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Occupy Wall Street: Not on major media but worth watching!
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^it is basically several generations of brainwashed people spreading the words to their kids
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They need to stop calling themselves the '99'...it's extremely misleading and incorrect.
Occupier/ Army Ranger in ICU: Oakland PD "Jumped me"
Occupier/ Army Ranger in ICU: Oakland PD "Jumped me"
Kayvan Sabeghi, a veteran of the US Army Rangers, is in the ICU at Oakland's Highland General Hospital after a clash with Oakland PD during the Occupy Oakland protests. Sabeghi claims he was "jumped" by OPD officers who severely beat him and subsequently denied him medical treatment.
The group Iraq Veterans Against the War said Sabeghi was detained during disturbances that erupted late on Wednesday in downtown Oakland and was charged with resisting arrest and remaining present at the place of a riot
"He told me he was in the hospital with a lacerated spleen and that the cops had jumped him," Kelly said. "They put him in jail, and he told them he was injured, and they denied him medical treatment for about 18 hours..."
The veterans group said in a statement that police struck Sabeghi with nightsticks on his hands, shoulders, ribs and back, and that in addition to a lacerated spleen he suffered from internal bleeding.
Occupier/ Army Ranger in ICU: Oakland PD "Jumped me"
Kayvan Sabeghi, a veteran of the US Army Rangers, is in the ICU at Oakland's Highland General Hospital after a clash with Oakland PD during the Occupy Oakland protests. Sabeghi claims he was "jumped" by OPD officers who severely beat him and subsequently denied him medical treatment.
The group Iraq Veterans Against the War said Sabeghi was detained during disturbances that erupted late on Wednesday in downtown Oakland and was charged with resisting arrest and remaining present at the place of a riot
"He told me he was in the hospital with a lacerated spleen and that the cops had jumped him," Kelly said. "They put him in jail, and he told them he was injured, and they denied him medical treatment for about 18 hours..."
The veterans group said in a statement that police struck Sabeghi with nightsticks on his hands, shoulders, ribs and back, and that in addition to a lacerated spleen he suffered from internal bleeding.
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greenmatter
let em' keep fucking with the vets ...... and when things get completely out of control they will call out the national guard. thats just LEO thinking all the problems through before they do anything fucking stupid .........oops too late
Same disorder as the child beating judge. Cops can only hit so hard with batons. They're not supposed to throw head shots. Hitting you about the arms and shoulders isn't satisfying enough. Enter butt shots to the belly and ruptured spleens.
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its great they all demonstrate but i dont think
they will get anywhere
they fight against the government (money=government)
and a fair fight is not promised
they will get anywhere
they fight against the government (money=government)
and a fair fight is not promised
^that is illegal. A taped named tag means aim for that cop. right for his pig face.
Published on Monday, July 25, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
CEOs to Workers: More for Me, Less for You
by Holly Sklar
Big company CEOs got a 23 percent raise last year and corporate profits are at record highs. But the minimum wage has less buying power now than in 1956 – the year Elvis Presley first topped the charts, videotape was breakthrough technology and the Dow closed above 500 for the very first time.
It’s no accident wages are down while corporate profits are up. As JPMorgan’s July 11 “Eye on the Market” newsletter put it, “Reductions in wages and benefits explain the majority of the net improvement in [profit] margins… US labor compensation is now at a 50-year low relative to both company sales and US GDP.”
The minimum wage sets the floor under wages, and that floor is sinking. The 1956 minimum wage was $8.30, adjusted for inflation.
Today’s minimum wage is $7.25 – just $15,080 annually.
CEOs make more in a few hours than minimum wage workers who care for children, the ill and the elderly make in a year. Median CEO pay was $10.8 million last year among 200 big companies measured by Equilar.
The $15,080 minimum wage workers have for rent, groceries, transportation, medicine and everything else for the year doesn’t even buy 2 pounds of the imported caviar featured in the Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index.
The last increase in the minimum wage to $7.25 on July 24, 2009 was so little so late it left workers 30 percent below the minimum wage peak of $10.38 in 1968 – $21,590 annually – in 2011 dollars.
Today’s retail clerks, health aides, child care workers, restaurant workers, security guards and other minimum wage workers have $6,500 less in annual buying power than their 1968 counterparts.
That doesn’t help our corner stores, our communities or our national economy. It hurts.
We didn’t have to go backwards. U.S. income grew $11,684 on average between 1969 and 2008, the year Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff. But there was nothing average about the actual income distribution. Every dime of income growth went to the top 10 percent. Income for the bottom 90 percent declined.
Compare that to the period between 1917 (when the data began) and 1968. Income growth averaged $26,574. The top 10 percent got 31 percent of that growth. The bottom 90 percent got 69 percent.
You can’t have a strong middle class or a strong economy if the bottom 90 percent gets none of the nation’s income growth.
If the minimum wage had stayed above the $10.38 value it had in 1968, it would have put upward pressure – rather than downward pressure – on the average worker wage. Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, our nation’s largest employers, couldn’t routinely pay $7.25 or a little above.
McDonald’s wages would be more like In-N-Out Burger, which has an entry wage of $10 plus good benefits and beats McDonald’s and other fast food chains in the new Consumer Reports ratings for food, service, value and speed. Wal-Mart’s wages would be closer to Costco, which pays starting wages of $11, has the lowest employee turnover in retail, doesn’t need to spend money on advertising and outperforms Wal-Mart.
The 2010 American Values Survey found that 67 percent of Americans supported increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.
Critics routinely oppose minimum wage increases in good times and bad, claiming wrongly they will increase unemployment. The most rigorous studies of the impact of actual minimum wage increases, including two studies published recently in the journal Industrial Relations and the Review of Economics and Statistics, show they do not cause job losses – whether during periods of economic growth or recession.
In the words of John Shepley, co-owner of Emory Knoll Farms in Maryland and a member of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, “The notion that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs is just bunk.
People at the lower end of earnings tend to spend 100 percent of their after-tax income. They put it right back into local businesses buying food, clothing, car repairs and other necessities. … When the minimum wage is too low it not only impoverishes productive workers, it weakens the key consumer demand at the heart of our local economy.”
It’s time to stop stuffing the penthouse of the economy with gold and rebuild the crumbling foundation.
CEOs to Workers: More for Me, Less for You
by Holly Sklar
Big company CEOs got a 23 percent raise last year and corporate profits are at record highs. But the minimum wage has less buying power now than in 1956 – the year Elvis Presley first topped the charts, videotape was breakthrough technology and the Dow closed above 500 for the very first time.
It’s no accident wages are down while corporate profits are up. As JPMorgan’s July 11 “Eye on the Market” newsletter put it, “Reductions in wages and benefits explain the majority of the net improvement in [profit] margins… US labor compensation is now at a 50-year low relative to both company sales and US GDP.”
The minimum wage sets the floor under wages, and that floor is sinking. The 1956 minimum wage was $8.30, adjusted for inflation.
Today’s minimum wage is $7.25 – just $15,080 annually.
CEOs make more in a few hours than minimum wage workers who care for children, the ill and the elderly make in a year. Median CEO pay was $10.8 million last year among 200 big companies measured by Equilar.
The $15,080 minimum wage workers have for rent, groceries, transportation, medicine and everything else for the year doesn’t even buy 2 pounds of the imported caviar featured in the Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index.
The last increase in the minimum wage to $7.25 on July 24, 2009 was so little so late it left workers 30 percent below the minimum wage peak of $10.38 in 1968 – $21,590 annually – in 2011 dollars.
Today’s retail clerks, health aides, child care workers, restaurant workers, security guards and other minimum wage workers have $6,500 less in annual buying power than their 1968 counterparts.
That doesn’t help our corner stores, our communities or our national economy. It hurts.
We didn’t have to go backwards. U.S. income grew $11,684 on average between 1969 and 2008, the year Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff. But there was nothing average about the actual income distribution. Every dime of income growth went to the top 10 percent. Income for the bottom 90 percent declined.
Compare that to the period between 1917 (when the data began) and 1968. Income growth averaged $26,574. The top 10 percent got 31 percent of that growth. The bottom 90 percent got 69 percent.
You can’t have a strong middle class or a strong economy if the bottom 90 percent gets none of the nation’s income growth.
If the minimum wage had stayed above the $10.38 value it had in 1968, it would have put upward pressure – rather than downward pressure – on the average worker wage. Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, our nation’s largest employers, couldn’t routinely pay $7.25 or a little above.
McDonald’s wages would be more like In-N-Out Burger, which has an entry wage of $10 plus good benefits and beats McDonald’s and other fast food chains in the new Consumer Reports ratings for food, service, value and speed. Wal-Mart’s wages would be closer to Costco, which pays starting wages of $11, has the lowest employee turnover in retail, doesn’t need to spend money on advertising and outperforms Wal-Mart.
The 2010 American Values Survey found that 67 percent of Americans supported increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.
Critics routinely oppose minimum wage increases in good times and bad, claiming wrongly they will increase unemployment. The most rigorous studies of the impact of actual minimum wage increases, including two studies published recently in the journal Industrial Relations and the Review of Economics and Statistics, show they do not cause job losses – whether during periods of economic growth or recession.
In the words of John Shepley, co-owner of Emory Knoll Farms in Maryland and a member of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, “The notion that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs is just bunk.
People at the lower end of earnings tend to spend 100 percent of their after-tax income. They put it right back into local businesses buying food, clothing, car repairs and other necessities. … When the minimum wage is too low it not only impoverishes productive workers, it weakens the key consumer demand at the heart of our local economy.”
It’s time to stop stuffing the penthouse of the economy with gold and rebuild the crumbling foundation.
Published on Monday, July 25, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
CEOs to Workers: More for Me, Less for You
by Holly Sklar
Big company CEOs got a 23 percent raise last year and corporate profits are at record highs. But the minimum wage has less buying power now than in 1956 – the year Elvis Presley first topped the charts, videotape was breakthrough technology and the Dow closed above 500 for the very first time.
It’s no accident wages are down while corporate profits are up. As JPMorgan’s July 11 “Eye on the Market” newsletter put it, “Reductions in wages and benefits explain the majority of the net improvement in [profit] margins… US labor compensation is now at a 50-year low relative to both company sales and US GDP.”
The minimum wage sets the floor under wages, and that floor is sinking. The 1956 minimum wage was $8.30, adjusted for inflation.
Today’s minimum wage is $7.25 – just $15,080 annually.
CEOs make more in a few hours than minimum wage workers who care for children, the ill and the elderly make in a year. Median CEO pay was $10.8 million last year among 200 big companies measured by Equilar.
The $15,080 minimum wage workers have for rent, groceries, transportation, medicine and everything else for the year doesn’t even buy 2 pounds of the imported caviar featured in the Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index.
The last increase in the minimum wage to $7.25 on July 24, 2009 was so little so late it left workers 30 percent below the minimum wage peak of $10.38 in 1968 – $21,590 annually – in 2011 dollars.
Today’s retail clerks, health aides, child care workers, restaurant workers, security guards and other minimum wage workers have $6,500 less in annual buying power than their 1968 counterparts.
That doesn’t help our corner stores, our communities or our national economy. It hurts.
We didn’t have to go backwards. U.S. income grew $11,684 on average between 1969 and 2008, the year Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff. But there was nothing average about the actual income distribution. Every dime of income growth went to the top 10 percent. Income for the bottom 90 percent declined.
Compare that to the period between 1917 (when the data began) and 1968. Income growth averaged $26,574. The top 10 percent got 31 percent of that growth. The bottom 90 percent got 69 percent.
You can’t have a strong middle class or a strong economy if the bottom 90 percent gets none of the nation’s income growth.
If the minimum wage had stayed above the $10.38 value it had in 1968, it would have put upward pressure – rather than downward pressure – on the average worker wage. Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, our nation’s largest employers, couldn’t routinely pay $7.25 or a little above.
McDonald’s wages would be more like In-N-Out Burger, which has an entry wage of $10 plus good benefits and beats McDonald’s and other fast food chains in the new Consumer Reports ratings for food, service, value and speed. Wal-Mart’s wages would be closer to Costco, which pays starting wages of $11, has the lowest employee turnover in retail, doesn’t need to spend money on advertising and outperforms Wal-Mart.
The 2010 American Values Survey found that 67 percent of Americans supported increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.
Critics routinely oppose minimum wage increases in good times and bad, claiming wrongly they will increase unemployment. The most rigorous studies of the impact of actual minimum wage increases, including two studies published recently in the journal Industrial Relations and the Review of Economics and Statistics, show they do not cause job losses – whether during periods of economic growth or recession.
In the words of John Shepley, co-owner of Emory Knoll Farms in Maryland and a member of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, “The notion that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs is just bunk.
People at the lower end of earnings tend to spend 100 percent of their after-tax income. They put it right back into local businesses buying food, clothing, car repairs and other necessities. … When the minimum wage is too low it not only impoverishes productive workers, it weakens the key consumer demand at the heart of our local economy.”
It’s time to stop stuffing the penthouse of the economy with gold and rebuild the crumbling foundation.
CEOs to Workers: More for Me, Less for You
by Holly Sklar
Big company CEOs got a 23 percent raise last year and corporate profits are at record highs. But the minimum wage has less buying power now than in 1956 – the year Elvis Presley first topped the charts, videotape was breakthrough technology and the Dow closed above 500 for the very first time.
It’s no accident wages are down while corporate profits are up. As JPMorgan’s July 11 “Eye on the Market” newsletter put it, “Reductions in wages and benefits explain the majority of the net improvement in [profit] margins… US labor compensation is now at a 50-year low relative to both company sales and US GDP.”
The minimum wage sets the floor under wages, and that floor is sinking. The 1956 minimum wage was $8.30, adjusted for inflation.
Today’s minimum wage is $7.25 – just $15,080 annually.
CEOs make more in a few hours than minimum wage workers who care for children, the ill and the elderly make in a year. Median CEO pay was $10.8 million last year among 200 big companies measured by Equilar.
The $15,080 minimum wage workers have for rent, groceries, transportation, medicine and everything else for the year doesn’t even buy 2 pounds of the imported caviar featured in the Forbes Cost of Living Extremely Well Index.
The last increase in the minimum wage to $7.25 on July 24, 2009 was so little so late it left workers 30 percent below the minimum wage peak of $10.38 in 1968 – $21,590 annually – in 2011 dollars.
Today’s retail clerks, health aides, child care workers, restaurant workers, security guards and other minimum wage workers have $6,500 less in annual buying power than their 1968 counterparts.
That doesn’t help our corner stores, our communities or our national economy. It hurts.
We didn’t have to go backwards. U.S. income grew $11,684 on average between 1969 and 2008, the year Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff. But there was nothing average about the actual income distribution. Every dime of income growth went to the top 10 percent. Income for the bottom 90 percent declined.
Compare that to the period between 1917 (when the data began) and 1968. Income growth averaged $26,574. The top 10 percent got 31 percent of that growth. The bottom 90 percent got 69 percent.
You can’t have a strong middle class or a strong economy if the bottom 90 percent gets none of the nation’s income growth.
If the minimum wage had stayed above the $10.38 value it had in 1968, it would have put upward pressure – rather than downward pressure – on the average worker wage. Wal-Mart and McDonald’s, our nation’s largest employers, couldn’t routinely pay $7.25 or a little above.
McDonald’s wages would be more like In-N-Out Burger, which has an entry wage of $10 plus good benefits and beats McDonald’s and other fast food chains in the new Consumer Reports ratings for food, service, value and speed. Wal-Mart’s wages would be closer to Costco, which pays starting wages of $11, has the lowest employee turnover in retail, doesn’t need to spend money on advertising and outperforms Wal-Mart.
The 2010 American Values Survey found that 67 percent of Americans supported increasing the minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.
Critics routinely oppose minimum wage increases in good times and bad, claiming wrongly they will increase unemployment. The most rigorous studies of the impact of actual minimum wage increases, including two studies published recently in the journal Industrial Relations and the Review of Economics and Statistics, show they do not cause job losses – whether during periods of economic growth or recession.
In the words of John Shepley, co-owner of Emory Knoll Farms in Maryland and a member of Business for a Fair Minimum Wage, “The notion that raising the minimum wage will kill jobs is just bunk.
People at the lower end of earnings tend to spend 100 percent of their after-tax income. They put it right back into local businesses buying food, clothing, car repairs and other necessities. … When the minimum wage is too low it not only impoverishes productive workers, it weakens the key consumer demand at the heart of our local economy.”
It’s time to stop stuffing the penthouse of the economy with gold and rebuild the crumbling foundation.
A very good question!
My response would be: Cheaper labour and a better taxing system.
But those are just the shiny object reasons.
In reality most corporations plan for the long term. Those corporations don't estimate US economy to be a good long term bet.
Do corporations need to be "patriotic" and provide jobs for a dying country? Lol fuck that I say
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Susie writes:
I was arrested while reporting on Occupy Oakland on Thursday at about 1 am, wearing my press pass. I was detained for 15 hours and ultimately charged with the same misdemeanor as other demonstrators and NLG legal observers: PC 409, failure to leave the scene of a riot. Our arraignment dates are a month from now, and we were explicitly warned against returning to the plaza in the meantime.
You know it’s bad when Occupy Veterans is sending you personal supportive messages. This is a crappy video that I took while trying to run to safety — instead I ran into the kettle.
In a New York Times piece, Oakland Police Chief Howard A. Jordan describes the people arrested on November 3 as “generally anarchists and provocateurs.” But the journalists and volunteer legal observers you see in this video, who were arrested right when Susie's camera shut off, were and are neither.
Susie writes:
I was arrested while reporting on Occupy Oakland on Thursday at about 1 am, wearing my press pass. I was detained for 15 hours and ultimately charged with the same misdemeanor as other demonstrators and NLG legal observers: PC 409, failure to leave the scene of a riot. Our arraignment dates are a month from now, and we were explicitly warned against returning to the plaza in the meantime.
You know it’s bad when Occupy Veterans is sending you personal supportive messages. This is a crappy video that I took while trying to run to safety — instead I ran into the kettle.
In a New York Times piece, Oakland Police Chief Howard A. Jordan describes the people arrested on November 3 as “generally anarchists and provocateurs.” But the journalists and volunteer legal observers you see in this video, who were arrested right when Susie's camera shut off, were and are neither.
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good link headband......
the way i see it this video is the perfect example of a no win situation:
the folks who stood in that doorway were obviously not who/what the cops were after and they got arrested anyway.
the cops who are in riot mode, CAN NOT just leave those people in the doorway ........ not a good thing leave a potential threat in the rear or on your flanks (riot mode!!!)... getting them out of the doorway to herd them down the street would look bad on video too
not siding with the boys in blue here, just saying things are gonna get real hard to call pretty soon. if those cops had felt really threatened buy what was going on in the front i would not want to be out on the flanks, unless you are begging for trouble..... or planning an ambush. very tough call to make all around
the way i see it this video is the perfect example of a no win situation:
the folks who stood in that doorway were obviously not who/what the cops were after and they got arrested anyway.
the cops who are in riot mode, CAN NOT just leave those people in the doorway ........ not a good thing leave a potential threat in the rear or on your flanks (riot mode!!!)... getting them out of the doorway to herd them down the street would look bad on video too
not siding with the boys in blue here, just saying things are gonna get real hard to call pretty soon. if those cops had felt really threatened buy what was going on in the front i would not want to be out on the flanks, unless you are begging for trouble..... or planning an ambush. very tough call to make all around
Speaking of bets, looks like Costco and IAOB are better bets than Walmart and McDonalds.
Nah, patriotic thing these days is $0.23/hr in Cambodia.
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Wall Street is flying high with their boy in the White House.
Wall Street’s resurgent prosperity frustrates its claims, and Obama’s Washington Post
Wall Street’s resurgent prosperity frustrates its claims, and Obama’s Washington Post
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