I watched a meeting on CSPAN the other day between Saed Erakat and Aaron David Miller. (Following please find my research that watching this led to.) Please be patient and read all of this fully. Notice Scoop Jackson's relationship not only to JFK but to Richard Perle and the NeoConservatives.
JFK Library releases tapes (Scoop Jackson)
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Audio files of these discussions are available to the media in mp3 format on request. They, and other historical resources related to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, may also be accessed on the Kennedy Library website at the following links:
- Audio of President Kennedy’s meeting with and Senators Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen, White House Tape 109, September 9, 1963
- Audio of President Kennedy’s meeting with Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, White House Tape 109, September 9, 1963
- Letter from President Kennedy to Senators Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen, September 10, 1963 (pdf)
- Additional resources on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Israel's deceit
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The Mother of all Scandals
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Once again, Israel has been caught with spies at the highest levels of the US Government.
1970 While working for Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, Richard Perle is caught by the FBI giving classified information to Israel. Nothing is done.
Henry 'Scoop' Jackson
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As a Cold War anti-Communist Democrat, Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle.[1] The Henry Jackson Society is named in his honor.
Scoop Jackson and 'His' republican friends
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Ben Wattenberg: And then you ended up with Scoop Jackson? How did that happen? Senator Jackson, my hero, your hero, our hero, who really embodied hawkishness?
Richard Perle: In a good cause always.
Ben Wattenberg: Right.
Richard Perle: It was a complete accident although it traces back. Albert Wohlstetter phoned me one day. I was still a graduate student at Princeton doing some research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and he said, could you come to Washington for a few days and interview some people and draft a report on the current debate shaping up in the Senate over ballistic missile defense, which was a hot issue in the Nineteen Sixty-nine debate. This was in Nineteen Sixty-nine. And he said, I’ve asked somebody else to do this too, and maybe the two of you could work together. The someone else was Paul Wolfowitz. So Paul and I came to Washington as volunteers for a few days, to interview people, and one of the people we interviewed was Scoop Jackson and it was love at first sight. I will never forget that first encounter with Scoop. Here we were a couple of graduate students, sitting on the floor in Scoop’s office in the Senate, reviewing charts and analyses of the ballistic missile defense and getting his views on the subject. Before I went back up to Cambridge, Scoop said, you know, you’re never…
Ben Wattenberg: To Cambridge or to Princeton?
PNAC and Scoop Jackson
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After graduating college and a short stint in working for the fiercely anti-Communist Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson he went to work for a private military-consulting firm.
The following year he was appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense in the presidential administration of Ronald Reagan. During the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, Perle served as a foreign policy advisor.
Jackso-Vanik amendment wikipedia
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The amendment denies most favored nation status to certain countries with non-market economies that restrict emigration, which is considered a human right. Permanent normal trade relations can be extended to a country subject to the law only if the President determines that it complies with the freedom of emigration requirements of the amendment. However, the President has the authority to grant a yearly waiver to the provisions of Jackson-Vanik, and these waivers were granted to the People's Republic of China starting in the late 1970s and later to Vietnam.
[edit] Background
Exit USSR visa of the type 2. For those who received permission to leave the USSR forever and lost Soviet citizenship. Not all who wanted were able to receive this kind of exit visaIn 1972 as the Cold War and the ongoing Arab–Israeli conflict were intensifying, the Brezhnev government imposed the so-called "diploma tax" on would-be emigrants who received a higher education in the USSR. While the professed justification for this tax was to repay state expenses for public education, this measure was designed to combat the brain drain caused by the growing emigration of Soviet Jews and other members of the intelligentsia to the West.
This development caused international protests. Twenty-one United States Nobel Laureates issued a public statement condemning it as a "massive violation of human rights." The Kremlin soon revoked the tax but imposed additional limitations, effectively choking off emigration, even for family reunification. A case could languish for years in the OVIR (ОВиР) department of the MVD. An often-cited but rarely explained official ground for the refusal to issue an emigration visa were "national security reasons."
[edit] Effects
At first the Jackson-Vanik amendment did little to help free Soviet Jewry. The number of exit visas declined after the passing of the amendment, as the USSR felt the external pressure was harming its credibility. However, in the late-1980s Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to comply with the protocols of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Since 1975 more than 500,000 refugees, many of whom were Jews, evangelical Christians, and Catholics from the former Soviet Union, have been resettled in the United States. An estimated one million Soviet Jews have immigrated to Israel in that time.
Jackson-Vanik also led to great changes within the Soviet Union. Other ethnic groups subsequently demanded the right to emigrate, and the ruling Communist Party had to face the fact that there was widespread dissatisfaction with its governance.
Former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky wrote in his 2004 book The Case for Democracy:
RCSJ rescind Jackson-Vanick for Russia
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NCSJ: Rescind Jackson-Vanik for Russia
April 29, 2010
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A group that advocates for Jews in the former Soviet Union endorsed efforts to lift restrictions on Russia's trade with the United States.
Former Soviet states are still subject to review under standards established by the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which linked trade status to human rights, particularly among Jews. Jewish communities in those nations in recent years have lobbied for its rescission, and have garnered support in both parties.
"Russian Jewish life has flourished dramatically since the Soviet collapse in 1991," Mark Levin, who directs the NCSJ: Advocates on behalf of Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia, told a joint hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittees on Europe and Trade on Tuesday. "What has happened is nothing less than a historic rebirth of a people and their culture after decades of persecution."
Also testifying on behalf of removing the restrictions was Mark Talisman, who heads the Project Judaica Foundation, which seeks to preserve Jewish culture. Talisman helped draft the amendment as chief of staff to the late U.S. Rep. Charles Vanik (D-Ohio), who shepherded the law through the House.
Resistance to removing the restrictions comes from some in the business and human rights communities who say that Russia continues to maintain centralized controls over business and religious expression.
Albert Wohlstetter
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Wohlstetter and his wife, Roberta Morgan Wohlstetter, also counseled both Democratic and Republican administrations, including advisers to President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.[9] They received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan on November 7, 1985.
During his long career, Wohlstetter also taught at UCLA and the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 1960s. From 1964 to 1980, he taught in the political science department of the University of Chicago, and chaired the dissertation committees of Paul Wolfowitz and Zalmay Khalilzad. He is often credited with influencing a number of prominent members of the neoconservative movement,[10] including Richard Perle (who, as a teenager, dated Wohlstetter's daughter Joan).[11]
JFK names Scoop Jackson to head DNC
Flashback Friday: On This Day In 1960, JFK Names Scoop Jackson To Head DNC
July 16, 2010
July 16, 1960:
No Veep for Scoop, but he did get to chair the DNC.
One day after beginning his campaign as his party's presidential nominee, Sen. John Kennedy (D-Mass.) names his longtime friend, Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson of Washington, as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
Jackson agrees to serve only until January 1961.
First elected to the Senate in 1952 — the same year as Kennedy — Jackson had been under consideration as JFK's running mate, a selection that ultimately went to Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas.
Also on this day, Kennedy announces that his brother, Robert, will be his campaign manager.
Saeb Erekat wikipedia
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Politics
In 1991, Erekat was deputy head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference and the subsequent follow-up talks in Washington between 1992 and 1993. Later, in 1994, he was appointed the Minister for Local Government for the Palestinian Authority and also the Chairman of the Palestinian negotiation delegation[1]. In 1995, Erekat served as Chief Negotiator for the Palestinians during the Oslo period. He was then elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 1996, representing Jericho.[1] As a politician, Erekat was considered to be a Yasser Arafat loyalist. including the Camp David meetings in 2000 and the negotiations at Taba in 2001. Erekat was also, along with Arafat and Faisal Husseini, one of the three high-ranking Palestinians who asked Ariel Sharon not to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque in September 2000[7], an event which allegedly sparked off the Second Intifada.He also acted as Yasser Arafat's English interpreter. When Mahmoud Abbas was nominated to serve as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Legislative Council in early 2003, Erekat was slated to be Minister of Negotiations in the new cabinet, but he soon resigned after he was excluded from a delegation to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. This was interpreted as part of an internal Palestinian power struggle between Abbas and Arafat.[6][8] Erekat was later reappointed to his post and participated in the 2007 Annapolis Conference, where he took over from Ahmed Qureia during an impasse and helped hammer out a joint declaration.[9]
Erekat is one of the more prominent Palestinian spokespeople in the Western media.[10] Erekat has characterized the IDF's 2002 assault in the Palestinian town of Jenin as a "massacre" and a "war crime", charges that the IDF has denied.[11]
In April 2008, Erakat visited the Palestine Center in Washington DC and gave a lecture entitled "Five Months after Annapolis: Where Are We Headed?" Read the transcript online: [1]
Aaron David Miller wikipedia
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In June 1993, Miller was appointed as the Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator[4] [5] in an office headed by Dennis Ross and charged by President Clinton with managing the Arab-Israeli negotiations. For the next seven years, Miller worked as part of a small interagency team where he helped structure the U.S. role in Arab-Israeli negotiations through the historic Oslo process, multilateral Arab-Israeli economic summits, Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, and final status negotiations between Israel and Syria and between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David in July 2000. Miller continued work on the Arab-Israeli issues in the George W. Bush administration [6] where he served as the Senior Advisor on Arab-Israeli negotiations in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to Secretary Colin Powell[7]. He resigned from the Department of State in January 2003 to become President of Seeds of Peace.[5]
In June 1993, Miller was appointed as the Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator[4] [5] in an office headed by Dennis Ross and charged by President Clinton with managing the Arab-Israeli negotiations. For the next seven years, Miller worked as part of a small interagency team where he helped structure the U.S. role in Arab-Israeli negotiations through the historic Oslo process, multilateral Arab-Israeli economic summits, Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, and final status negotiations between Israel and Syria and between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David in July 2000. Miller continued work on the Arab-Israeli issues in the George W. Bush administration [6] where he served as the Senior Advisor on Arab-Israeli negotiations in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to Secretary Colin Powell[7]. He resigned from the Department of State in January 2003 to become President of Seeds of Peace.[5]
In June 1993, Miller was appointed as the Deputy Special Middle East Coordinator[4] [5] in an office headed by Dennis Ross and charged by President Clinton with managing the Arab-Israeli negotiations. For the next seven years, Miller worked as part of a small interagency team where he helped structure the U.S. role in Arab-Israeli negotiations through the historic Oslo process, multilateral Arab-Israeli economic summits, Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty, and final status negotiations between Israel and Syria and between Israel and the Palestinians at Camp David in July 2000. Miller continued work on the Arab-Israeli issues in the George W. Bush administration [6] where he served as the Senior Advisor on Arab-Israeli negotiations in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs to Secretary Colin Powell[7]. He resigned from the Department of State in January 2003 to become President of Seeds of Peace.[5]
Downey was born on 4/4/65 (to become in 3 years the day MLK was murdered)
Be very leary of wikipediia as the following site comes up when you go back in and do the clicking.
Robert Downey Jr. %22
Robert Downey Jr. wikipedia
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In 2007, Downey was cast as the title character in the comic book adaptation Iron Man which premiered in the spring of 2008, making almost $100 million in the United States and Canada during its opening weekend. In addition to receiving commercial success, Downey's performance in the film received rave reviews. His other 2008 films include Charlie Bartlett and the Ben Stiller-directed Tropic Thunder, in which he portrayed an Australian method actor overly engrossed in his role as an African-American soldier. He received his second Oscar nomination for said film, in the category of Best Supporting Actor, which he lost to Heath Ledger. Next, he played the titular lead character in Guy Ritchie's adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, released Christmas 2009, for which Downey won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his portrayal of the famous detective.[1] He reprised the role of Tony Stark in the 2010 sequel, Iron Man 2, and then will again in 2012 in The Avengers.
Saturday, November 6, 2010
Monday, November 1, 2010
The eyewear industry is an incredible ripoff but there are alternatives
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the Eyewear Industry Is an Incredible Ripoff, But There Are Alternatives
Tuesday,August 31, 2010
Wow — the Eyewear Industry Is an Incredible Ripoff, But There Are Alternatives
By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet
Posted on August 31, 2010, Printed on August 31, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/148024/
Those of us who need prescription eyewear need prescription eyewear. Are you wearing yours to read this? Imagine if you weren’t. Imagine life without your glasses for a year, a week, an hour. Yet many health insurance plans, especially for the unemployed or self-employed, don’t cover them.
Mine doesn’t.
Last year, I went shopping for no-line progressive bifocals in small oval metal frames. Name brands mean nothing to me. Price does. My high astigmatism and need for bifocals disqualify me from those buy-one-get-one-free deals, which almost always involve only single-vision specs.
In store after store, megachains and optical boutiques alike, small oval metal frames fitted with lenses matching my prescription started at $300. One popular shop quoted me $582 for the lenses alone.
I bought a pair of no-line progressive bifocals in small oval metal frames for $44 online. I’m wearing them right now.
Perhaps because prescription glasses are where medicine meets fashion, they’re among the world’s most overpriced merchandise. Imperfect eyesight isn’t your fault: You can’t make yourself nearsighted by eating too much fudge. Yet if your health plan excludes vision care, you’ve spent years at the mercy of a $64 billion industry characterized by 500-percent markups.
This has begun to change over the last few years. A knowledge-is-power, power-to-the-people, Web-driven DIY wave is rocking the optical industry’s very foundations. Dozens of companies now sell prescription glasses online, frames and lenses included, for as little as $7.95.
It works like this: Google “cheap glasses” to find a frame you like at a price you like at a site you like. (Among the most popular are 39DollarGlasses, ZenniOptical — where I bought mine — and Goggles4U.) Use the virtual fitting mechanism to “try it on.” Type in your prescription (obtained from an actual eye doctor), pupillary distance (aka PD, derived by measuring the space between your pupils with a ruler), address and payment information. Send.
It’s a virtual myopian/hyperopian/presbyopian Tea Party, led largely by Minnesota software engineer Ira Mitchell, who launched his revolutionary GlassyEyes blog (its motto is “Saving the World from Overpriced Glasses!”) in 2006. Packed with forums, product reviews, discount deals, and tips for buying specs online, it’s the vision-impaired version of Yelp.
“There is no appreciable functional or material difference” between prescription eyewear bought online and bought in brick-and-mortar stores, Mitchell tells me, but in stores “the cost to the consumer is anywhere from four to ten times more. It turns out that they’re making ridiculous margins on the frames, the lenses and the coatings.”
Complete with antiscratch coatings and other pluses, his own glasses cost between $30 and $60 per pair online. Over the last three years, he’s bought around 40 pair — because, at that price, he can.
Mitchell was appalled when he first began researching wholesale prices for optical merchandise and realized that opticians acquire lenses for as little as $3 each. “I’ve easily paid twenty times that when I didn’t know any better,” he says.
Granted, these glass, plastic, polycarbonate or polymer blanks must be ground to fit frames and prescriptions, and this takes work, but it’s not rocket science. Typically, lens grinding is done by optical laboratory technicians. According to PayScale.com, OLTs in the United States earn between $9.73 and $14.40 per hour. Most learn on the job, and have only a high-school diploma or a GED. No specific certification is required.
The fleecing, Mitchell says, is just as bad on frames.
“A consumer-level frame costs significantly less than $10 to manufacture. The rest is operations, licensing and profit. Think about that the next time you pick up an average $150 frame. These aren’t markedly different or superior to the $30 glasses available from reputable online dealers — and those include lenses, probably the same ones you were just about to pay $200 for in the store.”
A key to the industry-standard overpricing is the fact that a single corporation — Luxottica, the world’s largest eyewear firm — owns many retail eyewear chains and many popular eyewear brands. Based in Milan, Italy, Luxottica owns and operates LensCrafters, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Pearle Vision, Sunglass Hut, Ilori, and other chains in the United States, along with yet more chains throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, India, the Antipodes and the Middle East.
Luxottica owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, Oliver Peoples, Vogue, and other brands, and makes glasses under license for over a dozen designer labels including Versace, Prada, Bulgari, DKNY, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Tiffany, and more. As if that isn’t enough, Luxottica is also the parent company of a vision-care benefits program, EyeMed.
Eyewear prices in brick-and-mortar stores stay artificially high, Mitchell says, due to “the lack of real competition, inasmuch as Luxottica owns massive manufacturing, licensing, retailing and insurance interests” — albeit EyeMed is “not so much insurance as a marketing ploy to get people to buy from their stores at a discount and to force the remaining independent stores to buy Luxottica controlled frames. But, again, most people are unaware of this.”
Because one company holds a near-monopoly on brick-and-mortar eyewear stores, “pricing models are somewhat static across the lot of them. They also have a knack for using the mattress sale model … constantly running sales that seem too good to pass up when in reality they’re still making enormous profits.”
“Semi-Annual 50% Off Sales Event,” reads a current LensCrafters ad. But the frames in question range from around $100 to around $300, and that’s without lenses.
“People pay what the brick-and-mortars are asking, primarily because the vast majority don’t know there are better, cheaper options,” Mitchell says.
As with any purchase — in fact more than with most purchases, as this involves eyesight — it pays to research each company’s delivery and return policies, Better Business Bureau status, and accessibility. Does its Web site list a phone number? If not, why not? If so, call it. Can you reach live people? Are they knowledgeable about your prescription? Does the company have its own in-house optometrists? It should. If you care about brand names, can you ascertain that the logo-bearing frames sold by any given company aren’t counterfeits? Factories churn out fakes.
While many online outfits sell real and bogus designer frames, the least expensive frames available online are unapologetically nameless generics: current and classic styles, sans logo. As is true with most consumer products, they’re not necessarily worse than their name-brand counterparts. After a year-plus of daily use, my $44 generics still look new. (That being said, I should have paid a few dollars more for higher-quality polycarbonate lenses and I should have sought bifocals with a wider middle-vision band, but these errors were my own, not the company’s.)
“Very high-priced frames may have somewhat better materials,” Mitchell says, “but from my experience, the no-names have been very well made.” Having owned dozens of generic pairs, he’s experienced “no more issues with them than with the name brands from LensCrafters. I think they’re pretty much on par.”
These days, he notes, “there are a lot more online retailers now than at the end of 2006. There aren’t a whole lot more reputable ones, however. I’ve shopped at over a dozen, and narrowed things down to about three or four that I feel comfortable recommending to others. As this is a fully custom market, mistakes can enter the process anywhere from the initial customer entering prescription information to the production process. I’ve found that a few of the sites do a better job than others at fixing mistakes. Some do better at this than the traditional stores.
“Prices haven’t dropped at all in the traditional brick-and-mortars, but downward price pressure from Wal-Mart will undoubtedly start to make an impact in certain parts of the country. I saw a sign in a
Wal-Mart recently for $38 glasses. The selection was tiny, but we’re starting to see a price intersection.”
The first online eyeglasses company was Houston-based FramesDirect. In 1992, optometrists Dhavid Cooper and Guy Hodgson closed their several Texas brick-and-mortar shops, then pondered their future.
“We knew that we wanted to sell eyewear in all fifty states 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” Hodgson says. “We had no idea how to do this.” Renting a small office, they installed computers.
“When you talked about the Internet in those days, no one knew what you meant. Search engines were in their absolute infancy. We thought a 56k modem was blisteringly fast.”
Cooper had won a Surgeon General’s Commendation Award in his native South Africa for creating a program providing the poor with recycled glasses for free. Hodgson specialized in treating the nearly blind. Barely fluent in email, the pair created a basic Web site, offering designer glasses at low prices because, unlike brick-and-mortar opticians, they needed to pay neither storefront rent nor employees’ salaries, nor did they need to keep large quantities of merchandise in stock.
“Everyone around us thought we were completely mad: Eye doctors, giving up their lucrative practices to go into this weird thing,” Hodgson laughs. But once orders started pouring in, “The whole optical industry completely shunned us. They said we were ruining them.”
At eyewear conventions, he and Cooper wore their nametags backward to avoid verbal abuse. Since then, dozens of imitators have emerged, many based overseas and most able to offer even lower prices because they sell generics. Buying prescription eyewear is like buying prescription drugs: It’s cheaper online. It’s cheaper when it comes from outside the U.S. GlassesUnlimited, for instance, can afford to sell hundreds of different stylish frames fitted with prescription lenses for only $9.99 because its entire operation is based in Thailand.
“We don’t have big margins here. That’s how we are serving our clientele. That’s why we’re getting hundreds of orders on a daily basis, 70 percent of which come from the U.S. and Canada,” GU manager Sam Davis tells me. “We have virtually no expenses. We have our own home brand and do our own production. We don’t outsource anything.”
Based in the U.S., FramesDirect still undercuts retail-store prices for guaranteed designer goods.
“What we sell and what the brick-and-mortar stores sell are the exact same products,” Guy Hodgson says. “How can they afford to charge the prices they charge?”
EXCERPT:
the Eyewear Industry Is an Incredible Ripoff, But There Are Alternatives
Tuesday,August 31, 2010
Wow — the Eyewear Industry Is an Incredible Ripoff, But There Are Alternatives
By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet
Posted on August 31, 2010, Printed on August 31, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/148024/
Those of us who need prescription eyewear need prescription eyewear. Are you wearing yours to read this? Imagine if you weren’t. Imagine life without your glasses for a year, a week, an hour. Yet many health insurance plans, especially for the unemployed or self-employed, don’t cover them.
Mine doesn’t.
Last year, I went shopping for no-line progressive bifocals in small oval metal frames. Name brands mean nothing to me. Price does. My high astigmatism and need for bifocals disqualify me from those buy-one-get-one-free deals, which almost always involve only single-vision specs.
In store after store, megachains and optical boutiques alike, small oval metal frames fitted with lenses matching my prescription started at $300. One popular shop quoted me $582 for the lenses alone.
I bought a pair of no-line progressive bifocals in small oval metal frames for $44 online. I’m wearing them right now.
Perhaps because prescription glasses are where medicine meets fashion, they’re among the world’s most overpriced merchandise. Imperfect eyesight isn’t your fault: You can’t make yourself nearsighted by eating too much fudge. Yet if your health plan excludes vision care, you’ve spent years at the mercy of a $64 billion industry characterized by 500-percent markups.
This has begun to change over the last few years. A knowledge-is-power, power-to-the-people, Web-driven DIY wave is rocking the optical industry’s very foundations. Dozens of companies now sell prescription glasses online, frames and lenses included, for as little as $7.95.
It works like this: Google “cheap glasses” to find a frame you like at a price you like at a site you like. (Among the most popular are 39DollarGlasses, ZenniOptical — where I bought mine — and Goggles4U.) Use the virtual fitting mechanism to “try it on.” Type in your prescription (obtained from an actual eye doctor), pupillary distance (aka PD, derived by measuring the space between your pupils with a ruler), address and payment information. Send.
It’s a virtual myopian/hyperopian/presbyopian Tea Party, led largely by Minnesota software engineer Ira Mitchell, who launched his revolutionary GlassyEyes blog (its motto is “Saving the World from Overpriced Glasses!”) in 2006. Packed with forums, product reviews, discount deals, and tips for buying specs online, it’s the vision-impaired version of Yelp.
“There is no appreciable functional or material difference” between prescription eyewear bought online and bought in brick-and-mortar stores, Mitchell tells me, but in stores “the cost to the consumer is anywhere from four to ten times more. It turns out that they’re making ridiculous margins on the frames, the lenses and the coatings.”
Complete with antiscratch coatings and other pluses, his own glasses cost between $30 and $60 per pair online. Over the last three years, he’s bought around 40 pair — because, at that price, he can.
Mitchell was appalled when he first began researching wholesale prices for optical merchandise and realized that opticians acquire lenses for as little as $3 each. “I’ve easily paid twenty times that when I didn’t know any better,” he says.
Granted, these glass, plastic, polycarbonate or polymer blanks must be ground to fit frames and prescriptions, and this takes work, but it’s not rocket science. Typically, lens grinding is done by optical laboratory technicians. According to PayScale.com, OLTs in the United States earn between $9.73 and $14.40 per hour. Most learn on the job, and have only a high-school diploma or a GED. No specific certification is required.
The fleecing, Mitchell says, is just as bad on frames.
“A consumer-level frame costs significantly less than $10 to manufacture. The rest is operations, licensing and profit. Think about that the next time you pick up an average $150 frame. These aren’t markedly different or superior to the $30 glasses available from reputable online dealers — and those include lenses, probably the same ones you were just about to pay $200 for in the store.”
A key to the industry-standard overpricing is the fact that a single corporation — Luxottica, the world’s largest eyewear firm — owns many retail eyewear chains and many popular eyewear brands. Based in Milan, Italy, Luxottica owns and operates LensCrafters, Sears Optical, Target Optical, Pearle Vision, Sunglass Hut, Ilori, and other chains in the United States, along with yet more chains throughout Asia, Europe, Africa, India, the Antipodes and the Middle East.
Luxottica owns Ray-Ban, Oakley, Oliver Peoples, Vogue, and other brands, and makes glasses under license for over a dozen designer labels including Versace, Prada, Bulgari, DKNY, Burberry, Ralph Lauren, Dolce & Gabbana, Donna Karan, Tiffany, and more. As if that isn’t enough, Luxottica is also the parent company of a vision-care benefits program, EyeMed.
Eyewear prices in brick-and-mortar stores stay artificially high, Mitchell says, due to “the lack of real competition, inasmuch as Luxottica owns massive manufacturing, licensing, retailing and insurance interests” — albeit EyeMed is “not so much insurance as a marketing ploy to get people to buy from their stores at a discount and to force the remaining independent stores to buy Luxottica controlled frames. But, again, most people are unaware of this.”
Because one company holds a near-monopoly on brick-and-mortar eyewear stores, “pricing models are somewhat static across the lot of them. They also have a knack for using the mattress sale model … constantly running sales that seem too good to pass up when in reality they’re still making enormous profits.”
“Semi-Annual 50% Off Sales Event,” reads a current LensCrafters ad. But the frames in question range from around $100 to around $300, and that’s without lenses.
“People pay what the brick-and-mortars are asking, primarily because the vast majority don’t know there are better, cheaper options,” Mitchell says.
As with any purchase — in fact more than with most purchases, as this involves eyesight — it pays to research each company’s delivery and return policies, Better Business Bureau status, and accessibility. Does its Web site list a phone number? If not, why not? If so, call it. Can you reach live people? Are they knowledgeable about your prescription? Does the company have its own in-house optometrists? It should. If you care about brand names, can you ascertain that the logo-bearing frames sold by any given company aren’t counterfeits? Factories churn out fakes.
While many online outfits sell real and bogus designer frames, the least expensive frames available online are unapologetically nameless generics: current and classic styles, sans logo. As is true with most consumer products, they’re not necessarily worse than their name-brand counterparts. After a year-plus of daily use, my $44 generics still look new. (That being said, I should have paid a few dollars more for higher-quality polycarbonate lenses and I should have sought bifocals with a wider middle-vision band, but these errors were my own, not the company’s.)
“Very high-priced frames may have somewhat better materials,” Mitchell says, “but from my experience, the no-names have been very well made.” Having owned dozens of generic pairs, he’s experienced “no more issues with them than with the name brands from LensCrafters. I think they’re pretty much on par.”
These days, he notes, “there are a lot more online retailers now than at the end of 2006. There aren’t a whole lot more reputable ones, however. I’ve shopped at over a dozen, and narrowed things down to about three or four that I feel comfortable recommending to others. As this is a fully custom market, mistakes can enter the process anywhere from the initial customer entering prescription information to the production process. I’ve found that a few of the sites do a better job than others at fixing mistakes. Some do better at this than the traditional stores.
“Prices haven’t dropped at all in the traditional brick-and-mortars, but downward price pressure from Wal-Mart will undoubtedly start to make an impact in certain parts of the country. I saw a sign in a
Wal-Mart recently for $38 glasses. The selection was tiny, but we’re starting to see a price intersection.”
The first online eyeglasses company was Houston-based FramesDirect. In 1992, optometrists Dhavid Cooper and Guy Hodgson closed their several Texas brick-and-mortar shops, then pondered their future.
“We knew that we wanted to sell eyewear in all fifty states 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year,” Hodgson says. “We had no idea how to do this.” Renting a small office, they installed computers.
“When you talked about the Internet in those days, no one knew what you meant. Search engines were in their absolute infancy. We thought a 56k modem was blisteringly fast.”
Cooper had won a Surgeon General’s Commendation Award in his native South Africa for creating a program providing the poor with recycled glasses for free. Hodgson specialized in treating the nearly blind. Barely fluent in email, the pair created a basic Web site, offering designer glasses at low prices because, unlike brick-and-mortar opticians, they needed to pay neither storefront rent nor employees’ salaries, nor did they need to keep large quantities of merchandise in stock.
“Everyone around us thought we were completely mad: Eye doctors, giving up their lucrative practices to go into this weird thing,” Hodgson laughs. But once orders started pouring in, “The whole optical industry completely shunned us. They said we were ruining them.”
At eyewear conventions, he and Cooper wore their nametags backward to avoid verbal abuse. Since then, dozens of imitators have emerged, many based overseas and most able to offer even lower prices because they sell generics. Buying prescription eyewear is like buying prescription drugs: It’s cheaper online. It’s cheaper when it comes from outside the U.S. GlassesUnlimited, for instance, can afford to sell hundreds of different stylish frames fitted with prescription lenses for only $9.99 because its entire operation is based in Thailand.
“We don’t have big margins here. That’s how we are serving our clientele. That’s why we’re getting hundreds of orders on a daily basis, 70 percent of which come from the U.S. and Canada,” GU manager Sam Davis tells me. “We have virtually no expenses. We have our own home brand and do our own production. We don’t outsource anything.”
Based in the U.S., FramesDirect still undercuts retail-store prices for guaranteed designer goods.
“What we sell and what the brick-and-mortar stores sell are the exact same products,” Guy Hodgson says. “How can they afford to charge the prices they charge?”
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The View today... Donald Trump to run for president in 2012? video
Donald Trump buys Lopez tonight video
EXCERPT:
Donald Trump Buys 'Lopez Tonight'
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM |
California has fallen on tough times, and many television shows are going broke. But not to worry -- Mr. Trump bought George out! Say goodbye to "Lopez Tonight"... introducing "Donald J. Trump's Lopez Tonight!"
Carlyle Group corruption
EXCERPT:
The district attorney said Gross served as the intermediary between the majority owners, Hudson Waterfront Associates of Hong Kong, and the buyers, Extell and the Carlyle Group [CYL.UL]. The deal was finalized in November 2005 for $1.76 billion and Hudson paid the bonus.
Prosecutors said Gross asked his bosses in Hong Kong to label the bonus as a fee payable to a shell corporation that Gross controlled called Itamar Capital.
"This falsification of Hudson's business records allowed Gross to receive the $1 million through Itamar thus evading New York City and State taxes," Morgenthau said.
At the time of the 2005 deal, the site on a former railyard along the Hudson River was the largest parcel of undeveloped land in Manhattan. It was bought from the Hong Kong consortium and Donald Trump. The real estate tycoon sued his partners in 2005 saying they sold it for much less than it was worth.
Donald Trump to run for president of the US in 2012
EXCERPT:
Donald Trump says he may run for president of the United States and dropped his latest hint about a possible 2012 bid during a trip to Scotland on Friday.
"A lot of people have asked me to do it and until recently I would have no interest," the 64-year-old property tycoon and host of the reality show The Apprentice told reporters, adding that President Barack Obama was "having a very hard time."
Trump lawsuit leads to indictment and plea in property sale
EXCERPT:
Investigators say that the Hong Kong partners, who operated under the name Hudson Waterfront Associates, told the buyers, the Extell Development Corporation and the Carlyle Group, to pay a $17 million finder’s fee to Fineview, a company based in the British Virgin Islands, Mr. Morgenthau said.
But prosecutors said they believed that Fineview was not a legitimate third-party broker and that the $17 million might have ended up in the hands of the Hong Kong partners.
Mr. Morgenthau said investigators were able to track the flow of the money, which was transferred to from the Channel Islands and to London, before ending up in Hong Kong in the hands of someone associated with the investors. By routing the $17 million through Fineview, Mr. Morgenthau said, the investors were able to avoid paying income taxes on it as part of the purchase.
Donald Trump buys Lopez tonight video
EXCERPT:
Donald Trump Buys 'Lopez Tonight'
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 | 12:00 AM |
California has fallen on tough times, and many television shows are going broke. But not to worry -- Mr. Trump bought George out! Say goodbye to "Lopez Tonight"... introducing "Donald J. Trump's Lopez Tonight!"
Carlyle Group corruption
EXCERPT:
The district attorney said Gross served as the intermediary between the majority owners, Hudson Waterfront Associates of Hong Kong, and the buyers, Extell and the Carlyle Group [CYL.UL]. The deal was finalized in November 2005 for $1.76 billion and Hudson paid the bonus.
Prosecutors said Gross asked his bosses in Hong Kong to label the bonus as a fee payable to a shell corporation that Gross controlled called Itamar Capital.
"This falsification of Hudson's business records allowed Gross to receive the $1 million through Itamar thus evading New York City and State taxes," Morgenthau said.
At the time of the 2005 deal, the site on a former railyard along the Hudson River was the largest parcel of undeveloped land in Manhattan. It was bought from the Hong Kong consortium and Donald Trump. The real estate tycoon sued his partners in 2005 saying they sold it for much less than it was worth.
Donald Trump to run for president of the US in 2012
EXCERPT:
Donald Trump says he may run for president of the United States and dropped his latest hint about a possible 2012 bid during a trip to Scotland on Friday.
"A lot of people have asked me to do it and until recently I would have no interest," the 64-year-old property tycoon and host of the reality show The Apprentice told reporters, adding that President Barack Obama was "having a very hard time."
Trump lawsuit leads to indictment and plea in property sale
EXCERPT:
Investigators say that the Hong Kong partners, who operated under the name Hudson Waterfront Associates, told the buyers, the Extell Development Corporation and the Carlyle Group, to pay a $17 million finder’s fee to Fineview, a company based in the British Virgin Islands, Mr. Morgenthau said.
But prosecutors said they believed that Fineview was not a legitimate third-party broker and that the $17 million might have ended up in the hands of the Hong Kong partners.
Mr. Morgenthau said investigators were able to track the flow of the money, which was transferred to from the Channel Islands and to London, before ending up in Hong Kong in the hands of someone associated with the investors. By routing the $17 million through Fineview, Mr. Morgenthau said, the investors were able to avoid paying income taxes on it as part of the purchase.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Stephen Colbert to testify before congress in character video of Stephen on GMA
by Mof Gimmers on September 23, 2010 2 Comments
Stephen Colbert is going to testify before Congress. That was a weird sentence to type. He’s doing it in character too. Weirder still. The Comedy Central host is going to go to Capitol Hill and appear before a House Judiciary subcommittee for a hearing on immigration called “Protecting America’s Harvest.”
Seriously.
Colbert is going to speak alongside United Farm Workers (UFW) President Arturo Rodriguez about illegal immigrants taking people’s jobs. In character. A comedy character. A fictional, supposed to be funny, not real, character. In Congress. WHAT?
The comic spent a day working at a farm in New York last month after Rodriguez came on his show to discuss UFW’s “Take Our Jobs” campaign, which challenges the view that illegal immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.
Apparently, during his interview, Rodriguez talked about an initiative where the UFW invited the citizens of the USA (legal residents, natch) to replace the immigrant workers.
Only three people signed up to work in the fields. Colbert became the fourth.
And so, with the world clearly spinning anti-clockwise briefly, Colbert will be expected to talk about the agriculture industry’s dependence on illegal immigrants to pick fruits and vegetables, according CBS News reported.
Colbert appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and sarcastically said:
“Republicans are concerned that I will make light of the responsibility of governance? That I will someway impede the smooth flow of the governing of this country? I take exception with that.”
Colbert has also announced that he would rally in Washington on October 30th with fellow Comedy Central host Jon Stewart in an event called ‘The March to Keep Fear Alive.’
Watch this video and feel your brains trickle out of your ears.
Elmo wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Elmo is the only non-human or puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.[5]
CNN Elmo
EXCERPT:
Elmo goes to Washington
April 24, 2002 Posted: 1:01 AM EDT (0501 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In what may be the first appearance of a Muppet before a congressional committee, "Sesame Street" favorite Elmo donned his best suit and tie and took his cause to Capitol Hill.
The red, furry friend to toddlers everywhere gave evidence before the Education Appropriations Subcommittee to urge more spending on music research and musical instruments for school programs.
Randy (Duke) Cunningham
EXCERPT:
Cunningham resigned from the House on November 28, 2005, after pleading guilty to accepting at least $2.4 million in bribes and under reporting his income for 2004. He pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion. On March 3, 2006, he received a sentence of eight years and four months in prison and an order to pay $1.8 million in restitution.[1]
Children of the World Elmo
EXCERPT:
”Elmo, it’s time to sleep now so watch those eyes, k?”
”Mom, I am so glad to be here. I missed you terribly.”
”Oh sweet daughter of mine, I cannot express my happiness at finally having my little girl back
in my life. Does Elmo still get thrown against the wall on occasion?”
”Mom, he pokes me with those big ol round eyes of his, of course I accidently knock him off the
bed sometimes. The only difference was that no one was around for a while that understood. You
know dad, he’d just pick him up when he checked on me and he’d throw him in the window box with
the rest of my stuff. Elmo really missed your tender loving care Mom, same as me.”
”Ahhhhh, Kendra, I’m so glad you’re here.”
”Me too mom. Good-night, sleep tight and....... hey mom.. ”
”Yes sweet daughter o mine?”
”I luv you mom!”
”I luv you more Kendra.”
by Mof Gimmers on September 23, 2010 2 Comments
Stephen Colbert is going to testify before Congress. That was a weird sentence to type. He’s doing it in character too. Weirder still. The Comedy Central host is going to go to Capitol Hill and appear before a House Judiciary subcommittee for a hearing on immigration called “Protecting America’s Harvest.”
Seriously.
Colbert is going to speak alongside United Farm Workers (UFW) President Arturo Rodriguez about illegal immigrants taking people’s jobs. In character. A comedy character. A fictional, supposed to be funny, not real, character. In Congress. WHAT?
The comic spent a day working at a farm in New York last month after Rodriguez came on his show to discuss UFW’s “Take Our Jobs” campaign, which challenges the view that illegal immigrants are taking jobs from Americans.
Apparently, during his interview, Rodriguez talked about an initiative where the UFW invited the citizens of the USA (legal residents, natch) to replace the immigrant workers.
Only three people signed up to work in the fields. Colbert became the fourth.
And so, with the world clearly spinning anti-clockwise briefly, Colbert will be expected to talk about the agriculture industry’s dependence on illegal immigrants to pick fruits and vegetables, according CBS News reported.
Colbert appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and sarcastically said:
“Republicans are concerned that I will make light of the responsibility of governance? That I will someway impede the smooth flow of the governing of this country? I take exception with that.”
Colbert has also announced that he would rally in Washington on October 30th with fellow Comedy Central host Jon Stewart in an event called ‘The March to Keep Fear Alive.’
Watch this video and feel your brains trickle out of your ears.
Elmo wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Elmo is the only non-human or puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.[5]
CNN Elmo
EXCERPT:
Elmo goes to Washington
April 24, 2002 Posted: 1:01 AM EDT (0501 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- In what may be the first appearance of a Muppet before a congressional committee, "Sesame Street" favorite Elmo donned his best suit and tie and took his cause to Capitol Hill.
The red, furry friend to toddlers everywhere gave evidence before the Education Appropriations Subcommittee to urge more spending on music research and musical instruments for school programs.
Randy (Duke) Cunningham
EXCERPT:
Cunningham resigned from the House on November 28, 2005, after pleading guilty to accepting at least $2.4 million in bribes and under reporting his income for 2004. He pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion. On March 3, 2006, he received a sentence of eight years and four months in prison and an order to pay $1.8 million in restitution.[1]
Children of the World Elmo
EXCERPT:
”Elmo, it’s time to sleep now so watch those eyes, k?”
”Mom, I am so glad to be here. I missed you terribly.”
”Oh sweet daughter of mine, I cannot express my happiness at finally having my little girl back
in my life. Does Elmo still get thrown against the wall on occasion?”
”Mom, he pokes me with those big ol round eyes of his, of course I accidently knock him off the
bed sometimes. The only difference was that no one was around for a while that understood. You
know dad, he’d just pick him up when he checked on me and he’d throw him in the window box with
the rest of my stuff. Elmo really missed your tender loving care Mom, same as me.”
”Ahhhhh, Kendra, I’m so glad you’re here.”
”Me too mom. Good-night, sleep tight and....... hey mom.. ”
”Yes sweet daughter o mine?”
”I luv you mom!”
”I luv you more Kendra.”
Monday, September 20, 2010
How influencial was Wolfowitz's mistress in going to war in Iraq
EXCERPT:
National security risk
Wolfowitz married Clare Selgin in 1968. But they have lived separately since 2001, after allegations of an affair with an employee at the School of Advanced International Studies where he was dean for seven years.
According to one Republican Administration insider, Clare was so upset by rumours about the affair that she wrote to then President Elect Bush, saying if the story were true it could pose a national security risk.
How ironic, huh.......... 7 September 2001 the United Nations passed a resolution declaring September 21 the International Day of Peace another strange pheonmena is that Jeremy Gilley and PEACE one day studied at Royal Shakespeare Company
Peace One Day
EXCERPT:
Peace One Day was founded by English documentary filmmaker and actor Jeremy Gilley. He conceived the idea of one day a year free of conflict and war, one day of a global truce regardless of all kinds of conflict, at the 1998 Womad Music Festival. He then met with activists and world leaders to discuss the prospect of making this idea a reality, and on 7 September 2001 the United Nations passed a resolution declaring September 21 the International Day of Peace[1].
Introduction to Peace One Day
Suspicions arise over this.... the UN is led by the same corrupt elites as the US Government. hmmmmm
Jeremy Gilley wikipedia
EXCERPTs:
1) On the other side of the Atlantic in 2005, Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller hosted the North American Film Premiere to highlight Peace Day. ....cal (REMEMBER Angelina Jolie is a member of CFR)
2) Early life
Born in 1969, Gilley spent his early years in Southampton, England. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at 17.
Press Conference with Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller youtube
Jonny Lee Miller wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Miller married actress Angelina Jolie on 28 March 1996. They separated eighteen months later[9] and were divorced on 9 February 1999. He began dating actress/model Michele Hicks in 2006.[10] Miller and Hicks married in Malibu in July 2008. Their son, Buster Timothy Miller, was born December 3, 2008 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
46 words into Psalm 46 is SHAKE and 46 words from the end backwards is SPEAR.......
Shakespeare and the bible PSALM 46
EXCERPT:
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains SHAKE with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the SPEAR in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
PEACE place
EXCERPT:
Preemptive Peace
I feel much anxiety toward the possibility of military action against Iran or North Korea. I cannot imagine how the escalation of military action would play out, how many thousands, hundreds-of-thousands, millions would loose their lives in the end.
I can imagine, however, what the end result of diplomacy and peaceful resolution would be - a world in which each and every one of us is safer, more at ease, more peaceful.
So to that end, we CANNOT remain silent!
This madness must stop!
Anarchist News
EXCERPT:
THE IDEAL ANARCHIST LIFESTYLE
Submitted by zie on Sat, 2009-08-01 16:51.
Tags: Anarchists
So when i really think about when an anarchist is not protesting and is living in a capitilist society how can he truly show an example of what he believes in?
what proffesion would the ideal anarchist possess?
I believe the best job for an anarchist is a teacher or more clearly a univeristy proffesor. A teacher can do his best to pass on different ways of thinking, a teacher can also be a mentor.
do you agree?
I believe an anarchist should always be an example of his beliefs yet i have a question.
How do i run from from everything that is corrupt or truly embodies capitilism?
if i am poor, how do i not buy fastfood, how do i keep my money safe ( i say safe in a oxy moronic way ) without using a bank, etc. what is the best way to escape the capitilist trap?
i feel these matters must be addressed, i know i can ride a bike, recycle, etc. but without becoming a homeless person living without money how can i show the best example of an anarchist?
do i even deserve to call myself one?
I think i have learned something, to beat something you must work through it,
no one listens to a bum with an anarchist sign, no one listens to a stoner hippie saying "peace".
do you agree?
i have come to the conclusion i must go to school, i must become a valid member of society and maybe bend over once or twice for an asshole boss, to in the end.... win?
is this what it means to be an anarchist? to have an opinion but have it not be heard because you arent worth the breath you take?
BE LOVED OR BE FEARED, which is the anarchist??????????
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alleged "anarchists" who
Submitted by anon on Sat, 2009-08-01 19:41.
alleged "anarchists" who seek to climb the ladder of capitalist society, by attending university and seeking cushy, high paying jobs, are the lowest form of scum.
anyway, you have several options:
1. become a wage-master
2. become a wage-slave
3. become self-"employed"
4. become self-sustaining
5. ?
1 is bad because it's exploitative.
2 is bad because it sustains 1.
3 is good because it's neither 1 nor 2, but it's also bad (see 4).
4 is best because it doesn't sustain the division of labor (as 3 does), which most alleged "anarchists" utterly refuse to recognize as exploitative, because they don't want to do stuff like grow their own food. naturally, they'd rather explore their individuality and live life to the fullest, but in order for them to do so, someone else must take on the burden of sustaining them, which means that this other person won't be free to explore their individuality and live life to the fullest. being self-sustaining doesn't mean having no time for such pleasures, it just means less of it for those who currently have plenty of it, and more of it for those who currently have none.
5 is ...? there may be an option that avoids the problems of 4, but i haven't found it yet. or shall i say, i've heard a thousand of them, but they all reduce to attempts be alleged "anarchists" to rationalize privilege at the expense of others.
BePeace youtube
Crimes of Wolfowitz
EXCERPT:
National security risk
Wolfowitz married Clare Selgin in 1968. But they have lived separately since 2001, after allegations of an affair with an employee at the School of Advanced International Studies where he was dean for seven years.
According to one Republican Administration insider, Clare was so upset by rumours about the affair that she wrote to then President Elect Bush, saying if the story were true it could pose a national security risk.
How ironic, huh.......... 7 September 2001 the United Nations passed a resolution declaring September 21 the International Day of Peace another strange pheonmena is that Jeremy Gilley and PEACE one day studied at Royal Shakespeare Company
Peace One Day
EXCERPT:
Peace One Day was founded by English documentary filmmaker and actor Jeremy Gilley. He conceived the idea of one day a year free of conflict and war, one day of a global truce regardless of all kinds of conflict, at the 1998 Womad Music Festival. He then met with activists and world leaders to discuss the prospect of making this idea a reality, and on 7 September 2001 the United Nations passed a resolution declaring September 21 the International Day of Peace[1].
Introduction to Peace One Day
Suspicions arise over this.... the UN is led by the same corrupt elites as the US Government. hmmmmm
Jeremy Gilley wikipedia
EXCERPTs:
1) On the other side of the Atlantic in 2005, Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller hosted the North American Film Premiere to highlight Peace Day. ....cal (REMEMBER Angelina Jolie is a member of CFR)
2) Early life
Born in 1969, Gilley spent his early years in Southampton, England. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company at 17.
Press Conference with Angelina Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller youtube
Jonny Lee Miller wikipedia
EXCERPT:
Miller married actress Angelina Jolie on 28 March 1996. They separated eighteen months later[9] and were divorced on 9 February 1999. He began dating actress/model Michele Hicks in 2006.[10] Miller and Hicks married in Malibu in July 2008. Their son, Buster Timothy Miller, was born December 3, 2008 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
46 words into Psalm 46 is SHAKE and 46 words from the end backwards is SPEAR.......
Shakespeare and the bible PSALM 46
EXCERPT:
1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2 Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3 Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains SHAKE with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5 God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6 The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8 Come, behold the works of the LORD, what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9 He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the SPEAR in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11 The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
PEACE place
EXCERPT:
Preemptive Peace
I feel much anxiety toward the possibility of military action against Iran or North Korea. I cannot imagine how the escalation of military action would play out, how many thousands, hundreds-of-thousands, millions would loose their lives in the end.
I can imagine, however, what the end result of diplomacy and peaceful resolution would be - a world in which each and every one of us is safer, more at ease, more peaceful.
So to that end, we CANNOT remain silent!
This madness must stop!
Anarchist News
EXCERPT:
THE IDEAL ANARCHIST LIFESTYLE
Submitted by zie on Sat, 2009-08-01 16:51.
Tags: Anarchists
So when i really think about when an anarchist is not protesting and is living in a capitilist society how can he truly show an example of what he believes in?
what proffesion would the ideal anarchist possess?
I believe the best job for an anarchist is a teacher or more clearly a univeristy proffesor. A teacher can do his best to pass on different ways of thinking, a teacher can also be a mentor.
do you agree?
I believe an anarchist should always be an example of his beliefs yet i have a question.
How do i run from from everything that is corrupt or truly embodies capitilism?
if i am poor, how do i not buy fastfood, how do i keep my money safe ( i say safe in a oxy moronic way ) without using a bank, etc. what is the best way to escape the capitilist trap?
i feel these matters must be addressed, i know i can ride a bike, recycle, etc. but without becoming a homeless person living without money how can i show the best example of an anarchist?
do i even deserve to call myself one?
I think i have learned something, to beat something you must work through it,
no one listens to a bum with an anarchist sign, no one listens to a stoner hippie saying "peace".
do you agree?
i have come to the conclusion i must go to school, i must become a valid member of society and maybe bend over once or twice for an asshole boss, to in the end.... win?
is this what it means to be an anarchist? to have an opinion but have it not be heard because you arent worth the breath you take?
BE LOVED OR BE FEARED, which is the anarchist??????????
‹ Dual Power: A Bottom-Up Means to an Anarchist End A new physiological approach to anarchism.Living within the realm of the dobedobe exoteric discipline. ›..Add new commentPrinter-friendly version
alleged "anarchists" who
Submitted by anon on Sat, 2009-08-01 19:41.
alleged "anarchists" who seek to climb the ladder of capitalist society, by attending university and seeking cushy, high paying jobs, are the lowest form of scum.
anyway, you have several options:
1. become a wage-master
2. become a wage-slave
3. become self-"employed"
4. become self-sustaining
5. ?
1 is bad because it's exploitative.
2 is bad because it sustains 1.
3 is good because it's neither 1 nor 2, but it's also bad (see 4).
4 is best because it doesn't sustain the division of labor (as 3 does), which most alleged "anarchists" utterly refuse to recognize as exploitative, because they don't want to do stuff like grow their own food. naturally, they'd rather explore their individuality and live life to the fullest, but in order for them to do so, someone else must take on the burden of sustaining them, which means that this other person won't be free to explore their individuality and live life to the fullest. being self-sustaining doesn't mean having no time for such pleasures, it just means less of it for those who currently have plenty of it, and more of it for those who currently have none.
5 is ...? there may be an option that avoids the problems of 4, but i haven't found it yet. or shall i say, i've heard a thousand of them, but they all reduce to attempts be alleged "anarchists" to rationalize privilege at the expense of others.
BePeace youtube
Crimes of Wolfowitz
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Garth Brooks The Change video
One hand
Reaches out
And pulls a lost soul from harm
While a thousand more go unspoken for
And they say what good have you done
By saving just this one
It's like whispering a prayer
In the fury of a storm.
(chorus)
And I hear them saying you'll never change things
and no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.
This heart still believes
The love and mercy still exist.
While all the hatreds rage and so many say
That love is all but pointless in madness such as this
It's like trying to stop a fire
With the moisture from a kiss.
And I hear them saying you'll never change things
and no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.
As long as one heart still holds on
Then hope is never really gone.
And I hear them saying you'll never change things
and no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world we know never changes me
What I do is so
This world will know
That it will not change me
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This is beautiful | Miranda | 1/15/2008
I'm 20 years old and in the Army, and right now I'm in Iraq where I've been for a year and a half. This song expresses so much of what we must do. I've seen so many bad things, but like the song says, I believe that love and mercy still exist. To me, being in the Army is not about fighting, it's about using what I can to help others. I have dedicated the last two years of my life to helping people, and I will continue to do so. Everytime I hear this song, I am reminded of why I do what I do, and it gives me the courage and strength to wake up every morning. I will never let anything stand in the way of my duty, and I will never give up.
McGraw and Hill criticize governments response to Hurricane Katrina
EXCERPT:
McGraw and Hill Criticize Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina
Couple's Comments Came During a Syndicated Radio Interview in Nashville
March 9, 2006; Written by CMT.com Staff
A routine roundtable interview with syndicated radio reporters took an unexpected political turn Wednesday (March 8) when Tim McGraw and Faith Hill sharply criticized the federal government's efforts at rebuilding the Gulf Coast region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The couple had already spent more than an hour talking about their upcoming tour, McGraw's next greatest hits album and other topics when they were asked to reflect on what has happened since the hurricane hit in late August. McGraw was born and raised in Louisiana. Hill is a native of Mississippi.
One hand
Reaches out
And pulls a lost soul from harm
While a thousand more go unspoken for
And they say what good have you done
By saving just this one
It's like whispering a prayer
In the fury of a storm.
(chorus)
And I hear them saying you'll never change things
and no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.
This heart still believes
The love and mercy still exist.
While all the hatreds rage and so many say
That love is all but pointless in madness such as this
It's like trying to stop a fire
With the moisture from a kiss.
And I hear them saying you'll never change things
and no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.
As long as one heart still holds on
Then hope is never really gone.
And I hear them saying you'll never change things
and no matter what you do it's still the same thing
But it's not the world that I am changing
I do this so this world we know never changes me
What I do is so
This world will know
That it will not change me
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is beautiful | Miranda | 1/15/2008
I'm 20 years old and in the Army, and right now I'm in Iraq where I've been for a year and a half. This song expresses so much of what we must do. I've seen so many bad things, but like the song says, I believe that love and mercy still exist. To me, being in the Army is not about fighting, it's about using what I can to help others. I have dedicated the last two years of my life to helping people, and I will continue to do so. Everytime I hear this song, I am reminded of why I do what I do, and it gives me the courage and strength to wake up every morning. I will never let anything stand in the way of my duty, and I will never give up.
McGraw and Hill criticize governments response to Hurricane Katrina
EXCERPT:
McGraw and Hill Criticize Government's Response to Hurricane Katrina
Couple's Comments Came During a Syndicated Radio Interview in Nashville
March 9, 2006; Written by CMT.com Staff
A routine roundtable interview with syndicated radio reporters took an unexpected political turn Wednesday (March 8) when Tim McGraw and Faith Hill sharply criticized the federal government's efforts at rebuilding the Gulf Coast region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The couple had already spent more than an hour talking about their upcoming tour, McGraw's next greatest hits album and other topics when they were asked to reflect on what has happened since the hurricane hit in late August. McGraw was born and raised in Louisiana. Hill is a native of Mississippi.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Kite Ships
EXCERPT:
"Kites hold the potential to change the way we move goods across oceans. They are eco-friendly and sufficiently cost effective to herald a return to sail that the Earth's finite petroleum supplies mandate," says Dave Culp, President of California based company KiteShip.
EXCERPT:
"Kites hold the potential to change the way we move goods across oceans. They are eco-friendly and sufficiently cost effective to herald a return to sail that the Earth's finite petroleum supplies mandate," says Dave Culp, President of California based company KiteShip.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Georgia is puppet of USA
EXCERPT:
Brzezinski's Georgia Puppets
Attack Russia - WWIII In Sight
By Webster G. Tarpley
8-11-8
WASHINGTON, DC -- Clearly playing the role of the aggressor, the NATO puppet regime of Mikhail Saakashvili has carried out a midnight sneak attack against Russian peacekeepers in the province of South Ossetia. Those peacekeepers have been there for 15 years under an agreement with Georgia. Saakashvili is a protégé and creature of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the foreign policy boss of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. As is explained in my book Obama- The Postmodern Coup: The Making of a Manchurian Candidate, Saakashvili was brought to power in 2003-2004 by a people power coup or CIA color revolution, directed by the Brzezinski clan and financed by George Soros, one of Obama's key financial backers. In a very real sense, it is the Obama campaign which has attacked Russia in South Ossetia.
EXCERPT:
Brzezinski's Georgia Puppets
Attack Russia - WWIII In Sight
By Webster G. Tarpley
8-11-8
WASHINGTON, DC -- Clearly playing the role of the aggressor, the NATO puppet regime of Mikhail Saakashvili has carried out a midnight sneak attack against Russian peacekeepers in the province of South Ossetia. Those peacekeepers have been there for 15 years under an agreement with Georgia. Saakashvili is a protégé and creature of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the foreign policy boss of the Barack Obama presidential campaign. As is explained in my book Obama- The Postmodern Coup: The Making of a Manchurian Candidate, Saakashvili was brought to power in 2003-2004 by a people power coup or CIA color revolution, directed by the Brzezinski clan and financed by George Soros, one of Obama's key financial backers. In a very real sense, it is the Obama campaign which has attacked Russia in South Ossetia.
http://kaiandbelon.blogspot.com/2010/07/photos-of-coffins-banned-sound-familiar.html
THEY won't let US view or participate in showing Gulf damage. What to do, what to do? They did same thing when the coffins started coming home from Gulf War, what to do? WHAT TO DO???
Maybe we should start carrying the above flag and planting it everywhere, eh? hmmmmm Maybe we should even start covering the coffins coming home with these flags? hmmmmmmmmm
Why does MSNBC fly flag upside down
EXCERPT:
Since the flag continues to fly upside down, one can only assume the network is making a statement.
Maybe we should fly the 'Don't Tread On Me flag instead
EXCERPT:
Benjamin Franklin is famous for his sense of humor. In 1751, he wrote a satirical commentary in his Pennsylvania Gazette suggesting that as a way to thank the Brits for their policy of sending convicted felons to America, American colonists should send rattlesnakes to England.
Three years later, in 1754, he used a snake to illustrate another point. This time not so humorous.
Flag scandal begins to cost B of A accounts
EXCERPT:
It's obvious the Bank of America flag controversy isn't going to die out anytime soon. Bank of America isn't on my list of favorite banks simply because its fees are higher and they offer less than smaller banks do. This just adds still more reason to avoid the corporate giant.
Anderson Cooper says they won't let journalists close to Gulf Oil Spill youtube
Photos of coffins banned sound familiar
EXCERPT:
Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins
By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, October 21, 2003; Page A23
Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.
THEY won't let US view or participate in showing Gulf damage. What to do, what to do? They did same thing when the coffins started coming home from Gulf War, what to do? WHAT TO DO???
Maybe we should start carrying the above flag and planting it everywhere, eh? hmmmmm Maybe we should even start covering the coffins coming home with these flags? hmmmmmmmmm
Why does MSNBC fly flag upside down
EXCERPT:
Since the flag continues to fly upside down, one can only assume the network is making a statement.
Maybe we should fly the 'Don't Tread On Me flag instead
EXCERPT:
Benjamin Franklin is famous for his sense of humor. In 1751, he wrote a satirical commentary in his Pennsylvania Gazette suggesting that as a way to thank the Brits for their policy of sending convicted felons to America, American colonists should send rattlesnakes to England.
Three years later, in 1754, he used a snake to illustrate another point. This time not so humorous.
Flag scandal begins to cost B of A accounts
EXCERPT:
It's obvious the Bank of America flag controversy isn't going to die out anytime soon. Bank of America isn't on my list of favorite banks simply because its fees are higher and they offer less than smaller banks do. This just adds still more reason to avoid the corporate giant.
Anderson Cooper says they won't let journalists close to Gulf Oil Spill youtube
Photos of coffins banned sound familiar
EXCERPT:
Curtains Ordered for Media Coverage of Returning Coffins
By Dana Milbank
Tuesday, October 21, 2003; Page A23
Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their military actions would lose support once the public glimpsed the remains of U.S. soldiers arriving at air bases in flag-draped caskets.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Obama madder than hell at Stanley McCrystal over Rolling Stone article video too
McCrystal
EXCERPT:
The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been summoned to the White House to explain biting and unflattering remarks he made to a freelance writer about President Barack Obama and others in the Obama administration.
The face-to-face comes as pundits are already calling for McChrystal to resign for insubordination.
McChrystal has been instructed to fly from Kabul to Washington today to attend Obama’s regular monthly security team meeting tomorrow at the White House.
BIG Oil guys have panties in a twist over Obama's drilling ban
EXCERPT:
Oil execs in London slam Obama's drilling ban
By JANE WARDELL and JENNIFER QUINN, Associated Press Writers Jane Wardell And Jennifer Quinn, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 16 mins ago
LONDON – Oil industry executives on Tuesday sharply criticized President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling, saying the world did not have enough other sources of oil to eliminate using deepsea rigs.
The massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and the moratorium imposed by Obama dominated discussions at the World National Oil Companies Congress in the British capital, and a BP executive standing in for embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward was heckled by protesters.
Transocean Ltd. president and CEO Steven Newman, owner of the destroyed Deepwater Horizon rig that has spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, said Obama's ban, which is currently being reviewed by a U.S. federal judge, was unnecessary.
Morning after tirade Mika gets donuts from Dick Cheney -was that a code 'keep your mouth shut Mika?
EXCERPT:
Strange moment on today's edition of Morning Joe, when the MJ gang received a delivery of cupcakes from Dick Cheney. Yes, this sounds like the opening scene of some psychosexual thriller movie, but stay with me. The cupcake delivery, facilitated apparently by Start-Up Nation author (for a detailed take on the book, Rachel Sklar has one on offer) and Cheney defender Dan Senor, was made after the Cheneys watched yesterday's show, and determined that Mika Brzezisnski seemed "a little cranky" after she launched into what Senor called "a tirade." All of this raises a question: why wasn't Starbucks smart enough to get a pastry-based non-competition agreement with MSNBC when they agreed to sponsor this show?
McCrystal
EXCERPT:
The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been summoned to the White House to explain biting and unflattering remarks he made to a freelance writer about President Barack Obama and others in the Obama administration.
The face-to-face comes as pundits are already calling for McChrystal to resign for insubordination.
McChrystal has been instructed to fly from Kabul to Washington today to attend Obama’s regular monthly security team meeting tomorrow at the White House.
BIG Oil guys have panties in a twist over Obama's drilling ban
EXCERPT:
Oil execs in London slam Obama's drilling ban
By JANE WARDELL and JENNIFER QUINN, Associated Press Writers Jane Wardell And Jennifer Quinn, Associated Press Writers – 1 hr 16 mins ago
LONDON – Oil industry executives on Tuesday sharply criticized President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling, saying the world did not have enough other sources of oil to eliminate using deepsea rigs.
The massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and the moratorium imposed by Obama dominated discussions at the World National Oil Companies Congress in the British capital, and a BP executive standing in for embattled BP CEO Tony Hayward was heckled by protesters.
Transocean Ltd. president and CEO Steven Newman, owner of the destroyed Deepwater Horizon rig that has spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, said Obama's ban, which is currently being reviewed by a U.S. federal judge, was unnecessary.
Morning after tirade Mika gets donuts from Dick Cheney -was that a code 'keep your mouth shut Mika?
EXCERPT:
Strange moment on today's edition of Morning Joe, when the MJ gang received a delivery of cupcakes from Dick Cheney. Yes, this sounds like the opening scene of some psychosexual thriller movie, but stay with me. The cupcake delivery, facilitated apparently by Start-Up Nation author (for a detailed take on the book, Rachel Sklar has one on offer) and Cheney defender Dan Senor, was made after the Cheneys watched yesterday's show, and determined that Mika Brzezisnski seemed "a little cranky" after she launched into what Senor called "a tirade." All of this raises a question: why wasn't Starbucks smart enough to get a pastry-based non-competition agreement with MSNBC when they agreed to sponsor this show?
Monday, June 21, 2010
Barbara Walters Stimulus package 'The View' scandal with Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski video
Brzezinski And The Mujahideen Boys youtube
Brzezinski Inverview
EXCERPT:
Title/Description: How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen: Interview with Zbginiew Brzezinksi
Author/Source: Interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski Le Nouvel Observateur (France)
Date: Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76
This is a SHORT interview with Zbginiew Brzezinksi, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, in a French newspaper in 1998. Under Brzezniski and Carter, the US supported the covert funding of the mujahadeen, the Taliban's precedessor, and also, to a lesser degree, Osama bin Laden.
Global Banking: the Bank for International Settlements
EXCERPT:
By Patrick Wood | newswithviews.com
When David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973, the intent was to create a "New International Economic Order" (NIEO). To this end, they brought together 300 elite corporate, political and academic leaders from North America, Japan and Europe.
Few people believed us when we wrote about their nefarious plans back then. Now, we look back and clearly see that they did what they said they were going to do... globalism is upon us like an 8.6 magnitude earthquake.
The question is, "How did they do it?" Keep in mind, they had no public mandate from any country in the world. They didn't have the raw political muscle, especially in democratic countries where voting is allowed. They didn't have global dictatorial powers.
Who is Mika Brzezinski?
WOW! New insight Re: MSNBC/Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinksi
Submitted by informant on Thu, 12/27/2007 - 14:51
in Daily Paul Liberty Forum
Mika Brzezinski (does this last name ring bells!!!!)
Co-host, "Morning Joe" and MSNBC anchor
A native of New York City, Brzezinski is the daughter of Foreign Policy Expert and Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. She attended Williams College and received a degree in English. Brzezinski lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.
SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF THE MODERATELY HIGH NWO KINGPIN, Zbigniew Brzezinksi... National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter, cofounder of Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller in 1973, member CFR, and a Bilderberg member.... best buds with Rockefeller, Rothschilds, etc... best buds with the wretched Heinz Kissinger... pushed Clinton to military aciton in Bosnia in the 90's, co-athor of the eugenics plan called Agenda 2000 (3rd world, etc. population reduction), RAND corporation member (neocon think tank), etc etc...
you get the idea... she's probably really running that show, not Joe Scarborough, lol. just FYI i came across..
Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard
EXCERPT:
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives
Key Quotes From Zbigniew Brzezinksi's Seminal 1998 Book
Note: For highly revealing news articles on elite groups in which Brzezinski is involved, click here.
"Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power."- (p. xiii)
"It is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book.” (p. xiv)
"How America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources." (p.31)
“Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (p.35)
Iran threatened by US-Israel since 2004
EXCERPT:
Eurasian geopolitics and US threats against Iran
By Alex Lantier
1 December 2007
This is the second article in a three-part series. Part one was posted November 30. Part three will be posted December 3.
The Bush administration’s warnings that a world war could be fought as a result of a US-Iranian confrontation inevitably raise the question: what other countries might be drawn into a military conflict set into motion by an attack on Iran by the United States?
Though this question cannot be answered with certainty, it is a fact that the two countries most actively shielding Iran in negotiations over sanctions against Iran’s nuclear programs—Russia and China—have been publicly and repeatedly described as potential targets of the US military.
Both have considerably increased their economic weight relative to the US in recent years—China due to the explosive development of its cheap-labor manufacturing base, Russia thanks to the high prices for oil and gas on world energy markets. Though their interests diverge in many other areas, Russia and China are united by their fear of the economic and military consequences of a US attack on Iran. From Washington’s standpoint, however, this unity is an intolerable threat to the world position of the US bourgeoisie.
US strategists have warned that they would do all in their power to prevent the emergence of a strategic competitor on the Eurasian landmass. In his 1998 book The Grand Chessboard, former Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned: “It is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America.”
Brzezinski And The Mujahideen Boys youtube
Brzezinski Inverview
EXCERPT:
Title/Description: How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen: Interview with Zbginiew Brzezinksi
Author/Source: Interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski Le Nouvel Observateur (France)
Date: Jan 15-21, 1998, p. 76
This is a SHORT interview with Zbginiew Brzezinksi, Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, in a French newspaper in 1998. Under Brzezniski and Carter, the US supported the covert funding of the mujahadeen, the Taliban's precedessor, and also, to a lesser degree, Osama bin Laden.
Global Banking: the Bank for International Settlements
EXCERPT:
By Patrick Wood | newswithviews.com
When David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski founded the Trilateral Commission in 1973, the intent was to create a "New International Economic Order" (NIEO). To this end, they brought together 300 elite corporate, political and academic leaders from North America, Japan and Europe.
Few people believed us when we wrote about their nefarious plans back then. Now, we look back and clearly see that they did what they said they were going to do... globalism is upon us like an 8.6 magnitude earthquake.
The question is, "How did they do it?" Keep in mind, they had no public mandate from any country in the world. They didn't have the raw political muscle, especially in democratic countries where voting is allowed. They didn't have global dictatorial powers.
Who is Mika Brzezinski?
WOW! New insight Re: MSNBC/Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinksi
Submitted by informant on Thu, 12/27/2007 - 14:51
in Daily Paul Liberty Forum
Mika Brzezinski (does this last name ring bells!!!!)
Co-host, "Morning Joe" and MSNBC anchor
A native of New York City, Brzezinski is the daughter of Foreign Policy Expert and Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. She attended Williams College and received a degree in English. Brzezinski lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.
SHE IS THE DAUGHTER OF THE MODERATELY HIGH NWO KINGPIN, Zbigniew Brzezinksi... National Security Advisor under Jimmy Carter, cofounder of Trilateral Commission with David Rockefeller in 1973, member CFR, and a Bilderberg member.... best buds with Rockefeller, Rothschilds, etc... best buds with the wretched Heinz Kissinger... pushed Clinton to military aciton in Bosnia in the 90's, co-athor of the eugenics plan called Agenda 2000 (3rd world, etc. population reduction), RAND corporation member (neocon think tank), etc etc...
you get the idea... she's probably really running that show, not Joe Scarborough, lol. just FYI i came across..
Brzezinski's Grand Chessboard
EXCERPT:
Zbigniew Brzezinski
The Grand Chessboard
American Primacy And It's Geostrategic Imperatives
Key Quotes From Zbigniew Brzezinksi's Seminal 1998 Book
Note: For highly revealing news articles on elite groups in which Brzezinski is involved, click here.
"Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred years ago, Eurasia has been the center of world power."- (p. xiii)
"It is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America. The formulation of a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy is therefore the purpose of this book.” (p. xiv)
"How America 'manages' Eurasia is critical. A power that dominates Eurasia would control two of the world's three most advanced and economically productive regions. A mere glance at the map also suggests that control over Eurasia would almost automatically entail Africa's subordination, rendering the Western Hemisphere and Oceania geopolitically peripheral to the world's central continent. About 75 per cent of the world's people live in Eurasia, and most of the world's physical wealth is there as well, both in its enterprises and underneath its soil. Eurasia accounts for about three-fourths of the world's known energy resources." (p.31)
“Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties, even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization." (p.35)
Iran threatened by US-Israel since 2004
EXCERPT:
Eurasian geopolitics and US threats against Iran
By Alex Lantier
1 December 2007
This is the second article in a three-part series. Part one was posted November 30. Part three will be posted December 3.
The Bush administration’s warnings that a world war could be fought as a result of a US-Iranian confrontation inevitably raise the question: what other countries might be drawn into a military conflict set into motion by an attack on Iran by the United States?
Though this question cannot be answered with certainty, it is a fact that the two countries most actively shielding Iran in negotiations over sanctions against Iran’s nuclear programs—Russia and China—have been publicly and repeatedly described as potential targets of the US military.
Both have considerably increased their economic weight relative to the US in recent years—China due to the explosive development of its cheap-labor manufacturing base, Russia thanks to the high prices for oil and gas on world energy markets. Though their interests diverge in many other areas, Russia and China are united by their fear of the economic and military consequences of a US attack on Iran. From Washington’s standpoint, however, this unity is an intolerable threat to the world position of the US bourgeoisie.
US strategists have warned that they would do all in their power to prevent the emergence of a strategic competitor on the Eurasian landmass. In his 1998 book The Grand Chessboard, former Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski warned: “It is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America.”
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Male white ego and Japan
Militarism and WW2 (1912 - 1945)
During the era of the weak emperor Taisho (1912-26), the political power shifted from the oligarchic clique (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
In the First World War, Japan joined the Allied powers, but played only a minor role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the following Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan's proposal of amending a "racial equality clause" to the covenant of the League of Nations was rejected by the United States, Britain and Australia. Arrogance and racial discrimination towards the Japanese had plagued Japanese-Western relations since the forced opening of the country in the 1800s, and were again a major factor for the deterioration of relations in the decades preceeding World War 2. In 1924, for example, the US Congress passed the Exclusion Act that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
After WW1, Japan's economical situation worsened. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the world wide depression of 1929 intensified the crisis.
During the 1930s, the military established almost complete control over the government. Many political enemies were assassinated, and communists persecuted. Indoctrination and censorship in education and media were further intensified. Navy and army officers soon occupied most of the important offices, including the one of the prime minister.
Already earlier, Japan followed the example of Western nations and forced China into unequal economical and political treaties. Furthermore, Japan's influence over Manchuria had been steadily growing since the end of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. When the Chinese Nationalists began to seriously challenge Japan's position in Manchuria in 1931, the Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchuria) occupied Manchuria. In the following year, "Manchukuo" was declared an independent state, controlled by the Kwantung Army through a puppet government. In the same year, the Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations since she was heavily criticized for her actions in China.
In July 1937, the second Sino-Japanese War broke out. A small incident was soon made into a full scale war by the Kwantung army which acted rather independently from a more moderate government. The Japanese forces succeeded in occupying almost the whole coast of China and committed severe war atrocities on the Chinese population, especially during the fall of the capital Nanking. However, the Chinese government never surrendered completely, and the war continued on a lower scale until 1945.
In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and Great Britain which reacted with an oil boycott. The resulting oil shortage and failures to solve the conflict diplomatically made Japan decide to capture the oil rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and to start a war with the US and Great Britain.
In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied powers at Pearl Harbour and several other points throughout the Pacific. Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.
The turning point in the Pacific War was the battle of Midway in June 1942. From then on, the Allied forces slowly won back the territories occupied by Japan. In 1944, intensive air raids started over Japan. In spring 1945, US forces invaded Okinawa in one of the war's bloodiest battles.
On July 27, 1945, the Allied powers requested Japan in the Potsdam Declaration to surrender unconditionally, or destruction would continue. However, the military did not consider surrendering under such terms, partially even after US military forces dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, and the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 8.
On August 14, however, Emperor Showa finally decided to surrender unconditionally.
Militarism and WW2 (1912 - 1945)
During the era of the weak emperor Taisho (1912-26), the political power shifted from the oligarchic clique (genro) to the parliament and the democratic parties.
In the First World War, Japan joined the Allied powers, but played only a minor role in fighting German colonial forces in East Asia. At the following Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Japan's proposal of amending a "racial equality clause" to the covenant of the League of Nations was rejected by the United States, Britain and Australia. Arrogance and racial discrimination towards the Japanese had plagued Japanese-Western relations since the forced opening of the country in the 1800s, and were again a major factor for the deterioration of relations in the decades preceeding World War 2. In 1924, for example, the US Congress passed the Exclusion Act that prohibited further immigration from Japan.
After WW1, Japan's economical situation worsened. The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 and the world wide depression of 1929 intensified the crisis.
During the 1930s, the military established almost complete control over the government. Many political enemies were assassinated, and communists persecuted. Indoctrination and censorship in education and media were further intensified. Navy and army officers soon occupied most of the important offices, including the one of the prime minister.
Already earlier, Japan followed the example of Western nations and forced China into unequal economical and political treaties. Furthermore, Japan's influence over Manchuria had been steadily growing since the end of the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05. When the Chinese Nationalists began to seriously challenge Japan's position in Manchuria in 1931, the Kwantung Army (Japanese armed forces in Manchuria) occupied Manchuria. In the following year, "Manchukuo" was declared an independent state, controlled by the Kwantung Army through a puppet government. In the same year, the Japanese air force bombarded Shanghai in order to protect Japanese residents from anti Japanese movements.
In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations since she was heavily criticized for her actions in China.
In July 1937, the second Sino-Japanese War broke out. A small incident was soon made into a full scale war by the Kwantung army which acted rather independently from a more moderate government. The Japanese forces succeeded in occupying almost the whole coast of China and committed severe war atrocities on the Chinese population, especially during the fall of the capital Nanking. However, the Chinese government never surrendered completely, and the war continued on a lower scale until 1945.
In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and Great Britain which reacted with an oil boycott. The resulting oil shortage and failures to solve the conflict diplomatically made Japan decide to capture the oil rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and to start a war with the US and Great Britain.
In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied powers at Pearl Harbour and several other points throughout the Pacific. Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.
The turning point in the Pacific War was the battle of Midway in June 1942. From then on, the Allied forces slowly won back the territories occupied by Japan. In 1944, intensive air raids started over Japan. In spring 1945, US forces invaded Okinawa in one of the war's bloodiest battles.
On July 27, 1945, the Allied powers requested Japan in the Potsdam Declaration to surrender unconditionally, or destruction would continue. However, the military did not consider surrendering under such terms, partially even after US military forces dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, and the Soviet Union entered the war against Japan on August 8.
On August 14, however, Emperor Showa finally decided to surrender unconditionally.
Monday, June 7, 2010
UN shame over sex scandal
EXCERPT:
UN shame over sex scandal
The international organisation says that almost 200 of its peacekeepers around the world have been disciplined for sex offences - including rape and child abuse - but not one seems to have been prosecuted
By Francis Elliott and Ruth Elkins
Poem about my Rights
June Jordan
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear
my head about this poem about why I can’t
go out without changing my clothes my shoes
my body posture my gender identity my age
my status as a woman alone in the evening/
alone on the streets/alone not being the point/
the point being that I can’t do what I want
to do with my own body because I am the wrong
sex the wrong age the wrong skin and
suppose it was not here in the city but down on the beach/
or far into the woods and I wanted to go
there by myself thinking about God/or thinking
about children or thinking about the world/all of it
disclosed by the stars and the silence:
I could not go and I could not think and I could not
stay there
alone
as I need to be
alone because I can’t do what I want to do with my own
body and
who in the hell set things up
like this
and in France they say if the guy penetrates
but does not ejaculate then he did not rape me
and if after stabbing him if after screams if
after begging the bastard and if even after smashing
a hammer to his head if even after that if he
and his buddies fuck me after that
then I consented and there was
no rape because finally you understand finally
they fucked me over because I was wrong I was
wrong again to be me being me where I was/wrong
to be who I am
which is exactly like South Africa
penetrating into Namibia penetrating into
Angola and does that mean I mean how do you know if
Pretoria ejaculates what will the evidence look like the
proof of the monster jackboot ejaculation on Blackland
and if
after Namibia and if after Angola and if after Zimbabwe
and if after all of my kinsmen and women resist even to
self-immolation of the villages and if after that
we lose nevertheless what will the big boys say will they
claim my consent:
Do You Follow Me: We are the wrong people of
the wrong skin on the wrong continent and what
in the hell is everybody being reasonable about
and according to the Times this week
back in 1966 the C.I.A. decided that they had this problem
and the problem was a man named Nkrumah so they
killed him and before that it was Patrice Lumumba
and before that it was my father on the campus
of my Ivy League school and my father afraid
to walk into the cafeteria because he said he
was wrong the wrong age the wrong skin the wrong
gender identity and he was paying my tuition and
before that
it was my father saying I was wrong saying that
I should have been a boy because he wanted one/a
boy and that I should have been lighter skinned and
that I should have had straighter hair and that
I should not be so boy crazy but instead I should
just be one/a boy and before that
it was my mother pleading plastic surgery for
my nose and braces for my teeth and telling me
to let the books loose to let them loose in other
words
I am very familiar with the problems of the C.I.A.
and the problems of South Africa and the problems
of Exxon Corporation and the problems of white
America in general and the problems of the teachers
and the preachers and the F.B.I. and the social
workers and my particular Mom and Dad/I am very
familiar with the problems because the problems
turn out to be
me
I am the history of rape
I am the history of the rejection of who I am
I am the history of the terrorized incarceration of
myself
I am the history of battery assault and limitless
armies against whatever I want to do with my mind
and my body and my soul and
whether it’s about walking out at night
or whether it’s about the love that I feel or
whether it’s about the sanctity of my vagina or
the sanctity of my national boundaries
or the sanctity of my leaders or the sanctity
of each and every desire
that I know from my personal and idiosyncratic
and indisputably single and singular heart
I have been raped
be-
cause I have been wrong the wrong sex the wrong age
the wrong skin the wrong nose the wrong hair the
wrong need the wrong dream the wrong geographic
the wrong sartorial I
I have been the meaning of rape
I have been the problem everyone seeks to
eliminate by forced
penetration with or without the evidence of slime and/
but let this be unmistakable this poem
is not consent I do not consent
to my mother to my father to the teachers to
the F.B.I. to South Africa to Bedford-Stuy
to Park Avenue to American Airlines to the hardon
idlers on the corners to the sneaky creeps in
cars
I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life
3 'approved' GMOs linked to organ damage
EXCERPT:
← FDA approves Crestor for people who have no health problem to correct New Study Confirms Organic Food Far Healthier than Conventional → Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage
January 1, 2010 · 55 Comments
By Rady Ananda
In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize.
Three varieties of Monsanto’s GM corn – Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603 – were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities. The data used for this approval, ironically, is the same data that independent researchers studied to make the organ damage link.
Haiti The Poverty Pimps' Masturbating on Black Pain - Their silent violence and corruption
Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/22/10:
For, in the age of humanitarian imperialism, globalization, financial colonialism and neocolonial-violence obfuscated behind forced assimilation and cultural imperialism, what exactly do some whites or modern missionaries go shopping in Haiti for: sex, self-esteem, adulation, fun, challenge, adventure, the boost in serotonin-consumption, to exploit cheap labor, plunder Haiti's natural resources, for self-improvement, recovery, to use Haiti as in excuse to raise funds for their salaries and living expenses to live the old Dixie's planters' life with exploitation black sex on tap, or as an easy way to gain international expert credentials in any field and move up the socio-economic ladder at home and/or for securing the good tropical lifestyle with mountain and oceanfront houses, the waiters, maids, gardeners and seafood they couldn't obtain as easily in their Euro/US countries where they are the majority, ordinary, can't use the white privilege inheritance without some scrutiny and are not as exotic and special as in neocolonial devastated Haiti. It's all hidden, of course, behind the mask of being good humanitarians, altruistic charity workers and helping Haitians. (See also, Ezili Dantò Reviews Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking (a book by Timothy T. Schwartz, Ph.D.); The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose ; Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues; UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children; The-To-Tell-The-Truth-About -Haiti Forum 2009 and 2010; I am the History of Rape: HLLN Letter to UN asking for investigative reports on UN soldier's rapes in Haiti; and, Proposed solutions to create a new paradigm.)
EXCERPT:
UN shame over sex scandal
The international organisation says that almost 200 of its peacekeepers around the world have been disciplined for sex offences - including rape and child abuse - but not one seems to have been prosecuted
By Francis Elliott and Ruth Elkins
Poem about my Rights
June Jordan
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear
my head about this poem about why I can’t
go out without changing my clothes my shoes
my body posture my gender identity my age
my status as a woman alone in the evening/
alone on the streets/alone not being the point/
the point being that I can’t do what I want
to do with my own body because I am the wrong
sex the wrong age the wrong skin and
suppose it was not here in the city but down on the beach/
or far into the woods and I wanted to go
there by myself thinking about God/or thinking
about children or thinking about the world/all of it
disclosed by the stars and the silence:
I could not go and I could not think and I could not
stay there
alone
as I need to be
alone because I can’t do what I want to do with my own
body and
who in the hell set things up
like this
and in France they say if the guy penetrates
but does not ejaculate then he did not rape me
and if after stabbing him if after screams if
after begging the bastard and if even after smashing
a hammer to his head if even after that if he
and his buddies fuck me after that
then I consented and there was
no rape because finally you understand finally
they fucked me over because I was wrong I was
wrong again to be me being me where I was/wrong
to be who I am
which is exactly like South Africa
penetrating into Namibia penetrating into
Angola and does that mean I mean how do you know if
Pretoria ejaculates what will the evidence look like the
proof of the monster jackboot ejaculation on Blackland
and if
after Namibia and if after Angola and if after Zimbabwe
and if after all of my kinsmen and women resist even to
self-immolation of the villages and if after that
we lose nevertheless what will the big boys say will they
claim my consent:
Do You Follow Me: We are the wrong people of
the wrong skin on the wrong continent and what
in the hell is everybody being reasonable about
and according to the Times this week
back in 1966 the C.I.A. decided that they had this problem
and the problem was a man named Nkrumah so they
killed him and before that it was Patrice Lumumba
and before that it was my father on the campus
of my Ivy League school and my father afraid
to walk into the cafeteria because he said he
was wrong the wrong age the wrong skin the wrong
gender identity and he was paying my tuition and
before that
it was my father saying I was wrong saying that
I should have been a boy because he wanted one/a
boy and that I should have been lighter skinned and
that I should have had straighter hair and that
I should not be so boy crazy but instead I should
just be one/a boy and before that
it was my mother pleading plastic surgery for
my nose and braces for my teeth and telling me
to let the books loose to let them loose in other
words
I am very familiar with the problems of the C.I.A.
and the problems of South Africa and the problems
of Exxon Corporation and the problems of white
America in general and the problems of the teachers
and the preachers and the F.B.I. and the social
workers and my particular Mom and Dad/I am very
familiar with the problems because the problems
turn out to be
me
I am the history of rape
I am the history of the rejection of who I am
I am the history of the terrorized incarceration of
myself
I am the history of battery assault and limitless
armies against whatever I want to do with my mind
and my body and my soul and
whether it’s about walking out at night
or whether it’s about the love that I feel or
whether it’s about the sanctity of my vagina or
the sanctity of my national boundaries
or the sanctity of my leaders or the sanctity
of each and every desire
that I know from my personal and idiosyncratic
and indisputably single and singular heart
I have been raped
be-
cause I have been wrong the wrong sex the wrong age
the wrong skin the wrong nose the wrong hair the
wrong need the wrong dream the wrong geographic
the wrong sartorial I
I have been the meaning of rape
I have been the problem everyone seeks to
eliminate by forced
penetration with or without the evidence of slime and/
but let this be unmistakable this poem
is not consent I do not consent
to my mother to my father to the teachers to
the F.B.I. to South Africa to Bedford-Stuy
to Park Avenue to American Airlines to the hardon
idlers on the corners to the sneaky creeps in
cars
I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
My name is my own my own my own
and I can’t tell you who the hell set things up like this
but I can tell you that from now on my resistance
my simple and daily and nightly self-determination
may very well cost you your life
3 'approved' GMOs linked to organ damage
EXCERPT:
← FDA approves Crestor for people who have no health problem to correct New Study Confirms Organic Food Far Healthier than Conventional → Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage
January 1, 2010 · 55 Comments
By Rady Ananda
In what is being described as the first ever and most comprehensive study of the effects of genetically modified foods on mammalian health, researchers have linked organ damage with consumption of Monsanto’s GM maize.
Three varieties of Monsanto’s GM corn – Mon 863, insecticide-producing Mon 810, and Roundup® herbicide-absorbing NK 603 – were approved for consumption by US, European and several other national food safety authorities. The data used for this approval, ironically, is the same data that independent researchers studied to make the organ damage link.
Haiti The Poverty Pimps' Masturbating on Black Pain - Their silent violence and corruption
Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/22/10:
For, in the age of humanitarian imperialism, globalization, financial colonialism and neocolonial-violence obfuscated behind forced assimilation and cultural imperialism, what exactly do some whites or modern missionaries go shopping in Haiti for: sex, self-esteem, adulation, fun, challenge, adventure, the boost in serotonin-consumption, to exploit cheap labor, plunder Haiti's natural resources, for self-improvement, recovery, to use Haiti as in excuse to raise funds for their salaries and living expenses to live the old Dixie's planters' life with exploitation black sex on tap, or as an easy way to gain international expert credentials in any field and move up the socio-economic ladder at home and/or for securing the good tropical lifestyle with mountain and oceanfront houses, the waiters, maids, gardeners and seafood they couldn't obtain as easily in their Euro/US countries where they are the majority, ordinary, can't use the white privilege inheritance without some scrutiny and are not as exotic and special as in neocolonial devastated Haiti. It's all hidden, of course, behind the mask of being good humanitarians, altruistic charity workers and helping Haitians. (See also, Ezili Dantò Reviews Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking (a book by Timothy T. Schwartz, Ph.D.); The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won't Expose ; Haiti's Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues; UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children; The-To-Tell-The-Truth-About -Haiti Forum 2009 and 2010; I am the History of Rape: HLLN Letter to UN asking for investigative reports on UN soldier's rapes in Haiti; and, Proposed solutions to create a new paradigm.)
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Please watch the following video first then 1 0f 2 videos is at end.
Monsanto the Murdering Monopoly part 2 of 2.wmv youtube
Haiti to burn Monsanto seeds
May 25, 2010
Dispatch: Hungry Haitian Farmers Reject Monsanto Seeds Donation
A disturbing article in The Huffington Post highlights the campaign by a Haitian group that has committed to burning some 60,000 sacks of vegetable and corn seeds that Monsanto plans to donate to impoverished farming communities.
In mid-May, the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) issued an open letter calling Monsanto’s plans to donate seeds to Haitian farmers “a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on biodiversity, on Creole seeds ... and on what is left our environment in Haiti.” In the letter, the MPP expresses special concern about the import of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
However, Monsanto in an effort to keep the contribution clear of politics, isn't donating genetically modified seeds, but instead hybrid seeds.
"But because they are hybrid, or more likely because they are simply from Monsanto, MPP plans to burn them anyway," explains ACSH's Jeff Stier.
“People are obviously starving in Haiti, but a small number of radicals do not want Monsanto’s donation. Now, these farmers are being encouraged to reject badly needed food by groups that receive funding from a wide array of anti-capitalist activists, including the shadowy Tides Foundation."
The Genetic Conspiracy 13 about Monsanto youtube
Monsanto the Murdering Monopoly part 1 of 2.wmv youtube
Monsanto the Murdering Monopoly part 2 of 2.wmv youtube
Haiti to burn Monsanto seeds
May 25, 2010
Dispatch: Hungry Haitian Farmers Reject Monsanto Seeds Donation
A disturbing article in The Huffington Post highlights the campaign by a Haitian group that has committed to burning some 60,000 sacks of vegetable and corn seeds that Monsanto plans to donate to impoverished farming communities.
In mid-May, the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) issued an open letter calling Monsanto’s plans to donate seeds to Haitian farmers “a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on biodiversity, on Creole seeds ... and on what is left our environment in Haiti.” In the letter, the MPP expresses special concern about the import of genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
However, Monsanto in an effort to keep the contribution clear of politics, isn't donating genetically modified seeds, but instead hybrid seeds.
"But because they are hybrid, or more likely because they are simply from Monsanto, MPP plans to burn them anyway," explains ACSH's Jeff Stier.
“People are obviously starving in Haiti, but a small number of radicals do not want Monsanto’s donation. Now, these farmers are being encouraged to reject badly needed food by groups that receive funding from a wide array of anti-capitalist activists, including the shadowy Tides Foundation."
The Genetic Conspiracy 13 about Monsanto youtube
Monsanto the Murdering Monopoly part 1 of 2.wmv youtube
Thursday, May 20, 2010
UPDATE ON LYING, CRYING, CHEATING, WHORING, MURDERING Bill Clinton
I've added a list of Bill Clinton's Charity Works, Events & Causes to this blog.
I also want to add my thoughts on his apologizing for MK Ultra 'tests' and Haiti rice fiasco apology.
When I used to fight with my ex-husband he always said I never apologized. hmmmmmm I won't apologize for anything unless I expect to work on the problem. If I am gonna wake up in the morning and do the exact same thing I did that he seemed to think warranted an apology, I WON'T say I'm sorry. (He used to say he was sorry all the time and then he would do the same damn thing the next day that he apologized for.) That to me is insulting.
An example might be that I bithced him out cause of his smoking in bed. (Back in the day, I could be pretty harsh.) I wouldn't apologize cause I knew that if he didn't listen and did it again, I was gonna bitch him out again.
He on the other hand would put his cigarettes out in his plate. When I would say something about it, he would say he was sorry. That pissed me off cause he wouldn't think twice about it the next day when he did it again. WHY oh why say you're sorry if you aren't gonna change your bad habit? I DON'T GET IT.
Same as Bill Clinton apologizing about MK Ultra testing. He needs to not apologize and simply be put in jail cause he's a lying, cheating, murdering SOB and he's not gonna stop, eh?
Bill Clinton's Charity Works, Events and Causes
Clinton apologizes for MK Ultra
Haiti Clinton's Apology
Scene moves Bill Clinton to Tears
Clinton is UN rep. to Haiti
17 Little Children
Clinton and the NWO
Video apologizes for Haiti Mea Culpa
Clinton and Haiti's rice devastation apology
What Bill Clinton's Mea Culpa Should Mean
As many of us have been paying close attention to the long-awaited passage of health care reform last week, it was easy to miss something else that was absolutely extraordinary. Former President Bill Clinton said at a recent Senate hearing that he regrets the impact in Haiti of the free trade policies that became a hallmark of his presidency.
"It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake," Clinton said this month. "I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else."
Sadly, he's right. The rapid lowering of agricultural trade barriers in Haiti combined with misguided U.S. food aid policy allowed American agribusinesses to flood the country with cheap surplus rice and force tens of thousands of local farmers out of business. According to the Associated Press, six pounds of imported rice now costs at least a dollar less than a similar quantity of locally-grown rice. So how can a Haitian farmer compete? The past 15 years have shown they simply can't.
Prior to the era of so-called "free trade", Haiti could feed itself, importing only 19 percent of its food and actually exporting rice. Today, Haiti imports more than half of its food, including 80 percent of the rice eaten in the country. The result is that Haitians are particularly vulnerable to price spikes arising from global weather, political instability, rising fuel costs and natural disasters, such as earthquakes that register 7.0 on the Richter scale. In fact, since the January earthquake, imported rice prices are up 25 percent.
It is especially fitting that President Clinton's mea culpa comes as the Jewish community worldwide prepares to observe Passover. The story of Passover is a stark reminder that communities cannot rely solely on others to provide for their needs. Until people are empowered to help themselves, in-kind assistance from the outside is useful only in the immediate aftermath of acute emergencies. Long-term needs must be met principally through a community-led approach. The lesson we take from Passover is that once the Israelites spoke out against slavery their prayers for freedom were finally answered.
Today, the people of Haiti are speaking as loud as they can. They desperately want a voice and central role in the reconstruction of their country, including the ability to meet the country's nutritional needs with food produced by Haitians in Haiti. In fact, President Rene Preval, himself a rice grower, has asked for international food aid to be replaced by financial support for farmers and the re-development of the agricultural sector. Preval knows that sustained success in rebuilding depends on food sovereignty, or the ability for Haitian farmers to grow their own crops and feed their own communities.
Is the international community getting the message? It's hard to say. The AP also reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided nearly four times as much in-kind food aid since January as it invests each year in Haitian agriculture. There is of course a need in grave circumstances for actual shipments of food - but for decades we've used in-kind food as a tool for destroying local agricultural markets on an ongoing basis, not as a last resort measure to be used in emergencies after all possibilities for local purchase have been exhausted. Until our government abandons a system that dumps surplus from American agribusiness on the developing world, its efforts at ending hunger will remain counterproductive. Then again, if you are the D.C. lobbyist for Big Ag, maybe that's the point. Maintaining the developing world's cycle of dependence is profitable business.
The time has come for us to pay attention, to heed the wishes of the Haitian people to be empowered. We must demand that the purpose of our work in Haiti is not to merely rebuild an export market for our surpluses, but rather to support a Haitian-led effort to create a country that can stand on its own, build a sustainable economy and feed its people. Over the next couple of months, Congress will be discussing how to allocate more than $1.6 billion in supplemental funding for Haiti. I urge you to contact your elected representatives and let them know that this money must be used to empower communities, not corporations.
Each year, during Passover, we say "let all who are hungry, come and eat." Then, ironically, we proceed to enjoy a wonderful meal with our families and friends while our front doors remain closed. If you will be celebrating Passover this year, I ask that you open your doors -- at least metaphorically -- and hear those calls from a country just a few hundred miles off our shore. Recognize that the people of Haiti may not need our food. Rather, they need us to listen as they tell us how we can really help.
Child Trafficing in Haiti Video
UNICEF Scandal
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
UNICEF - latest money scandal at UN
Hey, anyone monitoring closely the UN's latest frolics in terms of money wastage, corruption and incompetence will be pleased to see that the international organisation remains true to its historical form. It's been discovered that the German arm of UNICEF diverted about 20% of all donations (roughly 20 mio of 100 mio Euros) to pay its staff nicely exorbitant salaries, make plenty of external consultants happy etc. It could well be that this year, possibly for the first time, UNESCO might have to give up the mantle of most corrupt (and arguably most pointless) or most inefficiently run outfit in the UN bureaucracy, and might have to pass it on to UNICEF. No doubt UNESCO will fight hard, and, according to well-informed insiders, will almost certainly be able to claim the title back in 2009. Still, for 2008 it seems a remarkably close race. The only bit that's really funny about this are serial resignation of UNICEF 'ambassadors' (invariably actors, sports people, and the like, trying to do good by the world's children without wanting to think too much about it). It's as if it had never before occurred to them that any money poured into a UN outfit or a UN affiliated outfit is like attempting to fill a bottom-less pit.
This, of course, goes very much to the heart of the international do-good industry. Many such organisations these days have sufficient cash at hand, and are prepared to pay salaries sufficiently high to advertise in eg. THE ECONOMIST, a magazine in which a half-page advertisement costs probably about 15000 GBP. The question one has to ask in this context is whether poverty fighting organisations really need to pay many of their staff more in terms of salaries than most of their donors take home in a good year.
Posted by Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog at 5:29 PM
Labels: corruption, incompetence, UN, UNESCO, unicef, wastage
Children of the World
EXCERPT from MYSTUFFS that reminds me of the Clinton ways.
Jill had moved out of mainstream America because of the dishonesty. The lack of humanity in the world was down right ugly.
Robert, on the other hand, had taken stock of his life and decided to live it in virtual reality. It was much better than trying to survive the greed and hypocricy of the ”real world”. At least on the internet, you didn’t come face to face with the enemy daily. They took on many identities and in doing so became the masses of the unknown. Somehow it took the human factor out of the picture. Hell, if you didn’t want to talk to them, you could ignore them, if you wanted to become young, you lied about your age, if you wanted to become beautiful you put someone else’s picture in your profile.
You could become anything you liked on the net. It was an open forum and anybody could join. It drew people from all walks of life. Similar to the environment of the real corporate world, business became even more sleezy but NOT quite so real.
If you couldn’t put a face to the people, how could you feel any kind of connection? How could you feel any responsibility? It reminded you of the eras of the past. People ran helter skelter and didn’t live by any rules.
The net provided many things to many people and the amount of knowledge you could find was infinitesimal. Decency didn’t matter in virtual reality. You could switch off the PC and become the person you pretended to be in real time.
You might be the biggest rogue on the internet but the best dad in the world at home. You could be a CEO’s assistant from nine to five and a porn star at http://pornforhire.net, in the twilight hours.
Amazing as it seems, even the angels of the earth became someone different when the opportunity presents itself. Virtual reality became home of the paranoid, the abusers, the stalkers, the users and the wannabes. It wasn’t a pretty picture but somehow because of the anonimity it drew people in by the droves. =================
I also want to add my thoughts on his apologizing for MK Ultra 'tests' and Haiti rice fiasco apology.
When I used to fight with my ex-husband he always said I never apologized. hmmmmmm I won't apologize for anything unless I expect to work on the problem. If I am gonna wake up in the morning and do the exact same thing I did that he seemed to think warranted an apology, I WON'T say I'm sorry. (He used to say he was sorry all the time and then he would do the same damn thing the next day that he apologized for.) That to me is insulting.
An example might be that I bithced him out cause of his smoking in bed. (Back in the day, I could be pretty harsh.) I wouldn't apologize cause I knew that if he didn't listen and did it again, I was gonna bitch him out again.
He on the other hand would put his cigarettes out in his plate. When I would say something about it, he would say he was sorry. That pissed me off cause he wouldn't think twice about it the next day when he did it again. WHY oh why say you're sorry if you aren't gonna change your bad habit? I DON'T GET IT.
Same as Bill Clinton apologizing about MK Ultra testing. He needs to not apologize and simply be put in jail cause he's a lying, cheating, murdering SOB and he's not gonna stop, eh?
Bill Clinton's Charity Works, Events and Causes
Clinton apologizes for MK Ultra
Haiti Clinton's Apology
Scene moves Bill Clinton to Tears
Clinton is UN rep. to Haiti
17 Little Children
Clinton and the NWO
Video apologizes for Haiti Mea Culpa
Clinton and Haiti's rice devastation apology
What Bill Clinton's Mea Culpa Should Mean
As many of us have been paying close attention to the long-awaited passage of health care reform last week, it was easy to miss something else that was absolutely extraordinary. Former President Bill Clinton said at a recent Senate hearing that he regrets the impact in Haiti of the free trade policies that became a hallmark of his presidency.
"It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake," Clinton said this month. "I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else."
Sadly, he's right. The rapid lowering of agricultural trade barriers in Haiti combined with misguided U.S. food aid policy allowed American agribusinesses to flood the country with cheap surplus rice and force tens of thousands of local farmers out of business. According to the Associated Press, six pounds of imported rice now costs at least a dollar less than a similar quantity of locally-grown rice. So how can a Haitian farmer compete? The past 15 years have shown they simply can't.
Prior to the era of so-called "free trade", Haiti could feed itself, importing only 19 percent of its food and actually exporting rice. Today, Haiti imports more than half of its food, including 80 percent of the rice eaten in the country. The result is that Haitians are particularly vulnerable to price spikes arising from global weather, political instability, rising fuel costs and natural disasters, such as earthquakes that register 7.0 on the Richter scale. In fact, since the January earthquake, imported rice prices are up 25 percent.
It is especially fitting that President Clinton's mea culpa comes as the Jewish community worldwide prepares to observe Passover. The story of Passover is a stark reminder that communities cannot rely solely on others to provide for their needs. Until people are empowered to help themselves, in-kind assistance from the outside is useful only in the immediate aftermath of acute emergencies. Long-term needs must be met principally through a community-led approach. The lesson we take from Passover is that once the Israelites spoke out against slavery their prayers for freedom were finally answered.
Today, the people of Haiti are speaking as loud as they can. They desperately want a voice and central role in the reconstruction of their country, including the ability to meet the country's nutritional needs with food produced by Haitians in Haiti. In fact, President Rene Preval, himself a rice grower, has asked for international food aid to be replaced by financial support for farmers and the re-development of the agricultural sector. Preval knows that sustained success in rebuilding depends on food sovereignty, or the ability for Haitian farmers to grow their own crops and feed their own communities.
Is the international community getting the message? It's hard to say. The AP also reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided nearly four times as much in-kind food aid since January as it invests each year in Haitian agriculture. There is of course a need in grave circumstances for actual shipments of food - but for decades we've used in-kind food as a tool for destroying local agricultural markets on an ongoing basis, not as a last resort measure to be used in emergencies after all possibilities for local purchase have been exhausted. Until our government abandons a system that dumps surplus from American agribusiness on the developing world, its efforts at ending hunger will remain counterproductive. Then again, if you are the D.C. lobbyist for Big Ag, maybe that's the point. Maintaining the developing world's cycle of dependence is profitable business.
The time has come for us to pay attention, to heed the wishes of the Haitian people to be empowered. We must demand that the purpose of our work in Haiti is not to merely rebuild an export market for our surpluses, but rather to support a Haitian-led effort to create a country that can stand on its own, build a sustainable economy and feed its people. Over the next couple of months, Congress will be discussing how to allocate more than $1.6 billion in supplemental funding for Haiti. I urge you to contact your elected representatives and let them know that this money must be used to empower communities, not corporations.
Each year, during Passover, we say "let all who are hungry, come and eat." Then, ironically, we proceed to enjoy a wonderful meal with our families and friends while our front doors remain closed. If you will be celebrating Passover this year, I ask that you open your doors -- at least metaphorically -- and hear those calls from a country just a few hundred miles off our shore. Recognize that the people of Haiti may not need our food. Rather, they need us to listen as they tell us how we can really help.
Child Trafficing in Haiti Video
UNICEF Scandal
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
UNICEF - latest money scandal at UN
Hey, anyone monitoring closely the UN's latest frolics in terms of money wastage, corruption and incompetence will be pleased to see that the international organisation remains true to its historical form. It's been discovered that the German arm of UNICEF diverted about 20% of all donations (roughly 20 mio of 100 mio Euros) to pay its staff nicely exorbitant salaries, make plenty of external consultants happy etc. It could well be that this year, possibly for the first time, UNESCO might have to give up the mantle of most corrupt (and arguably most pointless) or most inefficiently run outfit in the UN bureaucracy, and might have to pass it on to UNICEF. No doubt UNESCO will fight hard, and, according to well-informed insiders, will almost certainly be able to claim the title back in 2009. Still, for 2008 it seems a remarkably close race. The only bit that's really funny about this are serial resignation of UNICEF 'ambassadors' (invariably actors, sports people, and the like, trying to do good by the world's children without wanting to think too much about it). It's as if it had never before occurred to them that any money poured into a UN outfit or a UN affiliated outfit is like attempting to fill a bottom-less pit.
This, of course, goes very much to the heart of the international do-good industry. Many such organisations these days have sufficient cash at hand, and are prepared to pay salaries sufficiently high to advertise in eg. THE ECONOMIST, a magazine in which a half-page advertisement costs probably about 15000 GBP. The question one has to ask in this context is whether poverty fighting organisations really need to pay many of their staff more in terms of salaries than most of their donors take home in a good year.
Posted by Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog at 5:29 PM
Labels: corruption, incompetence, UN, UNESCO, unicef, wastage
Children of the World
EXCERPT from MYSTUFFS that reminds me of the Clinton ways.
Jill had moved out of mainstream America because of the dishonesty. The lack of humanity in the world was down right ugly.
Robert, on the other hand, had taken stock of his life and decided to live it in virtual reality. It was much better than trying to survive the greed and hypocricy of the ”real world”. At least on the internet, you didn’t come face to face with the enemy daily. They took on many identities and in doing so became the masses of the unknown. Somehow it took the human factor out of the picture. Hell, if you didn’t want to talk to them, you could ignore them, if you wanted to become young, you lied about your age, if you wanted to become beautiful you put someone else’s picture in your profile.
You could become anything you liked on the net. It was an open forum and anybody could join. It drew people from all walks of life. Similar to the environment of the real corporate world, business became even more sleezy but NOT quite so real.
If you couldn’t put a face to the people, how could you feel any kind of connection? How could you feel any responsibility? It reminded you of the eras of the past. People ran helter skelter and didn’t live by any rules.
The net provided many things to many people and the amount of knowledge you could find was infinitesimal. Decency didn’t matter in virtual reality. You could switch off the PC and become the person you pretended to be in real time.
You might be the biggest rogue on the internet but the best dad in the world at home. You could be a CEO’s assistant from nine to five and a porn star at http://pornforhire.net, in the twilight hours.
Amazing as it seems, even the angels of the earth became someone different when the opportunity presents itself. Virtual reality became home of the paranoid, the abusers, the stalkers, the users and the wannabes. It wasn’t a pretty picture but somehow because of the anonimity it drew people in by the droves. =================
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Child Trafficing in Haiti
Child Trafficing in Haiti Video
UNICEF Scandal
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
UNICEF - latest money scandal at UN
Hey, anyone monitoring closely the UN's latest frolics in terms of money wastage, corruption and incompetence will be pleased to see that the international organisation remains true to its historical form. It's been discovered that the German arm of UNICEF diverted about 20% of all donations (roughly 20 mio of 100 mio Euros) to pay its staff nicely exorbitant salaries, make plenty of external consultants happy etc. It could well be that this year, possibly for the first time, UNESCO might have to give up the mantle of most corrupt (and arguably most pointless) or most inefficiently run outfit in the UN bureaucracy, and might have to pass it on to UNICEF. No doubt UNESCO will fight hard, and, according to well-informed insiders, will almost certainly be able to claim the title back in 2009. Still, for 2008 it seems a remarkably close race. The only bit that's really funny about this are serial resignation of UNICEF 'ambassadors' (invariably actors, sports people, and the like, trying to do good by the world's children without wanting to think too much about it). It's as if it had never before occurred to them that any money poured into a UN outfit or a UN affiliated outfit is like attempting to fill a bottom-less pit.
This, of course, goes very much to the heart of the international do-good industry. Many such organisations these days have sufficient cash at hand, and are prepared to pay salaries sufficiently high to advertise in eg. THE ECONOMIST, a magazine in which a half-page advertisement costs probably about 15000 GBP. The question one has to ask in this context is whether poverty fighting organisations really need to pay many of their staff more in terms of salaries than most of their donors take home in a good year.
Posted by Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog at 5:29 PM
Labels: corruption, incompetence, UN, UNESCO, unicef, wastage
UNICEF Scandal
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
UNICEF - latest money scandal at UN
Hey, anyone monitoring closely the UN's latest frolics in terms of money wastage, corruption and incompetence will be pleased to see that the international organisation remains true to its historical form. It's been discovered that the German arm of UNICEF diverted about 20% of all donations (roughly 20 mio of 100 mio Euros) to pay its staff nicely exorbitant salaries, make plenty of external consultants happy etc. It could well be that this year, possibly for the first time, UNESCO might have to give up the mantle of most corrupt (and arguably most pointless) or most inefficiently run outfit in the UN bureaucracy, and might have to pass it on to UNICEF. No doubt UNESCO will fight hard, and, according to well-informed insiders, will almost certainly be able to claim the title back in 2009. Still, for 2008 it seems a remarkably close race. The only bit that's really funny about this are serial resignation of UNICEF 'ambassadors' (invariably actors, sports people, and the like, trying to do good by the world's children without wanting to think too much about it). It's as if it had never before occurred to them that any money poured into a UN outfit or a UN affiliated outfit is like attempting to fill a bottom-less pit.
This, of course, goes very much to the heart of the international do-good industry. Many such organisations these days have sufficient cash at hand, and are prepared to pay salaries sufficiently high to advertise in eg. THE ECONOMIST, a magazine in which a half-page advertisement costs probably about 15000 GBP. The question one has to ask in this context is whether poverty fighting organisations really need to pay many of their staff more in terms of salaries than most of their donors take home in a good year.
Posted by Udo Schuklenk's Ethx Blog at 5:29 PM
Labels: corruption, incompetence, UN, UNESCO, unicef, wastage
Thursday, April 22, 2010
It's time to transition
My son-in-law talked me into filing for my Social Security and now I'm in a dilemma. I didn't want to do it.
I am supposed to start receiving the money in May and I've noticed startling changes in my son-in-law. I know what it is and it upsets me. He wants control of the money so the head games have started. The reason I know this is my daughter told me the only time he is truly happy is when he figures things out and gets control.
I saw it in their marriage and I'm seeing it now. I am beside myself and don't want this to happen but it's coming I'm sure. That is why I wanted to move away.
I experienced it when he sold my Jaguar for me. I confronted it with him that he didn't give me all the money and he never denied it.
It isn't that I care about the money, it's the way he goes about it.
He quit buying groceries and he says things in front of me that makes me skeptical of his motives. For one thing, why didn't he have this shortage of money before now?
I have asked him a few time to take me and the kids to the movies and he says it's too expensive. I've asked him to buy veggies and fruits and he complains that they are outrageous and simply ignores my requests.
I know he is a good man but these head games cost him his marriage and now, I don't want to deal with it.
I told him the other day I was considering moving in with my son and his family and I simply want to leave. He immediately went grocery shopping and bought everything I ask for.
I see his ways coming out in the kids too and it makes me quiver. I don't know how to address these things with him and simply want to move.
I don't really want to move in with my son but I guess it's the only option till I can get on my feet.
I probably won't have access to the internet as my son is very poor and I know he hasn't had internet for a time now.
Damn it all anyways. I guess I used this time I've had at my son-in-laws for good things but think it may be coming to an end soon.
I wish I could be around people that work on what I work on. It would be nice to have a voice in the search and research but I guess for now, it isn't meant to be.
..............to be continued
I am supposed to start receiving the money in May and I've noticed startling changes in my son-in-law. I know what it is and it upsets me. He wants control of the money so the head games have started. The reason I know this is my daughter told me the only time he is truly happy is when he figures things out and gets control.
I saw it in their marriage and I'm seeing it now. I am beside myself and don't want this to happen but it's coming I'm sure. That is why I wanted to move away.
I experienced it when he sold my Jaguar for me. I confronted it with him that he didn't give me all the money and he never denied it.
It isn't that I care about the money, it's the way he goes about it.
He quit buying groceries and he says things in front of me that makes me skeptical of his motives. For one thing, why didn't he have this shortage of money before now?
I have asked him a few time to take me and the kids to the movies and he says it's too expensive. I've asked him to buy veggies and fruits and he complains that they are outrageous and simply ignores my requests.
I know he is a good man but these head games cost him his marriage and now, I don't want to deal with it.
I told him the other day I was considering moving in with my son and his family and I simply want to leave. He immediately went grocery shopping and bought everything I ask for.
I see his ways coming out in the kids too and it makes me quiver. I don't know how to address these things with him and simply want to move.
I don't really want to move in with my son but I guess it's the only option till I can get on my feet.
I probably won't have access to the internet as my son is very poor and I know he hasn't had internet for a time now.
Damn it all anyways. I guess I used this time I've had at my son-in-laws for good things but think it may be coming to an end soon.
I wish I could be around people that work on what I work on. It would be nice to have a voice in the search and research but I guess for now, it isn't meant to be.
..............to be continued
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Your boss is spying on you
BlackBerry Spyware (video)
Lidl German Grocery Spying on employees youtube
Dominos employees cause youtube brand scandal
EXCERPT:
Domino's itself is contemplating civil action for brand defamation.
Are you being watched
EXCERPT:
Track Down Bugs
Bug detectors and phone tap detectors can tell you whether anyone is trying to listen in.
Your boss is spying on you
Psssst--Your Boss Is Spying on You!
These days, even your instant messages are tracked.
by Joanna Boydak, LiveCareer
Think your privacy is protected at the office? Think again. In fact, if you're reading this at work, there's a very good chance that your boss is, too.
While we no longer live in the days when Henry Ford could freely inspect his employees' homes, technological advances have erased the idea of employee privacy at work.
Employers monitor employees not only to rate employee performance but also to assess and prevent security risks, fraud, and sexual harassment. Modern workers are exposed to a wide variety of privacy-invasive procedures such as drug and psychological testing, video surveillance, phone monitoring, location tracking, computer monitoring, email filtering, instant-message archiving, and keystroke logging.
Industries notorious for their extensive practice of employee monitoring include financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and government. But no one with a job is safe from workplace privacy invasions.
How private are your activities at your workplace? Not very. Here are some things you need to know:
Your employer can--and likely does--read your e-mail. More companies than ever are reading employee email. Nearly three-fourths use technology tools to sort the email, but 40 percent actually have a real person who reads and reviews emails. So if you're one of the 79 percent of employees who use a work email account to send or receive personal messages, beware! And you're not even safe using your personal account on your work computer, since emails are sent through the same server, giving employers access to everything.
Your company probably tracks your phone use. Although the law varies among states, employers often monitor employee phone use. According to a recent surveillance study, 51 percent of companies track the numbers dialed and time spent on the phone, 12 percent record phone conversations, and 8 percent review voicemail messages. Some states don't require a warning to employees that this extensive monitoring is in effect; you can find out by asking your HR department.
Your employer may monitor your personal text messages on your company cell phone. Employees of private companies should have no expectation of privacy when using company-issued handheld communication devices. However, unlike emails stored on the company server, text messages are archived by cell phone companies--and many employers do not pay for access.
Even your IM conversations aren't sacred. Back in 2005, only 10 percent of companies tracked their employees' instant messages. However, as IMs have become more pervasive, more companies are investing in tracking software for IM monitoring.
Your boss can monitor your Facebook account, even if you restrict public viewing. If you access your favorite social media profiles on your work computer, you give your employer instant access to your entire profile. In fact, a recent study reveals that more than 70 percent of corporations have access to employees' use of social media.
Your employer can access your personal photos, videos, music, and more. Do you ever charge your phone or camera through your work computer? According to Jeffrey Keener, senior security engineer at Guidance, a company that produces company security software, "If you had an iPod or a digital camera charging through the USB port, we could browse all the files that were stored on the device."
To top it all off, your boss can probably track your every move. If your workplace has a CCTV (closed-circuit TV) system, then you already know you're being watched. But there are subtler ways for employers to track your location. Employee ID "key badges" help employers track where you've been, security software can track how long you spend away from your computer, and the GPS program on your company-issued cell phone can provide your exact location at all times.
With some computer-monitoring programs priced as low as $30, more and more employers see employee monitoring as a valuable investment. So the next time you decide to surf the Web for non-work-related reasons, send a personal email through your work email account, or sneak out for an extra long lunch, just remember that you're likely being watched.
Lidl German Grocery Spying on employees youtube
Dominos employees cause youtube brand scandal
EXCERPT:
Domino's itself is contemplating civil action for brand defamation.
Are you being watched
EXCERPT:
Track Down Bugs
Bug detectors and phone tap detectors can tell you whether anyone is trying to listen in.
Your boss is spying on you
Psssst--Your Boss Is Spying on You!
These days, even your instant messages are tracked.
by Joanna Boydak, LiveCareer
Think your privacy is protected at the office? Think again. In fact, if you're reading this at work, there's a very good chance that your boss is, too.
While we no longer live in the days when Henry Ford could freely inspect his employees' homes, technological advances have erased the idea of employee privacy at work.
Employers monitor employees not only to rate employee performance but also to assess and prevent security risks, fraud, and sexual harassment. Modern workers are exposed to a wide variety of privacy-invasive procedures such as drug and psychological testing, video surveillance, phone monitoring, location tracking, computer monitoring, email filtering, instant-message archiving, and keystroke logging.
Industries notorious for their extensive practice of employee monitoring include financial services, telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and government. But no one with a job is safe from workplace privacy invasions.
How private are your activities at your workplace? Not very. Here are some things you need to know:
Your employer can--and likely does--read your e-mail. More companies than ever are reading employee email. Nearly three-fourths use technology tools to sort the email, but 40 percent actually have a real person who reads and reviews emails. So if you're one of the 79 percent of employees who use a work email account to send or receive personal messages, beware! And you're not even safe using your personal account on your work computer, since emails are sent through the same server, giving employers access to everything.
Your company probably tracks your phone use. Although the law varies among states, employers often monitor employee phone use. According to a recent surveillance study, 51 percent of companies track the numbers dialed and time spent on the phone, 12 percent record phone conversations, and 8 percent review voicemail messages. Some states don't require a warning to employees that this extensive monitoring is in effect; you can find out by asking your HR department.
Your employer may monitor your personal text messages on your company cell phone. Employees of private companies should have no expectation of privacy when using company-issued handheld communication devices. However, unlike emails stored on the company server, text messages are archived by cell phone companies--and many employers do not pay for access.
Even your IM conversations aren't sacred. Back in 2005, only 10 percent of companies tracked their employees' instant messages. However, as IMs have become more pervasive, more companies are investing in tracking software for IM monitoring.
Your boss can monitor your Facebook account, even if you restrict public viewing. If you access your favorite social media profiles on your work computer, you give your employer instant access to your entire profile. In fact, a recent study reveals that more than 70 percent of corporations have access to employees' use of social media.
Your employer can access your personal photos, videos, music, and more. Do you ever charge your phone or camera through your work computer? According to Jeffrey Keener, senior security engineer at Guidance, a company that produces company security software, "If you had an iPod or a digital camera charging through the USB port, we could browse all the files that were stored on the device."
To top it all off, your boss can probably track your every move. If your workplace has a CCTV (closed-circuit TV) system, then you already know you're being watched. But there are subtler ways for employers to track your location. Employee ID "key badges" help employers track where you've been, security software can track how long you spend away from your computer, and the GPS program on your company-issued cell phone can provide your exact location at all times.
With some computer-monitoring programs priced as low as $30, more and more employers see employee monitoring as a valuable investment. So the next time you decide to surf the Web for non-work-related reasons, send a personal email through your work email account, or sneak out for an extra long lunch, just remember that you're likely being watched.
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