This something that I wish I could be at and attend. But since I can not, I am doing my best to support by spreading the word. Please help in our efforts.

Thank You and Respect.
Nex Millen -GreenCollarRap.com

The hashtag#occupywallstreet inspired the most basic of organizing strategies: sit-ins. OWS sit-ins became encampments, many of which are now being dismantled by law enforcement and debilitated by weather. As the movement is increasingly out of the sight of pundits and the popular media, and criticized as leaderless and lacking a clear purpose, it has become fashionable to talk about OWS as inevitably failing. This is a mistake. Encampment “occupiers” come and go; hashtag followers live on in cyberspace, where OWS is spawning leaders and developing goals, just not in the way that most people are accustomed to.

Find out more information on the movement here.

Sunday, Philadelphia’s Mayor Nutter made a very detailed and straightforward report on his Administration’s involvement with Occupy Philadelphia, of current municipal needs and provided a profile of a changed Occupy leadership and mix. [link to the full news conference]
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/video?id=8430335

The question remains: what happened to the original leadership? This has been SamHenry’s concern from the initial stages of this movement. It is leaderless in most locations and it is just this side of anarchy when some of the more radical elements join in. And just when things are getting juicy, Jesse Jackson shows up. He would never let a good mess go to waste.
Mayor Nutter has done the responsible thing. Overnight accommodation for protesters in public spaces should be outlawed. Either you protest within the guidelines or you become a mob. It’s very simple.

Make sure you check out even more stories from Sam @ ON MY WATCH:: The writings of Sam Henry

What is the difference between a republic and a democracy?

Democracy:

Invloves the government ruling and making laws for the “greater good” of all people, they may abolish personal rights in doing so.

Democracy is government by and for the people. They may or may not be republics–that is, government limited by constitution or charter.

The tricky part of “democracy” is defining “the people” and then deciding what counts as “by the people” and what counts as “for the people.” In a sense, that could be considered the content of democratic practice.

Republic:
Involves the government using and abiding by the constitution heavily. Personal rights are respected and cannot be taken away. This helps to avoid tyranny and mobocracy (the majority makes laws and governs by passion, prejudice, or impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences).
Republics are the common and “standard” type of governments found today, not democracies, despite what many people (who may not know the definition of either) think.
Just as democracies may or may not be republics, republics may or may not be democracies.

The difference between Democracy and Republic:

Democracy and Republic are two forms of government which are distinguished by their treatment of the Minority, and the Individual, by the Majority.
In a Democracy, the Majority has unlimited power over the Minority. This system of government does not provide a legal safeguard of the rights of the Individual and the Minority. It has been referred to as “Majority over Man”.
In a Republic, the Majority is Limited and constrained by a written Constitution which protects the rights of the Individual and the Minority. The purpose of a Republic form of government is to control the Majority and to protect the God-given, inalienable rights and liberty of the Individual.
The United States of America is founded as a Republic under the Constitution.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_difference_between_a_republic_and_a_democracy#ixzz1b2Pz9s3z

America’s gold-plated credit rating is no longer King of the Hill.

Standard & Poor’s downgraded the nation’s rating leaving many Americans wondering what this means for them.

In the short term, this probably won’t mean much for the average American, like you or I.

Any impact it does have will be slight, compared to the economic turmoil we’ve weathered over the last three years.

It sounds counterintuitive, but Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the United States’ credit rating probably isn’t going to have much of a trickle-down effect on the average consumer at least, not immediately.

At least $2.1 trillion in spending cuts: The framework will immediately cap domestic and defense spending, resulting in cuts of $917 billion over 10 years.
The framework then calls for more deficit reduction — between $1.2 trillion and $1.5 trillion worth — to be determined by the end of this year and imposed over 10 years.
Bipartisan debt-reduction committee: That second round of deficit reduction would be proposed by a special bipartisan joint committee of Congress. The committee has until Thanksgiving to come up with its proposals and those proposals would be guaranteed by an up-or-down vote without amendment by Dec. 23.
If the committee proposes and the Congress approves between $1.2 trillion and $1.5 trillion in cuts, the debt ceiling will be increased dollar for dollar.
If the committee deadlocks or comes up with less than $1.2 trillion in cuts, or if Congress votes down the committee’s proposals, the debt ceiling will be raised by $1.2 trillion.
While it appears the committee will be free to consider entitlement and tax reform — and dare we say it, tax hikes — practically speaking it’s more likely members would hit an impasse over these measures just as they have, oh, every other day this year.

Read the legislation – Full text

In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world– through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.

At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater…. After a tsunami wipes out the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts…. New Orleans’s residents, scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened…. These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters — to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets.

Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies still reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. The book traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today. New, surprising connections are drawn between economic policy, “shock and awe” warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s, research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay.

The Shock Doctrine follows the application of these ideas through our contemporary history, showing in riveting detail how well-known events of the recent past have been deliberate, active theatres for the shock doctrine, among them: Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973, the Falklands War in 1982, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Asian Financial crisis in 1997 and Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

To hear the truth click here.

A special meeting of key Democrats and Republicans at the White House lasted less than 90 minutes.

With an August 2 deadline looming, Republicans have rejected a four trillion dollar deficit reduction deal because it included raising taxes.

But the US Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner is confident a solution will be found.