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Proposed Camping Ban Amendment Set for March 8 Council Hearing Proposed Amendment Would Create the Right to Sleep in Santa Cruz...
Posted: Tue, Feb 23, 2016 11:41am PST
Former South African President Visits US to Stop "Illicit Financial Flows" Former South African President Thabo Mbeki visits the United States February 16-19 to raise awareness on how the developing world loses money to corruption....
Posted: Wed, Feb 17, 2016 10:09am PST
Puerto Rico House Approves Public Utility Reform Bill: Part of Proposed Debt Deal Puerto Rico's House of Representatives approved legislation to reform its highly indebted public utility company "PREPA." The utility company's investors want the reform package before they approve a debt restructuring deal that includes a 15 percent cut in repayments....
Posted: Tue, Feb 16, 2016 10:08am PST
On the Denial of Due Process in Berkeley Due process, guaranteed in the constitution, is a great equalizing principle. Its denial is the first step in granting political privileges, and thus creating what could be called political class distinctions. This article describes certain aspects of this anti-democratic problem as it is practiced in the US, and in Berkeley in particular....
Posted: Sun, Feb 14, 2016 12:09pm PST
Democrat SF City "Attorney" Supports Execution of Mario Woods Democrat City Attorney Dennis Herrera has just proven himself to be criminally insane and thus eligible for disbarment for answering the US District Court Complaint of Woods' mother by stating that the police legally executed her son, Mario Woods, with a 10 person firing squad shooting 20 bullets to supposedly get Mario Woods to drop a knife. Democrat Herrera has just declared death squads to be legal in San Francisco. He holds an elected position; his taxpayer funded salary is $222,975 a y...
Posted: Sat, Feb 13, 2016 5:31pm PST
When people get desperate All Mr. Trump needs is for America to have enough trouble and weak enough leadership and save them, as Germany did Hitler and France did Napoleon and as have many other nations before and since!...
Posted: Sat, Feb 13, 2016 1:26pm PST
Who's Policing the Police After agreeing to a Negotiated Settlement Agreement (NSA) in response to a lawsuit for police misconduct 12 years ago, the city of Oakland has paid $30 million in court monitoring costs and is still not in full compliance.
The infamous “Riders” case of 2002 was a class action lawsuit representing 120 Black complainants who accused police of misconduct that included planting drugs, kidnapping, and excessive force. The NSA, similar to a consent decree, requires the Oakland Police Department (O...
Posted: Wed, Feb 10, 2016 3:36pm PST
World system of financial Clinton blasts Wall Street, but still draws millions in contributions
Even as Hillary Clinton has stepped up her rhetorical assault on Wall Street, her campaign and allied super PACs have continued to rake in millions from the financial sector, a sign of her deep and lasting relationships with banking and investment titans....
Posted: Mon, Feb 8, 2016 11:32am PST
The GOP Plan To Steal The Ohio And National Elections This writer has left the duopoly of the Republican and Democratic 2 headed monster because there is not a single antiwar candidate among the remaining 11, and will vote for a third party candidate.. most probably a Libertarian, Green or Socialist candidate....
Posted: Sun, Feb 7, 2016 1:02pm PST
Silicon Valley Billionaires Caught Bribing Elected Officials in HSBC Case Silicon Valley Billionaires Caught Bribing Elected Officials in HSBC Case...
Posted: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 11:27am PST
Who is the Radical? Bernie Sanders Bernie Sanders is the candidate of young voters and sparks a movement in the social media. Sanders is the man of the people and Clinton is the woman of big money. In the US, politicians who change their positions all the time are called "flip-floppers." Clinton compares Putin with Hitler. Sanders urges a diplomatic solution of problems. Who is the radical?...
Posted: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 5:07am PST
Rebuilding and Expanding the North American Relationship The TPP marks another step towards greater regional cooperation and integration. The U.S.-driven trade deal changes how member countries manage their economies and businesses. It sets the rules for a new global economic order, which would further erode national sovereignty. The TPP together with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership are part of plans to merge North America with Asia and Europe....
Posted: Fri, Jan 29, 2016 7:50pm PST
Bernie Sanders' Socialist America Bernie believes there has been a corporate takeover of American democracy, and this is where he returns to the idea of political revolution. In nearly every speech he makes this clarion call, and he is always unequivocal about the fact that neither he nor any other politician can make the necessary changes alone. Bernie’s idea of political revolution starts with the American people getting out to vote in record numbers—including a rollback of racist Republican disenfranchisement measures—taki...
Posted: Fri, Jan 29, 2016 7:38am PST
Huge protest Sunday (1/24) in Moldova over corrupt and oligarchic government The protest this past Sunday was one of the largest demonstrations since Moldova became independent in 1992, excepting only similar demonstrations last September over the same issue. Over one percent of the country turned out to protest -- equivalent to a U.S. protest of about 3.5 million people!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2016 7:40pm PST
Let Them Eat Fluoride Money and Politics, Not Science, Propels Fluoridation to its 71st Birthday...
Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2016 5:12am PST
Corrupting influence of big money in politics and presidential campaign On Jan. 17, during the Democrat’s debate, presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders did well to confront candidate Hillary Clinton for accepting political contributions from Wall Street, and hundreds of thousands of dollars from Goldman Sachs, for speaker fees. Is candidate Hillary Clinton little more than a right-wing corporate stooge, posing as a so-called moderate Democrat, who will say anything to get elected?...
Posted: Tue, Jan 19, 2016 4:19am PST
MLK Day Challenge to City Council to End Homeless Repression A letter to the City Council, delivered on the Martin Luther King Jr holiday, urging them to take inspiration from his life and words in considering a more just and constructive approach to dealing with homelessness....
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 3:57pm PST
Govt Access Project: Disrupting SF City Hall's Darkness Making San Francisco government more transparent....
Posted: Mon, Jan 11, 2016 11:42am PST
Yesterday’s “Obama Socialists,” Today’s Bernie Boosters The League of Pre-Squeezed Lemons...
Posted: Sat, Jan 2, 2016 4:50pm PST
Council Member Cynthia Chase Refuses Dialogue on Homeless Voting Record Santa Cruz City Council member Cynthia Chase, elected with a lot of progressive support based on her years of excellent work supporting women transitioning out of prison, has voted for some of the worst anti-homeless decisions to come out of the council recently. However when asked about the contradiction between her past progressive positions and these votes, she refuses to engage or explain herself....
Posted: Sat, Jan 2, 2016 11:00am PST
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