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Captured on film. 55 yrs ago on April 9th police used excessive to stop protest in Washington Square
I thought of this as people by the thousands gathered to hear Bernie. This is before hippies. It's just people who wanted to sing together.
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For years, weekend folksinging has been a tradition in Washington Square Park, in New York City's Greenwich village. But in the spring of 1961 the City rescinded its customary permit for singing in the park. This triggered a protest demonstration on Sunday, April 9th of that year, which was put down with excessive force by the NYPD but eventually resulted in the City backing down and reinstating the permit.
SUNDAY is a 17-minute, impressionistic documentary about the events of that day. It garnered nine international awards shortly after its initial release, and has been widely honored as the first social-protest film of the 1960s,
Captured on film. 55 yrs ago on April 9th police used excessive to stop protest in Washington Square
I thought of this as people by the thousands gathered to hear Bernie.
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For years, weekend folksinging has been a tradition in Washington Square Park, in New York City's Greenwich village. But in the spring of 1961 the City rescinded its customary permit for singing in the park. This triggered a protest demonstration on Sunday, April 9th of that year, which was put down with excessive force by the NYPD but eventually resulted in the City backing down and reinstating the permit.
SUNDAY is a 17-minute, impressionistic documentary about the events of that day. It garnered nine international awards shortly after its initial release, and has been widely honored as the first social-protest film of the 1960s,
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MUST READ! Sen Hillary Clinton wooed the outsourcers feared by U.S. workers (2007)
The senator's efforts to bring an Indian firm to Buffalo, which yielded 'about 10' jobs, illustrates the bind she faces.
By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer
July 30, 2007
BUFFALO, N.Y. — To many labor unions and high-tech workers, the Indian giant Tata Consultancy Services is a serious threat — a company that has helped move U.S. jobs to India while sending thousands of foreign workers on temporary visas to the United States.
So when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) came to this struggling city to announce some good news, her choice of partners was something of a surprise.
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But less noticed was how the event signaled that Clinton, who portrays herself as a fighter for American workers, had aligned herself with Indian American business leaders and Indian companies feared by the labor movement.
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Clinton is successfully wooing wealthy Indian Americans, many of them business leaders with close ties to their native country and an interest in protecting outsourcing laws and expanding access to worker visas. Her campaign has held three fundraisers in the Indian American community recently, one of which raised close to $3 million, its sponsor told an Indian news organization.
But in Buffalo, the fruits of the Tata deal have been hard to find. The company, which called the arrangement Clinton's "brainchild," says "about 10" employees work here. Tata says most of the new employees were hired from around Buffalo. It declines to say whether any of the new jobs are held by foreigners, who make up 90% of Tata's 10,000-employee workforce in the United States.
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"It's just two-faced," said John Miano, founder of the Programmers Guild, one of several high-tech worker organizations that have sprung up as outsourcing has expanded. "We see her undermining U.S. workers and helping the offshoring business, and then she comes back to the U.S. and says, 'I'm concerned about your pain.' "
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Since Tata arrived in Buffalo, "the reality is that it probably created many more jobs for workers overseas and displaced lots of American workers," said Ronil Hira, a public policy professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and a prominent critic of outsourcing.
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A report released by two senators said that Tata was one of the biggest users of foreign-worker visas in the United States, employing more than 7,900 visa recipients last year.
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"There was a sense of excitement on the part of the community," said Anthony M. Masiello, Buffalo's mayor at the time, "to have a company like Tata that would not traditionally look at coming to western New York."
But soon the company faded from public view, said Andrew J. Rudnick, president and CEO of the Buffalo-Niagara Partnership, an economic development group in which Tata was initially active. "They told us their business strategy had changed," he said. "The reality is that the number of people that Tata is employing here now doesn't seem to be significant."
http://www.nriinternet.com/NRIdemocratic/American/A_Z/C/Hillary_Clinton/2007/1_Tata_Jobs_in_NYC.htm
Whore-gate poutrage is a version of the Emperors New Clothes.Dr Song shocks for stating the obvious.
A child, however could only see things as his eyes showed them to him, went up to the carriage.
"The Emperor is naked," he said.
"Fool!" his father reprimanded, running after him. "Don't talk nonsense!" He grabbed his child and took him away. But the boy's remark, which had been heard by the bystanders, was repeated over and over again until everyone cried:
"The boy is right! The Emperor is naked! It's true!"
The Emperor realized that the people were right but could not admit to that. He though it better to continue the procession under the illusion that anyone who couldn't see his clothes was either stupid or incompetent. And he stood stiffly on his carriage, while behind him a page held his imaginary mantle.
Attn Hillary "Don't give me do goody good bullshit, Grab that cash with both hands & make a stash"
So After Hillary Got $13 Million From Health Industry, She Says Single-Payer Will “Never, Ever Comehttp://www.democraticunderground.com/12511733089
That Time Elizabeth Warren Accused Hillary Clinton of Switching Her Vote Because of Campaign Donations
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/02/did-wall-street-buy-this-vote-from-clinton.html#
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"Money"
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team
Money, get back
I'm all right, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack.
Money, it's a hit
Don't give me that do goody good bullshit
I'm in the hi-fidelity first class traveling set
And I think I need a Lear jet
Money, it's a crime
Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie
Money, so they say
Is the root of all evil today
But if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away
"HuHuh! I was in the right!"
"Yes, absolutely in the right!"
"I certainly was in the right!"
"You was definitely in the right. That geezer was cruising for a bruising!"
"Yeah!"
"Why does anyone do anything?"
"I don't know, I was really drunk at the time!"
"I was just telling him, he couldn't get into number 2. He was asking why he wasn't coming up on freely, after I was yelling and screaming and telling him why he wasn't coming up on freely.
It came as a heavy blow, but we sorted the matter out."
So After Hillary Got $13 Million From Health Industry, She Says Single-Payer Will “Never, Ever Come
I wonder if there's a word for that? Hmmm? 
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Hillary Clinton Gets $13 Million From Health Industry, Now Says Single-Payer Will “Never, Ever Come To Pass”
BY DAVID SIROTA
Her declaration that Single_payer will never come is a reversal of her position two decades ago — which came before she received millions of dollars of campaign cash from the health industry.
She herself said in 1994 that a single-payer system was all but inevitable, saying: “I believe that by the year 2000 we will have a single payer system. I don’t think it’s — I don’t even think it’s a close call politically ... it will be such a huge popular issue in the sense of populist issue that even if it’s not successful the first time, it will eventually be.”
Between that declaration and her now saying single-payer can never pass, Clinton has vacuumed in roughly $13.2 million from sources in the health sector, according to data compiled by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
That includes $11.2 million from the sector when Clinton was a senator and $2 million from health industry sources during her 2016 presidential campaign.
In a 2006 story about her relationship with the health industry, the New York Times noted that during her Senate reelection campaign, she was ... "the No. 2 recipient of donations from the industry."
The Intercept also reported that from 2013 to 2015, Clinton received more than $2.8 million in speaking fees from the health industry.
http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-gets-13-million-health-industry-now-says-single-payer-will-never
Bernie Sanders Net Worth: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know 1. He Has a Net Worth of About $300,000,
1. He Has a Net Worth of About $300,000, Making Him One of the Poorest of the Presidential Candidates
Bernie Sanders’ public disclosures place his net worth at between $194,026 and $741,030, Politico reported. Some media sources just take the highest number and report his net worth at $700,00, but this is inaccurate. The total is likely around $300,00, since as early as 2013 he had an estimated net worth of $330,000, NPR reported. This is far below most members of Congress, where the median net worth in 2013 was $1 million. In the Senate, the median was $2.8 million.
2. Sanders Struggled When He Was Younger, Even Having His Electricity Turned Off at One Point
A meme began circulating in February, called the Bernie Sanders Loser Meme, that said he was a loser for having a low net worth and living off welfare for a time. But Snopes disputed the meme, pointing out that he worked hard even if he didn’t have an official “9-to-5” job. In fact, Sanders spent most of his free time campaigning, working for what he was most passionate about — helping the less fortunate, even to his own detriment.
3. Most of His Income Comes from His Salary as Senator, And He Donated Royalties From His Book to Charity
Most of Sanders’ income has, now and historically, come from his political jobs. When he was elected mayor in 1981, the salary of $33,800 was more than he had ever made, Politico reported. In 2014, his household took in more than $205,000, paying nearly $28,000 in taxes. Most of this is from his Senator salary of $174,000. He also receives a yearly pension of $5,000 from his time as Burlington mayor.
Some of his income comes from investment funds. Sanders also receives royalties from his book, “The Speech,” but he donates all of these to charity. In 2011 and 2012, he made $26,000 in royalties from his book and donated it all to charity.
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5. He Grew Up Poor, With His Parents Often Arguing Over Money
Bernie Sanders didn’t grow up with money. He grew up hearing his parents argue about money all the time, Politico reported. He mother was a homemaker and his dad sold paint. Sadly, by the time he was 22, both his parents had died. Sanders said:
I learned what havoc and pain is caused by the constant worry over money. People who come from money sometimes don’t understand that anxiety.”
http://heavy.com/news/2016/03/bernie-sanders-net-worth-money-raised-salary-income-debt-wife-welfare-president-meme-photos/
"Whore" poutrage surfaced in Meg Whitman's 2010 campaign. NR pointed out it's TWO MEANINGS!
So this month’s flap over someone “using a word” is between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown in their battle for the California governorship...This time it’s whore, on a tape from last month that turned up of a conversation between Brown and an aide. ...
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The simple fact is that whore has two meanings. One is the original and ancient one of a woman who sells her body for money. It could even be argued that this meaning of the word is becoming somewhat old-fashioned. Words evolve. Always. The newer meaning of whore is a secondary and derived one, applied to a person who takes money or some other form of recompense in return for a service deemed substandard in quality or ethics.
Note that I write “person,” as whore is applied readily to men as well as women. A quick internet search reveals the word being applied to Ben Stein, Hugh Jackman, Lil Wayne and Harry Reid (and in Jackman’s case, he even happily applies it to himself). Pointedly, Whitman’s current campaign chairman Pete Wilson, back in 1995, accused Congress of being “such whores to public employees unions” (in reference to the Fair Labor Practices Act during the Depression!!).
https://newrepublic.com/article/78367/california-screamin-the-w-word
DID HILLARY CLINTON CHANGE HER STANCE ON INDIAN NUKES IN RESPONSE TO DONATIONS?
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According to Politico, Peter Schweizer says that Hillary Clinton changed her position on the agreement after Indian business and government interests flooded various Clinton enterprises with cash.
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In 2005, with U.S.-India relations improving under President Bush, Indian interests began pushing to have the ban lifted. According to Schweizer, when legislation was proposed to make this happen, Sen. Hillary Clinton supported an amendment proposed by Sen. Russ Feingold that asked for Indian assurances that American nuclear fuel would not be used to increase fissile material production “in unsafeguarded nuclear facilities.” Schweizer says this amendment would have gutted the bill.
Around this time, according to Schweizer, a number of Indian interests poured money into the Clinton Foundation. In the end, Clinton supported the nuclear deal.
One of those involved in the process was Sant Chatwal, a New York hotelier. Chatwal, who reportedly helped arrange a $450,000 speech for Bill Clinton, says:
Even my close friend Hillary Clinton was not in favor of the deal [in 2006] … But when I put the whole package together, she also came on board. … In politics nothing comes free. You have to write cheques in the American political system.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/04/did-hillary-clinton-change-her-stance-on-indian-nukes-in-response-to-donations.php
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