Displaying 541 To 570 Of 4,640 Comments Thank you Kes for sharing these articles with others. The Monsanto one makes me sick to my stomach. Along with WalMart, they are trying to control our food supply, not only is availability and cost but what we are being fed! » Posted By SallyT On March 28, 2013 @ 5:17 pm Funk, I agree, it sucks! I don’t know if you are interested but here is another article by Food Democracy Now that gives more facts and the damages. http://www.fooddemocracynow.org/blog/2013/mar/21/update_congress_passes_monsanto_protection_act/ » Posted By SallyT On March 28, 2013 @ 11:10 am Oh, I got news for WalMart!! (from company experience) Regardless of whether you pay for the insurance or not, if an employee is on company business and an accident occurs, your company is responsible, even if the employee is in their own car. (And, your company is not protected by the employee’s insurance, either. Your company has to carry insurance on the employee to be protected.) Now, if they think they are getting around the “employee” issue by using customers to do the delivery…..WRONG! They are being paid by the “discounts” they are getting and are temp employees of WalMart. Oh, and WalMart is responsible for the completed trip of the temp employee, meaning if the accident happens after the package is delivered and on the temps way home, Walmart is still responsible. Yes, I know WalMart has lots of attorneys to handle such matters but insurance companies hate to pay out on both sides of the issue. Insurance companies have lots of attorneys, too. Attorneys love to go after “deep pockets”. But, it couldn’t happen to a “nicer” bunch of guys. Walmart Wants You To Deliver Their Packages — For Free Yes, you would “share” your car with Walmart’s packages and they would give you a small discount to cover the cost of gas, but they wouldn’t “share” your insurance costs if you get into an accident on the way, and you certainly wouldn’t get paid for your time. In other words, you get to work FOR FREE! Feel the oligarchy! Wal-Mart would offer a discount on the customers’ shopping bill, effectively covering the cost of their gas in return for the delivery of packages, he added. Wow. I really didn’t think Walmart could stoop any lower, but I see I underestimated them. This is a company that has already “crowd sourced” their low wages by having the rest of us subsidize their food stamps. They also “crowd sourced” employee health insurance by holding workshops telling employees how to apply for Medicaid. This, from a company that’s owned by the wealthiest family in America. Did I forget to say, I don’t like WalMart? Well, I don’t like WalMart for many reasons and here’s another one. Walmart’s Death Grip on Groceries Is Making Life Worse for Millions of People (Hard Times USA) » Posted By SallyT On March 28, 2013 @ 10:42 am Glenn, the second link I attached to the Jon Stewart one goes into more depth as to the problems involved at the VA and even addresses some of the people that might need to carry some blame. It asks for the President’s help. The benefit-claims backlog that has ensnared nearly 600,000 younger veterans — many with war wounds — has reached a crisis point inside the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the hour has come for President Barack Obama to become personally involved in unclogging the quagmire, two of the nation’s leading veterans advocates told NBC News Thursday. I believe the problems are more than just a “XBox” fix as Stewart made it appear. And, Daddy Obama can not just “easily command” they do it. The President can’t even get the people he wants assigned to do the work “easily” in position, thanks to the obstruction in Congress. From everything I have seen on this today, Jon Stewart is getting lots of credit: » Posted By SallyT On March 28, 2013 @ 9:50 am Who put the bug up Jon Stewart’s butt? I think Priebus suggestions that more Republicans should appear on the Daily Show and Colbert Report has gone to his head. Stewart Rips Obama For VA Backlog: ‘When Unobstructed From Doing What You Want, You Better F**king Bring It’ Stewart used the segment to tear into the Obama administration for previously stating that the only thing getting in the way of the government taking care of people is Republican obstruction. In fact, Republicans have supported the V.A., and Stewart told the president that “when you’re not obstructed from doing what you want, you better fucking bring it.” He ripped into the V.A. for not being able to handle the same kind of heavy customer flow as McDonald’s, and “they are run by a clown.” …..it turns out that this it’s actually just a mess of bureaucracy between the V.A. and Department of Defense using two different computer systems that do not communicate with each other. ……Stewart said that like in a household, the nation’s ultimate parent (President Obama) could just easily command his children to only use the Xbox. Stewart said, “When you’re not obstructed from doing what you want, you better fucking bring it.” He said that if the U.S. government has the kind of technology to “create flying unmanned robots,” it should be no big deal to create a simple spreadsheet program so that U.S. veterans don’t have to wait months or years for paperwork. And, according to Stewart, if the President doesn’t “bring it on” the Republicans will be back running the government. Stewart failed to mention that President Obama has brought more military personnel back home since he has been in office. Could that contribute to the backlog, too? Bush only sent them to war and never back home. True there are problems at the VA and the President has been asked to step in and help. » Posted By SallyT On March 28, 2013 @ 12:52 am Interesting….. Slow Internet Due to ‘Biggest Attack in Internet History’ The slow Internet connection isn’t just you. The Web has been under one of its biggest-ever attacks since a Dutch Web-hosting company caused service to be disrupted and slowed down. Here’s how it went down: a Geneva-based spam-fighting group, Spamhaus, temporarily added a Dutch firm Cyberbunker, to an email blacklist that blocks out spam, and Cyberbunker did not react well. Cyberbunker infamously operates out of NATO bunker and boasts of hosting any Web site “except child porn and anything related to terrorism” — which is most likely how it ended up on the list of spammers in the first place. In retaliation, Cyberbunker launched the attack, which has slowed down many sites, including Netflix and other services. Such attacks cannot easily be stopped, experts say, because those servers cannot be shut off without halting the Internet. http://occupyamerica.crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/slow-internet-due-biggest-attack-inter » Posted By SallyT On March 27, 2013 @ 7:08 pm Things get signed under Presidents that later prove an error. I’m afraid that President Obama has done one. In the Budget he signed was the Monsanto Protection Act. This is not good. http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/how_the_monsanto_protection_act_snuck_into_law/ » Posted By SallyT On March 27, 2013 @ 6:26 pm Funk, huh???? I don’t think Kagan was trying to stop old sperm swimming up the canal. The attorney’s point was that old sperm could, so, regardless of them both being 55 years old, at least the guy could still compete in the Olympics. Now why in the hell that matters is the question. I guess since Abraham could, that is enough for religion to be a ruling factor in marriage???? If Tony Randall wants to become a father at 78, one of his heads needs to be exam. The one that holds its breath while swimming! » Posted By SallyT On March 26, 2013 @ 9:02 pm Oh yowl, well I own the Milky Way, buster! The Man Who ‘Owns’ The Moon Has Made Serious Bank Dennis Hope has made millions of dollars selling acres of real estate on the moon. As far as he’s concerned, it’s his to sell. Frans von der Dunk, professor of Space Law at the University of Nebraska, told The New York Times that Hope’s ownership is “either a hollow claim or a fraud.” But Hope is serious: when China announced it would attempt to build a moon base, Hope wrote them a letter saying that their craft would not reach the moon if they didn’t have a licensing agreement with him. Hope, the president of the Galactic Government, has also claimed Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter’s moon Io, and Pluto (the rock is yours for $250,000). Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/man-selling-real-estate-on-the-moon-2013-3#ixzz2Ohb5Owf9 » Posted By SallyT On March 26, 2013 @ 7:12 pm When I married for the second time, I had no desires for more children and neither did the gentleman I was marrying. I was still of child bearing age but I had two children and the factory was closed to future production. So, thank goodness for Justice Kagan and her common sense. Justice Kagan Destroyed The Idea That Marriage Is Only For Having Babies From the transcript: Ladies, did you pick up on the part that the male can produce even if the woman is too old? So, does that mean men should only marry younger women? And, older women marrying younger men are wasting sperm? DON’T THINK SO! » Posted By SallyT On March 26, 2013 @ 4:15 pm 50 years ago today, Johnny Cash recorded Ring of Fire. Just a little trivia for you all:
» Posted By SallyT On March 25, 2013 @ 5:03 pm Kes, that does say it all, doesn’t it. Today, if President Obama were to say something like that, immediately he would be accused of trying to silents the press. But, that was not it at all. President Kennedy was asking them to help getting what was important out but using common sense to keep quite sensitive information. Also, it was apparent that he thought there was some under handed stuff going on in those secret societies……did he know then about The Family? » Posted By SallyT On March 25, 2013 @ 4:59 pm By George, Kalima, I think you are on to something. That has to be why so many are wearing dark glasses! 😯 » Posted By SallyT On March 24, 2013 @ 5:59 pm Kalima, I think this may be a set-up. In looking at that picture, several of those on the steps are too young to be regular viewers of FOX news, And, at least three of them still have their teeth. 😉 » Posted By SallyT On March 24, 2013 @ 10:42 am As I was flipping through the internet, looking for cartoons and such, I came across this speech that President Kennedy gave to the press in 1961. If you have time, listen to his words. This was of course in the day when the press was independent and not corporate owned. There is humor, naturally it is Kennedy, and there are profound claims. Claims of secret societies and influences. And, of course, the Cold War. “This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President–two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy.” Yes, President Kennedy had personal secrets and he does state that family should be free from the press. But, this is not about him personally. 153 – Address “The President and the Press” Before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, New York City.
A link to the full text: » Posted By SallyT On March 24, 2013 @ 12:34 am As AdLib has already pointed out, Michelle Bachmann is NUTS! Obamacare ‘kills’: Michele Bachmann claims new health care plan will kill public With the headline, “Michele Bachmann: Repeal Obamacare before it ‘literally kills’”, the Post noted that the well-known political figure appealed this Thursday to the House of Representatives to quickly repeal Obamacare, calling it a failure already. “Repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children, kills senior citizens,” said Bachmann firmly. Michele Bachmann noted that the people of America will ultimately “pay more and get less” if Obamacare begins. She continues to urge Washington to put an end to the already passed health law before Obamacare “kills.” “Let’s love people, let’s care about people, let’s repeal it now while we can,” she said. Gee, she left out that it kills puppies! This woman is loony toons! » Posted By SallyT On March 21, 2013 @ 9:10 pm President Obama did GOOD today in Israel. Made us proud! Obama Just Finished His Speech In Israel, And People Are Already Saying He Made History President Barack Obama delivered a bold message to young Israelis in Jerusalem Thursday, asking them to see the world through the eyes of their adversaries in the Middle East. Here is the key paragraph from his speech: At times, Obama even appeared to be trying to circumvent his Israeli counterpart, calling on his young audience to challenge political leaders on the peace issue. There are copies of tweets from veteran Israel correspondents, many of whom are calling Obama’s speech “historic.” And, the full text of the speech is also there. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-israel-speech-2013-3#ixzz2OEmcRWdE » Posted By SallyT On March 21, 2013 @ 8:58 pm CL, did you see my link for Dark Legacy below? You should, when you have time because there is a lot to read and listen to, go there and see. Here’s the link again: » Posted By SallyT On March 21, 2013 @ 8:47 pm Sue and KT, if you haven’t ever heard of this, I found Dark Legacy while looking up more players in this. You should read, listen, and watch. At one point, this gentleman is talking about researching to see if LBJ was involved and he comes to the conclusion that he wasn’t. But, strangely he mentions that during his research he finds that LBJ had something on Nixon. He thinks it is that Nixon sent Kissinger over to make sure there wasn’t any peace treaty with Vietnam before the election and that is treason. SURPRISE! Now we know that is true but this gay was talking about it before. Anyway, Bush Sr. was in the CIA and in Dallas on the day Kennedy was shot. But, when asked, he always has said he didn’t remember where he was. Everybody who was alive and old enough knows where they were on that day! This has some great stuff in it. Let me know your thoughts. http://www.synergeticdistribution.com/darklegacy/ » Posted By SallyT On March 20, 2013 @ 7:51 pm Hey Sue and KT, I found this movie that is coming out produced by Tom Hanks. I didn’t know about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkland_(film) Also, this on Kellerman who was Greer’s SS senior officer beside him in the car. » Posted By SallyT On March 20, 2013 @ 4:31 pm Thanks KT for the link to the video. I am going to look this guy up. » Posted By SallyT On March 20, 2013 @ 4:28 pm Thanks KT for the link to the video. I have to look that guy up. » Posted By SallyT On March 20, 2013 @ 4:09 pm Kes, I am wondering if Kalima will have anything on Tony Blair and this anniversary. He shouldn’t have followed Bushie on this one! Blair Says Iraq Would Be ‘Worse Than Syria’ Now, if Antiwar Critics Had Prevailed » Posted By SallyT On March 19, 2013 @ 10:47 pm Funk, I wonder that, too. Someone said that would have been hard to do with all the people involved and also the UN had people there before and after when we were there, too. » Posted By SallyT On March 19, 2013 @ 10:41 pm KT, I never heard that but I did hear that the CIA had something in the glove department that fired. After looking up people names of those that might be involved, as I said before, I started really wondering. Like E.Howard Hunt (Watergate) admitted to his son that he had been involved. And, that years later Richard Helms, former CIA director testified under oath that Clay Shaw had been a part-time contact of the Domestic Contact Service of the CIA. (There are more that were named in that movie that later there is more proof of their connection.) There diffidently is more to the story. Will we live long enough to know, KT? » Posted By SallyT On March 19, 2013 @ 10:09 pm One day after watching the movie JFK and hearing how nothing was true in it, I started looking up names that were given in it. You will be surprised or maybe not how many of those cross paths often in our political atmosphere. Many lies have been disclosed. Just start with Clay Shaw and start clicking names. I am sure the book you have will say much the same. Be interesting in hearing about it. » Posted By SallyT On March 19, 2013 @ 6:59 pm Well, according to Wikipedia: » Posted By SallyT On March 19, 2013 @ 6:52 pm In regard to the tapes: “They will provide history with the bark off,” Johnson told his wife, Lady Bird. They were dis-classified in 2008. » Posted By SallyT On March 19, 2013 @ 6:41 pm I thought all records were to be opened on Kennedy’s assassination after 50 years but I read somewhere that not all will be. Several will be held back for another 25 years or something. » Posted By SallyT On March 19, 2013 @ 6:38 pm When she was running for President she endorsed civil unions for same-sex couples. But, that was the thinking at the time. Thank goodness they have evolved since then. » Posted By SallyT On March 19, 2013 @ 6:31 pmComments Posted By SallyT
Wal-Mart Stores Inc is considering a radical plan to have store customers deliver packages to online buyers, a new twist on speedier delivery services that the company hopes will enable it to better compete with Amazon.com Inc.
Tapping customers to deliver goods would put the world’s largest retailer squarely in middle of a new phenomenon sometimes known as “crowd-sourcing,” or the “sharing economy.”
[…] Wal-Mart has millions of customers visiting its stores each week. Some of these shoppers could tell the retailer where they live and sign up to drop off packages for online customers who live on their route back home, Anderson explained.
http://www.alternet.org/food/walmarts-death-grip-groceries-making-life-worse-millions-people-hard-times-usa?akid=10246.268330.qMfDaK&rd=1&src=newsletter815950&t=3
“It’s time to go above the VA. If you think of VA as a broken down car, it’s hard for us to know how to fix it if we can’t see under the hood. The president can see under the hood. And the president can send people in to fix it,” said Paul Rieckhoff, an Iraq War veteran and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, which represents more than 200,000 people.
During a press briefing Wednesday, White House spokesman Jay Carney said: “It is absolutely the president’s position that we need to aggressively address this problem, and he has made clear to Secretary Shinseki that he wants this addressed. He is getting weekly updates on the backlog.”
As for the Drone comparison, well, that is a military weapon and military weapons/industry always come first in our nation, before beneficial needs of the people. And, that is something I am sure the Republicans, if and when in power won’t change.
Your comment about the President “now not having to worry about re-election” should allow him to focus is a fault in our political system. Why is raising money for being elected more important than doing the things you are elected to do? However, I agree and hope that the President will focus on his legacy this final term even though the obstruction is still there. Apparently, the Republicans are focusing on re-election.
Stewart Hammers Obama-Huffington and Brokencontrollers
Stewart Shreds Obama-Inquistr
Stewart Tears into Obama-Business Insider
Stewart Rips Obama-FoxNews and Mediaite and Patdollard
Stewart Picks A Horse-NextGov
Stewart Outraged US Has Flying Kill Bots but can’t-Rawstory
And many, many more.
Video in the following link:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-slams-obama-for-va-backlog-when-youre-not-obstructed-from-doing-what-you-want-you-better-fcking-bring-it/
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/21/17404780-obama-urged-to-step-in-to-fix-va-backlog?lite
The only way to deal with this problem is to find the people doing it and arrest them.”
…….many large Internet service providers have not set up their networks to make sure that traffic leaving their networks is actually coming from their own users. The potential security flaw has long been known by Internet security specialists, but it has only recently been exploited in a way that threatens the Internet infrastructure.
An engineer at one of the largest Internet communications firms said the attacks in recent days have been as many as five times larger than what was seen recently in attacks against major American banks.
In 1980 Hope realized that while the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty said no country could own the moon, it said nothing about individuals.
So he wrote a letter to the United Nations claiming ownership of the moon and asking for a legal reason why an individual couldn’t claim ownership. He hasn’t heard back.
Ever since Hope, 65, has sold lunar land certificates at around $24-per-acre, including sales to Barbara Walters, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and Nicole Kidman in addition to former U.S. presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan.
……once sold a “country-sized” plot of land — 2.66 million acres — for $250,000, according to U.S. News and World report. He says that in 2011 a group offered him $50 million for the moon’s north pole, but he declined the offer.
JUSTICE KAGAN: Well, suppose a State said, … Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?
MR. COOPER: No, Your Honor, it would not be constitutional.
KAGAN: Because that’s the same State interest, I would think, you know. If you are over the age of 55, you don’t help us serve the Government’s interest in regulating procreation through marriage. So why is that different?
MR. COOPER: Your Honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that … both parties to the couple are infertile, and the traditional —
(Laughter.)
JUSTICE KAGAN: … I can just assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage.
(Laughter.)
I just loved hearing his humor in the beginning. Just reading the text, you don’t get it.
“It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions–by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.”
“It is the unprecedented nature of this challenge that also gives rise to your second obligation–an obligation which I share. And that is our obligation to inform and alert the American people–to make certain that they possess all the facts that they need, and understand them as well–the perils, the prospects, the purposes of our program and the choices that we face.”
“No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition. And both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed.”
“I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers–I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for, as a wise man once said: “An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.”
“Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed-and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law-maker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment–the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution–not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply “give the public what it wants”–but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mold, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion.”
“It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: the compass, gunpowder and the printing press. Now the links between the nations first forged by the compass have made us all citizens of the world, the hopes and threats of one becoming the hopes and threats of us all. In that one world’s efforts to live together, the evolution of gunpowder to its ultimate limit has warned mankind of the terrible consequences of failure.”
“And so it is to the printing press–to the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news–that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.”
It is a powerful speech, above is just snippets from its 20 mins. The press and the industry as a whole has changed. But, listen to it and you will hear a speech that could be given today with all that we face as a nation. However, today the nation and with our “news” outlets, are we mature enough to understand it?
April 27, 1961
President Kennedy speaks at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8093
Addressing students at the Jerusalem Cultural Center, Obama called on a new generation of Israelis to take up the peace process — including halting settlement construction — and work harder toward achieving an independent Palestine.
But the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and justice must also be recognized. Put yourself in their shoes – look at the world through their eyes. It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every single day. It is not just when settler violence against Palestinians goes unpunished. It is not right to prevent Palestinians from farming their lands; to restrict a student’s ability to move around the West Bank; or to displace Palestinian families from their home. Neither occupation nor expulsion is the answer. Just as Israelis built a state in their homeland, Palestinians have a right to be a free people in their own land.
” I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks,” he said. “You must create the change that you want to see. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things.”
Lots there that is in agreement with you and the “Family”. Most on there was done in 2009 & 2010 but since then more has come out that shows this guy is on the right track. Check out all he has on PaPa Bush and H. Howard Hunt.
http://www.synergeticdistribution.com/darklegacy/
“Parkland” (the hospital that Kennedy was rushed to)
With Kellerman in charge of local events (and with the assistance of Greer), the Secret Service maintained custody of the most important evidence of the crime, including the president’s body, clothing, limousine, forensic tissues, and autopsy photographs and X-rays, returning everything to the White House before the sun rose on November 23, 1963, less than fifteen hours from when the first shot was fired.
According to an interview given after John Hinckley, Jr.’s attempt to assassinate President Reagan in 1981, Kellerman did not believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy.[10] According to his widow June, Kellerman did believe there was a conspiracy.
All of the Warren Commission’s records were submitted to the National Archives in 1964. The unpublished portion of those records was initially sealed for 75 years (to 2039) under a general National Archives policy that applied to all federal investigations by the executive branch of government,[123] a period “intended to serve as protection for innocent persons who could otherwise be damaged because of their relationship with participants in the case.”[124] The 75-year rule no longer exists, supplanted by the Freedom of Information Act of 1966 and the JFK Records Act of 1992. By 1992, 98% of the Warren Commission records had been released to the public.[125] Six years later, at the conclusion of the Assassination Records Review Board’s work, all Warren Commission records, except those records that contained tax return information, were available to the public with only minor redactions.[126] The remaining Kennedy assassination related documents are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017, twenty-five years after the passage of the JFK Records Act. The Kennedy autopsy photographs and X-rays were never part of the Warren Commission records and were deeded separately to the National Archives by the Kennedy family in 1966 under restricted conditions.[127]
The Assassination Records Review Board was not commissioned to make any findings or conclusions. Its purpose was to release documents to the public in order to allow the public to draw its own conclusions. From 1992 until 1998, the Assassination Records Review Board gathered and unsealed about 60,000 documents, consisting of over 4 million pages.[133][134] All remaining documents are to be released by 2017.
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