Where’s The Work?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 5th, 2011
Good morning!
I HOPE everyone is enjoying the Labor Day Holiday. Let’s HOPE that the near future brings labor to those that are jobless.
Long-Term Unemployment: States Search For Strategies To Counter Joblessness
WASHINGTON — When Steve Clark of St. Louis, Mo., lost his IT job in 2009, he intuitively knew that as someone older than 60, he’d have a tough time getting back to work. So he scrambled, compiling all of his professional contacts, drafting 13 different versions of his resume and meeting with anyone he could.
A former client who owned an IT consulting business told Clark he could have hired him before the economy went sour, but not now. Still, Clark pushed ahead.
“I knew his business because I’d been selling to him for 20 years,” Clark said. “I said, ‘I can come in and work in your office. I can answer the phone, I can dispatch your technicians. I’ll do it for free just because I want an office to go to, a place to work out of.’ “
Clark said the former client set him up with a desk and a phone. Clark got to work, and within three months, he said, he’d made himself so useful that he got hired in August, 2009. Now Clark, 62, is making a third of what he used to, but he’s grateful to have a job.
“In a couple years, everything will be in place and I’ll retire,” he said.
To confront the growing problem of long-term unemployment, the Obama administration may seek to put Clark’s strategy into practice on a national scale. The White House has signaled that it may replicate a program in Georgia that allows businesses to train jobless workers for two months without having to pay them.
The program, called Georgia Works, is only open to workers receiving unemployment insurance benefits. Businesses have no obligation to hire participating workers, and the arrangement is voluntary for both parties. Its proponents say it lets workers get their foot in the door and that it reduces businesses’ hiring risks. Labor advocates are howling that Georgia Works exploits workers and violates federal labor laws, and they argue that it shouldn’t be tangled up with unemployment insurance dollars. (It could be that the White House is interested in Georgia Works, which is popular with Republicans, as part of a bargain that includes a re-authorization of federal extended benefits, which are set to expire in January.)
But there is urgent need for an innovative solution to the problem of long-term joblessness. In 2007, there were 228,000 people unemployed for 99 weeks or longer, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Now there are more than 2 million who’ve passed the 99 week milestone, which is the cutoff point for unemployment insurance in the hardest-hit states. The longer a person is out of work, the less likely he or she is to find a new job.
Georgia Works isn’t the only way state innovators are trying to break the cycle. A unique public-private partnership in Connecticut, for example, targets people who have already exhausted 99 weeks of unemployment benefits without finding work.
“I recognize that businesses don’t need to look at people who’ve been out of work two years because there’s a rich, rich field of people who haven’t been out of work that long,” said Joe Carbone, president of The Workplace, Inc., the company implementing the Connecticut initiative. “Unfortunately these folks are the sacrificial lambs of the Great Recession.”
The brand new program, called Platform to Employment, puts workers through a four-week training period followed by an eight-week tryout at a participating business. During the tryouts, the workers’ wages are paid by The Workplace, which raised enough funds to support 100 jobs starting this fall. In December, Carbone’s team will evaluate the program’s success.
“We’re giving a lot of advantage to business, but we’re also giving our candidates sort of an eight-week interview,” Carbone said. “It gets their foot in the door.”
Yet another strategy would use public dollars to subsidize wages. Early in 2010, Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) pushed legislation that would have revived a wage-subsidy program that he said put 7,400 people to work within six months of its launch during the recession of the early 1980s. The plan, known as the Minnesota Emergency Employment Development (MEED) program, lasted from 1983 to 1987. A new version, called Strengthening Our Economy Through Employment and Development (SEED), would have used leftover bailout dollars to subsidize up to 50 percent of a workers’ wages for up to 12 months.
“MEED was an incredibly effective program and created thousands of jobs in Minnesota, which is why I thought it had enormous potential to do the same on the national level and why I introduced the SEED Act in Congress,” Franken said in a statement to HuffPost. “I still think that SEED is a great model, but whether it’s this particular plan or another, my top priority is clear — we need to create jobs and get people back to work.”
Instead of adopting Franken’s proposal to subsidize wages, Congress enacted the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, which gave businesses $13 billion worth of tax credits for hiring unemployed workers. The measure has not been evaluated.
In Mississippi, Republican Gov. Haley Barbour revived a program this summer called Subsidized Transitional Employment Program and Services, which in its first incarnation was funded with stimulus dollars from a new emergency fund attached to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (formerly known as welfare). Congress let the fund die in 2010, snuffing some 240,000 subsidized jobs, according to the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
According to the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, the new version of the initiative, known as Subsidized Transition Employment Program and Services (STEPS 2), will be funded with left-over stimulus dollars and will last from August to December. It initially covers 100 percent of an employees wages, gradually reducing the subsidy for every 160 hours worked.
“Mississippi STEPS 2 is unique in that it is a program specifically designed to benefit both the employee and employer,” Gov. Barbour said in a statement. “We saw tremendous results with our original program, which created more than 1,800 permanent, private-sector jobs. I fully expect the STEPS 2 program to provide much-needed support to small businesses by enabling them to hire new workers, thus enhancing the economic engines of our local communities.”
A Department of Employment Security spokeswoman said 80 companies have signed up for the program, and that 450 workers were expected to enroll.
Of course, the best possible solution to long-term unemployment would be a stronger economy — but that option appears to be off the table for a while. Last week, the White House said it expected the unemployment rate will not come down to 6 percent until 2016.
And since it is Labor Day, I also want honor to this day by posting a bit of Women’s history…the 100th anniversary of…
Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Posted by Hilda Solis on March 28, 2011 at 06:14 PM EDT
Today, as part of Women’s History Month and in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Valerie Jarrett and I welcomed four remarkable women organizers to the White House. On a panel in front of more than 100 labor leaders, we invited them to share how each is organizing to make a difference in their workplaces, in their communities and in the lives of their families.
On March 25, 1911,146 garment workers – mostly young women and girls – either burned or jumped to their deaths when a fire ignited at the Triangle Factory in New York City. Within 18 minutes, due to hazardous working conditions, these workers were dead. A century later, the fire resonates with us, not only because of the magnitude of the tragedy, but also because it was a galvanizing moment for women standing up to demand better working conditions, safer workplaces, and the right to have their voices heard.
In communities across the country, courageous women are still standing up for those same things. And today, a select few of them gave us a glimpse into their lives and invited us into their struggles. From a child care worker in Ohio, to a nanny in New York, these women are fighting not only for a voice – they’re fighting for dignity and respect.
We were honored to have heard the hopeful stories of these brave women. They were a reminder of the obstacles that must be overcome in the workplace and of the very hard work we still have to do on behalf of all working people.
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September 5th, 2011 at 11:08 am
BACK ON HIS FEET: PARAPLEGIC MAN STANDS
The news stories made it sound too good to be true: A man who had been paralyzed from the mid-chest down since 2006 was able to stand up on his own (with some assistance for balance), thanks to an implanted stimulation device that sent electrical pulses to his spinal cord.
That’s right — he got up and stood. It sounded amazing. When I called the lead researcher to learn more, I found out that the results aren’t exactly what they seem at first glance… but they are exciting nonetheless.
MINOR CHANGES, BIG RESULTS
Surprisingly, the device used in this groundbreaking procedure is an off-the-shelf epidural stimulator — a device that is typically used to interrupt pain signals in patients with chronic, debilitating back pain.
In those patients, the implanted device — made up of a small controller box from which wire leads extend to electrodes in the areas where the pain is felt — sends out pulsed electrical signals to mute the back pain.
For the paralyzed test subject, the electrodes were placed in the lumbrosacral area of the spine (basically the very bottom of the spine), and the researchers adjusted the electrical pulses to fine-tune the nerve stimulation.
“We were quite surprised by the dramatic results we got,” says Susan Harkema, PhD, professor in the department of neurological surgery at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, who oversaw the research.
“Our goal was modest. We were simply trying to find the circuitry that would eventually allow us to achieve these results. We had no expectations of a real breakthrough for behavior at this point.”
WAKING UP THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Here’s where things get interesting: The “circuitry” that Dr. Harkema mentions isn’t the device, but the spinal cord itself.
That’s because Dr. Harkema and her team have found that the spinal cord is able to control complex movements with minimal input from the brain.
According to Dr. Harkema, the concept has been recognized in other species for decades — but this study is strong evidence that humans do have the same capacity.
“In animals, there’s circuitry in the lower spinal cord that really takes care of all the details of walking,” Dr. Harkema explains.
“In animals that don’t have sophisticated brains, there’s just a minimal signal needed from the brain — just a general command like ‘run’ or ‘walk’ or ‘I want to pick that up.’ And the spinal cord itself takes care of all the details.”
The results achieved with this implant show that the spinal cord can control specific behaviors in humans, as well.
To understand what that means, it’s important to realize one thing that news stories on this research haven’t expressly pointed out — the implanted device doesn’t reconnect the brain to the lower body below the area of injury.
Instead, the device serves to stimulate the spinal cord so that it can respond to external stimuli — in this case, the stimulated spinal cord senses the pressure of the patient leaning forward and putting weight on his feet, which triggers the response (meaning the muscle and motor patterns) to stand.
Additionally, after seven months of using the stimulator, the patient reported improved bowel and bladder control and sexual function (significant issues for those with paralyzing injuries), and Dr. Harkema says that they’ve found that the patient’s bones are stronger, his body fat percentage is lower, and his heart rate is better.
His breathing also is stronger and deeper. In other words, because the patient is able to put weight on his bones and to move his muscles, the benefits to his overall health and well-being have been substantial.
When combined with the ongoing gains the patient is seeing — he has been able to take a few steps on a treadmill, with assistance, and has been able to voluntarily move his hips, knees, ankles and toes when the device is turned on — it’s easy to see that this technology is truly a breakthrough.
RETURN TO WELL-BEING
When I spoke with Dr. Harkema, there were two more patients lined up to receive similar implants (the results will need to be repeated in multiple patients), and her group has FDA permission to do as many as five such implants.
The results achieved with those implants will likely determine what happens next. Dr. Harkema says that, if this proves successful, a device targeted specifically at treating those paralyzed by injury would need to be developed, with specific control algorithms, improvements in the delivery of the stimulation, and an interface specifically designed for those with paralyzing injury instead of those trying to manage pain.
But these early days should give hope to anyone with a paralyzing injury: A device that can help you stand on your own — and possibly do even more — isn’t too good to be true. It might almost be here.
Source(s):
Susan Harkema, PhD, rehabilitation research director, Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, Owsley B. Frazier Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation, professor, department of neurological surgery, University of Louisville, Kentucky.
September 5th, 2011 at 11:37 am
I’m with you on the greed issue Doug. What is the real criteria for supporting a party that keeps advocating allowing our industries to operate without serious regulation when left alone they do shit like this?
Banned for Pets and Farm Animals, but Okay for You and Your Children?
LINK – articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/05/silver-filling-deception.aspx?e_cid=20110905_DNL_art_1
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Only an industry that has been given immunity to prosecution or libel would put a substance in the mouths of humans that it can’t by law put in the mouths of animals.
Again what is so special about a political party that a thinking person would support when the party is against deregulating an industry that would put a toxic substance in your mouth that is known to be a neurotoxin, a workplace hazard, and an environmental catastrophe?
Robert
September 5th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Robert,
I agree with you on the regulations to industries and corporations. However, let us make note of the most recent Obama decision to postpone the proposed regulations that the EPA was scheduled to instill until 2013. I find this decision to be a failure to the administration who had an opportunity hold industry and corporations accountable to their pollution and green house gas emissions. The rational was that the regulations that were to be set up would stifle corporate opportunity for job creation…we all know how well the corporations are doing in creating jobs to begin with…there has been no holding of corporations accountable for anything since he began office…for this I am deeply saddened.
I am sorry, but I feel that it is all smoke and mirrors no matter who is in office. Perhaps they(The FED families-Rothschilds, Kennedy’s, Astor’s, etc; those who actually run the world) have gotten to him and his family to tow the line or else…
September 5th, 2011 at 8:08 pm
Doug, main dude – the answer to the above is yes, they have gotten to him and toe-ing the line is all he can do if he’d like to keep that family. Cheers to you for just stating it, I’ve been thinking it for some time…every indication is there.
Misch, yes the love is in the details, in fact, that’s what I mean by the ‘devil’ bc mid way through what I thought would make it a wrap, I stood there and made one last loving change, just felt like the right thing to do.
Luv, Zen LIll
September 5th, 2011 at 10:15 pm
Doug:
You miss the obvious because you are white and you don’t have to contend with racism in everything that you do.
Obama has to work to get reelected. He went in knowing that he could not count on support from the majority of the white race.
So his objective from the jump was to do as much as they would allow him to during this first 4 years. Then to get elected for the second term and then do what must be done. In his second term he will be able to tell your race their shit stinks without fearing the backlash of their not supporting him for a second term.
But for not he has to eat the proverbial 10 yards of white shit to get the 44% white vote he will need to get reelected.
Before you complain about what he is doing consider what he has done that the other 43 t never could. Whatever you have in the health care department he did it.
Whatever protections you have in the financial, environmental, foreign field you have because he did it, etc, etc, etc,
Whatever you don’t have is because the white race put their racist party back in control of the House to keep the “nigger” from changing the country too much.
He is not a KIng. The Executive Branch makes no laws. They can break laws like bush did by usurping the rights of the people or colluding with big business to allow them to run amok.
Obama has to tread carefully. White america has been convinced that Obama is trying to turn the country socialist because they want to believe that a non white man can not be good for the country.
While a few whites know better, the numbers he needs to get reelected so he can lead that stupid race to the promise land have to be placated so he can get that chance.
You and Zen Lill are short sighted. If you were realistic, you would be asking yourself what you would do if you were black and everything you did was suspect by the majority voting bloc? How would you proceed so that you could help them and the country without arousing their racist neurosis?
Whites fear that Obama is going to do more for the black, or OTW than he will for them. That is an easy assumption to make since the 43 before him did just that for their race.
So Obama has to act in a way that doesn’t give the opposition ammunition to cause suspect to that 44% of the white vote he needs to get reelected.
Have you noticed the successes the federal government has been having suing the banks? Do you think you would have gotten even one prosecution under the republican party?
Appreciate what the man is doing under the circumstances in which he has to work. Judge him when he no longer has to placate that 44% of your race to get reelected.
Then he will turn his justice department loose on the crooks. He will go after those crooks who have systematically looted the federal government and the people.
Why are you and Zen Lill demanding that a first term black man do what 43 white men refused to do in their first or second terms as president?
Walk in his shoes. You condemn him for selecting the men he did to advice him in the financial crisis. He was very astute to do so.
White male crooks ran the financial system under the other 43. None of the women or men that came with Obama to the White House had a clue what the fuck those crooks had devised to fuck up the economy the way they did.
He had to do what the corporations do when they are being hacked. They hire the best hackers to teach them how to catch the hackers and what to expect when they attempt to stop those crooks from hacking them.
Obama did just that. He picked the best financial crooks he thought he could trust or manage and went with it.
The naive, like most of you who could only read a few books about the theory of the who and why of the crime, weren’t charged with bringing the easily manipulated and racists people out of the result of the crime.
Obama isn’t in it to pontificate about the moral or the who or why of the crime. He, as President, has to figure a way to save the country while not pissing off majority who make up a bigoted, greedy, narcissistic race.
He has to bring them kicking and screaming into a better nation and world for all of us. Considering the screaming and name calling they made when he gave them a better health care system, you should acknowledge the hill he has to climb.
Of course, he could have proposed more, but your bigoted self-centered race reelected the republican party that was promising to repeal what little he did give them.
No telling would your race would have done if the had managed to give them the health care system he wanted to sponsor.
You, Zen lill, and many of your race need to get a clearer picture of what is at stake. If he loses, you will have a party in that will convince your ignorant race to repeal whatever benefits you have gotten under this black president.
You will have unregulated pharmaceutical, food, water, chemical, and every type of financial industries set loose to poison, you, us, the environment, and the world.
You bitch about this man who is under tremendous pressure to get reelected so that he can combat the fucked up position the other 43 put this nation and the planet in.
He will need another term to deal with the bought and paid for five, STARK, your other 43 put on the Supreme Court. He has to consider what they will do if he doesn’t get his prosecutions and indictments down pat so that they do not have wiggle room to give immunity to their masters in that field.
It is not as simple as “him having an opportunity to hold an industry responsible for something. He is a constitution lawyer, he knows that he has to view an indictment and an executive order to prosecute in light of previous Supreme Court conduct.
This bought and paid for five is more bold with a black president because they know that the majority of your race will support their disrespect and keeping the “nigger” in check.
For whites to pretend that this is not a factor in the way this court is now acting is hypocritical. Your race has tacitly give every branch of of government permission to dis the office of the Presidency because it is occupied by a black man.
As such Obama is not operating under the same auspices as a white president would be while attempting to right the wrongs of a previous administration.
Add that to the fact that he is trying to fix shit that has been done by all the other fortyfuckingthree.
As you pointed out they were all in bed with the FED families. Note that those families do not have any and would not allow any black families in their ranks.
Do you think this is lost on a man intelligent enough to convince a majority of elite white lawyers to elect him president of their law class. And then subsequently get the majority race with at least 32% of them rabid racists to elect him President of the country that has bestowed on them entitlements that come from being America’s Affirmative Beneficiaries?
Get a grip! This black man knows what he is up against. He has a plan to help this ignorant, bigoted majority race to better themselves despite their attempts to continue to fuck themselves and the rest of the country and this planet up.
Be patient. You waited through 43 of the previous fuck ups. Support him and give him a second term to show and work his plan.
You may end up pleasantly surprised. If you doubt he has a plan note your previous high moral objection to Obama’s putting off holding – “regulations that the EPA was scheduled to instill until 2013. I find this decision to be a failure to the administration who had an opportunity hold industry and corporations accountable to their pollution and green house gas emissions. The rational was that the regulations that were to be set up would stifle corporate opportunity for job creation…we all know how well the corporations are doing in creating jobs to begin with…there has been no holding of corporations accountable for anything since he began office…for this I am deeply saddened.”
While you may be “deeply saddened,” it may also be noted that your are also deeply ignorant of how your branches of federal government operate or you would not have suggested the simplistic solution that Obama just hold them responsible, executively.
—-Rebuttal—- Whatever he would have done today from the Executive Branch of government would have been countered by the republicans and the STARK on the Supreme Court.
If he acted before his reelection in 2013 he could look good for taking a stand but it would have not accomplished anything.
The republicans have the Legislative Branch and the Judicial Branch locked up. They can withhold the funds the Executive Branch needs to staff and enforce any attempt to “hold those industries or corporations responsible.”
He knows that he needs to bide his time and wait for a more prevailing atmosphere to make the changes he wants to stick. He unlike the previous 43 is not interested in grandstanding. He wants to make changes that stick.
I know that your race is used to image play. But we OTWs of this country are only interested in real change. We put up with the rhetoric of “one day you will be equal” for 200 years. We ONLY appreciate real results that impact our lives in a positive way.
That’s why we can be patient and wait for Obama to make his moves when he feels that he can make changes that will stick.
One other bit of education you could put in your library of black speak. When Obama claimed he was not holding those corporations to task because of “Job” considerations, he was using the “buzz” words that the manipulative white elites have given your race as the “important issue” of the day.
Rest assured that he was not making his play because he knew that it would not stick under the present climate of ignorance in belief in lassiez faire for an unregulated business.
Again when you start to think you know better that this man, think again. You have never had to compete against anything other that not having the talent or skill to do what you wanted to do.
Obama has to compete against racism no matter how talented or skilled he is. You can always get a cab, he knows that even being President of the USA, he can not.
To lead this nation out of its plight, he has to be more than just another smart, person, or President.
Like any OTW competing against a white man for a position, he has to be way, way, way more talented, and ingenious in that field.
OTWs know that being more talented is not enough if he expects to continue to be employed alongside his white counterpart.
He has to be skilled at not offending the members of your race that have the power to end his continued employment regardless of his talent if they take offense to his uppityness. You know, him thinking he is as good as a white man.
That is Obama’s offense presently to most whites. He acts like he is as good as a white man.
Robert
September 5th, 2011 at 11:10 pm
Robert,
A grip I’ve got, thank you sir. Deeply ignorant, I don’t think so, but you enjoy your soapbox. I never stated that I know more than Obama, or that I think I do. I understand that he has much more to deal with, because he is a black man in a White House. I’m sorry to inform you that this is not only a race issue. It goes much higher than the fucks all are listening to on TV and wanting all to believe. This is all behind the steel doors of bunkers.
As an example, Libya is not about freedom for its people, it is about money for the very few elite families of the world. The handful of the richest fucks on the planet. Libya was one of the last of a handful of countries not owned or indebted to the IMF, to where The FED can print paper money for them to be indebted to as well, all on the tax burdens of the American people. The Wall Street financial and real estate breakdown has been more than a decade or more long carefully orchestrated financial raping and land grab of the middle and lower classes of countries throughout the world. These loan instruments and toxic debt packages have been incubating for nearly four decades. Carter helped by being a puppet in the oil “crisis” and Iran hostage “444 days”, Reagan began the process of deregulation and union busting, Papa Bush moved it forward and helped the lower classes get loans to buy their American dream, Clinton really moved it forward, and Baby Bush made it all shine. Actually, it goes to Nixon and the gold standard…It is about money, not race. Race and the demonic demographic demise of a race of people is an additional byproduct of it. The elite don’t give a rats ass what race you are or I am, the only thing that they care about is the color of money, and it is gold not green(actually it has no color as it is either a one or a zero on a screen showing a short resting place in an offshore account), since the dollar isn’t worth shit and actually holds absolutely no value whatsoever. In fact, the Federal Reserve Note, which nearly everyone uses to buy things with has an intrinsic value of absolutely nothing. The Fed can ask for their money back at any time, and we can’t do shit about it.
I am not a black man, nor do I profess to be, although, I also am fully aware of how the world is truly run. Black or white, rich or poor, if you aren’t one to toe the line, as in the life of JFK, you will be eliminated. It isn’t about black or white, this is all about rich v poor and nothing else. It is always that way. Race is a card that the elite use to keep the masses fighting about something that, although does truly exist, however, only because it is carefully manipulated and massaged in order to keep the minds focused on issues that don’t matter to the elite. The ONLY thing that matters is money.
I dig Obama. He is a highly intelligent idealist, which I appreciate. Although, it has all become much bigger than even he thought or imagined. This is about money, as it always has been. Obama, is a man who has made some great things happen, which I am well aware of and he can still make much more change, I will give him that. I will follow him into his next term, because I believe in his people and communication skills. He has more finesse as a politician and more intelligence than anyone else in Washington. Although, without changing term limits in Washington, and bringing in non-partisan, independent oversight to the financial industry, eliminating the FED, and eliminating lobbyists there is nothing that will ever change in this country, whether it is a man or woman, black, white, red, yellow, blonde, gray or whatever.
Everything that happens in the world is carefully orchestrated by a small group of wealthy elite and their puppets in order to find the best means of manipulating the most amount of perceived value into their accounts. Everything else, what I mean by that is, what the media makes seem important or what they tell the media to make seem important is what most of the people put their minds to think about as if they can actually do anything about it.
I reserve the rest of my time, and yield the floor back to you, sir. I always look forward to hearing your words.
September 6th, 2011 at 3:10 am
Thanks and I accept the yield.
Doug, I do not doubt you have a grip. But, I doubt seriously if it is rooted solidly in the real world. You moralize about what should be. I upon my soapbox(interesting isn’t it that my opinions come from the “soapbox” whereas yours come from a more loftier place no doubt) am content to dwell upon the possible.
Only a white man would state “that this not only a race issue.” Again I repeat you make that mistake because you have never had to contend with race as an issue when it comes to competing in the white world with environment, politics, finance, energy or any of the material things the OTWs have to contend with.
I can only be polite and say to you how so completely naive you are about the world. If you learn nothing else about this world, you should learn that you will NEVER be able to affect a single significant change in it if you can not come to grips with the fact that everything in this world is about race to most white males in this world.
Race is first and everything comes after. But it takes patience to educate the young white man who wishes to flail at windmills. So while you are floating out lofty words like “behind the steel doors of bunkers,” know that those “steel doors” were erected and are maintained by white men who competed against each other for world dominance before they erected them.
NO OTWs were ever allowed to compete for any part of the prize. What you are talking so naively about is the competition between white men(no white women allowed either) for world dominance of its resources.
What does it matter whether it is about oil in Libya, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Nigeria, Israel, or Venezuela? It is first a white man competition for dominance of that resource. What part of that have you missed?
The greed, violence, pollution originated and was perpetuated by a for white men only club. But as in most things the white race does not hold up well to fair competition. So like their lost of the their dominance in the fax, car, manufacturing, etc, etc fields they will one day lose the battle of world pollution, and destruction to another race.
But make no mistake about it the white male race started it and today they still run the show. It is their world of greed and the rest of us are but collateral damage.
They are the reason we have 1% of the world controlling 98% of the wealth. Who do you think invented the financial scams that has bankrupted countries? Who do you think is this IMF, FED, BUSH, NIXON, etc, etc, you keep talking about?
If we don’t break up that white boy club, nothing will change. You run off at the mouth with “Black or white, rich or poor, if you aren’t one to toe the line, as in the life of JFK, you will be eliminated. It isn’t about black or white, this is all about rich v poor and nothing else.” as if you have the slightest grasp of what the fight is really about.” What planet are you on?
It is about rich vs poor when the rich is the 1% white men. Why color the elephant in the room? We are talking about the greedy white boy. The rest of your comments are rhetoric plain and simple.
The fact that race is one of their ploys doesn’t change or say anything different about the color or race of the perpetrators. Race isn’t the only “card” they play to control the masses, sometimes they use communism, socialism, regulation, religion, etc. It doesn’t matter what they use to divide and conquer. The THEY are WHITE MEN.
The fact is it is white men who are doing it. If we killed off that !%, how many of them would be white? My guess would be !00%. That would still leave 99% of the white race in practically the same boat as the rest of the world.
All I’m saying is if you don’t know who the people are that are responsible for the world’s problems then how the fuck will you ever be able to solve anything?
You talk about eliminating lobbyist, changing term limits, oversight committees, Hello? You are talking about white men. All of the above are white men. It is a private club.
What’s with your statement? “Everything that happens in the world is carefully orchestrated by a small group of wealthy elite and their puppets in order to find the best means of manipulating the most amount of perceived value into their accounts.”
HELL-THE-FUCK-O. They are ALL white men. Why is it so difficult for you to say Everything that happens in the world is carefully orchestrated by a small group of wealthy elite WHITE MEN and their puppets WHO ARE USUALLY WHITE MEN in order to find the best means of manipulating the most amount of perceived value into their accounts.”
Is it the mirror that prevents you from seeing the true issue? If you cannot successfully cite the cause of a problem, you cannot solve that problem.
Race may not be the problem, but one race is the cause of all the world’s problems. Who makes and distributes 90% of the arms in the world? Who makes and distributes 90% of the polluting chemicals in the world? Who makes and exports 90% of the rhetoric of hate that divides and pits nation against nation in this world? Who controls 90% of the worlds natural resources in this world?
ANSWER – Those elite WHITE MALES you refuse to call a spade.
All you can do is write nice speeches about this and that conspiracy and high minded solutions. It may soothe your ego, and inflate your belief in a solution, but it is but a pipe dream. One that many of the other 43 white male presidents have spun over the decades. They too, refused to name the culprits.
This problem is not “much bigger” than Obama imagined. He is a black man that is fully aware of who is and where the problem lies. He has to figure a way to separate that white male elite from their lofty tower of money and immunity.
It will require educating capable white males like yourself in truly understanding the nature of the undertaking. It will be your burden to put aside your naiveté and embrace the need to separate those “elite” white males from their seats of power and influence. The 99% of white males have to be willing to do this to that 1%.
The problem is that 99% refuses because many secretly enjoy the feelings of entitlement that the 1% hold out to them. Most white males are mesmerized by the knowledge that it is a white male only club. The 1%’s NUMBER ONE piece of propaganda which keeps them in their protected tower is the dream they present to other 996 of white males that if they do not upset the apple cart one day they could be part of that 1%.
AND THAT IS WHAT PREVENTS MOST WHITE MALES FORM DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM. They dreams of one day being part of that 1%. They will NEVER be allowed to share in the power of that 1% because it is merely the carrot that guarantees that no white male will address the elephant in the room.
It is not about the individual issues you have put forward. It is about the power structure those greedy white males have erected around themselves to insulate them from attack.
That structure includes, their racist political system. It has to be made equal. Their racists legal system. It has to be made equal. Their private police system. It has to be made equal.
When white men are willing to let go of their feelings of entitlement in those areas we as a nation and as a world will be able to dismantle the power structure that 1% white male elites have erected to control and pit the rest of us against each other.
Failure to see that and to stand as one when we see an injustice done by anyone in any of those institutions will prevent any of us white or otw from wresting power from that 1% of white males that control the world.
If we wait until they lose it to the Chinese, it will be too late. Those greedy white males believe they can count on the rest of us being motivated to die for their continued control of the world and its assets if a confrontation arises between them and the Chinese.
But as Anonz knows, the white boy is not half as clever as he thinks he is. Otherwise he would not have sold out the jobs of americans and America’s factories to a country it may have to face in battle one day for the scarce resources of the planet.
Talk all around the true problem if you want to. But nothing will come of putting a bandaid on the problem. Israel long ago recognized that the white male was controlling their fate. So they have spent every waking moment trying to free themselves from that dominance.
Whatever they can make for themselves they do. Whatever they can do for themselves they do. If it comes to the white male elites needs and money to Israel’s survival they know what choice the white male will make. Hence they developed their own bomb.
Where is yours?
Robert
September 6th, 2011 at 6:17 am
This note was found in a summer camp for small girls. It was done in rude block letters.
SPECIAL BULLETIN
1. Kate can’t sleep in our tent or come over.
2. Talk Nasty if IT shows up.
3. Kate is supposenly a little girl but act like an unechecated animal because she is. Shes a little stinker always butting into other peoples bussiness. You can always tell when she is coming down the street. You can smell her a mile away.
4. I feel sorry fo her poor sister Daphny.
5. She looks like a ape & her manners are like an ape.
6. She is sexy dirty and a slob.
September 6th, 2011 at 6:26 am
The right has been paid off to start a campaign to get rid of the Post Office. Big Business wants to force everyone to use some form of electronic communication(EC) so they can maintain a profile on everyone.
Now that the have the ability to monitor all forms of EC, they want to force everyone to use it exclusively. That way they will know everything the people are doing. There will be no more secrets from corporations or governments.
Look for it to start with them testing the waters by floating the ballon that the Post Office is no longer needed in articles and other bad publicity about the postal service.
If that doesn’t catch on, they will claim that it is a cost cutting measure.
The push is on.
September 6th, 2011 at 6:34 am
Doug,
I when I read that article about the chimps seeing daylight for the first time, I cried so hard my head hurt.
How cruel men can be to the animals on our planet. It is so shameful.
Brittany
September 6th, 2011 at 6:51 am
Howie:
My husband said that it is suspected that aliens are now living permanently on the moon. He said that it is believed that they have underground cities there.
He works for the group that investigates alien contact with our planet.
Is he correct?
Vickie
September 6th, 2011 at 6:56 am
Robert, Main Dude, aliens and Howie:
Check this out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
September 6th, 2011 at 7:07 am
This is a quote I constantly hear when referring to 9/11.
“We should remember it” “We cannot forget. It’s changed our lives.”
I think what we should remember is that the ineptitude of the Bush administration allowed a few stupid men by a lot of stupid men to change our lives forever.
We should also remember how easy it was for those in government who were too inept to protect us from men with box cutters( men too stupid not to telegraph their intentions by openly taking commercial jet classes without taking the courses to land or take off in the jets) but slick enough to use the terrible tragedy to erase our civil liberties.
We should also remember how easy it was for a society to roll over and cave in to a government’s taking those civil liberties when frighten by an enemy attack.
We are focused on the wrong thing by powerful people who want to use fear to keep us under their thumb.
Wake Up America.
Wilma
September 6th, 2011 at 7:18 am
NEW HOPE FOR PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
Sometimes it is not technology or a new medication that makes the greatest difference in medical care but something far simpler.
A new approach to treating pulmonary hypertension — a particularly dangerous type of high blood pressure that affects the arteries leading from the heart to the lungs — puts top specialists together as a “team” to work collaboratively with patients, with the goal of delivering a far better quality of care.
While specialists have always discussed their patients with one another, this approach takes the concept much further, I learned from James Calvin, MD, director of the section of cardiology at Rush University Medical Center and a cardiologist at the new Rush Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic in Chicago, which offers this type of multidisciplinary care.
Dr. Calvin told me that teamwork is built into every aspect of a patient’s care to comprehensively address the many different causes of this complex disease.
He said that the doctors’ combined specialized training and clinical experience leads to more accurate diagnoses and more successful treatment.
Patients can even schedule appointments with several different specialists on the same day in the same office, and the doctors can conveniently consult with one another to, as Dr. Calvin puts it, “put our heads together to come up with a solution.”
HARD TO DIAGNOSE
Pulmonary hypertension is not uncommon, and doctors are well aware of its signs and causes, but it can nonetheless be tricky to diagnose because its symptoms mimic those of so many other heart and lung diseases.
This condition develops in people whose hearts have had to pump especially hard to push blood through increasingly stiff and narrow arteries.
It has many causes, including heart, lung and liver problems… living at altitudes higher than 8,000 feet… and heredity in some cases can contribute, too.
When the body must expend intense effort to bring blood through the lungs to the left side of the heart the eventual result is weakening of the heart muscle on the right side leading to heart failure or other potentially fatal complications.
Shortness of breath is usually the first warning sign of pulmonary hypertension, but other common symptoms include fatigue… dizziness… fainting… chest pain… leg and ankle swelling… palpitations (fast heartbeat)… and bluish lips and skin.
How pulmonary hypertension is diagnosed: An echocardiogram, a form of ultrasound that enables your doctor to get a good look at your heart and pulmonary arteries, is usually the first step toward diagnosis.
If “problems” are found, the next step is right heart catheterization, to measure how well blood moves through and to look for blockages or other abnormalities.
Doctors often order other tests to obtain additional information on the extent of the patient’s problem, possibly a chest X-ray, CT scan, MRI and/or pulmonary function assessment (a measure of how well the lungs take in and release air).
LIFE WITH PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
While treatment is complex, inroads have been made. A variety of medications may be used, and together, they can allow many patients to continue to live their lives fairly normally.
These may include:
Vasodilators. These drugs — including epoprostenol (Flolan) and iloprost (Ventavis) — widen blood vessels and reduce scarring in them.
Patients used to have to come to the hospital or a doctor’s office for intravenous (IV) administration of this therapy, but now new drugs can be taken orally by patients at home.
Endothelin Receptor Agonists. ERAs — such as bosentan (Tracleer) or ambrisentan (Letairis) — block endothelin, a substance in blood vessel walls that causes them to narrow.
Calcium channel blockers. Though these were once the first line of treatment, they work only 5% of the time.
Other drugs.
Your physician may also prescribe an anticoagulant such as warfarin (Coumadin)… a diuretic to prevent fluid accumulation… sildenafil (Revatio) to relax smooth muscle in pulmonary arteries… digoxin to help the heart pump blood… and/or oxygen to help you breathe.
Surgical treatments. If drugs alone cannot control your condition, options include open-heart surgery to create an opening between the right and left chambers of the heart and relieve pressure on the right side… and, in very severe cases, a lung or heart-lung transplant (in patients with a diseased lung).
PUT YOURSELF ON THE TEAM
When you have pulmonary hypertension, it’s vital to control any other underlying conditions (for example, religiously take your blood pressure medications).
Dr. Calvin also says that for the best quality of life, keep your focus on making sensible, healthful daily lifestyle choices…
Get lots of rest. Listen to your body. When you are tired, take a nap.
Follow a healthy diet. In particular, avoid salt — which can increase swelling in your legs. Eat more whole foods and fewer salt-laden processed products.
Stay active. Ask your doctor what level of exercise is safe for you.
Don’t smoke. Smoking severely damages your arteries, heart and lungs.
Avoid stress. Improve your quality of life by meditating or practicing yoga or tai chi.
Eliminate saunas and hot baths. These can cause your blood pressure to drop dangerously low.
Avoid high altitudes (including air travel). Low oxygen levels worsen symptoms such as shortness of breath.
Source(s):
James Calvin, MD, professor of medicine, director, section of cardiology, department of internal medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago.