks ran only 3 short
days! Thursday & Fridays were cancelled, as was ALL of the next week!. The
trial only just resumed today {Tuesday, 25June}!!! RSN was happy with our
work & wants to send us back! I am trying to figure out how to stay there
for more than one week!

Alas, I will not be able to make the meeting on 6 JULY for the a good
reason: Ricardo & I & our Big Band Family will be playing our Season's End
show in Mendocino at the Art Center. Hey! There's time to move the Occupy
meeting! It'd be grand to play for You all! And: There Will Be Snacks!
{just an idea}

So if You ever wanted to see how the Gummint screws around with the Media:
here's a fine example! Thank Goddess for TIME magazine & Edward Snowden!
This story, These Issues are NOT going away!

Thank You All BIGTIME for Your continuing interest {in Truth, Justice, &
Pfc. Manning} & most especially Your Support! My drawings, as planned, are
scattered liberally throughout the stories at:

http://www.readersupportednews.org/trial-of-bradley-manning

AND HERE ARE SOME OTHER GOOD SITES & ARTICLES:

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-trials-of-bradley-manning-20130314

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/370-wikileaks/17774-bradley-

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

http://firedoglake.com/bradley-manning-coverage/

FYI: progress with the Kickstarter crowdfunding proposal creeps along!
We've solved the problems with the Amazon account, but The video needs to
be brought up to date!
Suggestions and ASSISTANCE welcome!
Stay Tooned!
For the R*e*v*o*l*u*t*i*o*N!
~ K. Rudin





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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Jun 26 10:18:43 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:18:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Borowitz: Scalia Arrested Trying to Burn Down
	Supreme Court
Message-ID: <04023C60-293E-4E82-B4DA-62B40DA1FECA@att.net>

SCALIA ARRESTED TRYING TO BURN DOWN SUPREME COURT

WASHINGTON ?In a shocking end to an illustrious legal career, police arrested Justice Antonin Scalia today as he attempted to set the Supreme Court building ablaze.

Justice Scalia, who had seemed calm and composed during the announcement of two major rulings this morning, was spotted by police minutes later outside the building, carrying a book of matches and a gallon of kerosene.

After police nabbed Justice Scalia and placed him in handcuffs, the Juror appeared ?at peace and resigned to his fate,? a police spokesman said.

?He went quietly,? the spokesman said. ?He just muttered something like, ?I don?t want to live in a world like this.? ?

Back at the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia?s colleagues said they hoped he would get the help he needed, except for Justice Clarence Thomas, who said nothing.



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From jupiter at mcn.org  Wed Jun 26 14:06:26 2013
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 14:06:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senator Wendy Davis, our hero
References: <CADVw2MBFpxqtC99eTOyvBOduHa=K8nTY5BF_bzQe838Kd8rQsQ@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <B827ED8A-9007-42F7-A98C-EE9D38A1823D@mcn.org>

> Last night, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis stood up for women?s  
> rights. For a grueling
> 13 hours, Davis got on her feet and filibustered severe anti-choice  
> legislation pushed
> by Texas Governor Rick Perry that would have banned abortion after  
> 20 weeks and
> significantly tightened abortion provider restrictions. Supporters  
> lined the statehouse,
> giving testimony, and showing their resolve to #standwithWendy.
>
> We need more women like Wendy in office. Wendy?s determination not  
> only delivered
> a strong message for womens equality, but was also a testament to  
> the powerful
> impact of female politicians.
>
> Thank you Senator Wendy Davis.
>
> Val Muchowski
> MWPC Chair
>

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From agnes at mcn.org  Wed Jun 26 21:34:23 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:34:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] send a letter to urge your Congress person to
	oppose the TPP.
Message-ID: <0f5222a973609e84d01e17c0c5c7907f.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Here are reasons to stop the TPP.get address of your Senators fromthe
newspaper.
Agnes

Green Shadow Cabinet joins critical struggle to defeat the Trans-Pacific
Partnership
June 17, 2013
Green Shadow Cabinet

The Green Shadow Cabinet stands united in opposition to the proposed
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and is committed to defeating this Obama
administration effort to enrich and empower global corporations at the
expense of people and planet.

For three years, the Obama administration has engaged in 16 rounds of
secret negotiations to develop the TPP. Those negotiations have included
hundreds of representatives of global corporations. The TPP negotiations
have excluded representatives of the vast majority of the American people.
It is a fact that the TPP is global economic policy for the 1%, at the
expense of the 99%.

Today, all five branches and 81 members of the Green Shadow Cabinet begin
to act in concert to not only defeat the TPP, but to show America that
another government with another global economic agenda is possible. There
is an alternative to the corrupt political establishment that produces
economic terrors like the TPP. Our Cabinet is proof of that alternative.

Daily this week, the Green Shadow Cabinet will release over a dozen
statements in opposition to the TPP; these statements describe the threats
posed by the TPP, and offer better alternatives. This month, our Cabinet
members will begin participating in the broader movement against the TPP
through actions and events across the United States and urge all Americans
to join this effort. We are bringing our networks and communities into
this critical struggle.

THE TPP THREATENS ALL OF US

If you oppose the industrial farming practices of Monsanto, Cargill and
other giant food and agribusiness corporations, with their intense use of
toxic herbicides and other harmful chemicals, production of untested
genetically modified food, efforts to control the seed supply and patent
life, their pollution of the water, air, soil and food supply, then you
must oppose the TPP.

If you oppose the actions of the big banks and financial institutions that
led to the world economic crash, exploding wealth inequality, risky
investments that endanger the economic future, and their ability to
dominate national economies, then you must oppose the TPP.

If you are committed to protecting the rights of working people to a
living wage, the right to organize, and to safe working conditions, then
you must oppose the TPP.

If you favor a free and open Internet where free speech is protected and
creativity and communication flourish, then you must oppose the TPP.

If you understand that healthcare is a human right and that the inflated
prices of pharmaceutical drugs should not be protected by law, then you
must oppose the TPP.

If you want to see the air, waters and lands protected from toxic
chemicals and pollution, and know that the ecological crisis of species
extinction and environmental breakdown must be reversed, then you must
oppose the TPP.

If you would live in a world where local, state, and national governments
are allowed to take urgent action to deal with the global climate crisis,
and to implement a Green New Deal, then you must oppose the TPP.

We look forward to working with you in the coming months to defeat the
Trans-Pacific Partnership and to prevent its sister trade agreement, the
Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, from following the same
path. The first step is to stop enactment of Trade Promotion Authority
legislation, also known as ?Fast Track,? that would prevent Congress from
holding hearings on the TPP or amending the TPP. There must be no end-run
around the Constitution, or the right of the American people to petition
the government for redress.

DEFENDING THE NEW WORLD

We know that another world is possible. We are building that world every
day through local governments, cooperatives, community organizations, and
publicly owned financial institutions.

Those who defend corporate capitalism also understand that another world
is possible, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is their attempt to
foreclose our new world. The TPP gives major corporations legal personhood
to sue in transnational courts dominated by judges who themselves are
lawyers for major corporations. Under the TPP, corporations would be able
to claim that environmental, labor, financial, health and other laws cost
them profits, and to extract damages from our governments - and from us as
taxpayers - if they enforce those laws.

The current administration in Washington D.C. is committed to passing the
TPP and to defeating America?s grassroots movement for economic democracy.
The Green Shadow Cabinet is committed to defeating the TPP, and to
strengthening the U.S. democracy movement. We and our allies are the many,
they are the few. Let us defend our communities and our future and stop
the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Statement of the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States of America:

    * Jill Stein, President



From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Wed Jun 26 22:50:40 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 01:50:40 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senator Wendy Davis, our hero
In-Reply-To: <B827ED8A-9007-42F7-A98C-EE9D38A1823D@mcn.org>
References: <CADVw2MBFpxqtC99eTOyvBOduHa=K8nTY5BF_bzQe838Kd8rQsQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<B827ED8A-9007-42F7-A98C-EE9D38A1823D@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt4_ThVJDxHW6oZYkHJyyHNwLvqUrox5j8sXJyv8dGL9-g@mail.gmail.com>

Senator Wendy Davis is not my hero.   My hero would be one who defended the
rights of the most helpless of humans, the babies who aren't seen and
aren't heard and therefore who aren't protected by those who claim to want
to help the defenseless.  The basic character and appearance of a person
are determined at the moment of conception when the DNA of that unique
human being is created.  Does that person have no rights?  And what about
the rights of the 50% of the women who have abortions who are pressured
into having it by boyfriends or parents or others?   Have they no rights?
 And what about the 20% of the women who have abortions who suffer from
PTSD because of having an abortion?   And what about the thousand or so
teenagers and women who commit suicide every year because of stress and
grief of having an abortion?
Does anyone think about these people and their rights?
           Peace and blessings,  Ellen


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:

> Last night, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis stood up for women?
> s rights. For a grueling
> 13 hours, Davis got on her feet
> and filibustered severe anti-choice legislation pushed
> by Texas Governor Rick Perry that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks and
>
> significantly tightened abortion provider restrictions. Supporters lined the statehouse,
>
> giving testimony, and showing their resolve to #standwithWendy.
>
> We need more women like Wendy in office. Wendy?s determination not only delivered
>
> a strong message for womens equality, but was also a testament to the powerful
>
> impact of female politicians.
>
> Thank you Senator Wendy Davis.
>
> Val Muchowski
> MWPC Chair
>
>
>
>
>
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jun 27 09:10:53 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:10:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Web Cookie Is Dying. Here's The Creepier
	Technology That Comes Next
Message-ID: <AF87E80C-DA52-42EF-8E52-1D9A8E390618@att.net>

http://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtanner/2013/06/17/the-web-cookie-is-dying-heres-the-creepier-technology-that-comes-next/

From elained at mcn.org  Thu Jun 27 09:25:20 2013
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:25:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senator Wendy Davis, our hero
In-Reply-To: <CAFGqSt4_ThVJDxHW6oZYkHJyyHNwLvqUrox5j8sXJyv8dGL9-g@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CADVw2MBFpxqtC99eTOyvBOduHa=K8nTY5BF_bzQe838Kd8rQsQ@mail.gmail.com>
	<B827ED8A-9007-42F7-A98C-EE9D38A1823D@mcn.org>
	<CAFGqSt4_ThVJDxHW6oZYkHJyyHNwLvqUrox5j8sXJyv8dGL9-g@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <DB580922-9F8F-423C-8B3E-F6C853F59ECA@mcn.org>

How about the rights all the most helpless creatures on Earth, the non human animals to live? Humans do not have the right to overbreed like cockroaches and use up all the planet's resources and habitats. How about the two billion humans who don't have access to potable water or enough to eat. And where do these figures come from that half of the women who have abortions are pressured into them by boyfriends, parents or others. How about all the women who are forced to bear the children of their rapists or abusive family members like their fathers?

Ed

On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:50 PM, ELLEN ROSSER wrote:

> Senator Wendy Davis is not my hero.   My hero would be one who defended the rights of the most helpless of humans, the babies who aren't seen and aren't heard and therefore who aren't protected by those who claim to want to help the defenseless.  The basic character and appearance of a person are determined at the moment of conception when the DNA of that unique human being is created.  Does that person have no rights?  And what about the rights of the 50% of the women who have abortions who are pressured into having it by boyfriends or parents or others?   Have they no rights?  And what about the 20% of the women who have abortions who suffer from PTSD because of having an abortion?   And what about the thousand or so teenagers and women who commit suicide every year because of stress and grief of having an abortion?
> Does anyone think about these people and their rights?
>            Peace and blessings,  Ellen
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
>> Last night, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis stood up for women?s rights. For a grueling 
>> 13 hours, Davis got on her feet and filibustered severe anti-choice legislation pushed 
>> by Texas Governor Rick Perry that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks and 
>> significantly tightened abortion provider restrictions. Supporters lined the statehouse, 
>> giving testimony, and showing their resolve to #standwithWendy.
>> 
>> We need more women like Wendy in office. Wendy?s determination not only delivered 
>> a strong message for womens equality, but was also a testament to the powerful 
>> impact of female politicians. 
>> 
>> Thank you Senator Wendy Davis.
>> 
>> Val Muchowski
>> MWPC Chair
>> 
>> <Wendy.jpg>
> 
> 
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jun 27 09:44:46 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:44:46 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How about we take the discussion about abortion
	elsewhere?
Message-ID: <9BBBCFFC-BAB4-46AD-A6B9-689FACEE1E2A@att.net>

Most (if not all) of us have strong opinions on whether woman have a right to choose to have children or, if and when unborn children have rights. Religious beliefs enter into this discussion for many. Rather than rip apart Occupy with this issue, let's keep it off this listserve and concentrate on what unites us all.

This is not the place to talk about the billions of potential soldiers for God's Army that die nightly in little rubber concentration camps.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jun 27 13:14:52 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:14:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 4th of July Parade???
Message-ID: <b546eb6001804d072d42311170652367.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Is anyone willing to sign Occupy up for a place in the  July 4th Parade? I
have three whistles for anyone willing to make a sign saying "I AM BRADLEY
MANNING", OR "I AM EDWARD SNOWDEN" OR "I AM jULIEN ASSANGE" with the
correct spelling of course.?????
Agnes





From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jun 27 13:28:30 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:28:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] send a letter to urge your Congress person to
 oppose the TPP.
In-Reply-To: <CAFGqSt5AfEt3fNkzVNSfieSQHG6Wu8h+yy66NgZeNR9ipg66Qg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <0f5222a973609e84d01e17c0c5c7907f.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
	<CAFGqSt5AfEt3fNkzVNSfieSQHG6Wu8h+yy66NgZeNR9ipg66Qg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0bfaae4d8b33a129568bfe935ca81e11.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

If we do not stop Fast Track there will be no amendments allowed. It will
go straight to the President which will give him dictatorial power and
he's already in the grip of Wall Street, Bernanke et al. tell
Congress to stop any attempt to fast track this legislation.

http://www.huffman.house.gov

http://boxer.senate.gov

htp:/feinstein.senate.gov/public


Agnes



> Dear Occupy,
>      It is unlikely that we can stop the TPP with the current government
> in
> place.  But with concerted action,
> we could transform it into a beneficial treaty.   The section prohibiting
> Public Banks needs to be removed, of course, and the following amendments
> need to be added.   The amendments will protect the rights of workers  in
> the countries ratifying the treaty, will give all of the citizens,
> including those in the US,  their rights under our constitutional
> international law, and will put the UN International Labor Organization
> over the corporations to assure they follow the ILO's regulations.   Isn't
> it worth a try?
>             Peace and blessings,   Ellen
>
> 1.  Signatories to the Trans-Pacific Partnership Treaty shall be bound by
> all the rules and regulations of the United Nations International Labor
> Organization (ILO
>       ).  These rules and regulations shall be self-executing upon
> ratification of the treaty.
>       2.  Signatories to this treaty shall be bound by all provisions in
> the constitutional international law, in particular by the provisions in
> the U N. Covenant on Civil and Political
> Rights and the U.N. Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
>  These laws and provisions shall be self-executing upon ratification of
> the
> treaty.
>       3.  The prohibition in the treaty against public ownership shall not
> apply to publicly owned infrastructure such as roads, schools and
> universities, health services, transportation services, banks, public
> buildings such as the White House or legislative buildings, or any other
> public infrastructure so designated by the nation.   Factories or
> manufacturing entities
> which sell goods, however, shall come under the prohibition.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:34 AM, <agnes at mcn.org> wrote:
>
>> Here are reasons to stop the TPP.get address of your Senators fromthe
>> newspaper.
>> Agnes
>>
>> Green Shadow Cabinet joins critical struggle to defeat the Trans-Pacific
>> Partnership
>> June 17, 2013
>> Green Shadow Cabinet
>>
>> The Green Shadow Cabinet stands united in opposition to the proposed
>> Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), and is committed to defeating this
>> Obama
>> administration effort to enrich and empower global corporations at the
>> expense of people and planet.
>>
>> For three years, the Obama administration has engaged in 16 rounds of
>> secret negotiations to develop the TPP. Those negotiations have included
>> hundreds of representatives of global corporations. The TPP negotiations
>> have excluded representatives of the vast majority of the American
>> people.
>> It is a fact that the TPP is global economic policy for the 1%, at the
>> expense of the 99%.
>>
>> Today, all five branches and 81 members of the Green Shadow Cabinet
>> begin
>> to act in concert to not only defeat the TPP, but to show America that
>> another government with another global economic agenda is possible.
>> There
>> is an alternative to the corrupt political establishment that produces
>> economic terrors like the TPP. Our Cabinet is proof of that alternative.
>>
>> Daily this week, the Green Shadow Cabinet will release over a dozen
>> statements in opposition to the TPP; these statements describe the
>> threats
>> posed by the TPP, and offer better alternatives. This month, our Cabinet
>> members will begin participating in the broader movement against the TPP
>> through actions and events across the United States and urge all
>> Americans
>> to join this effort. We are bringing our networks and communities into
>> this critical struggle.
>>
>> THE TPP THREATENS ALL OF US
>>
>> If you oppose the industrial farming practices of Monsanto, Cargill and
>> other giant food and agribusiness corporations, with their intense use
>> of
>> toxic herbicides and other harmful chemicals, production of untested
>> genetically modified food, efforts to control the seed supply and patent
>> life, their pollution of the water, air, soil and food supply, then you
>> must oppose the TPP.
>>
>> If you oppose the actions of the big banks and financial institutions
>> that
>> led to the world economic crash, exploding wealth inequality, risky
>> investments that endanger the economic future, and their ability to
>> dominate national economies, then you must oppose the TPP.
>>
>> If you are committed to protecting the rights of working people to a
>> living wage, the right to organize, and to safe working conditions, then
>> you must oppose the TPP.
>>
>> If you favor a free and open Internet where free speech is protected and
>> creativity and communication flourish, then you must oppose the TPP.
>>
>> If you understand that healthcare is a human right and that the inflated
>> prices of pharmaceutical drugs should not be protected by law, then you
>> must oppose the TPP.
>>
>> If you want to see the air, waters and lands protected from toxic
>> chemicals and pollution, and know that the ecological crisis of species
>> extinction and environmental breakdown must be reversed, then you must
>> oppose the TPP.
>>
>> If you would live in a world where local, state, and national
>> governments
>> are allowed to take urgent action to deal with the global climate
>> crisis,
>> and to implement a Green New Deal, then you must oppose the TPP.
>>
>> We look forward to working with you in the coming months to defeat the
>> Trans-Pacific Partnership and to prevent its sister trade agreement, the
>> Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, from following the same
>> path. The first step is to stop enactment of Trade Promotion Authority
>> legislation, also known as ?Fast Track,? that would prevent Congress
>> from
>> holding hearings on the TPP or amending the TPP. There must be no
>> end-run
>> around the Constitution, or the right of the American people to petition
>> the government for redress.
>>
>> DEFENDING THE NEW WORLD
>>
>> We know that another world is possible. We are building that world every
>> day through local governments, cooperatives, community organizations,
>> and
>> publicly owned financial institutions.
>>
>> Those who defend corporate capitalism also understand that another world
>> is possible, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership is their attempt to
>> foreclose our new world. The TPP gives major corporations legal
>> personhood
>> to sue in transnational courts dominated by judges who themselves are
>> lawyers for major corporations. Under the TPP, corporations would be
>> able
>> to claim that environmental, labor, financial, health and other laws
>> cost
>> them profits, and to extract damages from our governments - and from us
>> as
>> taxpayers - if they enforce those laws.
>>
>> The current administration in Washington D.C. is committed to passing
>> the
>> TPP and to defeating America?s grassroots movement for economic
>> democracy.
>> The Green Shadow Cabinet is committed to defeating the TPP, and to
>> strengthening the U.S. democracy movement. We and our allies are the
>> many,
>> they are the few. Let us defend our communities and our future and stop
>> the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
>>
>> Statement of the Green Shadow Cabinet of the United States of America:
>>
>>     * Jill Stein, President
>>
>>
>>
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jun 27 13:35:01 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:35:01 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Senator Wendy Davis, our hero
In-Reply-To: <SNT145-W96B612564D7631A0172C87DD750@phx.gbl>
References: <CADVw2MBFpxqtC99eTOyvBOduHa=K8nTY5BF_bzQe838Kd8rQsQ@mail.gmail.com>,
	<B827ED8A-9007-42F7-A98C-EE9D38A1823D@mcn.org>,
	<CAFGqSt4_ThVJDxHW6oZYkHJyyHNwLvqUrox5j8sXJyv8dGL9-g@mail.gmail.com>,
	<DB580922-9F8F-423C-8B3E-F6C853F59ECA@mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W96B612564D7631A0172C87DD750@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <A35958BF-EB2E-4099-97C8-3D4F44BDBD7E@mcn.org>

Beautifully said Ann!

> I cringe every time I hear about cases of child neglect and child abuse, and agree that the world population is out of control.  This small planet can barely feed, house, provide water and sanitation for the billions here now, and when people reproduce they should be ready to care for and support their offspring.  Too many kids are having kids before they realize what they are committing to, and in cases of incest, rape, genetic problems or just lack of desire to have children, safe abortion in a medical setting is crucial for a civilized society.  I support the right to choose when to have a family.    Ann
>  
> From: elained at mcn.org
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:25:20 -0700
> To: rkarch at mcn.org
> CC: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
> Subject: Re: [Occupymendocino] Senator Wendy Davis, our hero
> 
> How about the rights all the most helpless creatures on Earth, the non human animals to live? Humans do not have the right to overbreed like cockroaches and use up all the planet's resources and habitats. How about the two billion humans who don't have access to potable water or enough to eat. And where do these figures come from that half of the women who have abortions are pressured into them by boyfriends, parents or others. How about all the women who are forced to bear the children of their rapists or abusive family members like their fathers?
> 
> Ed
> 
> On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:50 PM, ELLEN ROSSER wrote:
> 
> Senator Wendy Davis is not my hero.   My hero would be one who defended the rights of the most helpless of humans, the babies who aren't seen and aren't heard and therefore who aren't protected by those who claim to want to help the defenseless.  The basic character and appearance of a person are determined at the moment of conception when the DNA of that unique human being is created.  Does that person have no rights?  And what about the rights of the 50% of the women who have abortions who are pressured into having it by boyfriends or parents or others?   Have they no rights?  And what about the 20% of the women who have abortions who suffer from PTSD because of having an abortion?   And what about the thousand or so teenagers and women who commit suicide every year because of stress and grief of having an abortion?
> Does anyone think about these people and their rights?
>            Peace and blessings,  Ellen
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org> wrote:
> Last night, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis stood up for women?s rights. For a grueling 
> 13 hours, Davis got on her feet and filibustered severe anti-choice legislation pushed 
> by Texas Governor Rick Perry that would have banned abortion after 20 weeks and 
> significantly tightened abortion provider restrictions. Supporters lined the statehouse, 
> giving testimony, and showing their resolve to #standwithWendy.
> 
> We need more women like Wendy in office. Wendy?s determination not only delivered 
> a strong message for womens equality, but was also a testament to the powerful 
> impact of female politicians. 
> 
> Thank you Senator Wendy Davis.
> 
> Val Muchowski
> MWPC Chair
> 
> 
> <Wendy.jpg>
> 
> 
> 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Jun 27 13:58:25 2013
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 13:58:25 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Ellen Brown writes about student debt in Counter
	Punch
Message-ID: <f1e2794a04f781d06a308ca2937fe492.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Ellen Brown explains why Elizabeth Warren's bill should get your support.
Agnes


http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/14/elizabeth-warrens-qe-for-students/



From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Thu Jun 27 16:53:40 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:53:40 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] MTA 4th of July parades
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt7+YiYjBmfh9YFXg03AxbJ95-qiezAnQgD23CcNirE-Kg@mail.gmail.com>

From: Jane Jarlsberg <jjarlsberg at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:18 PM
Subject: Move to Amend announcement-please publish this week and next week!
To: splash at mendonoma.com


 THE "WE THE PEOPLE" AMENDMENT affirms that 1) rights protected under the
Constitution are the rights of natural persons and not of incorporated
entities and 2) money spent to influence elections may be regulated by
Congress and the states and is not protected free speech under the First
Amendment. Local "Move to Amend.org" members and supporters are encouraged
to join fellow 'Amenders' in a parade contingent in the4th of July parade
in Mendocino at noon, and also in the Point Arena Parade on Sunday July 7,
2013.  Banners will be provided, but bring your own flags, posters and
signs to invite others to join in the national effort locally.
Participants meet in Mendocino at Crown Hall at 11:30 am on Thursday July
4, 2013; and in Point Arena at the high school parking lot by 11:30 am
Sunday. Contact Jane Jarlsberg at 882.2339 for more information.
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Thu Jun 27 16:55:28 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:55:28 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] a great resolution from Mayors for Peace
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt7dEnb=rN6h-1zf3u5e=ZzVyX7_La69smP3AA8rX6fhew@mail.gmail.com>

**

*www.mayorsforpeace.org* <http://www.mayorsforpeace.org/>*
                                                            **
www.2020visioncampaign,org* <http://www.2020visioncampaign,org/>**

* *

*For immediate release*: June 26, 2013****

** **

*Contact*: Jackie Cabasso, Mayors for Peace North American Coordinator
(510) 306-0119;****

                jackie at 2020visioncampaign.org****

*
*

*U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously adopts resolution ?Calling for*

*U.S. Leadership in Global Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and*

* Redirection of Military Spending to Domestic Needs?*

* *

Mayors for Peace congratulates the United States Conference of Mayors
(USCM) for its unanimous adoption of a bold resolution ?Calling for U.S.
Leadership in Global Elimination of Nuclear Weapons and Redirection of
Military Spending to Domestic Needs.? The resolution, passed by the
Conference on June 24 at its 81st Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada,
calls for constructive U.S. engagement in new international disarmament
forums and reorientation of U.S. national priorities by reducing military
spending and redirecting those funds to meet the needs of cities.****

** **

The USCM is the nonpartisan association of American cities with populations
over 30,000. As explained by its outgoing President, Mayor Michael Nutter
of Philadelphia, who chaired the final plenary: ?Resolutions, if passed,
become the official policy of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.?****

** **

The resolution was adopted on the heels of President Obama?s June 19
Berlin speech in which he declared, ?so long as nuclear weapons exist,
we are not truly safe,? and announced his intention to seek
further bilateral nuclear weapons reductions with Russia. The
resolution was introduced by Akron Mayor Donald Plusquellic, a former
USCM President and Vice President of Mayors for Peace, and had
29 additional sponsors. It highlights several important new
multilateral disarmament initiatives not mentioned by Obama in Berlin,
and calls on the President and the U.S. government to demonstrate good
faith
by constructive participation in those initiatives:****

** **

*?         **The first ever High-Level Meeting of the United Nations
General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament, to be held on September 26,
2013 at UN headquarters in New York;*

?         A UN working group open to all member states ?to develop
proposals to take forward multilateral nuclear disarmament
negotiations for the achievement and maintenance of a world without
nuclear
weapons;? and****

?         A follow-on conference to the February 2013 Oslo Conference
on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons, to be hosted by Mexico
in early 2014.****

** **

The resolution expresses the USCM ?s ?deep concern? that both the May
session of the new UN disarmament working group and the Oslo
Conference took place without the participation of the United States
or the other four nuclear-armed Permanent Members of the UN Security Council.
****

As set forth in the resolution, nearly a quarter of a century past the
end of the Cold War, an estimated 17,300 nuclear weapons, 94% of them
in the possession of the United States and Russia, continue to
pose an intolerable threat to humanity. Massive spending is underway
on programs to modernize U.S. nuclear weapons systems.****

** **

As the resolution notes, nuclear weapons spending is emblematic of
Pentagon spending. In 2012, during a time of continuing domestic
financial hardship, the U.S. spent $682 billion on its military,
accounting
for nearly two-fifths of the world total.****

** **

Further, the budget sequester enacted in March is impeding the
economic recovery in cities by making deep cuts to vital federal
programs that help fund essential services. In contrast, Pentagon
spending has
grown by 50% in real dollars in the last 12 years, not including war
spending, and nearly all of the ?cuts? up for debate are, in reality,
reductions in the spending growth rate.****

** **

The resolution concludes that our nation?s deep economic crisis can only be
addressed by adopting new priorities to create a sustainable economy for
the 21st century. To that end, the resolution calls on the President and
Congress to reduce nuclear weapons spending to the minimum necessary to
assure the safety and security of the existing weapons as they await
disablement and dismantlement; to redirect those funds to meet the urgent
needs of cities; and to reduce military spending to reinvest in programs to
provide basic human services, create jobs, rebuild infrastructure and meet
the needs of America?s cities.****

** **

*The full text of the resolution is available at **
http://wslfweb.org/docs/uscmres2013.pdf*<http://wslfweb.org/docs/uscmres2013.pdf>.
(Official version at
http://usmayors.org/81stAnnualMeeting/media/resolutions-adopted.pdf)****

** **

Mayors for Peace, an international organization, founded in 1982 and led by
the Mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is working through its 2020 Vision
Campaign for the global elimination of nuclear weapons by 2020. Mayors for
Peace membership has grown by more than ten fold since 2003, as of June 1,
2013 counting 5,645 cities in 156 countries and regions, with nearly 200
U.S. members ? in all, representing some one billion people.****

 ****

The USCM resolution was sponsored by Mayors *Donald L. Plusquellic of
Akron, OH; *Ed Pawlowski of Allentown, PA; John Hieftje of Ann Arbor, MI; *Tom
Bates of Berkeley, CA; Matthew T. Ryan** **Binghamton, NY; Henrietta Davis
of Cambridge, MA;* Mark Kleinschmidt of Chapel Hill. NC; *Satyendra Singh
Huja of Charlottesville, VA; Franklin T. Cownie** **of Des Moines, IA;* Michael
A. Tautznik of Easthampton, MA;* Kitty Piercy of Eugene, OR; Ed Malloy of
Fairfield, IA; Joy Cooper* of Hallandale Beach, FL; Alex Morse of Holyoke,
MA; Mark Stodola of Little Rock, AR; Paul Soglin of Madison, WI; John
Stefano of New Haven, CT; David J. Narkewicz of Northampton, MA; Chris Koos
of Normal. IL; Frank Ortis of *Pembroke Pines, FL;* Michael Brennan of
Portland, ME;* Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond, CA; Ardell Brede of Rochester.
MN; Stephen Cassidy of San Leandro, CA; *Helene Schneider of Santa Barbara,
CA; Bruce R Williams of Takoma Park, MD;* Neal King of Taos Ski Valley, NM;
  *Richard D. Schneider of South Pasadena, CA;* *Laurel Lunt Prussing of
Urbana, IL; and* *Geraldine Muoio of West Palm Beach, FL.**

* *
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Thu Jun 27 22:39:54 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:39:54 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] a petition to restore voting rights for
 minorities after the Supreme Court decision
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt7E0MKtRvim+DgieD88cbKs66KY+CKJ97NXM=U0gPAgJw@mail.gmail.com>

Hello.

The Supreme Court just made a major decision that impacts voting rights for
every American. They struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, but
left Section 5 untouched. With this ruling there is no longer a mechanism
in place to prevent states with a history of voter disenfranchisement from
enacting such laws.

But they also confirmed Congress' authority to ensure no person is denied
the right to vote, and we need to tell Congress action must be taken, NOW.

Sign the NAACP petition demanding Congress take action to protect the
voting rights of millions of Americans.

http://www.naacp.org/defend-your-rights<http://www.naacp.org/page/ic/k5e74xuc21v6he/DRFCRVlLSUMSRB5bUARQEU1WQlUbUwBVB1dWTk9bQBZIF19SCxAV>

Millions of communities of color, and young, women, elderly, and disabled
voters could be at risk of losing their right to vote. Take two minutes to
sign the petition and to help protect them today.

Thank you.
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jun 28 08:06:23 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 08:06:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How 1 Percent of the 1 Percent Now Dominate Our
	Elections
Message-ID: <103E3422-2B45-4CDB-9CBC-4AF7D60EFABB@att.net>

Here's a statistic that should jolt you awake like black coffee with three shots of espresso dropped in: In the 2012 election cycle, 28 percent of all disclosed donations?that's $1.68 billion?came from just 31,385 people. Think of them as the 1 percenters of the 1 percent, the elite of the elite, the wealthiest of the wealthy.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/06/one-percent-wealthy-dominate-2012-elections-congress
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jun 28 12:22:56 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:22:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Warren: If people knew what was going on,
	they would stop it
Message-ID: <BFD3BE1C-B792-464B-8C5F-5AFECBCA1EA6@att.net>

If people knew what was going on, they would stop it
June 21, 2013 | By Elizabeth Warren

We won't make the information public because if people knew what was going on, they would stop it.

That's been the government's argument for not releasing the basic trade negotiation documents. Let me explain:

Trade agreements are important. They affect everything -- our imports and exports, wages, jobs, the environment, financial services, and even the Internet.

But if people can't follow the basic outline of the negotiations, then they can't have any real input into the process.

More:
http://elizabethwarren.com/blog/if-people-knew-what-was-going-on-they-would-stop-it
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Fri Jun 28 13:03:25 2013
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:03:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw: Fwd: Wendy's shoes!
In-Reply-To: <8D0424FF894677A-704-45ED8@webmail-d241.sysops.aol.com>
References: <51CD5ED4.7000606@swbell.net>
	<8D0424FF894677A-704-45ED8@webmail-d241.sysops.aol.com>
Message-ID: <1372449805.7576.YahooMailNeo@web161206.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>





The Wendy Davis shoes. Read the comments, they're hilarious



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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jun 28 15:50:24 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:50:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How Barrett Brown shone light on the murky world
	of security contractors
Message-ID: <CF1F123D-7691-4C3C-AFDF-FC849A02615D@att.net>

Any attempt to rein in the vast US surveillance apparatus exposed byEdward Snowden's whistleblowing will be for naught unless government and corporations alike are subject to greater oversight. The case of journalist and activist Barrett Brown is a case in point.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/24/surveillance-us-national-security
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Jun 28 15:50:29 2013
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:50:29 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] How Barrett Brown shone light on the murky world
	of security contractors
Message-ID: <3DB1AFDA-845D-4D26-9AF2-CEB8A9444BA3@att.net>

Any attempt to rein in the vast US surveillance apparatus exposed byEdward Snowden's whistleblowing will be for naught unless government and corporations alike are subject to greater oversight. The case of journalist and activist Barrett Brown is a case in point.



http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/24/surveillance-us-national-security
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Jun 29 14:07:16 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:07:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Prosecutors gone wild: man who chalks can get 13
	years
References: <95001304.626153532@kos.kosDB.mail.salsalabs.com>
Message-ID: <6A2644C3-657E-4B57-8CE2-AD1314F300C9@mcn.org>

Maybe the local OM group could have a chalk party? rk

Prosecutors gone wild: man who chalks can get 13 years
> 


>  Jeff Olsen faces thirteen years in prison for writing political messages on the sidewalk outside of a Bank of America, using washable children?s chalk. Please sign the petition telling San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith to drop charges against the sidewalk chalker and preserve the First Amendment. Click here to sign the petition.
> 
> This story gets even more absurd. Under pressure from Bank of America, the city attorney prosecuting the case motioned to block Olson from using the First Amendment as part of his defense??and the Judge granted the motion!
> 
> What?s next? Are college students and little girls playing hopscotch now in danger of arrest if they chalk on a public sidewalk? Olsen?s crime was easily washed away with the next rain, but this case sets a dangerous precedent??blocking political free speech under the First Amendment endangers all activists.
> 
> Senator Elizabeth Warren shared the story on her Facebook page with the headline, ?You?ve got to be kidding me.? I couldn?t agree more.
> 
> Please sign the petition urging San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith to drop the charges against Jeff Olsen and preserve the integrity of the First Amendment.
> 
> In Solidarity!
> Sarah Burris, Daily Kos
> 
> 
> P.S. Please help keep Daily Kos strong by chipping in $3.
> 
> 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Jun 29 23:24:20 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 23:24:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Should Justice Scalia be impeached?
Message-ID: <35F13632-4906-43E0-BCCF-3624E9060C1D@mcn.org>

Does Justice Scalia need to be impeached?
I think so and have signed a number of petitions expressing this.
I encourage you to do the same. This guy is totally inappropriate
and out of line! During the recent hearing on gay marriage rights 
he was grimacing and rolling his eyes when liberal jurors were 
making comments about gay marriage rights.
He called the proceedings 'Legalistic Argle-Bargle,'

 rk
Here are some of the links:





MoveOn Petitions - Impeach Justice Antonin Scalia
petitions.moveon.org/sign/impeach-justice-antonin?
Article 3, Section 1 of the Constitution refers to the Judiciary. In part it states, "The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during ...
Bill Maher Says Impeach Scalia - YouTube
? 2:16? 2:16
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwotJcv5c0o
Apr 15, 2013 - Uploaded by tjwalker
Bill Maher Says Impeach Scalia http://www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/ real-time-with-bill-maher-blog ...
More videos for impeach scalia ?
Bill Maher: Impeach Scalia - BLOGGA PLEASE
therealbillmaher.blogspot.com/2013/04/impeach-scalia.html?
Apr 17, 2013 ? During oral arguments over same-sex marriage last month, Justice Antonin Scalia suggested gay adoption might be harmful to children.
Impeach Scalia

Impeach Antonin Scalia | Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Impeach...Scalia/195828813777832?
Impeach Antonin Scalia. 468 likes ? 3 talking about this.
Remove a Stain on the Supreme Court by Impeaching Justice Scalia ...
www.thedailybeast.com/.../remove-a-stain-on-the-supreme-court-by-imp...?
Dec 14, 2012 ? He's been off the rails for years, but the justice's latest outburst regarding homosexuality should be the last straw: it's time for Congress to kick ...:...
Impeach Supreme Court Justice Scalia Petition
www.petitiononline.com/1776imp/?
IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION Whereas, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was the guest of a Kansas law school two years ago and went on a hunting trip ...
'Impeach Scalia': Trolls petition White House to impeach Justice ...
twitchy.com/.../impeach-scalia-trolls-petition-white-house-to-impeach-jus...?
Mar 3, 2013 ? Angry trolls on the Left are sending around a White House petition to impeach conservative Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. Sigh.
HBO - Real Time with Bill Maher Blog - Impeach Scalia
www.real-time-with-bill-maher-blog.com/real.../impeach-scalia.html?
Apr 12, 2013 ? Impeach Scalia. Date April 12, 2013. By Bill Maher. During oral arguments over same-sex marriage last month, Justice 





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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun 30 10:54:31 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:54:31 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Free Lynne Stewart
Message-ID: <141D38EF-DF78-4C4F-AD33-2F428B5588A7@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/18170-free-lynne-stewart

Free Lynne Stewart
By William Boardman, Reader Supported News
29 June 13
 
Author's Note: If you search "Lynne Stewart" on RSN, you'll find 22 articles including, most recently, "The Persecution of Lynne Stewart" by Chris Hedges, April 22, 2013.
n the American justice system, even when a prisoner is not sentenced to be executed, the bureaucrats of the U.S. Justice Department's Federal Bureau of Prisons still have extra-judicial ways of making sure a politically-targeted prisoner will die in jail.

This is a recent example: Kathleen Kenney, general counsel for the Bureau of Prisons, informed the husband of a 73-year-old woman who is dying of cancer that her request for "compassionate release" was denied because her "health is improving ... she does not present circumstances considered extraordinary and compelling ... at this time."... story continues on website.



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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun 30 19:42:26 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 19:42:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Last Show of MCTV Senior Perspectives?
Message-ID: <D4907D26-A56F-424D-B752-C554CD33DF52@mcn.org>

 Interviews with staff members of MCTV who worked on the Senior Perspectives show. They point out unique amount of history produced for our community over the last 20 plus years. Historical records of rodeos, music, sports, opera, community meetings and more. These tapes have been archived and  document our North Coast history  and now can be streamed all over the world for viewing.  This is a very very sad statement of the times. Jane, a 89 year old camerawoman, summed up by saying, "Always have hope for the future."  Hope is needed but there's work to done to keep this unique television show and MCTV studio operating... Can we do anything?  richard

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From vjessielee at gmail.com  Sun Jun 30 19:47:43 2013
From: vjessielee at gmail.com (Jessie Lee VanSant)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 19:47:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FIRST FRIDAY CALL OUT!!!
Message-ID: <B016C744-FA6B-481C-AE4F-56F74530BF98@gmail.com>


Time to OCCUPY the corner!!

CALL OUT to ALL 
OCCUPY Mendocino members 
to show up for First Friday in Fort Bragg

First Friday Bank Rally -- 4-6 PM on Friday, July the 5th

corner of Main and Alder in front of B of A and CHASE
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jun 30 19:50:49 2013
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 19:50:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: First Friday Rally Coming Up 4-6 PM at B of
	A & Chase Banks, Main ST
References: <C461391A-D590-43FE-851C-4094B168421D@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <90902222-075F-4D55-80B8-3341FCE14337@mcn.org>


> 
> Time to OCCUPY the corner!!
> 
> CALL OUT to ALL OCCUPY Mendocino members to show up for First Friday in Fort Bragg
> 
>> First Friday Bank Rally -- 4-6 PM on Friday, July the 5th 
> 
> corner of Main and Alder in front of B of A and CHASE
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From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Sun Jun 30 22:06:50 2013
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 01:06:50 -0400
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Corporations and their Tax Breaks
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt4kDvWbGRqBCHp94-T_6SWKE=gWF39qM+a0JpUfD5ewfw@mail.gmail.com>

> Thirteen Facts About America's Tax-Dodging Corporations
> Saturday, 29 June 2013 10:51 By Richard Eskow, Campaign for America's
Future |
> Op-Ed
> Truthout doesn?t take corporate funding - that?s why we?re able to
confront
> the forces of greed and regression. Support us in this mission: make a
tax-
> deductible donation today by clicking here.
> (Photo: Michael Fleshman / Flickr)A judicious writer avoids adjectives
like
> ?mindblowing,? especially when covering political or economic issues. But
no
> other word seems to describe the stunning reality of corporate taxation
in
> modern America, which cries out for the italics-heavy, exclamation-point-
> driven format made famous by Ripley?s Believe It or Not.
> Stylistic overkill? Read these thirteen facts and you may change your
mind.
> 1. We?re told we can?t ?afford? full Social Security benefits, even
though
> closing corporate tax-haven loopholes would pay for Obama?s ?chained CPI?
> benefit cut more than ten times over!
> Abusive offshore tax havens cost the US $150 billion in lost tax revenue
every
> year (via FACT Coalition). That?s $1.5 trillion over the next ten years.
> The ?chained CPI? cut, proposed by President Obama and supported by
> Republicans, is projected to ?save? a total of $122 billion to $130
billion
> over the same time period by denying benefits to seniors and disabled
people.
> It?s true. ?Serious? politicians and pundits are demanding that ordinary
> people sacrifice earned benefits, while at the same time allowing
corporations
> to avoid more than ten times as much in taxes.
> 2. Corporate tax rates are near their 60-year low, even though profits
are at
> a 60-year high!
> Need we say more?
> (Source: Americans for Tax Fairness.)
> 3. Wells Fargo got $8 billion in tax breaks, even as executives at its
> subsidiary Wachovia avoided indictment for laundering money for the
Mexican
> drug cartels!
> That?s right. Wells Fargo paid a negative tax rate of -1.4 percent
between
> 2008 and 2010 while Wachovia, a Wells Fargo subsidiary, admitted to
laundering
> more than $378 billion for Mexican drug gangs.
> We?re talking about crazed killers like ?El Loco? and gangs like ?Los
Zetas? ?
> gangs who cut people?s heads off and toss them out onto disco dance
floors or
> display them in the town square.
> Wachovia bankers ignored repeated warnings from law enforcement
officials, and
> continued to launder money for cartels that have murdered tens of
thousands.
> And yet no criminal indictments were handed down because, as a Senate
> investigator told Bloomberg News, ??There?s no capacity to regulate or
punish
> them because they?re too big to be threatened with failure.?
> 4. Some other huge corporations paid less than nothing, too.
> Pepco Holdings (-57.6% tax rate)
> General Electric (-45.3%)
> DuPont (-3.4%)
> Verizon (-2.9%)
> Boeing (-1.8%)
> Honeywell (-0.7%)
> (Source: Citizens for Tax Justice)
> 5. The amount of money US corporations are holding offshore is an
estimated
> one trillion dollars!
> Rather than tax these profits the way other countries do, corporate
> politicians are promoting a tax ?repatriation? break that would let
> corporations ?bring this money home? while paying even less than their
> currently low rates.
> They tried that in 2004 and it didn?t create any jobs. In fact,
corporations
> took the tax break and then fired thousands of people. What
?repatriation? did
> do is line a lot of wealthy investors? pockets.
> So, naturally, they want to do it again.
> 6. One building in the Cayman Islands is the official location of 18,857
> corporations!
> According to the Government Accountability Office, a five-story building
> called ?Ugland House? is home to nearly twenty thousand corporations.
That?s
> impressive, especially for such a small edifice. (Perhaps it has
supernatural
> half-floors and space-time defying ?mind tunnels? like the office in
Being
> John Malkovich.)
> While impressive, Ugland House?s distinction pales next to that of 1209
North
> Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware. According to one investigation,
that
> address is home to 217,000 corporations.
> That?s because Delaware has very generous tax rules ? and, as a result,
is
> home to more than half of all the corporate subsidiaries in the United
> States.That?s startling, since only 1/342th of the nation?s population
lives
> in that state (917,092 residents, out of a national total of 313,914,040,
> according to the latest census results).
> 7. Conservatives complain about the ?official? corporate tax rate in this
> country, but corporations actually pay roughly one-third of the official
rate
> in actual taxes.
> The official, or ?statutory,? corporate tax rate is 35 percent. But the
actual
> rate paid by American corporations is only 12 percent, less than that
paid by
> many middle-class Americans.
> (Source: The FACT Coalition.)
> In fact, US Corporations pay less tax as a percentage of the GDP than
> corporations in Canada. Or Japan ?
> ? or South Korea. Or Norway. Or Luxembourg, New Zealand, Israel, the
Czech
> Republic, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Denmark,
Finland,
> and Italy.
> (Source: OECD StatsExtract interactive database.)
> 8. Corporations used to pay 30 percent of Federal taxes, and now they pay
less
> than 7 percent!
> That?s because the corporate tax rate has plunged since Dwight D.
Eisenhower
> was President and is now the lowest it?s been in modern history.
> (Source: FACT Coalition.)
> 9. Big corporations paid $216 million to Congress and got $223 billion in
tax
> breaks!
> As Citizens for Tax Justice and USPIRG reported, 280 large and profitable
> corporations contributed $216 million to Congressional campaigns over
four
> election cycles and got nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars in tax
breaks.
> That?s a terrific investment for them ? a return of more than a thousand
to
> one ? but it?s a bad deal for the American people.
> 10. We don?t even know who owns some corporations, even though that makes
it
> easier to evade taxes, dodge creditors, avoid paying alimony or child
support,
> and even fund terrorism!
> Here are some examples of investments that might represent a terror
threat.
> Corporate interests are blocking disclosure rules that would help protect
our
> national security.
> 11. Bank of America committed foreclosure fraud, was bailed out by the
> government, and then paid no taxes on $4.4 billion in profit!
> That?s right. In 2010, while BofA was negotiating a sweet settlement deal
for
> its foreclosure fraud, it paid nothing in taxes. (Source: FACT
Coalition.)
> Zero, on $17.2 billion in offshore earnings. (Source: Americans for Tax
> Fairness.)
> Its $4.1 billion tax break came on the heels of the bank?s
taxpayer-funded
> bailout, immunity from prosecution for its criminal employees, and a
cushy
> government settlement for its foreclosure fraud.
> Now David Dayen reports that the bank has apparently continued to defraud
> customers in violation of its government settlement. Whistleblowers have
> stated in affidavits that they were ?told to lie? to customers, continued
to
> deceive homeowners before foreclosing on them, and flipped customers to
new
> servicing companies to invalidate previous homeowner agreements.
> 12. What they call ?tax reform? would actually prevent our elected
> representatives from giving businesses financial incentives to improve
our
> lives!
> The word ?reform? is an honorable one that?s been put to some
dishonorable
> uses lately. ?Entitlement reform,? for example, is merely a euphemism for
> gutting Social Security and Medicare.
> Similarly, corporate-backed politicians are pushing a formula for
permanent
> corporate tax breaks and calling it ?tax reform.? They insist their
?reform?
> be ?revenue neutral? and say it will ?broaden the base while lowering the
> rate.?
> Here?s an English translation: The current, unsustainably low rates for
> corporations would be made permanent, while eliminating many tax
deductions in
> the name of ?simplification.?
> Here?s what that really means: The domestic tax credit for creating jobs?
> Gone. Tax breaks for protecting the environment with clean energy, rather
than
> harming other people?s health and leaving a mess for the rest of us to
clean
> up? Gone.
> All in all we?d lose dozens of important policies that make our lives
better,
> while permanently fixing corporate taxes at today?s cushy giveaway rates.
> ?Reform?? Ripoff is more like it.
> 13. Despite their greed, mismanagement, and freeloading, tax-dodging
> corporations are using shell organizations like ?Fix the Debt? and ?the
> Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget? to tell ordinary Americans
they
> have to sacrifice even more to preserve corporate wealth!
> These organizations are using the heads of failed banks ? people like
Chase?s
> Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs ? to dispense ?advice on
the
> economy.? That?s like getting navigation tips from the captain of the
Exxon
> Valdez.
> (Tax breaks for Exxon Mobil: $4.1 billion between 2008 and 2010. The
company
> paid no taxes at all in 2009.)
> These executives and their paid spokespeople tell the rest of us we need
to
> ?sacrifice? and ?tighten our belts? so that their party can go on
forever. And
> too often they?re treated as credible sources, rather than as corrupting
> influences on our public life.
> It?s all true ? and there are many more astonishing facts to be found in
the
> world of corporate taxation. To fix the economy more people will need to
learn
> about them ? and demand that they be changed.
> The writer and analyst in me wants to apologize for all the italicizing
and
> all those exclamation points. But the American citizen in me wants to
shout
> the truth out for all the world to hear ? believe it or not!
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