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Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
Warren Buffett calls for higher taxes on income — all income — over $1 million per year:
Source: Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
I have worked with investors for 60 years and I have yet to see anyone — not even when capital gains rates were 39.9 percent in 1976-77 — shy away from a sensible investment because of the tax rate on the potential gain. People invest to make money, and potential taxes have never scared them off. And to those who argue that higher rates hurt job creation, I would note that a net of nearly 40 million jobs were added between 1980 and 2000. You know what’s happened since then: lower tax rates and far lower job creation.
The Coup's Boots Riley on His Next Record, Hip-Hop for White Kids, and Loving Battlestar Galactica in SF Weekly (Interview)
It's been almost a decade since 9/11 -- which means (among other things) that it's been 10 years since Boots Riley was seemingly everywhere, coolly responding to outrage over someextremely ill-timed album art depicting explosions at World Trade Center. It's also been five years since the last album from the Coup, 2006's critically acclaimed Pick a Bigger Weapon.
But rest assured, the Oakland native has been busy. Aside from releasing and touring an EP and a full-length studio album with Tom Morello as the rap-rock outfit Street Sweeper Social Club, booking speaking engagements on racism, capitalism, and grassroots organizing, and guesting on the upcoming Star Fucking Hipsters album, Riley recently found time to write a feature-length screenplay before heading into the studio to record tracks for a new Coup album, due out at the beginning of next year.
Ahead of the Coup's Aug. 19 show at the Independent, we grabbed a drink with Riley to find out more about what to expect.
Read the full interview at SFWeekly.com...
The Daily Mail knowingly and commercially used my photos despite my denying them permission.
A few days ago, I snapped a picture in The GAP on Oxford Street: their ALWAYS SKINNY mannequins' legs are not only always skinny, but anorexically/starved so.
I tweeted it, and TwitPic'd one picture. Then Cory BoingBoing'ed it. Then the WashPo emailed, asking permission to reprint, and asked for a quote or two. I said yes. I sent them a further pic, too.
Then the Daily Mail got in touch. Could we use the photos, they said. I said, yes, if you donate £250 - a standard photo fee in my book, certainly less than what Getty charges, say - to a charity of my choice. I don't like the Daily Mail, and didn't want to give them commercial use of my pictures for free.
*On Behalf Of *Alice Taylor
*Sent:* 14 August 2011 06:48
*To:* Ariel Ramerez <Ariel.Ramerez@mailonline.com>
*Subject:* Fwd: Fwd: skinny model pix
Hi Ariel,
I can't give the Daily Mail permission to use
these pictures conmercially, for free.
I'm happy to licence the Daily Mail a commercial
usage if it donates a standard picture fee (£250+)
to a charity of my choice however.
Best!
Alice.
They came back and said, too expensive:
On 14/08/11 22:16, Ariel Ramerez wrote:Hello Alice,
Thank you for getting back to me. Appreciate it.
We are the MailOnline - the web portion.
Unfortunately, your listed price far exceeds our
budget - which also comes in $. We'd be happy to
make the donation however we would need it to
meet our budgetary constraints.
Please let me know.
Best,
Ariel Ramerez
...to which I said, oh well - sorry, then it's no. (The Daily Mail can afford the photo fee - and if it doesn't want to, then I'm not selling it the rights to my photos.)
From: Alice Taylor
Sent: 15 August 2011 05:28
To: Ariel Ramerez
Subject: Re: Fwd: skinny model pix
Oh well - it's a no then.
(IMHO, obv, the Mail can afford it, and
I have no love for that paper so
- apols!)
Thanks for the interest tho!
A.
It was acknowledged:
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:46:11
From: Ariel Ramerez <Ariel.Ramerez@mailonline.com>
Thanks for letting me know.
Best,
Ariel
And then, instead, the Daily Mail then used both my photos - despite being denied permission - lifting them directly from the WashPo, along with the quotes I gave that newspaper, too.
The Daily Mail links neither to BoingBoing, nor to the WashPo, nor indicates my comments were to the WashPo either. Their reporting makes it sound like I talked to them directly.
To add insult to injury, they remove all the linkbacks, present in the WashPo article, to my original tweet, and to Cory's BoingBoing post.
They don't even link to the WashPo article that they lifted the quotes and photographs from.
I've asked the Daily Mail to now pay up for the unauthorised use - and knowing infringement - of these pics. I'm currently requesting 2 x £1000 charitable donations, which I will request go to MIND and ORG.
Updates to come, I'm sure.
UPDATE 1: 100s of retweets of this post later, but still no response to my email to the DM. Apparently they do this - wilful copyright infringement - rather a lot.
Police Try To Bring Wiretapping Charges Against Woman Who Filmed Them Beating A Man
For the past year, we've talked a lot about how police and some courts have been abusing wiretapping laws to go after people who film the police in public. Thankfully, more recently, it appears that more and more courts have been smacking down such lawsuits, and those who are bringing them are regularly being scolded. Not everyone has received the message however. For example, there's police officer Michael Sedergren, who was disciplined for an incident in November of 2009, in which police were caught on video beating a guy named Melvin Jones III. The video was made by a woman named Tyrisha Greene. Jones had bones all over his face broken and became partially blind in one eye.
You would think that Sedergren, who was suspended for 45 days for his actions in the video, would know better and just get on with his life. Instead, he's 'filed an application for a criminal complaint' against Greene, saying she violated wiretapping laws in filming him without his permission. Everyone involved knows the law is not intended for situations like this, where an officer of the law is out in public. If this officer's response to being filmed involved in questionable activities is to push for criminal charges against the person who caught him doing it, it seems like he does not deserve to be an officer of the law at all any more. What a massive abuse of the law.
Source: Police Try To Bring Wiretapping Charges Against Woman Who Filmed Them Beating A Man
You would think that Sedergren, who was suspended for 45 days for his actions in the video, would know better and just get on with his life. Instead, he's 'filed an application for a criminal complaint' against Greene, saying she violated wiretapping laws in filming him without his permission. Everyone involved knows the law is not intended for situations like this, where an officer of the law is out in public. If this officer's response to being filmed involved in questionable activities is to push for criminal charges against the person who caught him doing it, it seems like he does not deserve to be an officer of the law at all any more. What a massive abuse of the law.
Source: Police Try To Bring Wiretapping Charges Against Woman Who Filmed Them Beating A Man
Facing Ninth Deployment, Army Ranger Kills Himself. 'No Way' That God Would Forgive Him For What He'd Seen, Done, He Told Wife
The people who should be worried about going to hell are the bastards who sent these soldiers over there for no good reason, and then refuse to pay for the help they need when they come back:
JOINT BASE LEWIS MCCHORD, Wash. - A soldier's widow says his fellow Army Rangers wouldn't do anything to help him before he took his own life - after eight deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Army found Staff Sgt. Jared Hagemann's body at a training area of Joint Base Lewis McChord a few weeks ago.
A spokesman for the base tells KOMO News that the nature of the death is still undetermined. But Staff Sgt. Hagemann's widow says her husband took his own life - and it didn't need to happen.
'It was just horrible. And he would just cry,' says Ashley Hagemann.
Ashley says her husband Jared tried to come to grips with what he'd seen and done on his eight deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
'And there's no way that any God would forgive him - that he was going to hell,' says Ashley. 'He couldn't live with that any more.'
More U.S. soldiers and veterans have died from suicide than from combat wounds over the past two years.
And as a special way of thanking those who served, Texas Republicans want to make it harder for young, homeless and traumatized veterans to vote.
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