as opposed to screaming at the top of my lungs.

Defying belief.: The Word "Feminism"

amazingatheist:

mimi-memek0:

theamazingatheist is a prime example of a total asshole who hates feminism without actually knowing what it is　

I don’t hate feminism. I disagree with the binary thinking pushed by some forms of feminism. There are people I’ve conversed with who agree with me almost…

occupyallstreets: Bradley Manning Lawyer Says Military ‘Mishandled’ Case As Hearings Continue Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret state documents to WikiLeaks, will face his military detractors again this morning at the start of up to three more days of procedural hearings ahead of a full court martial. Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, has filed several defence motions with the military court in Fort Meade, Maryland, that call for all 22 charges against his client to be dismissed on grounds that the prosecution has mishandled the case. The lawyer will argue that the proceedings have been beset by delays and by refusal to hand over key documents during the discovery process, which he will say is a violation of the military rule book for court martials. The hearing in Fort Meade is the third time Manning has been seen in public since his arrest on 25 May 2010 at the Forward Operating Base Hammer outside Baghdad. He was working as an intelligence analyst there, and has been charged with downloading and transmitting to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks a huge trove of US state secrets including confidential cables from embassies around the world. Read More

occupyallstreets:

Bradley Manning Lawyer Says Military ‘Mishandled’ Case As Hearings Continue

Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret state documents to WikiLeaks, will face his military detractors again this morning at the start of up to three more days of procedural hearings ahead of a full court martial.

Manning’s lawyer, David Coombs, has filed several defence motions with the military court in Fort Meade, Maryland, that call for all 22 charges against his client to be dismissed on grounds that the prosecution has mishandled the case. The lawyer will argue that the proceedings have been beset by delays and by refusal to hand over key documents during the discovery process, which he will say is a violation of the military rule book for court martials.

The hearing in Fort Meade is the third time Manning has been seen in public since his arrest on 25 May 2010 at the Forward Operating Base Hammer outside Baghdad. He was working as an intelligence analyst there, and has been charged with downloading and transmitting to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks a huge trove of US state secrets including confidential cables from embassies around the world.

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Three-Quarters Of Money Raised By Top Romney Bundlers Come From Lobbyists For Big Energy, Financial Services

anticapitalist:

Though Romney has not voluntarily disclosed any campaign bundlers who are not lobbyists, federal law requires that he identify major bundlers who are. To date, the campaign has identified 22 lobbyist bundlers who each raised $17,000 or more.

A ThinkProgress analysis of the data shows that 13 represent Big Energy and Big Finance — and between them, they collected more than $2.2 million in donations. They are:

  • Patrick Durkin Sr. ($927,160), a lobbyist for British banking giant Barclays.
  • Wayne Berman ($424,825), a lobbyist for Ogilvy Government Relations. His polluter clients include Chevron, Hess, and Kosmos Energy and his finance clients include Visa, Marwood Group, and The Travelers Companies.
  • T. Martin Fioerentino Jr. ($325,045), a lobbyist for The Fiorentino Group. He represents Lender Processing Services, a prominent mortgage and consumer loan processing company.
  • Austin Barbour ($210,700), a recent Romney campaign hire who, in 2011, worked as a lobbyist for Capitol Resources LLC. His clients included polluter Gulf LNG Energy. Barbour is the nephew of former Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS).
  • Paul Mattera ($64,200), a lobbyist for Liberty Mutual Insurance.
  • Drew Maloney ($56,750), a lobbyist for Ogilvy Government Relations. His polluter clients include GenOn Energy, Exelon Business Services, and Sempra Energy and he represents National Bank of Canada.
  • Joseph Wall ($47,437), a lobbyist for Wall Street behemoth Goldman Sachs.
  • David Tamasi ($39,785), a lobbyist for Rasky Baerlein Strategic Communication. His polluter clients include GDF Suez and his financial clients include Next Street Financial and the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association.
  • Michael McSherry ($30,200), a lobbyist for Mercury Public Affairs. He represents Peabody Energy and Stifel Financial Corp.
  • Kent Burton ($26,510), a lobbyist for National Environmental Strategies. His polluter clients include Murray Energy, Marathon Oil, Pacific Gas & Electric, and, as of recently, Shell Oil.
  • Tom Boyd ($26,350), a lobbyist for DLA Piper. His financial sector clients include Experian Group, Charles Schwab & Co., and Discover Financial Services.
  • Andrew Wheeler ($17,000), a lobbyist for Faegre Baker Daniels. His polluter clients include Murray Energy.
  • Mark Isakowitz ($17,000), a lobbyist for Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock. His polluter clients include Noble Energy and BP America and his many finance clients include Hartford Financial Services Group, JPMorgan Chase, the Managed Funds Association, Mutual of Omaha, and Zurich Financial.

Romney’s strong support from powerful Wall Street and energy lobbyists is unsurprising given his proposals to repeal the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and undo environmental protections — and his support for continuing subsidies for Big Oil.

As ThinkProgress previously reported, Romney’s lobbyist-bundler list also includes Ignacio E. Sanchez ($86,700) of DLA Piper, a registered foreign agent for the United Arab Emirates and abirther presidential candidate in the Dominican Republic.

President Obama does not accept campaign contributions donated or bundled by federal lobbyists or foreign agents. His campaign voluntarily discloses all of its major bundlers. He alsovoluntarily discloses all of his major bundlers, as did Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and President George W. Bush (R) in their 2000, 2004, and 2008 races.

occupyallstreets: Your Tweets Can Be Held Against You In The Court Of Law Prosecutors don’t have to get a warrant to subpoena your tweets, even if you delete them, because they’re public information owned by a third party, a New York judge ruled on Monday. But the lawyer for the Occupy Wall Street protester trying to block a subpoena says the judge mixed up his metaphors in the ruling. Malcolm Harris, who’s been fighting a subpoena of his Twitter account, faces as many as 15 days in jail for disorderly conduct after his arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge last November. In his decision Monday, Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. wrote that there was no precedent in New York for an order to quash a subpoena to a “third-party online social networking service seeking to obtain the defendant’s user information and postings.” But he wrote that “an analogy may be drawn to the bank record cases where courts have consistently held that an individual has no right to challenge a subpoena issued against the third-party bank.” Sciarrino ruled that Harris couldn’t quash the subpoena, but he didn’t necessarily rule that the tweets or other information would be admissible as evidence. But Martin Stolar, the attorney representing Harris, told The Atlantic Wire on Monday that he would move to re-argue the decision, saying Sciarrino had mixed up his metaphors. “There’s a whole other recent series of decisions from Supreme Court and New York State, about whether or not using a GPS device to track someone uses a warrant. People’s locations while on the street are generally public, like tweets are, but it’s the accumulation of all that information, like someone’s whereabouts, that the courts have said a subpoena is necessary … I think that’s more analogous to tweets than the bank records are.” What would be funny is if Twitter decided to fax over the info, just as the New York District Attorney’s office faxed its original subpoena. Source

occupyallstreets:

Your Tweets Can Be Held Against You In The Court Of Law

Prosecutors don’t have to get a warrant to subpoena your tweets, even if you delete them, because they’re public information owned by a third party, a New York judge ruled on Monday. But the lawyer for the Occupy Wall Street protester trying to block a subpoena says the judge mixed up his metaphors in the ruling. Malcolm Harris, who’s been fighting a subpoena of his Twitter account, faces as many as 15 days in jail for disorderly conduct after his arrest on the Brooklyn Bridge last November.

In his decision Monday, Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr. wrote that there was no precedent in New York for an order to quash a subpoena to a “third-party online social networking service seeking to obtain the defendant’s user information and postings.” But he wrote that “an analogy may be drawn to the bank record cases where courts have consistently held that an individual has no right to challenge a subpoena issued against the third-party bank.” Sciarrino ruled that Harris couldn’t quash the subpoena, but he didn’t necessarily rule that the tweets or other information would be admissible as evidence.

But Martin Stolar, the attorney representing Harris, told The Atlantic Wire on Monday that he would move to re-argue the decision, saying Sciarrino had mixed up his metaphors.

“There’s a whole other recent series of decisions from Supreme Court and New York State, about whether or not using a GPS device to track someone uses a warrant. People’s locations while on the street are generally public, like tweets are, but it’s the accumulation of all that information, like someone’s whereabouts, that the courts have said a subpoena is necessary … I think that’s more analogous to tweets than the bank records are.”

What would be funny is if Twitter decided to fax over the info, just as the New York District Attorney’s office faxed its original subpoena.

Source

It’s like setting a jar of moonshine on the floor of a boxcar full of 10 hobos and saying, “Now fight for it!” Sure, in the bloody aftermath you can say to each of the losers, “Hey, you could have had it if you’d fought harder!” and that’s true on an individual level. But not collectively — you knew goddamned well that nine hobos weren’t getting any hooch that night. So why are you acting like it’s their fault that only one of them is drunk?

You’re intentionally conflating “anyone can have the moonshine” with “everyone can have it.” And you are doing it because you’re hoping that we will all be too busy fighting each other to ask why there was only one jar.

Of the people, by the people, for the property?

“Without John Locke, there would be no modern discipline called economics because he was the one … who made the first and decisive move, which was to, in many ways, make respectable and even more than respectable, turn into a high moral calling and dignity the acquisition of property, and turn government, turn politics into a tool for the protection of property and property rights. “

Plutocracy’s reign stretches much further back than Locke, but this basically explains the purpose of government and politics today. Of the people, by the people, for the property? Hmm…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqCtmxHVoqY&feature=relmfu

occupyallstreets: chemicalfreelife: GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD:  Monsanto, GMO corn, and Lots-o-Pesticides Monsanto modified corn with a side of Monsanto pesticides, please! Scientists have warned the FDA that Monsanto’s genetically modified corn is no longer bug resistant, according to a March 11th report at Dawn.com. The need for pesticides would lead to further environmental damage and expose humans to more dangerous chemicals. Monsanto was recently found guilty in a French court with poisoning a farmer who used Monsanto’s Lasso pesticide products. The french farmer claimed successfully in court that Lasso caused significant neurological damage.  A recent study of the United States Geological Survey found urban areas, including New York City, already had high levels of contamination from pesticide use. The use of more pesticides when Monsanto’s bug resistant corn strain fails would only raise levels higher, posing more risks to the water supply even in places, like New York City, far from the farms. Additionally, according to the Pesticide Action Network, pesticides leave a residue on the corn, and ingesting even small amounts have been linked to cancer in humans, changes in brain chemistry and other health concerns.  The use of pesticides in conjunction with Monsanto’s supposedly resistant corn, then, will increase our exposure to pesticides in a wide variety of corn related products.

occupyallstreets:

chemicalfreelife:

GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD:  Monsanto, GMO corn, and Lots-o-Pesticides

Monsanto modified corn with a side of Monsanto pesticides, please!

Scientists have warned the FDA that Monsanto’s genetically modified corn is no longer bug resistant, according to a March 11th report at Dawn.com. The need for pesticides would lead to further environmental damage and expose humans to more dangerous chemicals. Monsanto was recently found guilty in a French court with poisoning a farmer who used Monsanto’s Lasso pesticide products. The french farmer claimed successfully in court that Lasso caused significant neurological damage. 

A recent study of the United States Geological Survey found urban areas, including New York City, already had high levels of contamination from pesticide use. The use of more pesticides when Monsanto’s bug resistant corn strain fails would only raise levels higher, posing more risks to the water supply even in places, like New York City, far from the farms.

Additionally, according to the Pesticide Action Network, pesticides leave a residue on the corn, and ingesting even small amounts have been linked to cancer in humans, changes in brain chemistry and other health concerns. 

The use of pesticides in conjunction with Monsanto’s supposedly resistant corn, then, will increase our exposure to pesticides in a wide variety of corn related products.