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mitty14u2's JournalObama’s Job Rating Edges Up as Difficult Year Nears End
Source: PEW
U.S. PoliticsDec 10, 2013
Obama’s Job Rating Edges Up as Difficult Year Nears End
Barack Obama’s steadily declining job rating has modestly improved. And while the 2010 health care law remains unpopular, the public has more confidence in Obama on health care policy than in Republican leaders in Congress.
Read more: http://www.pewresearch.org/
The Republicans Hate This Poll, We have been trying to destroy this President from day one, we can not have a United Country, Divide and Conquer is the only way to Rule!
Report: Little oversight at terrorism watch centers
Source: aljazeera
Report: Little oversight at terrorism watch centers
Study shows intelligence gathering at fusion centers is out of line with accepted standard of reasonable suspicion
There is little if any independent oversight of or consistency in information-gathering procedures at some of the nation’s largest police departments, joint terrorism task forces and fusion centers, according to a new report published Tuesday by the Brennan Center for Justice.
The report, compiled from the findings from numerous Freedom of Information Act requests, reveals that there are large gaps in the local-federal intelligence-sharing systems that, the center says, pose a significant threat to national security and civil liberties.
“It’s organized chaos. That is the state of things at the moment,” said Michael Price, legal counsel at the Brennan Center and author of the report. “First is the lack of clear and consistent rules. Everyone has their own perception of what is suspicious, and what often happens is officers rely on their own biases and preconceptions.”
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/10/little-oversightconsistencyatnationsterrorismwatchcenters.html
Read more: http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/10/little-oversightconsistencyatnationsterrorismwatchcenters.html
I love how the so called Main Stream Media hate AlJazeera News, NPR was bitched at a few weeks back and stopped reporting from Al Jazeera America, not because the news was wrong but because they are not walking lock step with the top propaganda news stations like Fox News run by a Australian with a MONSTROUS Agenda!
Registration and Housing for ALEC’s 2013 States & Nation Policy Summit is now open!
Source: ALEC
Registration and Housing for ALEC’s 2013 States & Nation Policy Summit is now open!
Early registration and Housing cut-off deadline has been extended to November 14, 2013
http://www.alec.org/meetings/snps2013/
Leaked Docs Expose ALEC’s Operation “Prodigal Son”
ALEC has set up a separate sister group called the “Jeffersonian Project” amid concerns over possible government inquiries into whether its activities constitute lobbying – which would threaten its tax-exempt status;
• the network has suffered a decline in its membership among state-based Republicans and among big corporations following the Trayvon Martin controversy;
• its income raised from conferences, membership fees and donations has fallen short, leaving the group with a potential funding crisis;
• a draft agreement prepared for the board meeting proposed that Alec’s chairs in each of the 50 states, who are drawn from senior legislators, should be required to put the interests of the organisation first, thus setting up a possible conflict of interest with the voters who elected them;
http://my.firedoglake.com/kevingrandia/2013/12/03/leaked-docs-expose-alecs-operation-prodigal-son/
Read more: http://www.alec.org/meetings/snps2013/
ALEC extended to November 14, 2013 of third meeting of the year that secretly change Laws for Corporations by Politicians and ALEC, a Underground front with lobbyists without public scrutiny.
Has any one seen Democracy lately, everything seems to be a Secret from the NSA to Private meetings by Paid Legislator to make Laws out of Public Scrutiny? For the Corporations by The Corporations
The 501(c)4 Huffington Post Articles
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/501c4/1
Congressman Drops 'Dark Money' Lawsuit For Now
Leaked Documents: IRS Concerns, Funding Crisis at Corporate Lobbying Group ALEC
The IRS Scandal That Wasn't
Help Is Hard To Get For Veterans After A Bad Discharge
Source: NPR
Help Is Hard To Get For Veterans After A Bad Discharge
More than 100,000 troops left the service with other-than-honorable discharges in the last 10 years. The consequences of a bad discharge can last a lifetime, disqualifying veterans from benefits and health care. Host Rachel Martin speaks with NPR's Quil Lawrence about his series on these former members of the military.
MARTIN: So, someone who went to war, has PTSD, even a drug problem, could potentially end up worse off than someone who never even thought of serving in the first place?
LAWRENCE: Yeah, and especially if the offense that got them kicked out of the service and it was related to trauma. Then they're stuck in this weird catch-22, they went to war, they got PTSD, it caused them to mess up, and now they can't get VA help for the PTSD that caused the problem to begin with. We interviewed Reed Holway, he's a young Iraq war vet. He has PTSD. He got in trouble when he got posted back home, just months before he would have finished his enlistment. And now he's got that bad paper for good.
http://www.npr.org/2013/12/08/249452852/help-is-hard-to-get-for-veterans-after-a-bad-discharge
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2013/12/08/249452852/help-is-hard-to-get-for-veterans-after-a-bad-discharge
Pentagon: military suicides hit all-time high in 2012
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/341376
Deployment after Deployment, then screw up and your screwed for life, or Death. Beware of the ones that decide revenge could be the best medicine as they are totally qualified to kill, just a matter of time until shit hit’s the fan!
When men stop caring, who knows the things they could do?
I am not a Vet, nor do I know any from the last 2 decade of war but the concern for those that serve should be higher on the totem poll then the crap they are doing or not in Washington!
December 2013 Last Look: the 100-Year-Old Lincoln Highway
December 2013 Last Look: the 100-Year-Old Lincoln Highway
The nation’s first truly transcontinental road, the Lincoln Highway once made its way through 14 states but has gradually slipped into obscurity.
One hundred years ago, a group of automobile enthusiasts established the nation’s first truly transcontinental road, the Lincoln Highway. The goal was to build a “Coast-to-Coast Rock Highway” from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, and, in the words of its creator Carl Fisher, “stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will … mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.” Named in honor of the nation’s 16th president, it was incorporated in 1913—50 years to the day from the beginning of the Battle of Gettysburg—and was America’s fi rst national memorial to President Lincoln. Cobbled together from existing roads and along rivers and rail lines, the Lincoln Highway made its way through 14 states (the image above is from East Rochester, Ohio). But gradually it slipped into obscurity, and today it is estimated that only about 80 percent of the original route is still drivable. In celebration of its 100th year, about 275 participants drove what’s left of the route in June, setting out from New York City and San Francisco, and meeting at the midpoint in Kearney, Neb.
http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-december-2013-last-look.html
Fukushima nuclear pollution of Pacific ocean
Source: wordpress.com
Fukushima nuclear pollution of Pacific ocean
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“Japan Gov’t in Chaos”: Completely out of control at Fukushima – Melted reactor cores contaminating Pacific with “full range of radioactive contaminants” (VIDEO) (enenews.com)
http://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/fukushima-nuclear-polluition-of-pacific-ocean/
Read more: http://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/fukushima-nuclear-polluition-of-pacific-ocean/
As the World Turns, When we think of great minds, we think Greek Philosophers, Italian Artists and even Iran, they thought up the game of Chess, why do I bring this up? The Oceans and Seas had Fresh clean Food, Brain, Healthy food. In the last few decades we have polluted every part of our world. From Nuclear Fallout to devastating the whole Niger Delta to the Gulf of Mexico, the very existence of the planet, are ozone. Now Japans Nuclear problem could circle the globe in your lifetime!
How Wall Street — Not Pensioners — Wrecked Detroit
Source: Demos
Commissioned by the think tank Demos, the new report out today from former investment banker Wallace Turbeville shows that contrary to the myths about a bloated municipal government overspending on lavish social services, Detroit’s “overall expenses have declined over the last five years” by $419 million thanks to the city “laying off more than 2,350 workers, cutting worker pay, and reducing future healthcare and future benefit accruals for workers.” Today, Turbeville notes that “Detroit has a significantly smaller workforce per capita than comparable cities.” Yet, those draconian cuts still left the city with an annual $198 million shortfall because of three big problems – none of which has anything to do with supposedly greedy public workers and their allegedly overly “generous” pension benefits.
http://www.demos.org/news/how-wall-street-%E2%80%94-not-pensioners-%E2%80%94-wrecked-detroit
Read more: http://www.demos.org/news/how-wall-street-%E2%80%94-not-pensioners-%E2%80%94-wrecked-detroit
The Detroit Bankruptcy Wallace Turbeville
The Shortfall
Detroit’s emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, asserts that the city is bankrupt because it has $18 billion in long-term debt. However, that figure is irrelevant to analysis of Detroit’s insolvency and bankruptcy filing, highly inflated and, in large part, simply inaccurate. In reality, the city needs to address its cash flow shortfall, which the emergency manager pegs at only $198 million, although that number too may be inflated because it is based on extraordinarily aggressive assumptions of the contributions the city needs to make to its pension funds.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/4/detroit_bankruptcy_wall_street_lost_revenues
Greed is Good, The Republicans say they are closer to God and Family, Who’s God and Who’s Family? Greed is the Root of all Evil unless its in favor of Big Banks!
Another Batch of Wall Street Villains Freed on Technicality
Source: Rolling Stone
After all, the most dangerous possible consequence of the extreme concentration of financial power that has taken place in the last few decades has always been the possibility that these giants might figure out ways to work together, to game the costs of things for the rest of us. That's what took place in this case, as these defendants (and many big banks which have already settled with the state for similar actions) were caught colluding to skim from the investment returns owed to all of us local taxpayers.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-batch-of-wall-street-villains-freed-on-technicality-20131204
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/another-batch-of-wall-street-villains-freed-on-technicality-20131204
Mandatory Minimum Laws are only for the Peasants!
http://news.yahoo.com/fla-congressman-charged-cocaine-possession-220606904--politics.html
Mandatory Minimum Laws Florida Shows how its done, For Most, Not Congressman.
http://famm.org/Repository/Files/Select%20Florida%20Mandatory%20Minimum%20Laws.pdf
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