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Unconventional Denver: Official Statement to City of Denver
Wednesday, July 30 2008 @ 11:01 AM CDT
Contributed by: Anonymous

Kelli Refer, 22, of Littleton, and other organizers discuss an offer to
abandon protests if the city spends $50 million on community programs.

In the afternoon of Monday, July 28, members of Unconventional Denver
held a press conference on the steps of the City and County building in
Denver to make their priorities clear and to contrast those...

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To Vote, or Not to Vote
Op_ed
By Rosemarie Jackowski

To vote, or not to vote, that is the question. Many have already decided
to sit this election out. Some came to that decision for philosophical
reasons. Some will no longer vote for the 'lesser of the evils', but not
all of the candidates are evil. The list of Presidential candidates
includes some good ones and some others. There is a variety to chose
from. A partial list -- Barr, McCain, McKinney, Moore, Nader, and Obama.

There are some things worse than not voting. One of them is casting an
uninformed ballot. That is the worse of the worse. It cancels out the
vote of a citizen who has been paying attention. A mandatory voters test
is not a good idea, but voters should be encouraged to follow their
consciences when deciding to vote, or not to vote.

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Starbucks baristas union drive comes at key time
The effort to organize local latte-slingers could hurt the ailing chain
By Matt Snyders
Published on July 30, 2008

It was a typical, busy Thursday afternoon at the Mall of America's
first-floor Starbucks, and Erik Forman was four hours into his shift.
The slight, 23-year-old barista was soon approached by a vaguely
familiar face: Caroline Kaker, the chain's Bloomington-based district
manager.

She pulled him aside and led him to the adjacent Barnes & Noble. There,
she broke the grim news: You're fired.

Forman was stunned. Sure, two weeks earlier, he had shown up a half-hour
late and was issued a written warning. But that wasn't why Forman was
getting the ax today. Management decided to deep-six him after learning
that Forman had discussed the warning with co-workers.

"The Heat", Kenneth Rexroth's penetrating examination of the American
police, has just been added to the BPS website --
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/police.htm

The original publication of this article (in the July 1967 "Playboy")
apparently caused Rexroth to be fired from three different jobs,
including his position as columnist for the "San Francisco Examiner".

* * *

Texts of related interest at the same website:

"Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail" (Clarence Darrow)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/CF/darrow.htm

"Jail Time" (from Rexroth's autobiography)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/autobio/3.htm#Jail

"Organized Vice, Then and Now" (Rexroth)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sf/1973-74.htm#Vice

"The Social Lie" (Rexroth interview)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/sociallie.htm

"Eliminating the Roots of War and Crime" (Knabb)
http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/joyrev4.htm#crime

Today's post by
Kurt Brown, alias Saint Ram Bone, surviving FDIC federal bank
examiner of Mobile Audit Club fame.

http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/democracyordeath/

Daily Foreword July 30, 2008: The lies of the USA federal government
and
their state and city governments and who or what ever controls them or
IT
are apparent. They make us, the common humans who were subjected to
their
lies of nationalism as children in the public schools and public
institutions such as their military, look like imbeciles and dupes.
They
likely did other more diabolical things to many of us as children
with
drugs, medical procedures, and hidden atrocities. It is no wonder
they
were attacked on 9-11-2001 and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Today's post by
Kurt Brown, alias Saint Ram Bone, surviving FDIC federal bank
examiner of Mobile Audit Club fame.

http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/democracyordeath/

Daily Foreword July 30, 2008: The lies of the USA federal government and
their state and city governments and who or what ever controls them or IT
are apparent. They make us, the common humans who were subjected to their
lies of nationalism as children in the public schools and public
institutions such as their military, look like imbeciles and dupes. They
likely did other more diabolical things to many of us as children with
drugs, medical procedures, and hidden atrocities. It is no wonder they
were attacked on 9-11-2001 and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

After all, the federal war criminal crime syndicates attacked me, Kurt
Brown, alias Saint Ram Bone in 2001, forcibly injecting me and torturing me
in April, and they had some people or things attack me in February of 2001,
and to this day I am harassed. I was a bank examiner for the FDIC, a federal
banking regulatory agency, and had informed on money laundering and covered
up and sanctioned murder by the enemy who is now in power.