Friday, November 18, 2011
Think You Know a F*cking Thing About Desperation?
Tomorrow, November 19, 2011, my husband and I will have been married for 21 years. We hate each other more every day. And since we lost our sweet daughter, Jordan, a little over four years ago--September 4, 2007--we don't even try to pretend any differently. Yet, here I remain, another year of my life... Yeah babe, that's desperation.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Monday, December 20, 2010
DHS Implementing No Work List: Citizens Must Get Government Approval to Work in Private Sector Jobs
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"You’ve heard of no fly and no buy lists – get ready for no work lists. Millions of workers now must apply to the DHS and prove they are not terrorists in order to be granted permission by the government to work." ~BEFORE IT'S NEWS
According to information posted on a union website for ironworkers, the Department of Homeland Security has plans to implement [a] "NO WORK LIST(S)." This means that citizens will be required to obtain government approval to work in private sector jobs. The Iron Workers Local 361 website spells out the details of the Department of Homeland Security’s TWIC and SWAC programs. The information below was taken directly from the IWL 361 website. /LL
TRANSPORTATION WORKER IDENTIFICATION CREDENTIAL (TWIC)
This site has been created in an effort to keep the membership of Ironworkers Local 40 & 361 aware and informed about recent changes within our jurisdiction.
The Department of Homeland Security along with The Transportation Security Administration has issued a directive titled: Transportation Worker Identification Credential or "TWIC."
It is a biometric credential that ensures only vetted workers are eligible to enter a secure construction site, unescorted. It is believed that several very large upcoming projects within Local 40 & 361's jurisdiction will be requiring workers on these projects to have TWIC credentials. Before issuing a TWIC, TSA must conduct a security threat assessment on the TWIC applicant. An applicant who, as a result of the assessment, is determined to not pose a security threat, will be issued a TWIC card.
The fee for a TWIC card will be $132.50 and the credential is valid for five years. Click the following link for more information about the TWIC credential. Below are several websites which contain a tremendous amount of information regarding the TWIC card and how you go about obtaining one. Local 361 will be providing updated information with regard to the TWIC credential on this web site, so continue to check back for any updates.
SECURE WORKER ACCESS CONSORTIUM (S.W.A.C.)
Secure Worker Access Consortium (S.W.A.C.), a large-scale collaborative effort among public and private authorities, facility owners, contractors, and labor organizations who are partnering to prevent terrorist activity by creating a trusted contractor community. Over 500 organizations, including the Port Authority of NY and NJ, which manages and maintains the bridges, tunnels, bus terminals, airports, PATH, and seaports that are essential to the bi-state region’s trade and transportation capabilities, have joined this effort.
The Secure Worker Access Consortium is very similar to the Federal TWIC program. At present it is now used by The New York and New Jersey Port Authority for all of their upcoming projects. The background investigation is similar to the TWIC program. By acquiring the TWIC credential first the process for the SWAC credential is greatly reduced.
The cost for the SWAC credential is approximatly $200.00 Local 361 will be providing updated information with regard to the SWAC credential on this web site, so continue to check back for any updates. [sic]
Source (Quote):
| BEFORE IT'S NEWS
"You’ve heard of no fly and no buy lists – get ready for no work lists. Millions of workers now must apply to the DHS and prove they are not terrorists in order to be granted permission by the government to work." ~BEFORE IT'S NEWS
According to information posted on a union website for ironworkers, the Department of Homeland Security has plans to implement [a] "NO WORK LIST(S)." This means that citizens will be required to obtain government approval to work in private sector jobs. The Iron Workers Local 361 website spells out the details of the Department of Homeland Security’s TWIC and SWAC programs. The information below was taken directly from the IWL 361 website. /LL
TRANSPORTATION WORKER IDENTIFICATION CREDENTIAL (TWIC)
This site has been created in an effort to keep the membership of Ironworkers Local 40 & 361 aware and informed about recent changes within our jurisdiction.
The Department of Homeland Security along with The Transportation Security Administration has issued a directive titled: Transportation Worker Identification Credential or "TWIC."
It is a biometric credential that ensures only vetted workers are eligible to enter a secure construction site, unescorted. It is believed that several very large upcoming projects within Local 40 & 361's jurisdiction will be requiring workers on these projects to have TWIC credentials. Before issuing a TWIC, TSA must conduct a security threat assessment on the TWIC applicant. An applicant who, as a result of the assessment, is determined to not pose a security threat, will be issued a TWIC card.
The fee for a TWIC card will be $132.50 and the credential is valid for five years. Click the following link for more information about the TWIC credential. Below are several websites which contain a tremendous amount of information regarding the TWIC card and how you go about obtaining one. Local 361 will be providing updated information with regard to the TWIC credential on this web site, so continue to check back for any updates.
SECURE WORKER ACCESS CONSORTIUM (S.W.A.C.)
Secure Worker Access Consortium (S.W.A.C.), a large-scale collaborative effort among public and private authorities, facility owners, contractors, and labor organizations who are partnering to prevent terrorist activity by creating a trusted contractor community. Over 500 organizations, including the Port Authority of NY and NJ, which manages and maintains the bridges, tunnels, bus terminals, airports, PATH, and seaports that are essential to the bi-state region’s trade and transportation capabilities, have joined this effort.
The Secure Worker Access Consortium is very similar to the Federal TWIC program. At present it is now used by The New York and New Jersey Port Authority for all of their upcoming projects. The background investigation is similar to the TWIC program. By acquiring the TWIC credential first the process for the SWAC credential is greatly reduced.
The cost for the SWAC credential is approximatly $200.00 Local 361 will be providing updated information with regard to the SWAC credential on this web site, so continue to check back for any updates. [sic]
Source (Quote):
Uncle Sam: His Mouth Ain't No Prayer Book
"I think Randy and Evi Quaid should hire Julian Assange (using his skills as a 'former' hacker--among others) to investigate the 'Hollywood Star Whackers.'" /giggle/ ~leilei
I was reading an article recently that questioned the legitimacy of Wikileaks' latest release of documents. The author mentioned that there are quite a few who believe the U.S. was/is behind Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Typically, the people commenting acted as if they had lost their minds (Lost they damn minds! Honey, please!) in their rush to find new and interesting ways to mock, malign and disparage another for simply stating an opinion that differed from their own. However, I found one comment (the following comment in its entirety) quite interesting.
Of course, I think I've seen this person's posts and comments at a "conspiracy" site, a spin-off of an Alex Jones site. He'd be banned--posthaste--if anyone knew that, I imagine. /grin/
The U.S. government--our good ol' Uncle Sam--has tentacles that reach into every area of our lives and all over the world; the "mouth-pieces" have fed us an obscene amount of misinformation, disinformation and outright lies through the years. The official (not O-FFICIAL) position of the U.S. concerning the Wikileaks document release is horror, outrage and promise to prosecute Julian Assange. I hope Julian Assange is legitimate, he's a fucking hero if so.
Growing up in the South, I heard many colorful sayings used to describe just about every aspect of life. One saying--used quite often--was one we'd all do well to remember about our ol' Uncle Sam: His mouth ain't no prayer book. That's the God's honest truth. And like my grandmother always says, "The Truth Will Stand when the World is on Fire." The only problem is, a lot of us will be calling it a "damn lie" and believing the exact opposite. /LL
I was reading an article recently that questioned the legitimacy of Wikileaks' latest release of documents. The author mentioned that there are quite a few who believe the U.S. was/is behind Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Typically, the people commenting acted as if they had lost their minds (Lost they damn minds! Honey, please!) in their rush to find new and interesting ways to mock, malign and disparage another for simply stating an opinion that differed from their own. However, I found one comment (the following comment in its entirety) quite interesting.
"Just a few tidbits on Julian Assange and Wikileaks: “I’m constantly annoyed that people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11, when all around we provide evidence of real conspiracies, for war or mass financial fraud.” -Julian Assange, Belfast Telegraph, July 19, 2010
What happens to real whistle-blowers?
"The fate of whistle-blowers and tellers of dangerous truth is rarely rock-star celebrity. Count them. Mordechai Vanunu, who exposed Israel’s nuclear program – imprisoned for nearly 20 years. Gary Webb, who exposed the CIA connection to the distribution of crack cocaine in the US - probably murdered. Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, who criticized Putin’s policies in Chechnya – assassinated. Lebanese journalists Samir Qassir and Gebran Tueni, who criticized the Syrian government – killed in car bombings.
In 90% of such cases, says the Committee to Protect Journalists, the killers are never brought to justice. Yet, Assange, “the most dangerous man in Cyberspace,” according to the faux-alternative magazine Rolling Stone, lives to tell the tale of his persecution from the cover of Time magazine and the podium of TED conferences, weighted down with awards and honors from such establishment worthies as The Economist, The New Statesman, and Amnesty International."
Note: This writer left out a few notable whistle-blowers such as Benazir Bhutto (told us bin Laden was dead), William Cooper (predicted 9/11 attacks would be staged; said they would blame bin Laden), David Cole (Holocaust revisionist; Jewish mafia don Irv Rubin put a hit on his life), Sibel Edmonds (former FBI translator; 9/11 Commission blocked testimony from report, also knew about gov't officials involved in heroin and weapons smuggling) the DC Madam (threatened to reveal which gov't officials visited whorehouse), and WTC 7 survivor Barry Jennings (eye witness accounts told of bombs and dead bodies in WTC 7). These people were either killed, gagged died mysteriously or had their lives otherwise threatened for leaking uncomfortable facts. You don't get the world's leader's knickers in a knot and at the same time get handed awards plus get your face plastered all over their approved media outlets. C'mon people use your head!" ~maasanova
Of course, I think I've seen this person's posts and comments at a "conspiracy" site, a spin-off of an Alex Jones site. He'd be banned--posthaste--if anyone knew that, I imagine. /grin/
The U.S. government--our good ol' Uncle Sam--has tentacles that reach into every area of our lives and all over the world; the "mouth-pieces" have fed us an obscene amount of misinformation, disinformation and outright lies through the years. The official (not O-FFICIAL) position of the U.S. concerning the Wikileaks document release is horror, outrage and promise to prosecute Julian Assange. I hope Julian Assange is legitimate, he's a fucking hero if so.
Growing up in the South, I heard many colorful sayings used to describe just about every aspect of life. One saying--used quite often--was one we'd all do well to remember about our ol' Uncle Sam: His mouth ain't no prayer book. That's the God's honest truth. And like my grandmother always says, "The Truth Will Stand when the World is on Fire." The only problem is, a lot of us will be calling it a "damn lie" and believing the exact opposite. /LL
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." ~Claud Cockburn
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Source(s): quote [maasanova]-current.com
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Back to reading Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir, Joe Bageant's latest book. As usual, I got sidetracked by the 'life and times of Dead Mom Walking.' Review coming (promises, promises).
/LLThursday, December 16, 2010
Watching Fox News Makes You Stupid?
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A recent poll conducted by World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, finds that the viewers of Fox News are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. [Source: AlterNet]
It seems that Fox News viewers suffer from the same malady as the subjects of a lament that has been attributed to Artemus Ward, Mark Twain and Will Rogers, “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so.” It seems that the author of this particular quote is one of the things "we know that ain't so." /grin/
A similar quote, "The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so" has been/is Widely attributed to Josh Billings. But, who the heck knows? These words DO get around. /grin/ /LL
A recent poll conducted by World Public Opinion, a project managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, finds that the viewers of Fox News are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. [Source: AlterNet]
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It seems that Fox News viewers suffer from the same malady as the subjects of a lament that has been attributed to Artemus Ward, Mark Twain and Will Rogers, “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so.” It seems that the author of this particular quote is one of the things "we know that ain't so." /grin/
A similar quote, "The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so" has been/is Widely attributed to Josh Billings. But, who the heck knows? These words DO get around. /grin/ /LL
Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir
I'm just now reading Joe Bageant's most recent book, Rainbow Pie: A Redneck Memoir. It seems that I'm always a bit behind the curve. Never fear, a review will be posted forthwith (as soon as I finish reading /grin/). Naturally, it will be filled with slobbering praise for my hero, Joe Bageant. Ciao for now. /LL
Monday, August 23, 2010
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