Monday, July 18, 2011

Protests Grow in Solidarity with California Prisoners as Hunger Strikes Enter Third Week

Thousands of inmates in at least 13 prisons across
California's troubled prison system have been on hunger
strike for almost two weeks. Many are protesting in
solidarity with inmates held in Pelican Bay State
Prison, California's first super-maximum security
prison, over what prisoners say are cruel and unusual
conditions in "Secure Housing Units."

https://mayfirst.org/



From: http://lists.portside.org/cgi-bin/listserv/wa?A2=PORTSIDE;7ec053bf.1107c

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Japan official: ~JAPAN could become UNINHABITABLE~

Worse than meltdown, government report says devastating 'melt-through' has occurred at Fukushima; Official suggests Japan could become 'uninhabitable'.


senior political official Ichiro Ozawa suggested in an interview with The Wall Street Journal(WSJ) that the Fukushima situation could make the entire country of Japan "unlivable."


from www.naturalnews.com

Worse than meltdown, government report says devastating 'melt-through' has occurred at Fukushima; Official suggests Japan could become 'uninhabitable'


here is your new world order

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Republican Medieval Robber Corporation Barrons. Big victory at the expense of the American middle class

83 of the 100 largest U.S. companies operate subsidiaries in nations that the government watchdog considers tax havens.

corporate titans and their lobbyists appear poised for a big victory at the expense of the American middle class.

high-powered corporate lobbyists are using tax reform negotiations to push for more offshore tax breaks and official federal forgiveness for tax avoidance schemes.

pledged to actively reduce corporate taxes in his fiscal 2012 budget proposal, which would also do away with or fundamentally change key social services, including Medicare.

The corporate tax reform proposed by the commission would permanently push popular offshore tax shelters beyond the reach of Uncle Sam -- very bad news for legislators, economists and average citizens hoping to see big companies play a bigger role in helping to narrow the budget gap

The push for lower corporate tax rates comes during a flush time for corporate America.

Overall corporate taxes as a share of GDP are hovering around one percent, the lowest share of GDP since World War II.


At a time when cuts to access to college, cuts to scientific research are on the table, it makes no sense to take corporate taxes off the table

the average American company actually pays a tax rate of just 13.4 percent -- lower, for example, than France, Portugal, Spain, Japan, Canada, and Switzerland, and less than half the average rate paid in the United Kingdom and Australia. This, despite the fact that, according to the study, the U.S. had one of the highest official rates in the industrialized world.

Tax experts say that no meaningful corporate tax overhaul, revenue neutral or otherwise, can allow companies to continue stashing money in offshore tax havens-- a creative accounting tactic that allows big firms to avoid paying $50 billion in taxes every year, according to the U.S. Treasury.

Gauging the specific amount of taxes lost to offshore accounts is difficult, however, and reform advocates say the number could be even bigger.

Companies can register profitable enterprises at an address in the Cayman Islands-- even if it actually does business on Wall Street -- and voila: so long as companies leave their profits in the Caribbean, their taxes can be "deferred" indefinitely.


Big Business Dominating Tax Reform Talks

www.huffingtonpost.com


Revolution is clearly needed. a revolution to counter republican tax defrauding scheme.

Register third oarty, vote third party.

FriendFeed widget

Blog Widget by LinkWithin