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t r u t h o u t | History Does Not Lie – Unless It Is Being Invented by Republicans

And what seems to be a full blown political season until the mid-terms, we are going to be told this is Obama and the Democrats fault this mess we are in. And of course the republican plan is for more of the same that got us in to trouble in the first place (Tax Cuts). The Republicans them self put a year into the the cuts to end and that year is coming in january. If the tax cuts for the rich worked so well, WHERE ARE THE JOBS that so called tax cuts for wealthy that are still place. added by: kennymotown

Violet Kowal Claims Possession of Mel Gibson Text Messages, Says He Wanted Her to "Disappear"

It looks like Oksana Grigorieva may not have been the only Mel Gibson mistress to receive incriminating text messages from the insane actor in January. Violet Kowal, who claims to have been Gibson’s mistress while he was nailing Oksana (he is still technically married to wife Robyn), says he texted her too. The significance of said text messages? Kowal, an alleged Polish porn star, says she was told by Mel’s bodyguard to keep her mouth shut about the January 6 altercation between Oksana and Mel. This is according to sources who have been in touch with Violet Kowal, who claims she was communicating with Gibson about that very fight with Oksana. Violet Kowal: Mel Gibson’s alleged side piece on the side . In the days following – January 7-9 – Kowal claims she was contacted by one of Mel’s bodyguards, telling her she wasn’t allowed to discuss the incident. Moreover, he suggested she “disappear” for a price. Kowal, who recently lawyered up (she is repped by Gloria Allred, of course) has phone records and text messages from Mel to prove all of this happened. Also, Kowal claims to have an email she received recently from the L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services, the Sensitive Case Unit. That office informed her they wanted to speak with her, presumably in regard to Mel and Oksana’s custody fight over eight-month-old daughter Lucia. Kowal has not met with DCFS … yet.

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Free Lindsay: Lohan Likely to Leave Rehab Early!

So much for 90 days in jail and 90 more in rehab. Try about 15 per. Friday, we reported on the very real possibility that a troubled Lindsay Lohan would be released from rehab at UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital on the early side. Now it looks like it’s actually going down that way, as early as this week, according to sources close to the situation. She may be a free woman by the weekend! Lindsay’s doctors have not written a final report, but have (apparently) concluded the actress’ psychiatric problems are not nearly as severe as first thought. There were indications Lindsay was bipolar but that proved not to be the case. Additionally, her drug addiction issues are not as severe as initially believed. The powers that be apparently think Lindsay Lohan is better already . Lohan’s issues with Adderall are well documented, but the doctors reportedly don’t think it requires more inpatient care – outpatient care may begin soon. The new judge in the case must approve any early release, of course, and you can bet that Linds’ lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, will request that shortly. After all, Lindsay’s an inspiration in there. If medical professionals think releasing her is a good idea, the judge will almost certainly go along with it. But would more rehab do her additional good? We understand she causes a circus for UCLA, but we think she’s a troubled individual who can’t handle life on her own, and releasing her into the care of enablers like that wretch Dina Lohan will only make things worse. But that’s just us. Tell us what you think: Should L-squared be released so soon?

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A Steven Slater Reality Show: Coming Soon?

In the Least Shocking News of the Year department, Steven Slater has reportedly been offered a reality show. Multiple sources inside the industry confirm that Stone Entertainment

Senate Bill S510 Makes it illegal to Grow, Share, Trade or Sell Homegrown Food

Update: Since the story first broke, a lot has happened. One reason for this could be that food is being poisoned. Collecting rainwater is now illegal in many states. Your intake is being controlled. For more information, visit the following articles as well: “Raiding organic food stores. A sign of new times?” at: http://www.firetown.com/blog/2010/08/05/raiding-organic-food-stores-a-sign-of-ne… “Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water.” at: http://www.theworldsprophecy.com/collecting-rainwater-now-illegal-in-many-states… “Why do people in America refuse to take active interest in their future?” at http://www.firetown.com/blog/2010/08/03/why-do-people-in-america-refuse-to-take-… ———————————————————————————————————— S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US. It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money. “If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes. It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.” ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food. Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes. S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming. History In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry. Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control. Monsanto promoted HACCP. In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president. Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto. Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510. S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds. 1. It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency. It resembles the Kissinger Plan. 2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security. It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection. Instead, S 510 says: COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS. Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party. 3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food. It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements. Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses. 5. It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details. 6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease. Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents. Animal diseases can be falsely declared. S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations. Fresh food that lasts from eFoods Direct (Ad) 7. It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety. 8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer. The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated. 9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe. The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger. 10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied. It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US. … Continued at http://www.theworldsprophecy.com/senate-bill-s510-makes-it-illegal-to-grow-share… http://i499.photobucket.com/albums/rr360/ourhomeremedies/NaturalCureHomeRemedies… added by: Dagum

AP Headline: ‘Flight attendant’s grand exit is a dream for some’

It would seem that what JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater did earlier this week was the stuff that some small-minded people’s dreams are made of. Would all of you out there who think that way please remove yourselves from jobs that involve contact with the public? One has to wonder, based on her sympathetic paean to the “take this job and shove it — but first, I’ll get my revenge” crowd, if Associated Press Writer Samantha Gross should be among those who deserve involuntary removal from such positions. Ms. Gross’s grotesque near-admiration for others concocting their own supposedly grand exits is my nominee as Exhibit A exemplifying the media’s “strange fascination” with the Slater incident and its meaning noted at this morning’s open thread at NewsBusters. Here are some less than exemplary excerpts from Ms. Gross’s gruel , including a few paragraphs exemplifying people the AP writer apparently intended to portray as nearly noble (bolds highlighting leftist phraseology and boorish behavior are mine): Hasn’t everyone thought about doing it? … Defying the rules, telling people off and walking off a job isn’t usually a launching pad for public acclaim and admiration. But few have fulfilled that particular working man’s fantasy in such grand fashion as JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, who left his job via the plane’s emergency chute, beer in hand. It was enough to set America’s heart aflutter. Slater’s sudden exit has rekindled memories of workers’ liberation – and sparked wistful excitement among workers who have long fantasized of choosing pride over pay. … After being scolded for the last time by a boss she believed was treating her unfairly while sleeping with the other waitress on her shift, she (waitress Mary Phelps) seriously considered knocking over the giant pot of tomato sauce sitting on the Italian eatery’s stove. Instead, she walked to the front of the restaurant and took orders from six tables sitting down at the beginning of the dinner rush. Then, before bringing anyone so much as a drop of water, she left. “It felt fantastic. It was a great feeling,” she recalls. “It was absolutely no regrets, absolutely. …” (Phelps’s customers who received seriously delayed service were apparently unavailable for comment — Ed.) (Chris Carter of Knoxville, who says he has walked out of about half of the jobs he has held) says he still gets a thrill of victory every time he walks out the door. “When you’re not making more than $10 an hour, there’s certain things that are not worth putting up with,” he says. “I’ve never allowed myself to get to that point where I feel like I have to put up with this and I have to be somebody’s slave.” Gross reports that Carter is only 30 years old and has held “nearly 40 jobs,” meaning that he has walked out of nearly 20. You’ll have to excuse me for thinking that Carter’s dreams might be more about milking the unemployment compensation system — funded, mind you, by those who put up with their oft-annoying managers and the companies who employ them — than they are about finding a personally rewarding way to serve his fellow man. In this culture, it looks like  there’s another perfectly good reason why employers are reluctant to hire. Of course, there’s the oft-cited  regime uncertainty  of the Obama administration’s legal and regulatory policy and postures. But what about new hire uncertainty? In a culture where significant numbers seem to be treating Slater as a hero, many smaller employers are more likely to either get the work done with the existing help, do without, or contract the required work out to someone else (e.g., a temporary help firm) to avoid the unpleasantness and negative business consequences of someone who thinks he or she can be the next Steven Slater.  Interestingly, Gross cited no examples of federal government worker walk-offs. I wonder why? There’s certainly no shortage of alienation, rudeness, or inattentive behavior. But there is at least one important difference. Uncle Sam’s worker walkouts are probably less frequent because federal pay and benefits are on average twice as high as the private sector, according to this Tuesday USA Today report . Why would a person with an attitude problem want to make a grand exit from that, when they can get their perverse satisfaction beating up on customers all day and still keep their jobs? Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com .

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Real Housewives of New Jersey: Venice Is Sinking [Recaps]

On last night’s episode of everyone’s favorite meatball soup, we traveled to the beautiful, garbage-strewn shores of the native country, mother It’ly. It was a lovely trip. Let me show you all the pictures. More

Share Your Most Spectacular ‘I Quit’ Stories [Jobs From Hell]

We all dream about quitting our jobs in some spectacular fashion, but flight attendant Steven Slater actually did it ! He’s not the first one to go out on a high note. Tell us your great tales (or fantasies) of quitting! More

Full-Sized Urban Bicycle Folds Flat, Nearly Disappears: The ThinBike (Interview, Slideshow)

All images courtesy Graham Hill. Graham Hill, founder of TreeHugger.com, is an insatiable tinkerer/designer who strives for elegant design solutions. His latest foray into problem-solving, a collaboration with bike manufacturer Schindelhauer bikes , has resulted in what he calls the ThinBike — a full-sized urban bicycle that all but disappears when brought indoors. Graham shares with us some of the thinking behind his idea. Love it? Pick up your own via special order through Schindelhauer. TreeHugger: What is about that living in inner city apartments that has focuse… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Your Office is In Your Pants: 6 Trends Shaping The Way We Work

In 1985, in the Harvard Business Review Philip Stone and Robert Luchetti foresaw in 1985 at the birth of the wireless phone that the era of the Mad Men style office that you went to and sat at a desk was over; they noted that Your office is where you are. They were off by about 25 years; it takes time for technological innovation to percolate through and cause real change. They also didn’t go far enough, thinking only about the promise of being able to talk on the phone; now the technology is getting so small that your office isn’t just where you are, it’s in your pants. Now Sami Grover is my favourite TreeHugger writer, (… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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