And don't forget: The Philadelphia-based company Xipwire has set up a page where Wikileaks supporters can donate.
Or: www.standwithbrad.org, where you can sign the petion on behalf of the Man Behind the Whistle, Pvt 1st cl Bradley Manning, currently residing at the botttom of a well at Quantico, Virginia. And don't forget: All politics is local and it just does not get 'localer' than land use: Save Helvetia at (What else?) wwww.savehelvetia.org
Here's an item I didn't get to this morning straight from The Puzzle Palace
Recently a Fed audit revealed over $3.3 dollars in emergency assistance to the banks and other corporate behemoths during the financial crisis--no strings attached. Two trillion dollars to Morgan Stanley here, $600 billion to Goldman there, throw in a little chump change for McDonald’s, GE, others--no demands to increase lending to small businesses, or modify mortgages for unemployed homeowners, for example.
Then consider the 19 states which are recipients of the Hardest Hit Fund (HHF)--a portion of TARP money set aside to help homeowners in states struggling with the highest unemployment rates and steepest declines in the housing market. Some of those states, wanted to use some of those funds to assist legal aid groups that help individual homeowners. Seems like a reasonable request--unlike the absurdity of handing over trillions of dollars to robo-signing, foreclosure-mad banks, no questions asked. Treasury solicited the opinion of an outside law firm, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Never mind that the firm’s clients include BB&T Corporation and payday lender CNG Financial Corp. S.S. & D. LLP – speaking from The Corner Office - said, “No. Not permitted under the TARP”. This of course is the same TARP that granted the Treasury Secretary all those “extraordinary powers” to protect people’s home values, preserve home ownership, promote economic growth, make you look ten years younger and enlarge your penis? All pro-boner but no pro bono, I’m guessing. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey refused to sign off on legal aid for beleaguered home-owners-about-to-be-foreclosees. How much justice do you want? How much can you afford.
- KBOO