Vincent L. Guarisco's Blog – October 2011 Archive (36)

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Church Liberals Strike Again…
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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 31, 2011 at 3:32am — No Comments

Occupy Participation by Mickey Z

#SomeThingsAreBiggerThanAnyOfUs

by Mickey Z.



"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anais Nin



As the eloquent Ms. Nin explains… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 30, 2011 at 5:00am — 1 Comment

Remember What They Did in Oakland

By Marc Ash, Reader Supported News

29 October 11



Reader Supported News | Perspective

 



Occupy Wall Street: Take the Bull by the Horns



 

It will take some time before what happened in Oakland, California, on October 25th, 2011, sinks in. It happened in the…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 30, 2011 at 3:30am — No Comments

Romney promises to abdicate American foreign policy towards Israel . . . to Israel

Oct 29, 2011 12:27 am | annie

 

Can it even get worse than this in the GOP Primary? Think Progress reports Romney stated he would abdicate American…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 29, 2011 at 4:02pm — 2 Comments

Scott Olsen 'Cannot Talk' After Injury at Occupy Oakland Protest

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Scott Olsen and his sister. Photograph: Kathy Pacconi

 

By Adam Gabbatt, Guardian UK

29 October 11

 

Iraq war veteran is believed to have sustained damage to speech center of his brain in injury at Occupy protest on Tuesday.



Scott Olsen, the Iraq war…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 29, 2011 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Then They Fight You



by: William Rivers Pitt, Truthout         | Op-Ed                           


Occupy Oakland protesters after their camp was destroyed by Oakland police…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 29, 2011 at 1:27pm — 14 Comments

From Dennis Kucinich -- Occupy

 

Dear Friends,



An Iraq War veteran who survived two tours of duty gets his skull fractured in ... Oakland!

                53 activists arrested in Atlanta. SWAT teams deployed to boot out peaceful protesters.




                Recent actions against Occupy protesters are irresponsible and tragic. They're an assault on our democracy. These protesters are bravely exercising their right to…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 29, 2011 at 3:43am — No Comments

Oakland Protesters Call for General Strike Against City

by Peter Henderson

October 27, 2011  

An Iraq war veteran badly wounded in clashes between protesters and police remained in hospital on Thursday morning as activists called for a general strike against the Bay Area city.

Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen, a former U.S. Marine and Iraq war veteran,…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 27, 2011 at 7:31pm — 1 Comment

Life Among the 1% ...a letter from Michael Moore

October 27th, 2011

Friends,

Twenty-two years ago this coming Tuesday, I stood with a group of factory workers, students and the unemployed in the middle of the downtown of my birthplace, Flint, Michigan, to announce that the Hollywood studio, Warner Bros., had purchased the world rights to distribute my first movie, 'Roger & Me.' A reporter asked me, "How much did you sell it for?"

"Three million dollars!" I proudly exclaimed. A cheer went up from the union guys…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 27, 2011 at 4:50pm — No Comments

Oakland Police Assault On Occupy Oakland Seriously Injures Marine Corps Iraq Veteran

By Press Release





October 26, 2011…









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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 27, 2011 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

End of YouTube and Twitter?

A bit of an emergency: The rumor all over Capitol Hill is that the House  version of the Internet Blacklist Bill will be introduced this week, probably on  Wednesday.

Please  click here to urge your Congressmember to NOT COSPONSOR the  legislation.

Our allies on the Hill say the bill's so bad that it could effectively  destroy Youtube, Twitter, and other sites that…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 25, 2011 at 4:00am — No Comments

Struggling for water in Gaza

Oct 22, 2011 07:14 am | Leila al-Najar and Ishraq Othman

 

water

The Beach camp “Al-shate" is located to the west of Gaza City. Small houses are crowded together with an unbearable smell springing from the wastewater running through the alleys. As volunteers in Youth for the Right of Water and Sanitation project (YRWS) we occasionally visit…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 23, 2011 at 1:56pm — No Comments

The Economic Collapse

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Most people have no idea that Wall Street has become a gigantic financial  casino. The big Wall Street banks are making tens of billions of dollars a year  in the derivatives market, and nobody in the financial community wants the party  to end.


The word “derivatives” sounds complicated and technical, but understanding  them is really not that hard. A derivative is essentially a fancy way of…
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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 22, 2011 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Global Warming Study Finds No Grounds for Climate Sceptics' Concerns

October 20, 2011 by The Guardian/UK

Independent investigation of the key issues sceptics claim can skew global warming figures reports that they have no real effect

  by Ian Sample


Climate sceptics' criticisms of the evidence for global warming…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 20, 2011 at 10:09pm — No Comments

Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities to arrest Bush for 'war crimes'

KATHERINE GALLAGHER, via Jen Nessel, press@ccrjustice.org, http://www.ccrjustice.org

    CNN reports today: "Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities to arrest Bush for 'war crimes' while activists announced Occupy Wall Street-style protests of the economic summit in Surrey where the former presidents [Clinton and Bush] were scheduled to speak along with world finance experts."



    Gallagher is a senior staff… Continue

Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 20, 2011 at 2:54pm — No Comments

Dig for Children’s Remains Begins at Canada’s Oldest Residential School



Sovereign Mohawk Nation commences groundbreaking  investigation

of mass murder by Church and State.


Video:…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 14, 2011 at 11:23am — No Comments

My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Hit Bankers Where It Hurts

Published on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by Rolling Stone

My Advice to the Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Hit Bankers Where It Hurts

  by Matt Taibbi


I've been down to "Occupy Wall Street" twice now, and I love it. The protests…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 13, 2011 at 9:24pm — 1 Comment

New Free Trade Agreements Threaten to Kill Jobs and Labor Rights

by: David Bacon, Truthout         | News Analysis                           


Displaced Colombian farmers on the road looking for work in the sugar cane…

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Added by Vincent L. Guarisco on October 12, 2011 at 4:21pm — No Comments

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