From jupiter at mcn.org  Fri Jul  3 08:40:23 2015
From: jupiter at mcn.org (Linda Jupiter)
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 08:40:23 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] International Peace Day
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Hi, Richard,
Great idea. 
You might or might not know that a peace circle gathers every Int?l. Day of Peace at the hospital where there?s music, songs, prayers, and visions for a peaceful world. It usually happens at noon. Let?s not set up anything to conflict with that group, which I always attend.
Onward,
Linda




On Jun 29, 2015, at 7:47 PM, Richard Karch <rkarch at mcn.org> wrote:

> Hi Occupy Mendocino, 
> 
> It has almost been a year since Howard Ennes died on Sept 22, 2014. After his memorial some of us discussed an idea to celebrate and remember him by having a special ceremony. Because Howard was such a big supporter of the Senior Center I talked to Charles Bush about a tree planting there ... Chuck liked the idea and gave permission. 
> 
> It turns out  that  Monday Sept 21 is The International Day of Peace celebrated world wide.
> 
> if OM is supportive of the idea, I'd like to form a small committee of OM folks to discuss and work on having a Peace Day Event on Sept 21, 2015... 
> Plant a tree, maybe give an award to a local peace 'hero'.
> 
> Here's the site with ideas for the day:
> 
> http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/international-peace-day
> 
> Please get back to me.
> 
> 
> In Peace, 
> 
> Richard 
> 
> PS:  I know Howard would be very supportive of a Peace Day and maybe some of the funds he donated to OM could help pay for it.
>  
> PPS  I understand this is a busy time of year!

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Sun Jul  5 09:53:03 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 09:53:03 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Occupy Madison at work!
Message-ID: <642BD26F-A3B9-4CAE-A750-3A837152AB7D@mcn.org>

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/27/1265535/-A-98-square-foot-home-of-their-own?detail=emailclassic#

Occupy Madison volunteers have been working to combat homelessness in Madison, Wisconsin. This year they launched an ambitious project to start building small, portable homes for Madison's homeless. The first will be completed next week and the second is slated for completion next month. Both are approximately 98 square feet and have a bed, kitchen, bathroom and storage.
Project organizers are committed to more in 2014:

"There's no comparison between having a place to go at night, and close the door, and sleep comfortably, and not freeze to death or have your possessions stolen. There's no substitute for that? says Luca Clemente, one of the project organizers.
Occupy Madison hopes to complete 10 tiny homes by the end of 2014.

More from NBC15 in Madison:
The Wisconsin State Journal reports the first tenants are moving in Tuesday. The first two houses were built this summer thanks to more than 50 volunteers.
City ordinance allows the houses to be parked on the street as long as they're moved every 48 hours.

Bruce Wallbaum, project organizer for Occupy Madison, and other organizers are working with area churches to allow the houses to park up to three in each lot.

Eventually the organization hopes to buy land and create a village of up to 30 of the houses.
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Jul  6 15:32:49 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:32:49 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Government tried to stop this family from growing
	food on their lawn & this is what happened video
Message-ID: <BD0AEAD5-0318-431B-AF20-EE67CE269D1F@mcn.org>

The government tried to stop this family from growing food on their lawn & this is what happened
video...


https://www.facebook.com/groups/683689428320814/permalink/934353626587725/
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From elained at mcn.org  Thu Jul  9 07:42:26 2015
From: elained at mcn.org (Elaine and Ed)
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 07:42:26 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?windows-1252?q?California=92s_Santa_Cruz_Coun?=
 =?windows-1252?q?ty=3A_Punishing_Felonious_Banks?=
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California?s Santa Cruz County: Punishing Felonious Banks

July 4, 2015
By Robert Reich
robertreich.org (June 20, 2015)

Santa Cruz County?s Board of Supervisors recently suspended all business with the five giant banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Citicorp, who recently pleaded guilty to felony charges of criminal collusion. While the small California county?s portfolio is only valued at $650 million, Santa Cruz County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty says he?ll be contacting other local jurisdictions to urge them to follow Santa Cruz County?s lead.

What exactly does it mean for a big Wall Street bank to plead guilty to a serious crime? Right now, practically nothing.
But it will if California?s Santa Cruz County has any say. 
First, some background.
Five giant banks ? including Wall Street behemoths JPMorgan Chase and Citicorp ? recently pleaded guilty to criminal felony charges that they rigged the world?s foreign-currency market for their own profit.
This wasn?t a small heist. We?re talking hundreds of billions of dollars worth of transactions every day.
The banks altered currency prices long enough for the banks to make winning bets before the prices snapped back to what they should have been. 
Attorney General Loretta Lynch called it a ?brazen display of collusion? that harmed ?countless consumers, investors and institutions around the globe ? from pension funds to major corporations, and including the banks? own customers.?
The penalty? The banks have agreed to pay $5.5 billion. That may sound like a big chunk of change, but for a giant bank it?s the cost of doing business. In fact, the banks are likely to deduct the fines from their taxes as business costs.
The banks sound contrite. After all, they can?t have the public believe they?re outright crooks.
It?s ?an embarrassment to our firm, and stands in stark contrast to Citi?s values,? says Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat.
Values? Citigroup?s main value is to make as much money as possible. Corbat himself raked in $13 million last year.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon calls it "a great disappointment to us,? and says ?we demand and expect better of our people.?
Expect better? If recent history is any guide ? think of the bank?s notorious ?London Whale? a few years ago, and, before that, the wild bets leading to the 2008 bailout ? JPMorgan expects exactly this kind of behavior from its people.
Which helped Dimon rake in $20 million last year, as well as a $7.4 million cash bonus.
When real people plead guilty to felonies, they go to jail. But big banks aren?t people despite what the five Republican appointees to the Supreme Court say.
The executives who run these banks aren?t going to jail, either. Apologists say it?s not fair to jail bank executives because they don?t know what their rogue traders are up to.
Yet ex-convicts often suffer consequences beyond jail terms. 
In many states they lose their right to vote. They can?t run for office or otherwise participate in the political process.
So why not take away the right of these convicted banks to participate in the political process, at least for some years? That would stop JPMorgan?s Dimon from lobbying Congress to roll back the Dodd-Frank act, as he?s been doing almost non-stop. 
Why not also take away their right to pour money into politics? Wall Street banks have been among the biggest contributors to political campaigns. If they?re convicted of a felony, they should be barred from making any political contributions for at least ten years.
Real ex-convicts also have difficulty finding jobs. That?s because, rightly or wrongly, many people don?t want to hire them. 
A strong case can be made that employers shouldn?t pay attention to criminal convictions of real people who need a fresh start, especially a  job.
But giant banks that have committed felonies are something different. Why shouldn?t depositors and investors consider their past convictions?
Which brings us to Santa Cruz County.
The county?s board of supervisors just voted not to do business for five years with any of the five banks felons.
The county won?t use the banks? investment services or buy their commercial paper, and will pull its money out of the banks to the extent it can.
?We have a sacred obligation to protect the public?s tax dollars and these banks can?t be trusted. Santa Cruz County should not be involved with those who rigged the world?s biggest financial markets,? says supervisor Ryan Coonerty.
The banks will hardly notice. Santa Cruz County?s portfolio is valued at about $650 million.
But what if every county, city, and state in America followed Santa Cruz County?s example, and held the big banks accountable for their felonies?
What if all of us taxpayers said, in effect, we?re not going to hire these convicted felons to handle our public finances? We don?t trust them.
That would hit these banks directly. They?d lose our business. Which might even cause them to clean up their acts.
There?s hope. Supervisor Coonerty says he?ll be contacting other local jurisdictions across the country, urging them to do what Santa Cruz County is doing.
[Robert B. Reich, Chancellor?s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton Administration.]
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jul  9 13:22:44 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:22:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] LosAngeles Police shot and killed more people in
	the past 4 days than Japan the UK did in 2014#
Message-ID: <42770FBE-03FD-4E04-8A45-5A7A694510F2@mcn.org>

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/07/07/1400047/-Los-Angeles-Police-shot-killed-more-people-5-the-past-4-days-than-Japan-the-UK-did-in-2014#


We have a big fu*king problem. Period.
In the past four days during the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, police in Los Angeles County shot and killed five different people in five different incidents across the county.

In the United Kingdom, zero people were shot and killed by police in all of 2013. Mind you, the UK, with a population of nearly 65,000,000, has 5x the population of Los Angeles County.

Before you start talking about how many guns the United States has, these police killings in Los Angeles weren't a bunch of shootouts.

Johnny Ray Anderson was completely unarmed and struggling with homelessness alongside his wife when he was shot and killed by police. His wife, Kathleen, stated he posed no threat to the officer whatsoever.


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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Jul 12 09:45:07 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 09:45:07 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] My favorite financial reporter on Eric Holder
Message-ID: <1C8C6326-A39B-4819-9DD8-5BF8E5ABE81C@att.net>

Of course, none of us mortals can deduct so much as a speeding ticket, since we wouldn't want to use the tax code to encourage speeding. So why was it OK for the nation's top cop to make fraud or money laundering a tax-subsidized activity?

> http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/eric-holder-wall-street-double-agent-comes-in-from-the-cold-20150708#ixzz3fSHPYNkc <http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/eric-holder-wall-street-double-agent-comes-in-from-the-cold-20150708#ixzz3fSHPYNkc>


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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Jul 12 10:01:44 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:01:44 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?utf-8?q?I_hope_this_isn=E2=80=99t_too_radical?=
	=?utf-8?q?_for_folks=2E?=
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Check out #36.    M.S.
> http://www.salon.com/2015/05/16/37_ways_to_un_rig_the_u_s_economy_so_it_doesnt_favor_the_rich_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow <http://www.salon.com/2015/05/16/37_ways_to_un_rig_the_u_s_economy_so_it_doesnt_favor_the_rich_partner/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow>
37 ways to un-rig the U.S. economy so it no longer favors the rich
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From marksafron at att.net  Sun Jul 12 13:17:20 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:17:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] If you don't think you're racist, read this.
Message-ID: <D33DE485-5031-4926-932D-8B7F8084ACA6@att.net>

Probably the best article I?ve read on racism. 
> https://thsppl.com/i-racist-538512462265 <https://thsppl.com/i-racist-538512462265>
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From john at cypresshouse.com  Sun Jul 12 16:03:00 2015
From: john at cypresshouse.com (John Fremont)
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 16:03:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Second Tuesday
Message-ID: <002e01d0bcf6$e6c4fab0$b44ef010$@com>

The next Second Tuesday community meeting will take place  at Town Hall in
Fort Bragg (Main and Laurel Streets) on July 14 at 6 p.m. This meeting will
focus on Mike Sweeney's garbage Transfer Station, proposed for construction
three miles up Highway 20. The Board of Supervisors and City Council will
vote on the matter the following Tuesday, July 21, 2015, at 1:30 in the
afternoon, a most inconvenient time for people who work.  

 

Second Tuesday meetings focus on issues important to community residents.
For example, the Hare Creek project, Georgia Pacific's mill site, business
opportunities , health care, and forestry practices are among the suggested
topics for future meetings.



We meet monthly at Town Hall. Come help us shape the future of the Mendocino
coast.




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From rkarch at mcn.org  Mon Jul 13 05:48:53 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 05:48:53 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] RECYCLING MYTHS
Message-ID: <25BB1911-AC01-49C7-901B-5C51DB5459D8@mcn.org>


America's recycling system is in crisis.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/06/recycling-myths-blue-bins
That's the picture the Washington Post recently painted in a damning story on the state of recycling in the United States. First, the mixed-material "blue bins," designed to decrease the hassle of sorting, are contaminating the recycling coming into facilities?meaning recyclable materials end up getting chucked into landfills along with trash. Second, thanks to lighter packaging, dwindling demand for newsprint, and low oil prices...
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From ndevall at mcn.org  Tue Jul 14 15:08:37 2015
From: ndevall at mcn.org (Norman de Vall)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:08:37 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Fwd: We Are All Greeks Now
References: <5226C338-0ECE-4AF3-BA09-CC3E37DBC4AD@wildblue.net>
Message-ID: <101C3613-47DB-415B-8DA9-2E718448F10E@mcn.org>

This is a worth while read:

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>> http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/07/13/we-are-all-greeks-now 
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From rkarch at mcn.org  Tue Jul 14 19:16:20 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 19:16:20 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] WE ARE ALL GREEKS NOW
Message-ID: <C6EA1C74-CD71-461D-A680-0DBDB44C4532@mcn.org>

>>> http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/07/13/we-are-all-greeks-now
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From marksafron at att.net  Sat Jul 18 15:46:56 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2015 15:46:56 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Letter: High court goes gay; GOP frets
Message-ID: <756C9302-B40E-441A-A885-BACD38FAC7EC@att.net>

("The. Darkest. Day. Ever. Worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, JFK?s assassination, or the day the Baha Men released ?Who Let the Dogs Out??  Enjoy responsibly: Please don?t have anything in your mouth while reading this. M.S.) 


> http://www.inforum.com/letters/3783627-letter-high-court-goes-gay-gop-frets <http://www.inforum.com/letters/3783627-letter-high-court-goes-gay-gop-frets>
> 
> Letter: High court goes gay; GOP frets
> 
By Tony Bender

> I?m still sorting this out. The gist, I guess, is that America now has gay health care. I haven?t reviewed the fine print but, as I understand it, you may now marry the doctor of your choice.
> Many Republicans are outraged, enraged and deranged by the way nine Druids in Washington circumvented the Constitution. Just like that time they pitched pennies in the hallway to decide the winner of the 2000 presidential election.
> 
> You don?t have to be a constitutional scholar to know how wrong it was to make a decision in that manner. These things should be decided by a field goal in the waning seconds of overtime. Or that rock/paper/scissors thing.
> 
> Bobby Jindal, one of 666 Republicans seeking the nomination for president, said, ?If we want to save some money, let?s just get rid of the court.? Presumably after conservatives dump the EPA, IRS and other troublesome letters of the alphabet.
> 
> Ted Cruz called it, ?the darkest 24 hours in our nation?s history.? The. Darkest. Day. Ever. Worse than Pearl Harbor, 9/11, JFK?s assassination, or the day the Baha Men released ?Who Let the Dogs Out??
> 
> Actually, it was a toss-up until they pulled ?The Dukes of Hazzard? off television. Losing Daisy Duke pretty much sealed the deal. Clear evidence of the gayification of America.
> 
> Even our state lawmakers in North Dakota had an opinion. Rep. Dwight Kiefert, R-Valley City, weighed in with a bunch of misspelled words on Twizzler. Kiefert, you may recall, famously blocked an Islamic prayer at the state Capitol last session.
> 
> If a gay Muslim ever comes in to do the invocation, Kiefert?s head will explode. I doubt anyone will be hurt, though. It?s not like it will be an M-80 going off. We can only pray it doesn?t mess up the brass railing.
> 
> Mike Huckabee, who is in the 16th of his 15 minutes, said the Supreme Court ?cannot overrule God.? The Lord God in Heaven Above has yet to hold a press conference on the matter, although Fox News has set aside emergency airtime and Steve Doocy continues to speak in tongues.

> Despite the ruling forcing all Americans to be gay-married, the good news is the country survived Independence Day without any terrorist attacks ? a testament to the vigilance of Fox News, which warned daily of imminent doom. Between commercials, of course. If I were marketing Depends, I?d go all in on Fox News because when all those old white people watch, they crap their pants.
> Amid the chaos of marriage equality, more Americans guaranteed health care, falling unemployment, the shrinking deficit, Wall Street at record highs, and the Minnesota Twins five games over .500, there are even more serious issues facing us.
> 
> If you watch Fox, you know an Oregon bakery, specializing strictly in heterosexual cakes, has been ordered to pay $135,000 in damages to a lesbian couple after refusing to bake their wedding cake.
> 
> I don?t know how the couple wanted the cake decorated, but I imagine it was something right out of Caligula.
> 
> A tip o? the hat to Fox News for alerting us to the acute shortage of gay bakeries in America. This is a clear result of outsourcing, brought on by bad trade deals. All I can say is, if Donald Trump wants to win this election, he will at least allow gay Mexican bakers into the country. Little Debbie can?t do it all.
> 
> I don?t blame Republicans for being upset. If Americans no longer have the freedom to discriminate on the basis of their personal beliefs, well, what is this world coming to? It?s not like this is a Woolworth?s lunch counter in 1960.
> 
> Still, I see a silver lining in the apocalyptic cloud. With American ingenuity and the entrepreneurial spirit, we can turn lemons into ... Mike?s Hard Lemonade and get really plastered. No! No! That?s not it, although that?s not a bad idea.
> 
> With mandated gay marriage, someone is going to make a killing on gay baking, just like some folks in Colorado are cleaning up on gay marijuana. My advice is to invest big in gay flour, gay eggs and gay frosting ? mostly pastels, I suppose.
> 
> This could be bigger than the Depends thing. Except from a marketing standpoint, I wouldn?t advertise gay cakes on Fox.
> 
> Gretchen Carlson would have a cow, which would be even more evidence of the liberal stranglehold on this country.
> 
> Bender is an author of several books, and president of Redhead Publishing, parent company of the Wishek, N.D., Star and Ashley, N.D., Tribune weekly newspapers. This column first appeared there.
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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 12:46:33 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Goldman Sachs and Gree e
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How Goldman Sachs Profited From the Greek Debt Crisis

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

19 July 15



he Greek debt crisis offers another illustration of Wall Street?s powers of
persuasion and predation, although the Street is missing from most accounts.

The crisis was exacerbated years ago by a deal with Goldman Sachs,
engineered by Goldman?s current CEO, Lloyd Blankfein.

Blankfein and his Goldman team helped Greece hide the true extent of its
debt, and in the process almost doubled it. And just as with the American
subprime crisis, and the current plight of many American cities, Wall
Street?s predatory lending played an important although little-recognized
role.

In 2001, Greece was looking for ways to disguise its mounting financial
troubles. The Maastricht Treaty required all eurozone member states to show
improvement in their public finances, but Greece was heading in the wrong
direction.

Then Goldman Sachs came to the rescue, arranging a secret loan of 2.8
billion euros for Greece, disguised as an off-the-books ?cross-currency
swap??a complicated transaction in which Greece?s foreign-currency debt was
converted into a domestic-currency obligation using a fictitious market
exchange rate.

As a result, about 2 percent of Greece?s debt magically disappeared from
its national accounts. Christoforos Sardelis, then head of Greece?s Public
Debt Management Agency, later described the deal to Bloomberg Business as
?a very sexy story between two sinners.?

For its services, Goldman received a whopping 600 million euros ($793
million), according to Spyros Papanicolaou, who took over from Sardelis in
2005. That came to about 12 percent of Goldman?s revenue from its giant
trading and principal-investments unit in 2001?which posted record sales
that year. The unit was run by Blankfein.

Then the deal turned sour. After the 9/11 attacks, bond yields plunged,
resulting in a big loss for Greece because of the formula Goldman had used
to compute the country?s debt repayments under the swap. By 2005, Greece
owed almost double what it had put into the deal, pushing its off-the-books
debt from 2.8 billion euros to 5.1 billion.

In 2005, the deal was restructured and that 5.1 billion euros in debt
locked in. Perhaps not incidentally, Mario Draghi, now head of the European
Central Bank and a major player in the current Greek drama, was then
managing director of Goldman?s international division.

Greece wasn?t the only sinner. Until 2008, European Union accounting rules
allowed member nations to manage their debt with so-called off-market rates
in swaps, pushed by Goldman and other Wall Street banks. In the late 1990s,
JPMorgan enabled Italy to hide its debt by swapping currency at a favorable
exchange rate, thereby committing Italy to future payments that didn?t
appear on its national accounts as future liabilities.

But Greece was in the worst shape, and Goldman was the biggest enabler.
Undoubtedly, Greece suffers from years of corruption and tax avoidance by
its wealthy. But Goldman wasn?t an innocent bystander: It padded its
profits by leveraging Greece to the hilt?along with much of the rest of the
global economy. Other Wall Street banks did the same. When the bubble
burst, all that leveraging pulled the world economy to its knees.

Even with the global economy reeling from Wall Street?s excesses, Goldman
offered Greece another gimmick. In early November 2009, three months before
the country?s debt crisis became global news, a Goldman team proposed a
financial instrument that would push the debt from Greece?s healthcare
system far into the future. This time, though, Greece didn?t bite.

As we know, Wall Street got bailed out by American taxpayers. And in
subsequent years, the banks became profitable again and repaid their
bailout loans. Bank shares have gone through the roof. Goldman?s were
trading at $53 a share in November 2008; they?re now worth over $200.
Executives at Goldman and other Wall Street banks have enjoyed huge pay
packages and promotions. Blankfein, now Goldman?s CEO, raked in $24 million
last year alone.

Meanwhile, the people of Greece struggle to buy medicine and food.

There are analogies here in America, beginning with the predatory loans
made by Goldman, other big banks, and the financial companies they were
allied with in the years leading up to the bust. Today, even as the bankers
vacation in the Hamptons, millions of Americans continue to struggle with
the aftershock of the financial crisis in terms of lost jobs, savings, and
homes.

Meanwhile, cities and states across America have been forced to cut
essential services because they?re trapped in similar deals sold to them by
Wall Street banks. Many of these deals have involved swaps analogous to the
ones Goldman sold the Greek government.

And much like the assurances it made to the Greek government, Goldman and
other banks assured the municipalities that the swaps would let them borrow
more cheaply than if they relied on traditional fixed-rate bonds?while
downplaying the risks they faced. Then, as interest rates plunged and the
swaps turned out to cost far more, Goldman and the other banks refused to
let the municipalities refinance without paying hefty fees to terminate the
deals.

Three years ago, the Detroit Water Department had to pay Goldman and other
banks penalties totaling $547 million to terminate costly interest-rate
swaps. Forty percent of Detroit?s water bills still go to paying off the
penalty. Residents of Detroit whose water has been shut off because they
can?t pay have no idea that Goldman and other big banks are responsible.

Likewise, the Chicago school system?whose budget is already cut to the
bone?must pay over $200 million in termination penalties on a Wall Street
deal that had Chicago schools paying $36 million a year in interest-rate
swaps.

A deal involving interest-rate swaps that Goldman struck with Oakland,
California, more than a decade ago has ended up costing the city about $4
million a year, but Goldman has refused to allow Oakland out of the
contract unless it ponies up a $16 million termination fee?prompting the
city council to pass a resolution to boycott Goldman. When confronted at a
shareholder meeting about it, Blankfein explained that it was against
shareholder interests to tear up a valid contract.

Goldman Sachs and the other giant Wall Street banks are masterful at
selling complex deals by exaggerating their benefits and minimizing their
costs and risks. That?s how they earn giant fees. When a client gets into
trouble?whether that client is an American homeowner, a US city, or
Greece?Goldman ducks and hides behind legal formalities and shareholder
interests.

Borrowers that get into trouble are rarely blameless, of course: They spent
too much, and were gullible or stupid enough to buy Goldman?s pitches.
Greece brought on its own problems, as did many American homeowners and
municipalities.

But in all of these cases, Goldman knew very well what it was doing. It
knew more about the real risks and costs of the deals it proposed than
those who accepted them. ?It is an issue of morality,? said the shareholder
at the Goldman meeting where Oakland came up. Exactly.


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"Goldman Sachs and the other giant Wall Street banks are masterful at
selling complex deals by exaggerating their benefits and minimizing their
costs and risks. That?s how they earn giant fees."
deception, lies is the core of present marketing in the USA .. how long
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"It is an issue of morality" for sure and the banksters and our government
and our top .01% of the people in this nation HAVE NONE.

To have any morality you must be able to put yourself in someone else's
shoes. You have to treat others as you would like to be treated. You have
to have the ability to care for others and respect them and have no desire
to hurt them. Can't say that about any member of the Federal Reserve
private banking cartel. Nor can you say it about our elected officials in
the District of Criminals.

The system will last until the people rise up and say, "I'm mad as hell and
I won't take it any more!"

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From rkarch at mcn.org  Thu Jul 23 17:06:00 2015
From: rkarch at mcn.org (Richard Karch)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 17:06:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Free ID's for homeless folks
Message-ID: <8C9A75FA-BD77-4F93-A08C-5AD866FCCD98@mcn.org>

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/california-id-homeless-people_55ae9054e4b07af29d568b34?ofvwjyvi=&ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000054&ir=Impact


New California Law Gives Free IDs To Homeless People So They Can Access Housing, School
Eleanor Goldberg
Impact editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 07/22/2015 | Edited: 07/22/2015 09:34 AM EDT

The thing that often stands in the way of a homeless person and housing is just a state-issued identification. But a new law in California is making sure that its residents are no longer stranded on the streets because of that issue.

In order for a homeless person to do something as simple as apply for a job, enroll in public school or access homeless shelters and food stamps, they need to provide official identification. But those IDs often get lost or stolen and homeless people lack the funds and resources to obtain new driver's licenses or birth certificates.

"If you're living on the street it's very difficult to keep ahold and keep your documents safe,?Janet Kelly, a senior attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, told Hawaii News Now. 

But a new California law, which went into effect this month, is making the process of obtaining identification much easier by requiring state recorders to hand them
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From irenelsm at mcn.org  Sun Jul 26 22:16:45 2015
From: irenelsm at mcn.org (Irene L. Malone)
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:16:45 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] =?iso-8859-1?q?Fwd=3A_Coast_Democrats_Double_Fe?=
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> Subject: Coast Democrats Double Feature - July 29th just got even  
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From sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com  Tue Jul 28 11:52:00 2015
From: sheila.dawn50 at yahoo.com (she-la)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 11:52:00 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Rescheduling Highway Cleanup
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Dear Friends, 
  I  have an opportunity to volunteer at Reggae in the River this weekend that I can't pass up.  So I won't be able to make the meeting on the 1st or the cleanup we scheduled from 11 to 1 on the same day.
      Should we reschedule the clean up to the 15th of August? I also have time available on Friday before the street protest which I am still planning to be at. 
   I will try to get the minutes of the last meeting out today.
  I have been working a lot lately and could use some R& R time.(rest and recreation) 
 Thanks for understanding and carrying on without me this time. 
    Sheila Dawn

From marksafron at att.net  Tue Jul 28 19:41:13 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:41:13 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] This is insane!
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http://www.occupy.com/article/ohio-signs-nations-first-anti-renewable-energy-bill-law <http://www.occupy.com/article/ohio-signs-nations-first-anti-renewable-energy-bill-law>
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From nlnelson at mcn.org  Wed Jul 29 08:31:11 2015
From: nlnelson at mcn.org (nlnelson at mcn.org)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:31:11 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] more unbelievable.....[Fwd: Congress Is Going to
	Israel]
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wondering how many others in Occupy got this info...

Nancy WN



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Subject: Congress Is Going to Israel
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Date:    Wed, July 29, 2015 7:04 am
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Nancy Liela --

While the Obama administration is trying to push through a historic
nuclear deal with Iran to prevent another war, the pro-war Israel lobby
AIPAC (under their educational wing AIEF) is taking all but two freshmen
Congresspeople to Israel on a propaganda tour to turn them against the
deal.
We MUST act now!CALL the offices of the Democratic Representatives (and
tweet at them!). Tell them you disapprove of their trip and urge them to
support the nuclear deal.

  - Brad Ashford (D-Nebraska), 202-225-4155, @RepBradAshford
  - Brendan Boyle (D- Pennsylvania), 202-225-6111, @RepBrendanBoyle
  - Kathleen Rice (D-New York), 202-225-5516, @RepKathleenRice
  - Gwen Graham (D-Florida), 202-225-5235, @RepGwenGraham
  - Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona), 202-225-4065, @RepRubenGallego
  - Pete Aguilar (D-California), 202-225-3201, @RepPeteAguilar
  - Brenda Lawrence (D-Michigan), 202-225-5802, @RepLawrence
  - Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey), 202-225-5801 @RepBWColeman
  - Seth Moulton (D- Massachusetts), 202-225-8020, @sethmoulton
  - Mark DeSaulnier (D- California), 202-225-2095, @RepDeSaulnier
  - Ted Lieu (D- California), 202-225-3976, @RepTedLieu
  - Mark Takai (D- Hawaii), 202-225-2726, @RepMarkTakai
  - Norma Torres (D- California), 202-225-6161, @NormaJTorres

Here's a calling script:
I'm calling because I heard that the Congressman/woman is going on a trip
to Israel in August on an all-expense trip to Israel paid for by AIPAC, a
lobby group determined to stop the Iran nuclear deal. AIPAC helped lead
the US into the war on Iraq, costing countless lives and billions of
dollars, and now it wants war on Iran. I believe what Secretary of State
Kerry has stated: that this deal is good for the United States, it's good
for Iran, it's good for Israel, and it's good for the world. I urge the
Congressperson to reject AIPAC???s pro-war stand and to instead support
the Iran nuclear deal!!!

In 2002, AIPAC pushed for war on Iraq and now they want to make war on
Iran. AIPAC is pouring $20 million into squashing this deal and the
alternative to this deal is clear: it???s war. We must stop AIPAC from
dragging us into another disastrous war!

The Congressional recess is a time for elected representatives to be home
in their districts, reaching out to their constituents, not taking
propaganda trips to Israel on AIPAC???s dime. Call and tweet at the list
of freshmen Congresspeople. We???ll be in DC visiting their offices, and
we need YOU to make the phone calls to all of them.

These freshmen are key: their votes can make the difference between the
deal being passed or rejected.

If our representatives want to earn more respect from the American public,
they better prove that their allegiance is not to a foreign government or
a group that lobbies on behalf of a foreign government, but to the
citizens they are elected to represent.

For peace and an end to wars,

Alli, Chelsea, Janet, Jodie, Lia, Lisa, Medea, Michaela, Michelle, Mike,
Nancy and Tighe



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From sharondoubiago at yahoo.com  Wed Jul 29 09:03:36 2015
From: sharondoubiago at yahoo.com (Sharon Doubiago)
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 16:03:36 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Occupymendocino] more unbelievable.....[Fwd: Congress Is Going
 to	Israel]
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No, I hadn't seen this, though I'm on Code Pink's thing. god. Thank you.
?Interview of me by Julia Doughtyhttp://www.sharondoubiago.com/blog.htm?post=1001628
      From: "nlnelson at mcn.org" <nlnelson at mcn.org>
 To: occupymendocino at lists.mcn.org 
 Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2015 8:31 AM
 Subject: [Occupymendocino] more unbelievable.....[Fwd: Congress Is Going to Israel]
   


wondering how many others in Occupy got this info...

Nancy WN



---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Congress Is Going to Israel
From:? ? "CODEPINK" <info at codepink.org>
Date:? ? Wed, July 29, 2015 7:04 am
To:? ? ? "Nancy Liela Wallace-Nelson" <nlnelson at mcn.org>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------




Nancy Liela --

While the Obama administration is trying to push through a historic
nuclear deal with Iran to prevent another war, the pro-war Israel lobby
AIPAC (under their educational wing AIEF) is taking all but two freshmen
Congresspeople to Israel on a propaganda tour to turn them against the
deal.
We MUST act now!CALL the offices of the Democratic Representatives (and
tweet at them!). Tell them you disapprove of their trip and urge them to
support the nuclear deal.

? - Brad Ashford (D-Nebraska), 202-225-4155, @RepBradAshford
? - Brendan Boyle (D- Pennsylvania), 202-225-6111, @RepBrendanBoyle
? - Kathleen Rice (D-New York), 202-225-5516, @RepKathleenRice
? - Gwen Graham (D-Florida), 202-225-5235, @RepGwenGraham
? - Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona), 202-225-4065, @RepRubenGallego
? - Pete Aguilar (D-California), 202-225-3201, @RepPeteAguilar
? - Brenda Lawrence (D-Michigan), 202-225-5802, @RepLawrence
? - Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-New Jersey), 202-225-5801 @RepBWColeman
? - Seth Moulton (D- Massachusetts), 202-225-8020, @sethmoulton
? - Mark DeSaulnier (D- California), 202-225-2095, @RepDeSaulnier
? - Ted Lieu (D- California), 202-225-3976, @RepTedLieu
? - Mark Takai (D- Hawaii), 202-225-2726, @RepMarkTakai
? - Norma Torres (D- California), 202-225-6161, @NormaJTorres

Here's a calling script:
I'm calling because I heard that the Congressman/woman is going on a trip
to Israel in August on an all-expense trip to Israel paid for by AIPAC, a
lobby group determined to stop the Iran nuclear deal. AIPAC helped lead
the US into the war on Iraq, costing countless lives and billions of
dollars, and now it wants war on Iran. I believe what Secretary of State
Kerry has stated: that this deal is good for the United States, it's good
for Iran, it's good for Israel, and it's good for the world. I urge the
Congressperson to reject AIPAC???s pro-war stand and to instead support
the Iran nuclear deal!!!

In 2002, AIPAC pushed for war on Iraq and now they want to make war on
Iran. AIPAC is pouring $20 million into squashing this deal and the
alternative to this deal is clear: it???s war. We must stop AIPAC from
dragging us into another disastrous war!

The Congressional recess is a time for elected representatives to be home
in their districts, reaching out to their constituents, not taking
propaganda trips to Israel on AIPAC???s dime. Call and tweet at the list
of freshmen Congresspeople. We???ll be in DC visiting their offices, and
we need YOU to make the phone calls to all of them.

These freshmen are key: their votes can make the difference between the
deal being passed or rejected.

If our representatives want to earn more respect from the American public,
they better prove that their allegiance is not to a foreign government or
a group that lobbies on behalf of a foreign government, but to the
citizens they are elected to represent.

For peace and an end to wars,

Alli, Chelsea, Janet, Jodie, Lia, Lisa, Medea, Michaela, Michelle, Mike,
Nancy and Tighe



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From marksafron at att.net  Thu Jul 30 22:49:19 2015
From: marksafron at att.net (Mark Safron)
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:49:19 -0700
Subject: [Occupymendocino] Why America is Falling Behind the Rest of the
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http://time.com/3965586/12-signs-america-decline/ <http://time.com/3965586/12-signs-america-decline/>

Could it possibly be that the people at the top are too greedy?
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