[Diggers350] Digest Number 1821
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Wed Nov 30 07:28:20 GMT 2011
*Noblesse Oblige!***
*WE THE BRITISH PEOPLE HEREBY ACCUSE OUR BRITISH GOVERNMENT OF COMMITTING
SERIOUS CRIMES AMOUNTING TO SEDITION AND HIGH TREASON AT COMMON LAW AGAINST
US, BY ALLOWING AND CONTINUING TO ALLOW THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING INDUSTRY
(A 'FOREIGN POWER') TO UNLAWFULLY GAIN UNLAWFUL FINANCIAL SOVEREIGNTY OVER
THE BRITISH PEOPLE. *
*WE ASSERT THAT THIS SITUATION IS REPUGNANT TO US, IT IS AGAINST COMMON
RIGHT AND REASON, AND IT IS CERTAINLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE PERFORMED BY VIRTUE
OF THE SIMPLE FACT THAT THE INTEREST UPON THE FRAUDULENTLY CREATED LOANS BY
MEANS OF WHICH THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING INDUSTRY HAS UNLAWFULLY USURPED
BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY IS DEMONSTRABLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE PAID.*
*WE ARE THEREFORE IN LAWFUL REBELLION AGAINST THIS UNTENNABLE STATE OF
AFFAIRS AS REQUIRED OF US IN LAW BY THE MAGNA CARTA, AN IRREVOCABLE TREATY
BETWEEN US THE BRITISH PEOPLE, OUR GOVERNMENT, AND OUR SOVEREIGN LADY THE
QUEEN. *
*NO PERSON IS ABOVE THE LAW!***
*WE DEMAND THAT THE ENGLISH LEGAL CONSTITUTION BE RESTORED TO ITS LAWFUL
POSITION ABOVE OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE INTERNATIONAL BANKING INDUSTRY
ACCORDING TO THE MAGNA CARTA, COMMON LAW, AND EQUITY - THEREBY EXPEDITING A
SWIFT END TO GLOBAL USURIOUS BANKING PRACTICES, AND INITIATING A WORLD
REVOLUTION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT UNDUE FINANCIAL CONSTRAINT.*
* *
*FREEDOM UNDER THE LAW ! pass it on !*
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> 1. The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy<#133effbf8fe6b343_1>From: Tony Gosling 2.
> Millions of new Gardens without Free Land Distribution is Pie-In-The<#133effbf8fe6b343_2>From: Colin Donoghue 3.
> We don't need markets - we need housing <#133effbf8fe6b343_3> From: Tony
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> 1. The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Diggers350/message/3851;_ylc=X3oDMTJxMDhxZ3JlBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEyNTg1NjQEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MjI1BG1zZ0lkAzM4NTEEc2VjA2Rtc2cEc2xrA3Ztc2cEc3RpbWUDMTMyMjU4MTIyNQ--> Posted
> by: "Tony Gosling" tony at cultureshop.org.uk
> <tony at cultureshop.org.uk?Subject=+Re%3A%20The%20shocking%20truth%20about%20the%20crackdown%20on%20Occupy> diggers350
> <http://profiles.yahoo.com/diggers350> Mon Nov 28, 2011 2:17 pm (PST)
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>
> Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
> From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history
> shows there are certain steps that any would-be
> dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms
> http://www.guardian**.co.uk/world/**2007/apr/**24/usa.comment<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/apr/24/usa.comment>
>
> The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
> The violent police assaults across the US are no
> coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of
> our political class's venality
> http://www.guardian**.co.uk/commentis**free/cifamerica/**2011/nov/**
> 25/shocking-**truth-about-**crackdown-**occupy<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy>
> Naomi Wolf - Guardian.co.**uk, Friday 25 November 2011 17.25 GMT
>
> US citizens of all political persuasions are
> still reeling from images of unparallelled police
> brutality in a coordinated crackdown against
> peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the
> nation this past week. An elderly woman was
> pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of
> unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being
> pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went
> viral online; images proliferated of young women
> – targeted seemingly for their gender –
> screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot
> gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned
> and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in
> the record of the middle-of-the-**night clearing of Zuccotti Park.
> But just when Americans thought we had the
> picture – was this crazy police and mayoral
> overkill, on a municipal level, in many different
> cities? – the picture darkened. The National
> Union of Journalists and the Committee to Protect
> Journalists issued a Freedom of Information Act
> request to investigate possible federal
> involvement with law enforcement practices that
> appeared to target journalists. The New York
> Times reported that "New York cops have arrested,
> punched, whacked, shoved to the ground and tossed
> a barrier at reporters and photographers"
> covering protests. Reporters were asked by NYPD
> to raise their hands to prove they had
> credentials: when many dutifully did so, they
> were taken, upon threat of arrest, away from the
> story they were covering, and penned far from the
> site in which the news was unfolding. Other
> reporters wearing press passes were arrested and
> roughed up by cops, after being – falsely –
> informed by police that "It is illegal to take pictures on the sidewalk."
> In New York, a state supreme court justice and a
> New York City council member were beaten up; in
> Berkeley, California, one of our greatest
> national poets, Robert Hass, was beaten with
> batons. The picture darkened still further when
> Wonkette and Washingtonsblog.**com reported that
> the Mayor of Oakland acknowledged that the
> Department of Homeland Security had participated
> in an 18-city mayor conference call advising
> mayors on "how to suppress" Occupy protests.
> To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not
> be obvious at first. Our system of government
> prohibits the creation of a federalised police
> force, and forbids federal or militarised
> involvement in municipal peacekeeping.
> I noticed that rightwing pundits and politicians
> on the TV shows on which I was appearing were all
> on-message against OWS. Journalist Chris Hayes
> reported on a leaked memo that revealed lobbyists
> vying for an $850,000 contract to smear Occupy.
> Message coordination of this kind is impossible
> without a full-court press at the top. This was
> clearly not simply a case of a freaked-out
> mayors', city-by-city municipal overreaction
> against mess in the parks and cranky campers. As
> the puzzle pieces fit together, they began to
> show coordination against OWS at the highest national levels.
> Why this massive mobilisation against these
> not-yet-fully-**articulated, unarmed, inchoate
> people? After all, protesters against the war in
> Iraq, Tea Party rallies and others have all
> proceeded without this coordinated crackdown. Is
> it really the camping? As I write, two hundred
> young people, with sleeping bags, suitcases and
> even folding chairs, are still camping out all
> night and day outside of NBC on public sidewalks
> – under the benevolent eye of an NYPD cop –
> awaiting Saturday Night Live tickets, so surely
> the camping is not the issue. I was still deeply
> puzzled as to why OWS, this hapless, hopeful
> band, would call out a violent federal response.
> That is, until I found out what it was that OWS actually wanted.
> The mainstream media was declaring continually
> "OWS has no message". Frustrated, I simply asked
> them. I began soliciting online "What is it you
> want?" answers from Occupy. In the first 15
> minutes, I received 100 answers. These were truly eye-opening.
> The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of
> politics. Most often cited was legislation to
> blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling,
> which lets boundless sums enter the campaign
> process. No 2: reform the banking system to
> prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most
> frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall
> Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by
> President Clinton, that separates investment
> banks from commercial banks. This law would
> correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as
> investment banks could not take risks for profit
> that create kale derivatives out of thin air, and
> wipe out the commercial and savings banks.
> No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against
> the little-known loophole that currently allows
> members of Congress to pass legislation affecting
> Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.
> When I saw this list – and especially the last
> agenda item – the scales fell from my eyes. Of
> course, these unarmed people would be having the shit kicked out of them.
> For the terrible insight to take away from news
> that the Department of Homeland Security
> coordinated a violent crackdown is that the DHS
> does not freelance. The DHS cannot say, on its
> own initiative, "we are going after these scruffy
> hippies". Rather, DHS is answerable up a chain of
> command: first, to New York Representative Peter
> King, head of the House homeland security
> subcommittee, who naturally is influenced by his
> fellow congressmen and women's wishes and
> interests. And the DHS answers directly, above
> King, to the president (who was conveniently in Australia at the time).
> In other words, for the DHS to be on a call with
> mayors, the logic of its chain of command and
> accountability implies that congressional
> overseers, with the blessing of the White House,
> told the DHS to authorise mayors to order their
> police forces – pumped up with millions of
> dollars of hardware and training from the DHS –
> to make war on peaceful citizens.
> But wait: why on earth would Congress advise
> violent militarised reactions against its own
> peaceful constituents? The answer is
> straightforward: in recent years, members of
> Congress have started entering the system as
> members of the middle class (or upper middle
> class) – but they are leaving DC privy to vast
> personal wealth, as we see from the "scandal" of
> presidential contender Newt Gingrich's having
> been paid $1.8m for a few hours' "consulting" to
> special interests. The inflated fees to lawmakers
> who turn lobbyists are common knowledge, but the
> notion that congressmen and women are legislating
> their own companies' profitsis less widely known
> – and if the books were to be opened, they would
> surely reveal corruption on a Wall Street
> spectrum. Indeed, we do already know that
> congresspeople are massively profiting from
> trading on non-public information they have on
> companies about which they are legislating – a
> form of insider trading that sent Martha Stewart to jail.
> Since Occupy is heavily surveilled and
> infiltrated, it is likely that the DHS and police
> informers are aware, before Occupy itself is,
> what its emerging agenda is going to look like.
> If legislating away lobbyists' privileges to earn
> boundless fees once they are close to the
> legislative process, reforming the banks so they
> can't suck money out of fake derivatives
> products, and, most critically, opening the books
> on a system that allowed members of Congress to
> profit personally – and immensely – from their
> own legislation, are two beats away from the
> grasp of an electorally organised Occupy movement
> … well, you will call out the troops on stopping that advance.
> So, when you connect the dots, properly
> understood, what happened this week is the first
> battle in a civil war; a civil war in which, for
> now, only one side is choosing violence. It is a
> battle in which members of Congress, with the
> collusion of the American president, sent
> violent, organised suppression against the people
> they are supposed to represent. Occupy has
> touched the third rail: personal congressional
> profits streams. Even though they are, as yet,
> unaware of what the implications of their
> movement are, those threatened by the stirrings
> of their dreams of reform are not.
> Sadly, Americans this week have come one step
> closer to being true brothers and sisters of the
> protesters in Tahrir Square. Like them, our own
> national leaders, who likely see their own
> personal wealth under threat from transparency
> and reform, are now making war upon us.
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> 2. Millions of new Gardens without Free Land Distribution is
> Pie-In-The
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Diggers350/message/3852;_ylc=X3oDMTJxdmYwcGw1BF9TAzk3MzU5NzE1BGdycElkAzEyNTg1NjQEZ3Jwc3BJZAMxNzA1MDY0MjI1BG1zZ0lkAzM4NTIEc2VjA2Rtc2cEc2xrA3Ztc2cEc3RpbWUDMTMyMjU4MTIyNQ--> Posted
> by: "Colin Donoghue" colind at veganmail.com
> <colind at veganmail.com?Subject=+Re%3A%20Millions%20of%20new%20Gardens%20without%20Free%20Land%20Distribution%20is%20Pie-In-The> Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:05 pm (PST)
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>
> Great, except for *the not so minor problem that most people don't have
> land to grow these millions of gardens on!! * It boggles my mind that this
> problem is just ignored. This is a Diggers list right? Then why do I feel
> like I'm talking to myself when I bring up *the need for tax/cost-free land
> to be a birthright*?
> That article is great because it says we should grow gardens, like they did
> at Kew Bridge? Like they did in South Central
> L.A.<http://www.thegarde**nmovie.com/ <http://www.thegardenmovie.com/>>?
> Like so many for so many centuries have tried to, and were then evicted
> and had their gardens destroyed because the land wasn't there's to keep,
> because they weren't rich, because they didn't assimilate well enough to a
> social-system based on violence and theft...
> Again, I offer the top 2 posts on this wordpress page for giving a REAL
> solution, not just an idea with no way to make it a reality for the
> majority:
> http://colindonoghu**e.wordpress.**com/<http://colindonoghue.wordpress.com/>
>
> Peace,
> Colin D.
>
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Darren <mail at vegburner.**co.uk<mail%40vegburner.co.uk>>
> wrote:
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> > **
> >
> >
> > A great read about both the importance of the 'Occupy' movement and the
> > importance of growing food.
> >
> > "I want to propose we build a million food gardens. Two million.
> > However many. However many conditions. However many designs. There is
> > the strategic direction: make food, and not just for the same reasons
> > Gandhi made salt. Make food because it puts that much of our lives back
> > into our own hands, and the hands of our communities. Into the hands of
> > our friends, our families, our covenantal relations. We can meet one of
> > our own needs without any bureaucratic apparatus.".**.... read the rest
> at
> >
> >
> > http://www.feralsch**olar.org/**blog/index.**php/2011/**11/23/a-million-
> **gardens-for-**the-99-of-**the-99/<http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2011/11/23/a-million-gardens-for-the-99-of-the-99/>
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> 3. We don't need markets - we need housing
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> We don't need markets - we need housing
> Wednesday 23 November 2011
> by Jeremy Corbyn
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>
> Grant Shapps got up on Monday and laid out the
> brave new Tory world for the future of housing in this country.
>
> True to Tory traditions, his whole narrative is
> about owner occupation and relieving the housing
> market from its current impasse.
>
> It is strange how Tories always talk in terms of
> markets and values - not housing needs or stress that people face.
>
> The Tories, ever since Disraeli, have attempted
> to create a "property-owning democracy," and thus
> in Britain we have a much higher than European
> average of owner occupation, much higher levels
> of debt and, now that the market is "failing,"
> much greater levels of insecurity in housing.
>
> On average, ordinary people in Britain spend far
> more on housing than anywhere else in Europe.
>
> The Tory solution to 700,000 empty properties,
> record applications for council housing, highest
> ever private-sector rents and refusal of publicly
> supported banks to lend money to first time
> buyers? Apart from starting from the point that
> it is all Labour's fault, is essentially that the
> only thing that matters is boosting owner occupation and private renting.
>
> New Labour paved the way for much of this by
> undermining council housing, promoting housing
> associations and buy-to-rent and not protecting private tenants
> sufficiently.
>
> They propose to spend a great deal of money
> supporting the private sector - £400 million for
> a start - selling publicly-owned land and then
> what they politely call "reform" of the social sector.
>
> Before they ever discuss council housing they
> always assert the rents are subsidised - they are
> not - and that the buildings are subsidised - they are not.
>
> Council housing is a successful example of public
> enterprise with 60 year loans to local
> authorities to build and develop and manage
> properties with appropriate rents at an economic level.
>
> Typically the private rented sector rents in
> London are two or three times those of councils,
> often for identical properties bought under right to buy.
>
> So what is in store? The Tories - with
> enthusiastic Lib Dem support - want to promote
> home ownership which, while not wrong in itself,
> should not be the only option for many who
> currently spend huge proportions of their income
> on private rented unless in huge stress.
>
> We need to do three things - ensure that empty
> homes are brought into use, see that private
> tenants are protected and, above all, make sure
> more new and refurbished homes are built for council tenants.
>
> The white paper does provide some opportunities
> for ensuring homes are bought into use through a
> process known as Empty Dwelling Management
> Orders, but one has a suspicion that the
> government's intention in this does not include
> the scandal of the super rich buying mansions
> around London as a hedge against any depreciation
> in their financial assets in the future.
>
> The same government used its majority to
> criminalise squatting, even of properties that
> have been deliberately left empty for a very long
> time. The House of Lords is now considering what to do about that proposal.
>
> The White Paper makes much of increasing council
> house sale discounts to possibly as high as 50
> per cent, which even Thatcher stopped short of.
>
> Shapps now proposes to go as high as a maximum of
> 70 per cent discount because, and I quote, "we
> are now determine to reverse this include and
> reinvigorate the policy to give a new generation
> the opportunity of home ownership."
>
> In his statement Shapps went out of his way to
> assert that for every council house sold under
> right to buy there would be a one-for-one replacement.
>
> Simple maths tells me that if a property is sold
> for less than half of its value, it's very
> difficult to see how there will be enough funds
> available for a one-for-one replacement.
>
> The white paper makes a curious assertion: "Our
> initial model shows that the expected receipts
> will provide a sufficient contribution to the cost of replacement homes."
>
> It's extremely unclear where the finance is going
> to come from for replacing the sold homes.
>
> Behind all this is an attempt to continually
> increase council rents to "market" level and
> reduce lifetime tenant opportunities to five-yearly reviewable tenancies.
>
> Their aim is to make council housing the housing
> of last resort, rather than the secure and
> permanent communities that have been achieved by
> 90 years of council house development in Britain.
>
> Sometimes in my job I feel as though I'm living
> in a parallel universe. On Tuesday I attended a
> meeting of the All Party Private Tenants Group
> which entertained a delegation from the
> Residential Landlord's Association to receive a
> report from professor of urban and property
> economics at the Henley Business School Michael Ball.
>
> The assembled company of landlords and officials
> of the association presented a report which
> claimed that "current returns of the private
> sector are extremely low and likely to remain so.
> The resultant damage to the private rented sector
> could be huge because the availability and cost
> of private rented accommodation depends upon
> landlords making viable returns on their investments.**"
>
> In a lengthy report which shows that private
> rented housing has gone up from 8 per cent to 16
> per cent of total housing stock in the past seven
> years, mortgage interest rates have more than
> halved during that period and rent levels have
> risen way above inflation, it is difficult to
> have any sympathy for the plight of this sector.
>
> More disturbingly, in the analysis presented by
> Professor Ball, more than a third of
> private-sector tenants stay in a property for
> less than a year, and last year alone more than a
> million private renters moved.
>
> In areas like Islington North, a private sector
> now accounts for almost a third of all households
> who typically pay very high rents for short term tenancies.
>
> In my experience in London, the worst affected
> people are those in desperate housing need who
> approach the local authorities who, under
> homeless legislation, are obliged to rehouse
> them. As they so often have insufficient stock of
> their own, they place them in private rented
> flats through an agency. The rents for these
> flats are often astronomical and the conditions
> poor, with much energy inefficiency.
>
> At the moment rent is paid by housing benefit,
> but with the government's cap on these payments
> and the proposed overall cap on benefit levels,
> many of these families are losing their homes and
> are being forced to move well away from areas
> where their children go to school or their wider family and friends live.
>
> The scandal of children growing up in overcrowded
> and unheated accommodation is serious, and
> damaging a whole generation of children's lives.
>
> What a wasted opportunity this white paper is.
>
> We should be promoting house building for those
> in desperate need, affordable mortgages for young
> people who want to buy but, above all, developing
> council housing to provide long-term and
> economically viable secure tenancies for people in desperate need.
>
> This minister seems more interested in allowing
> the private sector to further develop the housing
> market rather than deal with the housing needs of
> those on waiting lists or in poor quality accommodation.
>
> Jeremy Corbyn is MP for Islington North
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