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Fifteen Issues, Eight Demands, One People, One Revolution (g1a2d0022c1)


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FIFTEEN ISSUES, EIGHT DEMANDS, ONE PEOPLE, ONE REVOLUTION
Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 22: Communication 1
8 Oct 2011 (g1a2d0022c1)

The steering committee of the "October 2011 Movement" – the patriots
presently occupying Freedom Plaza in Washington DC – published a summary of
the 15 issues which are the focus of their protest here:

october2011.org/issues

The 8 demands which are the focus of my personal protest are these:

1. End the Fed.
2. Reverse Citizens United.
3. Repeal PATRIOT Act.
4. Expose 9/11 Truth.
5. End Profit Wars.
6. Refund Taxpayer Trillions.
7. Imprison the Kleptocrats.
8. Single Term Limits.

To highlight the fact that addressing their 15 issues would go a long way
towards meeting these demands and vice-versa, over the past 15 days I have
posted 15 articles – one per issue, and each with an associated image and
video – which I recap below. For the sake of our cause, please feel free to
republish or otherwise make use of any of my original content in any manner
you choose:

ISSUE #1. "Corporatism – firmly establish that money is not speech,
corporations are not people, only people have Constitutional rights, end
corporate influence over the political process, protect people and the
environment from damage by corporations."

Article: Corporatism: "Sold Glory", the U.S. Flag After Citizens United v.
FEC (g1a2d0009c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-corporatism
Image: ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Sold_Glory.jpg
Video: www.hulu.com/watch/118169/the-corporation

ISSUE #2. "Wars and Militarism – end wars and occupations, end private
for-profit military contractors, reduce the national security state and end
the weapons export industry. War crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes
against peace must be addressed and those responsible held accountable under
international law."

Article: Wars & Militarism: The Real Cause of the Debt Crisis (g1a2d0006c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-wars
Image:
ironboltbruce.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/htv-2_darpa_loc…
_boondoggle.jpg
Video: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9219858826421983682#

ISSUE #3. "Human Rights – end exploitation of people in the US and abroad,
end discrimination in all forms, equal civil rights and due process for all
people."

Article: Human Rights: No Flame Burns Hotter Than A Human Torch
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URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-humanrights
Image: images.democracyreview.com/Tunisia-Mohammed-Bouazizi.png
Video: www.hulu.com/watch/151119/the-end-of-poverty

ISSUE #4. "Worker Rights and jobs – all working-age people have the right to
safe, just, non-discriminatory and dignified working conditions, a
sustainable living wage, paid leave and economic protection."

Article: U.S. Corporations Firing At Home While Hiring Abroad (g1a2d0016c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-jobs
Image:
ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Outsourcing_American_Jobs…
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2em1x2j9-o

ISSUE #5. "Government – all processes of the three branches of government
should be accountable to international law, transparent and follow the rule
of law, people have the right to participate in decisions which affect
them."

Article: Government: The Kleptocracy and You (g1a2d0007c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-government
Image: ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Kleptocracy_and_You.jpg
Video: vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/

ISSUE #6. "Elections – all citizens 18 and older have the right to vote
without barriers, all candidates have the right to be heard and to run and
all votes should be counted."

Article: Elections: Vote All You Want. The Flight Plan Doesn’t Change.
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URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-elections
Image:
ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/kleptocracy_right_wing_le…
_bird.jpg
Video: www.hulu.com/watch/177439/peace

ISSUE #7. "Criminal justice and prisons – end private for-profit prisons,
adopt evidence-based drug policy, prisoners have the right to humane and
just conditions with a focus on rehabilitation and reintegration into
society, abolish the death penalty."

Article: Prison for Profit: CCA, GEO et al Put Revenues Ahead of
Rehabilitation (g1a2d0018c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-prisons
Image:
ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Prison_Industrial_Complex…
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHVu4ZD9XQE

ISSUE #8. "Healthcare – create a national, universal and publicly financed
comprehensive health system."

Article: Healthcare in America: Who’s Paying Who? And Who’s Getting What?
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URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-healthcare
Image: ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Big_Pharma.jpg
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKP_ISD3rvQ

ISSUE #9. "Education – all people have the right to a high quality,
publicly-funded and broad education from pre-school through vocational
training or university."

Article: Students Drown in Debt as Predatory Lenders Bank Billions
(g1a2d0017c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-education
Image:
ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Student_Loans_Predatory_L…
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpZtX32sKVE

ISSUE #10. "Housing – all people have the right to affordable and safe
housing."

Article: HAMP Disaster Shows U.S. Treasury is "Fully Captured by the Big
Banks" (g1a2d0021c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-housing
Image: ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Mayer_Amschel_Rothschild.jpg
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXt1cayx0hs

ISSUE #11. "Environment – adopt policies which effectively create a
carbon-free and radio-active free energy economy and that respects the
rights of nature."

Article: The General Electric Company ("GE"): Misinformation at Work
(g1a2d0020c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-environment
Image:
ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/GE_Misinformation_At_Work…
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0khstYDLA

ISSUE #12. "Finance and the economy – end policies which foster a wealth
divide and move to a localized and democratic financial system, reform taxes
so that they are progressive and provide goods, monetary gain and services
for the people."

Article: Finance & The Economy: A Kleptocracy Tutorial Video in 12 Parts
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URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-finance
Image:
ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Fascism_Socialism_Capital…
enSystem.gif
Video: www.hulu.com/watch/235716/trading-on-thin-air

ISSUE #13. "Media – airwaves and the internet are public goods, require that
media be honest, accurate and accountable to the people."

Article: Media: Only Part of What We See is Real, Only Part of What is Real
We See (g1a2d0010c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-media
Image: ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Psywar.jpg
Video: www.openfilm.com/videos/psywar

ISSUE #14. "Food and water – create systems that protect the land and water,
create local and sustainable food networks and practices."

Article: Mighty Monsanto, King Corn & The End of Family Farms (g1a2d0015c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-food
Image: ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Monsanto.jpg
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH4OwBYDQe8

ISSUE #15. "Transportation – provide affordable, clean and convenient public
transportation and safe spaces for pedestrian and non-automobile travel."

Article: Gasholes: Every Oil Shortage/Crisis/War Could Have Been Averted
(g1a2d0019c1)
URL: tinyurl.com/ironboltbruce-transportation
Image: ldrlongdistancerider.com/images/Gashole.jpg
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVzJhlvtDms

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LABELS (A POEM OF PROTEST)

"Democrat", "Republican",
The parties of the system;
Puppets both, for sale their votes,
No character or wisdom.

"Liberal", "Conservative",
For change or status quo?
Pick either one, the change is none,
All charlatans and whores.

Far "Left" we place the Anarchists,
Libertarians claim far "Right";
Yet both decry the government:
False continuum brought to light.

For oil, "We" bomb their mud huts,
Strip them bare, then offer "Aid";
And fake their retribution as
Pretext – a false flag raised.

Unarmed hundred thousands killed
By weapons of "Defense",
While rights are lost for "Freedom" sake -
On profit, all depends.

With stroke of pen, the "Patriot" Act,
And patriots’ gifts are taken;
Then "Citizens United" leaves
Our citizens forsaken.

We protest loss of liberties,
Put "World Wide Web" to use;
Cloudmark Authority censors us
For "messaging abuse".

They label us to finger-point,
With labels, "They" deride us;
Their labels keep us all at bay,
For with labels, "They" divide us.

IronBoltBruce

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JOIN THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION!

Occupy Wall Street:

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occupywallst.org/

Occupy DC:

www.ustream.tv/channel/october2011

october2011.org/

Occupy LA:

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occupylosangeles.org/

Occupy Together:

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PUBLIC NOTICE: No talking heads on Comcast/GE’s NBC/CNBC/MSNBC speak for us.
No talking heads on Murdoch’s Faux News speak for us. No talking heads at
the Kleptocracy’s Compliant News Network (CNN) speak for us (no matter how
dull, deliberate or subtle their delivery). No talking heads in the
lamestream media speak for us, period. And neither do ANY of the 537
bought-and-paid-for Kleptocracy puppets in Washington DC who will soon be
joining our legions of unemployed!

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MOUNT AN DO ME …..item 1..China Consolidates Grip on Rare Earths — forcing prices to rise eightfold to fortyfold (September 15, 2011) …


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An 11-watt G.E. compact fluorescent bulb — the lighting equivalent of a 40-watt incandescent bulb — was priced on Thursday ..(9/15/2011).. at .88 on Wal-Mart’s Web site for pickup in a Nashville, Ark., store.

…..item 1)….website….Yahoo! Finance….

The New York Times

KEITH BRADSHER, On Thursday September 15, 2011, 7:46 pm EDT

finance.yahoo.com/news/China-Consolidates-Grip-on-nytimes…

BEIJING — In the name of fighting pollution, China has sent the price of compact fluorescent light bulbs soaring in the United States.

By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers of rare earth metals — which are used in energy-efficient bulbs and many other green-energy products — China is temporarily shutting down most of the industry and crimping the global supply of the vital resources.

China produces nearly 95 percent of the world’s rare earth materials, and it is taking the steps to improve pollution controls in a notoriously toxic mining and processing industry. But the moves also have potential international trade implications and have started yet another round of price increases for rare earths, which are vital for green-energy products including giant wind turbines, hybrid gasoline-electric cars and compact fluorescent bulbs.

General Electric, facing complaints in the United States about rising prices for its compact fluorescent bulbs, recently noted in a statement that if the rate of inflation over the last 12 months on the rare earth element europium oxide had been applied to a cup of coffee, that coffee would now cost .55.

An 11-watt G.E. compact fluorescent bulb — the lighting equivalent of a 40-watt incandescent bulb — was priced on Thursday at .88 on Wal-Mart’s Web site for pickup in a Nashville, Ark., store.

Wal-Mart, which has made a big push for compact fluorescent bulbs, acknowledged that it needed to raise prices on some brands lately. “Obviously we don’t want to pass along price increases to our customers, but occasionally market conditions require it,” Tara Raddohl, a spokeswoman, said. The Chinese actions on rare earths were a prime topic of conversation at a conference here on Thursday that was organized by Metal-Pages, an industry data firm based in London.

Soaring prices are rippling through a long list of industries.

“The high cost of rare earths is having a significant chilling effect on wind turbine and electric motor production in spite of offsetting government subsidies for green tech products,” said one of the conference attendees, Michael N. Silver, chairman and chief executive of American Elements, a chemical company based in Los Angeles. It supplies rare earths and other high-tech materials to a wide range of American and foreign businesses.

But with light bulbs, especially, the timing of the latest price increases is politically awkward for the lighting industry and for environmentalists who backed a shift to energy-efficient lighting.

In January, legislation that President George W. Bush signed into law in 2007 will begin phasing out traditional incandescent bulbs in favor of spiral compact fluorescent bulbs, light-emitting diodes and other technologies. The European Union has also mandated a switch from incandescent bulbs to energy-efficient lighting.

Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota is running for the Republican presidential nomination on a platform that includes strong opposition to the new lighting rules in the United States and has been a leader of efforts by House Republicans to repeal it.

China says it has largely shut down its rare earth industry for three months to address pollution problems. By invoking environmental concerns, China could potentially try to circumvent international trade rules that are supposed to prohibit export restrictions of vital materials.

In July, the European Union said in a statement on rare earth policy that the organization supported efforts to protect the environment, but that discrimination against foreign buyers of rare earths was not allowed under World Trade Organization rules.

China has been imposing tariffs and quotas on its rare earth exports for the last several years, curtailing global supplies and forcing prices to rise eightfold to fortyfold during that period for the various 17 rare earth elements.

Even before this latest move by China, the United States and the European Union were preparing to file a case at the W.T.O. this winter that would challenge Chinese export taxes and export quotas on rare earths.

Chinese officials here at the conference said the government was worried about polluted water, polluted air and radioactive residues from the rare earth industry, particularly among many small and private companies, some of which operate without the proper licenses. While rare earths themselves are not radioactive, they are always found in ore containing radioactive thorium and require careful handling and processing to avoid contaminating the environment.

Most of the country’s rare earth factories have been closed since early August, including those under government control, to allow for installation of pollution control equipment that must be in place by Oct. 1, executives and regulators said.

The government is determined to clean up the industry, said Xu Xu, chairman of the China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals and Chemicals Importers and Exporters, a government-controlled group that oversees the rare earth industry. “The entrepreneurs don’t care about environmental problems, don’t care about labor problems and don’t care about their social responsibility,” he said. “And now we have to educate them.”

Beijing authorities are creating a single government-controlled monopoly, Bao Gang Rare Earth, to mine and process ore in northern China, the region that accounts for two-thirds of China’s output. The government is ordering 31 mostly private rare earth processing companies to close this year in that region and is forcing four other companies into mergers with Bao Gang, said Li Zhong, the vice general manager of Bao Gang Rare Earth.

The government also plans to consolidate 80 percent of the production from southern China, which produces the rest of China’s rare earths, into three companies within the next year or two, Mr. Li said. All three of these companies are former ministries of the Chinese government that were spun out as corporations, and the central government still owns most of the shares.

The taxes and quotas China had in place to restrict rare earth exports caused many companies to move their factories to China from the United States and Europe so that they could secure a reliable and inexpensive source of raw materials.

China promised when it joined the W.T.O. in 2001 that it would not restrict exports except for a handful of obscure materials. Rare earths were not among the exceptions.

But even if the W.T.O. orders China to dismantle its export tariffs and quotas, the industry consolidation now under way could enable China to retain tight control over exports and continue to put pressure on foreign companies to relocate to China.

The four state-owned companies might limit sales to foreign buyers, a tactic that would be hard to address through the W.T.O., Western trade officials said.

Hedge funds and other speculators have been buying and hoarding rare earths this year, with prices rising particularly quickly through early August, and dipping since then as some have sold their inventories to take profits, said Constantine Karayannopoulos, the chief executive of Neo Material Technologies, a Canadian company that is one of the largest processors in China of raw rare earths.

“The real hot money got into the industry building neodymium and europium inventories in Shanghai warehouses,” he said.

Stephanie Clifford contributed reporting from New York.
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