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red dog 1's JournalAmerica's Ongoing Rebellion for Fairness and Justice
Jim Hightower
April 29, 2014
The corporate Powers That Be keep thinking we'll stay hitched to their plow no matter how severely they lash us economically and kick us politically.
But, to borrow one of George W.'s convoluted phrases, they're badly "misunderestimating" America's workaday people.
As the Occupy Wall Street movement demonstrated, and as shown by the ongoing actions od fast-food workers and others who've been shunted into poverty-wage jobs, we Americans are innately rebellious....In fact, from the revolutionary Declaration of 1776 forward, Rebellious R Us!
Shays rebellion in the 1780s, strikes by women mill workers in the early 1800s, the Populist movement of the 1880s, and on into today's uprisings, we've never taken well to the moneyed powers grabbing more for themselves at our expense -- and now they are grabbing more than ever.
Wall Street elites, corporate profiteers, and inheritors of multi-billion-dollar fortunes are trying to divert our attention from their oligarchic greed by spending lots of money on PR campaigns, front groups, and politicians to tell us that "Big Government" is our problem.
I was born at night, but not last night!..The ones knocking down the middle class and holding down the poor today are the same elites, profiteers, and heirs.
The corporate media won't talk much about this reality, but a growing majority see it and are participating in a spreading rebellion against it...Because, after all, they are experiencing the abuse.
The great anthem by rocker Patti Smith pretty well sums up where we Americans are -- and where I think we're going.
"People have the power - to dream, to rule, to wrestle the world from fools."
Ordinary folks are awakening to the realization that the fools have seized power, and the folks are now making moves (and movements) to seize the fools by their short hairs and reclaim our dreams.
http://www.jimhightower.com/
Democratic Election Official Rules All Restrooms In Dade County Closed On Election day
Jim Hightower
April 24, 2014
FLORIDA OFFICIAL CAN'T SEEM TO GET THE HANG OF RUNNING ELECTIONS
It's our civic duty to vote, right?....Well, that depends on who you are....The disgusting reality is that many of the power elites don't want certain people to vote, so they go to extremes to discourage and even harass those people to prevent them from exercising their civil right.
In 2012, Florida's highest officials disgraced their offices by engaging in this thuggish electoral thievery.
Republican Governor Rick Scott and his party's legislative henchmen officially rammed voter suppression into law, targeting Latino, African-American, student, elderly and other likely-Democratic voters.
From purging such people from voting rolls to making them use broken-down voting machines, voters in Democratic-leaning precincts faced procedural chaos and up to six-hour-waits --deterring at least 200,000 Floridans from casting their ballots.
But now comes an added discouragement in Miami, where a ruling by a Democratic election official will literally leave voters p.o.'d.
Advocates for People with Disabilities had asked whether rest rooms in Miami-area polling places will be accessible to voters in wheelchairs or having other physical needs.
They expected to get "yes" for an answer, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act,
but instead they got this jaw-dropping shocker:
"In order to ensure that individuals with disabilities are not treated unfairly, the use of restrooms by the voters is not allowed on election day."
Yes, in a perverted twist of logic, "fairness" to people with special needs will be assured by treating everyone unfairly.
Thus, the political right to vote will be trumped by the biological need to pee -- especially if they wait in line six hours.
More:
http://www.jimhightower.com/node/8314#.U1mAy3Q5mTM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024799969/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024816197#top/
How Evil Will a Republican Be To Deny a Poor Person Health Care?..This Evil.
Daily Kos
April 22, 2014
By Joan McCarter
Back in February, news broke of Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal's efforts to make sure that no governor of Georgia could ever decide to take Medicaid expansion, giving the legislature veto power over any future governor's decision to do so.....But it's not just Deal.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is doing it too.
Georgia and Kansas have left a combined 487,000 residents uncovered under Obamacare because they refused to expand Medicaid....And, though the law remains unpopular, a recent poll found that majorities of Georgians (54 percent) and Kansans (53 percent) support Medicaid expansion.
One of the architects of the Affordable Care Act, Jonathan Gruber told Harold Pollack that the Republican resistance to Medicaid expansion - leaving nearly 5 million people deliberately out of the system - is "almost awesome in it's evilness."
With Deal and Brownback, I think we can get rid of that "almost" qualifier.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/22/1293881/-How-evil-will-a-Republican-be-to-deny-a-poor-person-health-care-This-evil
Stop the Slaughter...Tell Canada to End the Seal Hunt
Source:
International Fund for Animal Welfare
Right now baby seals are being killed in the commercial hunt in Canada.
People around the world continue to say "no" to seal products, but the Canadian government stubbornly continues trying to sell these cruel products.
They are fighting the EU ban at the WTO and trying to overturn the ban in Russia.
The bans must be defended!
Last year, 88,573 innocent baby seals were reported clubbed or shot - many as young as 21 days old.
They were killed for products no one wants or needs.
Last year the sealers admitted dumping 6,000 pelts into the ocean because there were no markets for them
Seal pups lie defenseless on the ice as hunters approach; but even the fastest pups are no match for men with clubs or rifles....The pups die in agony.
The seal hunt has a long history; but it's a relic of the past.
Rather than determine a plan to help sealers transition out of the failing industry, the Canadian government has thrown away over $50 million in tax dollars since 1996 trying to prop up the industry
There is no reason for this merciless slaughter to continue.
The fight to protect seals is more urgent than ever.
Ask the Canadian government to end commercial sealing
http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/get-involved/end-canadas-seal-hunt/
The Case For Elizabeth Warren in 7 Minutes (Video)
Washington Post
By Chris Cillizza
April 8, 2014
There's only one person in the Democratic Party who has a credible path to beating
Hillary Rodham Clinton in a 2016 Democratic primary. And her name is Elizabeth Warren.
As we've written before, Warren has the national profile, the liberal icon status and the demonstrated fundraising capacity -- $40 million for a Senate race ain't too shabby -- that would, theoretically give her the chance to run as the liberal/non-establishment alternative to Clinton.
Now, we don't think she's running..And, even if she did, Clinton would be tough to beat.
But Warren went to Minnesota over the weekend to headline the Humphrey-Mondale Dinner,
a fundraiser for the state Democratic party, and showed why she would create some nervousness
in the Clinton ranks if she did change her mind.
The entire video runs just under 7 minutes, and is worth watching:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/08/the-case-for-elizabeth-warren-in-7-minutes/
Judge Orders FBI To Search Further For Saudi Sarasota Documents
March 31, 2014
A federal judge Monday denied the FBI's request to dismiss a Freedom Of Information lawsuit pertaining to a Saudi family that lived in Sarasota and left just before the 9/11 Attacks.
Instead, U.S. District Court Judge William J. Zloch granted a motion by Fort Lauderdale's
BrowardBulldog, the news organization that started the lawsuit, to get the federal agency to do a better search.
In mid-March, Zloch allowed the Herald-Tribune and the Miami Herald to intervene in the case by filing their own "friend-of-the-court" brief saying how a further search for documents surrounding this Florida event, which may be tied to 9/11, would be in the public's interest.
Judge Zloch "is not letting them get away with what they wanted to do, which was to dismiss the case, without looking for the documents that we had sought," said Thomas Julin,
Broward Bulldog's attorney.
Read more:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20140331/ARTICLE/140339933/2055/NEWS/
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