May 7, 2012

socialuprooting:

Obama Vs Bush On Income Inequality Growth

Via Naked Capitalism:

“…under Bush, the 1% captured a disproportionate share of the income gains from the Bush boom of 2002-2007. They got 65 cents of every dollar created in that boom, up 20 cents from when Clinton was President. Under Obama, the 1% got 93 cents of every dollar created in that boom. That’s not only more than under Bush, up 28 cents. In the transition from Bush to Obama, inequality got worse, faster, than under the transition from Clinton to Bush. Obama accelerated the growth of inequality. The data set is excellent, it’s from the IRS and it’s extremely detailed. This yawing gap of inequality isn’t an accident, and it’s not just because of Republicans. It’s a set of policy choices.”

The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

So true. So critical.

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Filed under: occupy obama class inequality 
May 6, 2012
Or killed.  Since I am the first president to claim the right to assassinate US citizens…

Or killed.  Since I am the first president to claim the right to assassinate US citizens…

(Source: socialuprooting)

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Filed under: Obama United States of AMerica Police State Homeland Security Indefinite Detention 
April 17, 2012
"Unprecedented Latin American opposition to U.S. sanctions on Cuba left President Barack Obama isolated at a summit on Sunday and illustrated Washington’s declining influence in a region being aggressively courted by China."

— Reuters.  Awesome

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/15/us-americas-summit-idUSBRE83D0E220120415 

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Filed under: Latin America Cuba Obama Sanctions Communism Socialism Imperialism 
March 30, 2012
occupyallstreets: Anti-War Protesters Again Denied Permit For NATO Summit March A judge on Thursday rejected a request from anti-war protesters to demonstrate during the NATO summit of world leaders in May, but organizers said they would protest anyway and hope to draw 10,000 people or more opposed to war in Afghanistan. “I can say definitively we are marching on May 20. We will hold a peaceful protest,” leader Andy Thayer said. He said organizers would get together to decide whether to appeal to a higher court. Anti-war protesters want to march on May 20 and frustrated by the city’s refusal to allow a march that day. Activists have warned there could be a confrontation such as that during the anti-Vietnam War protests at the Democratic convention in 1968, which has marred Chicago’s image ever since. The judge’s ruling on Thursday agreed with the city of Chicago, which had earlier denied the permit after a hearing at which city officials said the march would clog traffic and over-tax police resources. The city had granted protesters a permit to hold a virtually identical rally and march on the day before, May 19, which coincided with a scheduled G8 summit prior to the NATO meeting. But the G8 summit was shifted to Camp David, near Washington, and Chicago protesters asked to move their demonstration a day later. “Common sense tells you the city said it had enough resources to approve our application for May 19, when it had two summits. Now they say they don’t have enough personnel. It totally defies logic,” Thayer said. A city spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment. Source

occupyallstreets:

Anti-War Protesters Again Denied Permit For NATO Summit March

A judge on Thursday rejected a request from anti-war protesters to demonstrate during the NATO summit of world leaders in May, but organizers said they would protest anyway and hope to draw 10,000 people or more opposed to war in Afghanistan.

“I can say definitively we are marching on May 20. We will hold a peaceful protest,” leader Andy Thayer said. He said organizers would get together to decide whether to appeal to a higher court.

Anti-war protesters want to march on May 20 and frustrated by the city’s refusal to allow a march that day. Activists have warned there could be a confrontation such as that during the anti-Vietnam War protests at the Democratic convention in 1968, which has marred Chicago’s image ever since.

The judge’s ruling on Thursday agreed with the city of Chicago, which had earlier denied the permit after a hearing at which city officials said the march would clog traffic and over-tax police resources.

The city had granted protesters a permit to hold a virtually identical rally and march on the day before, May 19, which coincided with a scheduled G8 summit prior to the NATO meeting. But the G8 summit was shifted to Camp David, near Washington, and Chicago protesters asked to move their demonstration a day later.

“Common sense tells you the city said it had enough resources to approve our application for May 19, when it had two summits. Now they say they don’t have enough personnel. It totally defies logic,” Thayer said.

A city spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.

Source

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Filed under: United States of America US USA Government Censorship REpression Obama Administration Fascism Imperialism Capitalism Communism Socialism 
March 30, 2012

I strongly disagree with the argument below, which seems to say that this killing somehow takes away from Trayvon’s.  But both ARE equally wrong, especially since our president staunchly defends one of them, and is the FIRST PRESIDENT IN US HISTORY to claim the right to assassinate US citizens (though obviously this tactic was more covertly used against the Panthers and others for some time.

uniteordie:

To everyone so outraged about Trayvon Martin, please meet Abdul al-Awlaki. Notice his birth certificate, he’s an American, born in Colorado. 

Abdul was a 16 year old American citizen that was murdered on orders of our very own President. His crime? That his father was a suspected Al Qaida member. 

Unlike the Trayvon Martin situation there is no grey area here. This teenager was specifically targeted and killed because of his religious and ethnic background and who his family was. 

He committed no crime, he was guilty of nothing yet he was murdered by a drone strike. 

WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THIS TEENAGER WAS MURDERED? 

WHERE WERE YOU PEOPLE WHEN THE SAME PRESIDENT WHO SCORED POLITICAL POINTS COMMENTING ON ONE TEENAGERS DEATH ORDERED THE DEATH OF ANOTHER AMERICAN TEEN? 

You look foolish. You look uniformed, you look ignorant because you are. In one situation we have what appears to be an extremely unfortunate, tragic mistake and we have Congressmen on the house floor wearing hoodies and thousands protesting and screaming for justice.

On the other hand you have a child who was intentionally targeted and assassinated on the orders of the President yet you turn a blind eye. This country makes my stomach turn. 

(via occupyallstreets)

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Filed under: Trayvon Martin Abdul al-Awalki United States of AMerica Terrorism CIA Obama Assassination Fascism Police State Dictatorship Failed State Democracy Socialism Communism Imperialism 
March 25, 2012

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Washington, DC: Hundreds rallied outside the notorious AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) conference on March 4, 2012, chanting as President Obama’s limousine drove by. Combining support for Palestinian statehood and demands for NO WAR ON IRAN, protesters marched right up to the front steps of the DC Convention Center, where they spoke and chanted against the war mongers inside.

Photos: Philadelphia International Action Center

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Filed under: Protests Resistance Democracy Socildarity Israel Palestine Occupation Apartheid United States of America Obama Netanyahu 
March 23, 2012
"Obama, thanks for taking time to talk about Trayvon when pressed by a reporter during your World Bank press conference. Thanks for leaving out any mention of race / racism. Thanks for not calling for the arrest of Zimmerman. Thanks for trying to remain silent about Trayvon’s murder for as long as possible. Thanks for expressing no outrage over the Sanford, FL police dept & district attorney’s intentional mishandling of this case. Thanks for showing that, if given the opportunity, you are willing to tolerate the murder of this unarmed 17 year old boy by a racist vigilante. Thank you for revealing so starkly how the 1% relies on racism to divide and conquer (and that money / power transcends racial identity)."

— Kitty Lui via Facebook (via fuckyeahmarxismleninism)

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Filed under: Obama Zimmerman Trayvon Racism United States of America USA 
March 7, 2012
"Anyone uncertain about the hypocrisy of Washington’s claimed human rights concerns (regarding Syria), as well as its willingness to embrace the Assad regime in the wake of 9/11, need only look to the case of Maher Arar. A Canadian engineer arrested at JFK airport, Arar was accused of “links to terrorism” and subjected to extraordinary rendition by US security agencies that sent him to Syria for almost a full year of interrogation and torture. A two-year Canadian investigation found him innocent of any terror links, and paid him $10 million in compensation for Canada’s role; but for the US, Arar remains a suspect prohibited from entering the country.)"

— http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/02/201221510012473174.html

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Filed under: Assad Syria United States Imperialism Hypocrisy Capitalism Obama Rendition Human Rights Politics 
March 5, 2012
"

At the core is a single beating heart – a unified computer database that gathers and refines information on millions of committed and potential Obama voters. The database will allow staff and volunteers at all levels of the campaign – from the top strategists answering directly to Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina to the lowliest canvasser on the doorsteps of Ohio – to unlock knowledge about individual voters and use it to target personalised messages that they hope will mobilise voters where it counts most.

Every time an individual volunteers to help out – for instance by offering to host a fundraising party for the president – he or she will be asked to log onto the re-election website with their Facebook credentials. That in turn will engage Facebook Connect, the digital interface that shares a user’s personal information with a third party.

Consciously or otherwise, the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page – home location, date of birth, interests and, crucially, network of friends – directly into the central Obama database.

The centralised nature of the database may raise privacy issues as the election cycle progresses. Jeff Chester of the digital advertising watchdog Center for Digital Democracy, which has been calling for regulators to review the growth of digital marketing in politics, said that “this is beyond J Edgar Hoover’s dream. In its rush to exploit the power of digital data to win re-election, the Obama campaign appears to be ignoring the ethical and moral implications.”

"

— http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-data-machine-facebook-election

The Guardian on the way the Obama campaign intends to use facebook.  Lets be honest.  Republicans would (and likely do) do it too.  But welcome to the era of big brother. 

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Filed under: Obama Campaign Media Facebook Technology Information United States of America Politics 
March 2, 2012
insaniyat: US plans $53 million arms sale as suppression of democracy movement gets a “seal of approval. Read and Learn more.

insaniyat:

US plans $53 million arms sale as suppression of democracy movement gets a “seal of approval. Read and Learn more.

(Source: auzubillah, via socialuprooting)

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Filed under: United States of America Obama Imperialism Bahrain Human Rights Abuse 
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