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Another victory for Richmond rent control against the California Apartment Association In a quote from Richmond Councilmember Gayle McLaughlin, she said, “I’m delighted that the Judge ruled against the CAA's motion for a preliminary injunction. This is another victory for the voters of Richmond who passed Measure L with a 2/3 vote, understanding the importance of protecting Richmond tenants and stabilizing our neighborhoods with this sound, constitutional ordinance.”...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2017 11:55pm PST
Attempt the Impossible! Theses for a New Left Majority The Brexit vote and the American presidential election have dramatically accelerated the crises of classical neoliberal policy. The exit from neoliberalism can only succeed in a social movement and cannot only be a matter of a government or of the parties... May we have courage to reverse our perspective! The failed elites will not give up without a fight any more than the forces of an authoritarian neoliberalism. "Only we ourselves can free ourselves from this misery."...
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2017 5:01am PST
Trump Voids Dodd-Frank 1504 Transparency Rule President Trump signed into law Congressional action to void requirements that the oil, gas and mining industries report financial activity in countries where they operate....
Posted: Tue, Feb 14, 2017 1:42pm PST
Merkel Failed as a Peace-Builder Do you remember all this publicity surrounding allegedly fake letter of German Ambassador to Ukraine Ernst Reichel addressed to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko that sparked a week or two ago?...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 11:57pm PST
A Public Bank for Oakland: An Idea Whose Time is Coming. Public banks are financial institutions owned by the people through their representative governments at city, county or state levels. Public banks differ from private banks in that they are mandated to serve the public interest....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2017 10:52am PST
Impeach Trump Movement Has Started On Thursday, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) filed a “resolution of inquiry” that amounts to the first legislative step toward impeachment.
From: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_long_road_to_impeach_trump_just_got_shorter_20170210
The petition is at https://impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org/...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2017 3:40am PST
GOP leader threatens Berkeley protesters for protesting at Cal Berkeley In response to the February 1st protest in Berkeley against the assault on sanctuary campuses, a day later, GOP leader Dan Adamini, Secretary of the Marquette County Republican Party in Michigan promoted the idea that we need another Kent State massacre to bring an end to protests at Cal Berkeley!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2017 9:45pm PST
Monterey County Residents to Challenge Plan to Turn Aquifer Into Oil Waste Dump KING CITY, Calif. — Monterey County residents and members of the Center for Biological Diversity will attend a public hearing Thursday in King City to oppose a state plan to turn local underground water over to the oil industry for injection of contaminated waste fluid....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2017 11:03am PST
Poll: Most Americans don't want US embassy moved to Jerusalem An IRmep poll fielded by Google Consumer Surveys January 27-29 reveals 56.2 percent of the US adult Internet user population prefers the US keep its Israel embassy in Tel Aviv. Only 38.3 percent prefer moving it to Jerusalem, while 5.5 percent are either uncertain or have other responses. The statistically-significant survey has an RMSE score of 3.3%....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2017 12:05pm PST
President Trump - We are Witnesses of a Turn of an Era Trump managed to stage himself as a candidate waging a crusade against the political establishment. Only 9% of the population still stands behind the elected congress in a country where established politics has hit rock bottom. Was this the revenge of the degraded? Does politics only give more to the top 1% and loses sight of the remaining 99%. Traditional politics has no answer to these questions. Insulting voters is not competence. Neoliberal politics knows many losers and very few winners....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2017 4:22am PST
The Instigator of the 'Theft of the Century' from the budget in Moldova Vlad Plahotniuc... The Instigator of the 'Theft of the Century' from the budget in Moldova Vlad Plahotniuc remains at liberty.
Late in 2014, a 'theft of the century' happened in Moldova, and fraudsters stole $1 billion from the banking system of this country. The financial scandal triggered a severe political crisis in Chisinau. Dozens of thousands of people rallied in anti-corruption protests, and former Prime Minister of Moldova Vlad Filat was convicted for financial fraud. But yet, main beneficiaries of this...
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2017 2:39am PST
EU and USA help disposing oligarchs: Moldova's power broker a footstep away from imprisonm The withdrawal of $1 billion from the banking system of Moldova turned out to be a great shock to the world public and the story is coming to its logical end. The beneficiary party, their accounts and other assets, as well as the schemes of their crime are revealed....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2017 12:19am PST
The day Berkeley declared that hate speech is not free speech The February 1st scheduled speaking event on campus with the fascist Milo Yiannopoulous of Breitbart was cancelled. The protesters then proclaimed it was a victory!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2017 11:00pm PST
Senate Overturns Dodd-Frank Transparency Measure The US Senate voided a rule requiring greater financial transparency in the oil, gas and mining industries by a vote of 52-48....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2017 8:57am PST
Petition to Stop Betsy Devos' Confirmation as Education Secretary The petition to stop the confirmation of Betsy Devos as Education Secretary is at
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/emergency-petition-defend?source=s.fwd&r_by=933424...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 7:56pm PST
What Milo and the Alt-Right get wrong about the Free Speech Movement A speaking event by Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley was cancelled last night after a protest erupted outside the Student Union. Yiannopoulos was scheduled to appear at the Pauley Ballroom, inside the building. Milo and his supporters have claimed that the protest and the cancellation was counter to the values of Free Speech. The Alt-Right have tried to identify their movement as an extension, or modern incarnation, of the Free Speech movement. Milo's supporters have invoked Mario Savio's...
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 5:45pm PST
Trump-May meeting: Downing Street's desperate attempt to save face A few days ago the U.S. President Donald Trump held a meeting in Washington with the British Prime Minister Theresa May......
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2017 1:25am PST
Crisis of Representative Democracy The United States' representative democracy is in another huge crisis. So what's new, you say?
Our governmental bodies are failing us, and what I am learning is that this is the kind of crisis that you get over and over in a capitalist system, even one that has elections, representatives, and democracy.
Shall we go on waiting for this system to change, working to get our "representatives" to help us?...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2017 11:46pm PST
House Repeals Dodd-Frank Transparency Provision; Senate Prepares to Vote by Friday The US House of Representatives repealed a bipartisan transparency initiative that affects the oil, gas and mining sector by a vote of 235-187....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2017 2:45pm PST
War on Facts Trump's War on Facts may leave behind greater damage than Bush's War on Terror. While Bush and Rove created a fantasy world, Trump created a never ending nightmare. Trump is a semi-fictional figure from Reality TV. His election promises were fictional like his deportment as a self-made man. Trump's statements should be understood for what they are: fiction. The media that should have upended and embarrassed the propagandist legitimated him with billions of free advertising....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2017 5:32am PST
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