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Privatizing our postal service
Being informed Daily Republic readers, you’ve no doubt heard that the U.S. Postal Service will eliminate Saturday deliveries this August. They also plan to close 229 mail distribution centers and lay off another 28,000 employees, all to cut costs.
Lately, we’ve seen a lot of bad news about the post office: articles, letters to the editor, and even a Daily Republic poll asking about Saturday deliveries. Editorial cartoonist Mike Rodriquez, who all-to-frequently tarnishes these Daily Republic pages, fed the anti-postal propaganda machine last Tuesday with a drawing of a postal worker delivering mail from atop a dinosaur skeleton.
We’ve all heard that the post office is losing money and that emails have cut into their business, but that’s only part of this story. Sure, the post office is not as cheap and fast as email, but your computer won’t deliver that wine you bought online. UPS and FedEx? They rely on the post office to deliver their packages wherever they don’t want to go, which is basically anywhere that’s unprofitable or out of their way.
What most people don’t know is that for years, many Republicans have been hard at work, actively ruining our nation’s postal service, trying to turn it into a privately owned business. On Dec. 8, 2006, a lame-duck Republican-controlled Congress, which was three weeks away from seating a new, Democratic-controlled Congress, passed the Postal Accountability Enhancement Act. This law mandates that the post office put aside $5 billion to $6 billion every year for 10 years, in order to pre-fund its health and pension plans to cover its projected obligations for the next 75 years.
The U.S. Postal Service is forced to contribute money today to pay for the health care and retirement of generations of postal workers, as yet unborn. By some estimates, the $50 billion that has already been siphoned-off is sufficient to fund their workers’ pension and health plans for the required 75 years, but the Republicans want $20 billion more in this account. These billions cannot be used to pay workers, purchase or repair equipment, or make postal operations more efficient, but are simply being bled from post office revenues and impounded by the U.S. Treasury.
Fairfield business owners, imagine if your company had to abide by these draconian Republican rules and you had to fund your workers’ health care and retirement plans 75 years into the future. Could you turn a profit?
Why do Republicans insist on the post office funding its health and retirement plans for future generations of workers? I can think of two good reasons. First, if the post office looked like a failing business, the American public would be more willing to go along with their privatization plan and second, it would make the buyout prize even more tempting for the purchaser. When vulture capitalists take over a business, one of the first things they do is to raid the pension funds and pocket all the extra cash. What happens to the business after that is usually of little consequence, except to the workers and customers.
America’s postal service is explicitly authorized by our Constitution. Heck, Benjamin Franklin was our postmaster a year before we declared our independence from England.
This newfangled Republican notion that government agencies should show consistent profits flies in the face of why our government was established in the first place. Governments exist to do those things that private enterprise cannot, will not, or should not do. When has Travis Air Force Base ever turned a profit? Or the Fairfield Fire Department, or FEMA, or the FBI? Should these vital services be pictured riding dinosaurs, too?
Mike Kirchubel grew up in Fairfield and is the author of “Vile Acts of Evil – Banking in America.” He can be reached at mikirch@comcast.net.
Discussion | 107 comments
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Mr. PracticalFebruary 18, 2013 - 8:26 am
I would like to go on record that I agree with Mike that the pension funding portion of the 2006 postal legislation was wrong-headed and is a big part of USPS' problems to date. However, there are a couple details I disagree with. The act had 3 co-sponsors, two of which were democrats. No records were kept of Representative's positions when it passed in the House by voice vote. It passed in the Senate (including 44 dems) by Unanimous Consent. This act was and is considered highly bipartisan. Mike also states that the USPS "will" stop Saturday delivery in August. This is a long way from being determined and most likely will not happen.
Reply |CD BrooksFebruary 18, 2013 - 8:35 am
Good morning Mr. Practical! And too you as well Mike! I remember reading that ending Saturday delivery was pretty much a done deal but they would continue delivering packages. I'm okay without it but I suppose it might affect some folks?
Reply |Mike KirchubelFebruary 18, 2013 - 8:40 am
Thank you, Mr. P. Good points. Thanks for Googling my article, we need more concerned citizens to do that for both sides.
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 18, 2013 - 8:47 am
CD, there is a very good chance that Congress will intervene. It could be determined that USPS cannot make that move without Congressional approval and even if it's determined they can, Congress could (and probably will) stop the move. Mike, I worked in that industry the past several years for a company that has been working with USPS for the past 90 years. I wish Postmaster General Donahoe luck in executing his plan to right the ship. He's a bright guy and hopefully Congress will listen. Unfortunately, my gut tells me it will be a special interest boondoggle by both parties.
Reply |Mike KirchubelFebruary 18, 2013 - 9:02 am
Mr. P, according to the web site, "Open Secrets" - which every concerned citizen should have on thier "favorites" button, both of the obvious beneficiaries of the postal demise, FedEx and U.P.S., are political "Heavy Hitters," meaning that they both contribute a lot to individual political campaigns and PACs. If we ever want to solve our nation's problems, the first thing we need to do is get big money out of the political campaigns. Clean Money elections and severely limited political contribution caps would help.
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 18, 2013 - 9:08 am
Mike, I doubt either FedEx or UPS want to see USPS fail. They are already competing succesfully for package shipping and want no part of mail delivery. It can't be done profitably. In fact, package carriers are partnering with USPS to delivery to local post offices and let them deliver to residences.
Reply |Mike KirchubelFebruary 18, 2013 - 9:23 am
I mentioned that in the article, but I see a post-office free future with rural residents having to go to centralized mail distribution centers to pick up their mail. With for-profit entities running this vital national service, unprofitable clients will have to do their own leg-work.
Reply |StRFebruary 18, 2013 - 9:37 am
Getting rid of universal service via the post office, also works for the Agenda 21, agenda. Again serving to islolate the rural areas, thereby forcing everyone into the the urban planning areas.....the designated population centers. No independent food producers, makes the population of the US, even more dependent on the Corporate GMOed, hydrogenated, high fructose, Corporate food providers.
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 18, 2013 - 9:41 am
Whatever
Reply |StR......Agenda 21February 18, 2013 - 10:03 am
The implementation of Agenda 21 was intended to involve action at international, national, regional and local levels. Some national and state governments have legislated or advised that local authorities take steps to implement the plan locally, as recommended in Chapter 28 of the document. These programs are often known as "Local Agenda 21" or "LA21".[3] For example, in the Philippines, the plan is "Philippines Agenda 21" (PA21). The group, ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, formed in 1990; today its members come from 1,200 cities, towns, and counties in 70 countries and is widely regarded as a paragon of Agenda 21 implementation.[4]............. In other countries, opposition to Agenda 21's ideas has surfaced to varied extents. In some cases, opposition has been legislated into several States limiting or forbidding the participation and/or funding of local government activities that support Agenda 21.[5]......Wikipedia Agenda 21
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 18, 2013 - 10:09 am
Still... whatever.
Reply |StR...Oh GoodyFebruary 18, 2013 - 10:25 am
Mr. P...You have inspired Me!....I will write an Ode to Pissants, and dedicate it to you!...OK,,,(you have proven that you tolerate jokes well)
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 18, 2013 - 10:26 am
There is a fine line between tolerating jokes well and just not giving a hoot!
Reply |StRFebruary 18, 2013 - 10:53 am
What would an ode to Mr. Kirchubel be?.....Maybe an ode to a Horse with Blinders on. The horse is pulling the cart, with mighty effort, but can't really see where he is going? Does not see the Big Picture?
Reply |Mike KirchubelFebruary 18, 2013 - 11:03 am
the blindered horse only sees where he is going and is not distracted by those who would lead him astray.
Reply |StRFebruary 18, 2013 - 11:06 am
So Yes or No, if the Democrats were free to have their way on all issues, this would save the country? The Democrats will save us/US?
Reply |StRFebruary 18, 2013 - 11:15 am
I suppose an ode to myself would be about an ill-treated, schizo, Parrot, but one who basically repeats the truth.
Reply |StR....Ode to rlw895 and TCFebruary 18, 2013 - 11:31 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhuexmdfGX0
Reply |Ode to CD.....but I repeat myselfFebruary 18, 2013 - 11:42 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MNMG_5flWc
Reply |CD BrooksFebruary 18, 2013 - 12:15 pm
STR, "truth" being that eloquent yet most misrepresented word in our language. Right next to that other devil “fact.” But hey, to each their own.
Reply |@ Mr. P...hooty-hoo..hooty-hoo...NOTFebruary 18, 2013 - 11:49 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3mtNZFrMY
Reply |rlw895February 18, 2013 - 4:18 pm
Here we go...
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 18, 2013 - 4:25 pm
Yep. It will never stop. It's in her DNA.
Reply |JBDragonFebruary 18, 2013 - 1:09 pm
There's other country's with Private Mail Service and they run just fine!
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 18, 2013 - 1:30 pm
Will they deliver a single one ounce letter across country for $.46?
Reply |Mike kirchubelFebruary 18, 2013 - 2:11 pm
The U.S. Is a very large country with many rural residents. I find it difficult to believe that any private company would be able to deliver the mail to all of us at a profit. Surely the first thing to go would be the 75 year funding mandate, followed by decent wages for the employees, any health or retirement benefits And rural deliveries. After that, there would be dramatic increases in stamp costs along with decreases in Service as the owners pushed the profits higher And higher. Does anybody out there believe differently?
Reply |rlw895February 18, 2013 - 4:27 pm
Mike: Not I. With public employees being a repository of Democrats, often unionized and politically active to boot, we can expect privatization to be constantly on the Republican agenda. More income disparity and contraction of the middle class. Less money for the Democrats to run campaigns. It's not hidden agenda. Look at Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 19, 2013 - 10:22 am
Mike and rlw, I'm still having difficulty finding evidence of a Republican movement toward privitization. That being said, I agree it would be difficult for delivery to all addresses to be profitable. However, if it could, Congress could certainly require that whatever private companies want to play in that sandbox are required to deliver to all valid addresses. Maybe a better solution is partial privitization? No current company has the infrastructure in place to do what USPS does. What if USPS maintained their sorting facilites (such as Oakland for us) and the final destinations (consumer post offices). Private carriers could (like UPS/FedEx, etc... as they already have regional hubs) could take over the rest. A side not on how well private companies can perform... I ordered an item from Amazon at Noon this past Sunday. It was shipped via OnTrac and arrived at my door the next morning (aFederal holiday)at 9am. Your thoughts?
Reply |rlw895February 19, 2013 - 7:08 pm
Mr. P: I guess it depends on how you define "movement."
Reply |Mr. PracticalFebruary 19, 2013 - 7:13 pm
I can't find any evidence by any definition.
Reply |rlw895February 19, 2013 - 8:24 pm
Mr.P: Did you try Googling something like, I don't know, "republicans and privatization?"
Reply |rlw895February 19, 2013 - 8:05 pm
Mr.P: Going back to your original comment way back yesterday morning--and pages of StR ago... Completely unresearched, I'm going to say the Democrats who co-authored and supported the 2006 USPS act naively expected congress to fund it by setting postal rates accordingly. Fully funding pensions using realistic assumptions is not a bad idea, per se. But both parties want to spend, and only one wants to pay for it. Going back to the Reagan administration, Republican strategy has been to overspend and then, when times get tough, cut social programs. That same strategy is being played out against the USPS. Welcome to the world dominated by a fraction of the 1% and their Republican minions. The uber-rich don't need a USPS.
Reply |Mike KirchubelFebruary 18, 2013 - 8:34 am
Two errors this week: In the second paragraph, it's Mike Ramirez, not Rodriquez. My kids all went to Rodriquez H.S. and I think that's where that came from. The second error was caught and corrected by Glen: changing "workers" into "workers'" at the bottom of the second column. Thanks, Glen. That should keep all the retired English teachers at bay for another week.
Reply |StR...Today Monday on...February 18, 2013 - 9:29 am
wwwinfowarscom.....wwwprisonplanettv...On the Monday, February 18 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, Alex looks back on the Christopher Dorner standoff situation and examines the media's sickening portrayal of the spectacle as "exciting" and "like ‘Django Unchained’ in real life". He'll also analyze the slow-motion implosion of the U.S. economy, even while some - like ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan - try to downplay the severity of so-called “sequestration” spending cuts. Alex also further expounds on the media's attempt to spin Infowars' DHS ammo-buy story and the renewed efforts on all fronts to mobilize against the Second Amendment. On today's show, Alex welcomes Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke who recently urged the citizens he serves to consider learning firearm safety because of “a duty to protect yourself and your family.”
Reply |The Obsolete Man...Twilight ZoneFebruary 18, 2013 - 9:40 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_Z28esXxkk
Reply |One Tin Soldier .... CartoonFebruary 18, 2013 - 9:47 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTBx-hHf4BE
Reply |Rich GiddensFebruary 18, 2013 - 11:43 am
So progress is only made when nice kind Democrats tell bureaucracies they can waste the taxpayer's money all they want. No need to seek efficiencies or economies like business does. Government must wastefully spend more and do less! Then there's the human relations climate down at the post office---especially those in northern or western states. Kirchebel just wants more of the unreformed same.
Reply |Mike kirchubelFebruary 19, 2013 - 5:30 pm
Ah, Glidden has a comment about wasteful government spending, the subject he is most informed about. So please tell us all, Rich, how many taxpayrr dollars have we wasted funding the post Office from Ben Franklin to today. Feel free to round up to the nearest billion dollars. Since you are the expert on governemnt waste, you probably know the answer off the top of your head.
Reply |For G-Man Big City Dude vs Country HickFebruary 18, 2013 - 12:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpuL7g2jOmk
Reply |StR So IncestuousFebruary 18, 2013 - 3:25 pm
State Street Corporation is listed on the NYSE, ticker symbol STT, and let me express my surprised face, :-| ,to discover that a major holder of State Street Corporation is BlackRock at 2.4%. So BlackRock invests in State Street who owns Blackrock’s nearest competitor who then both have major positions in McGraw-Hill which maintains the wholly owns subsidiary S&P. Where is the line drawn between one company and the other? Legally I am sure its all up and up since the repeal of the Glass-Steagal act which Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and my personal favorite Larry Summers who told then President Clinton was a fantastic idea. Time Magazine then trumpted them ‘The Committee To Save The World‘. How’d all that savey-world stuff work out for ya? Then there is BlackRock. They are a massive globo-zilla private equity firm formed in 1988 by Laurence Fink (from what is now called Credit-Suisse First Boston) and Robert S. Kapito. They are now the largest manager of the State Street invention “Exchange Traded Funds”. Also they are a private equity firm so they do not have the lapdog the SEC would have imposed on them. That is if SEC actually did their job instead of serving corporate masters rather than the large and small investors they are supposed to be protecting from fraud. Laurence while still at First Boston co-created the first Collateralized (sic) Mortgage Obligations for… wait for it… Freddie Mac way back in 1983! While sowing the seeds for the single largest meltdown in financial history of the world since, perhaps, The Great Depression and obliterating Fannie Mae and her evil twin Freddie Mac and leaving the unsuspecting public with $2 trillion of worthless toxic derivatives he apparently also decided he should leave the nest and start his own company, then under the umbrella of Blackstone Financial Management. GOOGLE...Who Owns Who Owns US?..By: Sinestar Monday August 8, 2011 1:59 pm.firedoglakedotcom
Reply |StRFebruary 18, 2013 - 3:41 pm
Google this....Who Owns Who Owns US? | MyFDL - Firedoglake.....Mr Bud Stevenson any comment on all this? I really do not understand how all this works, other than to note that there are a lot of hedgefund managers on the Fortune 400 list. Also it does appear that the average investor is being milked and the US economy imploded on purpose by sinister forces.
Reply |StRFebruary 18, 2013 - 3:47 pm
All this conducted with people intimately and incestuously involved with the privately held FEDERAL RESERVE and the privately held too big to fail banks, which we the taxpayers bail out...pools and pools of computer blips. BARF ON THE FED. And again we see that both the Dems are Repubs are guilty.
Reply |rlw895February 18, 2013 - 4:31 pm
Focus, StR. Focus. Start by cutting Alex Jones ads
Reply |StR Example of Bilderberg dealsFebruary 18, 2013 - 6:00 pm
Henry A. Kissinger, Rockefeller's well-compensated, multi-purpose minion and long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) said: "Control the oil and you can control entire Continents. Control food and you control people."[2] Michael Collon, Belgian author said: "If you want to rule the world, you need to control oil. All the oil. Anywhere."[3]........... The first very memorable "oil crisis" occurred in 1973. Nixon, obedient to his handlers, announced the demonetization of the dollar on August 15, 1971. This allowed time for the "real deciders" to plan their strategy. Eighty-four individuals, financial, corporate and political elitists, gathered at Saltsjöbaden, Sweden for the annual Bilderberg meeting. American attendee, Walter J. Levy, outlined the plan for a pending 400% increase in OPEC revenues, the exact percentage that Kissinger would demand of Saudi Arabian Shah. Their intentions were not prevention but rather a scheme on how to manage the projected abundance of oil dollars - what was later referred to by Herr Kissinger as "recycling the petrodollar flows." The Bilderberg policy was to initiate a global oil embargo.[4].......... An internal memo, dated January 8, 1973, from U.S. Bilderberg official Robert D. Murphy suggested a list of participants for the May 1973 meeting. He stated: "There will be room for only 20 Americans at Saltsjöbaden."[5]......... Those attending included Robert O. Anderson of Atlantic Richfield Oil Co., Lord Greenhill, chairman of British Petroleum, Sir Eric Roll of Siegmund G. Warburg (creator of Eurobonds), George Ball of Lehman Brothers Investment Bank, Henry Kissinger, William P. Bundy, Zbigniew Brzezinski (soon to be Carter's national security advisor), David Rockefeller, Emilio G. Collado, Executive Vice President, Exxon Corp.; Gianni Agnelli, Otto Wolff von Amerongen and Arthur H. Dean, CFR Director (1955-72) and a partner in Rockefeller-oriented Sullivan & Cromwell. Kissinger had requested Warburg to develop the Eurobonds ten years before.[6] A very small scheming elite group, centered in New York and London, influence the economy of the entire world........... The reasons for the "oil shock" were: 1. Launch a colossal assault against world industrial growth. 2. Tilt the balance of power back to the advantage of Anglo-American financial interests. 3. Control the world's oil flows, their most powerful weapon. 4. Increase the world demand for U.S. dollars.[7]...............Google....Bliderberg Plan - Control Oil, Control People By Deanna Spingola NewsWithViewscom
Reply |rlw895February 18, 2013 - 6:32 pm
You write so much repetitive and off point, people have stopped reading it.
Reply |LilFebruary 18, 2013 - 8:59 pm
I saw something this weekend that really made me rethink the usefulness of the postal service. I was driving down a rural county road and saw a woman crossing the road ahead of me. She was in her housecoat, walking very slowly and I was thinking, "what in the world". Then I saw that she was crossing the road to reach her mailbox. I stopped and let her slowly cross and open her box and withdraw several pieces of mail. She waved at me as I drove by. This is a woman who lives out in the middle of nowhere, who at 3:00 in the afternoon was still in her housecoat but she still made sure to go out and get her mail. There are a lot of people like her that are dependent on the postal service. We're not all online yet.
Reply |Mike kirchubelFebruary 18, 2013 - 9:43 pm
Thank you for that And welcome to the conversation. There are tens of millions of people who rely on the postal Service for their Link to the outside world. Privatization would cut that Link. The stupid thing is that the majority of people who would miss it the most live in red republican states.
Reply |StRFebruary 19, 2013 - 7:38 am
Actually one of the most private means of communication is to send someone a letter. All electronic communications are monitored. Also anytime you pay for items using credit/debit/special grocery store "discount cards" all banking transactions ect these transactions are recorded and analysed. All telephone conversations are monitored. Even physical mail going thru FedEx and I believe United Parcel Service is tracked by who is sending what to whom, I do not know if this is as much the case with the US Postal Service. But it is more difficult for the government to spy on us, more time consuming and more obvious to open our mail, although this can be done. Some people say that all the newer cars have preinstalled tracking devices. Big Brother is watching you. Yes I say we should protect and defend the post office. READ REVELATION IN THE BIBLE
Reply |StRFebruary 19, 2013 - 8:06 am
Overall many privatization schemes seek to protect Corporate Interests, we no longer have free market capitalism we have Corporate Fascism and Control of the world through the International Banks. Here is a short treatise on the downfalls of privatization...Privatization: Downsizing government for principle and profit (Part 1: The United States) by Edward Herman Thrid World Traveler......Now having said this especially with Government employee unions, the unions have to realize that they are pricing themselves out of jobs if they expect to be paid exorbitent wages past what the private sector receives and the market can bear. I am most despondent, we are heading for collapse...buy a gun and stock up on food....I still say a quick fix is just to declare where ever you live it is now yours, concentrate on food reserves and get rid of the Federal Reserve and print our own money, and concentrate on our own oil reserves, set up public banks chartered on a state by state basis impose some import duties and start manufacturing our own stuff (reindustrialize America), so that we are not just a nation of shopkeepers, arrest and put to trial treasonous people in the current government ...Will this happen probably not...READ REVELATION IN THE BIBLE
Reply |CD BrooksFebruary 19, 2013 - 8:24 am
STR, I believe you are a brilliant woman with a wonderful sense of humor. You are probably the fastest typist Perry White has ever seen. You might even out duel Diana of Themyscira? "You are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination.” Good day.
Reply |StR....kiss.....kissFebruary 19, 2013 - 8:48 am
How sweet, you are very "special" yourself CD, you can be oh so clever. Now I know what your wife sees in you. My primary talents are called select, copy and paste....Quote from a Wonder Woman site... "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting." You want to know something freaky, I do not know that I am human, in a real sense, being fractured/split, you never feel whole, just a kind of drifting ill defined presence.
Reply |"I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None Of My JellyrollFebruary 19, 2013 - 10:18 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtG5YrQ-lY
Reply |Str However in many cases the gov inyfFebruary 19, 2013 - 9:14 am
inyf = is not your friend...Book..Gary Webb....Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion ....Quote from Amazon reviews.....I am probably the only reviewer who was a clandestine case officer (three back to back tours), who participated in the Central American follies as both a field officer and a desk officer at CIA HQS, who is also very broadly read........... With great sadness, I must conclude that this book is truthful, accurate, and explosive..... The book lacks some context, for example, the liberal Saudi funding for the Contras that was provided to the National Security Council (NSC) as a back-door courtesy.......... There are three core lessons in this book, supported by many books, some of which I list at the end of this review:.......... 1) The US Government cannot be trusted by the people. The White House, the NSC, the CIA, even the Justice Department, and the Members of Congress associated with the Administration's party, are all liars. They use "national security" as a pretext for dealing drugs and screwing over the American people............. 2) CIA has come to the end of its useful life. I remain proud to have been a clandestine case officer, but I see now that I was part of the "fake" CIA going through the motions, while extremely evil deeds were taking place in more limited channels.............. 3) In the eyes of the Nicaraguan, Guatemalan, and Honduran people, among many others, the US Government, as represented by the CIA and the dark side Ambassadors who are partisan appointees rather than true diplomats, is evil. It consorts with dictators, condones torture, helps loot the commonwealths of others, runs drugs, launders money, and is generally the bully on the block............ I have numerous notes on the book, and will list just a few here that are important "nuggets" from this great work:........... 1) The CIA connection to the crack pandemic could be the crime of the century. It certainly destroys the government's moral legitimacy in the eyes of the people........... 2) The fact that entrepreneur Ricky Ross went to jail for life, while his supplier, Nicaraguan Blandon, was constantly protected by CIA and the Department of Justice, is a travesty.............. 3) Nicaragua, under Somoza, was the US Government's local enforcer, and CIA was his most important liaison element. As long as we consort with 44 dictators (see Ambassador Palmer's "The Real Axis of Evil," we should expect to be reviled by the broader populations.............. 4) I believe that beginning with Henry Kissinger, the NSC and the CIA have had a "eugenics" policy that considers the low-income blacks to be "expendable" as well as a nuisance, and hence worthy of being targeted as a market for drugs to pull out what income they do have.............. 5) I believe that CIA was unwitting of the implications of crack, but that Congress was not. The book compellingly describes the testimony provided to Congress in 1979 and again in 1982, about the forthcoming implications of making a cocaine derivative affordable by the lowest income people in our Nation............... 6) The Administration and Congress, in close partnership with the "mainstream media," consistently lied, slandered witnesses to the truth, and generally made it impossible for the truth to be "heard."...........
Reply |StR Really InterestingFebruary 19, 2013 - 9:16 am
Read the rest of the Review on Amazon
Reply |StR Who does the CIA really work For?February 19, 2013 - 9:37 am
HINT...The Illuminati/Rothschild/International Banking Cartel...Vietnam? think Golden Triangle, think French Rothschilds former colony of Vietnam......The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, The Politics of Heroin includes meticulous documentation of dishonesty and dirty dealings at the highest levels from the Cold War until today. Maintaining a global perspective, this groundbreaking study details the mechanics of drug trafficking in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South and Central America. New chapters detail U.S. involvement in the narcotics trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan before and after the fall of the Taliban, and how U.S. drug policy in Central America and Colombia has increased the global supply of illicit drugs..............The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade...Alfred W. McCoy
Reply |StR.....Today Tuesday on.......February 19, 2013 - 9:20 am
Time to WAKE UP PEOPLE....wwwinfowarscom...wwwprisonplanetcom.....On the Monday, February 18 transmission of the Alex Jones Show, Alex looks back on the Christopher Dorner standoff situation and examines the media's sickening portrayal of the spectacle as "exciting" and "like ‘Django Unchained’ in real life". He'll also analyze the slow-motion implosion of the U.S. economy, even while some - like ex-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan - try to downplay the severity of so-called “sequestration” spending cuts. Alex also further expounds on the media's attempt to spin Infowars' DHS ammo-buy story and the renewed efforts on all fronts to mobilize against the Second Amendment. On today's show, Alex welcomes Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke who recently urged the citizens he serves to consider learning firearm safety because of “a duty to protect yourself and your family.”
Reply |StR Debt...what debtFebruary 19, 2013 - 11:22 am
It is all an illusion, why play along w/the illusion, the debt is just computer blips in a computer somewhere. How do we not play the debt illusion game?....arrest the corrupt money managers. All this fuss over an illusion...Get rid of the Federal Reserve, cancelled the imaginary debt and the United States issuses its own money....We have a giant DO OVER....
Reply |StRFebruary 19, 2013 - 11:35 am
But span of control would be an issue, we can only really control what goes on within our own borders, and we could expect to be attacked by outside attacks from the International Illuminati (biological, nuclear ect) even if we did regain independence from the NWO...so back to READ REVELATION IN THE BIBLE
Reply |StRFebruary 19, 2013 - 11:44 am
Talk about how many Mk-Ultraed actors and entertainers work in the movie, tv, and music industries.
Reply |StR.....So THEY just assassinated this guyFebruary 19, 2013 - 10:51 am
Philip Marshall,....... a veteran airline captain and former government "special activities" contract pilot, has authored three books on Top Secret America, a group presently conducting business as the United States Intelligence Community. Beginning with his role in the 1980s as a Learjet captain first as part of a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) sting on Pablo Escobar, and later in the covert arming of the Nicaraguan Contras, Marshall has studied and written 30-years worth of covert government special activities and the revolving door of Wall Street tricksters, media moguls, and their well funded politicians. Marshall is the leading aviation expert on the September 11th attack, as well as a masterful storyteller. The Big Bamboozle (2012) is his second work to focus on the flight training and preparation of 9/11 hijackers' after False Flag 911 was published in 2008. His first book, Lakefront Airport (2003) was a novel based on his experience as a government contract pilot during the Iran-Contra operation. Philip Marshall began his 20-year career as an airline pilot in 1985, flying first with Eastern Airlines and then with United. He holds captain ratings on the Boeing 727, 737, 747, 757 and 767. Born and raised in New Orleans, Marshall currently resides in California.
Reply |Mike kirchubelFebruary 19, 2013 - 2:50 pm
StR, that reminds me of another Louisianna pilot, Bobby Seal. If you ever wanted to become more paranoid, read "Barry And the boys." It ties everything tovether that you are talking about.
Reply |StRFebruary 19, 2013 - 11:59 am
Global Economist David Hale made remarks at a conference in Cape Town South Africa that various Chinese officials have proposed making China’s gold holdings 10,000 tons, larger than that of Fort Knox. Hale also stated, “The odds very much favor China making, over five years, very large gold purchases, and this in turn makes me bullish on the gold price.”............King World News interviewed John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist at Sprott Asset Management to get his thoughts on David Hale’s comments. Embry had this to say, “I honestly think if I were China I would do the same thing quite frankly. It would have an enormous impact on the gold market in the sense that the amount of gold coming out of the ground every year is in the neighborhood of 2,500 tons, and it’s all spoken for. So the idea that the Chinese central bank could add the 10,000 tons to their reserves, it would take quite a long time or incredibly higher prices.”...........One way or another the Chinese will continue a massive accumulation of gold for many years to come. The Chinese are clearly beginning to question previous assessments that 4,000 tons of gold will be adequate for their reserves.....February 10, 2011........China May Increase its Gold Holdings Beyond Ft Knox Level....King World News Blog....@Mike it does appear by default that governmens are moving to Gold
Reply |StRFebruary 19, 2013 - 12:09 pm
But who owns the gold, silver and copper mines really and why are they "tradeing" precious metals for fiat paper/computer blips, why not keep it for yourself? I am so confused again. Goes back to conspiracy theory, whatever it takes to collapse economies and set up the NWO? Goes back to Atlas Shrugged in that the elite will trade in Gold and the rest of us will have none? Does not matter?...READ REVELATION IN THE BIBLE
Reply |StR Not all FBI bad stymied by CIA/State DeptFebruary 19, 2013 - 5:56 pm
Youtube....Sibel Edmonds on Gladio B - Part 2
Reply |Try thisFebruary 19, 2013 - 5:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHbqhy2DSxE&feature=em-uploademail
Reply |StRFebruary 19, 2013 - 9:45 pm
See this is about setting up the legend/the cover story for the patsies that supposedly hijacked the 9/11 aircraft. But some elements of the FBI (not knowing about the approaching 9/11, the FBI elements not "in on it") caught drift of some of the patsies and really did want to continuously track them, which would have resulted in nobody to blame 9/11 on, so the CIA and State Dept told them to stop investigating...Part of this is also known as the Able Danger tracking team that was told to back off...9/11 was an inside job
Reply |StR Today Wednesday on............February 20, 2013 - 9:08 am
wwwinfowarscom.....wwwprisonplanet.tv........On this Wednesday, February 20 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex covers the outrageous move by law enforcement to use shooting targets depicting children, pregnant women and elderly gun owners, an effort lavishly funded by a Department of Homeland Security grant totaling almost $2 million. Alex also analyzes the ongoing anti-Second Amendment move by Democrats in state legislatures and the federal government and the effort by advocates of firearms rights to resist further destruction of the Second Amendment. Alex also runs down the latest news and takes your calls during his worldwide broadcast.
Reply |StR It is of Biblical ProportionsFebruary 20, 2013 - 10:41 am
Google...U.S. Air Force developing terrifying swarms of tiny unmanned drones....MICHAEL ZENNIE.....UK Daily Mail..Feb 20, 2013..That can hover, crawl and even kill targets.....The U.S. Air Force is developing tiny unmanned drones that will fly in swarms, hover like bees, crawl like spiders and even sneak up on unsuspecting targets and execute them with lethal precision.............. The Air Vehicles Directorate, a research arm of the Air Force, has released a computer-animated video outlining the the future capabilities of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs). The project promises to revolutionize war by down-sizing the combatants............... ‘MAVs will become a vital element in the ever-changing war-fighting environment and will help ensure success on the battlefield of the future,’ the narrator intones........... ‘Unobtrusive, pervasive, lethal – Micro Air Vehicles, enhancing the capabilities of the future war fighter.’
Reply |StRFebruary 20, 2013 - 10:47 am
Movie Death Race 2000, check it out...Now Revelation....And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle....And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.....And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon......Let's see Google..Akkadian Demons of the Four Compass Points
Reply |StR...But your Soul is safe under....February 20, 2013 - 10:53 am
the Blood of Jesus...See many many Demons...Google...Shadow Council (Demonology: Demons AM-AZ)....but not worry Fear not those who can kill the body, but these nasties can not take your soul if you believe in Jesus. This is my message to Muslims, Hindus, whoever we have all been deceived...remember this name in the time of turmoil...call upon the name of Jesus and ask for forgiveness as we see the events happening.
Reply |StR Movie....They LiveFebruary 20, 2013 - 12:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Lwlx3GnLGs
Reply |StRFebruary 20, 2013 - 12:17 pm
"We have one that sees"
Reply |StRFebruary 20, 2013 - 2:36 pm
We're looking forward to seeing you in Sacramento March 1-3 for the California Republican Party Spring 2013 GOP Convention…………… The hottest new conservative voices in America will be there - including conservative comedian Eric Golub. Eric has entertained audiences in 44 states, and will soon get to the remaining 6. He's Brooklyn born, Long Island raised, and has lived in Los Angeles since 1990. Eric received his Bachelors degree from the University of Judaism, and his MBA from USC…………….. His website is the "Tygrrrr Express," and in April 2009 he published the book "Ideological Bigotry." Eric has written for Big Hollywood, the Daily Caller, and World Net Daily, the Washington Times, Commentary Magazine, and RealClearPolitics. In his spare time, he monitors college campuses and reports on Islamofascist professors. He also speaks in synagogues to show how Judaism meshes perfectly with conservatism………………….. Eric is 100% alcohol, tobacco, drug, and liberalism free and he wants you to all to know that if he says anything that offends you in any way, you probably deserved it. After years of dating liberals, he has finally seen the light and now only dates Republican Jewish women. His family is pleased over this……………. Don't miss Eric Golub, along with Ben Shapiro, Karl Rove, Chuck DeVore and the rest of the 2013 Spring Convention speaking lineup -- it's going to be a great weekend!................. I think the dark elements of Israeli intelligence/special ops were in on our NEOCON inside job which was 9/11. The normal peaceful civilians of Israel are not to blame…May God Bless and protect them. May God protect all innocent civilian populations where ever they live in the world………..See the constant Drum beat for war in the mideast…THEY set up so many Hegelian Dialectics, because some of the “Islamofascists” are New World Order plants. ALL ANOTHER PSYOP.
Reply |StRFebruary 20, 2013 - 2:38 pm
PS.......But remember the top Democrats like Feinstein are just as Bad as the top Republicns.
Reply |StR.....A Global one world order currencyFebruary 21, 2013 - 9:03 am
Killing the Dollar: G20 & IMF Push for Global Fed, Global Currency...William F. Jasper...New American...Feb 21, 2013.... While headline stories about averting the dangers of an international “currency war” dominated news coverage of the recently concluded G20 meeting in Moscow, the real unreported story is that the global gathering of central bankers and finance ministers is pushing forward with their plan for “supersizing” the International Monetary Fund. The end goal is to transform the IMF into a global Federal Reserve, with the ability to flood the world with huge new volumes of loans and currency. It would also wield vast financial regulatory powers......... The IMF’s unit of account, or “currency,” known as a Special Drawing Right (SDR), is being readied for eventual adoption as the replacement for the U.S. dollar in international transactions, to lead the way toward eventual adoption of the SDR or some other designated unit as the global currency, much in the same way that the euro was foisted upon the people of Europe as a replacement of their national currencies........... The mainstream media seem intent on keeping the public fixated on the latest Kardashian frolics, sportsmania, and Dremocrat-Republican political mudwrestling, while coverage of the G7, G20, and IMF confabs that are determining the economic fate of the world receive short shrift. And the little reporting of these events that does leak out usually amounts to little more than regurgitation of the pre-scripted talking points of the conference principals. Over the past four years, The New American has published numerous articles detailing the radical plans currently underway for the total destruction of the dollar and the plans for supersizing the IMF into a global Fed. (See the linked stories at the bottom of this article). Google for the rest of the story.
Reply |Today Thursday on...InfowarsFebruary 21, 2013 - 9:06 am
wwwinfowarscom...wwwprisonplanet.tv....On the Thursday, February 21 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex will analyze the Federal Reserve's internal dissension concerning its current monthly $85bn bond-buying scheme which members have admitted will spur dangerous inflation and “foster market behavior that could undermine financial stability.” Alex also covers the backlash Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has received stemming from his recent appearance on the Alex Jones Show where he stated that strict gun legislation could lead to a “second American revolution.” Alex also hits on other major news items and takes your calls.
Reply |StRFebruary 21, 2013 - 11:24 am
For Christians worldwide in the Soviet Union, China and African countries and now the Mid-east, Christians have been having their Tribulations for years and years now. We American Christians are so self-centered and Euro-centric.......Read Tortured for Christ or In God's Underground by Richard Wurmbrand
Reply |StRFebruary 21, 2013 - 11:27 am
One of the reasons Hiroshima and Nagasaki were targeted is that they had the highest concentrations of Japanese Chirstians in Japan.
Reply |StR Status of the Communist Party in ChinaFebruary 21, 2013 - 11:47 am
This book looks like it is worth a read....The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers Richard McGregor.........The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor’s eye-opening investigation into China’s Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country’s rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States. Many books have examined China’s economic rise, human rights record, turbulent history, and relations with the U.S.; none until now, however, have tackled the issue central to understanding all of these issues: how the ruling communist government works. The Party delves deeply into China’s secretive political machine........I want to know more about how China's Banks and Financial networks operate and about their oil imports.
Reply |StRFebruary 21, 2013 - 11:50 am
So the question is does the Chinese Banking establishment own the Chinese Military, like the Federal Reserve/Private too big to fail/International Bankers own the US Military.
Reply |StRFebruary 21, 2013 - 1:40 pm
Google.........Student Bill Clinton 'spied' on Americans abroad for CIA.....Google...CIA Clinton Named as Long Time Spook.html - Stew Webb........
Reply |StRFebruary 21, 2013 - 1:46 pm
Read this book Compromised by Terry Reed....See all this info is in plain site, just that everyone has their collective Blinders on.......is the true story of Bill Clinton’s political sell-out to the CIA. Clinton’s unbridled political ambitions and his campaign pledge to create "jobs for Arkansans" led him to compromise his ideals in exchange for CIA support in his bid for the Presidency............. He permitted the "Agency" to use Arkansas factories to make untraceable weapons and he allowed CIA contract agents to train Contra pilots on rural airstrips in support of the war in Nicaragua – effectively evading the Congressional ban on military aid to the Contras............ This expose unfolds through the eyewitness account of Terry Reed, a former CIA asset whose patriotism transformed him into a liability when he refused to turn a blind eye to the Agency’s drug trafficking. While helping the CIA set up its secret "black" operations, he unwittingly compromised his family’s safety, ultimately forcing them to become fugitives. Realizing that Reed witnessed the making of a counterfeit President and knew too much about its drug operations, the Agency set out to destroy him and his family............. This Arkansas-CIA connection became Clinton’s darkest secret – a secret he shared by then Vice-President Bush, who himself was compromised by his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. Their shared guilt kept them silent and tied their hands as they faced off in the 1992 Presidential election with neither mentioning Iran-Contra........ The Justice Departments of Reagan, Bush – and now Clinton – have orchestrated an ongoing cover-up of the Arkansas-CIA connection, which has gone undetected for eight years with Bill Clinton its major beneficiary. Clinton's reward for this Faustian pact? The White House...........This includes Hillary too and President Obama comes from a CIA family............ Reed puts Clinton directly in the "Iran-Contra loop". Both attended a secret meeting where CIA arms arrangements, illegal Contra training and money laundering were discussed. Involved with Clinton in this cabal were Colonel Oliver North, William Barr (George Bush’s attorney general), Felix Rodriguez (Bay of Pigs veteran and George Bush’s CIA contact) and CIA contract agent Barry Seal, who used the cover of a high-profile drug trafficker to carry out his missions............ "Compromised" reveals the details and names of all who were involved, including these faceless power brokers now in positions of public prominence in Washington, D.C..........
Reply |Today Friday on.............February 22, 2013 - 12:17 pm
wwwinfowarscom....wwwprisonplanet.tv...On the Friday, February 22 edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex blasts Michael Moore's gun control solution for people who are worried about their safety: “get a dog.” Alex will also cover Law Enforcement Target Inc.'s removal of their offensive “no more hesitation” shooting targets, and the concerted efforts to demonize returning veterans as right-wing extremists. Alex also examines the Pentagon's floating military bases possibly opening the door for sinister black programs and operations to be conducted under the impunity of the high seas. We'll also cover other major headlines and take your calls.
Reply |Still Report #71 - Jekyll Island Trailer.movFebruary 22, 2013 - 1:41 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGOHCxwfNJo&feature=em-uploademail
Reply |StRFebruary 23, 2013 - 12:52 pm
Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Maki by David Rothkopf (Apr 1, 2010).....This is pro NWO written by a true believer...All the info is out there WAKE UP PEOPLE....Both sides DEM and REPUB are bad....the dark heart of the CIA works for the international bankers.
Reply |StRFebruary 23, 2013 - 1:17 pm
Google this.......Scorecard: How Many Rights Have Americans REALLY Lost ...washingtonsblog
Reply |Have not fully checked this but interestingFebruary 23, 2013 - 1:39 pm
Google.....TorturedinAmerica.org - STOP U.S. Military Radiation Targeting......beware of InfraGard...teaching Americans to spy on Americans.....Read Tortured for Christ and Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People James A. Michener...short quick reads about living in a police state were citizens are threatened into falsely reporting on fellow citizens...remember 9/11 was an inside job and they are setting up a police state and need some willing dupes to enforce their regime on the rest of us....setting up the Stasi collaborators. WAKE UP The Obama Administration is NWO....Obama will not save US...WAKE UP....PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING....Why the drones..why is DHS buying up bullets? Why the Fusion centers...Why is the economy being collapsed on purpose and only the bad guy bankers receiving the golden parachutes?
Reply |StRFebruary 23, 2013 - 1:43 pm
See nothing is new they are already following this playbook read....The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS (Classic Military History) by Heinz Zollin Höhne and Richard Barry (Sep 1, 2001)
Reply |StRFebruary 23, 2013 - 7:28 pm
Youtube this....Lies The FBI Told Me
Reply |StRFebruary 23, 2013 - 7:30 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-vVqieLG_c&list=UU7TvL4GlQyMBLlUsTrN_C4Q&index=13
Reply |StRFebruary 23, 2013 - 7:43 pm
FBI busts THEIR OWN TERROR PLOTS (Oklahoma Federal Building, First World Trade Center Bombing)or shuts down and covers up pertanent on-going investigations at the appropriate moment to enable the patsies to carry out the mission......Google...Special Investigations Vulgar Betrayal
Reply |StR Bullet Train or Bullet to make CA BuStFebruary 23, 2013 - 7:53 pm
Google this......Nicole Gelinas What New York Can Learn from Britain’s Rail Fiasco Public-private partnerships have real benefits, but they’re no substitute for government competence. 13 January 2013
Reply |Curse you Red BaronFebruary 24, 2013 - 2:21 pm
How annoying I am being censored again
Reply |StRFebruary 24, 2013 - 2:55 pm
Google....DOJ Memo: Outlaw and Confiscate All Guns ...Kurt Nimmo..Infowarscom...February 24, 2013
Reply |StRFebruary 24, 2013 - 3:19 pm
The National Rifle Association has obtained a Department of Justice memo calling for national gun registration and confiscation. The nine page “cursory summary” on current gun control initiatives was not officially released by the Obama administration....... The DOJ memo (downloadable here as a PDF) states the administration “believes that a gun ban will not work without mandatory gun confiscation,” according to the NRA, and thinks universal background checks “won’t work without requiring national gun registration.” Obama has yet to publicly support national registration or firearms confiscation, although the memo reveals his administration is moving in that direction.
Reply |StRFebruary 24, 2013 - 3:35 pm
Google.....Paul Drockton: Is Mitt Romney a CIA/Mossad Asset?..meyteachersorg...Every President from Carter to Obama has kissed the Bush Ring and swore to uphold the interest of "The Crown". The Intelligence Community also has a history of using pedophilia and narcotics to compromise and blackmail politicians into staying loyal to "The Crown"............ Romney is endorsed by Bush. This means that Mitt Romney will uphold the interests of the "Crown" and work to bring about their "New World Order". Romney also has his own links to the intelligence communities:............. 1. Christopher Bolyn writes: "Mitt Romney, for example, has very close ties to a high-level agent from Israeli military intelligence, the woman he made CEO of Bain & Company.".......... 2. Romney can be directly tied to Adnan Kashoggi through a known intelligence asset for the CIA, Frank Morse. Morse was Chief of Staff for Howard Hughes and still counseld the Hughes Estate. Morse also managed Kashoggi's Triad Group, which plundered Utah with the assistance of some very prominent Mormons. An estimated 180 million dollars was stolen by the Kashoggi Group through BCCI and used to Fund Iran-Contra. (Source)........... Kashoggi has also been linked to Mormon Bishop, Wally Hilliard, who reportedly acted as Kashoggi's front man on narcotics deals and the acquisition of the Florida Flight School that trained the 911 hijackers........ "In the 1980s and 1990’s, as a partner in the law firm Sandler, Rolnick & Morse, Morse served as Chief Legal Advisor for Adnan Khashoggi in the United States and Europe. Morse was responsible for complex litigation and business transactions for Khashoggi, personally, and for Khashoggi's Triad Group of Companies."...............
Reply |CorrectionFebruary 24, 2013 - 3:37 pm
moneyteachers.org
Reply |How Pump and Dump worksFebruary 24, 2013 - 4:09 pm
The film also demonstrates how Romney bankrupted 4 relatively large companies for fun and personal profit. It seems that he really does enjoy firing people. Romney is accused of running "pump and dump" schemes whereby:............... 1. Bain Capital takes over a company........... 2. Romney drastically cuts payroll (fires employees) to raise company profits and starves production.............. 3. Lehman rates the company as a "strong buy" and the stock surges.............. 4. Romney heavily leverages the company with debt to sell his and Bain's stock in the company at a ridiculous profit............. 5. Once Romney and Bain milk the company for all its worth, the stock price collapses.......... 6. Since Romney ran a Hedge Fund, it is more than likely that he and Bain also made a fortune in Put Options on the company's declining stock................. In one example: "KB Toys was purchased and taken private in 2000 by the leveraged buyout firm of Bain Capital for $305 million, Bain announced the purchase on Dec. 8th, 2000. Only $18 million of the purchase money was cash, the rest was borrowed against the assets of the company. Sixteen months after the buyout, Bain Capital paid itself $85 million in dividends in early 2002. Two years later, due to... its enormous debt, on January 14, 2004, K·B Toys filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and closed 365 stores.............. K·B closed 156 stores on November 8, 2007. The Gordon Brothers Group handled the liquidation of these stores. On February 9, 2009, K·B closed the remaining stores following the second bankruptcy filing in four years. In addition, K·B Toys' website was closed down........... The K·B Toys brand and related intangible assets were sold by Streambank LLC to Toys R Us on September 4, 2009 for a reported $2.1 Million." (Source).............Once again See the Dark heart of the Intelligence Agencies work for the New World Order....Romney, Obama same same both bad both work for the NWO
Reply |ChristalMarch 15, 2013 - 4:06 pm
With havin so much written content do you ever run into any issues of plagorism or copyright infringement? My site has a lot of completely unique content I've either created myself or outsourced but it appears a lot of it is popping it up all over the internet without my permission. Do you know any ways to help prevent content from being ripped off? I'd definitely appreciate it.
Reply |mike kirchubelMarch 16, 2013 - 9:28 am
Christal, if you are asking me, i just expect that my stuff will be copied by someone else. I put it out for free and therefore have no monitary loss. I write and rewrite my columns several times before sending them off to Glen, and then, sometimes, i rewrite them again and try to get the latest edition to be the version that's in print. I know my articles are original but i will often google a particularly great line just to make sure no one else has used it. Does that help you?... or where you asking StR, who has 58 times the output as me?
Reply |Mr. PracticalMarch 16, 2013 - 9:38 am
58 times? Mike, you're being kind.
Reply |StRMarch 16, 2013 - 10:00 am
So Mr. P...I have been casing this blog trying to link up with you....I have something to tell you.....do you copy?
Reply |Mike KirchubelMarch 16, 2013 - 12:09 pm
Mr. P, No, I did a complex statistical analysis of not only word counts, but number of characters and column inches over the last two years. it's 58 alright. What did you think? That I would just pull that number out of my ... er .. hat?
Reply |The Last Angry Moose #2March 16, 2013 - 12:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTzuO24i-YA
Reply |rlw895March 16, 2013 - 12:10 pm
Mike: I'm pretty sure it was to StR. Crystal: StR plagerizes shamelessly, but practically no one reads it. There is no protection from obsessive-compulsives, unfortunately, in these comments. I wish the monitor would put that on his "to do" list and the DR would adopt a policy regarding it.
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