BLACKOUT 2012: DAY 11 dvtv live broadcast 11.8.12

FOR THOUSANDS OF MANHATTAN RESIDENTS THIS IS THE ELEVENTH NIGHT OF THE BLACKOUT. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS THAT 30 PER CENT OF THE CITY'S PROJECTS ARE WITHOUT HEAT. AT KNICKERBOCKER VILLAGE ON MONROE STREET EIGHT BUILDINGS REMAIN WITHOUT POWER. THERE IS OVER 20 FEET OF WATER IN THE BOILER ROOMS. SOME ARE ESTIMATING IT WILL TAKE UP TO THREE WEEKS - THREE WEEKS - BEFORE THE LIGHTS AND HEAT RETURN. HAVEN PLAZA ON AVENUE C REMAINS IN A BLACKOUT - NO POWER - NO HEAT - NO HOT WATER - NO WATER AT ALL FOR THE UPPER TWENTY FLOORS OF THE TWENTY-SIX-STORY HOUSING PROJECT. THE N.Y.C HOUSING AUTHORITY LACKS ENOUGH WORKERS - LACKS ENOUGH ENGINEERS - LACKS THE PUMPS NECESSARY TO EMPTY THE BASEMENTS - AND IN SOME CASES THEY EVEN LACK THE GASOLINE TO POWER THE PUMPS. CON EDISON WORKERS HAVE BEEN WAITING ALL WEEK TO GET INTO TO THESE BASEMENTS. BUT - EVEN WHEN THE BASEMENTS OF THESE BUILDINGS ARE EVENTUALLY PUMPED DRY THE EQUIPTMENT PROBABLY WON'T WORK. UNKNOWN DAMAGE TO THE BOILERS - THE TRANSFORMERS -- THE CABLES AND JUNCTION BOXES THAT SUPPLY ELECTRICITY TO THE BUILDINGS COULD CAUSE THESE BLACKOUTS TO LAST EVEN LONGER. JUST AS IT WAS A SURREAL SCENE DOWNTOWN LAST WEEK WITH ALL THE LIGHTS OUT - TONIGHT THE LOWER EAST SIDE REMAINS SURREAL - WITH BARS FULL OF HAPPY STUDENTS AND YUPPIES PARTYING ON ONE SIDE OF AVENUE C - JUST ACROSS THE STREET - ELDERLY AND DISABLED RESIDENTS REMAIN STRANDED IN THIER COLD DARK APARTMENTS FOR THE ELEVENTH NIGHT IN A ROW. AN UNPRECIDENTED CRISIS IN NEW YORK CITY. VOLUNTEERS TODAY CONTINUED TO CARRY WATER - BLANKETS - FOOD AND LIFE SAVING MEDICATION - UP TWELVE FLIGHTS - OR TWENTY FLIGHTS - OR TWENTY-SIX FLIGHTS OF STAIRS JUST TO KEEP THESE PEOPLE ALIVE. THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS CAME TO THE RESCUE OF THE SUBWAYS AND THE TUNNELS - WHY ARE THEY NOT PUMPING OUT THE BASEMENTS OF THESE BUILDINGS WHERE TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LIVE? WHAT IS THE POINT OF DECLARING A STATE OF EMERGENCY IF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE - FAMILIES - DISABLED - ELDERLY PEOPLE -ARE IGNORED - LEFT TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES. THE VILLAGE VOICE FEATURED THE EFFORTS OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT IN BROOKLYN AND QUEENS TO BRING SUPPLIES TO SOME HOUSING PROJECTS. WHY THE OCCUPY PEOPLE - BECAUSE FEMA HASN'T SHOWN UP. THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY CAN'T MANAGE TO FIND THIER WAY TO SOME OF THE POORER NEIGHBORHOODS IN NEW YORK CITY. FEDERAL OFFICIALS CAN'T MANAGE TO TAKE THE SUBWAY TO THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THEM MOST. SO WHILE THE REST OF THE CITY AND THE MAYOR CONGRADULATE THEMSELVES ON HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO SURVIVE THE WORST HURRICANE TO HIT THE CITY IN DECADES - PERHAPS THEY SHOULD LOOK TO THE DARKENED BUILDINGS ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE - RED HOOK - THE ROCKAWAYS. PERHAPS THEY SHOULD PONDER WHAT IT TAKES TO CLIMB TWENTY FLIGHTS IN A PITCH BLACK STAIRWAY CARRYING WATER FOOD BLANKETS. FOR MOST OF US IT WAS A COUPLE DAYS ADVENTURE WHEN WE HAD TO WAIT ON LONG LINES AT GRISTEDE'S AND GO SOMEWHERE TO CHARGE OUR PHONES. FOR THOUSANDS OF OUR NEIGHBORS - THIS REMAINS A COLD - DARK - EMERGENCY FOR THE ELEVENTH NIGHT - WITH NO END IN SIGHT.

BLACKOUT 2012: DAY 4 dvtv live broadcast 11.1.12

ALL OF THE ELEMENTS THAT MADE NEW YORK THE COMMUNICATION AND THE FINANCIAL CAITAL OF THE WORLD -- ALL THESE THINGS ALL SUDDENLY VERY VULNERABLE. ALL THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DONE BY INDIVIDUALS -- BY BUSINESSES AND YES EVEN BY THE MAYOR TO KEEP NEW YORK THE WORLD CAPITAL OF THESE THINGS -- ALL OF IT JUST GOT NEUTERED BY A NATURAL DISASTER. IF INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES AND CORPORATIONS AND EVEN CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS -- IF THEY BEGIN TO QUESTION WHY THEY SHOULD PAY THE MOST EXPENSIVE RENTS IN THE COUNTRY - FOR THE PRIVELIDGE OF LIVING AND WORKING IN THE MEDIA OR THE FINACIAL CAPITOL OF THE WORLD -- THEN OUR WORLD-LEADING POSITION IS COMPROMISED. CONCERNS ABOUT FLOODS -- COMMUNICATION BLACKOUTS -- POWER BLACKOUTS -- THESE ARE NORMALLY CONCERNS IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES. BUT NOW -- AS OF MONDAY NIGHT -- THESE THIRD-WORLD CONCERNS ARE OUR OWN. NEW YORK HAS SURVIVED MANY CATASTROPHIES IN THE PAST -- BUT NONE OF THEM HAVE SHAKEN OUR CONFIDENCE LIKE THIS. ONE CONSEQUENCE IS THAT MOST OF US ARE LIKELY TO TAKE THE NEXT WEATHER ADVISORY MUCH MUCH MORE SERIOUYSLY. ANOTHER CONSEQUENCE MAY BE THAT ANY INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS INSTITUTION OR OTHER ENTITY MAY QUESTION NEW YORK'S SUITABILITY AS THEIR HOME. WEEK-LONG BLACKOUTS HAVE THAT EFFECT. RIGHT NOW THE CITY STRUGGLES TO GET THE POWER BACK ON -- STRUGGLES TO EMPTY THE TUNNELS -- STRUGGLES TO GET HOMES FOR PEOPLE IN SHELTERS. AFTER THAT THE CLEANUP -- BUT AFTER THAT COMES THE REAL PROBLEM OF MAKING THE INFRASTRUCTURE SAFE FROM TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY POST-GLOBAL-WARMING WEATHER. A GOOD METAPHOR FOR THIS IS THE CRANE COLLAPSE ON 57TH STREET. CARNIGIE HALL -- THE SAN MORITZ HOTEL -- ALL NO-MANS LAND BECAUSE OF A PIECE OF STEEL DANGLING 80 STORIES ABOVE THE STREET. RIGHT NOW THE BEST SOLUTION PROPOSED HAS BEEN TO STRAP THE DANGLING CRANE TO THE BUILDING. THERE'S NO WORD ON WHEN THAT MIGHT HAPPEN -- NO WORD AS TO WHEN 57TH STREET MIGHT BE SAFE TO WALK AGAIN. APPEARANTLY SINCE TUESDAY AFTERNOON -- THE BEST ENGINEERING MINDS IN THE CITY ARE STILL LOOKING FOR A BIG ENOUGH STRAP.

THREE WORDS ON THE DEBATE...

ROPE-A-DOPE

MR. ANSWERMAN RETURNS: dvtv live broadcast 9.20.2012 featuring Stefanie Alleyne

dvtv live tonight: SHOULD I GO EASY ON OBAMA?

should i go easy on Obama tonight? 

OR should i give him the same treatment i gave Romney last week?

YOU decide! 
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dvtv live tonight: THE YEAR OF THE RAPIST!

join me tonight at 10:30 pm with my special guest live via sattilite from Tampa: Mitt Romney!
PLUS: what's in Mitten's TAX RETURNS that he WON'T let you see. 
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FREE PUSSY RIOT!

Pussy Riot members have been sentenced to two years corrective labor for performing a two minute song. from NYTimes:

MOSCOW — A Moscow judge handed down stiff prison sentences of two years on Friday afternoon for three young women who staged a protest against Vladimir V. Putin in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior last February and whose jailing and trial on hooliganism charges have generated worldwide criticism of constraints on political speech in Russia.

 Pussy Riot also released a new single, "Putin Lights Up the Fires". great song, which can be heard below, with a video compiled by The Guardian UK.

                   
                   
                   
                   
               

UNDER THE GUN: dvtv live broadcast 7.26.2012

THE NRA REASONS THAT BECAUSE OBAMA HAS NOT TAKEN ANY ACTION TO CHANGE GUN LAWS IN HIS FIRST TERM - THEN OF COURSE HE'S GONNA TAKE DRASTIC ACTION AGAINST GUN OWNERS IN HIS SECOND TERM. LOGIC - I JUST SAW A TRAIN GOING THAT WAY - THERE MUST BE ONE COMING THIS WAY. WHEN INTELLIGENT DISCUSSION OF GUN ISSUES IS MUZZLED - SILENCED - THIS IS THE KIND OF LOOPY LOGIC THAT PREVAILS. THE BIG PROBLEM HERE KIDS IS THAT AMERICANS -- WE LOVES US OUR GUNS -- CAN'T MAKE 'EM FAST ENOUGH -- CAN'T MAKE 'EM BIG ENOUGH --  THEY ARE FLYING OFF THE SHELVES IN COLORADO -- JUST AS THEY DID AFTER OBAMA GOT ELECTED. OUR CULTURE AND OUR LANGUAGE ARE INFUSED WITH THE SYMBOLISM OF FIREARMS. UNIVERSAL ACCESS TO FIREARMS HAS CONSEQUENCES - THAT PLAY OUT IN SCHOOL SHOOTINGS -- PARKING LOT MASSACRES -- AND BLOCKBUSTER MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS. PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION.

DOCUMENTARY EDITING SEMINAR with Richard Speziale

Richard Speziale is an award-winning producer, broadcaster, and blogger who has lived in Manhattan forever. He scripted and edited the documentary BURMA: AN INDICTMENT (Best Documentary - 2010 Soho International Film Festival). A former network news editor, Speziale is the host of the long-running DVTV LIVE on cable, and currently teaches video production and conducts seminars in media history and media literacy.

dvtv live broadcast 5.3.2012: HILLARY, CHEN GUANCHENG and AUNG SAN SUU KYI

with special guest Jeremy Taylor, outspoken human rights activist and executive director of burmarelief.org

dvtv live broadcast 4.19.12: ROMNEY'S WAR ON WOMEN

ROMNEY THINKS THAT A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOME (OR IN HIS CASE, HOMES). BUT DOES HE EXPRESS THE SAME LOVE FOR STAY-AT HOME MOMS WHO DON'T HAVE NINE-FIGURE BANK ACCOUNTS -- MOMS AMONG THE ONE-IN-EIGHT AMERICANS WHO DEPEND ON FOOD STAMPS FOR BASIC NOURISHMENT? HELL NO -- MITT WANTS THOSE POOR MOMS TO LEAVE THE HOME -- HE WANTS THOSE MOMS TO EXPERIENCE THE DIGNITY OF WORK: MOTHERS OF TWO-YEAR-OLDS SHOULD PACK THEIR KIDS INTO DAY CARE AND GO GET A JOB. IT'S SOMEHOW UNDIGNIFIED FOR A LOW-INCOME MOTHER TO STAY HOME AND RAISE A CHILD.

DVTV LIVE BROADCAST 4.12.12: TRIAL of the CENTURY: FLA. V. ZIMMERMAN

AS THE TRIAL GEARS UP PREPARE YOURSELF FOR ENDLESS COMMENTS FROM HANNITY AND JESSE AND REVEREND AL AND LIMBAUGH AND DONALD TRUMP AND FRIGGIN' TED NUGENT (AND THAT MEGADETH GUY TOO, EVEN).
THE ONE GOOD THING THAT COMES FROM THIS MEDIA CLUSTERFUCK IS THE ATTENTION PAID TO OTHER VICTIMS OF RACIAL PROFILING - AND THE FACT THAT EVERY DAY IN AMERICA PEOPLE ARE TARGETED FOR VIOLENCE - ARREST- OR EVEN EXECUTION - BECAUSE OF WHO THEY ARE.
TARGETED BY PEOPLE AND LAW-ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND LAW-ENFORCEMENT WANNABEES - LIKE ZIMMERMAN - BECAUSE THEY FEEL THREATENED BY THEIR OWN PERCEPTION OF WHO THESE PEOPLE MIGHT BE: CRIMINALS - DRUG-DEALERS - TERRORISTS.
THIS IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT THINGS LIKE RACISIM AND RACIAL PROFILING.
THE LONGER IT IS ACCEPTED - THE MORE INNOCENT AMERICANS WILL DIE.

Last Will and Embezzlement Première
The Quad Cinema April 13th through April 19th, 2012
2 screenings daily at 1:00pm and 7:30pm
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Hollywood icon Mickey Rooney stars in Last Will and Embezzlement, a 82-minute feature-length documentary inspired by the recent true-life events.
Our hope is that Last Will and Embezzlement will shine a light on this global problem, help those who have potentially-vulnerable adults in their lives to be on the look-out for signs of victimization, and maybe even make some waves in the communities where the rights of these citizens are not being looked after and protected by the public servants and law enforcement officials who are charged with that responsibility.

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dvtv live broadcast 3.29.12: KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN

"When sixty-eight year-old Kenneth Chamberlain was shot in his own apartment last November -- the local White Plains paper reported the story as: police shoot emotionally disturbed man with a knife. Since then, disturbing and incriminating details have emerged. But it wasn't until his family took action that the New York Times noticed Chamberlain's death..."

dvtv live broadcast 3.29.12: ZIMMERMAN UNSCATHED

prejudice has been a human condition for a long time and will probably never be eliminated from the human equasion.
what can be eliminated is the sense that people of color -- people who aren't white - can be murdered or left for dead without consequences. the only consequence George Zimmerman has experienced is that he is no longer an effective neighborhood watchman.

dvtv live broadcast 2.2.12: WAR ON THE POOR

what romney said after winning florida about not caring about the very poor – yes it was taken out of context – but it was a crass and despicable statement nonetheless – at a time when so many people are out of work – this country has an effective twenty per cent unemployment – a statement like that could only come from filthy-rich scumbag like romney. and romney is not amoung the one-per-cent nor is he amoung the point- one-per-cent nor is he amoung the point-zero-one-per-cent.

willard mitt romney is amoung the point-zero-zero-two-five-per-cent richest in the country. now many people tell me – 'you can’t hold it against him that he’s rich'.

why the fuck not?

this “likes-to-fire-people” motherfucker made his millions by bankrupting companies – firing american workers – and exporting their jobs to china. companies went bankrupt – americans lost jobs – stockholders left holding worthless paper – and bain capitol made billions. i hold it against him not only because he’s so rich - but because he made his quarter-billion-dollars bankrupting american companies - putting americans out of work. he’s a huge part of the problem.

gingrich who has considerably less millions than romney – he’s even worse suggesting child labor for poor school children - stating that poor youth don’t understand making money unless its illegal and throwing in the race card for good measure. this is class warfare indeed – this is a republican-led war on the poor.

remember who got blamed for the world financial collapse three years ago – not the banks – it was all those - poor people who signed morgages. yeah - all those poor people - hoodwinked those international banks out of trillions – with-their paper signing skills. poor people know how to trick banks - yeah. just today the governer of illinois signed a right-to work law – that’s twenty-two states now – restricting union activity in the workplace.

about michigan governor scotty- boy walker last year – attacking union rights and pensions of teachers – nurses – firefighters – he’s now threatened by a recall and good riddance if he goes. i just said – republican-led attack on the poor – it’s more like an all-out assault on everybody who isn’t a millionaire – that’s about – uhhhh – ninety-nine per-cent of us.

which brings us to barak obama – your other choice on our limited democracy menu.

obama’s in full campaign-pledge mode now- which is why i tune him out – i still remember the one’s he came up with four years ago – there was one about guantanamo bay –there was one about day one bringing the troops home from afganaistan –well the military’s bigger than the president – war on terror and all that – there was one about comfortable shoes…

dvtv live broadcast 01.26.12: MR. ANSWER MAN

Our world experienced so many changes in the past year - and 2012 promises even more. With every change, another question arises. Indeed -- some of you may find yourselves overwhelmed with questions.
Tonight as a public service of dvtv live and Manhattan Neighborhood Network, we are proud to present - Mister Answer Man, responding in person to your emailed questions.
Each viewer email received is carefully filed and tabulated by a faceless server located in Bangalore -- and some of the emails are actually read.
emily_2525 of Manhattan writes:
Dear Mister Answer Man,
On Tuesday night Obama pledged to form a special unit to investigate fraud in the financial sector. Does this mean that the banksters who crashed the world economy will finally be held accountable for putting so many people out of their homes?

A: Actually - no. What this means is some low-level administrator will be offered up as a sacrifice. This also means that we will learn every last detail of this unfortunate person's miserable life -- as mainstream media and cable news will blast them incessantly throughout the course of his three-year trial.
Remember: wealthy white men are never held accountable for their crimes -- especially if billions of dollars are involved.

Stefanie: a message from lizzettelee3200 in Nutley, New Jersey:
Dear Mister Answer Man,
I was shocked to learn that one of the leading republican presidential candidates would consider making all forms of birth control illegal. This particular candidate would also make abortions illegal, even in the case of pregnancies resulting from rape.
His view is that Jesus would want me to have the rapist's baby.
How can a man with such views be even taken seriously in the year 2012?

A: I'm afraid you are not considering the entire question. Rick Santorum is a deeply religious man.
Perhaps Jesus does want you to have the rapist's baby.

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dvtv live broadcast 01.05.12: GONE

LIVE BROADCAST THURSDAY

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dvtv live broadcast 11.17.11: NO SELLOUT

"...Long before New York became the financial capitol of the world, New York was the staging ground for world-famous, world-class public protests.

There's been demonstrations going on in Manhattan since the nineteenth century. Like any other public event - accommodations must be made for the masses of people who attend these public demonstrations.

This simple fact of life-in-the-big-city seems to be somehow lost on the current city administration. Over the years the Bloomberg administration's response to mass demonstrations: unwarranted surveillance, harassment, impediment, random arrests, mass arrests, random violence, pepper spray and ear-pain-guns.

When a city and a police department refuse to make accommodations for a mass public event - things happen - like pepper spraying women for holding a sign -- or unknown liquids getting thrown on cops. The absolute insistence that all demonstrations take place on a small part of the sidewalk - and the absurd notion that no one can be inconvenienced by a demonstration - results in scuffles over barricades and arrests for blocking traffic and endless lawsuits and injuries to both cops and passers-by.

Then there are more deliberate forms if civil disobedience - like the ninety-nine union members - who sat down in the middle of chambers street earlier this evening -- in front of many news cameras police-on their-best-behavior immediately arrested those ninety-nine union members. Among those ninety-nine - not an accidental number -- City Council member Jumaane Williams of Brooklyn.

About those ear pain guns -- lets run the slideshow -- downtown earlier today - this is the LRAD high-pitched sound blaster designed to deter pirate boats and terrorists at least a quarter mile away -- its called a distance-hailing-and-crowd-control-device, originally developed to warn incoming vessels approaching without permission. The LRAD 100X can be cranked up to an incredible 172 decibels. Human hearing is immediately damaged at 140 decibels.

Here is a picture that needs to be seen more -- this is eighty-four-year-old Dorli Rainey. She's a retired school teacher pepper sprayed over the weekend at occupy Seattle -- this is the result of an increasingly militarized police culture in the United States and a militarized culture needs an enemy to fight -- that enemy is the public.

The police were once considered part of the community -- now its an occupying army.

From Warsaw, one clever activist outfoxed the riot police - this video from latajacakamera on YouTube -- this is a flying drone, a Polish-built Robokopter -- police don't even seem to notice it. But if used here it would be dubbed a terror device.

Just like Bloomberg did today at an afternoon press conference where he described metal-tube like devices protesters planned to use to chain themselves to the doors of the stock exchange. This was the best you could come up with? Metal tubes? No dirty bombs or anti-capitalism nerve gas?"

WE'RE ALL DOOMED SO LETS FUCK SHIT UP

starting with like Macy's?

THAT'S the message from THOUSANDS OF ENRAGED PEACEFUL PROTESTERS downtown today, who are not rioting in the streets demanding the release of Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez.

after all congress is about to declare pizza a vegetable and approve unlimited internet censorsh










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NOW IT GETS MESSY...

as it should whenever you deny americans their first amendment rights.

Watch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com

clearly Bloomberg feared the huge demonstration planned for thursday, which would have marked the two month anniversary of the movement. the NYPD - and Bloomberg - appear to be defying a Supreme Court order to let the occupiers and their tents back into Zuccotti Park.

watch live for MUCH more: this thursday, 10:30pm on a special broadcast of dvtv live.
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dvtv live broadcast 11.10.11: LONG COLD WINTER

"...the occupiers down in Zuccotti Park were wise not to hone a clear message because we are dealing with a moving target – the economic system is a morphing shape-shifting beast and a nervous one at that.
...to my friends at Zuccotti park - and hundreds of other occupations nationwide – some unsolicited advice. your prime target – and the one thing that causes us so much pain – is the obscene amounts of raw cash that flows from corporate intrests into elected officials pockets. best-selling author Herman Cain (you don’t really believe he’s running for president) - Herman Cain suggested that the occupiers should target the White House instead of Wall Street. Horn-Dog Herman is half-right. until the lobbiests are outlawed – as they are in many other governments – until the cash stops flowing into the accounts of the president – congress – and other elected officials – the system is rigged to favor the very rich and screw the working man. changing the status quo is always a long and arduous process. Revolutions don’t happen overnight – witness what’s happened in Egypt and Libya. true change isn’t easy – especially when you are fighting the largest and most powerful government on the planet. With a full moon over manhattan you are watching the last bastion of the first amendment..."

SHOOT THE MESSINGER

or in this case the Oakland PD shoots the camera person:


this description from antiprocon via YouTube:

While filming a police line at Occupy Oakland after midnight on Nov. 3 following the Nov. 2 general strike, an officer opens fire and shoots me with a rubber bullet. I was standing well back. There was no violence or confrontations of any kind underway. At 0:31 seconds you can see a tall officer in the front raise his weapon and then fire. This is the full clip of the incident.

you can even hear a voice, probably that of the cameraperson, asking the cops: "here? is this OK?"
sure, pal. jus' stand riiiiight there...

dvtv live broadcast 11.03.11: RESISTANCE

Michael Bloomberg - America's twelfth-richest man -- blames congress for the financial collapse and claims that the protesters have chosen a totally inappropriate target in wall street - as if the banks were ever forced to do anything. The banks rushed into a loan market because of greed -- plain and simple. Congress merely laid the groundwork; besides mister mayor -- you know damn well that there is a mechanism to hold congress accountable -- it's called an election. You might remember your last one -- you stole it.

As the occupy movements fight colder weather and police harassment and violence -- they are also fighting elements within their own. Violent demonstrators willing to provoke police and destroy property provide an excuse for authorities to attack a demonstration. Up till now the American public largely supports the aims of the demonstrators -- and largely supports the non-violent movement. Many in power who wish to see the movement fail know all-too-well: images of masked or helmeted youths throwing Molotov Cocktails or smashing storefronts on American television screens would derail the movement in a media minute.

dvtv live broadcast 10.27.11: CLAMPDOWN OWS

...this is a part of a measured tactic to discredit the protesters by making them violent - physically attack a peaceful march to turn it into a riot...

Occupy is the little movement that could, and each time it gets brutalized by the authorities its numbers swell. With each arrest the support and the sympathy grows. Indeed – many have questioned the motives of the protesters, many have speculated on the agenda, but nobody is denying that there is a problem. Though calls for a concise set of demands from the protesters seem logical and reasonable the reasonable response seems to be – its not one thing – its everything. You are not dealing with a group leader or spokesperson, but you are dealing with an angry public, profoundly dissatisfied with where their hard earned tax dollars are going.

dvtv live TONIGHT 10:30pm

Clean sweep for Bloomberg - or radioactive spill?

Eviction notice for Occupy Wall Street: tomorrow evening the power-spray trucks arrive at Zuccotti Park – backed up by many men in blue.

However, nobody believes the movement can be so easily wiped away.

Also: 244 congress members are millionaires – that means congress is 46% one-percenters!

Watch LIVE TONIGHT 10:30 PM

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Plus: a live report from Occupy Boston

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dvtv live broadcast 10.06.11: OCCUPIED

...featuring dvtv live producer Blade Branstrom and his exclusive footage from the Wall Street Occupation.


Just nineteen days into the occupation, the president of the United States acknowledged their influence in the 2012 presidential campaign.

Just nineteen days ago the press all but ignored them.

Nineteen days ago they couldn't even get arrested.

When airline pilots and steelworkers and bus drivers and the AFL-CIO and world famous scholars and congressmen and movie stars start showing up at Zuccotti park to support this soggy group of hippies – the media attacks the message.

Occupy wall street has no message!

This is a non-event - vapid and meaningless.

There is no leader – there is no message. Only – the non-message spreads – there’s occupy Boston and occupy Los Angeles and occupy Boise, Idaho for crissakes. Not only do scholars and movie stars and union presidents get it, thousands of people across the country get it. Obama gets it. Even Ben Bernanke gets it.

So I’ll use a line from Marlon Brando to answer the question:
what are they rebelling against?

What do ya got?

You got the highest unemployment in sixty years. You got very few jobs with pitiful wages, constant efforts to eliminate minimum wage. You got pensions, retirement funds gutted, massive tax cuts for millionaires, mind boggling tax refunds for corporations, hundreds of billions in bailouts to the people who gambled the morgage. You got union busting at the private, corporate, state and federal level. You got across the board corporate deregulation breeding economic and ecological ruin on huge stretches of america. You got endless attacks on the safety nets for the working poor and the elderly the very people who are suffering the most right now. Without safety nets - everything slams to the ground with a sickening thud - with a resounding splat...
like the Euro - and soon - the dollar.

You got useless and endless wars that get more expensive more secretive more mysterious more covert and therfore more nebulous unnacountable and nefarious as the years drag on.

This country has been in a permanent state of war for ten years now. We can’t even make a profit from it. What’s happened to this country?!

ZUCCOTTI PARK IS MASSING IN THE DARK

dvtv live TONIGHT: OCCUPIED

a cry for justice from a soggy band of demonstrators has thundered round the globe - even the president has acknowledged that their voices will have an impact on his re-election.
the leaderless occupiers are poised to grow into a force that could put the Tea Party to shame. but: will Bloomberg, who practically predicted this uprising, attempt to quash it?

those and other pressing questions TONIGHT with YOUR phone calls
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BRING IT ON

NY TIMES: ROMNEY LIKENS WALL STREET
PROTESTS TO ‘CLASS WARFARE’

“I think it’s dangerous — this class warfare,” Mr. Romney said.

Didn't Mittens get the memo? "Class Warfare" is verboten speech, because the 1% has realized - they are outnumbered 99 to 1!

OWS, and Occupy Los Angeles (and Occupy Boise, Idaho for that matter) seem to be saying - "Class Warfare? Bring it on!"

Of course it is dangerous, Mittens. Democracy is a dangerous thing.

While the protests have generally been nonviolent, the police in New York arrested 700 people on Saturday after some demonstrators marched on the roadway of the Brooklyn Bridge.

BTW - Times editors- please - the last 'graph implies that Saturday's Brooklyn Bridge march was violent. Not even the NYPD or Bloomberg are claiming that.

Please NYTimes, don't stoop to this king of innuendo - you are better than Fox News (well, sometimes).

ANOTHER REASON...

many states, such as Florida, Nevada and North Carolina are moving up the dates of the presidential primaries:
could it be that economic shit is about to hit the fan?

could it have anything to do with the impending nose-dive the dollar is about to take?

just sayin...

NY TRANSIT UNION: WE WON'T BUS ARRESTED OWS PROTESTERS

The TWU is standing up for the occupiers with more than just words...
from thinkprogress.org

The Transport Workers Union is going to court today in hopes of blocking New York City from forcing bus drivers to transport any Occupy Wall Street protesters after the New York police department commandeered at least three buses to take many of the 700 protesters off the Brooklyn Bridge this weekend. Last week, the TWU voted to support the Occupy Wall Street movement and called the order to bus prisoners “a blatant act of political retaliation.”

from the Daily News:

"TWU Local 100 supports the protesters on Wall Street and takes great offense that the mayor and NYPD have ordered operators to transport citizens who were exercising their constitutional right to protest - and shouldn't have been arrested in the first place," [Transport Workers Union president John] Samuelsen said Sunday night.

At least five empty buses were commandeered from terminal points on both sides of the bridge, Samuelsen said.

Here's Samuelsen, in plain language, explaining why the TWU voted solidarity with OWS. (They now have "a couple hundred members" who joined the occupation.)

OWS "HIPPIES" NOT GOING HOME

Because the NYPD and Bloomberg at first were secure that the Occupy Wall Street protesters would be ignored, they surmised that a few dozen hippies would just give up and go home.
Three weeks in, they try mass arrests - and end up as BBC News’ top story. Now the City cannot ignore the growing numbers, the growing support, and the growing attention paid to OWS.
As for the complaints of a lack of a specific complaint, muddled message, or lack of focus, people in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, and even in Toronto who have formed "solidarity" protests seem to know exactly what OWS is saying.
So next expect the City to pressure Brookfield Properties, owners of Zuccotti Park, to take legal action to drive the protestors from the encampment.
However, after three weeks of international attention - and hundreds of people willing to sleep outdoors in the rain - there is very little the City can do other than pepper spray peaceful women and arrest these people.
Whatever the City decides to do - ignore them or bust them - this has past the point where OWS will fold their tents and go quietly into the night.
If significant numbers of union members join the camp out on Wednesday (I'm predicting they will), then OWS will grow into the major issue of the 2012 elections.

SEMINAR

UPDATE: seminar went great - LOTS of feedback from the participants.
watch this space for a special screening next week and a vital seminar on September 28th.

BETTER THAN SHAKESPAERE AND BENNY HILL PUT TOGETHER

watch it full screen for maximum horror.
having viewed this once, i have seen the future of all entertainment.
the clickers control the arts!

spoke to several people in "zone a" - the mandatory evacuation area by the river - none of them intend to do anything but wait out the storm inside "zone a".
all of these people live in the lower east side and some of them are old enough to remember parts of that neighborhood were declared "most dangerous block on earth" based on the murder rates.
i sincerely hope, for all my neighbors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island that Irene proves to be another storm that just dumps alot of water on the city, with little property damage, really minor injuries, and no loss of life. streets flooded, roofs leaking, and subway lines closed - all noise but little actual damage. we'll know soon.

except the one in Afganistan, Pakistan, Yemen, etc.

HOWARD DEAN'S SQUEAL II

"CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, MY FRIEND."

- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
August 11, 2011

HOWARD DEAN'S SQUEAL

UK's Daily Mail sez: "To round out the outrage, in its piece on the Newsbusters reaction, the website mediaite.com runs the Bachmann crazy eyes photo next to one of serial killer and serious 'crazy eyes' Charles Manson."

AFTER THE BRINK

as we're now officially heading "down the tubes" cannot think of a more appropriate and timely voice to express the outrage of the masses than the this man...

tonight, i am honored and humbled to share a bit of the spotlight with Professor Irwin Cory, the World's Foremost Authority, and at 92 years, a veteran progressive voice (and according to me, GOD HIMSELF).
tune in to Shannon Taylor's "The Conversation" tonight Tuesday, August 2nd at 7pm eastern time - airs on Manhattan on Time-Warner Cable channel 56, RCN cable channel 83, and Verizion channel 34.
(if you are not in Manhattan and feel lucky, try mnn.org at 7pm eastern - click on "watch live MNN 2" or at this link.)

HOSTAGE TAKING WORKS

worked for John Boehner and the Tea Party who took the entire nation hostage - and won!

the budget deal announced tonight is a bust for everybody - and won't help our vaulted "AAA credit rating" either because it fails to address any of the underlying issues or reasons as to why we are at this crisis point to begin with.

massive debt began to accumulate because of multiple wars and massive tax cuts for corporations and the very wealthy. (remember, when Bush took office in 2001, there was a budget surplus - this problem literally did not exist.)

hostage-takers Boehner (and the Teabaggers for that matter) changed the debate from "JOBS" (something everybody understands) to "DEBT CEILING" (so huge and complex i doubt some economics professors can even grasp it).

with this so-called "deal" the President announced "the lowest level of domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was president".

(that's pre-Cousin Brucie, boomers. when Eisenhower left office fifty years ago, a new Chevrolet cost $1,800, a dozen eggs cost 52 cents, sirloin steak was 89 cents a pound, the average household income was $7,000 a year and a telegraph was the most efficient way of conveying a message.)

two days before Dwight Eisenhower left office, the former Five-Star General left us a little message about how his former boss, the US Military, might just ruin our democracy.

we didn't listen to Dwight Eisenhower.

therefore, welcome to Austerity 2012!

NEVER MIND THE MURDOCH - WTF IS WITH ALL THESE TOOL-USING-ANIMAL STORIES?!

its bad enough that the Bildergons all lie to us about September 11th and the moon landing and Michael Jackson being dead...but dude! what the organic hay is up with all these animal stories where they're using tools?

i mean last week whenever it was that fish that used the clam to scoop the ocean floor (ask Jeeves) and now the Beeb reports of a mandrill giving itself a pedicure.

i mean, c'mon, tool using used to be the line of demarcation between homo erectus and beastie (in the days before evolution and the wimmen voting thing). now every primate and primitive ocean dweller seems to qualify as a tool-using entity, or something. below you can see that mandrill qualifing.

(actually its just a video of a monkey poking his foot with a stick, which i guess crosses the line of demarcation. be sure to dump out before the monkey smells the stick.)

unholy if you ask me. does Mr. Michelle Bachmann know about this? if he can pray away unnatural gay, maybe his congregation can pray away the unholy of beastial tool usage. that is if he isn't too busy picketing dead soldier's funerals.