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Fire Walk With Me's JournalSequestration Causes 70,000 Kids To Be Kicked Off Head Start, But Big Oil Complains
Sequestration Causes 70,000 Kids To Be Kicked Off Head Start, But Big Oil Complains About Small, Delayed Lease Sales
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/05/14/2009711/sequestration-causes-70000-kids-to-be-kicked-off-head-start-but-big-oil-complains-about-small-delayed-lease-sales/?mobile=nc
Across-the-board cuts to government programs that went into effect in March, known as sequestration, are impacting Americans’ daily lives in many ways.
For example, up to 70,000 children will be cut from Head Start education programs, the budget of the Federal Emergency Management Agency will be slashed by $1 billion, and approximately 3,000 jobs at national parks will likely be affected.
Despite the breadth of major impacts, the oil and gas industry had the gall last week to complain that the Bureau of Land Management, the agency which oversees leasing on public lands, delayed two small lease sales in California until October “due to budget constraints resulting from the sequester.”
The Institute for Energy Research, a non-profit backed by the Koch brothers, wrote in a press statement that the Obama administration is planning to “maximize the sequester’s harm to the U.S. economy.” And the American Petroleum Institute, the industry’s main lobbying group, said the decision would kill jobs and stifle economic growth.
(More at the link.)
TODAY 6:00pm: Occupy el Barrio General Assembly, Occupy Chicago
OChi Calendar ?@OChiCalendar
#TODAY 6:00pm: Occupy el Barrio General Assembly #ochi@ 2149 w. 21st St., Magi Cultural Center
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MmdhM2hpbzgzcWppZmJla3Fkcmw4dmMyZnNfMjAxMzA1MTRUMjMzMDAwWiAyMW5hOGsycGUyZzdnb2w2bXU3aGVucnF2NEBn …
Q: Why have so few "bankers" gone to prison?
umair haque ?@umairh
Q: Why have so few "bankers" gone to prison?
A: Who's going to make the politicians rich if we send the bankers to prison?
Q: Why have so few "bankers" gone to prison?
umair haque ?@umairh
Q: Why have so few "bankers" gone to prison?
A: Who's going to make the politicians rich if we send the bankers to prison?
It's beginning - America's first climate refugees
FoE Scotland ?@FOE_Scotland
It's beginning - America's first climate refugees http://foes.do/13uBJUU
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2013/may/13/newtok-alaska-climate-change-refugees?utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=bufferd6427
The people of Newtok, on the west coast of Alaska and about 400 miles south of the Bering Strait that separates the state from Russia, are living a slow-motion disaster that will end, very possibly within the next five years, with the entire village being washed away.
The Ninglick River coils around Newtok on three sides before emptying into the Bering Sea. It has steadily been eating away at the land, carrying off 100ft or more some years, in a process moving at unusual speed because of climate change. Eventually all of the villagers will have to leave, becoming America's first climate change refugees.
It is not a label or a future embraced by people living in Newtok. Yup'ik Eskimo have been fishing and hunting by the shores of the Bering Sea for centuries and the villagers reject the notion they will now be forced to run in chaos from ancestral lands.
But exile is undeniable. A report by the US Army Corps of Engineers predicted that the highest point in the village – the school of Warner's nightmare – could be underwater by 2017. There was no possible way to protect the village in place, the report concluded.
(More at the link.)
Save Canada: Stop Harper! July 1, 2013
Occupy Winnipeg
Planning group for National Event called Save Canada Day being held in Winnipeg. 15 cities and counting! We launch our events tomorrow. Help us and INM in planning the Winnipeg event!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/165258933634828/
Without consequences, the banks won't change their ways.
OccupyHomesMN ?@OccupyHomesMN
Without consequences, the banks won't change their ways. That's why Ann is going to the Justice Dept in DC next week. http://www.occupyhomesmn.org/ann_doj?recruiter_id=67 …
"When my monthly mortgage payments jumped from $800 to $1300, I contacted US Bank right away to see how I could modify my loan. They told me there was nothing they could do until I missed a few payments--so I took their advice and went into default. But they sent me the wrong paperwork for a modification--and instead of working with me to correct their mistake, they foreclosed on my home of 13 years."
(More at the link. Note that this is exactly what was done to the Hernandez family of Fort Hernandez / Fuerza Hernandez fame. Purposeful theft of homes!)
Most Transparent Administration in History Releases Completely Redacted Document About Text Snooping
Bryan Walsh ?@bryanrwalsh
The ACLU made a FOIA request to DOJ for info about warrantless snooping on texts—they got back 15 blacked-out pages
http://reason.com/blog/2013/05/13/most-transparent-administration-in-histo …
(Not very much at the link except the entirely blacked-out document and some links to sources.)
Lehman Reaches Beyond Grave to Grab Millions From Nonprofits
Occupy Wall Street ?@OccupyWallSt
Five years after its collapse, Lehman Brothers is *still* reaching for every last penny - this time, from nonprofits: http://ow.ly/l0Ul9
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-14/lehman-reaches-beyond-grave-to-grab-millions-from-nonprofits.html
Almost five years after Lehman Brothers Holding Inc (LEHMQ). filed for bankruptcy and set off the global financial crisis, managers of the bank’s estate are demanding millions of dollars from retirement homes, colleges and hospitals.
Enlarge image Lehman Reaches Beyond Grave to Grab Millions From Nonprofits
After selling most of its assets, Lehman now says it was shortchanged by scores of nonprofits that were forced to pay to exit derivatives that were unwound after the firm filed for Chapter 11 protection. Photographer: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
The Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, gave Lehman $2 million in October 2008 to cancel a swap contract used to manage fluctuating interest rates. Lehman says it wants $12.1 million more and has assessed at least an additional $4.7 million in interest, the research center said in its most recent financial statement. The amount Lehman is seeking is more than half of what Buck spent last year researching Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other diseases.
“Lehman is sort of a zombie-like bankruptcy entity: Instead of looking for brains, it’s looking for cash,” said Chip Bowles, a bankruptcy lawyer with Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP in Louisville, Kentucky.
(More at the link. Banksters ARE the problem.)
"tea party", "citizens united", etc. are political orgs funded and benefiting the Koch bros.
THAT'S what they should be outraged over, not that anyone would scrutinize these freaking puppet fronts for plutonomists about their IRS forms. Direct political influence, including some politicians themselves, directly beholden and acting for billionaires. THAT is the problem.
Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaires
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251285804
Jim DeMint and Heritage Foundation Awash in Koch Brother Money
http://www.polluterwatch.com/blog/jim-demint-and-heritage-foundation-awash-koch-brother-money
Koch family foundations
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Koch_Family_Foundations
Fascism is when corporate and state powers blend. This is now a fascist government under such bullshit, and some are concerned about any of it being investigated? Monstrous idiot fucking hypocrites.
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