@GonePostalFilm: Dismantling Post Office a Controlled Demolition

from brasschecktv.com: The US Postal System is one of the biggest employers in America. It's also one of the only means of communication that is mandated to be private. So why are the powers that be doing everything they can to destroy it?

#Newspurge: Putting Shame In Your Game

Econocrash:
U.S. Poverty Rate Is Creeping Toward a 50-Year High*
Jobless rate jumps as economy adds only 163,000 jobs*
Congress Struggles to Deliver Solution to Postal Problem It Created*
Booming Caterpillar Rewards CEO While It Punishes Workers*
Contractors with Criminal Histories Fall Through Government Database Cracks*
Video: Mega Bank pioneer admits mistake*

Geopolitiks:
Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels*
Classic armed insurgency taking shape in Syria*
Video: Germany admits NATO favoring Al Qaeda in Syria*
Russia denies plans for new navy bases in Cuba and Vietnam*
U.S. Breaks Somalia Arms Embargo It Helped Establish*
China Sea Cold War: Japan ‘could deploy troops on islands’*
Why’s China’s Navy in the Mediterranean?*
China Worried Over India’s Missile Deployment Plans*
Air-Sea Battle: Pentagon’s Model for Future War With China*
South Korea to stage military drill near disputed island*
War by “Remote Control”: An Invisible Confrontation*
Video: Cluster Bombs 'r Us*

Media/Memes:
Patton Oswalt: Message to Gatekeepers in Cable and Broadcast*
How the Gorgeous, Sometimes Fictional Sound of the Olympics Gets Made*
Pussy Riot trial: Vladimir Putin calls for leniency*
Voters to Decide If Porn Actors Must Wear Condoms*
River Phoenix's final film to be shown at last*
Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86*
Gore Vidal, Elegant Writer, Dies at 86*
Flashback Video: Gore Vidal Recommends "The New Pearl Harbor"*

Obamessiah:
Barack Obama IS The Bat Man*

Video: How U.S. Presidents are "neutralized"*

Police State Updates:
Video: UN gun grab follows U.S. State Department Plan*
Video: The border 'more secure than ever'*
New York Legislature Votes to Name Post Office after Late Covert CIA Officer*
Whistleblower, Suspected of Leaking Warrantless Spying Program, Sues NSA*
Legislation Seeks to Limit Warrantless Wiretapping Powers*
Court Orders TSA to Explain Why It is Defying ‘Nude’ Body Scanner Order*
Video: Sacramento International Airport will replace TSA with private security*

Portlandia/Oregon Oddities:
Fear of a Black Bloc Planet*
Investigation into Oregon, Washington drug operation leads to arrests, seizures*
Underemployment drags down Oregon economy*
Scouts want redactions in ‘perversion files’*

super congress debt committee an unsurprising fail

deficit supercommittee officially admits failure
from forbes: In a statement released after the bell, the so-called budget deficit Supercommittee officially announced it failed to produce $1.2 trillion in budget cuts over the next decade. Their failure, anticipated by many, led to a substantial market plunge on Monday and will supposedly trigger the automatic sequester proposition, which is designed to enact $1.2 trillion in cuts, evenly split between defense and domestic spending.

destined to fail super committee completely fails
from washington times: For the uninitiated, America is drowning in debt. Barack Obama is piling on debt at an exponential rate while blaming everybody else for refusing to balance the books while he spends America into bankruptcy.

debt committee calls it quits without a deal
from cnn: Well, it's official. The congressional debt committee is so over. To no one's surprise, the bipartisan panel called it quits on Monday without reaching any agreement on debt reduction, let alone the $4 trillion "grand bargain" that budget experts say is needed at a minimum to get a handle on the country's long-term fiscal problems... The hope, of course, was that the super committee -- given extraordinary and unprecedented powers -- would tackle the tough problems facing the country's budget, such as rising health costs and an unwieldy tax code no one likes.

epic failure: the supercommittee was a super joke*

related econocrash updates:
US economic conditions are 'terrifying',
recession chances are 50%*
postal chief seeks ability to cut costs to stem losses*
mf global revelations keep getting worse*
greenberg sues US over aig takeover*
foreclosure lawyers who dressed as homeless people are now jobless people*
foreclosure firm steven j. baum to close down*

#OccupyWallStreet movement marks one month anniversary

video: thom hartmann on #ows anniversary*
from wamc: The "Occupy Wall Street" movement marked its one month anniversary Monday, as demonstrations spread to new places. But, questions remain about whether the protests can turn into political action... The various protests under the "Occupy Wall Street" theme are not centrally organized, but are unified by the belief that too much power and wealth rests in the hands of just one percent of the population. The demonstrators have tied this to all matter of social ills, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the foreclosure crisis and high unemployment.

police state updates:
state dept-funded agitator in dc advising occupy crowds*
attacks on ron paul by 'operation wall street' insiders*
#ows call for 'global governance'*
is #ows a communist movement run by socialists who wish to bring down 'free enterprise' system?*
poll: majority of zuccotti park #ows would vote for obama, again*
coming soon - 'real world: occupy wall street'?*
racial tensions at occupy philly?*
insider says “something terrible is coming… so for now, i'm getting out" of nyc*
cia officer holds mystery assignment at nypd*
govt refuses foia request for 'secret' interpretation of patriot act*
darpa hopes to sniff out who has fallen prey to dangerous ideas*
tsa expanding 'chat-downs' experiment to detroit*
video: tennessee becomes first state to 'fight terrorism' statewide: 'department of safety & homeland security partners with federal, state agencies for statewide safety operation'*
is the US declaration of independence illegal?*

econocrash:
does one 'super-corporation' run the global economy?*
coming derivatives crisis could destroy global financial system*
new reality for cities: no money for street lights, roving packs of wild dogs & open-air drug markets*
US 'misery index' rises to highest since 1983*
pennsylvania district allows advertising in public schools*
unpaid student loans top $1t*
1st-class stamp will cost 45 cents in january*
tsa spent $56.8b to keep us safe, did it work?*
napolitano says dhs authorizing illegals to work in US*
mexican trucks due to begin going deep into US*

postal service on verge of financial collapse, saturday delivery doomed

from allgov: The dire warnings about the financial state of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) may soon become dire reality unless Congress can agree to new financing for the cash-strapped agency.

In what has become an annual refrain, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe on Tuesday told the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs that the USPS situation is “extremely serious,” and warned that the agency will default if lawmakers don’t act by the end of the fiscal year on September 30.

The most pressing worry is that the Postal Service lacks sufficient funds to make a $5.5 billion payment due this month to finance the future health care of retired postal workers. Unlike other government entities, the Postal Service is required to make health care payments in advance.

By early 2012, however, the USPS could find itself so short on funding that it might have to shut down entirely unless Congress takes emergency action to stabilize its finances.

Donahoe already has called for a series of cost-cutting measures to shrink the agency’s deficit, which will reach $9.2 billion this fiscal year. These include eliminating Saturday mail delivery, shuttering as many as 3,700 postal offices and laying off 120,000 workers (almost one-fifth of the USPS work force). He has also asked to pull the USPS out of the federal employee health care plan and allow it to create its own. In addition, he requested the return of $6.9 billion in overpayments to the Federal Employee Retirement System.

The Obama administration has asked Congress to grant a 90-day extension for the retiree health care payment.

The Postal Service has been hemorrhaging money in recent years, in large part because more Americans are now using the Internet, electronic-bill paying and email instead of relying on traditional mail service.

This year, the USPS will handle about 167 billion pieces of mail, which would represent a decrease of 22% from five years ago.

flashback: could your post office be closing?

dow closes down 633 points after final plunge

video: obamapocalypse aa+ speech on manic monday
The Dow Jones industrial average finished the day down 633 points Monday after a full-day sell-off accelerated in the final hour of trading as investors struggled to absorb Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the United States' credit rating. Investors piled out of stocks and into a few "safe havens," such as gold and Treasury bonds. The appetite for Treasury bonds suggests that the Standard & Poor's downgrade has not shaken investors' faith in U.S. bonds. Market experts said the Monday sell-off was sparked by the S&P announcement but was motivated more by growing concerns about the weakness of the global economy.

previous: united states loses aaa credit rating*

related econocrash updates:
dow falls 633: sixth biggest stock market crash in history*
the stock market crash of 2011?*
video: downgrade is 'theatre to build up the fear'*
US will roll out qe3 after s&p rating cut*
video: military spending to blame for US credit downgrade*
video: cnn on 'why not to panic'*
police raid milan offices of moody's and standard & poor's*
washington state's murray will co-chair deficit 'super' panel*
debt 'supercommittee' ready for action*
dollar falls most in 40yrs against swiss franc after fed's pledge to maintain key interest rate at a record low*
geithner tells obama he will remain as treasury secretary*
postal service proposes cutting 120,000 jobs, pulling out of health-care plan*
aig sues bofa over mortgage bonds*
jpmorgan takes over finances for kentucky state government*
debt-hit students urged to sell their kidneys*
10 of today's hottest jobs: proof that america is doomed*
US consumer confidence drops to three-decade low amid economic headwinds*

obamessiah & the apostles of war - christmas 2010 edition

obama preps executive order for indefinite detention*
george w bush unharmed after security scare;
sports car careens onto bush's dallas front lawn for reasons unknown*
plan to turn post office trucks into stasi data collection nodes*
in an era of heightened security theater,
foreign diplomats & tsa share bumpy relationship*
passengers & aclu critique random baggage checks*
peoria pursues pharmacy id checks*
government agent hal turner gets 33 months*
nearly 1 in 4 students too stupid to pass US army entrance exam*
video: fake terror & the war for your mind*

kelly school shooter: 'this is a drill & these are blanks.'

please read the full article for more on this bizarre story
from deadlinelive.info: On Friday, October 8th, Brendan O’Rourke entered Kelly Elementary schoolyard during noon recess, carrying a .357 magnum and firing on students, allegedly striking two of them in the arm. After firing six shots, O’Rourke fled the schoolyard and attempted to reload his handgun. A construction crew working at the school cafeteria was able to catch O’Rourke and hold him until police arrived on the scene. Stephanie Durkee, a campus monitor at the school for 17 years, said O’Rourke was yelling when he entered the playground and started shooting. Durkee said O’Rourke shouted “Death to Obama! Kill all the little fags! Death to them!” Durkee said when she asked him what he was doing, he replied, “This is a drill and these are blanks.”

related: 2 fatally shot at tennessee post office, police say

econocrash: welfare, debtors' prisons & dying communities

walmarts swell with poor people once a month at midnight — when the govt's electronic dole payout goes through
from usatoday: Once a month, just after midnight, the beeping checkout scanners at a Walmart just off Interstate 95 come alive in a chorus of financial desperation. Here and at grocery stores across the country, the chimes come just after food stamps and other monthly government benefits drop into the accounts of shoppers who have been rationing things like milk, ground beef and toilet paper and can finally stock up again. Shoppers mill around the store after 11 p.m., killing time until their accounts are replenished. When midnight strikes, they rush for the checkout counter.

pro-foreclosure bill slip through congress to obama's desk

debtors' prisons make a comeback…in the US
from allgov: America’s jails are increasingly becoming de facto debtors’ prisons as the legal system levies more fees than ever on individuals who wind up behind bars simply because they can’t pay their bills or the administrative penalties imposed by judges. Both the Brennan Center for Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have issued reports on the rise of debt-related incarceration, noting that courts are administering more fees these days as a way to make up for budget shortfalls.

postal workers union ballots lost in mail

dying communities see salvation in new prisons
from ap: Although rural communities have successfully lobbied for — and built — prisons for years, not many studies have been done on their economic impact. Some studies indicate slight economic gains for some prison towns, according to a Congressional Research Service report in April. Others that have become prison anchors might have not grown as fast as those without prisons. Florence, Colo., where a federal prison complex went up in 1994, was once a major oil producer and gold-smelting center and now has some new businesses. New federal prisons have recently started hiring in West Virginia, which has seen a decline in coal jobs, and in an impoverished farming community in California. Others are being built in Mississippi and Alabama.

related econocrash updates:
martial law/banking collapse scenarios fall/winter 2010*
tight budgets lead to more civilians used for policing*
gold hits new record high, $1388*
meet danielle & jim plus 9: the squatters who 'reclaimed' their foreclosed home last weekend*
obama will not ban home repossessions 'fraud'*
tarpley's advice to desperate dems: ignore wall street puppet obama & demand 5yr freeze on foreclosures*
video: officials in all 50 states launch foreclosuregate investigations*

police state updates: innocent people & violent crowds

the ultimate betrayal:
police & military working together to oppress US*
hr5910: to designate no-fly zones in vicinity of certain nuke plants*
video: mexican drug cartel allegedly puts $1m bounty on arizona sheriff's head*
california storing dna of innocent people*
feds admit storing body scanner images*
feds to protect drug-dispensing postal workers from 'violent crowds'*
'see something say something' campaign expands to washdc*
is your detergent stalking you?: brazil's omo uses gps to follow consumers home*

police state updates: secret rooms, secret files

US postal service expands construction of secret rooms*
homegrown terrorist threat to be part of national security strategy*
document says number of attempted attacks on US is at all-time high*
the toronto g20 police state crackdown*
toronto gets 'sound cannons' for g20*
canada: $1b on summit security well worth it*
darpa cam spots the 'non-cooperative'*
federal protective service chief gets new job at dhs*
national guard leaders observe israel's nationwide exercise*
uk cops keep secret files on 19k protesters*
who first called attention to the times square time bomb? a muslim*
the tsa's mini-watch list*
16 terror suspects slipped through airport security in US*
private corporation building detention camps across america*
new uk govt to curb cctv, scrap id cards, help open source*

biowars/envirohealth: oil spill, media spill, political spill

bp-owned alaska oil pipeline shut after spill
from reuters: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after spilling several thousand barrels of crude oil into backup containers, drastically cutting supply down the main artery between refineries and Alaska's oilfields. The accident comes at a difficult time for BP - the largest single owner of the pipeline operator, holding 47% - as it struggles to plug a gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well. The shutdown followed a series of mishaps that resulted from a scheduled fire-command system test at Pump Station 9, about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, said Alyeska Pipeline Service Co, the operator of the 800-mile oil line.

gulf spill updates:
oil spill, media spill, political spill*
human dispersants: let's try tossing bp executives into gulf of mexico*
US has approved 19 environmental drilling waivers since oil spill*
bp gets pass from obama admin to potentially pollute lake michigan*
video: white house says 'undoubtedly' worst spill in US history*
bp calls in costner's $26m vacuum cleaners to mop up huge oil spill*
video: unhinged carville tells obama to get to the gulf*
obama's fairy tale: feds in charge of oil disaster response*
gulf oil spill, times square time bomb & occult dates apr19-may1*
video: oily insider says "there's another leak, much bigger, 5 to 6 miles away"*
bp pwned by twitter pranksters*
obama visits gulf as bp pushes on with 'top kill'*