IMC/Confluence writer's meeting
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Thursday, Dec. 4 7:30 PM CAMP 3026 Cherokee @ Minnesota in south St. LouisLand Use / Development
Black & Green: The Housing Crisis in St. Louis @ Legacy Books
Black & Green Wednesday
FORUM: The Housing Crisis in St. Louis
WHEN: 7 pm, Wednesday December 3, 2008
WHERE: Legacy Books and Café, 5249 Delmar (near Union)
A panel discussion will include:
* Lionel Nixon, Universal African Peoples Org, Green Party [moderator]
* James M. Heard, Director, Housing and Urban Development
* Cheryl Lovell, Executive Director, St. Louis Housing Authority
* Sean Thomas, Old North St. Louis Restoration Group
* Greg Tumlin, Citizens Coalition to Fight Eminent Domain Abuse
* Bertha Gilkey, Housing Consultant
Date:
12/03/2008 - 7:00pm - 12/03/2008 - 9:00pmWash U Talk What's the Connection Between Green Space and City Violence?
Date:
12/01/2008 - 12:00pm - 12/01/2008 - 1:00pmThey're Remodeling the Arch And No One Cares
There's a public discussion forum currently underway to give a make-over to probably the most iconic aspect of the city, and hardly any public is to be seen. Look forward to the monument being replaced with an Autozone franchise and a Blimpy's.
As I sat in the Steinberg auditorium on Friday night waiting for the start of a panel discussion on the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, I wondered where the crowd might be.
As I sat in the Steinberg auditorium on Friday night waiting for the start of a panel discussion on the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, I wondered where the crowd might be. The panel discussion was part of this weekend's student charrette sponsored by the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the Transportation Engineering Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and featured the public match-up of Danforth Foundation President Peter Sortino and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Superintendent Tom Bradley. Joining the panel were moderator Robert Duffy of the St.
Animal Farm Economics
- Economic Fascism in the United States of America
It is very simple economic fascism, animal farm economics 101.
IRS property confiscation for taxes; this is the definition of economic fascism; IRS property confiscation for taxes.
The United States Federal Government is losing containment of it’s :cash cow"; your home.
The Federal government is buying all home mortgages and at fire sale prices!
The Federal government is buying banks, and at fire sale prices!
The federal government is buying your debt, and at fire sale prices!
If You do not support the United States Federal Government they are going to kick you out of your house.
Do you get it yet?
You will be kept a squatter and if you play the game correctly and support the Federal government, they will let you keep your home.
Economic Fascism and The United States
If I do not believe in, trust, or support the US Federal Government, my home should not be in jeopardy. The Federal Government, whenever they choose, through the IRS, will take your home if you do not support them. This confiscation of property by the Federal Government is absolutely and unequivocally wrong, and it is illegal.
For the Federal Government to threaten me with stealing my home because I want them to fail, is economic FASCISM.
Let the Federal Government collect it’s taxes but to put my home in peril because of taxes - is ECONOMIC FASCISM.
I want the Federal Government to spend itself into bankruptcy and irrelevance; and it is my patriotic right as a human and and an American to have control over my money to do so.
I believe in local taxes, and local representation of those taxes; to me - the FED is DEAD.
The day a Trident Nuclear submarine pulls into port for salvage and dismantling, because the US Federal Government has no money, will be the day I open a bottle of champagne, and christen my life.
Illegal use of Equity - Average and Normal
People have made bad, and improper investments with credit and equity.
My family and friends (who I would say are "average" and "normal" Americans) have used home equity to buy other homes, invest in the stock market, to buy "stuff", and to pay expenses. This sometimes illegal and improper use of residential property equity is the problem! This equity does not exist yet and no one knows when or if it will, or how much it may be; and it is all ready "at work" - multiply times over. I have seen many people live off of credit and use their money to invest. This "hyper-capitalism" of equity on equity - on credit and debt appreciation, is a flawed and failing economic model, and it is failing - just as it should.
My landlord was out yesterday because her house needs major work.
She said "Well, I'll just have to do it - I mean it has to be done - I am getting a home improvement loan on another property and I'll have to use it here - Well it has to be done - so keep me informed - I am refinancing this house at a lower rate on Friday - if I can get the loan with the house like this - could you cover it with plastic or something for the bank appraiser to come out?"......
FOX News Suggests Mortgages for Minorities Caused Financial Collapse
Neil Cavuto, host of Fox News' Your World, conflated giving home mortgages to minorities with risky lending practices, suggesting that efforts to increase homeownership among minority borrowers contributed to financial problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Discussing the decision by the U.S. Treasury Department and the Federal Housing Finance Agency to place Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship, Cavuto asked Rep.
Publisher:
Media MattersSolarFest Renewable Energy Fair
SolarFest Renewable Energy Fair ~
Meridian Park School ~
175th and Meridian Ave N
Shoreline WA ~
July 19, 2008 ~ 10AM – 8PM
The Speaker Schedule is available here:
http://www.shorelinesolar.org/fair5/speakers.php
The list of Exhibitors is available here:
http://www.shorelinesolar.org/fair5/exhibitors.php
Check out our Sponsors here:
http://www.shorelinesolar.org/fair5/sponsors.php
Interested in volunteering at the Shoreline SolarFest?
volunteer@shorelinesolar.org
Special Offerings at the Fair
Kitchen Compost Pail and Biobag give-a-way.
For Residents of Shoreline Only:
Denver Homeless Being Sent To Zoo During Dem Convention
Publisher:
WonkettePipe scheme: ICC judge to weigh Canadian pipeline's demand for eminent domain in Illinois
Pipe scheme
ICC judge to weigh Canadian pipeline's demand for eminent domain
BY PETER DOWNS, Illinois Times
JULY 3, 2008
Should a $10 billion Canadian oil and gas delivery company get the right to take a private nature preserve from a retired Illinois railroad conductor? Larry Jones, an administrative law judge with the Illinois Commerce Commission, is set to begin hearings in Springfield on July 8 to settle that question.
Carlisle Kelly’s nature preserve isn’t large, only 205 acres, but the battle for control of piece of his property is seen as a test of how much Americans are being asked to give up to supply the world’s energy needs.
