At Los Angeles Times : Amber Dias couldn’t be sure what was wrong with her little boy. Chase was a bright, loving 2 1/2-year-old. But he didn’t talk much and rarely responded to his own name. He hated crowds and had a strange fascination with the underside of the family tractor. Searching the Internet, Amber found stories about other children like Chase — on websites devoted to autism. “He wasn’t the kid rocking in the corner, but it was just enough to scare me,” recalled Dias, who lives with her husband and three children on a dairy farm in the Central Valley town of Kingsburg. She took Chase to a psychologist in Los Angeles, who said the boy indeed had autism and urged the family to seek immediate treatment. But a team at the Fresno agency that arranges state-funded services for autism said Chase didn’t have the disorder. His problems, staff members said, were nothing more than common developmental delays that he would eventually outgrow. Unconvinced, Dias imagined the worst — that Chase would never have a girlfriend, a job, a place of his own. She pressed the agency to reconsider and hinted at a lawsuit. Finally, officials relented, and her son began receiving 40 hours a week of one-on-one behaviorial therapy. She had to hint about a lawsuit? God, that is awful. My wife’s grandparents lived in Kingsburg. For a while, we went down there from Fresno every week or two for dinner with the whole family. It’s total heartland territory. It feels like the Midwest, with all the agriculture and Scandinavian culture. Anyway, continue reading at the link .
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An Occupier twitpic of the mob gathered in the rain outside the Seattle Sheraton where Chase exec Jamie Dimon was speaking tonight. In conjunction with Occupy Oakland’s “general strike,” Occupy Seattle marched downtown to protest Chase Bank and Wall Street Chase exec Jamie Dimon. A CNN reporter tweeted: “Like a scene out of the French revolution: #occupyseattle protesting outside Sheraton where biz leaders can be seen eating dinner.” The Seattle Times reports: Five protesters who had been inside Chase bank were arrested and taken outside to a police paddy wagon. Other protesters began pounding on the vehicle and chanting, “Let them go!” Some people began lying down in front of the van. Police have used pepper spray on protesters and have closed off East Thomas Street and Broadway. Protesters are handing gas masks to each other and pounding on police cars. A few scuffles have been seen between officers and protesters, but Seattle police Sgt Sean Whitcomb said he did not know if additional protesters had been arrested outside the bank. A line of officers has formed about 10 feet from a circle of about 150 protesters in the middle of Broadway and East Harrison. They’re locking arms and chanting, “We are the 99 percent.” About 4 p.m., they left and began marching toward Westlake Park for the evening protest against Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. Erin Brown covered some of the police-bashing by Occupiers on scene in Seattle throughout the day.
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Occupy Seattle: Arrests, pepper spray, CNN – “Like a scene out of the French revolution”
Five NASCAR drivers turned down President Barack Obama's invitation to the White House next week. (Media credit: The Turbo Blog)
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Obama’s out on his big taxpayer funded bus trip, with two buses that cost around a million dollars a piece, not to mention the cost of all the chase cars, security, and whatnot, making speeches that look oddly like campaign stump speeches, as Byron York points out. Then we get this, via CNS News “Here’s the
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Last June, a man spent a weekend in jail and lost his job and his car — all for trying to deposit a cashier’s check issued by the bank itself. According to Seattle’s KING 5 News , Ikenna Njoku, 28, of Auburn, Wash. had a $8,463.21 cashier’s check from Chase Bank. When he attempted to deposit it, the teller deemed it suspicious and took the check, along with his driver’s license and credit card. Frustrated, and without his money, Njoku left, only to return to the bank the next day and be greeted by the police. Njoku was arrested for forgery and taken to jail. The next day, the bank realized the error and that the check was legitimate, and left a message for the detective on the case, who had the day off. In the end, Njoku stayed in jail for the entire weekend and was fired from his job for not showing up to work. His car had been towed from the parking lot and was later sold at auction because he couldn’t pay the impound fees. The check was also seized. “They treated me like I was a criminal. I was just trying to cash a Chase check,” Njoku said. Njoku said he tried to contact Chase unsuccessfully for one year. On Thursday, Chase finally issued an apology: “This is a very unfortunate and unusual situation. We apologize to Mr. Njoku and deeply regret what happened to him. We are working quickly to understand all the details so we can reach a fair resolution.” Watch the full story here:
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Man Thrown in Jail for Trying to…Deposit a Check?
Earlier this spring we exposed SEIU veteran leader Stephen Lerner and his plan to bring down the U.S. economy through an economic hit-job on JP Morgan Chase (see here , here , and here ). That plan was supposed to start this summer. And today, it may have just kicked off. According to reports, protesters have converged on JP Morgan Chase’s annual shareholders meeting in Columbus, OH. At least one person was arrested handcuffed as shareholders within the meeting sympathetic to the protesters’ cause invoked religion to rail against Chase leaders. From the AP: Shareholders trying to get into JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s annual meeting held Tuesday in this midwestern city were greeted by heavy security and over 400 protesters shouting slogans outside every entrance. At least one person was handcuffed after a group of about 400 protestors marched up Chase’s property and placed a sign on a raft floating in a pond in the bank’s premises. The sign read: “Foreclosed: Chase sinks our economy.” Police had each entrance blocked ahead of the meeting, as protesters gathered in the rain and cold chanting slogans such as “Make Banks Pay” and carried signs that said: “Chase gets rich, we lose homes, jobs, services.” At least 20 police cruisers circled the building. Inside, several shareholders spoke out against the bank’s handling of mortgage foreclosures. “As a person of faith, my God believes you shouldn’t take advantage of people when they are down,” said Dawn Dannenbring of the community group Illinois People’s Action, addressing CEO Jamie Dimon. “Do you believe in the same God I believe in?” Dimon answered: “That’s a hard one to answer.” After another question on foreclosures, Dimon said: “We are doing everything we can to keep people in their homes that should stay in their homes.” Chase, headquartered in New York, is holding its annual meeting in Columbus for the first time. Along with all the major banks in the country, Chase has been criticized for its handling of mortgage foreclosures. Local station WSYX-TV reports from the scene, where at least one congressman joined in the event: According to the news station, the protesters were from the group National People’s Action. That group’s website confirms it was in fact there as part of its “Showdown in America” campaign against big banks. “Hundreds of homeowners, clergy, and workers have gathered in Columbus, Ohio to directly confront J.P. Morgan Chase at their annual shareholder meeting and deliver a message that it’s time to ‘Make Wall Street Pay,’” the group says on its website . It also includes plenty of pictures to chronicle its action: But according to the AP, the day’s events were organized by a group called The New Bottom Line. Would you be surprised to know that that group “is a national campaign fueled by a coalition of community organizations, congregations, labor unions , and individuals working together to build a movement that challenges established big bank interests on behalf of struggling and middle-class communities.” [Emphasis added] On its website, the group boasts about crossing the bank’s “moat” today: The crazy thing: the meeting is being held at the JP Morgan Chase McCoy Center is the second largest flat office building in the nation. Only the Pentagon is larger. And the building is surrounded by a moat! So how do these homeowners, clergy members, unions members and more, cross the moat? They build a bridge! Here’s the picture that accompanies the post: And guess who The New Bottom Line links to for more pictures and references in its about section? If you said National People’s Action, you’re right. All very interesting, isn’t it?
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Lerner’s Plan in Action? 400 Protesters Converge on JP Morgan Shareholders Mtg
Reuters – Elizabeth Warren, the Obama administration’s defender of financial consumers, will venture into the corporate lion’s den this week, along with Jamie Dimon, CEO of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Reuters – Elizabeth Warren, the Obama administration’s defender of financial consumers, will venture into the corporate lion’s den this week, along with Jamie Dimon, CEO of banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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◼ UPDATED – Beck: “Clear case of economic terrorism” – glennbeck.com ◼ CAUGHT ON TAPE: Former SEIU Official Reveals Secret Plan To Destroy JP Morgan, Crash The Stock Market, And Redistribute Wealth In America – Business Insider ◼ REVEALED — THE LEFT’S ECONOMIC TERRORISM PLAYBOOK: THE CHASE CAMPAIGN BY A COALITION OF UNIONS, COMMUNITY GROUPS, LAWMAKERS AND
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Reuters – Goldman Sachs Group Inc, JPMorgan Chase & Co and Citigroup Inc are among those Obama administration pay czar Kenneth Feinberg will cite for having made “ill-advised” payments, the Wall Street Journal reported on its web site on Thursday.
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