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Al Gore, on Keith Olbermann show 8/4/11, says that the US needs to have it's own "Arab Spring"..peaceful...of course..he says.
A Vast Cyberterrorist Attack on the US? Yes and we've had a vast Economic Terrorist Attack by insider Economic Terrorists. I'm wondering, since this so-called Cyberterrorist attack has been going on for 5 years, penetrating something like 80 US companies and the government...will they use this as an excuse for why the government won't be able to cover FDIC when all of the banks, all of a sudden, tell us that they've been hacked and our money is in Litheuania or someplace? And too bad...but we will have to take yet another hit because the rich, only, get their bailouts but the rest of us will have to do without?
I'm just pulling what remains in my Federal TSP next August. I simply have to get it out of the market.
Good story, RichardofJeffersonCity!
GOP TEA Baggers demand deep CUTS in Medicare ..the EPA clean water - air FDA - food safety Our kids Education cut the Disabled sick / old on medicaid- NO one is IMMUNE EXcept HUGE CORPS / BILLIONAIRES - LOOPHOLES- SUBSIDES ROBBER BARONS of 21 st Century .rule . Tea BAGGERS are pushing for ANOTHER 1900'S ' GILDED AGE ' WHEN SUPER WEALTHY CONTROLLED US ALL. We are almost there Reaganomics deregulation debt amnesty for cheap illegal;s labor- Bush Cheney GOP Paulson global crash Gift horse to Wall St AIG 4 page TARP w/ NO safeguards for taxpayers money. We are peasants we are the real servents Public Servants do not vote their own raises- stop paying taxes- get generous pensions - perks after few years of 'work' travel the globe ,takes private plaines Baggers are trying to destroy USA as we knew it Fight Speak out now demand whats right for familes, kids, workers, womens rights, low and mid income seniors who paid for SS Many paid double SS tax as I did for 30 yrs Its NOT welfare COrps Banks & Wall ST got the massive Corp welfare Thats how Tea Baggers want it !! Then they screwed us royal
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Yes I have to admit I'm one of the people that eats food but at least won't get screwed by my Mac apple and Bartlett pear trees, for early Aug. they're looking great. My last culinary experience with turkey was in the manner of nuking turkey bacon until it gets so dry its like the consistency of those soy bacon bits people put on their salad. I'm more than confident nothing is alive as I wolf down a couple of BLT's.
I agree with Louise Govt. agencies like the USDA work well when funded well and it's employees are your neighbors who buy things and pay taxes and are not part of some out of control socialist agenda like the Kochs and their pant-load party want us all to believe...... Not bad, only one name calling tonight!
Yes, The Jungle was a good novel...and Upton Sinclair was right on!
You can't even eat Jello without eating animal products. I understand that the jell is made of the hoofs of cows and horses.
I have not eaten any other meat except fish, turkey, and chicken for over 10-15 years now. I got turned off from eating beef and pork when the MAD COW DISEASE was an issue. I reasoned that CJD (the human form of the disease that one gets from eating BSE contaminated beef) would eat holes in your brain and there is nothing any medical doctor could do to cure or prevent it). You'd die, eventually, of severe shakes.loss of motor control..like Parkinsons. And there was absolutely no way to destroy it before eating it. You couldn't cook it...or even burn it to ash in order to kill it...because it is not alive to begin with...it is a protein.
So, now we have an antibiotic resistant bacteria that can kill you. The government says you have to take certain precautions in cooking and handling. Well, that is still not as bad as Mad Cow Disease...which you can't do anything about. The only safeguard you have is the FDA...but just how well can you trust them to protect you? So, I opted long ago not to take any chances. Problem is that even if you are a vegan...even vegetables get contaminated with bacteria. I guess we always have to take certain chances when we eat...but it's beginning to look like you'd be a lot safer growing your own garden...except, of course if the rain contains radioactive isotopes from breached nuclear power plants.
The American people sit on the side line and watch "W" steal the Office of President. After the donkey and elephant show we just saw in D.C., why would anybody expect anything intelligent from this country. Sometimes it is good to be poor. I did not lose anything in the stock market. Take note rich folks, the richer folks do not feel your pain!
I ate turkey burgers I fried about a week and a half ago and used a meat thermometer to check the temperature in the centers. I had thought the recommended temperature was supposed to be 180 degrees F. It was 183 degrees F. (the recommended temperature is over 165 degrees F.) I like to really cook my turkey or chicken really well and didn't want to take any chances. I have always been very much aware of the danger of uncooked meat, especially chicken or turkey, and about the dangers of contamination...so I have been very careful. This was before any mention of the contamination problem. I came down with a really bad case of Montezuma's revenge about a few days after the turkey. I had thought I had cleaned up very well after handling the raw meat...but, who knows...maybe I missed s spot of contamination. I have since thoroughly cleaned everything with a mixture of Lysol and Clorox and water.
I found out, as everyone now knows...maybe...that this is a very strong and resilient strain of bacteria that resists antibiotics. Oh, Great Scott!
I agree that our government should be...and could be (if it weren't for the corruption pressures brought to bear on it by greedy corporations). Now, my question is what are they going to do with so much contaminated turkey? Are they going to dump it on another country? Are they going to turn right around and repackage it and try again with the American public? Will they first try to kill the bacteria through radiation or other means? One thing for sure is that the price of turkey will go up...the people constantly pay for the greedy mistakes that are made by a profit hungry corporation.
Why did the FDA not catch this before it went to the market? Is is because of the little manpower the FDA now has, and the political pressure to let slide corporate terrorism loose upon the country? While taxpayer dollars are wasted on killing people in the Middle East...other taxpayer dollars are squandered on effete government bureaucracies whose hands are either padded with payola or are tied by political stupidity and corruption. And all we get is a PR "oh, we're so sorry" coupled with a blurb on "well you have to be very careful and do this or do that...insinuating that they just can't hold everyone's hands and the consumer need to be more responsible themselves. I'll bet the CEO and other execs at Cargil won't take a hit on bonuses or perks but they sure will make the consumer absorb the cost of their stupid and careless mistakes.
I have been fortunate to live on our planet for 47 + years, I have bounced back and forth living a Vegetarian and Vegan lifestyle. As I gain wisdom I am shfting back from an omnivore diet and I am eliminating meat and animal products once again. I can appreciate the many forms of food that make up our planets diet. I understand our Freedom to choose to eat whatever is within our means to obtain.I am chosing to remove "86" meat off my menu. I do so to reduce my own personal impact on our planet.
I have made a living cooking everything from Foie Gras, Kobe Beef and Truffles. I look at our Mother and I see she needs our help to feed others. Not help from Monsanto or Bayer who want to alter the Genetic Structure of our food forever changing the genetic makeup of plants. Who take over seed companies to force feed their poison on our struggling farmers, who grow the grain to feed the Animal Factories; Cargill and Archer Midlands to name a few. The tainted meat bombarded with antibiotics and force fed a diet of Genetically Modified Organisms; corn, soy and animal waste is then sold to provide for the needs of a corporate food system satisfying consumer demands through industry and retail markets.
Now the meat is blended into your processed food. You buy it often without thinking everytime you go through a drive thru, buy a steak , or eat out at a fine dining restaurant. The FDA is important. Food Safety is no joke. We see how many have died or suffered from a food borne illness. Ecoli on spinach or tomatoes, Salmonella on turkey our food system needs people inspecting and educating the producers and processors at all levels. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever exceeded the speed limit? If there were no police would everyone follow the posted speed limits or other traffic laws? I don't think we can afford not to regulate our food system. Besides it provides jobs for scientists, teachers, inspectors along the way ensuring our safety and supporting our communities.
And the right's rant will be that it's not the governments duty to make jobs. And within the same breath critize Obama with "where are all the jobs?"
There is a new name for this (even though I just made it up now) and it's called quantum politics, where a politican can be in two places at the same time. Amazingly it doesn't violate any laws of physics and the right has figured it out.
Here's and idea. Read "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. Opened my eyes to the Industrial Food system...and alternatives. Cargill's ground turkey has other, healthier competitors.
I read "The Jungle" in high school. Great muckraking. Always good to be presented with the excesses of rampant greed.
"The Jungle" got it. Hey by the way, you ever buy some really good looking, nice red and juicy 10% ground sirloin, get it home, open it up, toss it in the sizzle and as you mash it apart with the spat you notice that that beautiful nice red yummy good looking grip of ground you thought you had is more a tinge of brown and the red stuff was probably just some fresh thrown over it and a different date put on it to get it off the shelf. hmm, makes one wonder. Just make sure you smell the meat!
I am amazed how much some people trust big business to police themselves. Our Food Safety Program is necessary to keep business honest. First of all we really owe alot to Nasa as the food safety of Astronauts helped to formulate our current system. Perhaps if more people knew how much the space program has affected our lifes more people would not want it to fade. Our current food safety system relies on HACCP {Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points} this ensures food temperature controls and other critical thresholds are met throughout a foods production to ensure it is safe and wholesome. Nasa developed it to ensure the Astornauts mission was not affected by food borne illness.
This system is now in place in food production from the farm where it is produced to the plate when it is consumed. This system requires evreyone involved to met critical criteria to ensure the food is safe. Part of the process requires inspections by the Heath Dept, and Food inspectors at every level local, state, and federal. This inspection regulates every food serving operation to ensure their customers safety. It requires so many levels due to number and scope of the businesses they inspect.I was regularly inspected 2 times per year. I take pride in my career and tried to do my best to maintain the standards. I can only tell you this type of outbreak is serious and we should sweep our ability to prevent outbreaks away with the stroke of a new bill entrusting big business to be their own police, as history has shown us this does not work.
Today Thom mentioned the book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. I suggest everyone who hasn't read it to do so, just keep a barf bag near you.
I'm SOOOOO glad to see that the Repups can't get away with all of that! What NERVE. What STUPIDITY. These Freshmen .... are they in college or high-school? Do they actually get paid to erk people? What kind of Gov is that??????????????
Tea party and republican congressmen can taste test all of our country's food.
corporations police themselves? just remember when its all privatized then you will have truly lost your right to vote as they screw more and more people just to keep the markets rolling and dividends comin' in. seriously, when was the last time you got to vote for the board of directors.
bad enough acouple years back someone stole my holiday bird and i lost a job over it, now come thanksgiving i think i'll just pass on the bird. man they just keep makin' the holidays worse!
No, the republicans see themselves as pirates, looting the American public any chance they get. This time the party of "job creators" are basking in the sun, counting their booty and planning the next act of piracy on the American people. When the jobless rate in this country is almost in double digits, They are sitting on their collective asses allowing an additional 100,000 workers to be basically unemployed. President Obama should call for an emergency session so they can get those people back to work.!!!!
Just don't eat the turkey.
Govt works when it's well funded. I'll take the green eye shades over corporate greed any day - when it comes to protecting US & the commons. No one is asking the the Govt to own the meat packing plants - come on!
Don't worry , Monsanto will feed us. Monsanto is here to help. Monsanto brings you farm wars ~ Pitting farmer against farmer , two vide'o's included ~ http://farmwars.info/?p=6589
Remember Japan has spent very large sums on infrastructure. It has helped but was not the answer to growth. This great recession was 100% caused by the monetary system! Therefore, the complete solution is in the monetary system not the fiscal sytem. The complete answer is in the Monetary Reform Section at www.progressive-economics.com. This is the website for the Center for Progressive Economics. The Center addresses the four major flaws of capitalism and is the solution to the failure of Socialism and Laissez-Faire-Libertarian Macroeconomics. It is a system NOT based on human perfection but on human imperfection. It also has developed the 20 principles of Progressive Economics. It is mainly a economic only defense of progressive economics and includes: The Global Economic Civil Rights and The Care and Protection of Customers/Clients/Consumers/Citizens.
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You can't be serious ... what a joke! The economy is being destroyed by Obama. He has passed 409 regulations that have cost the private sector $10 billion. While he inherited a bad economy that was a result of both Dems and Reps committing to several wars on the backs of US taxpayers and foreign interests willing to lend us money, Obama has done nothing but pour gasoline on the fire. The $1 trillion in stimulous he pushed through did not go to shovel ready projects. The money was paid to state and government unions to keep his voting constituents employed. It did nothing to stimulate our economy. This disaster is on Obama's watch ... I voted for him, but seriously regret the decision now. As far as Reps holding America hostage, wrong again. They are trying to prevent a complete collapse by reigning in the growth and size of government. No one is actually cutting spending. Government growth projections are based on a 7% increase to all program year-over-year for the next 10 years. Reps are asking what all Americans have had to do and that is to baseline the budget at current levels. Maintain a no growth policy from these already elevated levels. So the cuts everyone is screaming about are actually only a reduction in the growth of spending and will NOT reduce the current budget. In fact, under Bush and Obama (more signficantly the later) the size of the Federal budget has increased over a trillion dollars. The market is reacting to the policies and overregulation of Obama that has killed jobs, and mounting debt the Obama administration created.
Does anyone seriously think the Government is capable of efficiently managing such a task? Give me a break ... the FDA knew about this weeks ago and did nothing to report it or warn the public.Government is largely wasteful and inefficient. And directing more tax payer money into the government to fund food tasters of raw turkey meat will not solve the problem. Imagine a world where government owned all the meat packing plants. SOEs (state-owned enterprise) are proven to be highly ineffiecient and ineffective at innovation or protecting the public. There is no incentive for any government industry to do well.