[LAAMN] Mitt Romney Rejoins Marriott Board

2012-12-04 Thread bigraccoon
Mitt Romney Rejoins Marriott Board

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-12-03/mitt-romney-rejoins-marriott-board




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[LAAMN] Jessica Valenti: Feminists for the Win

2012-12-04 Thread Ed Pearl
 
Hi. This morning's Democracy Now comes from Dohai, the capitol of Qatar, where 
the United Nation's
conference on the environmant is taking place.  It cannot be said more 
emphatically; it is the most 
important event of our lives, our children's and theirs, throughout the world.  
The 'cliff' metaphore about 
the 'economy' is a misnomer, per se, but compares like a slight breeze to the 
bottomless chasm,
the endless tsunami that looms immediately before all of us. You can count on 
my sending you an article 
or more on it, but this morning's full hour was so incredible, so telling, I 
strongly urge you to see, and or 
listen to the cast.  Alas, it coincides with Pacifica's fundraising, and 
special programming, so go to other 
radio and tv sources or go to www.democracynow.org and watch or read it for 
yourself.  Please.
Ed 
 
http://www.thenation.com/article/171279/feminists-win
 
Feminists for the Win 
 
 http://www.thenation.com/authors/jessica-valenti Jessica Valenti
The Nation: in the December 3, 2012  
http://www.thenation.com/issue/december-3-2012 edition
 
  
http://www.thenation.com/sites/default/files/user/20/warren_baldwin_ap_img.jpg
 
 
Sen-elect Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., left, and Sen-elect, current Rep. Tammy 
Baldwin, D-Wis. walk together to freshman Senators luncheon on Capitol Hill in 
Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
 
Something strange is happening to feminists. We’re winning. The election gave 
us the re-election of a feminist-friendly president, a record number of women 
in Congress, the first openly gay US senator and wins for marriage equality in 
four states. There’s energy and interest on feminist issues the likes of which 
we haven’t seen in decades. 
Body Block - Left 

About the Author

 http://www.thenation.com/authors/jessica-valenti Jessica Valenti

Jessica  http://www.thenation.com/authors/jessica-valenti Valenti

Jessica Valenti is the author of Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth 
about Parenting and Happiness. 

This shift comes to us courtesy of the perfect storm of sexist Republican 
missteps, a vibrant online feminist movement and a nation of women unwilling to 
move backward. But with the election dust settling, we should examine why we’re 
winning the culture wars and think about what to do next.


We got a hint of the tide turning in our favor when SlutWalks went viral. What 
started as one march in Toronto in 2011 turned into hundreds of protests all 
over the world, all battling the myth that what a woman wears has some bearing 
on whether or not she’ll be assaulted. Despite the tempting fodder—pictures of 
young feminists subversively dressed in bras, miniskirts and heels—the media 
largely got the message right. The marches also epitomized the emerging 
organizing strategy of young feminists: activism that’s largely self-directed 
and loosely organized; fast-moving micro-movements built organically and 
without institutional leadership. 

The effectiveness of this approach was on display earlier this year during the 
Susan G. Komen for the Cure/Planned Parenthood debacle. Just days after Komen 
announced it would stop funding Planned Parenthood, an online furor forced the 
breast cancer foundation to reverse itself. Similar activism on a Virginia bill 
that would have mandated invasive transvaginal ultrasounds for women seeking 
abortions—feminists called it “state rape” on Twitter—resulted in the 
legislation being lampooned on Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show and other 
media. The law was eventually amended. When Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a 
“slut,” the backlash that ensued was also thanks to online action. The National 
Organization for Women and Planned Parenthood didn’t drive these campaigns; 
American women did.

Perhaps more interesting than the wins themselves, though, was the widespread 
media attention and cultural acceptance of feminist outrage. All of a sudden, 
women’s anger at the attempted defunding of Planned Parenthood or a male 
politician’s comment about rape wasn’t the mark of bitter “man haters”; it was 
an understandable reaction from smart, engaged women.

The shift was so stark that the Obama campaign was able to make feminist issues 
a part of its electoral strategy. David Axelrod recently told Politco that, 
“from May on, we were running a track that was specifically targeting women on 
women’s health issues, Planned Parenthood, contraception. It broadened out 
somewhat to economic issues, but primarily focused on those issues, and we 
maintained our support among women.” No doubt, the Republican Party’s sexist 
meltdown was also a tremendous motivator for American women. After all, there’s 
only so many comments about rape and birth control a gal can take. 

On election day, the backlash against GOP extremism along with smart organizing 
by feminists culminated not only in women being the majority of the electorate 
but also in an 18 percent gender gap—the largest in 

[LAAMN] Today's LUV News: 4 December, 2012

2012-12-04 Thread scotpeden

*INCITING MORE COUNTRIES TO WAR WITH US THIS MORNING


*
**

*Iran claims to have captured another US drone aircraft
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/12/2012124758228897.html,
State
television networks /Al-Alam/ and /Press TV/ showed footage of what they
said was the ScanEagle drone they had captured.  The light-grey vehicle
was shown suspended inside a hangar and apparently intact, with two
Revolutionary Guard officers examining it in front of a poster saying,
in English: 'We shall trample on the US.' *

**

*If Iran flew an aircraft over US-claimed territory, rest assured such
an act of war would result in the bombing of Iran by US forces,
slaughtering massive numbers of women and children with our top
officials pretending to be surprised at what they would certainly
identify as collateral damage, despite pinpoint bombing.
*

*And in the prelude to an attack on Iran, getting Syrian missiles which
could be used against Israel out of the way ahead of time, a massive
invasion has been going on for some time, Russian news reporting
http://english.pravda.ru/world/asia/04-12-2012/123014-syrian_conflict-0/
this morning (the Russians are inside Syria, with a naval base)
Official sources estimate that at least 70 percent of the insurgents
fighting in the country come from nations like Saudi Arabia, Jordan,
Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Chad, among others, along with a significant
number of members of the terrorist organization, Al Qaeda.
*

*But President Obama warned Syria yesterday, following Hillary Clinton's
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/04/barack-obama-syria-chemical-weapons-warning
I am not going to telegraph any specifics what we do in the event of
credible evidence that the Assad regime has resorted to using chemical
weapons against /their own people/, but suffice to say we are certainly
planning to take action if that eventuality were to occur.  Their own
people?  This is for domestic consumption. Syrians certainly know what's
happening.
*
*This morning, NATO warned
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/natos-rasmussen-warns-reaction-chemical-weapons-110045218.html
that any use of chemical weapons by Syria's government would prompt an
immediate response, moving us a bit closer to official war.***


*THE SURVEILLANCE STATE TARGETS ITS DISSIDENTS


*
**

*We often wonder why Glenn Greenwald hasn't been targeted by a CIA hit
man, but are pleased that he continues to out the surveillance state,
describing its growing fascist shadows, as he does this morning
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/04/us-constitution-and-civil-liberties.
This piece explains clearly why /LUV News/ editors do not attempt to get
on airplanes in the Land of the Free.

A quote from it, In essence, the bargain offered by the state is as
follows: if you meaningfully challenge what we're doing, then we will
subject you to harsh recriminations. But if you passively comply with
what we want, refrain from challenging us, and acquiesce to our
prevailing order, then you are 'free' and will be left alone. The genius
is that those who accept this bargain are easily convinced that
repression does not exist in the US, that it only takes place in those
Other Bad countries, because, as a reward for their compliant posture,
they are not subjected to it.*


**


**Progressive observers of the National Security State
http://luvnews.info/NatSec.htm shake their heads about why Republicans
are tripping over themselves to attack the candidacy of Susan Rice for
Secretary of State.  After all, she shows no sign that she doesn't
support unmitigated fascism in all its forms, like themselves.

It becomes more of an enigma when the usual suspects, like Jingo Joe
Lieberman, defend her, against his close friend John McCain, whom he
endorsed over his own Senate protege, Barack Obama in the recent
presidential campaign.  We know Jingo Joe would stick a knife in the
back of any friend if it would further his own interests, so one wonders
why he backs Rice.  In his last election Jingo Joe even ran against the
Democratic Party that had previously made him a Vice Presidential
candidate.  In return for this betrayal, Democrats made him a committee
chairman, as they are accustomed to kissing right wing butt no matter
what the right wing does to them.

Obama himself seems to back his friend Rice, agreeing with his Senate
mentor, Jingo Joe, who was in the leadership of the right wing
Democratic Leadership Council, where the Democratic Party's ruling elite
have gathered, together with Bill and Hillary Clinton, all backing
Rice.  All of these Democrats have sold out the American people every
bit as much as any Republican would do in their dreams, so again the
question arises, Why do Republicans want to deep six the Rice
nomination?  --Jack 

[LAAMN] Corporate Profits Hit Record As Wages Get Squeezed - Dec. 3, 2012

2012-12-04 Thread bigraccoon
Corporate Profits Hit Record As Wages Get Squeezed  -  Dec. 3, 2012

http://money.cnn.com/2012/12/03/news/economy/record-corporate-profits/index.html





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[LAAMN] Jeff Warner: The Gazan state- and the West Bank Bantustans, DEC 6th -Protest Israeli War Crimes! WITH GUEST SPEAKER MIKO PELED

2012-12-04 Thread Ed Pearl

http://mondoweiss.net/2012/12/the-gazan-state-and-the-west-bank-bantustans.h
tml

The Gazan state- and the West Bank Bantustans

by  http://mondoweiss.net/author/jeff-warner Jeff Warner on December 1,
2012
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/12/the-gazan-state-and-the-west-bank-bantustans.
html#comments 3

The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has held for over a week despite. I
congratulate Hamas and Israel for coming together, and Egypt, the United
States, and other countries for helping make it happen. Lives will be saved,
civilians will not be injured, and critical infrastructure will be
preserved.

A cease-fire is only a beginning; it is transitional stage in relations
between Israel and Hamas. The cease-fire must be extended into a permanent
or a long-term (tens of years) agreement. The United States already
indicated that that is the goal.

But a permanent agreement is probably impossible. First, because Israel is
determined not to allow an economically viable, sovereign Palestinian state
to emerge. Second, because Palestinians are not unified.

The time seems right for Palestinian unification with both Hamas and the
Palestinian Authority achieving big wins - Hamas stood up to Israel in the
recent war and won an easing of the blockade, and the Palestinian Authority
achieved “non-member observer status” in the United Nations by a strong
majority of 139 to 9 with 41 abstentions. And there was a positive signal
this week when Hamas and Islamic Jihad publicly backed the PLO bid to
upgrade Palestinian status in the United Nations.

That said, two factors work against unification. First, the Palestinian
Authority victory at the United Nations will be diminished by “punishment”
meted out by Israel and the United States. No sooner had the U.N. vote
occurred than American Ambassador Susan Rice took the Palestinian Authority
to task for taking unilateral action. In the meantime, both Israel and the
U.S. Congress are threatening to withhold essential funds from the
Palestinian Authority. Second, the contrasting approach to Palestinian
liberation - confrontation for Hamas and conciliation and cooperation for
the Palestinian Authority - make the prospects for real cooperation and
sharing leadership seem dim.

An alternative to a permanent peace is a 50 or 100 year hudnah (truce)
between Israel and Hamas. A hudnah is possible because it is a win-win for
both Israel and Hamas. More on this follows.

But first, Hamas must demonstrate that it controls its territory. For the
past few years Islamic Jihad and other groups have acted freely within the
territory that Hamas claims to govern. Israel will not make long-term
agreement with Hamas unless Hamas can demonstrate better control of its
territory.

A Hudnah

Gershon Baskin promoted a long-term hudnah between Israel and Hamas, and
described it in his October 17, 2012 Op-Ed in the NY Times (
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/israels-shortsighted-assassinatio
n.html link to www.nytimes.com). Baskin claimed that “key Hamas leaders
and members of the Shura Council, its senior decision-making body, supported
a new cease-fire effort because they … understood the futility of
successive rocket attacks against Israel that left no real damage on Israel
and dozens of casualties in Gaza.” The reason this hudnah is different is
that it included both a mechanism for dealing with impending terror threats
and a clear definition of breaches. That is, this hudnah includes mechanisms
to verify intentions and ensure compliance.

Baskin’s goal is “to move beyond the patterns of the past. For years, it
has been the same story: Israeli intelligence discovers information about an
impending terrorist attack from Gaza. The Israeli Army takes pre-emptive
action with an airstrike against the suspected terror cells, which are often
made up of fighters from groups like Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance
Committees or Salafi groups not under Hamas’s control but functioning
within its territory. [In retaliation,] these cells launch rockets into
Israeli towns near Gaza, and they often miss their targets. The Israeli Air
Force responds swiftly. The typical result is between 10 and 25 casualties
in Gaza, zero casualties in Israel and huge amounts of property damage on
both sides.”

End Gaza Blockade

To be successful a hudnah must end Israel’s blockade of Gaza. The necessary
steps have been enunciated by Gisha (
http://www.gisha.org/item.asp?lang_id=enp_id=1749 link to www.gisha.org),
the Legal Center for Freedom of Movement, an Israeli human rights group
focused on protecting the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially
Gaza residents, as guaranteed by international and Israeli law.

Gisha says that as of today, “the Israeli government maintains three
restrictions on Gaza's land crossings that must be removed to protect the
rights of Palestinians to reach family members and access educational and
economic opportunities.” To effect these changes, Israel must:

1. Allow entrance of 

[LAAMN] Paid provocateurs in Mexico City? Yup.

2012-12-04 Thread Cort Greene
http://www.sabinabecker.com/2012/12/paid-provocateurs-in-mexico-city-yup.html

Paid provocateurs in Mexico City?
Yup.http://www.sabinabecker.com/2012/12/paid-provocateurs-in-mexico-city-yup.htmlDecember
4, 2012 — Sabina Becker

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embeddedv=B1dDIg6voh0

A video taken over the weekend, during protests against the inauguration of
Mexican president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto, reveals that a lot of so-called
“anarchists”…aren’t:http://www.sdpnoticias.com/local/ciudad-de-mexico/2012/12/03/anarquistas-revelan-que-les-pagaron-300-pesos-para-reventar-toma-de-pena

*Members of an “anarchist” group arrested at 7:00 in the San Lázaro Metro
station were paid 300 pesos each for committing violence and breaking up
the occupation in protest of president-elect Enrique Peña Nieto, according
to police.*
*

The revelation comes from investigators of the Mexico City police
headquarters. At least eight members of the Mexico Union of Revolutionary
Youth were detained on Saturday.

However, the radicals won’t say who paid them, although they did tell the
agents their objective was to destroy whatever lay in their path.

The capital police said that after they left the Metro station on their way
to the Legislature, the hooligans set fire to the first patrol car they
found, a PGJDF vehicle marked with the numer 3087, whose windows they broke
and bombarded with Molotov cocktails.

Police spokesman Jesús Rodríguez Almeida said that the acts were planned
ahead of time, although the intellectual author is not known at the moment.

“In light of all the objects and instruments they used to do these things,
the gas cylinders for lighting fires, the fragmentation grenade and the
various Molotov cocktails we seized, clearly this indicates that there was
premeditation, a specific plan to do violence, and disturb the peace of the
city,” Rodríguez Almeida said.

Most of the information about the disturbances could be found on social
media networks over the weekend.
*

*In the video [above], several persons can be seen in connection with the
group of grenade-throwers now in custody at San Lázaro, who withdrew
immediately when they realized they were being recorded, and who are
accused of belonging to a shock troop.*

Translation mine.

Did anybody get their badge numbers? Those “anarchists” look pretty well
fed to me. In other words: highly UNlikely to be the real thing.

And whenever “anarchist” violence has the effect of breaking up a
previously peaceful demonstration, or providing cops with a pretext to
break it up, you have to start asking the old, but very useful question: *Cui
bono?* Who benefits? Because if it’s not the protesters, then it must be
those they’re protesting against.

Like I so often say: It’s never a riot until the cops show up.


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[LAAMN] Fwd: kpfk fund drive tomorrow

2012-12-04 Thread John A Imani
-- Forwarded message --
From: Frank Tamborello fr...@hungeractionla.org
Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 4:32 PM
Subject: kpfk fund drive tomorrow
To: food-advoca...@aumlist.com


*Hello Food Justice Advocates,*

*You’re no doubt getting bombarded with requests for donations. Here’s one
more but it’s a little different.*

*KPFK 90.7  is offering a donation to help support Hunger Action LA’s
Market Match program as a premium for those donating over a certain amount
during tomorrow’s Holiday Fund Drive.*

*You can listen in at 8 AM to the Uprising show for details. Please call in
during that show if you can and make a pledge to KPFK. *

*KPFK has been doing a great job covering food justice issues that haven’t
been touched by the mainstream media. We urge you to support them. And if
you didn’t have a chance to contribute during our recent fundraising
events, here’s a chance for you to support us as well. *

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*Call in your pledges at**
(818) 985-5735 - (818) 985-KPFK
THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING KPFK!*

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[LAAMN] Egypt's National Salvation Front issues 3 demands for President Morsi

2012-12-04 Thread Cort Greene
Hundred of thousands take to the streets across Egypt.

Tuesday evening also witnessed protests in Alexandria, Mansoura , Mahalla,
Hurghada, Luxor, Assiut, Minya and Ismailia against the draft constitution
and constitutional declaration. According to activists, thousands of
protesters took the street in Alexandria in huge rallies.

[image: Presidential Palace]
Egyptian protesters carry national flags and chant anti Muslim Brotherhood
slogans during a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in
Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012 (Photo: Reuters)

Related
PHOTO GALLERY: Mass anti-Morsi protest outside presidential
palacehttp://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentMulti/59773/Multimedia.aspx
Egyptian journalists protest draft
constitutionhttp://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/59761/Egypt/0/Egyptian-journalists-protest-draft-constitution.aspx
Egypt's online media shows solidarity with newspaper
strikehttp://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/59759/Egypt/0/Egypts-online-media-shows-solidarity-with-newspape.aspx
Activists reject choice between constitution and
declarationhttp://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/59756/Egypt/0/Activists-reject-choice-between-constitution-and-d.aspx
Islamist group asks churches 'to protect Egypt' during Morsi
protestshttp://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/59744/Egypt/0/Islamist-group-asks-churches-to-protect-Egypt-duri.aspx
*Ahram Online declares its full support for the strike action undertaken on
Tuesday by a large number of major Egyptian newspapers and TV stations in
defence of freedom of the press, freedom of expression, civil liberties and
the rule of law. In view of our particular status as a web-based news
outlet, however, we will maintain our updates throughout this crucial day
of protest, not in contravention of the strike action, but in full
solidarity with it. These decisions were consensually adopted by an
all-staff meeting of Ahram Online, and in consultation with members of the
board of the Press Syndicate and striking news media.*

Security forces have withdrawn from the perimeter outside the presidential
palace after receiving orders to go inside the palace.

Some protesters cheered the Central Security Forces (CSF) units after the
end of the clashes, according to some news reports. The ministry of
interior already issued an official statement declaring that President
Morsi left the presidential palace after finishing a couple of meetings on
Tuesday. It also added that the security forces practiced self-restraint
after the protesters breached the barbed wire cordons around the palace.

A planned protest at the presidential palace was met with tear gas fired by
security forces earlier on Tuesday evening, after protesters, chanting
loudly against the constitutional declaration and the draft constitution,
tried to remove the barbed wire security barriers, with others launching
fireworks. The Central Security Forces responded by drumming their armour
with sticks and firing sound bombs and tear gas grenades.

Later, the security forces retired to around one kilometre away, with
protesters chanting, The people want to topple the regime, and We will
not leave, he will leave.

According to Al-Arabiya news network's account on Twitter, ten people were
injured in the clashes between protesters and police forces.

Thousands of protesters had gathered in front of the presidential palace on
Tuesday afternoon, chanting against the draft constitution and Constituent
Assembly and holding banners saying We reject splitting the country in two
using religion, and We reject the constitutional declaration.

Rallies made up of thousands of protesters marched from the mosques of
Al-Nour and Rabaa Al-Adawaiya in Abbassiya and Nasr City respectively,
heading to the presidential palace a few kilometres away.

Protesters chanted: To those who wonder what the solution is, the
Brotherhood has to be dissolved, and Get out of your houses and come tell
Morsi to leave.

---

Egypt's National Salvation Front issues 3 demands for President Morsi
Ahram Online, Wednesday 5 Dec 2012
Front demands immediate reversal of President Morsi's constitutional
declaration; scrapping of upcoming constitutional referendum; and formation
of new Constituent Assembly


After Tuesday's mass protests, Egypt's National Salvation Front has agreed
on three main demands to be put before President Mohamed Morsi to be met
before Friday.

The National Salvation Front is a recently-formed umbrella group led by
former presidential candidates Hamdeen Sabbahi and Amr Moussa, along with
reform campaigner Mohamed ElBaradei

The front – which includes the Constitution Party, the Egyptian Popular
Current, the Social Democratic Party and the Socialist Popular Alliance
Party, amongst others – will demand that Morsi's recent constitutional
declaration be reversed; that the constitutional 

[LAAMN] Cartoon du Jour

2012-12-04 Thread scotpeden


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