From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Mar  1 07:39:20 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 07:39:20 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Corporate Revolution Will Collapse if...
Message-ID: <141EA04B-E880-4E51-882B-3AE754586EDA@mcn.org>


Please note: This is not a link. Just a poster to meditate on! rk
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sat Mar  1 09:45:36 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 09:45:36 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Creating a Level Playing Field
Message-ID: <74954012-08A7-4481-9068-9E2DD3088592@mcn.org>

Creating a Level Playing Field
Elizabeth Warren

his is a special moment in history. In August, we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared his dream of equality and called for action. Later...

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/275-42/22321-creating-a-level-playing-field
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar  1 12:32:43 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 12:32:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Call the Supervisors:Urge them 2 put the Charter
	on the ballot.
In-Reply-To: <74954012-08A7-4481-9068-9E2DD3088592@mcn.org>
References: <74954012-08A7-4481-9068-9E2DD3088592@mcn.org>
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Occupy,
      I will not be at the GA meeting because I have too much on my
plate.I am preparing to give a speech on Wednesday at Toast Masters,
getting paintings ready for the Odd Fellows Hall Whale Festival Art
Show which starts March 8th second Saturday. I hope to see some of
you there. I will also be in the local Co-Op gallery.So you can see
I am swamped.

I just want to add I gave the power point presentation at the Boonville
Grange with Keith Wyner at the controls. I will be giving it again at the
Quaker Meeting, at the Schul next Sunday the 9th at 11:30 am, with Keith.
We hope to see some folks from The Woods in attendance. I plan to make a
poster and take it there.

If any of you want to help you could get us a venue lined up.
Keith and I went to the BOS to talk about the Charter , urging the Supes
to put it on the ballot. We also asked for a direct response to our
petitions to Fund the Audit.

 Dan Hamburg has been asked to write an article about the progress of our
Charter and Public Bank to be published in Justice Rising, a newsletter
whose Editor is Jim Tarbell for the national Alliance for Democracy. The
whole next issue will highlight the movement toward public banking across
the country.

Bart Caplan and Jed Davis will be presenting the Power Point at the Farm
Bureau in Ukiah, on the 4th of March.

Hope to see some of you at Democracy School in Willits on March 21st&22nd.

Be proactive , call John Pinches , John McCowen and Carre Brown.Please
Urge them to put the Charter on the ballot.

And Take your Money Out of Big Banks NOW. The Bail-In is coming and
depositors savings in those banks will be used to capitalize insolvent
banks that are sure to go bankrupt due to their Trillion dollar bets on
derivatives. For details Go to www.publicbankinginstitute.org.

Agnes





From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Mar  3 15:03:28 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 15:03:28 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Income Inequality Bill Maher
Message-ID: <9A7C42A9-150B-4B7B-95EA-671C5F0D401F@mcn.org>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/01/1281312/-Bill-Maher-s-excellent-commentary-on-income-inequality?detail=email#


Last night, Bill Maher delivered an excellent final New Rule on how some of the 1% are whining about feeling persecuted.

Did you know that during World War II, FDR actually proposed a cap on income that in today's dollars would mean that no person could ever take home more than about $300,000?  OK, that is a little low.  (audience laughter)  But wouldn't it be great if there were Democrats out there like that now, who would say to billionaires, "Oh, you're crying?  We'll give you something to cry about.  You don't want a minimum wage?  How about we not only have a minimum wage, we have a maximum wage?"  (audience applause)
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Mar  6 05:52:57 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 05:52:57 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] 99rise Movement < http://www.99rise.org/who >
In-Reply-To: <BC5B0601-FFB1-4AFD-B949-4ADB2EB1216B@mcn.org>
References: <BC5B0601-FFB1-4AFD-B949-4ADB2EB1216B@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <7F68E461-CC59-4EE7-8869-7EB1DC6CE9F9@mcn.org>

RE: 99% Movement:
I love this idea.   I heard somewhere that "We are the 99%" was one of the most powerful 
slogans to come along since "Hell no, I won't go (to war)!" Really rings for the multitude and we know 
the multitude are peace loving anti war hard working folks who care!

The term "Occupy" sounds too much like the pro war stance people in our government.  We just move in and take over.

I PROPOSE THAT WE CHANGE OUR NAME TO THE  99% MOVEMENT. SAME PEOPLE, SAME IDEALS, SAME GROUP. 

 We actually are looking sort of rusty in this fight because we have never ever really "Occupied" anything either... (unless we consider our Spring Street Fair an occupation).

Just my 10$ worth here at 6 AM on a Thursday!

Sincerely in Peace and Love,   Richard



On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Howard Ennes wrote:

> RICARDO ??
> 
> 	This is, I think, a relatively new development.  Would it be good to circulate it among our friends?
> 
>> 	<  http://www.99rise.org/who >
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> P.S.:  I don't know why the link is underlined.

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From annxpress at live.com  Thu Mar  6 09:00:43 2014
From: annxpress at live.com (Ann Rennacker)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2014 09:00:43 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] FW: Take Action to Stop Navy Sonar and Weapons
	Testing
In-Reply-To: <1999527213.-191661260@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org>
References: <1999527213.-191661260@org2.org2DB.mail.democracyinaction.org>
Message-ID: <SNT145-W6C3F73AF75EF3D056CCADDD880@phx.gbl>

Friends, 
      You can comment on the evil Navy Wargame plan to expand in our area.  Please attend the Navy presentation at the Sr. Center tomorrow night, Friday 3/7/14 at 5:30 pm.  We all need to comment, address this "plan", and get the facts from the Navy contractors.  See you all there at 5:30 pm.  Ann
 
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:19:49 -0500
From: epic at wildcalifornia.org
To: annxpress at live.com
Subject: Take Action to Stop Navy Sonar and Weapons Testing



    
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                                Take Action Now:  The US Navy has prepared an Environmental Impact Statement to assess  the impacts associated with a five-year authorization of military  testing and training operations off the coast of the Pacific Northwest  in an area that stretches from Cape Mendocino all the way north to the  Canadian border, including Alaskan waters. The proposed activities are  expected to injure, disturb or kill more than a hundred thousand  individuals consisting of 29 different marine mammal species, which are  supposed to be protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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                                Public Action has Exposed Caltrans Need for Reform
                                Caltrans is seriously out of step with the times, with the needs of the  state of California, and with the North Coast community. EPIC has been  voicing this criticism of Caltrans since we first rose to the defense of  the ancient redwoods of Richardson Grove. Now an independent study has  come to that same conclusion.
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                                12th Annual Pisces Party

                                
                                The 12th Annual Pisces Party will be held Friday, March 14, at the  Beginnings Octagon in Briceland. The Pisces Party tradition has become  an EPIC community ritual and harbinger of the coming spring. The event  is an annual fundraiser to honor and support EPIC adviser and mentor  Richard Gienger's ongoing work restoring the forests and watersheds of  the region.
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                                            Rod Coronado - Longtime activist and former prisoner speaks out against the wolf hunt at HSU Native Forum (BSS 162) March 27 from 5-7pm
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar  8 08:27:31 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 08:27:31 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jed Davis on TV www.onsecondthought.com youtube
Message-ID: <87f26a909a252f1f1b3f3fc4fb8293ec.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

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

jed



From marksafron at att.net  Sat Mar  8 12:20:27 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 12:20:27 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] This is the only link that works.
Message-ID: <89512DC0-209B-4545-A6AC-4E8040771C41@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbpgetrSNrQ
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From moxie at mcn.org  Tue Mar  4 18:43:48 2014
From: moxie at mcn.org (moxie at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 18:43:48 -0800
Subject: [Occupymendocino] ReportBack & MORE!!! Date inquiry!
Message-ID: <ca18a98e000f14b891a2a60c13e393a8.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


Dear OCCUPatriots! ~

Chuck Bush has graciously assured me that I may plan to use the Sr. Center
for the long~awaited ReportBack re: the Trial{& beyond!} of Whistleblower
Pvt. Chelsea/ a.k.a. Bradley Manning.
The Sr. center can easily handle the tech {computer,projector, etc.}.
Fridays (other than First Friday} appeal to me & I am thinking March 14,
HOWEVER: I am aware that there is a HUGE CALL~TO~ACTION for the very
important ANTI~FRACKING demo in Sacramento on the next day: Sat. 15March,
& I am wondering how to factor this in...
Are there OCCUPY-MENDO plans to carpool or otherwise travel in numbers,
etc. to this event? If so: will this cramp folks' ability to attend on
Friday?
I can plan the event for earlyish: start at 5 or so...
I'd like to hear from folks about this. I could also do it on the 21st.
R. S. V. P.!!! and thank You,
K. Rudin ~ moxie at mcn.org ~ 707-962-0547




From marksafron at att.net  Sun Mar  9 13:46:15 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 13:46:15 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?Greg_Palast_=7C_Brains_Lost_in?=
 =?windows-1252?q?_Mail_=96_Postal_Bank_Bunkum?=
Message-ID: <83C2034C-5427-455A-A897-30FC3ED7B40D@att.net>

Greg Palast | Brains Lost in Mail ? Postal Bank Bunkum 
 
Greg Palast, Reader Supported News 
Palast writes: "Since my first report in this investigation, I have had to resign a column ? and endure several thousand tweets by enraged Liberals ? simply for trying to expose the Postal Service's whacky scheme to transform itself into a criminal loan-sharking operation tied to a shady escort service." 
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Mar 10 11:36:53 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 11:36:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Credit Suisse Documents Point to Mortgage Lapses
Message-ID: <090A02B8-4B1E-4F1E-B962-CD380C3C5E10@att.net>

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/business/credit-suisse-documents-point-to-mortgage-lapses.html?emc=edit_th_20140310&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=35653813

From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 20:05:05 2014
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:05:05 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Vermont public bank
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt62Ua+VAzjUVFeeZq7Wt=rMxn9JXpfGFt87YTTukbsuXQ@mail.gmail.com>

OPINION
Vermonters support state public bank, and you should too
by Gwendolyn Hallsmith<http://america.aljazeera.com/profiles/h/gwendolyn-hallsmith.html>
 @ghallsmith <http://www.twitter.com/ghallsmith> March 10, 2014
Citizens across state vote to use local dollars to help economy, not Wall
Street
Topics: Economy<http://america.aljazeera.com/topics/topic/categories/economy.html>
 Vermont<http://america.aljazeera.com/topics/topic/us-location/vermont.html>
 Banks <http://america.aljazeera.com/topics/topic/issue/banks.html>
<http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/vermont-state-publicbankvotefinance.html#>
<http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/vermont-state-publicbankvotefinance.html#>
<http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/3/vermont-state-publicbankvotefinance.html#>
[image: Vermont town meeting]
Town Clerk Sharon Draper, right, and Town Moderator Jon Gailmor preside
over 2013's town meeting in Elmore, Vt.Toby Talbot/AP

Local democracy in Vermont remains untainted by modernity. In small towns
all over the state, people gather in meeting halls, school cafeterias,
community centers and churches to hold the annual town meetings on the
first Tuesday of March. Every registered voter is welcome; outsiders are
not. Except for the clothes people wear, the comfort of central heating and
occasional cable TV cameras, these meetings look and sound much as they did
150 years ago.

It was in this public-spiritedness that over 20 towns considered a
resolution at this year's meeting on March 4 to direct their legislators to
create a state bank for Vermont. The vote does not have legally binding
effects. It is only advisory. But it offers a important indicator of public
sentiment on legislation being considered. The bills pending before
both<http://openstates.org/vt/bills/2013-2014/H627/documents/VTD00007730/>
 houses <http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2014/bills/Intro/S-204.pdf> of the
Vermont state legislature would transfer 10 percent of tax dollars to a
publicly held agency, VEDA, the Vermont Economic Development Authority, and
would give VEDA a banking license. The proposal would completely transform
the way state revenues are used to finance public services.

Right now, the state deposits its revenues in large, private banks such as
Toronto-Dominion (TD) Bank and People's United Bank. Vermont's smaller,
state-chartered banks do not have the capital or collateral to back the
state's $350 million average daily balance. As a result, Vermonters' money
is put to work outside Vermont and in ways they may not support. In TD
Bank's case, money has been invested in the Keystone XL pipeline, a project
a lot of Vermonters oppose. At the same time, the state borrows the money
used for economic development and infrastructure projects from Wall Street
investment banks. If the proposal succeeds, Vermont will join North
Dakota<http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/10/01/should-states-operate-public-banks/why-public-banking-works-in-north-dakota>
as
the second state of the union with its own public bank. In 18 other states,
including California -- where Ellen Brown, president of the Public Banking
Institute <http://publicbankinginstitute.org/>, is currently a candidate
for treasurer -- there are proposals for public banks being considered at
the state or the city level. Arizona just chartered a commission to study
the issue, and Reading, Pa., is in the process of establishing a city
public bank.

A small, grass-roots organization I co-founded, Vermonters for a New
Economy, sponsored a study by the University of Vermont's Gund Institute
for Ecological Economics and the Political and Economic Research Institute
at the University of Massachusetts to determine the economic impact on
Vermont of a state bank. The study demonstrated that a public bank that
kept Vermont's tax dollars in the state and used those dollars for economic
development and infrastructure would create over 2,500 jobs, more than $190
million in value-added productivity and more than $340 million in gross
state product. For a state of 600,000 people with $27 billion in annual
GDP, these are substantial economic improvements, amounting to a 1.26
percent boost to growth.
If a Vermont public bank is organic, grass-fed and pesticide-free, then I
say we should all support it.

Charlie Hosford

former Waitsfield Select Board member

Despite these benefits, the legislature has not yet moved forward with the
proposal. Last week the Senate Government Operations Committee voted to
send the bill to the Senate Finance committee with a favorable
recommendation. Lobbyists for the large banks oppose the idea, and
Secretary of Administration Jeb Spaulding, VEDA CEO Jo Bradley and State
Treasurer Beth Pearce -- all officials who work closely with the banks --
have parroted the bankers' objections, making the opposition of a few seem
like a broad consensus at the highest levels of state government.

To counteract the bank lobby in Montpelier, Vermonters for a New Economy
brought the question directly to the voters. Activists circulated
petitions, held educational workshops and produced and distributed
materials. In October during a national event called New Economy Week,
towns all over the state hosted kickoff events for the town meeting
campaign for a state bank.

The bankers and their lobbyists didn't like the approach. (One of the
lobbyists also happened to be the mayor of Montpelier.) But voters loved
the idea. In 17 towns around the state, a vote to endorse the idea of a
public bank passed overwhelmingly last week at the town meetings. In
Montpelier the article on the ballot in support of public banking passed by
a wide margin and got more votes than the mayor did in his bid for
re-election. The vote also passed in Albany, Bakersfield, Calais,
Craftsbury, East Montpelier, Enosburg, Marshfield, Montgomery, Plainfield,
Randolph, Rochester, Ryegate, Tunbridge and Warren. Only Barnet, Fayston,
Greensboro and Marlboro opposed it.

Waitsfield saw a long day of intense discussion on a wide variety of
issues. "If a Vermont public bank is organic, grass-fed and pesticide-free,
then I say we should all support it," Charlie Hosford, a former longtime
Waitsfield Select Board member, argued. Voters ended up supporting a
Vermont public bank 2 to 1. People asked a few good questions: Would
politicians run the bank? (No.) What could a public bank do that isn't
being done now? (Use Vermont's tax money to make loans and infrastructure
improvements to earn new revenue for the state.)  "A public bank for
Vermont would create jobs and allow Vermonters to take control over our
financial destiny at a time when everyone agrees that Wall Street's
corporate commercial banking model is deeply flawed at best," said Rob
Williams, a Waitsfield town resident and citizen advocate for the public
banking effort.

The ultimate decision now rests with the statehouse. Whether legislators
will take up and approve the resolution is an open question. The banking
lobby and its friends in the governor's mansion have the media and the
larger megaphone. Vermonters for a New Economy continues to hope that the
legislature takes the common-sense wisdom of Vermonters more seriously than
the self-interest of the big out-of-state banks and their supporters. Time
will tell, but whatever the result, a new chapter for public banking opened
in Vermont last week, and the idea is bound to spread. There is no good
reason for the people's money to be used in ways that don't benefit the
people.

Gwendolyn Hallsmith is co-founder of Vermonters for a New Economy and
acting executive director of the Public Banking Institute.

The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not
necessarily reflect Al Jazeera America's editorial policy.
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From agnes at mcn.org  Mon Mar 10 21:18:34 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:18:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] WakeUp Call-
Message-ID: <7e990dafd094807683335371c9edca05.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Subject: Tonight in DC: Not business as usual! Not all politicians are
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There?s good reason to be disillusioned with Washington. Despite all the
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Mar 11 09:27:52 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 09:27:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Vermont Votes for Public Banking
Message-ID: <2D8570BD-1A76-4B8B-87B3-C82A04A9205E@att.net>

After the 2008 financial meltdown, and the failure of Congress to regulate ?too-big-to-fail? banks, activists and progressive legislators across the country began to explore the idea of replicating?or even expanding upon?the North Dakota model in other states.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/178759/vermont-votes-public-banking
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From edoberweiser at gmail.com  Mon Mar 10 09:27:39 2014
From: edoberweiser at gmail.com (edward Oberweiser)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 09:27:39 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Whale festivial event
Message-ID: <CAFBwOQTbU4GJi10hS==iHAdh82KCjVAF5JucODBRFpgnQ4MADA@mail.gmail.com>

The Ocean Protection Coalition will be showing "Soul Migration," a movie on
the Gray Whales' Migration path, Saturday March 15 at the Fort Bragg
Library at 10:00 am during Fort Bragg's Whale Festival Week.  Sheila Semans
executive director of Noyo Science Center will be a feature speaker at the
event.

Contact
Ed Oberweiser - edoberweiser at gmail.com
OPC Chair

Ann Rennacker - annxpress at live.com
Secretary/Treasurer
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Mar 11 19:09:58 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:09:58 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Boycott Koch Industries Products
Message-ID: <218C1E4E-F9B7-40C6-9FCE-25C2ED73D6F4@att.net>

http://silencedmajority.blogs.com/silenced_majority_portal/2010/09/boycott-koch-industries-products.html
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Mar 11 19:56:44 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:56:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] boycot the climate deniers' products listed below
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Boycott Koch Industries Products - Climate Deniers & Tea Party Backers

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From elained at mcn.org  Thu Mar 13 11:47:19 2014
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:47:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] a program on Navy war games and the marine mammals
Message-ID: <3D3E2044-040F-4D87-840C-1309BAAD665D@mcn.org>

HI folks,

The U.S. Navy is asking for an extension of the area of their war training exercises all the way to Alaska. This training will include numerous explosions and extensive use of new more powerful sonar. 

OPC is hosting a presentation on this situation and what we can do to protect the Gray Whales which will have to navigate through the Northwest Training Range 10 times during the 5 year navy training exercises. The program will start at 4 pm on Saturday, March 15 at the Fort Bragg Library meeting room. Please come join us in helping protect the Gray Whales.

Ed Oberweiser
OPC Chair
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From elained at mcn.org  Thu Mar 13 11:52:12 2014
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:52:12 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Groups Sue Over Navy Sonar Impacts on Marine
	Mammals
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Groups Sue Over Navy Sonar Impacts on Marine Mammals

Dan Bacher
1/30/12
A broad coalition of conservation groups and American Indian Tribes on January 26 sued the Obama administration for failing to protect thousands of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions from U.S. Navy warfare training exercises along the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington.

Earthjustice, representing the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Friends of the San Juans, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), and People For Puget Sound, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Northern California challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service?s approval of the Navy?s training activities in its Northwest Training Range Complex.

?The lawsuit calls on the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to mitigate anticipated harm to marine mammals and biologically critical  areas within the training range that stretches from Northern California to the Canadian border,? according to a statement from Earthjustice.

?These training exercises will harm dozens of protected species of marine mammals?southern resident killer whales, blue whales, humpback whales, dolphins, and porpoises?through the use of high-intensity mid-frequency sonar,? said Steve Mashuda, an Earthjustice attorney representing the groups. ?The Fisheries Service fell down on the job and failed to require the Navy to take reasonable and effective actions to protect them.?

The groups said the Navy uses a vast area of the West Coast for training activities, including anti-submarine warfare exercises involving tracking aircraft and sonar; surface-to-air gunnery and missile exercises; air-to-surface bombing exercises; sink exercises; and extensive testing for several new weapons systems.

Tribes say exercises will hurt traditional cultural lifeways, whales

?Since the beginning of time, the Sinkyone Council?s member Tribes have gathered, harvested and fished for traditional cultural marine resources in this area, and they continue to carry out these subsistence ways of life, and their ceremonial activities along this Tribal ancestral coastline,? said Priscilla Hunter, chairwoman and co-founder of the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. ?Our traditional cultural lifeways, and our relatives such as the whales and many other species, will be negatively and permanently impacted by the Navy?s activities.?

?Both NMFS and the Navy have failed in their obligations to conduct government-to-government consultation with the Sinkyone Council and its member Tribes regarding project impacts,? Hunter emphasized.

Founded in 1986, the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, is a California Indian peoples? environmental consortium working to re-establish local Indian stewardship within the Sinkyone region of Northern California through land conservation, habitat restoration, and traditional resource management.

The member tribes of the Council are: the Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians; Redwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians; Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians; Hopland Band of Pomo Indians; Potter Valley Band of Pomo Indians; Pinoleville Band of Pomo Indians; Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians; Robinson Rancheria; the Cahto Tribe and the Round Valley Indian Tribes.

In late 2010, NMFS gave the Navy a permit for five years of expanded naval activity that the groups said will harm or ?take? marine mammals and other sealife. The permit allows the Navy to conduct increased training exercises that can harm marine mammals and disrupt their migration, nursing, breeding, or feeding, primarily as a result of harassment through exposure to the use of sonar.

High intensity sonar results in marine mammal strandings

Navy?s mid-frequency sonar has been implicated in mass strandings of marine mammals in, among other places, the Bahamas, Greece, the Canary Islands, and Spain, according to the conservation groups and Tribes.

In 2004, during war games near Hawai?i, the Navy?s sonar was implicated in a mass beaching of up to 200 melon-headed whales in Hanalei Bay.

In 2003, the USS Shoup, operating in Washington?s Haro Strait, exposed a group of endangered Southern Resident killer whales to mid-frequency sonar, causing the animals to stop feeding and attempt to flee the sound.

?In 2003, NMFS learned firsthand the harmful impacts of Navy sonar in Washington waters when active sonar blasts distressed members of J pod, one of our resident pods of endangered orcas,? said Kyle Loring, Staff Attorney for Friends of the San Juans. ?Given this history, it is particularly distressing that NMFS approved the Navy?s use of deafening noises in areas where whales and dolphins use their acute hearing to feed, navigate, and raise their young, even in designated sanctuaries and marine reserves.?

?Whales and other marine mammals don?t stand a chance against the Navy,? summed up Miyoko Sakashita, Oceans Director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

The Navy?s mitigation plan for sonar use relies primarily on visual detection of whales or other marine mammals by so-called ? watch-standers? with binoculars on the decks of ships. If mammals are seen in the vicinity of an exercise, the Navy is to cease sonar use.

?Visual detection can miss anywhere from 25?95% of the marine mammals in an area,? said Heather Trim, Director of Policy for People For Puget Sound. ?It?s particularly unreliable in rough seas or in bad weather. We learn more every day about where whales and other mammals are most likely to be found?we want NMFS to put that knowledge to use to ensure that the Navy?s training avoids those areas when marine mammals are most likely there.?

The litigation is not intended to halt the Navy?s exercises, but asks the Court to require NMFS to reassess the permits using the latest science and to order the Navy to stay out of biologically critical areas at least at certain times of the year.

A US Navy spokesman declined to comment on the lawsuit, while a National Marine Fisheries Service spokesperson said the agency has not yet received any information on the suit.

Killer whales threatened by both Navy training and water exports

Marcie Keever of Friends of the Earth pointed out the dramatic impact that the Navy exercises could have upon endangered southern resident killer whales (orcas).

?It has become increasingly clear from recent research that the endangered southern resident killer whale community uses coastal waters within the Navy?s training range to find salmon during the fall and winter months,? said Keever. ?NMFS has failed in its duty to assure that the Navy is not pushing the whales closer to extinction.?

The killer whales face a double threat now: Navy sonar testing and increased water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. A NOAA Fisheries biological opinion released on June 4, 2009 found that water pumping operations in the Central Valley by the federal Bureau of Reclamation jeopardize the continued existence of imperiled Central Valley steelhead, Sacramento River chinook salmon, Delta smelt, green sturgeon and southern resident killer whales, which rely on chinook salmon runs for food.

For the press release, the full complaint and a fact sheet, go to: http://earthjustice.org/news/press/2012/navy-training-blasts-marine-mammals-with-harmful-sonar.

MLPA Initiative fails to protect ocean from military exercises

Ironically, one of reasons why this and similar lawsuits are so necessary is because California?s Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative creates so-called ?marine protected areas? that fail to protect the ocean from military testing, as well as pollution, corporate aquaculture, wave and wind energy projects and all other human impacts on the ocean than fishing and gathering.

The initiative is a privately funded process, overseen by a big oil lobbyist, marina developer, coastal real estate executive, agribusiness hack and other corporate operatives with many conflicts of interest, that is supported by the Western States Petroleum Association, Safeway Stores and the Walton Family Foundation. The MLPA process parallels the equally corrupt and corporate-controlled Bay Delta Conservation Plan to build the peripheral canal to export northern California water to southern California.

In an egregious conflict of interest, Catherine Reheis-Boyd, the president of the Western States Petroleum Association, chaired the ?august body? that designed the so-called ?marine protected areas,? falsely touted as ?underwater parks? and ?Yosemites of the Sea? by MLPA Initiative advocates, that went into effect on the Southern California Coast on January 1. Reheis-Boyd, a big oil industry lobbyist who relentlessly pushes for new offshore drilling off the California coast, the Keystone XL pipeline and the gutting of environmental laws, chaired  the MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force for the South Coast, as well as ?serving? on the North Central Coast and North Coast MLPA Blue Ribbon  Task Forces.


Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/30/groups-sue-over-navy-sonar-impacts-marine-mammals-94811
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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Mar 13 19:48:10 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:48:10 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why The Republican Party Has Become Irrelevant
Message-ID: <9A3145F2-4E19-499F-A1C7-8DD1D11BE817@att.net>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im2OZTLOzjY


From jupiter at mcn.org  Fri Mar 14 07:43:52 2014
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 07:43:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Thomas Jefferson
Message-ID: <CD182886-C3EB-499B-89E1-1822D6EF46E5@mcn.org>

>>>>> Please read both parts of this email.

>>>>> T h o m a s J e f f e r s o n 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 16, entered the College of William and Mary. Also could write in Greek with one hand while writing the same in Latin with the other. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 23, started his own law practice. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America? And retired from his law practice.
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 33, took three years to revise Virginia's legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 40, served in Congress for two years. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 53, served as Vice President and was elected 
>>>>> president of the American Philosophical Society. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican 
>>>>> Party. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 57, was elected the third president of the United States. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the
>>>>> nation's size. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 61, was elected to a second term as President. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 65, retired to Monticello. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future: 
>>>>>  
>>>>> John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:"This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.? 

>>>>>  "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." 
>>>>> -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>  
>>>>> "To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." 
>>>>> -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Thomas Jefferson said in 1802: 
>>>>>  
>>>>> "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property -- until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.? 

>>>>> "When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe." 
>>>>> -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>  
>>>>> "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." 
>>>>> -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>  
>>>>> "It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world." 
>>>>> -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>  
>>>>> "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." 
>>>>> -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>  
>>>>> "My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government." 
>>>>> --Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>  
>>>>> "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." 
>>>>> -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>  
>>>>> "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." 
>>>>> -- Thomas Jefferson 
>>>>>   
>>>>> I wish we could get this out to every American! 
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From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Fri Mar 14 15:11:32 2014
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:11:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Thomas Jefferson
In-Reply-To: <CD182886-C3EB-499B-89E1-1822D6EF46E5@mcn.org>
References: <CD182886-C3EB-499B-89E1-1822D6EF46E5@mcn.org>
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So much insight & foresight coming from a gun nut!
Liz




________________________________
 From: Linda Jupiter <jupiter at mcn.org>
To: "occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org Serve" <occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org> 
Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 7:43 AM
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Thomas Jefferson
 


Please read both parts of this email.

T h o m a s J e f f e r s o n?
>>>>>?
>>>>>Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 5, began studying under his cousin's tutor.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 9, studied Latin, Greek and?French.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 16, entered the College of William and Mary. Also could write in Greek with one hand while writing the same in Latin with the other.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 23, started his own law?practice.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 31, wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America? And retired from his law practice.
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental?Congress.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 33, took three years to revise Virginia's?legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 40, served in Congress for two years.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 41, was the American minister to France and?negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 53, served as Vice President and was elected?
>>>>>president of the American Philosophical Society.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican?
>>>>>Party.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 57, was elected the third president of the United States.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the
>>>>>nation's size.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 61, was elected to a second term as President.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 65, retired to Monticello.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe?Doctrine.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first?president.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the?future:?
>>>>>?
>>>>>John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the White House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:"This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.??
>>>>>

?"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and?tyrants."?
-- Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>?
>>>>>"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."?
>>>>>-- Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>?
>>>>>Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:?
>>>>>?
>>>>>"I believe that banking institutions are more?dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.?
>>>>>?
>>>>>
If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property -- until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.??

"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."?
>>>>>-- Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>?
>>>>>"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."?
>>>>>-- Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>?
>>>>>"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world."?
>>>>>-- Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>?
>>>>>"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."?
>>>>>-- Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>?
>>>>>"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."?
>>>>>--Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>?
>>>>>"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."?
>>>>>-- Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>?
>>>>>"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in?government."?
>>>>>-- Thomas Jefferson?
>>>>>??
>>>>>I wish we could get this out to every American!?
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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Mar 14 15:37:37 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:37:37 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Thos. Jefferson erroneously quoted
Message-ID: <FFDD0A1C-A2F9-4496-A922-C7B07686EB8F@att.net>

In an attempt to keep right wing bullshit off the Occupy!? listserve I offer the following commentary:
http://kryo.com/2ndAmen/Quotes.htm

Quotes, Misquotes, Out-of-Context Cites, Hoaxes

SK at Krulick.com 
PO Box 467, Ellenville NY 12428
? 2009, Kryolux Inc
Whenever those who can't deal with the challenge to their cherished and stubbornly-held beliefs about the 2nd Amendment feel "out of ammo," the dreary and predictable tactic is to go to some pro-gun site, where they can conveniently cut & paste the same pre-digested boilerplate list of "Founders' Quotes" that are copied from site to site, from the NRA on down, but with nary any attempt to determine which are REAL quotes, which are ACCURATE quotes, which are FULL-IN-CONTEXT quotes, and which even mean what they think they mean.

My introduction to 2nd Amen studies BEGAN with getting hit with one of these "walls of quotes" and a gut feeling that some didn't even sound like the supposed authors' styles or beliefs, others seemed chopped... and truncated... too much, others seemed irrelevant to the issue of the meaning and purpose OF the 2nd Amen, and still others seemed to lack a surrounding context to determine WHY the quote even exists at all. Tracking down the ORIGINAL versions often took wading through hundreds of the bogus versions, as these bogus versions were the ones that got repeatedly posted to hundreds of sites without any attempt to determine IF the cite were valid or properly framed.

And in EVERY case, the quotes simply didn't hold up as real or accurate or relevant, didn't support the claims of the hoplophile apologists, and raised questions about the integrity and scholarship of the spewers of these quote lists, the sites that post them, and those "responsible" for the original distortions or disingenuous fabrications.

Here are some of the most egregious of the bogus or misrepresentative quotes, by supposed author, in rough chronological order.

-----
THOMAS JEFFERSON:

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government"

Occasionally this phony quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson is given with the following citation: Thomas Jefferson Papers, 334 (C.J.Boyd, Ed., 1950). The publication exists, but the quote does not. And the editor's correct name is Julian P. Boyd, not C.J. Boyd. In other cases, this quote is added to the end of a proven Jefferson quote "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms..." Thomas Jefferson, Proposed Virginia Constitution, 1776, Jefferson Papers 344.

HOWEVER, HE DIDN'T SAY IT! IT'S BOGUS! IT'S MADE UP!

(For what Jefferson REALLY said about the reason for and meaning of the 2nd Amen, see reference to the Priestley letter at Purpose of the 2nd Amendment.)

But even the partially true cite is not the whole story:

This is NOT the same as what he ACTUALLY said, in context:

"No Freeman shall be debarred the use of arms in his own lands or tenements."

AND it is NOT complete. It is therefore a MISQUOTE, rather than being a quote. Misquoting and partial quoting out of context is typical of hoplophile pseudoscholarship, and one merely has to GO to the URL site where these bastardized quotes are compiled to see a whole string of similar pettifoggery, a whole series of INACCURATE, INCOMPLETE, and OUT-OF-CONTEXT misquotes that misrepresent what each author was actually saying.

Sloppy research leads to sloppy presentation, and hoplophiles have been doing this consistently.

Back to the cite: Incomplete, inaccurate, out of context, never enacted.

Therefore, irrelevant and misleading.

This 1776 "mis"quote is NOT a reference to the 2nd Amen, written 13 years later! Therefore, it obviously has nothing to do with what TJ had to say about the 2nd Amen and what it meant, or what Madison meant by "bear arms."

This PROPOSAL -- "No Freeman shall be debarred the use of arms in his own lands or tenements" -- by Jefferson for the 1776 Virginia Constitution WAS REJECTED; it did not make it into the VA Const, nor was it used later in the US Const. BTW, most leave out the part that restricted use of arms to one's OWN lands; even then the proposal was still left out. Also, "the use of arms" is not the same as "bear arms" which is a military expression that means to serve as a soldier in the militia or army.

What WAS passed was the VA Declaration of Rights, which became part of the 1776 VA Const; Article 13 of the Virginia Declaration of Rights provides:

"That a well-regulated Militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural and safe defence of a free State; that Standing Armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that, in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power."

There is no mention of an individual right to "keep and bear arms," as Adams and Madison meant it, or, indeed any "individual" right at all, certainly not one independent of a well-regulated Militia. The focus of the article is on the role of the militia versus a standing army.

As for the later US Constitution ratification debates, there is no mention in the Virginia debates of individuals carrying weapons, or of the need to assure individuals that the federal government would not confiscate their arms. The debate was solely in the context of whether the government would affirmatively provide arms for the militia.

"Then there's the original Virginia Bill of Rights, the first adopted, that expressed both the colonists' allegiance to the idea of a citizen militia and their fear of standing armies:

That a well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper, natural, and safe defense of a free State; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided, as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases, the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. Reprinted in Sources of Our Liberties 312 (Perry & Cooper ed. 1959)

There is little doubt that this provision of the Virginia Bill of Rights was concerned exclusively with the distribution of military power and the proper role of the military in a free society. The language makes no suggestion of a right to bear arms.

[In fact, the word "right" or "rights" isn't mentioned AT ALL! So THEY considered it A RIGHT, of ITSELF, that a well regulated militia for State defense merely EXISTED!]

The first state to adopt such language was Pennsylvania, which did so as part of its constitutional provision addressing military matters:

[Let me repeat THAT: "which did so as part of its constitutional provision addressing military matters"]

That the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state; and as standing armies in the time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; And that the military should be kept under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power.

Other state constitutions proceeded to adopt variations of either the Virginia or Pennsylvania models. The states which included "right to bear arms" language did so in the context of provisions dealing with military matters.

[Let me repeat THAT: "did so in the context of provisions dealing with military matters"]

...Thus, there is no indication from the history of the 2nd Amendment that the Founders were seeking a broad guarantee of the individual right to own firearms for any purpose. On the contrary, the expressed intention of the framers was to guarantee that state militias remained armed and viable, and the "right to keep and bear arms" must be understood as implementing that purpose. The implication of this intention is that the constitutionality of a statute regulating firearms should turn on whether the statute affects firearms in such a way as to adversely affect a state's ability to raise and maintain an armed "well-regulated militia."

-----

"The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed unless they try to take it." -- Thomas Jefferson

Another HOAX quote! TJ NEVER said this! And one can't show WHERE or WHEN, hence the name without a place, or date!

-----

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824. ME 16:45

THE PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY! THAT idea is repeated over and over. Care to show a cite that REQUIRES EACH AND EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHATSOEVER "to be at all times armed"?

When established as a well regulated militia; otherwise you could justify insurrection and mobs.

That's what the militia does and is: it is at all times armed!

Can you point to any law that REQUIRED each and every individual person to own a gun and carry it "at all times"? (Only the PEOPLE in the collective sense can do THAT, "at all times"!)

It's as ludicrous as saying that in:

"That any person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms ought to be exempted upon payment of an equivalent to employ another to bear arms in his stead."

"bear arms" here means simply "carry guns"!

THE PEOPLE is here THE WHOLE PEOPLE, the collective enfranchised body politic of freemen as the populus armatus, and NOT each and every individual sleeping with guns under their pillows! HE is referring to the jus militiae right of THE WHOLE PEOPLE, acting in concert, to democratically organize and control their military function, maintain their permanent readiness and upkeep as a militia (as opposed to armies being "raised" and "deponed"), and keep the military under civilian control.

NOT each and every individual, but THE PEOPLE AS A WHOLE! And not necessarily that each had a gun, which in his time was perhaps 10% of the population, as proven by the very returns of militia HE demanded getting! It meant that THE PEOPLE AT LARGE maintain and control THEIR ever-ready well-regulated militias to defend against both foreign AND domestic enemies, and prevent the need for a professional army to get large enough to be a threat ("standing armies... the bane of liberty").

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"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1796. ME 9:341

First, let's even PRESUME this was about "GUNS"; this still wouldn't have anything to do with the 2nd Amen.

Irrelevant to the 2nd Amen, and has nothing to do with Madison's concept of "bearing arms." So wealthy landowners and slaveholders like Tom and George loved to collect expensive weapons. What does THAT have to do with anything, particularly a well regulated militia?


"To possess arms" has nothing to do with "to keep and bear arms"! The first is what one person does in personal ownership; the second is what THE PEOPLE do as the collective body politic, that is, they maintain the permanent readiness and upkeep of the state militia ("to keep arms" as John Adams meant it), and they render military service in person if qualified ("to bear arms" as Madison meant it in his original draft)

The founders loved pets too, but they saw no reason to protect the rights of pet owners. This is irrelevant to the 2nd Amen.

However, it turns out this line had NOTHING to do with firearms at all! It was a metaphor in which Jefferson was telling Washington that in a political debate one should have rhetorical and even blackmailing "weapons" at the ready to use against political opponents, but that it's better if one doesn't have to rely on such!

Excerpt from Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, June 19, 1796 (Jefferson is pleading with Washington to "arm" him with a copy of a report he thinks he might need for political defense. He's not really talking about guns at all.):

"While on the subject of papers, permit me to ask one from you. You remember the difference of opinion between Hamilton and Knox on the one part, and myself on the other, on the subject of firing on the Little Sarah, and that we had exchanged opinions and reasons in writing. On your arrival in Philadelphia I delivered you a copy of my reasons, in the presence of Colonel Hamilton. On our withdrawing, he told me he had been so much engaged that he had not been able to prepare a copy of his and General Knox's for you, and that if I would send you the one he had given me, he would replace it in a few days. I immediately sent it to you, wishing you should see both sides of the subject together. I often after applied to both the gentlemen, but could never obtain another copy. I have often thought of asking this one, or a copy of it, back from you, but have not before written on subjects of this kind to you. Though I do not know that it will ever be of the least importance to me, yet one loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them. They possess my paper in my own handwriting. It is just I should possess theirs. The only thing amiss is, that they should have left me to seek a return of the paper, or a copy of it, from you"

See page 339 of this: http://www.constitution.org/tj/jeff09.txt

?If it?s on the internet it must be true.? Regards, Mark 
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar 15 12:56:45 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:56:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Agenda?
Message-ID: <560709752865540078a95bcac9aa30ea.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Please put Report back from our candidate for the county Recorder's office.
Agnes



From IRENELSM at MCN.ORG  Sun Mar 16 08:34:36 2014
From: IRENELSM at MCN.ORG (Irene L. Malone)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 08:34:36 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Navy plan
Message-ID: <C424E4B2-07AA-447B-852E-4A28FB28A944@MCN.ORG>

Suggestions from Rosalind Peterson meeting:
Have a petition signed (I have a few copies)

Call our congressman and our senators
at:1-866-220--0044.
Say:  I am- your name - from -place and organization
(if you choose).
I want to talk to a staff person in Barbara Boxer's
office (for example) who is connected to the Navy
activities.
What are you doing about this issue?  I want to talk
about the "no-action" alternative of NEPA - the Navy
Environmental Protection Act.   The Navy has
violated NEPA.
Take action now to protect our coastal areas.
---------------------------------
Call all reps and call often.



Irene





From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 16 09:10:32 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:10:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] all about the Common Law Grand Jury
Message-ID: <e0f4b94866e45a21f66c24ca8755357d.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Occupy All,
    This common Law grand jury could be used to prosecute banks or the
government for not enforcing the decision of the Schneiderman and 49
states consent decree with the banks not to use robosigning(forgery)
in foreclosure documents.
Agnes


NOTE: The following rules only apply to a republic such as the USA.
For a monarchy such as Great Britain substitute the word "baron" for
"people",
and substitute the word "subject" for "citizen".
Also, in the USA, a peer is one of the people (not citizens).
In Great Britain, a peer is one of the nobility.
This website last updated May 18, 2009.
Common Law Grand Jury

Rules

APPLICABLE LAW

The government must accept the Magna Carta as common law if pleaded as such.
Source: Confirmatio Cartarum, Article 1
www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/cartarum.htm

Basic requirements and procedures for a common law grand jury:
Source: Magna Carta, Articles 52 & 61
www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/magna.htm#52
www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/magna.htm#61

HOW CONSTITUTED

Grand jury members must be elected by the people (not citizens) of the
jurisdiction in which they are operating.

There are no rules defining a procedure for how they are elected. The
people, without the influence of government, decide for themselves how the
grand jury members are elected.

There must be 25 members.

QUALIFICATIONS

The members must be "people" of the jurisdiction and not "citizens" of the
jurisdiction.

For example, they must be "People of the United States," or "People of
California," or "People of the State of California"; not "citizen of the
United States," nor "citizen of California," nor "citizen of the State of
California."
www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/pvc.htm
http://www.1215.org/lawnotes/lawnotes/sovreign.htm

Each member must be sworn in and promise to observe all of these rules
and, so far as within his power, cause all the rules to be observed.

QUORUM

When the grand jury meets, if any are absent after being summoned, then
those present constitute a quorum.

All decisions of grand jury are decided by majority vote of members present.

If any member dies or leaves the country, or in any other way is prevented
from carrying out the grand jury's decisions, the remaining grand jurors
shall choose another to fill his place and he shall likewise be sworn in.

FINALITY OF DECISIONS

No decision of a grand jury is reviewable in any court of the government.

JURISDICTION

Any government transgression against anyone in any respect.

Any government breaking of articles of peace or security.

Any dispute regarding anyone who has been disseized or removed, by the
government without a legal sentence of his peers, from his lands, castles,
liberties or lawful right.

PROCEDURE I
Dispute Settlement

If the grand jury is informed of any dispute regarding anyone who has been
disseized or removed (by the government without a legal sentence of his
peers) from his lands, castles, liberties or lawful right, then the
dispute shall be settled by the grand jury.

PROCEDURE II
Enforcement

Four of the members must be shown that because of the government,
      A. A transgression has occurred against any one in any respect, or
      B. Some one of the articles of peace or security has been broken

The four members must show to the government the government's error.

The four members must ask the government to amend that error without delay.

If the government does not amend the error within 40 days after being
shown the error, then the four members shall refer the matter to the
remainder of the grand jury.

The grand jury may distrain and oppress the government in every way in
their power, namely, by taking the homes, lands, possessions, and any way
else they can until amends shall have been made according to the sole
judgment of the grand jury.

LIMITATION OF POWERS

The grand jury may not imprison or execute any government personnel or
their children.

PUBLIC SUPPORT

Anyone (people or citizen) who chooses to help enforce the grand jury
decision must first swear that he will obey the mandates of the grand
jury, and that with them to the extent of his power he will impose the
grand jury's decisions upon the government.

The authority to support the grand jury is pre-authorized by the government.

If anyone refuses to support a grand jury decision, the government will
force him to swear his support of the grand jury.

LIMITATIONS ON GOVERNMENT

The government is prohibited from doing anything to diminish the effect of
the grand jury.

If the government does prohibit or diminish the effectiveness of the grand
jury, it shall be vain and invalid and may not be used in any later
proceeding by the government or anyone else.

TERMINATION OF ENFORCEMENT

When all issues are settled to the satisfaction of the grand jury, things
shall return to normal as they were before. No grudges.


Reactivating the Common Law Grand Jury

A Brief Strategy Suggestion

BACKGROUND

When the colonies separated from England, King John retaliated by revoking
the charters. Technically, the colonies were without any legal authority
to operate. However, civics (the branch of political philosophy concerned
with individual rights) was generally taught and known by the people who
asserted their rights and maintained order by applying the common law. The
people united in the form of common law grand juries and continued the
functioning of government.

As the legislatures matured they slowly increased governmental power while
simultaneously reducing personal sovereign power. This was done through a
combination of passing pro-government legislation and reducing or
eliminating education about civics. Today, two and a quarter centuries
later, hardly anyone even knows the meaning of the word, "civics."

Despite the fact that the state and federal constitutions still
acknowledge the common law as the ultimate law system, people everywhere
are conditioned to believe that the statutory law and codes are the only
source of law. The only remaining common law term generally known among
the public is "common law marriage."

The common law grand jury is now dormant only because of the public
ignorance of its powers that supercede all other government entities,
including the modern statutorily defined grand jury. Awakening the grand
jury will not be graciously accepted by the government. A strategy is
needed to reintroduce this fundamental protection against tyranny and
injustice.

STEP 1 - ESTABLISH LEGITIMACY

The first step is to get public acceptance. Every dictator in history
understood the power of the people and cultivated their support either
through enticements or threats. Reactivating the grand jury concept will
go through four traditional stages: denial, ridicule, violent opposition,
then self-evident acceptance.

Theoretically, the grand jury can meet anywhere, anytime. But that is
hardly good image. One way to get public acceptance and minimize denial,
ridicule, and violent opposition, is to hold the grand jury sessions in
the public court house. The foreman could apply to a court administrator
for use of one of the rooms in the public courthouse. If it is refused,
then the court administrator should, under common law procedures, be sued
for his dereliction of duty.

The grand jury should follow normal protocol. In other words, if the grand
jury begins a process on its own, the resulting accusation is called a
presentment. If a prosecutor orginates a process, then the jury returns to
the prosecutor an indictment (also called a "true bill") on acceptance, or
a "no bill" on denial. [Note: be careful with your words. wrong words may
result in inaction! If you call the presentment an indictment, the
prosecutor may feel no obligation because he did not initiate the
process!]

STEP 2 - GAIN PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE

The second step is to start small. The grand jury could take on issues
which anyone can easily see should be prosecuted. As public acceptance
increases, the grand jury can enlarge its field of inquiry. The grand jury
should have a strong public relations program for this step.

STEP 3 - TAKE ON LARGER PROJECTS

The third step is to take on grander objectives. If the first two steps
are well executed, then this step will be the easiest. With both
legitimacy and acceptance established the grand jury can make itself felt.

See United States v. Williams, 112 S.Ct. 1735, 504 U.S. 36, 118 L.Ed.2d
352 (1992) for a discussion of separation of powers of government and
grand jury.




From agnes at mcn.org  Sun Mar 16 09:17:23 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:17:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Robin Sunbeam is running for Recorder]
Message-ID: <1ca757f7edcfc65c5faad7f70f6d0cb9.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>



Dear Ellen et al,
Robin Sunbeam is running against Susan Ranochak for Recorder. Her platform
is that she will protect the integrity of our public records, initiate an
audit, as well as other populist issues such as expanding the polling
places so that people can vote easier.

Can you donate to her campaign? Can you ask others to contribute to her
campaign also?

Checks can be made out to  Robin Sunbeam for County Clerk 2014

and sent to:
P.O. Box 1133
Ukiah, Ca. 95482

Thanks,
Agnes

PS. If you or anyone you know can contribute some time in campaigning,
making signs, press releases, passing out fliers, etc please contact Robin
at 707-228-9257

PSS. Please "like" and "SHARE" her facebook page: Robin Sunbeam for Recorder
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From marksafron at att.net  Tue Mar 18 11:29:53 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:29:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] If Our Founding Fathers Were All Christians,
	Why Did They Say This?
Message-ID: <B046BD5E-5181-4BF8-98DC-4000E47ED88C@att.net>

"Nobody can deny the fact that Christianity has played a huge role in our history. From the first Thanksgiving to the ideas of Jesus Christ that are embroidered in our culture today, Christianity and the Bible is responsible a big part of our heritage.

However, many conservatives will take this fact way out of context. They'll think that you haveto be a Christian to be patriotic, which is simply not true. Following the more secular teachings of Jesus Christ (being charitable, loving one another, treating strangers with kindness) is what the men who founded this country were for.

I don?t want to waste my time listing all these obscurant far-right arguments, so instead I?ll list the facts straight from our forefathers."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/18/1285607/-If-Our-Founding-Fathers-Were-All-Christians-Why-Did-They-Say-This?detail=email

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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Mar 18 16:06:57 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:06:57 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Jed Davis, a Potter Valley farmer on TV
Message-ID: <bb1b4c35646cd0dda571b482e33c1bb5.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>


You can appreciate what one bright farmer, some of you helped support him
at the Assessor's office in Feb. of 2012.

Agnes



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



From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Mar 18 16:08:58 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:08:58 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Signature needed: Prosecute the banksters
 who ruined our economy]
Message-ID: <08b009ea87ba5ea1fccc6994338ea637.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Signature needed: Prosecute the banksters who ruined our economy
From:    "Paul Hogarth, Daily Kos" <campaigns at dailykos.com>
Date:    Tue, March 18, 2014 2:13 pm
To:      agnes at mcn.org
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From marksafron at att.net  Wed Mar 19 23:15:03 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 23:15:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Just what we need in CA.
Message-ID: <272D7CBA-DE61-4BC5-B803-70176B8C8F60@att.net>

As Fracking Grows In Ohio, So Do Earthquakes
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/03/17/3401201/ohio-fracking-earthquakes/

In areas of Texas where fracking is used, quakes have quintupled. 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Mar 20 08:42:34 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:42:34 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Shootout in Cleone Story in PD
Message-ID: <C0CFAF8B-8775-4E00-90FF-8D10B575F2F5@mcn.org>

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20140319/articles/140319474


From deejayliz at yahoo.com  Thu Mar 20 11:32:34 2014
From: deejayliz at yahoo.com (Liz Helenchild)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 11:32:34 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fw:  Shootout in Cleone Story in PD
In-Reply-To: <1395338498.87689.YahooMailNeo@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
References: <C0CFAF8B-8775-4E00-90FF-8D10B575F2F5@mcn.org>
	<1395338498.87689.YahooMailNeo@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <1395340354.6963.YahooMailNeo@web163402.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>



This is so overwhelmingly sad. 

My anger falls on Lane County OR law enforcement who arrested the perp, found him in possession of unlicensed firearms & body armor, then let him drive on.

Liz




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Subject: [Occupymendocino] Shootout in Cleone Story in PD
 

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From marksafron at att.net  Fri Mar 21 10:32:43 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:32:43 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Guess who's the major stakeholder in Canada's oil
	sands?
Message-ID: <58767275-DAAA-4DDC-B03C-94D79EC154CA@att.net>

Guess who's the major stakeholder in Canada's oil sands? Of course, it's the Kochs


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/20/1286250/-Guess-who-s-the-major-stakeholder-in-Canada-s-oil-sands-Of-course-it-s-the-nbsp-Kochs?




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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Mar 22 09:53:53 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 09:53:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy protester wounded by Oakland police gets
	$4.5 million
Message-ID: <135BC98D-3B29-4C20-82A4-80F27023DDA9@att.net>

Oakland agreed to pay an Iraq War veteran $4.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit he filed after a city police officer shot him in the head with a beanbag during an Occupy protest, nearly killing him and leaving him with permanent brain damage, attorneys said Friday.

Olsen said he is still being treated for his head injury. "I didn't win part of my brain back that's dead," he said. "It's hard. It was a hard recovery process.?

http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/4-5M-settlement-for-Oakland-protester-wounded-by-5337743.php
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar 15 11:48:32 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 11:48:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Auditing Our Public Records for Fraudulent
 Foreclosures and Lost Recording Fees]
Message-ID: <7a9596f0d2fb7cbd01e8f5e5b6e4fc1b.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Auditing Our Public Records for Fraudulent Foreclosures and Lost
Recording Fees
From:    "Jed Davis" <jedasiah at gmail.com>
Date:    Mon, February 24, 2014 11:55 pm
To:      "Dan Gjerde" <gjerde at co.mendocino.ca.us>
         "Dan Hamburg" <hamburgd at co.mendocino.ca.us>
         "John Pinches" <pinchesj at co.mendocino.ca.us>
         "John McCowen" <mccowen at co.mendocino.ca.us>
         "Carre Brown" <browncj at co.mendocino.ca.us>
         "David Eyster" <eysterd at co.mendocino.ca.us>
         allmant at co.mendocino.ca.us
         ranochas at co.mendocino.ca.us
         parkert at co.mendocino.ca.us
         angeloc at co.mendocino.ca.us
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Dear Board of Supervisors:

I am writing you once again to appeal for you to audit our public records
in search of lost recording fees from MERS assignments (which may be in the
millions of dollars), and to expose the clouding of thousands of titles in
Mendocino County due to the criminal conduct of many banks recording false
and forged documents in our Recorder's Office. The recording of false and
forged documents is a felony violation of California Penal Code 115.  It is
these fraudulently recorded documents which VOID the foreclosures that have
wrongfully taken the homes of thousands of citizens in our county, thus
creating clouds on title, destroying the security of real estate ownership
and most likely values, now and for generations to come.

Please review the following statistics taken from an article on Recorder
John O'brien of Southern Essex County in Salem Massachusetts, a shining
example of what a proactive Recorder can do:

*In total, 565 assignments related to 473 unique mortgages were analyzed. *







*McDonnell's Report includes the following key findings: * Only 16% of
assignments of mortgage are valid * 75% of assignments of mortgage are
invalid. * 9% of assignments of mortgage are questionable * 27% of the
invalid assignments are fraudulent, 35% are "robo-signed" and 10% violate
the Massachusetts Mortgage Fraud Statute. * The identity of financial
institutions that are current owners of the mortgages could only be
determined for 287 out of 473 (60%) * There are 683 missing assignments for
the 287 traced mortgages, representing approximately $180,000 in lost
recording fees per 1,000 mortgages whose current ownership can be traced.*
The full article can be read at the following link:
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/02/john-obrien-mortgage-settlement-fails-to-address-banking-criminal-enterprise.html

You can further view Mr. O'brien's proactiveness at their county recorder's
website: www.salemdeeds.com


I urge you to recognize your duty in protecting the citizens of this county
from criminal outside interests as well as to protect the integrity of our
public records.  It is through these efforts that I believe our county will
be able to recoup millions of dollars in lost recording fees (see attached
decision *Nueces County v BofA MERS*), and eventually, restitution for the
banks' responsibility in ruining the integrity of our public records.

To further help you understand how so many of our county's records are
ruined through MERS' involvement in Deeds of Trust and foreclosures, I am
attaching a January 2014 California decision, *MERS v Robinson*, in which
the judge states that MERS cannot legally be the beneficiary and therefore
has NO STANDING to foreclose. How many MERS foreclosure have taken place in
our county since 2005? How many clouded titles does this make? This
decision is VERY ENLIGHTENING. Please read it.

For your easy reference, I am also resending you a decision by a Federal NY
Bankruptcy Judge from December 2013, whose decision states that MERS'
business model is illegal.

This is information that I and others have been telling you for nearly two
years now, yet NOTHING has been done. You are NOT the mouse who roared
against the big banks, you are the public servants of Mendocino County
standing up to protect your citizens and stopping the banks' crimes from
taking place at the crime scene, OUR COUNTY RECORDER'S OFFICE.

The tides are turning, the court decisions to support your protective
actions are beginning to come in. You have solid legal ground to stand on.
People are beginning to see through the complexity of the mortgage crisis
for what it really is, a huge SCAM against the American people. There are
millions of us and only a few banks. Please help make a difference.

Sincerely,

Jed Davis
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From agnes at mcn.org  Sat Mar 15 12:18:19 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:18:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: press release: Robin Sunbeam is running for
 Assessor - County Clerk - Recorder]
Message-ID: <7a57837d2f2be2499ae2e0ee22f690e2.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Hello defenders of the Public Bank and those who long for justice in the
foreclosure fraud debacle.
Print this out so you may tell voters why Robin is the best choice-She
understands foreclosure fraud and would require sworn testimony from
bankers who are using fraud to foreclose on home owners with forged
signatures. Please join us in leaf letting the densely populated areas of
our county. Robin can't do it alone. see you at General Assembly.


---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: press release: Robin Sunbeam is running for Assessor - County    
 Clerk - Recorder
From:    robinsunbeamforrecorder at pacific.net
Date:    Mon, March 10, 2014 8:21 am
To:      agnes at mcn.org
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

PRESS RELEASE:


Robin Sunbeam will be challenging long-time incumbent, Susan Ranochak, for
the office of Assessor/ County Clerk/Recorder.  This is Robin?s first
foray into electoral politics.

For the last ten years, Ms. Sunbeam has worked as the School Nurse for
River Oak Charter School, as well as in the Windsor Unified School
District and Santa Rosa City Schools.  She is a CA Registered Nurse with a
CA School Nurse Credential.  In 1993, Robin earned a MSN from UC San
Francisco in Community Health Nursing, with a minor in administration.
Her Master?s Thesis was a business plan for a rural, nurse-run clinic,
which was put on display in the UCSF library.

Robin served as Treasurer for both River Oak Charter School Education
Foundation and the Move to Amend Coalition of Mendocino County (MTACMC).
She was on the team of the MTACMC that brought us Measure F in November
2012, which garnered nearly 75% of the popular vote.  And you may also
have seen her many letters to the editor in our local newspapers.

When asked why she is running for Assessor/County Clerk/Recorder, Ms.
Sunbeam replied, ?When I see injustice, I feel like I must set things
straight. As the recent historic bank settlements have demonstrated, the
big banks have robbed us all!  And there is something we can do on the
county level to protect the public from predatory banksters.  As Recorder,
I will conduct a foreclosure audit to see the true extent of the fraud
problem to date in Mendocino County.  I will carefully scrutinize all new
foreclosure documents for evidence of fraud and demand a clear chain of
title before recording them.  The bank foreclosure-fraud debacle has left
countless destroyed homeowners in its wake, and there are still many more
Mendocino County homeowners, your friends and mine, struggling to save
their homes.

?Considering the enormity of the injustice and the avenue to ameliorate it
through the Recorder?s Office, I was invited to run and decided to take
the responsibility to step up and serve.?  Robin will also advocate for
easier access to polling places, and timely property tax assessments.

She added, ?I?m not waiting for ?them? to come and fix things.  I'm going
to do it!  In a Democracy, we should all be saying, ?I'm going to do it.?
If not us, then who?  And if not now, when??


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From edoberweiser at gmail.com  Thu Mar 13 13:18:25 2014
From: edoberweiser at gmail.com (edward Oberweiser)
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 13:18:25 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] In Show of Direct Democracy,
	Vermont Pushes for Public Bank
Message-ID: <CAFBwOQTzff_8-3p=NYDT6wEUf2ienKTiAUwoeHcZSmRUeMessA@mail.gmail.com>

Begin forwarded message:

From: Portside moderator <moderator at PORTSIDE.ORG>

*https://portside.org/2014-03-10/show-direct-democracy-vermont-pushes-public-bank
<https://portside.org/2014-03-10/show-direct-democracy-vermont-pushes-public-bank>*

Jon Queally, staff writer
March 6, 2014
Common Dreams

Fifteen towns approve resolution that would establish bank that works for
people of Vermont, not Wall Street.



, ,


By a more than three-to-one margin on Tuesday, communities voting on
whether to support the creation of a public bank in Vermont approved the
idea, calling for the state legislature to establish such a bank and urging
passage of legislation designed to begin its implementation.

In a show of direct democracy that also exposed the citizenry's desire for
a more localized and responsible banking system, fifteen of nineteen towns
passed the resolution during 'Town Meeting Day'-- an annual event in which
voters choose local officials, approve municipal budgets, and make their
voices heard on a number of measures put before local residents for
approval.

The specific proposal under consideration, Senate Bill 204, would turn an
existing agency, the Vermont Economic Development Authority, into a public
bank that would accept deposits and issue loans for in-state projects.
Currently, the only state in the U.S. to maintain a public state bank is
North Dakota. However, since the financial downturn of 2008, other states
have looked into replicating the North Dakota model as a way to buck Wall
Street while taking more control of state and local finances.

Voicing his support of the measure ahead of Tuesday's vote, Gary Murphy, a
resident of South Ryegate, one of the towns that subsequently approved the
measure, explained the thinking behind the plan this way in a letter to the
local Times-Argus:

    Senate bill 204 would expand the Vermont Economic Development Authority
to become a state bank and would start out by depositing 10 percent of
Vermont's unrestricted money into the state bank. The bank would be able to
leverage this money by means available only to banks to bolster the economy
of the state and cut down on the interest payments and fees that are
presently paid to out-of-state financial institutions and other entities.
The bank would not engage in retail banking and would not compete with
community banks; it would work with community banks to maintain their
viability and expand their ability to help create better economic outcomes
for Vermonters by partnering with them in projects they would not be able
to engage in on their own.

    Presently, large public projects are, to a large extent, funded by
bonding and other private investment which requires the state to pay
interest and fees that often do not get recycled into the local economy.
Bond sales are managed by Wall Street firms, which seem to rig everything
they can to further enrich themselves. In addition to the fees that they
charge for this service, it is possible that they are rigging the process
to divert funds that would otherwise be available to the state into their
own pockets. While the cost of bonding is relatively cheap now, it will
likely increase in the next few years if not sooner and the bond market
could dry up. Creating a state bank now and growing it could put us in a
position where we can substantially lessen the need to float bonds to fund
large public projects.

According to Vermont Public Radio, unofficial results on Wednesday showed
the following towns had approved the resolution: Bakersfield, Craftsbury,
Enosburg, Marshfield, Montgomery, Montpelier Plainfield, Putney, Randolph,
Rochester, Royalton, Ryegate, Tunbridge, Warren, and Waitsfield. The four
towns that voted down the measure were: Marlboro, Barnet and Fayston and
Greensboro.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
License.
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Mar 23 18:30:24 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:30:24 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] The Plutocrats Take To The Barricades
Message-ID: <B7611B33-4FAA-4641-B9FF-AB6437C5C927@att.net>

They keep invoking Hitler and Nazis and the threat to the 1 percent, but their folly is feeding the populism they fear. As former President John Kennedy warned, ?Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.?
http://ourfuture.org/20140319/the-plutocrats-take-to-the-barricades?utm_source=signon&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=plutocrat
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From marksafron at att.net  Mon Mar 24 19:10:59 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:10:59 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Nate Silver's new Senate forecast could terrify
	Democrats into action
Message-ID: <E1B93E00-557D-4D6B-9E12-DEC258B8A336@att.net>

(It should be noted that Nate Silver is the best prognosticator of elections this country has ever known. M.S.) 

Nate Silver's new Senate forecast could terrify Democrats into action

Nate Silver, the political prognosticator pilloried by Republicans for correctly predicting President Obama's convincing victory in 2012, has perhaps just given the GOP another reason to curse him.

He has predicted that Republicans are better than even odds to take back the Senate this November.

At first blush, that might seem like something for Republicans to celebrate. Control of the Senate is the Grand Prize up for grabs in this fall's midterm elections. Few doubt that Republicans will hold on to the House, and most also acknowledge that Republicans are likely to cut into the Democrats' 55-to-45 majority in the Senate. (There are actually only 53 Senate Democrats, but both Senate Independents side with the Democrats.)

Full story here:
http://news.yahoo.com/nate-silvers-senate-forecast-could-terrify-democrats-action-191540546.html
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Mar 25 08:48:19 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:48:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?_AlterNet=3A_Wells_Fargo_Caugh?=
 =?windows-1252?q?t_Forging_Mortage_Documents_=97_Will_We_Finally_See_Jail?=
 =?windows-1252?q?_Time_for_the_Bankers=3F?=
References: <20140325150007.9F30EA4044@vps717.getcadre.com>
Message-ID: <F92C46C3-B9CD-40C1-8093-E93DA1B12B19@mcn.org>

> 
> Subject: AlterNet: Wells Fargo Caught Forging Mortage Documents ? Will We Finally See Jail Time for the Bankers?
> 
> This story has been forwarded to you from
> http://www.alternet.org by annxpress at live.com
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------
> Wells Fargo Caught Forging Mortage Documents ? Will We Finally See Jail Time for the Bankers?
> http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/wells-fargo-caught-forging-mortage-documents-will-we-finally-see-jail-time-bankers
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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Mar 25 11:19:30 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:30 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Let's stand at Safeway with Signs telling
	shoppersthat Wells Fargo
Message-ID: <17966e97358afd9f8aa82939626370ce.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

So why are we not protesting at Safeway's Wells Fargo Bank site on Fridays?
Agnes

March 21, 2014  |
A new internal report says the Justice Department massively overstated its
successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking it as a low
priority for investigation. The Justice Department?s inspector general
says despite playing a central role in the nation?s financial crisis,
mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a priority at all.
This comes as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document appears to
guide lawyers step by step on how to fabricate missing documents to
foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo is the country?s largest mortgage
servicer and services some nine million home loans.

Transcript

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

Juan Gonz?lez: A new internal report says the Justice Department massively
overstated its successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking
it as a low priority for investigation. The Justice Department?s inspector
general says despite playing a central role in the nation?s financial
crisis, mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a priority
at all. In one instance, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed to have
filed lawsuits on behalf of homeowner victims for losses totaling more
than $1 billion, but the actual amount was 91 percent less, around $95
million.

This comes as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document appears to
guide lawyers step by step on how to fabricate missing documents to
foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo is the country?s largest mortgage
servicer and services some nine million home loans.

Amy Goodman: State and federal regulators are now focusing on the
allegations in the lawsuit brought by Linda Tirelli, who joins us now.
She?s an attorney representing clients being foreclosed on by Wells Fargo.
Earlier this month, she discovered the Wells Fargo manual on how to
produce missing documents to foreclose on homeowners. She?s a partner at
the Garvey, Tirelli & Cushner law firm in White Plains, New York.

In Minneapolis, we?re joined by Kevin Whelan, campaign director for the
Home Defenders League, a national movement of underwater homeowners and
allies who organize to keep people in their homes and demand
accountability.

Wells Fargo declined Democracy Now!'s interview request, saying they're in
a, quote, "quiet period" pending the announcement of their quarterly
earnings.

We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Linda Tirelli, let?s begin with you.

Linda Tirelli: Good morning.

AG: Can you describe this manual, how you got it and what it reveals?

LT: Absolutely. The manual that I have, it?s actually entitled the "Wells
Fargo Home Mortgage Foreclosure Attorney [Procedure] Manual, Version 1."
And it says on it that it?s last published 2/24/2012. Mind you, the
national mortgage settlement agreement was announced a week prior, on
2/19/2012.

The way I obtained it, it was actually sitting right there on the
Internet, of all things. A colleague of mine, through a Max Gardner?s
Bankruptcy Boot Camp, which I am a member, an active member, gave it to me
and said, "Hey, I found this online, and I know you?re doing a lot of
Wells Fargo cases. Maybe you can use this."

Reading it, my jaw just dropped. As I see it, it?s clearly outlining
procedures, not just for the $12-an-hour robo-signers that we?ve heard
about all these years, but for the lawyers, who need to be held
accountable to a much higher degree. It?s the manual for the lawyers to
actually fabricate documents, as I see it, and request that documents that
are lacking be fabricated by Wells Fargo. It?s absolutely appalling.





From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Mar 25 13:39:32 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:39:32 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Let's stand at Safeway with Signs telling
	shoppersthat Wells Fargo
In-Reply-To: <SNT145-W1114D3C7DBF8F8BDA7E4BD7DD650@phx.gbl>
References: <17966e97358afd9f8aa82939626370ce.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W1114D3C7DBF8F8BDA7E4BD7DD650@phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <EB2A5CE7-600B-4ADC-A1A1-CC73DA2B6382@mcn.org>

I agree and thought we talked about doing this last meeting. Maybe B of A can rest for one day.  
Two people on each entrance, maybe...?

rk


On Mar 25, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Ann Rennacker wrote:

> This new info on Wells Fargo's foreclosure fraud just came in, so I agree that the time is right to stand in front of Safeway with signs.  I wish we could go inside the store near the Wells Fargo business so the folks in line there would see us and we can get some to change to Savings bank or the Credit Union.  Ann
>  
> > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:30 -0700
> > From: agnes at mcn.org
> > To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
> > Subject: [Occupymendocino] Let's stand at Safeway with Signs telling	shoppersthat Wells Fargo
> > 
> > So why are we not protesting at Safeway's Wells Fargo Bank site on Fridays?
> > Agnes
> > 
> > March 21, 2014 |
> > A new internal report says the Justice Department massively overstated its
> > successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking it as a low
> > priority for investigation. The Justice Department?s inspector general
> > says despite playing a central role in the nation?s financial crisis,
> > mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a priority at all.
> > This comes as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document appears to
> > guide lawyers step by step on how to fabricate missing documents to
> > foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo is the country?s largest mortgage
> > servicer and services some nine million home loans.
> > 
> > Transcript
> > 
> > This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
> > 
> > Juan Gonz?lez: A new internal report says the Justice Department massively
> > overstated its successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking
> > it as a low priority for investigation. The Justice Department?s inspector
> > general says despite playing a central role in the nation?s financial
> > crisis, mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a priority
> > at all. In one instance, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed to have
> > filed lawsuits on behalf of homeowner victims for losses totaling more
> > than $1 billion, but the actual amount was 91 percent less, around $95
> > million.
> > 
> > This comes as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document appears to
> > guide lawyers step by step on how to fabricate missing documents to
> > foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo is the country?s largest mortgage
> > servicer and services some nine million home loans.
> > 
> > Amy Goodman: State and federal regulators are now focusing on the
> > allegations in the lawsuit brought by Linda Tirelli, who joins us now.
> > She?s an attorney representing clients being foreclosed on by Wells Fargo.
> > Earlier this month, she discovered the Wells Fargo manual on how to
> > produce missing documents to foreclose on homeowners. She?s a partner at
> > the Garvey, Tirelli & Cushner law firm in White Plains, New York.
> > 
> > In Minneapolis, we?re joined by Kevin Whelan, campaign director for the
> > Home Defenders League, a national movement of underwater homeowners and
> > allies who organize to keep people in their homes and demand
> > accountability.
> > 
> > Wells Fargo declined Democracy Now!'s interview request, saying they're in
> > a, quote, "quiet period" pending the announcement of their quarterly
> > earnings.
> > 
> > We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Linda Tirelli, let?s begin with you.
> > 
> > Linda Tirelli: Good morning.
> > 
> > AG: Can you describe this manual, how you got it and what it reveals?
> > 
> > LT: Absolutely. The manual that I have, it?s actually entitled the "Wells
> > Fargo Home Mortgage Foreclosure Attorney [Procedure] Manual, Version 1."
> > And it says on it that it?s last published 2/24/2012. Mind you, the
> > national mortgage settlement agreement was announced a week prior, on
> > 2/19/2012.
> > 
> > The way I obtained it, it was actually sitting right there on the
> > Internet, of all things. A colleague of mine, through a Max Gardner?s
> > Bankruptcy Boot Camp, which I am a member, an active member, gave it to me
> > and said, "Hey, I found this online, and I know you?re doing a lot of
> > Wells Fargo cases. Maybe you can use this."
> > 
> > Reading it, my jaw just dropped. As I see it, it?s clearly outlining
> > procedures, not just for the $12-an-hour robo-signers that we?ve heard
> > about all these years, but for the lawyers, who need to be held
> > accountable to a much higher degree. It?s the manual for the lawyers to
> > actually fabricate documents, as I see it, and request that documents that
> > are lacking be fabricated by Wells Fargo. It?s absolutely appalling.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject line.
> > For listserv problems please contact: listmanager at mcn.or

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From agnes at mcn.org  Tue Mar 25 18:51:25 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:51:25 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Let's stand at Safeway with Signs telling
 shoppersthat Wells Fargo
In-Reply-To: <EB2A5CE7-600B-4ADC-A1A1-CC73DA2B6382@mcn.org>
References: <17966e97358afd9f8aa82939626370ce.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>
	<SNT145-W1114D3C7DBF8F8BDA7E4BD7DD650@phx.gbl>
	<EB2A5CE7-600B-4ADC-A1A1-CC73DA2B6382@mcn.org>
Message-ID: <16df3d1d7763f79f0cff98d18882a1f9.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Should we put out a call for the 28ththis Fri. or the first Friday in
April? Who's willing?Choose a date. How many for the 28th?----------,Who'd
rather do it on the first Friday?-------I'd be willing to make a sign
stating "Wells Fargo fined $175 Billion for discrimination in home
mortgage loans."
Agnes.


> I agree and thought we talked about doing this last meeting. Maybe B of A
> can rest for one day.
> Two people on each entrance, maybe...?
>
> rk
>
>
> On Mar 25, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Ann Rennacker wrote:
>
>> This new info on Wells Fargo's foreclosure fraud just came in, so I
>> agree that the time is right to stand in front of Safeway with signs.  I
>> wish we could go inside the store near the Wells Fargo business so the
>> folks in line there would see us and we can get some to change to
>> Savings bank or the Credit Union.  Ann
>>
>> > Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:19:30 -0700
>> > From: agnes at mcn.org
>> > To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org
>> > Subject: [Occupymendocino] Let's stand at Safeway with Signs
>> telling	shoppersthat Wells Fargo
>> >
>> > So why are we not protesting at Safeway's Wells Fargo Bank site on
>> Fridays?
>> > Agnes
>> >
>> > March 21, 2014 |
>> > A new internal report says the Justice Department massively overstated
>> its
>> > successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact ranking it as a
>> low
>> > priority for investigation. The Justice Department?s inspector general
>> > says despite playing a central role in the nation?s financial crisis,
>> > mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a priority at
>> all.
>> > This comes as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document
>> appears to
>> > guide lawyers step by step on how to fabricate missing documents to
>> > foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo is the country?s largest mortgage
>> > servicer and services some nine million home loans.
>> >
>> > Transcript
>> >
>> > This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
>> >
>> > Juan Gonz?lez: A new internal report says the Justice Department
>> massively
>> > overstated its successes in targeting mortgage fraud while in fact
>> ranking
>> > it as a low priority for investigation. The Justice Department?s
>> inspector
>> > general says despite playing a central role in the nation?s financial
>> > crisis, mortgage fraud was deemed either a low priority or not a
>> priority
>> > at all. In one instance, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed to have
>> > filed lawsuits on behalf of homeowner victims for losses totaling more
>> > than $1 billion, but the actual amount was 91 percent less, around $95
>> > million.
>> >
>> > This comes as a recently revealed internal Wells Fargo document
>> appears to
>> > guide lawyers step by step on how to fabricate missing documents to
>> > foreclose on homeowners. Wells Fargo is the country?s largest mortgage
>> > servicer and services some nine million home loans.
>> >
>> > Amy Goodman: State and federal regulators are now focusing on the
>> > allegations in the lawsuit brought by Linda Tirelli, who joins us now.
>> > She?s an attorney representing clients being foreclosed on by Wells
>> Fargo.
>> > Earlier this month, she discovered the Wells Fargo manual on how to
>> > produce missing documents to foreclose on homeowners. She?s a partner
>> at
>> > the Garvey, Tirelli & Cushner law firm in White Plains, New York.
>> >
>> > In Minneapolis, we?re joined by Kevin Whelan, campaign director for
>> the
>> > Home Defenders League, a national movement of underwater homeowners
>> and
>> > allies who organize to keep people in their homes and demand
>> > accountability.
>> >
>> > Wells Fargo declined Democracy Now!'s interview request, saying
>> they're in
>> > a, quote, "quiet period" pending the announcement of their quarterly
>> > earnings.
>> >
>> > We welcome you both to Democracy Now! Linda Tirelli, let?s begin with
>> you.
>> >
>> > Linda Tirelli: Good morning.
>> >
>> > AG: Can you describe this manual, how you got it and what it reveals?
>> >
>> > LT: Absolutely. The manual that I have, it?s actually entitled the
>> "Wells
>> > Fargo Home Mortgage Foreclosure Attorney [Procedure] Manual, Version
>> 1."
>> > And it says on it that it?s last published 2/24/2012. Mind you, the
>> > national mortgage settlement agreement was announced a week prior, on
>> > 2/19/2012.
>> >
>> > The way I obtained it, it was actually sitting right there on the
>> > Internet, of all things. A colleague of mine, through a Max Gardner?s
>> > Bankruptcy Boot Camp, which I am a member, an active member, gave it
>> to me
>> > and said, "Hey, I found this online, and I know you?re doing a lot of
>> > Wells Fargo cases. Maybe you can use this."
>> >
>> > Reading it, my jaw just dropped. As I see it, it?s clearly outlining
>> > procedures, not just for the $12-an-hour robo-signers that we?ve heard
>> > about all these years, but for the lawyers, who need to be held
>> > accountable to a much higher degree. It?s the manual for the lawyers
>> to
>> > actually fabricate documents, as I see it, and request that documents
>> that
>> > are lacking be fabricated by Wells Fargo. It?s absolutely appalling.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put
>> "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject line.
>> > For listserv problems please contact: listmanager at mcn.or
>
> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send an email to occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org put
> "Un-Subscribe me" in the Subject line.
> For listserv problems please contact: listmanager at mcn.or




From ellen.rosser at gmail.com  Thu Mar 27 10:45:23 2014
From: ellen.rosser at gmail.com (ELLEN ROSSER)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:45:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] great satire on water issues
Message-ID: <CAFGqSt5X1xWtN5aWbKOcjX8=tpaDJGj0A6T59sTBBgongsa_DQ@mail.gmail.com>

Apartheid adventures :
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfZ6VmyfB2IyzCPvqSN23Sw
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Mar 27 13:53:17 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 13:53:17 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] for Occupy list
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On Mar 27, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Adrienne Ross wrote:

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> from NYTimes 3-27-14
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> The Opinion Pages|OP-ED COLUMNIST
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> A Nation of Takers?
> MARCH 26, 2014
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> In the debate about poverty, critics argue that government assistance saps initiative and is unaffordable. After exploring the issue, I must concede that the critics have a point. Here are five public welfare programs that are wasteful and turning us into a nation of ?takers.?
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> First, welfare subsidies for private planes. The United States offers three kinds of subsidies to tycoons with private jets: accelerated tax write-offs, avoidance of personal taxes on the benefit by claiming that private aircraft are for security, and use of air traffic control paid for by chumps flying commercial.
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> As the leftists in the George W. Bush administration put it when they triedunsuccessfully to end this last boondoggle: ?The family of four taking a budget vacation is subsidizing the C.E.O.?s flying on a corporate jet.?
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> I worry about those tycoons sponging off government. Won?t our pampering damage their character? Won?t they become addicted to the entitlement culture, demanding subsidies even for their yachts? Oh, wait ...
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> Second, welfare subsidies for yachts. The mortgage-interest deduction was meant to encourage a home-owning middle class. But it has been extended to provide subsidies for beach homes and even yachts.
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> In the meantime, money was slashed last year from the public housing program for America?s neediest. Hmm. How about if we house the homeless in these publicly supported yachts?
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> Third, welfare subsidies for hedge funds and private equity. The single most outrageous tax loophole in America is for ?carried interest,? allowing people with the highest earnings to pay paltry taxes. They can magically reclassify their earned income as capital gains, because that carries a lower tax rate (a maximum of 23.8 percent this year, compared with a maximum of 39.6 percent for earned income).
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> Let?s just tax capital gains at earned income rates, as we did under President Ronald Reagan, that notorious scourge of capitalism.
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> Fourth, welfare subsidies for America?s biggest banks. The too-big-to-fail banks in the United States borrow money unusually cheaply because of an implicit government promise to rescue them. Bloomberg View calculated last year that this amounts to a taxpayer subsidy of $83 billion to our 10 biggest banks annually.
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> President Obama has proposed a bank tax to curb this subsidy, and this year a top Republican lawmaker, Dave Camp, endorsed the idea as well. Big banks are lobbying like crazy to keep their subsidy.
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> Fifth, large welfare subsidies for American corporations from cities, counties and states. A bit more than a year ago, Louise Story of The New York Times tallied more than $80 billion a year in subsidies to companies, mostly as incentives to operate locally. (Conflict alert: The New York Times Company is among those that have received millions of dollars from city and state authorities.)
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> You see where I?m going. We talk about the unsustainability of government benefit programs and the deleterious effects these can have on human behavior, and these are real issues. Well-meaning programs for supporting single moms can create perverse incentives not to marry, or aid meant for a needy child may be misused to buy drugs. Let?s acknowledge that helping people is a complex, uncertain and imperfect struggle.
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> Name-calling in the virtual playground
> But, perhaps because we now have the wealthiest Congress in history, the first in which a majority of members are millionaires, we have a one-sided discussion demanding cuts only in public assistance to the poor, while ignoring public assistance to the rich. And a one-sided discussion leads to a one-sided and myopic policy.
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> SURE, FOOD STAMPS ARE OCCASIONALLY MISUSED, BUT ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH BUSINESS KNOWS THAT THE ABUSE OF FOOD SUBSIDIES IS FAR GREATER IN THE CORPORATE SUITE. EVERY TIME AN EXECUTIVE WINES AND DINES A HOT DATE ON THE CORPORATE DIME, THE AVERAGE TAXPAYER HELPS FOOT THE BILL.
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> So let?s get real. To stem abuses, the first target shouldn?t be those avaricious infants in nutrition programs but tycoons in their subsidized Gulfstreams.
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> However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?
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> Some conservatives get this, including Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma. He has urged ?scaling back ludicrous handouts to millionaires that expose an entitlement system and tax code that desperately need to be reformed.?
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> After all, quite apart from the waste, we don?t want to coddle zillionaires and thereby sap their initiative!
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> A version of this op-ed appears in print on March 27, 2014, on page A31 of the New York edition with the headline: A Nation of Takers?. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe
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> If the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded. -- Noah Webster  
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From agnes at mcn.org  Thu Mar 27 15:00:42 2014
From: agnes at mcn.org (agnes at mcn.org)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:00:42 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] send a letter to J. Huffman or come to his F.B.
 office monday11:30-1:00
Message-ID: <12d909827fea87536d65352e83123984.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

Dear armchair activists,
       Please copy and send this letter with your name and address to
Congressman Jared Huffman today.

to
Jared Huffman,Congressman,                                                
 P.O. Box 2208,
Fort Bragg. CA 95437

The Honorable Congressman Huffman;

According to the Bank of International Settlements, the global derivatives
market is now  $1.2 Quadrillion, or $1200 Trillion.

This is a huge ponzi scheme creating a very unstable economy worldwide
because the banks mentioned below are multinational.

The madness of the megabanks must be reined in now. You must know that
derivatives are bets on financial transactions.

Did you know that J.P. Morgan Chase bank assets are only $1.8 Trillion,and
their exposure in derivatives is $69 Trillion?

Bank of America has total assets of $1.4 trillion and is exposed in $44
Trillion in derivatives.

And Goldman Sachs with assets of $114 Billion is exposed to more than $41
Trillion.

There is no money in those banks to cover the bets, but still they are
making profits off the debt those transactions generate.


The above named banks played a pivotal role in creating the 2008 food
shortages around the planet as well as the housing crash.

In this betting madnesshese banks and investors are using supercomputers
which increase thounsands of trades

 in miliseconds. The only way to slow down this madness is to to pass a
tax on derivatives- the Robin Hood tax.

As shown in the Sen. Harkin and Rep-De Fazio bill they estimate with a
0.5% tax on speculative transactions on Wall Street

 would bring in about $350 Billion a year. Justly, this is the responsible
way to repair the disasters caused by these banks to our economy.

We urge you to co-sponsor the tax on speculative transaction-the Robin
Hood tax before the next Big Worldwide Crash.

several countries in Europe are legislating taxes on financial
transaction, including France.

Make banks pay  their fare share of taxes.

Sincerely,




From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Mar 27 22:17:52 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:17:52 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Rally Tomorrow!
Message-ID: <2DC0159B-BB5C-4CD6-92D0-99378306D2FB@mcn.org>

Hey!  Come on down and Rally. Some have talked about going to Wells Fargo too. 
Hope to see you there!
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From moxie at mcn.org  Sat Mar 29 12:22:57 2014
From: moxie at mcn.org (moxie at mcn.org)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:22:57 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] [Fwd: City council resolution packet is now
	online]
Message-ID: <da21ca38f036d4983f447c65edd51ffe.squirrel@webmail.mcn.org>

This is a tool that should be VERY USEFUL to Occupiers!

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: City council resolution packet is now online
From:    "Carol Wolman" <cwolman at mcn.org>


http://fukushimacitycouncilresolution.blogspot.com/?view=sidebar

Dear Friends,

*Let's concentrate on the fact that the situation at Fukushima is
deteriorating, and Japanese activists are looking to US to provide
pressure to change what's going on at the site.  They say that if people
in the US show enough concern, it will awaken the Japanese people to
their own danger.

How can we spark a grassroots movement of vociferous concern here in the US?

The best tool I've seen so far is resolutions by local governments- city
and county.  These call for official monitoring of radiation in air,
water, food, as well as UN intervention by an independent group of
experts- including management and economic experts.   State and national
governments are sewed up by the nuclear industry, but local governments
are much more open to public pressure and common sense.* *

Getting a city council resolution passed is a good project for anyone
who is concerned about Fukushima and wants to do more than write letters
and sign petitions.  Multiple city and county resolutions, at least up
and down the West Coast, would galvanize public awareness and send a
strong signal to the Japanese people.  With a good presentation, and
emphasis on the likelihood of future problems here in the US, it should
be an easy sell on the local level.

The first few resolutions- in Berkeley, Fairfax, Ukiah- had preliminary
groundwork laid in the form of public forums or town hall meetings.
These educated and motivated citizens to attend a subsequent city
council meeting where the resolution was introduced.  Such events are
time consuming, and take a level of knowledge and dedication on the part
of the organizers which is unlikely to be widespread as yet. *
*
This website  provides an info packet, downloadable, for people to use
in their hometowns.
http://fukushimacitycouncilresolution.blogspot.com/?view=sidebar  A
prepared packet to present to the city council would greatly simplifies
the task.  The organizer still would have to mobilize some local
support- farmers, fishermen, Greens are likely allies.  He/she would
need to find a friendly council member to introduce the resolution.  The
packet  includes a sample resolution, a brief history and background of
the accident, the current status of Fukushima and ocean spread, health
effects, and the need for the resolution. *

*The handout page can be used for events of all sorts, to introduce the
packet and give its location.*

*This website is in process, being refined and updated.  Your comments
are welcome.*

*Peace, Carol Wolman *


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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Mar 29 13:35:11 2014
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:35:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Musings on Fairness.
Message-ID: <8429E569-FA7A-4FCC-9F4A-8797CD5C5BC8@att.net>


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFmCZKq3o58


From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Mar 30 13:28:16 2014
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:28:16 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Single Payer Movement Expands
Message-ID: <7FED760B-BEAA-4CB5-9CB9-A87348F81BC4@mcn.org>

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22840-the-single-payer-movement-expands





