Slaughter's Notebook
I write at The Indypendent, The Public Record, others. Follow me @DustinSlaughter. Photojournalism at The Slingshot: http://thedavidandgoliathproject.tumblr.com/
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Link reblogged from Talking To Strangers
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NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly and spokesman Paul Browne told the Queens Chronicle that only one “actual reporter” was arrested on the November 15 raid on Zuccotti Park. However, last year Mayor Bloomberg’s spokeman confirmed five journalists with NYPD press credentials had…
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Photo reblogged from The People's Record
Here’s What’s Happening Now in Israel!
June 02, 2012
Today in Israel, thousands took to the street in at least three of Israel’s largest cities, another sign that the energy and organization of last year’s broad protest movement in Israel is reigniting. More than 5,000 took to the streets in Tel Aviv, Saturday’s largest protest.
Protesters were seen holding signs with messages like “Capitalism isn’t kosher,” and “The people demand social justice!”
The 2011 Israeli Social Justice Protest Movement
From July to October of 2011, hundreds of thousands took place in regular protests in Israel often referred to as the “2011 Israeli social justice protests.”
In August and September of 2011, exploded with much larger protests and public support with their tent encampments. The protests paralleled the Occupy Movement and are sometimes included in the movement, referred to as “Occupy Israel,” and “Occupy Tel Aviv.” Whatever the title, the movement expresses the same kind of dissatisfaction with capitalism, the status quo and institutionalized social injustice.
2012
Like the Occupy Movement, things have been quieter for the Israeli Social Justice Movement in 2012 than they were in the second half of 2011. However, over the last month the movement has conducted several coordinated protests, each gaining momentum and progressively getting larger. Today marks the largest coordinated protests from the movement since October of last year.
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In this exclusive, neighbors of activists accused of “terrorism” give their stories of aggressive, seemingly incompetent and extralegal harassment by the Chicago Police.
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See on Scoop.it - Watching Wall Street
By ABIGAIL MOSES, Bloomberg
Investors are buying more credit- default swaps on Wall Street banks than any other companies as they seek insurance against the prospects for diminished revenue amid tighter regulations, downgrades and Europe’s debt crisis.
Contracts tied to the debt of Goldman Sachs (GS) Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp. were the most traded among companies last week, with a combined gross notional amount of $7.45 billion, according to the latest data from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corp., which runs a central registry for the market. Swaps on New York-based Goldman Sachs were the most active, up from 13th the previous week.
Calls for tighter regulation are intensifying as JPMorgan grapples with $2 billion of losses on derivative bets and Morgan Stanley faces an inquiry by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over Facebook Inc.’s initial public offering. Global investment bank revenue will fall 24 percent in the second quarter, JPMorgan (JPM) analysts wrote in a May 18 note.
“People are worried about the regulatory scrutiny these banks will face,” said Peter Tchir, founder of New York-based hedge fund TF Market Advisors. “People now fully believe regulators are in charge and will get to push things through, and there’s a real risk they overregulate.”
Moody’s Review
Swaps insuring an average $470 million of Goldman Sachs’s debt were traded each day last week, double the past month’s average of $230 million. They were the seventh most traded of 1,000 entities tracked by the DTCC, following Italy, France, Brazil, Spain, Turkey and Portugal.
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Jacob Appelbaum, Dmitry Kleiner: Resisting the Surveillance State and its network effects (by republica2010)
