Good morning!

The “Occupy Wall Street” protests continue. This is the latest in NY. 700 people were arrested, and it seems the cops were accused of trapping protestors on the Brooklyn Bridge for mass arrests yesterday.

700 arrested after protest on NY’s Brooklyn Bridge

Readers: Were any of you there? Were any of you arrested? Thanks to Doug for sharing his experience. How about sharing yours? Blog me.

Peace & Love…

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Good morning!

Lots going on as usual… 

And another significant milestone for Obama.

(video not available to repost. Click here to see Obama’s announcement.)

Obama: Anwar Al-Awlaki Death A Major Blow To Al Qaeda

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared the killing of a fiery American-born cleric a “major blow” to al-Qaida’s most active affiliate, and vowed a vigorous U.S. campaign to prevent the terror network and its partners from finding a haven anywhere in the world.

Anwar al-Awlaki, and a second American, Samir Khan, were killed by a joint CIA-U.S. military air strike on their convoy in Yemen early Friday. Both men played key roles in inspiring attacks against the U.S., and their killings are a devastating double blow to al-Qaida’s most dangerous franchise.

Seeking to justify the targeted killing of a U.S. citizen, Obama outlined al-Alwaki’s involvement in planning and directing attempts to murder Americans.

“He directed the failed attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day in 2009. He directed the failed attempt to blow up U.S. cargo planes in 2010,” Obama said. “And he repeatedly called on individuals in the United States and around the globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous agenda.”

After three weeks of tracking the targets, U.S. armed drones and fighter jets shadowed al-Alwaki’s convoy early Friday, then drones launched their lethal strike. The strike killed four operatives in all, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss matters of intelligence.

Al-Awlaki was targeted in the killing, but Khan, who edited a slick Jihadi Internet magazine, apparently was not targeted directly.

Al-Awlaki played a “significant operational role” in plotting and inspiring attacks on the United States, U.S. officials said Friday. Khan, who was from North Carolina, wasn’t considered an operational leader but had published seven issues online of Inspire Magazine, a widely read Jihadi site offering advice on how to make bombs and the use of weapons.

Obama praised Yemen’s government and security forces for its close cooperation with the U.S. in fighting Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, arguably the terror network’s most dangerous affiliate. With al-Awlaki’s death, Obama said AQAP remains “a dangerous but weakened terrorist organization.”

Following the strike, a U.S. official outlined new details of al-Awlaki’s involvement in anti-U.S. operations, including the attempted Christmas 2009 bombing of a Detroit.-bound aircraft. The official said that al-Awlaki specifically directed the men accused of trying to bomb the airliner to detonate an explosive device over U.S. airspace to maximize casualties.

The official also said al-Awlaki had a direct role in supervising and directing a failed attempt to bring down two U.S. cargo aircraft by detonating explosives concealed inside two packages mailed to the U.S. The U.S. also believes Awlaki had sought to use poisons, including cyanide and ricin, to attack Westerners.

The U.S. and counterterrorism officials all spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss intelligence matters.

Al-Awlaki was killed by the same U.S. military unit that got Osama bin Laden. Al-Awlaki is the most prominent al-Qaida figure to be killed since bin Laden’s death in May.

U.S. word of al-Awlaki’s death came after the government of Yemen reported that he had been killed Friday about five miles from the town of Khashef, some 87 miles from the capital Sanaa.

The air strike was carried out more openly than the covert operation that sent Navy SEALs into bin Laden’s Pakistani compound, U.S. officials said.

Counterterrorism cooperation between the United States and Yemen has improved in recent weeks, allowing better intelligence-gathering on al-Awlaki’s movements, U.S. officials said. The ability to better track him was a key factor in the success of the strike, U.S. officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters.

Al-Awlaki’s death is the latest in a run of high-profile kills for the Obama administration. But the killing raises questions that the death of other al-Qaida leaders, including bin Laden, did not.

Al-Awlaki was a U.S. citizen, born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, who had not been charged with any crime. Civil liberties groups have questioned the government’s authority to kill an American without trial.

Awlaki’s father, Nasser al-Awlaki of Yemen, had sued President Barack Obama and other administration officials 13 months ago to try to stop them from targeting his son for death. The father, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights, argued that international law and the Constitution prevented the administration from assassinating his son unless he presented a specific imminent threat to life or physical safety and there were no other means to stop him.

But U.S. District Judge John Bates threw out the lawsuit in December, saying a judge does not have authority to review the president’s military decisions and that Awlaki’s father did not have the legal right to sue on behalf of his son. But Bates also seemed troubled by the facts of the case, which he wrote raised vital considerations of national security and for military and foreign affairs. For instance, the judge questioned why courts have authority to approve surveillance of Americans overseas but not their killing and whether the president could order an assassination of a citizen without “any form of judicial process whatsoever.”

U.S. officials have said they believe al-Awlaki inspired the actions of Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the attack at Fort Hood, Texas.

In New York, the Pakistani-American man who pleaded guilty to the May 2010 Times Square car bombing attempt said he was inspired by al-Awlaki after making contact over the Internet.

Al-Awlaki also is believed to have had a hand in mail bombs addressed to Chicago-area synagogues, the packages intercepted in Dubai and Europe in October 2010.

Al-Awlaki’s death “will especially impact the group’s ability to recruit, inspire and raise funds as al-Awlaki’s influence and ability to connect to a broad demographic of potential supporters was unprecedented,” said terrorist analyst Ben Venzke of the private intelligence monitoring firm, the IntelCenter.

But Venzke said the terror group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula will remain the most dangerous regional arm “both in its region and for the direct threat it poses to the U.S. following three recent failed attacks,” with its leader Nasir al-Wahayshi still at large.

Al-Awlaki wrote an article in the latest issue of the terror group’s Internet magazine, justifying attacking civilians in the West. It’s titled “Targeting the Populations of Countries that Are at War with the Muslims.”

Al-Awlaki served as imam at the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Va., a Washington suburb, for about a year in 2001.

The mosque’s outreach director, Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, has said that mosque members never saw al-Awlaki espousing radical ideology while he was there and that he believes Awlaki’s views changed after he left the U.S.

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…and lots happening here as well.

This is our local news:

Doug spent a good part of the day in SF participating in a peaceful protest with other locals, supporting “Occupy Wall Street”.  I couldn’t download Doug’s footage of the event but here’s the local write. Perhaps Doug and Lewis will share their experiences with us. Lewis, with respect to your comment: My thoughts as well.

Occupy Wall Street Movement Spreads Nationwide, Ends Up in San Francisco

By Elisha Maldonado, political reporter | September 30, 2011 10:55 AM EDT

Their goal was this: ‘Move in’ and Occupy Wall Street for a little bit, flood lower Manhattan with peaceful protestors and fill it with bedding and kitchens and demonstration signs. Their motive was to show that ‘We the 99% are fed up with the greed and corruption of the 1%.”

The impetus propelling them forward is a disdain for corporate greed, repeated bail outs, tax breaks for the 1 percent, terrible government policy, and the corruption of the Federal Reserve. Initially, the call was for 20,000 people to descend onto Wall Street and occupy it for an indeterminable amount of time, but while there are significantly less than 20,000 in New York, Occupy offshoots have begun to spring up across the country.

Nearly 200 San Franciscans surrounded the Bank of America building in the center of the Financial District Thursday afternoon, rallying against the aforementioned bank bailouts, and yelling “Why is life a bitch? Cause we don’t tax the rich!”

The protest, at the start, was peaceful, and included families, children, dogs and music, The Huffington Post reported. Mayoral candidate and city Supervisor John Avalos opened the march with a speech attacking big banks.

“Have you ever felt like you’ve been had?” he asked the crowd. “That’s why this building right here is a symbol of the incredible greed and wealth that has accumulated into fewer and fewer hands.

“And how do they stay wealthy? They took our tax dollars,” Avalos continued. “They got bailed out.”  He then urged the crowd to withdraw their money from national banks and invest in small, community-like banks.

The demonstrators marched down Montgomery Street to Charles Schwab, surrounding the building and baffling employees inside, and again, chanting, “Charles Schwab, give us our money back” and “Who bailed the banks out? We bailed the banks out.”

The San Francisco crowd ended the day at a Chase Bank on Market Street, where, reportedly, tensions began to rise; six demonstrators walked into the branch and staged a sit-in in the lobby. They were arrested, and eventually released, after they refused requests to leave.

Occupy Wall Street official began Sept. 17 in a park in downtown Manhattan.

The movement, which is an offshoot of online magazine AdBusters, is angered by what it calls the principle of “profit over and above all else.” This, they say, has dominated America’s economic policies and the way in which Americans view culture and humanity.

Posts on the Web site compare the group’s efforts to those used in pro-democracy movements across the Middle East, known as the Arab Spring.

“On the 17th of September, we want to see 20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up beds, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street for a few months,” one statement read. “Like our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Greece, Spain and Iceland, we plan to use the revolutionary Arab Spring tactic of mass occupation to restore democracy in America. We also encourage the use of nonviolence to achieve our ends and maximize the safety of all participants.”

The San Francisco chapter has been operating less publicly, not counting Thursday’s event, but its official Web Site said the activists have been holding general assembly meetings each evening in Justin Herman Plaza every day since New York‘s protests began.

On Sept. 24, at least 80 protesters involved with the movement were detained near Union Square in Manhattan; some accusing the police officers of using overly aggressive tactics as they fought to control the demonstrators who left their camp near Wall Street to march up Broadway. Police say the arrests were mostly for blocking traffic; charges included disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

It’s unclear exactly what the protesters will ask for in exchange for leaving Wall Street.

“More than having any specific demand, per se, I think the purpose of Sept. 17, for many of us who are helping to organize it and people who are coming out, is to begin a conversation, as citizens, as people affected by this financial system in collapse, as to how we’re going to fix it, as to what we’re going to do in order to make it work for us again,” said Justin Wedes, an event organizer.

The rally itself was first called for by Adbusters in July.

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Readers: So…What’s happening in your town?  Flap your lips…Blog me.

Zen Lill: Looking forward to hearing about your experience during the LA walk this weekend. I would be hpppy to publish any and all pictures you take :) With all of the popularity you have in your town ZL, I would expect you would be running this show.

Change.org:  Thanks for posting. Your link didn’t work so I am including it here for my readers to click and sign. I signed.

Mike: How wrong they are but they are certainly going to make a huge effort to convince people. Like you said, this is only the beginning. We have our work cut out for us.

Peace out.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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michelle

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Good morning!

Leave it up to the students at Berkeley to make their voices heard through a good ‘ol fashion bake sale. ‘Ol fashion? Possibly. But this was no ordinary bake sale. These were not cookies with a conscious. This bake sale was racist, republican driven, and the rest of the students weren’t buying it, nor eating it up.

Big Turnout for Cal Bake Sale

There was a big turn out for a very controversial bake sale on the Cal campus Tuesday.

The Berkeley College Republicans said the sale was meant to show how affirmative action is a form of discrimination. Students were charged different prices for cookies based on their race, gender and ethnicity.

Berkeley College Republicans posted the prices of its cookies this way.

• “White/Caucasian” pastries for $2
• “Asian/American” for $1.50
• “Latino/Hispanic” for $1
• “Black/African American” for 75 cents
• “Native American” only had to pay a quarter
• Women get a 25-cent discount

The signs were posted Tuesday, but people were allowed to pay whatever they liked – buyer’s choice.

The “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” kicked off right on schedule in Sproul Plaza at 10 a.m.  One of the people manning the table was former UC Regent Ward Connerly. Connerly was the author of Prop. 209, the voter-approved initiative that bans using race in government programs.

“People have been mostly civil,” Connerly told the Oakland Tribune. ”Back in 1996, believe me, this would have been a much more hostile situation. The issue is rapidly approaching the point of irrelevance.”

The Republican group announced the sale last week. They said it was designed to spark conversation about a bill that is now on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk that would allow California public universities to consider race, ethnicity and gender in student admissions.  The bill is SB185.

Brown has until Oct. 9 to sign or veto the bill.

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Readers: This is a good topic for you to sink your teeth into. Pun intended. – Cutesy, I know. :) Blog me.

Human Events: Here’s one from me: “If God really cares about humans, why did he make us a low rung on the evolutionary ladder, and delicious prey for alien beings?” How do you like that one? I’m really sick of your comments. But happy that Robert is here to give good…no great rebuttals.

Bye bye for now…Peace out. 

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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…or “Straw Polls”?  Same same difference.

Rachel Maddow Trashes Straw Polls Again

Rachel Maddow took another swipe at Republican straw polls, trashing the state contests in a sarcastic monologue on her Monday show.

In August, Maddow caustically took down the Iowa straw poll, calling it a fundraising “racket” where candidates can easily buy their victories, and which has no predictive power.

On Monday, she made the same critique of other state straw polls and media coverage of them. She began with a sarcastic projection of the results for the Republican race for the presidential nomination according to the polls. Maddow said that the results indicate Herman Cain in first place, followed by Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann. She added, “There are rumors there is a Texas governor named Rick Perry running for this nomination as well but you would have no way of knowing that if you were just looking at the polling.”

Then, she dropped the sarcasm and made her opinion of state straw polls clear: that they are “cooked-up publicity stunts to get media attention,” and a waste of newspaper and television space that try “to force the candidates to pander to the most manipulative and cynical activists in the political system. Oh, and to raise money for Republican parties and activists groups.”

“We could call them embarrassing political pandering stunts,” she lampooned. “Or we could call them straw polls. Same difference.”

WATCH:

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Ya know blogging only one topic a day just isn’t satisfying to me when there is so much to talk about.

So speaking of political pandering, did any of you make it to LinkedIn to attend Obama’s town hall meeting the other day? Pandering he was not. I heard he was ________. You fill in the blank because there are just so many good things to say here. Ooh I really wish I could’ve been there to see him.

Obama LinkedIn Town Hall: President Promotes Jobs Plan In Silicon Valley (VIDEO)

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Inviting questions, President Barack Obama got one he was happy to answer.

“Would you please raise my taxes?” one man asked the president at a town hall here Monday, hosted by the social networking company LinkedIn.

The questioner described himself as unemployed by choice after succeeding at a search-engine startup company that did “quite well” – he was later identified as former Google executive Doug Edwards – and said he wants the nation to spend more on education, infrastructure and job training. That gave Obama a chance to promote his nearly $450 billion jobs plan that would be paid for by higher taxes opposed by Republicans but not, evidently, by some of Silicon Valley’s wealthiest.

“I appreciate the fact that you recognize that we’re in this thing together. We’re not on our own,” Obama said. “Those of us who have been successful, we’ve always got to remember that.”

In a session dominated by economic concerns, the president plugged his jobs agenda in fielding questions on the employment picture, education, Medicare and Social Security. The president spoke midway through a three-state Western swing built largely around fundraising for himself and other Democrats.

Obama is in a deadlock with congressional Republicans, including House leaders, over raising taxes as part of a formula for helping a staggering economy. He has put forward a debt-reduction plan that would raise $1.5 trillion in new revenue, including about $800 billion over 10 years from repealing the Bush-era tax cuts for couples making more than $250,000.

Obama also said the financial crisis rippling through Europe is “scaring the world” and that steps taken by European nations to stem the eurozone debt problem “haven’t been as quick as they need to be.” His reference to the European debt crisis came on the heels of remarks by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who over the weekend urged governments to unite with the European Central Bank to help defuse the “most serious risk now confronting the world economy.”

In the short term, Obama wants Congress to cover the cost of his jobs plan by, among other changes, limiting the itemized deductions for charitable contributions and other deductions that can be taken by individuals making more than $200,000 a year and families making over $250,000.

Obama said he did not want to punish the rich, but rather to return income tax rates to the level of the 1990s that he said were fair.

“During that period, the rich got richer,” the president said. “The middle class expanded. People rose out of poverty.”

Edwards, former director of consumer marketing and brand management for Google, encouraged Obama to “stay strong” in his push for higher taxes on the wealthy.

Obama also made no apologies for Wall Street regulation and environmental rules and doesn’t buy the GOP charge they’re costing jobs.

The event was at the Computer History Museum, near LinkedIn’s Silicon Valley headquarters.

Referring to the countries of Europe, Obama said they have not fully dealt with banking crises, and now the struggles in Greece have compounded the problem. “So they are going through a financial crisis that is scaring the world and they’re trying to take responsible actions, but those actions haven’t been quite as quick as they need to be,” he said.

Obama is on the road selling both his jobs plan and his own re-election.

The town hall was the White House’s latest attempt to meld old-school campaigning with new media capabilities.

Obama also was holding three fundraisers Monday, two in Los Angeles and one in San Diego, on the heels of four he held Sunday as he races to collect cash ahead of a Friday quarterly fundraising deadline that will provide a snapshot of the president’s strength against the gelling GOP field.

The president has been using the events to try out his newly aggressive tone with supporters who have been disappointed with the president’s compromises with the GOP. The president is mixing frontal attacks on Republicans with words of encouragement intended to buck up the faithful as the 2012 campaign revs up.

“I can’t do it alone. You guys are my ambassadors, you guys are my advocates and my shock troops out there,” Obama told donors in La Jolla, Calif., where 130 guests paid $5,000 per ticket to attend a private lunch where he spoke.

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I didn’t post the video from the article because I really enjoyed Ed’s comments on Obama so much more:

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Obama: A “warrior for the working class” don’t ya love it?

Please excuse me president Obama for not giving you the headliner spot today. But you know me…”I’m a girl’s girl.” :)

Peace out. 

Oh…and do blog me.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Good morning!

Alycedale: This one’s for you. They aired the Morgan Freeman interview on Piers Morgan last friday night, and last night as well, which is when I had the opportunity to watch it.

For those of you who didn’t catch it, here is a segment where Morgan Freeman discussed his belief that the right wing Tea Party’s anti-Obama stance is rooted in racism.:

Readers: And if you didn’t read the article that Alycedale provided the link for, here it is:

Morgan Freeman: Tea Party Is Racist, They’re Out To Get Obama

Morgan Freeman laid down the chips on the Tea Party in a new interview with Piers Morgan that is due to air Friday night.

The Oscar-winning actor sat down with the British TV host and, amongst other things, discussed his belief that the right wing Tea Party’s anti-Obama stance is rooted in racism.

When asked by Morgan whether Obama’s presidency has made racism in the United States better or worse, Freeman, who once played apartheid-defying South African president Nelson Mandela, frankly stated that his time in office has made it worse, as he has become a target of the right’s aggression.

“Their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term,” the actor said. “What’s, what does that, what underlines that? ‘Screw the country. We’re going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we’re going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here.’”

Declaring once again that “it’s a racist thing,” Freeman said the group’s rise has shown the hate still lingering in America.

“Well, it just shows the weak, dark, underside of America,” he said. “We’re supposed to be better than that. We really are. That’s, that’s why all those people were in tears when Obama was elected president. “Ah, look at what we are. Look at how, this is America.” You know? And then it just sort of started turning because these people surfaced like stirring up muddy water.”

The actor continued, saying that he understood President Obama not fighting back, seeking to stick to his principles, but wishes that he’d be more aggressive now.

Freeman endorsed Obama during his run for the presidency, but declined to campaign with him, saying that he was an actor, not a politician. He attended a White House Civil Rights concert in 2010.

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Alycedale: In answer to your question, I would say, “But of course!”.

And then you’ve got republican Herman Cain’s comments, that certainly help to convince the OTW’s that it never occurs to white America, because guess what? It doesn’t occur to him(!):

Herman Cain, fresh from a resounding victory in the Florida Presidency 5 stray poll, calls out Freeman’s ignorance.

“Well, first of all, I doubt if Morgan Freeman, with all due respect, who’s a great actor, has ever been to a Tea Party. Most of the people that are criticizing the Tea Parties… about having a racist element, they have never been to a Tea Party.”

“I just think that it’s sad that they’re so short-sighted understanding what the Tea Party citizen movement is all about. I’m not offended by it, because it doesn’t slow down my momentum. It doesn’t slow down the reaction I get from people.”

Cain, whose campaign is riding high after winning the Florida straw poll, added, “Name-calling is something that’s going to continue, because they don’t know how to stop this movement. And this movement is making a big difference in politics.”

“A lot of the traditional Democrats are moving to the center or moving over to vote for conservatives. They’re taking another look at a Herman Cain.”

What would Democrats like Freeman do if Herman Cain won the Republican nomination?

And who’s calling who ignorant?! 

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