Strike Over Housing in Israel

Whle housing is tight in the Bronx NY, squatters are grabbing building.  We heard there was a theft of an air conditioner and some metal parts from the old Per Scholas factory site at 1575 River Street, Bronx NY.  Now there is some action in Israel on the other side of the world.

The mass strike that began with a housing


protest, is spreading and expanding throughout Israel to include

all sorts of economic sectors, all protesting the collapse of

their living standards in radical free-market paradise of Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.



On Thursday thousands of Israelis took part in "stroller

marches" by parents with their children in 16 locations across

the country, including Tel Aviv, to protest the high cost of

raising a family. A similar march will be held in Jerusalem on

Sunday.


"The country has breached its contract with the citizens,

and has betrayed us," The Israeli daily {Ha'aretz} quotes a

mother who took part in one of the protests. "People thought that

if they work hard, pay taxes, and have children everything will

be alright." "Parents have in fact a second mortgage," said Anat

Rozilio, one of the organizers. "Besides the burden of the rent,

once you have a child up to three years old, there is no place

besides daycare centers, which cost 3,000 shekels a month." She

added, "I have spoken with many mothers who told me 'one child is

enough, I can't live in poverty.'"


The Israeli Council for the Welfare of the Child said it

supports the struggle, as "raising children has become an

intolerable financial burden."


On Friday, hundreds demonstrated in Tel Aviv protesting

escalating fuel prices.  Meanwhile, the doctors' strike led by Israel Medical

Association chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman intends to present Prime

Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a petition with tens of

thousands of signatures calling on him to "save public medicine."

The doctors set up a protest tent camp outside Netanyahu's

office, where Eidelman, who has been on a hunger strike since

Monday, and a number of other doctors, plan to remain until the

strike is settled.


President Shimon Peres has intervened in the situation,

holding a telephone discussion with Eidelman, where he asked him

to end his hunger strike. "An entire country is watching you, you

have proved your leadership and courage. You are bearing an

important message of advancing and improving public medicine in

Israel on your shoulders, and as President I am asking you to

look after your health and strength. You are dear to us," Peres

told Eidelman, who said thanks, but that he was continuing his

hunger strike.


Trainee clinical psychologists joined the tent camp in Tel

Aviv on Thursday to protest against the desperate situation

facing the country's clinical psychologists, who say the state is

trying to destroy the public mental health service as part of its

privatization drive.


Since the mass base of the Likud is the lower 80% of the

population, calls from Likud activists demanding he do something

have increased. One activist, Yanai Braz, is demanding that

Netanyahu dump his Finance Minister and political ally Yuval

Steinitz. "Bibi and Steinitz are detached from the people. They

don't understand what the middle class is going through. Rich

people have the stock exchange and capital market. The middle

class have nothing.... I want the Finance Minister replaced."

Starving Children in the USA

U.S. hospital emergency rooms are reporting increasing numbers of underweight and malnourished children

showing up in their departments, directly because more and more families are unable to afford to eat.

Hospitals in Baltimore; Little Rock, Arkansas; Minneapolis; Philadelphia; and Boston all

reported this in a new survey, which medics say is the worst incidence of malnutrition they have seen since

they began to monitor hungry children 10 years ago.  LaRouche Pac told you so.


The situation is typical of what once was called an

undeveloped country, is the description of the coordinator of the

survey, Dr. Megan Sandel, a child and public health professor at

the Boston Medical Center (BMC). The details were released this

week by Children's HealthWatch.



Boston Medical Center has had the most dramatic increase in

undernourished children out of all the other cities and

hospitals. Doctors attribute this to New England families being

hit with impossible trade-offs in heating and housing costs.


Before 2007, when the crash set in, 12 percent of youngsters

age three and under, were significantly underweight, in a random

survey of BMC emergency department records; this jumped up to 18

percent in 2010, and is getting worse. The survey also reports

that the percentage of families with children, who say that they

did not have enough food each month, soared from 18 percent in

2007, up to 28 percent in 2010.


BMC saw a 58 percent increase in the number of severely

underweight babies under the age of 1, who were referred by

physicians to BMC's GrowClinic, for intensive intervention

(nutritional, medical and other measures) to boost the babies'

growth. The Clinic had 24 cases in 2005, then 38 in 2010, and now

it's worse.


A typical case is that of a baby treated last year at the

BMC GrowClinic, who at age 1 weighed under 19 pounds, when the

average child is more than 24 pounds. Chronic hunger can lead to

lasting cognitive and other developmental problems.

A dramatic mockery of this reality comes from Mrs. Obama,

who is doing her part, while her husband is allowed to remain in

office, to conduct herself as a British royal tabloid celeb. She

is on the August cover of {Better Homes and Gardens} for a story

titled, "Fresh and Healthy" eating. Shown at her White House

picnic table, serving Washington, D.C. fifth-graders fresh food,

Michelle tells you to take charge of your family's eating.

"Children's habits can be changed so much easier than adults," so

they don't need to be fat. "They don't have control over their

diets -- we do."

Fight in the UK over Breaking Up the Banks

Vincent Cable, Britain's Business Secretary, today called for full banking separation. Cable did

not use the name Glass-Steagall, but his opponents did in

attacking him. Speaking to a consumer group, Cable called on the

Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) to review its

"ring-fencing" recommendation in favor of a full separation. "My

own instincts lie with full separation of retail and proprietary

banking," Cable said.

Cable's initiative confirms the existence of a faction in

the British establishment which is not willing to go under with

the expiring monetarist system under the current policies of the

City of London. On the other side, some of the City's most

influential figures gathered at the offices of Freshfields law

firm yesterday, to stage a debate on banking separation, which

was won by those "who oppose Glass-Steagall-style break-ups,"

{City A.M.} reported.

Next Biggest Loser

Author: Isiah Williams

Have you ever wanted to get rid of a few pounds? How about a hundred pounds? Maybe even three hundred pounds? The truth is that most of us would love to shed some extra weight and would do so willingly if given a bit of extra time, money, or other resources. Or, maybe some of us would still be lazy and need some extra motivation to shed the extra pounds. A show which motivates just about anyone to get off the couch and shed some weight is "Next Biggest Loser." This fabulous show is a competition in which over 10 obese people compete against one another to lose the most weight.

I think it is interesting to watch this show on my satellite tv from http://www.directstartv.com/ to see how people lose weight. I love seeing what the people must do to lose weight on this show. I always try to apply their own techniques for losing weight to my own life. One major tip I learned from this show for losing weight was to run every single day. On this show, I would always see contestants running long distances and then magically shedding pounds over the course of only a few weeks. Let me just say, that I have tried this approach in my own life, and it has worked fabulously. I have already lost 10 pounds!

Hey, I'm the Blog of the Day

Greetings to http://jesseacohen.blogspot.com/2011/07/i-think-im-gonna-be-sick-in-like.html
and hey hey hey, I'm the blog of the day. I have to admit, I feel real satifaction that Copyboy decided to make howiecopywriter.blogspot.com his blog of the day. I try to make this an interesting blog, as the nation is imperiled by economic and moral collapse. We don't have to pay the debt of the fraudulent investment banks. Time to pass the Glass-Steagall Law of 1933 again, now in the form of HR 1489 sponsored by Congresswoman Marcie Kaptur, and co-sponsored by nearly 30 other Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Africans Breaking with Libya War

We have Congressman Gerald Nadler of Manhattan, NY breaking with Obama's Libya war, and people in Africa also are pissed off. See --Africans Resist Obama's Illegal War Against Libya

July 9 --The destabilizing effects of the U.S./NATO war
against Libya are causing African nations to speak out against
it, and resist U.S. efforts to get dragged into it. The
government of Kenya is being particularly defiant despite U.S.
pressure to break its links with the Libyan regime. Acting
Foreign Minister George Saitoti, yesterday, accused the Western
powers of using "violence against civilians" in Libya and
announced that the government would not freeze Libyan assets in
Kenya. "Kenya has not acceded to pressure by third parties to
sever diplomatic ties with Libya," he said and added that such
calls were "contrary to Kenya's position of the best way" out of
the Libyan crisis, and contrary to recent African Union
resolutions calling for a negotiated settlement. According to
Kenyan media, Libya has vast economic assets in Kenya, including
a luxury hotel and an oil marketing firm with more than 100
gasoline stations, making Kenya a target of western efforts to
isolate Libya.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the continent, concerns are
being raised about arms trafficking out of Libya that is
benefiting the terrorist group Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM), which is said to be responsible for a string of
kidnappings and ambushes across the Sahel region. Last month,
reported, VOA, yesterday, security forces in Niger recovered
detonators, more than 600 kilograms of semtex explosives and
$90,000 in cash after a shoot out with suspected terrorists. The
Niger government said that the arms came from Libya and were
destined for AQIM. In addition to Niger, Mali and Mauretania have
also expressed concern that insurgents in Libya are selling they
capture from the Libyan government to AQIM.
Similarly, Algerian forces are increasing their presence
along Algeria's 900 km border with Libya. According to Reuters,
officials in Algiers are voicing concerns about the arms and
explosives coming into the country from Libya, which are being
looted from Libyan army depots.
Refugee flows are another destabilizing effect of Obama's
war on Libya. Hundreds of thousands of foreign workers have fled
back to their own countries which are hardly able to absorb them
into impoverished economies. President Issoufou of Niger said
that Niger has lost billions of francs in taxes and trade as well
as remittances from 200,000 Nigeriens who were working in Libya.
In the Mediterrean, it was reported that more than 1,000 Africans
landed on the Italian island of Lampedusa, overnight Friday,
bringing the total to more than 11,000 who have landed there
trying to escape various wars in North Africa since the beginning
of the year. According to the Italian Catholic organization
Sant'Egidio, at least 1,820 migrants from North Africa have
drowned in efforts to reach Europe.

Water Projects and the Missouri River

Hey Bronx NY dudes, aren't you glad you don't live in the Missouri River basin. But, still we have to help those people out, they are Americans.

The enormity of the Missouri Basin flooding is evident in
hundreds of devastating ways, if apparently less dramatic than
the new oil spill. Run-off from the huge snowpack, combined with
rainfall, means that vast areas face flooding until October.
However, the impact of the extreme weather is amplified and
exceeded by the extreme Washington policy disaster, as is shown
in the new LPAC TV feature, "For Lack of NAWAPA," released July
2.
In Nebraska on July 2, leaders from the hard-hit Missouri
counties in the southeast, met with officials from FEMA, the Army
Corps of Engineers, and Sen. Mike Johanns about their dire
situation. For example, the water treatment plant is knocked out
in Nebraska City, where the local government is incurring
$102,000 a month for a portable treatment system. Other
communities fear to be in the same situation very soon. But there
are no means to pay for it, without the national Glass-Steagall
resuscitation of the economy.
In Iowa on July 1, the six Missouri River flood counties
received approval as Federal disaster areas, so now they are
eligible for services including swift-water rescue, shelter
supplies, etc.
In Missouri, Gov. Jay Nixon has announced receiving Federal
emergency disaster disignation for all counties on the Missouri
River, which crosses through the state, then entering the
Mississippi River. In northwest Missouri, the extensive road
closures include Interstate-29, (state) Highways 136 and 159, and
30 other roads.
Most of the earlier flooded areas of the Mississippi/Ohio
River systems are seeing receding waters, but are still
experiencing disaster, because of the national and world economic
breakdown. In Indiana today, Federal approval was announced for
32 counties hit by the last two months of storms and flooding
damage.

Online Furniture Deals

Getting online furniture deals may be just what you need. It's nice to buy something really big, because you are going to have to get it shipped if you go to a brick store as well. A leather tufted sofa can be just the thing to make your livingroom shine. Colors range from black to grey to white, and prices can go from under $1,000 to around $5,000. It's all about what style you want, and how much you can afford on your budget. Us Bronx dudes especially liked the leather tufted Chesterfield sofa-sleeper, which is a steal at $2,699.00. Tufts are very cute, with those little buttons all over the place creating a physical and geometric pattern for you visual enjoyment and comfort. Plus, you can't beat a leather sofa, it's the nicest and the best.

A funny thing you find in home decor is that the little accessories are what make everything perfect. You can buy a beautiful white-trimmed bar, but it won't look right, you have to add antique white bar stools. The good news is that these white bar stools are available online in a variety of woods, for from $90 to $300 a piece. It makes a big difference to have antique white bar stools, and you should get them. If you want to spend a bit of money, I just love the white rattan South Sea antique bar stools.

An End to Ebosswatch Wordpress Slanders

Hey Bronx NY dudes, is there a way to end Ebosswatch Wordpress slanders? A prominent figure in Kansas was slandered by the Ebosswatch blog, and though the Ebosswatch Wordpress blog is largely defunct and not updated, the crap seems to be there forever. How can I get them to take it down already. The internet and blogging can be lots of fun, but many people abuse the internet to get slanders out. Short of hiring a lawyer and suing someone, what do you do?

Union Rally in Downtown NYC Today

Was at the rally today at NYC City Hall, mostly carpenters, plumbers and laborers. Many more want the Glass-Stegall Act, which has been introduced into the U.S. Congress. Separate out the commercial banks from the investment/speculation, end the bank bailout.

Hard to Get a Job in New York City

Hey Bronx dudes, it's me again, Howie Copywriter. It can be a horror show to find a job these days. The days of easy money, proofreading and editing are gone. Instead I have been using Event Brite to go to events and network. I have an event about using Social Networking utilities like Facebook today, and I will go to an American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) event soon. I already made a pretty big place with my mosquito picture from the Cement Bloc event, which went semi-viral.

Unemployment Is Still Here, Wall St.

U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS HAVE AVERAGED 439,000/WEEK FOR
THE PAST MONTH, a continuing very high figure indicating a
continuing dismal state of mass unemployment. Stanford economics
prof Ed Lezear, in the Wall Street Journal, wrote that there is
no recovery in employment, but a "statistical illusion." "The
rate of new hires is virtually flat, at about the same level as
when the economy touched bottom in early 2009.... When an economy
has reached bottom and has already shed much of its labor,
layoffs slow. But that doesn't mean that the labor force is
recovering."

U.S. HOUSING MARKET HAS AGAIN SHRUNK STEADILY FOR 9 MONTHS
since the final end of Obama's "home buyers tax credit" for
speculators last Summer. April existing home sales were
"unexpectedly" down 0.8% from March, which was revised down. And
prices, even in the National Association of Realtor's highly
suspect "median figure," were down another 5% from April 2010;
and one-third below new home prices, making new home sales almost
impossible. Some 17 million households are underwater on their
mortgages.

MORE BANKER SEX: A Liberal Democrat Peer, Lord Oakeshott,
revealed in remarks on the floor of the British House of Lords,
that Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the
Inter-Alpha Group's Royal Bank of Scotland, obtained a
super-injunction to hide details of an alleged affair with a
senior colleague. Lord Oakeshott took the occasion of the
ongoing House of Lords debate on "super-injunctions" taken out by
celebrities against reporting of scandals, to spill the beans, on
the logic that "... every taxpayer has a direct public interest
in the events leading up to the collapse of the Royal Bank of
Scotland." (Telegraph) They sure do!

The Simpsons Homer the Great

Thanks for the post from Darrick Moreno

Homer the Great is an episode of the Simpsons television show better known as the Stonercutter's episode. This episode can be seen on the premium networks of satellite tv from DIRECTSTARTV.COM and is one of the best out there. The episode seed Homer realize Lenny and Carl have better chairs, parking space, and belong to a secret society.

The stonecutters are supposed to be a reference to the Freemasons, but even one with limited knowledgeable about them can find utmost hilarity in this episode. Before Homer finds out about the secret society the episode features a hilarious back and forth from Lenny and Carl. Homer asks a question to which Lenny replie! s "It's a secret", to which Carl interjects "Shut up." At one point Homer asks Lenny something when only he is around and Homer tells him to shut up.

This secret society has Mr.Burns as a subservient member to Lenny, which amazes Homer. Homer is going to be banished from the group for being slovenly, but when he is stripped nude they find a birthmark indicating that he is their chosen one. Homer changes the group so far that all of the members from a "No Homer's" club.

The stonecutters devolves into Homer and several chimps until Marge convinces him to leave saying he's a member of the Simpsons and it's good enough. The family then proceeds to paddle and initiate him like the stonecutters had previously done.

Happy Death Day, Osama

Listening to the radio, I was surprised that people or announcers did not just break out into a chorus of "Happy Death-Day to Osama." This whole Osama-Death mania seems a bit gory. After all, at best, Osama was an aging bad guy, being safehoused by the Pakistani intelligence survey, until he was found by the US-CIA, or given up by the Pakistani ISI. Some big deal? Maybe for the desperate US Pres. Obama, who needs the rhyming Osama's body to boost his ego. Otherwise, Obama is not in good shape politically at all.

Wall St and the British

And, they caved in. That was Trumanism.
That’s how the American soul was destroyed, under Truman.
And the right-wing Republicans that took over, in the period following June of 1944. Once the Wehrmacht had been defeated in France, it’s over. The British took over. And the Southern bastards took over, the Southern racist bastards took over. I know, I was there. I know what the composition of the U.S. military forces were, psychologically. In that period, anyone who was in there, knew it.
So you had a generation, which became a {de}generation. And this {de}generation gave buhth t’ some progeny, an’ Ah’m talkin’ South’n nah, ‘cuz that’s quite relevant. And that’s how it happened: A {de}generation of the intellect and morals of the American people. The character of the U.S. population was transformed, from what Roosevelt had led, in saving civilization, in a key role in saving civilization, with the support and assistance of people who {did} represent that as well! A minority, who took the leadership of the nation, out of the hands of the fools, and under the leadership of Franklin Roosevelt, revived the nation {to what it had been}, and to the principles on which it had been founded, despite the goddamned Southerners and Wall Street crowd.
What took over, was the British, the Wall Street gang. They took over, and the British ran a psychological warfare operation against the American population, to {de}moralize it. And the Baby-Boomer generation was a product of the demoralization of people of my generation. I was there for the fight, I know exactly who did what to whom, I know what the conversations were, I know how the psychology of it worked!

The Bronx, Earthquakes and the Dinosaurs

Will we in the Bronx NY break from the culture of extinction? The mass strike is against the corrupt system. Now with the Japan earthquake, we see the real crisis is solar flares and sunspot activity causing increasing tectonic earthquake, tsunamis and volcanic activity. Larouche PAC is right, we the humans can go down like the dinosaurs did 62 or so million years ago. There is a 62 million year cycle which may be hitting again of galactic activity. So we need more nuclear power, fusion power and manned space program to investigate and deal with this situation. It's called earthquakes from Japan to, soon... California.

Demonstrations in Wisconsin and NAWAPA

The demonstrations in Wisconsin are nice, but when do you get to stopping the bank bailout, and to get Glass-Steagall and to build NAWAPA, the water from Alaska project? Yeah, then you get to Glass-Steagall, then you get to the
NAWAPA process. But if you don't go through, what is the
meaning, of {pushing through Glass-Steagall, right now} -- {the
future does not exist.} Therefore, how can you present an idea
of a better future as a goal, if you don't present the means, by
which that goal is reached? The goal that has to be reached, is
the Glass-Steagall Act. And the Angelides Report was important in
the sense that it {reinforced} the authority, of Glass-Steagall.
But without the Glass-Steagall mentality, you can't win, and we
get the Glass-Steagall mentality, where? Only on the state
level! On the congressional level? No! Only on the state level.

And what you're seeing essentially in Wisconsin, in the
teachers and other actions, is, you're seeing exactly that: What
they're really looking for is Glass-Steagall. That's obvious.
That's the solution. So Glass-Steagall {is} the starting point.
But the question is, "Well, if we win, what're we going to
do with it?" Ah! Now, you got NAWAPA!

Real Estate Bubble Illegal?

A Boston Court found, in a decision by Justice Ralph D.
Gants that the real estate bubble may have been entirely illegal.

"We agree with the [lower court] judge that the
plaintiffs, who were not the original mortgagees, failed to make
the required showing that they were the holders of the mortgages
at the time of foreclosure.... There must be proof that the
assignment was made by a party that itself held the mortgage."
The decision ruled illegal, the foreclosure documentation
practices which "securitization" has made into {standard mass
practice} in Massachusetts and other states -- transferring title
to the foreclosing bank {after} it forecloses; transferring
mortgage titles into a trust pool {en blanc}, or without any new
owner being named; and skipping the county recordation of the
transfer. "These blank mortgage assignments were never recorded
and they were not legally recordable," the Court found.

Of course there is a danger that Obama and his fellow Repubolican may
change the law and make the mortgages good again, though they are frauds.

For a Real Economic Recovery in the USA

Here in the Bronx NY, we want a real economic recovery. That means we gotta get the Glass Steagall now to defend deposit banking and stop the bailout of the mega-banks and their speculation. Secondly, now to get an actual recovery
going, bailout the states, won't do it. So therefore, you have a
third measure to take in this process, and that is, NAWAPA.
Because, by {again} using Federal credit, the Federal credit of
NAWAPA means, that we will begin immediately, to put the shovels
into the dirt. We will assemble the organization, and {make the
commitments}, to build the organization necessary.
We will build two elements of this organization: One
element is NAWAPA itself. The other element is the production
materials, semi-finished, finished materials and so forth, which
are needed, to {build} NAWAPA. That means that, though we're
going into the Western states, largely west of the 20-inch
rainfall line for NAWAPA itself, all the way up through Canada
and to Alaska, but at the same time, we have to get the materials
which are going to be used, and the components to be used for the
installation. Including an emergency committee on nuclear power,
to get that thing back functioning.
So therefore, we're going to put together, what will amount
to {4 million jobs in fast order.} Those are the three steps,
needed, to the United States back into the game of solvency. Our
doing that will have a catalytic effect on the world. First of
all, there will be joy, in China. There will be a sigh, of
quiet, dignified relief, in India, with some secret jubilation.
The Korea situation will be straightened out. Japan will be
begging to joint everything. Korea will be happy.

High Technology and Progress

We have a situation, in which, the minority, which includes me and my friends, politically, both here and implicitly in Europe, and also in Asia, those who are implicitly, in a sense my friends and Lyndon Larouche's friends, in the sense that they have policies which concur with my intention; that is, the effect concurs with my intention. And goes in the same direction: High technology, improvement of food supplies, raising the standard of living, going to technologies, which raise man's power to exist, that sort of thing. down with
'em.