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Unions pulling money from banks backing Florida Chamber

Mark Schleub, Orlando Sentinel, 20 April 2011

Unions representing Central Florida teachers, firefighters, police and other government workers are pulling an estimated $10 million from five banks affiliated with the Florida Chamber of Commerce, blaming them for an attack on public employees.

The unions are also asking their members — an estimated 20,000 people — to withdrawal their personal money from Bank of America, PNC Bank, Regions Bank, SunTrust and Wachovia. And labor leaders across the state could follow in the coming weeks, union officials say.

Rest of story….

Comment at the Story:

Archangel73 at 11:59 AM April 22, 2011I have noticed that all of these attacks on Public servants [are] having an opposite effect.

The Fire and Police depts used to be mostly Republican, now all of those folks are leaving the party because they're upset that the burden of everything is being put on THEIR backs.

What was intended to WEAKEN the Unions appears to be having the opposite effect, and employees are becoming more resolute. More importantly, they are becoming angry with the GOP.

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Obama & Facebook: Clueless on DEEP Innovation

03 Economy, 04 Education, Advanced Cyber/IO, Commerce, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Methods & Process

Why Facebook Town Hall Shows Obama is Missing the Point on Innovation

Haydn Shaughnessy

Re:thinking Innovation

Yesterday’s Town Hall meeting at Facebook produced one big surprise – the tepid questioning fired at President Obama from America’s tech elite.

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[Instead of Obama and Facebook look to Don Tapscott and collective intelligence…]

Tapscott’s take on the current state of the economy?

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US Declares War on Iran (2005)–Ron Paul

02 China, 02 Diplomacy, 04 Inter-State Conflict, 05 Iran, 06 Russia, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 10 Security, 11 Society, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency

In what may be one of the finest five minute presentations by Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX-14), he summarizes how US sanctions are equivalent to a declaration of war, and goes on to review how we are spending one trillion dollars a year (that we borrow) to militarize the world, in the process driving everyone into the hands of the Chinese.

This does not appear to be a prepared speech–it appears to be statesmanlike common-sense. Phenomenal.

Ron Paul on US Act of War Against Iran

See also the various other YouTube offerings on this topic.

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9-11 Truth Can End Your Career….

07 Other Atrocities, 10 Security, 11 Society, 9/11 research, Communities of Practice, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Intelligence (government), IO Sense-Making, Misinformation & Propaganda, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Officers Call, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy

Breathing a word of truth about 9/11 will kill your career

Scoop Independent News, Monday, 18 April 2011, 12:22 pm

Interview by Kourosh Ziabari

Kevin Barrett is a renowned American journalist, writer and former university lecturer. He has taught English, French, Arabic, American Civilization, Humanities, African Literature, Folklore, and Islam at colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay area, Paris, and Madison, Wisconsin. Being a Muslim convert, Dr. Barrett is a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance (MUJCA) and member of the Scientific Panel for the Investigation of 9/11 (SPINE).

Worth a full read….

See Also:

Kevin Barrett's TruthJihad.com

9-11 Truth Books & DVDs (29)

Review: The Attack on the Liberty–The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship

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Safety Copy Below the Line

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2011/04/17

Massive Fraud, Common Crime, No Prosecutions

03 Economy, 07 Other Atrocities, 09 Justice, 11 Society, Budgets & Funding, Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Corruption, Government, Law Enforcement, Money, Banks & Concentrated Wealth, Power Behind-the-Scenes/Special Interests

Why haven't any high-profile execs been prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis?

In Financial Crisis, No Prosecutions of Top Figures

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON and LOUISE STORY

The New York Times, April 14, 2011

It is a question asked repeatedly across America: why, in the aftermath of a financial mess that generated hundreds of billions in losses, have no high-profile participants in the disaster been prosecuted?

Read full article….

See Also:

Neil Weinberg, Corrupt Bank Oversight Is Creating New Immoral Hazard, Forbes, 14 April 2011

To me the moral of this story is that Washington has created a vast immoral hazard. We are all truly in a world of peril when regulators and law enforcers believe our financial institutions are too big to be brought to justice—and when our leadership in Washington is so gutless that its response is to let these same institutions emerge bigger and more beyond challenge than ever.

Read rest of this hard-hitting article…

Tip of the Hat to Lynn Wheeler at LinkedIn for the clean links.

Phi Beta Iota: It is our view that the President, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury, and most Senators and Representatives are immediately impeachable for failing to uphold their oaths to the Constitution and failing to represent the public interest in the face of massive legalized fraud on the part of Wall Street.

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