LABOR LAWS ADMINISTRATION

FYI--

Labor Law Talk > Employment and Labor Law > OHSA, State, & Federal Labor Laws Posting Requirements > New Jersey Labor Laws

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PDAView Full Version : New Jersey Labor Laws


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pages : [1] 2

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

New Jersey Labor Law Posters
Break
Can I get Pay while on maternity leave?
New Jersey Prohibit Discrimination In Places Of Public Accommodation Labor Law Poster
Attention New Jersey Employers Labor Law Poster
New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act Labor Law Poster
New Jersey State Wage and Hour
New Jersey Child Labor Law Poster
New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development Labor Law Poster
New Jersey Family Medical Leave Act Labor Law Poster
lunch breaks
Required to work 7 days a week
Lunch Time in New Jersey
quixk question
overtime with a salary
Last paycheck - offer letter issue
New Jersey commission law
Money Owed Former Employer
NJ Unemployment claim--help
Is it to Late?
Last Check -- Nj
NJ Restaurant Minimum Wage
Hired back...need NJ expert to confirm
NJ Laws for commission only employee's
Let go day before my 4th of July vacation.
Boobookit
NJ Unemployment Denied
Unreasonable Overtime
employee paying for job supplies?
How do I determine wrongful termination?
pregnant, loss of wages quit
Please Help Me In New Jersey
Can I collect Unemployment in New Jersey?
Do I have a lawsuit? bosses girlfriend NJ
NJ - working overtime as exempt employee
Withhold pay per disciplinary action
2 Week Notice Entitlement
NJ Umemployment denied
erasing employees time worked
Travel to pick up PAYCHECK
Case against Er's who misrepresent Employment History
Exempt employees time off without pay?
Collecting Back Wages from Shaky Company
Definitions of salary vs hourly?
labor law poster- Nj
Job offer
Withholding??
accounting assistant
unemployment law
Claim timeframe
Mandatory Training in NJ
Resigned or fired?
Eligible for unemployment...Quit..is this good cause in NJ
Don't Want To Go In
please help nj maternity leave
Legal/Ilegal Age Question
Uncompensated Mileage
final check mailing
Right to personnel file in NJ
state and federal labor law posting requirements
New Jersey-non exempt time card based on 40hrs-paid semi-monthly-HQ based in Mpls. MN
NJ Tax Clerk Position Vacated
Company Retaliation?
Hostile work enviroment laws?
Change of status to 1099 is this legal?
exempt question
Unemployment denied, I appealed, employer did not show for appeal, I told my story...
Forced lunch breaks
more non-exempt lunch issues
unpaid hours
Tuition reimbursement Responsibilities
Questionnnn.
NJ FMLA/Disability-job termination
Exempt employee confused...
audio surveillance in the office
Threat to withhold unemployment in NJ
harassment by co-worker
Discrimination Issue w/ Supervisor
labor issues
NJ - lay off or termination?
NJ COBRA Laws
Nj - Unpaid Salary
NJ Laws on sick days/maternity/vacation days issues
Facing an Appeal for Unemployment Benefits
working in Jersey being paid a PA salary
Employer Has No Work Comp Insurance
Time sheet tallying in NJ
Can NJ Employer Lower Employee's Salary?
NJ: Mandatory staff meeting: pay rate
NJ: Mandatory staff meeting: pay rate
NJ: 1099 independent contractor who is really an employee
comission only-stay with no pay
Retail - On-Call - NJ
1099
verbal harrasment at work
abused
mandatory resignation length?
Mixed Messages
vacation/sick time
1099 and Corp-to-Corp in NJ
grounds for leaving
NJ Monthly paycheck?
time clock
Illegal holdback
Religious Holidays off
Sick Time for Exempt NJ Employees
Holding paycheck
? is this legally
Pregnant mom in NJ
Mandatory Meeting NJ
Posters
Vacation Pay / NJ
mobile phone with company
No FUNDS!!!
new jersey smoking
Unpaid hours by a firm in NJ
Fired for being old in NJ
Employee and A 1099 vendor
Need info. living in NY but working in NJ
Commission Pay
NJ - Retroactive Pay Promise
Vacation cancelled-NJ
driving for an employer
Unemployment Benefits Denied Re: DUI in NJ
Paying back a cash shortage
this can't be right
termination letters?
Is there a law to protect me?
Unemployment question...
work 7 days a week?????? New Jersey
Extended Absence New Jersey
New Jersey Unemployment New Jersey
wage deductions from employee for non-returned items New Jersey
deserved to be fired so resigned. collecting unemployment in nj New Jersey
STD for surgery
Insurnace Withheld but not covered New Jersey
forceful resignation instead of termination New Jersey New Jersey
NJ Practitioners, Employers and Employees Take Note. New Jersey
Expense checks New Jersey
New Jersey/Holiday pay
quit/unnemployement New Jersey
making up vacation days New Jersey
Holiday Law in NJ New Jersey
No Access to Bathroom Facilities New Jersey
HOW DO I CLAIM UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, I NEED TO QUIT B/C MY FATHER IS ILL? New Jersey
can employers withold vacation pay from you? New Jersey
If a company goes bankrupt New Jersey
Unfair Treatment New Jersey
Health Benefits New Jersey
New Jersey
Determining retaliation case value in New Jersey
Exempt vs. Non-Exempt Retail New Jersey
24 hour shifts in New Jersey
Termination for "cause" New Jersey
Probationary Employees and Unemployment Rights New Jersey
NJ FLA AND FMLA New Jersey
hurt in nj New Jersey
Does this classify as discrimination? New Mexico New Jersey
Change of Hours-Hourly Employees Vs. Salary New Jersey
8 Months Pregnant New Jersey
Policy change? New Jersey
Leave of Absence New Jersey
Unemployment benefit for full-time students New Jersey
24 Hour Shifts New Jersey
Office breaks New Jersey
Employer filing for bankruptsy New Jersey
Employment Contracts in New Jersey
separation agreement and release - unemployment benefits New Jersey
17 yr old New Jersey
Bankruptcy? How can I do the research? New Jersey
minimum wage changing.. New Jersey
Part owner with unpaid salaries in New Jersey
Can I hold an employee's final check if they have keys to the building? New Jersey
Change from Manager down to Operator New Jersey
Employee Overpaid New Jersey
Expenses need NOT be reimbursed in NJ!!!
Is this legal?? Please help New Jersey
Overtime Classification New Jersey
Filed with DOL for unpaid wages New Jersey
break/school system New Jersey
It's payday and boss won't sign checks!
Suspended without pay in nj New Jersey
can my boss keep my tips New Jersey
Commission New Jersey New Jersey
Is this legal? New Jersey
Do I Need workers comp for myself in NJ? New Jersey
Salaried Employee New Jersey
Non-Compete in NJ New Jersey
Meetings on your day off
Exempt vx. Non Exempt and Salary vs. Hourly New Jersey
Meals and breaks New Jersey
Claims Examiner Approval? New Jersey
401 K Contribution & Vesting New Jersey
Non compete New Jersey
SEPARATE MALE & FEMALE BATHROOMS in OFFICE? New Jersey
What is the OVERTIME law in NJ? New Jersey
New Jersey unemployment
Need Legal advice New Jersey
nj disability claim
People sick, doctors say can be environmental? New Jersey
Another environmental question in New Jersey
New Jersey
I stayed in CA but the company moved to NJ
DRAW AGAINST COMMISSION QUESTION New Jersey
Non-sexual harassment? New Jersey
Paying back over payment after employment terminated New Jersey
Collecting Unpaid Wages : New Jersey
New Jersey Timing of Commission Payments
Uncooperative HR representative
Job location moved New Jersey
Harassment via Email? New Jersey
big bucks or jail time New Jersey
breaks for children New Jersey
NJ Truck driver No work given for 5 days, then quit UIC says no checks New Jersey
Doctor's note New Jersey
Went on maternity leave..tried to return to work... sorry there is nothing for you! New Jersey
Abuse in the work place New Jersey
Funding education and contract tie-in New Jersey New Jersey
Verbal and Mental Abuse New Jersey...Long sorry New Jersey
I was laid off. How long does my employer have to cover my health care? New Jersey
Fire dispatchers told to expect no pay from now until Jan 10, 2007... New Jersey
witholding pay for buisness expence New Jersey
Please help!My mommy is sick &I dont know what i can do for her.Disability benifits?
Bosses dont want to give me off a certain day for vacation New Jersey
Hold Back on Pay New Jersey
Husband's Salary cut $30,000 or be terminated New Jersey
Employee being paid for not working?? New Jersey
Being Laid off tomorrow !! New Jersey
PAY WAS TAKEN OUT OF BANK ACCOUNT New Jersey
on the verge of quitting in new jersey New Hampshire New Jersey
New Jersey
Demotion and possible pay decrease New Jersey
13 years and a perfect record ? New Jersey
opposite-sex domestic partner health insurance New Jersey
How much time can go by before an employer must pay for overtime hours worked? New Jersey
firing an employee New Jersey
is there a state law in New Jersey that
Harassment? New Jersey
Union Misrepresentation New Jersey
Paycheck Day New Jersey
Can someone in NJ be fired while on doc approved std? New Jersey
Laid off,92 hours vacation owed New Jersey New Jersey New Mexico New York
New Jersey Unemployment Liability
Unemployment Question New Jersey
Unemployment
Performance based job New Jersey
Unreimbursed expenses New Jersey
My paychecks are wrong New Jersey
Unemployment/Quitting for cause? New Jersey
Pregnant Employee New Jersey
New Jersey Labor Law Posters
Comply with New Jersey regulations with one Complete New Jersey Labor Law Poster.
Trusted with customer satisfication.
Call (800) 745-9970 or shop online at www.LaborLawCenter.com.




vBulletin® v3.7.1, Copyright ©2000-2009, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

NJ DEPT LABOR

FYI--

SearchJob Searching
HomeCareersJob Searching
EmailPrint Job SearchingFind a JobResumes / LettersGetting HiredFree Job Searching Newsletter!Sign UpDiscuss in my Forum
New Jersey Department of Labor
By Alison Doyle, About.com
Filed In:Job Search Advice > Department of LaborSponsored Links
Filing For Unemployment?
Easy to use Online Submission Form 5 Minutes to Complete. Enroll Now
www.TheUnemploymentAdvisor.com

Labor and Employment Law
Get News & Reference Materials for Discrimination, Harassment & More.
www.business.com

Obama Stimulus Program
Free Govt Funds Now Available. How Much Do You Qualify For?
FederalStimulusProgram.com
Job Searching Ads
Department of Labor Job

Labor and Unemployment

Claim Unemployment Benefits

NJ Unemployment Department

Workers Benefits
New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development:
The New Jersey Department of Labor provides unemployment and employment resources for New Jersey residents, as well as business and labor information and services. Some services are available online:
New Jersey Department of Labor
New Jersey Unemployment:

New Jersey unemployment services available online include filing a new claim for unemployment benefits, filing for weekly unemployment benefits and inquiring about the status of a claim are available on the New Jersey Department of Labor web site:
New Jersey Unemployment Insurance
NJ Dept of Labor: Working in New Jersey:

Access the New Jersey Job Bank, find your local New Jersey Works office or One Stop Career Site, and review information on employment law, licensing, safety and health related to NJ workers.
New Jersey State Department of Labor: Working in NJ
New Jersey Labor Market Information:

Employment and unemployment data, wage data, employment projections, career information, and other labor market information and publications are available via the NJ Department of Labor.
New Jersey Labor Market Information
New Jersey Department of Labor: Business In NJ:

Resources for New Jersey businesses including placing job orders, unemployment information, workforce development, welfare-to-work, wage and hour laws and other employment information..
New Jersey Department of Labor: Business In NJ
Job Search Resources
Jobs by State
Find a Job
Job Search Help
Department of Labor Resources
US and State Department of Labor Offices
Department of Labor Employment Services
America's Job Bank
New posts to the Job Searching forums:
Frustrated with job sites!
Post your job or resume online
job search organiser
Related Articles
Florida Department of Labor / Agency for Workforce Innovation
New Jersey Hotels, Resorts, Inns and Other Accommodations
US Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries - 2000
About the U.S. Department of Labor
US Department of Labor - US Department of Labor (DOL) Employment Informatio...

Guide since 1998Alison Doyle
Job Searching Guide

Sign up for my Newsletter
My BlogMy ForumSponsored Links
Unpaid Overtime Wages?
Call our attorneys at 800-995-WAGE. No fees or costs if no recovery.
wageclinic.com

Us Department Of Labor
Labor Issue? No Win = No Fee We Resolve Tough Labor Issues!
SchneiderWallace.com/US-Labor-Laws

Department Of Labor Overtime
Proven Success. Never A Fee Unless You Win. Call Today. Serving CA.
www.carterlawfirm.net

Job
Find Job Opportunities In Houston for Free. Get Started Today!
Jobfox.com

State Employment Laws
Your State Employment Labor Laws Online in Plain-English
HR.BLR.com
Advertisement

Explore Job Searching
Must Reads
Sample Resumes/Letters/CVs
Interview Questions / Answers
Job Applications
Job Listings
Ten Steps to Find a New Job
Most Popular
Cover Letter Samples
Interview Questions / Answers
Resume Samples
Curriculum Vitae Samples
Sample Resignation Letters
Free Job Searching Newsletter!Sign Up
By Category
Career Building
Cover Letters
Curriculum Vitae
Interviews
Job Applications
Job Listings
Job Search Advice
Job Search Letters
Job Search Networking
Local Job Search
Part Time Jobs
Resumes
References
Salary / Benefits / Legal
Teen / Student Job Search
More from About.com
Make Meals Easy
An easy way to put delicious meals together.
48 Hours in Vegas
Win a weekend getaway in Sin City!
Parenting Tips
Keep kids involved and help them succeed.
Financial Planning
Stay on top with our smart financial tips.
Browse All About.comJob Searching
HomeCareersJob SearchingJob Search AdviceDepartment of LaborNew Jersey Department of Labor
Most PopularLatest ArticlesAdd to: iGoogleMy Yahoo!RSSAdvertising InfoNews & EventsWork at AboutSiteMapAll TopicsReprintsHelpUser AgreementEthics PolicyPatent Info.Privacy PolicyOur StoryBe a Guide
©2009 About.com, a part of The New York Times Company.

All rights reserved.

US DEPT L

FYI


March 3, 2009 A to Z Index | Search DOL:


People Are Asking

I own a small business. Which federal posters does my company need to post?
What can I can do if I think my employer or supervisor is discriminating against me because of my disability?
If an employee suffers an illness and the doctor writes a medical certification that the employee is sick, who pays for this sick leave?
What is ERISA?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

More Frequently Asked Questions...



Latest News

ESA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor notifies Metallurgical Laboratory workers of new Special Exposure Cohort designation [03/03/2009]
ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor announces nearly $524,000 grant to assist workers in Idaho affected by natural resource industry layoffs [02/26/2009]
ETA News Release: U.S. Department of Labor announces $500,000 grant to assist workers in Louisiana affected by paper industry layoffs [02/26/2009]

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

More News Releases...


Find It

Topics — Workplace Rights & Benefits, Getting or Leaving a Job, Workplace Safety & Health, Workplace Statistics, Recursos en Español
Audience — Workers, Employers, Job Seekers, Veterans...
Top 20 Requested Items — Occupational Outlook Handbook, Consumer Price Index, BLS Employment Data...
Forms
Services By Location
DOL Job Opportunities & Info — Occupations, Pay & Benefits, College Student Guide, Accommodations...
Agencies — BLS, ESA, ETA, Job Corps, OIG, OSHA...




Hilda L. Solis Confirmed as 25th Secretary of Labor
New Survey of Employer Perspectives on the Employment of People with Disabilities
Family and Medical Leave Act Rules Changed as of January 16, 2009
Assistance Available After Job Loss
Weekly Unemployment Benefits Boosted

Highlights


View photos of Secretary Solis' arrival at DOL headquarters.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

More Highlights...
Subscribe to Highlights Updates



Latest Numbers

Consumer Price Index +0.3%
Jan 2009
Unemployment Rate 7.6%
Jan 2009
Payroll Employment -598,000(p)
Jan 2009
Average Hourly Earnings +$0.05(p)
Jan 2009
Producer Price Index +0.8%(p)
Jan 2009
Employment Cost Index +0.5%
4th Qtr 2008
Productivity +3.2%
4th Qtr 2008
U.S. Import Price Index -1.1%
Jan 2009
Unemployment Initial (UI) Claims 667,000
February 21, 2009
UI Claims 4-Week Average 639,000
February 21, 2009
Federal Minimum Wage $6.55 Current
(p) preliminary; (c) corrected

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

More Statistics...
Subscribe to Statistics Updates




Contact Us
Subscribe to E-mail Updates:
More info...
RSS Feeds
Compliance Assistance
elaws — Employment Law Advisors
About DOL
Budget & Performance Information
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Information
Newsroom
Events Calendar
Doing Business With DOL
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
Other Resources
Business.gov
Career Voyages
DisabilityInfo.gov
Disaster Recovery Assistance
GovBenefits.gov
HireVetsFirst.gov
MyMoney.gov
No Fear Act — Equal Employment Opportunity Data Posted Pursuant to the No Fear Act
PandemicFlu.gov
Regulations.gov
USA Freedom Corps
USA.gov
The White House
Wirtz Labor Library



Back to Top


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Frequently Asked Questions | Freedom of Information Act | Privacy & Security Statement | Disclaimers
Customer Survey | E-mail This Page | Important Notices

U.S. Department of Labor, Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20210

www.dol.gov | Telephone: 1-866-4-USA-DOL (1-866-487-2365) | TTY: 1-877-889-5627 | Contact Us

LEGAL THOUGHTS ON - MIND CONTROL TORTURE/EXPERIMENTS

FYI--

skip to main | skip to sidebar Ticker Tape of a Legal Mind
A newly minted law school graduate opines about the law, his existence, and existence at large. Hopefully the interplay will amuse you...it amuses me 24-7. Welcome to my thoughts, my feelings, and my chaotic mind.

Thursday, December 29, 2005
Justice Harlan's Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson.

So I'm sitting here in Starbucks prepping for the coming semester, which includes Constitutional Law II. At my law school, Constitutional Law is separated between two semesters: the first semester involves federalism and national powers, and the second semester deals with individual liberties.

One of the cases we have to read in preparation for the first day of Constitutional Law II is Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). Just a quick primer, the case dealt with the application of a Louisiana statute that provided for separate but equal railway carriages for white and "colored races."

The Supreme Court found in this case that the legislation was valid - and their reasoning suffers large loop holes. First and foremost, they draw the distinction that the Fourteenth Amendment was drafted to guarantee the equal protection of political rights but NOT social rights. Thus, the Louisiana statute was valid and permissibly - especially since "the most common instance of this is connected with the establishment of separate schools for white and colored children." 163 U.S. at 544.

Moreover, the Court proceeds to find that there is a "underlying fallacy" in the petitioner's argument. Id. at 551. That fallacy was "the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it." Id. The argument assumes that if "the colored race should become the dominant power in the state legislature, and should enact a law in precisely similar terms, it would thereby regulate the white race to an inferior position. We imagine that the white race, at least, would not acquiesce in this assumption." Id.

Oh how wrong I think the Court is. But what is most powerfully written is Justice Harlan's dissent. When writing legal briefs, law students learn to vary their tone and delivery. Once such mechanism is to use varying sentence structure - to bury in longer sentences unfavorable positions of law and to make short, succinct, and powerful the law that is favorable. Justice Harlan's dissent epitomizes this.

"In respect of civil rights, common to all citizens, the constitution of the United States does not, I think, permit any public authority to know the race of those entitled to be protected in the enjoyment of such rights. Every true man has pride of race, and under appropriate circumstances, when the rights of others, his equals before the law, are not to be affected, it is his privilege to express such pride and to take such action based upon it as to him seems proper. But I deny that any legislative body or judicial tribunal may have regard to the race of citizens when the civil rights of those citizens are involved. Indeed, such legislation as that here in question is inconsistent not only with that equality of rights which pertains to citizenship, national and state, but with the personal liberty enjoyed by every one within the United States.
The thirteenth amendment does not permit the withholding or the deprivation of any right necessarily inhering in freedom. It not only struck down the institution of slavery as previously existing in the United States, but it prevents the imposition of any burdens or disabilities that constitute badges of slavery or servitude. It decreed universal civil freedom in this country. This court has so adjudged. But, that amendment having been found inadequate to the protection of the rights of those who had been in slavery, it was followed by the fourteenth amendment, which added greatly to the dignity and glory of American citizenship, and to the security of personal liberty, by declaring that ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside,’ and that ‘no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.’ These two amendments, if enforced according to their true intent and meaning, will protect all the civil rights that pertain to freedom and citizenship. Finally, and to the end that no citizen should be denied, on account of his race, the privilege of participating in the political control of his country, it was declared by the fifteenth amendment that ‘the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.'" Id. at 554-55.

"The white race deems itself to be the dominant race in this country. And so it is, in prestige, in achievements, in education, in wealth and in power. So, I doubt not, it will continue to be for all time, if it remains true to its great heritage and holds fast to the principles of constitutional liberty. But in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before the law. The humblest is the peer of the most powerful. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. It is, therefore to be regretted that this high tribunal, the final expositor of the fundamental law of the land, has reached the conclusion that it is competent for a State to regulate the enjoyment by citizens of their civil rights solely upon the basis of race." Id. at 559.

"The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law. What can more certianly arouse race hate, what more certinaly create and perpetuate a feeling of distruct between these races, than state enactments, which, in fact, proceed on the ground that colored citizens are so inferior and degraded that they cannot be allowed to sit in public coaches occupied by white citizens?"

There are other relevant portions to his dissent, but these last two paragraphs I have posted are most powerful, most amazing, and most promising. This is a man that was alive and on the bench in 1896, and yet forward thinking enough to understand the fact that the law is color-blind, and that the legislatures should not be allowed to draw distinctions with regard to the race. Moreover, from this view, we can understand also why anytime legislation enacts so "pernicious" a classification as race, it must be for a "government compelling interest" and must be "narrowly tailored" such as not to trammel the rights of those not brought under the statute.

Moreover, this particularly resounds deeply for me and shows that there is indeed hope for a great equality in this country, especially as a gay, Asian law student.
Posted by B-Funk Legalmnky at 6:01 PM
0 comments:
Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me
B-Funk Legalmnky
View my complete profile
Blog Archive
▼ 2008 (2)
▼ January (2)
Being Fired and the First Week of Probation Violat...
The Battle of Ethics for a Public Defender
► 2006 (3)
► May (1)
Personal Rant.
► April (1)
Personal E-vo-lu-tion.
► January (1)
A New Year, Another Semester, and Many Events... (...
► 2005 (16)
► December (3)
Justice Harlan's Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson.
1996: A Year of Love
Finals....and some Tidbits.
► October (9)
The Birth of an Era - the Passing of a Torch.
A Moment of Silence and Outrage.
I Am Tired.
Gay Civil Rights, Discrimination, and A Case of Fi...
I love the ignorance inherent in Homophobia. Real...
Gay Marriage, Activist Judges, and a Brief Review ...
Rumsfeld v. F.A.I.R.: My View.
Rumsfeld v. F.A.I.R.: The United States Court of A...
Rumsfeld v. F.A.I.R.: The United States District C...
► September (4)
The Way You Are v. The Way You Want to or Have To ...
The Way You Are v. The Way You Want to or Have To ...
Friends and Life...
Friday, September 16, 2005: Constitution Day - A C...
Links
Google News
Edit-Me
Edit-Me

WORLD WALK PEACE TOUR

FYI__

ir a principal | Ir a lateral Posts (RSS) Comments (RSS) Photos (RSS) worldwalk-peacetour Blog Google Maps Flickr panoramio Myspace Facebook CouchSurfing youtube Twitter Contact Thursday, February 19, 2009
Camping in the Wild: Africa
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 7:00 PM Labels: africa, camping, mauritania, morocco, senegal, western-sahara
In Africa and particularly in the Sahara Desert one of the most important prerequisits of camping in the wild is always met: there’s room. The trouble comes when you have to put up or protect the tents.

by FERENC IVANICS
In Morocco it was always easy to find a nice camp site, we usually camped in forests—which became more and more fragmented as we walked south. We had problems near populated areas, but not with humans. Near Casablanca while putting up our tents we noticed lots of small, black balls. Next morning we weren’t awoke by a rooster crowing but sheep baaing near our tents. Sheep eat anything they find, especially in Africa where dried out, yellowish-green grass is their main course. When we noticed them, we had to get out of our tents quickly and drive away the animals, which were already tasting the skins of our home.


Apart of the domesticated animals there was another “enemy”, smaller but deadlier: scorpions. You can see scorpions of various sizes and colors. The more you travel south, the bigger they are. We had to close every small cracks and gaps and slots: with zippers, velcros, anything. You have to inspect very carefully the bottom of your tents every morning, and get rid of the arthropods that had spent the night there. That was quite a scary process at first but later became a dull routine.


The desert—doesn’t really matter if it’s in Morocco, Western-Sahara or Mauritania—is an enormous but poorly equipped camping. There’s space, but virtually there’s nothing else. Without soil we had to invent methods to fix the tents many times, and it was a tiresome job. It’s easy to drive stakes into the sand but they slip out just as easily. And in rocky deserts there’s no way you can drive the stakes into the ground. We used stones—their size depended on the strength of the ever-blowing wind—to hold the cords. I suppose there’s specialized tents for sand or snow, but we had what we had.


To use this method we needed stones. And sometimes it turned out to be hard to find them. Near the Moroccan-Mauritanian border we virtually camped on a landmine-field for ten days. Collecting stones on a mine-field is like playing Russian roulette, so no, thank you.


Near Essaouira there were no stones around. It was almost dark when we found some dry branches that the locals use to stabilize sand dunes. We borrowed some to stabilize our tents.


When we reached the savannah after crossing the Sahara desert it was like reaching the mountain meadows in Austria. All-in-all, we didn’t run into puzzling camp site related situations in Senegal. We camped in the wild without experiences worth mentioning.
6 comments Links to this post
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Camping in the Wild: Europe
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 9:00 PM Labels: austria, camping, europe, france, germany, hungary, spain
One of the recurring problems for the WorldWalkers in Europe was how to find a good camping spot every night. At the end of the day’s walk there was not much time to look for a perfect place before dark in those heavily populated areas.

by FERENC IVANICS
To be able to walk many dozens of miles you need a a good night’s sleep. To have a good night’s sleep you need to find a good camp site. When the weather’s not on our side we sleep in our tents, so we have to put them up. To put up the tents, to drive the stakes (pegs) into the ground we need to find proper soil, a more or less flat area with enough space for our tents. We cannot neglect the opinions of the local authorities either, walking for a good cause doesn’t mean that they always overlook the illegal nature of camping in the wild.

We’d recommend places near less traveled roads, grassy stripes at the edge of fields or forests, these were our favorite places.


In Hungary we camped many times on cultivated fields. It’s OK if it’s not recently seeded, you cannot really do any harm to the crops. Once, after a longer stage we had to find a camp site when it was well into the night. While assembling our tents we discovered that it wasn’t such a good idea camping on the field right next to the road... It had been recently fertilized with completely organic fertilizers. Next day we spent hours wiping the horsecrap off of the bottom of our tents.

We celebrated our last night before crossing the Hungaro-Austrian border in the field you see on the picture above. It was a fine place to stay, plain, comfortble. We slept like babies, not disturbed by the fact that it was raining during the whole night. To our surprise, thanks to the clayey soil we spent a few hours taking down the tents with pounds of slippery mud on our feet.


Our experiences in Austria were fairly similar until we reached the Alps. The mountain meadows were like luxury hotels compared to the fields, and they were quite common. Quiet, calm, silky smooth grass, putting up the tent was a child’s play. No one felt offended by our stay, we had a good time there.


In Germany we got used to camping in vast forests instead of meadows. These camp spots were just as luxurious as their Austrian comrades. Cheery clearings, milennium oaks, calm, just like in Goethe’s poem, the Wanderer’s Nightsong.
Wanderer’s Nightsong II

Up there all summits
are still.
In all the tree-tops
you will
feel but the dew.
The birds in the forest stopped talking.
Soon, done with walking,
you shall rest, too.

One night, our sleep was calm until we started to hear some kind of snorting and the noise of breaking branches in the middle of the night. The noises were getting louder and their source was getting closer to us, it was getting quite scary in the woods. And we became even more scared when we figured out that a hog herd was passing around our tents. They were feeding on the acorn of the millenary oaks. We got awake and alert in a moment. Those minutes in the dark felt like a lifetime, but finally our noisy and hungry guests left our home.

In France we got used to another unexpected difficulty. According to our plans we should have had arrived to Spain by then to spend the colder winter months there. But we started the tour with a month’s delay and winter cold had arrived early that year. We lived our coldest night in November of 2007. The skin of the tent was frozen stiff even before putting it up. We were unable to get a sleep in 25°F cold. We had all our clothes on, yet spent the whole night awake, shiwering. By morning there was ice even on the inside of the skin of the tent.


Our cheap tents and sleeping bags weren’t able to protect us from the cold, we managed to get along with proper food: fatty, high calorie meals, good French red wine.

Spain welcomed us with mountains and rocky soil, absolutely inapt for camping. But when we reached the orange and tangerine plantations of Valencia we arrived to heaven, almost. Fortunately orange thiefs rarely carry tents with them and almost never spend the night on the crime scene, so we weren’t mistaken for them, had no trouble with angry orange farmers.


Though our main interest was to find a place to sleep, we ate tons of oranges as well. And it radically changed our metabolism. :) Once a local farmer surprised us during a breakfast, we were a tiny little bit scared, but he was telling us: ‘tranquilo, tranquilo’. Even though we didn’t know what the words meant, we got the message. Orange prices were so low, it wasn’t even worth to harvest. Anyways, Valencia provided us with bed and breakfast. And oranges from Valencia are the best oranges in the world. We mean it!
Read more on this article...

1 comments Links to this post
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Rainy Weather in Málaga
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 3:00 PM Labels: europe, photos, spain, weather
Last week the weather was horrible in Málaga. The WorldWalkers took shelter in the mountains in their tents. Their new camp site offered them a chance to take some amazing photos of the weather and they made the best of it. No tornado shots, just some really heavy rain storm clouds and sunshine. They promised to provide us some rainbow images next time. :)



For more photos visit our Flickr account.
1 comments Links to this post
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Exclusive Beggars
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 6:00 PM Labels: budget, europe, spain
Due to the global financial and economic crisis the brothers haven’t managed to find a temporary job in Málaga so far. They are not alone, hundreds try to find a job there with even less hope. So their only chance is begging.

And Ferenc and István do it in an enthusiastic and professional way, they really are exclusive beggars.

by FERENC IVANICS
We just received the 1000 euro donation of the Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians. We are really grateful, thank you. It’s a big step, but according to our calculations this won’t be enough for the USA. Apart from the flight tickets we have to pay for the visas, we have to eat, sleep somewhere, buy new shoes, etc. Currently there is absolutely no chance for us to find a temporary job, so we have decided to beg, or—if you fancy these kinds of euphemisms—to ask for small donations. For the last weeks we have studied this profession in theory, our tutor was János Molnár, a Hungarian guy from Transylvania, who was telling us most of his knowledge and best practices. And there were, of course, many other teachers, friends who gave us advices. We chose one of the most traditional methods: a board with a description of our difficulties and a request for some help.


We worked for two long nights in our tents, we tried to be as prepared as possible. We didn’t want to be one of the many beggars in the city, but the WorldWalkers in trouble—who we are, indeed. So our objective was to create a very show-and-tellesque propaganda, and we didn’t waste our time to achieve our goal. The result was amazing. Other beggars stared unbelievingly at our donation equipment. We became exclusive beggars.


Our very special tool is the dynamic counter, which shows our financial necessities and the amount already collected.

First we tried our luck in front of the El Corte Inglés shopping mall. To our surprise, nobody was interested in our action, it was very disappointing. After a small analysis and discussion we thought that the customers of this shopping mall were always in a hurry, they had no time for beggars, not even for exclusive ones. We tried to find a quieter place that was busy enough at the same time. So we went into the city center of Málaga. The start was very slow but promising.


The first day there we got 32 euros, the next day 43 euros, so it seemed to work. You might think that it’s easy. But I have to tell you: it’s not, it’s a very hard job. We stand, sit or squat the entire day, and it’s very exhaustive mentally as well. Time passes slowly, the weather is cold, but there’s a hope we can collect the missing piece of our budget and finally fly on to North America. We wouldn’t do it if we saw another option. But we don’t.
6 comments Links to this post
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Gear: What You Need to Walk Around the Earth
Posted by WorldWalk-Peacetour at 4:10 PM Labels: budget, camping, equipment,
Walking and backpacking around the Earth is an extremely strong load test on your gear. But you have a real chance to prove its quality or its flaws: The brothers walked and put up their tents in France in frost, in the Sahara in 100 °F, they were hit by a hard thunderstorm in Austria, and a much harder sand storm in Africa, they spent many days among high mountains in the Alps, wandered on huge plains in France and in wild forests in Germany. I can say that they checked their gear in every imaginable situation. After the European and the African stage of the trip we’ll try to summarize their experiences and opinions about their tents, sleeping bags, backpacks, mats, trousers and shoes. Also, a new continent’s ahead, new soils, new climate. Probably they have to replace some of their equipment before moving on.


Tents: An Indispensable Base


Your tent is your home during backpacking. And if you backpack for 6 years, you try to choose the perfect one. Sometimes you succeed, sometimes you don’t.

The boys bought their tents an InterSport shop for about 120 euros (US$150). These are McKinley Compact Light 2 tents, a run-out model, but there’s a similar one on the official McKinley page: the Enduro Light. The manufacturer’s description:

Ultra-lightweight tunnel tent for 2 people, ideal for travelling and on trekking and cycle tours. Outer skin made of PU-coated polyester, all seams sealed with seam tape, 3,000 mm water column. 1 entrance, 2 frame arches made of aluminium. Tent pegs made of aluminium.

2 frame arches made of aluminium: It became obvious soon enough that these arches hadn’t been designed for everyday use. When you put up the tent you have to bend these pipes to the arch shape, and when you dismantle your tent in the morning these are straightened again. It was too much for them, in a month they were beginning to break one by one. Of course they were very-very light, but useless.


That time Ferenc and István were working in Spain on a construction of a house in the mountains. The foundations of that house was made of reinforced concrete. They got some rebars, and made their own frame arches. These arches were pre-bent by them and covered by many plastic tapes to keep the skin and the floor of the tent safe. The advantages of these arches were obvious: they’re very stable, no winds or storms beat them. The disadvantages are obvious, too: they’re damn heavy. So our advice to the manufacturer: please, pre-bend the arches, and don’t force the backpackers to bend them.

Tent pegs made of aluminium: This seems to be a joke, here you have the photos of them. Aluminium is too soft, the tip of the pegs became dull soon, they bend easily and can harm your hands.


Zippers: These are far too weak, ideal for a schoolbag, but not for a tent that is to be used in Africa. Somewhere in Mauritania they even had to saw a velcro to keep out the mosquitos (they seemed to be infected by malaraia).

Skin: The strong-point of these tents, there was no trouble with it whatsoever. Now there are some holes, protection from rain isn’t perfect, but the life of these tents haven’t been easy at all. So that’s just fine.


Sleeping Bag: Like Napoleon Bonaparte

“The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world”, Napoleon Bonaparte said once.


The Denali Alpine 19 sleeping bags of the WorldWalkers were purchased in the same InterSport shop, unfortunately they can’t recall its price. The manufarturer’s comments:

Sleeping bag suitable for Alpine conditions, ideal companion while mountain climbing and on trekking and Alpine tours. The comfort range lies between +3°C and -3°C, the extreme range lies at -19°C. The double layer concept offers maximum loft and heat retention qualities. Ergonomic hood with corded seam at forehead, padded heat collar, shoulder extension and thermally enhanced foot part ensure optimum heat retention qualities. Excellent sleeping comfort through the use of robust, lightweight and breathable materials.

Ferenc and István have been very satisfied with the product, so far. As the manufacturer promised it provides comfort down to 25 °F. It needs a small space when packed, and it’s light enough. There was only one disadvantage revealed: the zippers, again. These are a bit stronger then the tents’, but they’ve been giving up. And the winter in Málaga is cold enough.


Backpack: A Snail’s Life


Snails carry their shell (i.e. their “house”) on their backs, in a similar way the brothers carry all their personal stuff on their backs. And to make their life as comfotable as possible, they needed a fine backpack. They have been using Quecha Forclaz backpacks for a while, and they are fully satisfied with them. Zippers are placed in the middle of the backpack, so you can easily reach the inner parts. If you need your foorth bottle of water in the desert, it’s really handy that you don’t have to get out the three empty bottles to find the full one. The raincoat was a bit surprising for then. The backpack itself is not water-resistant, if you want to make it water-resistant, you have to cover it. Close to the fasteners the textile has begun to break, and a couple of the many zippers broke down already, but these backpacks have survived the Sahara, so there’s nothing to complain about.


Accessories

Mats: They provide comfort and protection from cold. The polyethylene foam sleeping mats or mattresses were a present. They’re quite good, nothing extraordinary, though.


Hiking Hats: They’re from Quecha again, a brand that combines affordable prices with acceptable durability. These hats were really important for Ferenc an István in the desert, they were durable and they protected their head, face and neck from sunshine. And it was pretty easy to keep them clean as well, a rinse of clean water did the job. The nape flap could be a bit bigger to fully cover the ears, a light wind can blow it off. After the extremely strong usage it’s a bit ragged—mostly where the visor joins the hat, but it’s OK.


Trousers: Another peace of the equipment from Quechua. They’re worth their price, they survived half a year in the Sahara. They’re light, breathable and comfortable. But after half a year they decay very fast, you can’t repair or patch them. There were some weird color changes, the trousers of Ferenc became white-yellow, István’s: yellow-green. They’re easy to wash, they dry in a reasonable time. A good choice.




Shoes: For the Walking Part

Running Shoes: Their first shoes were Nike Dart V running shoes. They had survived more than 2.000 miles, nothing was wrong, there were only small flaws: the rubber of the tips separated, the softer materials gave up, but all these were repairable.


The death of these shoes arrives when the hard rubber layer on the sole of the shoes wears away. There is only a soft spongy layer under—or above—it. These shoes aren’t designed for long periods of walking, they can heat-up very much. And you know heat means sweat, and blisters will surely appear. Sweat means stinky shoes as well, so you have to wash them regularly, but it’s not easy to dry them. They are comfortable, strong and relatively cheap, the boys repeated and purchased identical pairs to replace their worn-out first ones.

Hiking Shoes: Their third pairs were Salomon Exit Aeros. These are not running but hiking shoes. The sole of them seemes to be too hard, but after a couple of miles it became acceptable, but not that comfortable as the sole of the Nike. Their uppers are surprisingly tough, although the mesh parts are a bit weak.


The shoes let the boys’ feet breathe, but let the sand of the desert in, too. And sand between your toes is not what you call a pleasant experience. Its sole was strong enough, and due to the breathable uppers, their feet were less hot, less stinky. These shoes not a bad choice, but the WorldWalkers are not sure, if they will buy them again.
Read more on this article...

1 comments Links to this post
Older Posts
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) tags
europe (18)
spain (12)
africa (8)
western-sahara (5)
budget (4)
camping (4)
peace (4)
community (3)
morocco (3)
senegal (3)
austria (2)
equipment (2)
france (2)
germany (2)
health (2)
hungary (2)
mauritania (2)
problems (2)
sponsors (2)
weather (2)
worldwalk (2)
environment (1)
ferenc (1)
gibraltar (1)
istván (1)
itinerary (1)
jokes (1)
map (1)
media (1)
newyear (1)
photos (1)
serbia (1)
start (1)
donations
Please support the WorldWalk team for whatever reason you have.



archives
February 2009 (7)
January 2009 (8)
December 2008 (17)
recent posts
Camping in the Wild: Africa - Feb 19, 2009
Camping in the Wild: Europe - Feb 18, 2009
Rainy Weather in Málaga - Feb 17, 2009
Exclusive Beggars - Feb 12, 2009
Gear: What You Need to Walk Around the Earth - Feb 11, 2009
recent photos
WorldWalk in Spain: Tempest in Málaga - Feb 17, 2009
WorldWalk in Spain: Tempest in Málaga - Feb 17, 2009
WorldWalk in Spain: Tempest in Málaga - Feb 17, 2009
WorldWalk in Spain: Tempest in Málaga - Feb 17, 2009
WorldWalk in Spain: Exclusive beggars - Feb 13, 2009
peace
Walk About Love
One Million Peace Signs
The Peace Walker Society
travel
Goliath Expedition
Hitchhiking, Backpacking & Budget Travel On the Road
Funky Traveller: Backpacking, Budget Travel, Travel Photos and Guides
HoboTraveler.com Travel Blog
earth
A Photo a Day from Planet Earth
art
Quoth the redhead, 'nivermoore.'
search
update
miles walked so far.
WorldWalk are currently back in Málaga, Spain
photostream flickr panoramio
about
Walking around the world in six years. That means 25.000 miles (40.000 km) on five continents: Europe, Africa, the Americas, Australia and Asia. Two brothers—Ferenc and István Ivanics—walk 15-25 miles a day to reach their goal: to arrive home. To arrive home after going around our planet Earth, to arrive home after meeting many different people in many countries. People who live in different cultures, in different environments. People who have one very important common wish: peace. Peace, that is the final goal of the WorldWalk project. And the key is friendship and brotherhood, this is the message they'd like to share, try to tell everybody, every person living on our mother Earth.

View their complete profile on Blogger.
See who they are.
Check out their planned itinerary.


twitter updates
http://tinyurl.com/b54gam 17 days ago
We survived the tornado in Malaga. But it was the hardest night of the whole tour. 17 days ago
http://twitpic.com/19la8 - http://worldwalk-peacetour.blogspot.com/ 20 days ago
http://twitpic.com/19la8 - Check out DoveHand: Two Symbols of Peace in One Sculpture on the WorldWalk-Peacetour blog. 20 days ago
We haven't been down to Malaga for a few days. We're a bit fed up with camping in the hills around the city... 22 days ago
Follow me on Twitter
shoutbox

ShoutMix chat widget

recent comments
and Metallica again, Wherever I may roam:Rover wan... - Feb 19, 2009 - noreply@blogger.com (mIko)
Thanks for showing up, guys! We really appreciate ... - Feb 18, 2009 - noreply@blogger.com (WorldWalk-Peacetour)
An apocalyptic scene, only the four horsemen is mi... - Feb 17, 2009 - noreply@blogger.com (mIko)
Hey, hey, hey, Peat! What, what, what?????????!You... - Feb 17, 2009 - noreply@blogger.com (HUN Rosa)
Hi,I am Sandeep from India. If you remember clicke... - Feb 15, 2009 - noreply@blogger.com (Sandeep Kunwar)

followers (21)
Follow this blog
Stop following
21 Followers View All Manage
Copyright © 2008 WorldWalk-Peacetour

Design by Design Disease | Blogger template by Blog and Web

GROUND -PSYCHOTRONIC WEAPONDS ER---

FYI__

by Alex Constantine

PART ONE: General Electric, ChoicePoint - Key Interlocking Fascist Directorates - and Kenneth Langone

The Patriot Act ran the Congressional gauntlet like greased pork, untouched and unread, so civil libertarians opened it up and poked through its oleaginous mass prior to passage, wiped their hands, and came away with a nagging sense of deja vu - but by the time the obvious comparisons to the rise of National Socialism were made, the act was voted into law.

Then as now, the federal vaults swung open and revenue gushed through
redirected banking channels, washed through hidden corporate and "homeland security" funds, ultimately lapping on the shores of select world-class criminals, a transfer of fluid capital worthy of German and American Robber Barons alike.

Two of the principal American backers of the Nazi regime were General
Electric and ITT. Both multinationals were represented on the boards of IG
Farben, the corporation that conspired to put Adolf Hitler in power (we find the same symbiosis at ChoicePoint – the corporation that conspired to put George W. Bush in power).

TIME MACHINE

After 1915, International General Electric (I.G.E.) in New York, researcher Nhan Myrick informs us, "acted as the foreign investment, manufacturing, and selling organization for the General Electric Company." I.G.E. held a 25 to 30-percent interest in German General Electric (A.E.G.), and holdings in a company called Osram in Berlin.

The holdings gave I.G.E. four directors on the board of A.E.G., and another at Osram, "and significant influence in the internal domestic policies of these German companies. The significance of this General Electric ownership is that A.E.G. and Osram were prominent suppliers of funds for Hitler in his rise to power in Germany in 1933."

Farben, of course, was the most generous German-American financial underwriter of Hitler. "Several directors of A.E.G. were also on the board of I.G. Farben." The sinister luminaries included Hermann Bucher, chairman of A.E.G., also on the I.G. Farben board, and A.E.G. directors Julius Flechtheim and Walter von Rath. "I.G. Farben contributed 30 percent of the 1933 Hitler National Trusteeship (or takeover) fund."

Accumulatoren Fabrik A-G "was a Hitler contributor with two directors on the A.E.G. board, August Pfeffer and Gunther Quandt. Quandt personally owned 75 percent of Accumulatoren Fabrik..."1

The nameplates may have changed over time, but fascism has been a geopolitical constant since it was conceived by Mussolini in the 1920s, and
so have the political intrigues of General Electric.

At ChoicePoint, preceding the "election" of GW Bush, there was Richard "Killer Pimp" Armitage. Another CP director: Kenneth Langone, also a director at GE - who interlocked with the ChoicePoint directorate.

Langone received his MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York
University. He was the founder of Invemed Associates, LLC, and Home Depot, Inc. Langone has been on the board of the New York Stock Exchange, DBT Online, Inc., InterWorld Corporation, TRICON Global Restaurants, Inc. and Unifi, Inc.

He's is a familiar face in New York politics, one of the principal fund-raisers for Rudolph Giuliani in his senate race against Hillary Clinton.

Langone's place wasn't limited to backstair deal-making, however.

During the campaign, New Yorkers switched on their television sets to see a
commercial featuring a bimbo with a heavy southern drawl, dressed in a suit,
crooning over a hot, gummy pizza called the Big New Yorker. "How do I know so much about New York pizza?" she asks. "'Cause, New York, I want to be your next senator!" A New York cop exults, "$9.99! What do they think this is, Arkansas?"2 Pizza Hut was owned by TRICON, a company under Langone's directorship.

Did the GE-ChoicePoint director's support for New York's take-charge mayor have anything to do with the fact that Rudy's mentor was none other than Adnan Khashoggi's attorney, Mr. Robert G. Morvillo, or that all three were movers in the same CIA-Mafia-corporate-Big-Boy net that has given rise to scores of headline-grabbing political scandals in the last few decades?

Robert G. Morvillo

He is the name partner of Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, a
40-lawyer firm he established in 1973. Among his other well-known clients
was Rep. Robert Garcia, convicted of extortion in the 1989 Wedtech scandal.

In another bribery case, he won acquittal in 1987 for John Zaccaro, husband
of former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro.

He also represented the Saudi financier Adnan Khashoggi, alleged to have siphoned money from the Philippines for Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos but acquitted with them in a federal case. Two years ago he represented Robert Iler, who played the son of Tony Soprano of the HBO series The Sopranos,' on a robbery charge (he got probation). In the 1960s and 1970s, Morvillo served in the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. He was a chief trial assistant in the fraud unit there, and then chief of the
criminal division, where he mentored a young assistant U.S. attorney named
Rudolph Giuliani."3

All contributions to Giuliani were handled by New York City Public-Private
Initiatives Inc. (PPI), headed by Ms. Tamra Lhota. "As its name suggests,"
Newsday reports, "the corporation falls into a fuzzy area among the government, the business and the philanthropic worlds, where city officials can arrange private financing for pet projects without directly soliciting funds, which would be illegal."4

Tamra Roberts Lhota was a fundraiser in all three of Giuliani's runs for
mayor. She ran PPI, according to the CUNY Clarion, "to raise private money for public projects.... PPI established and initially ran the Twin Towers Fund, which benefits the families of members of the City's uniformed services who were lost in the WTC disaster.... Members include Richard Grasso of the NY Stock Exchange, real estate magnate Jerry Speyer, NY Mets owner Fred Wilpon and former deputy mayor Peter Powers. Past PPI board members have included Henry Kissinger [and] David Rockefeller."5 Judith Nathan - Giuliani's highly-publicized "companion" through his messy divorce - was an unpaid board member. And Langone was there, of course.6

"This is shadow government," Peter Bienstock, a lawyer who chaired a state
investigation of PPI, told Newsday. "That investigation's report, issued in 1990, said of such nonprofits, authorities and foundations: Although these entities are all created by governments to serve a public purpose ... their transactions are generally not subject to normal government oversight and control. Over time, they have collectively become, in effect, a shadow government, quite powerful but little known and understood,' the study said."7

Back at his alma mater NYU, where he was a trustee, there was some
hand-wringing over Langone's association with the university. The campus
newspaper reports, "two NYU trustees who also serve on the board of the New York Stock Exchange pose a serious conflict of interest to the proper
functioning of the Big Board.... The report, released in July, also
spotlights NYU trustee Richard Grasso, who resigned last Wednesday as
chairman of the stock exchange amid criticism that a $140 million
compensation and retirement benefits package he was set to receive was too
large. The Council of Institutional Investors released the report, which
questions Sexton's ability to act impartially while serving on the stock
exchange's nominating committee.... The report cites numerous other
potentially compromising connections among board members and those on the nominating committee, beside those related to NYU. A serious overlap'
exists between the 27 board members and those on the nominating committee, Brentley said.... The council's report found only one nominating committee member with no obvious connection to the board.' Outside relationships exist among board members themselves, according to the council's report, which cited 24 such connections. Grasso had ties to five other members, Langone had relationships with four and Fink was connected to one other person, the report said."8

A few months later, Langone's Invemed, a Wall Street securitues brokerage,
was also in trouble with regulators. The company, it seems, had a close
relationship with the Credit Suisse Group dating to the 1980s. The New York
Times found that the companies together managed the shares for a company financed by Langone. Thereby, Invemed "would introduce companies that would issue stock to Credit Suisse, and then Credit Suisse would give a percentage of shares in a larger firm the group was managing to Invemed. According to The New York Times, in March 2000, Invemed participated in 50 new stock issues, more than 90 percent of which were underwritten by Credit Suisse."9

Credit Suisse ...

TIME MACHINE

"2000: In mid year, the two largest banks in Switzerland, UBS and Credit
Suisse, approved a "1.25 billion-dollar global settlement aimed at ending
the long-running dispute over Holocaust assets..." - "GOVERNMENTS'
COMPLICITY IN THE NAZI HOLOCAUST: France, Germany, and Switzerland"10

NOTES

1) Nhan Myrick, General Electric Funded Hitler," Rense.com, September 26,
2004.
http://www.rense.com/general57/ge.htm

2) "Hillary Panned by Pizza Hut," originally printed in the Times of London,
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:PjEte6AcJ70J:ojr.usc.edu/content/ejc.cfm%3Frequest%3D116+%22kenneth+langone%22+and+%22Rudolph+Giuliani%22

3) "Robert G. Morvillo,"
http://www.crimlaw.org/defbrief281.html

4) Dan Janison, "New York City's Shadow Government," New York Newsday,
12/27/99.

5) "CUNY's Board of Trustees: The Powers That Be,"
http://www.psc-cuny.org/ClarionBOT.htm

6) Stephanie Saul, "Rudy's WTC Fund Tied To Nathan's Firm," Newsday,
February 9, 2002.

7) Janison.

8) Xana OíNeill, "Unease with trustees NYU-NYSE link called suspect,"
nyunews.com, September 23, 2003.

9) Elisabeth Salemme, Langone '57 accused of securities fraud,' Bucknellian
(school newspaper), April 25, 2003.

10) http://www.religioustolerance.org/holo_apol.htm

PART TWO: ChoicePoint Admits Foreknowledge of 9/11

FYI__

skip to main | skip to sidebar
SPREADINGOURWINGS
Creative Writing; Photography; Political Tidbits; Humor for the Heart; HOPE for the Soul; and MORE! Please see the sidebar for event listings, news updates, polls, important links, activism opportunities and more...

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Michael Moore's latest project You Tube... My Letter to the Editor...
["CNN: Wall Street 'Better Watch Out' for Michael Moore"; as submitted to You Tube by mmflint on 2/17/09; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7FfPrf-X_Q]

Letter to the Editor - sent out (one never knows who will actually publish it) to a number of different papers today [I also sent another one out, but I won't zap you with two :)

Bottom line, if I can do this stuff, You probably can (check out the links in the sidebar!) too!

Letter:

"Enough of this greed on Wall Street! Enough of this pathetic whining that banks need more bailout money! Enough of me having to go pawn old jewelry to TRY to pay MY taxes! I think the Vampires have sucked up quite enough of the people's labor, trust and blood - don't you? Let the big banks that have been exploiting (in my opinion) the American people (via unjust usury and all sorts of trickery) "go bust." Help out the smaller banks, if you must, but with serious accountability and low CEO incomes as part of the package! And - consider the people too! Because, as far as I'm concerned I'm (along with a whole lot of other people) owed some money by at least some of the big guys on Wall Street, simply because their unethical (at best) and corrupt (at worst) practices have been such an absolute and total (America is better than this!) disgrace...

If I want to donate blood, I'll go to the local blood-bank, thank you very much! At least they pass it on (as is expected) to others that are in need!

Come on folks! Get a grip! This is about humane principals, accountability, justice and the future of the United States of America! And there aren't any intelligent people that I know of - with the true facts in hand (and no greedy self-serving agenda up their sleeve...) that would support anymore big-bank bailouts!

In fact, I keep hearing from the wise and the weary (we are becoming anemic, I fear...) that it is the low to mid-income American people (just take a good look around!) that really need bailouts! That it is, in fact, the American family (Don't we deserve a break?) that represents the only TRUE "not-for-profit" institution in America - and that as this mystery of sad history continues to unfold... the Government might want to consider sending some of the monies exploited via the all-too-often abused not-for-profit industry (check their books too, will ya? Especially the "religious" non-profits...) on to the American people, as well!

Signing off... I have to go take my folic acid pill...

Anyone else having trouble just staying ALIVE?

[Perhaps vampires, like tics, tend to burst after gorging themselves like this?]

Ah, one can HOPE..."

NS
Posted by N.S. at 12:09 PM
Labels: Michael Moore's latest project You Tube... My Letter to the Editor...
Reactions:

4 comments:
pinchas werba said...
I serendipitously found this site and I'd like to say that I agree with your sentiments 100%. I especially feel that it’s certainly criminal the way big business interests award all the bonuses to CEO’s who have nothing but failure to show for their efforts. Whether it’s paid with pre-bailout money or actual bailout bucks it’s nothing less than "LEGALIZED EMBEZZLEMENT" any way they slice their American Pie--they get the hot-out- of-the-oven best pieces for doing nothing but sitting on their fat butts scheming and dreaming of more ways to compound their profit margins on bungled/bundled mortgages or Ponzi pyramid plots while we, the people, don't even get the crumbs because they lick the pie plate then trash that, so no trace exists except in their gormandized, distended bellies and then down the t/bowls the next day. Organized religion, like tax-avoiding organized crime black market specialists, has skated for free long enough and has become too separated from the reality of Economics 101. If you want to live in a democratic society that chugs along on the theory of progressive taxation and capitalism there are no free rides whether you are Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Shinto, or whatever. Enough is enough already—rabbis, priests, pastors, clerics, imams turn over your tithes to the government before we all go to hell in a “hardcasket” or hand basket. To echo Dennis Kucinich—Wake up, America, even the alarm clocks are armed and in a dangerous state or are in an alarmed state and cannot function, figuratively speaking. There are plenty of mature adults and responsible children who need no mechanical means to awaken themselves so they can go out there into the world to try and make a difference and not emulate the greedy bastards who only care for themselves and merely pay lip service to their pledge to follow the code of ethics and to uphold the constitution whether they’re on Wall Street, in city halls, either house of the legislature or in oval offices (past). The only fee paid is the lip service one therefore none in this place where the original description of the settlers in the ‘new world’ used by the ones whose land we stole was ‘white man speak with forked tongue’ so this bifurcated mouth tool used to express our thoughts and schemes is still alive and well in the legalized crooks abounding all around us.

February 20, 2009 4:59 AM
N.S. said...
Wow, you are a powerful writer! And you had me sitting here crying (a good thing, because demonstrations of compassion, courage and integrity tend to ignite my tears...) again (I also cried when re-watching the PINK video we discussed below).

I guess my blog doesn't quite fit the strictly political (nor partisan) script... so it doesn't get airtime through that venue...

And it doesn't strictly fit (since I do deal with a lot of social / economic / political issues here) in the creative / artistic venue either...

So either I have to tip folks off about it... or they tend to stumble (like you apparently did) upon it by accident.

I guess the newspapers (having a very difficult economic time of it, as well) might view us bloggers as competitors... and thus (?) they won't publish our blogsite addresses (I have found this to be the case, anyhow) when we write letters to the paper, etc.

I don't see bloggers as news competitors, however - at all. I LOVE newspapers! I simply think we bloggers are able to wholistically (via music, video clips, etc.) and interactively add another dimension...

Anyhoot, off to start my day...

I can't thank you enough for your posts. They are truly well written and inspiring...

Sometimes (I guess this is part of the tears too...) this seems like a really lonesome (albeit creative; and I hope, contributive) journey.

Keep shining!

NS

February 20, 2009 5:19 AM
pinchas werba said...
tears of justice served
are prisms of perspective unnerved
where the tiny lachrymal crystals
cleanse our souls and baptize our brains
out of attempted brainwashing basins
to the ether of eternity
in the upper-most mindful section
where the Almighty was conceived
in either of our respective images
whether we got the message from our Creator
and were endowed with sacred or inalienable rights
we as a nation not of sheep on the compost heap
but as sentient thinking humans must right the wrongs
left on our bloodstained hearts by Bush
by bringing him to court and let the people decide…

February 20, 2009 6:16 AM
N.S. said...
pinchas werba,

Would you mind if I placed your comments / poem on a posting of their own (most likely accompanied by a photo from my stock and/or a video)?

You have a LOT to say and you say it (are you a published writer?) EXTREMELY WELL.

I don't need to know your identity. Your screen name and permission to "blog" this will do...

What do you think?

With much respect,

NS

February 20, 2009 9:38 AM

Post a Comment



Links to this post
Create a Link

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) "Beauty in the Hudson Valley" [Click Photo to Link to "I Have a Dream [/] Tender Love" You Tube

Photo / Copyright by BF / Utilized With Permission
PLEASE SEE THE POLLS [There are 8 Currently Up] - AND EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTS - IN THE SIDEBAR
Scroll Down

V
V
V

ABOUT ME
N.S.
THIS BLOG REFLECTS THE VARIETY OF INTERESTS AND HOBBIES THAT I HAVE. I HOPE YOU FIND IT INFORMATIVE AND ENJOYABLE. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO COMMENT (APPROPRIATELY). [EXCERPTS FROM THE BOOKS I HAVE AUTHORED - AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE - ARE DOWN BELOW. PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT THE TONE OF MY BOOKS IS QUITE DIFFERENT FROM THE TONE OF THIS BLOG; THAT THE MATERIAL IN THESE BOOKS IS CONTROVERSIAL; AND THAT THESE BOOKS WERE WRITTEN / PUBLISHED WHEN GEORGE BUSH JR. AND "DICK" CHENEY WERE AT THE HELM...
View my complete profile
"The Wonder of It All..." / Click on Photo to View / Listen to Pres. Obama's Inaugural Address

Photo (Copyrighted) by NS
CITY OF KINGSTON PUBLIC MEETINGS / ACTIVISM OPPORTUNITIES - FEB 09
Wed. 2/25 - 6:30 PM - Kingston Uptown Business Association (KUBA) Meeting / BSP / 323 Wall Street

[If there are any errors in this report, please let me know and I will make corrections.]

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE: This Saturday 2/21/09]
The League of Women Voter's of the Mid-Hudson Valley Region is hosting a "brunch meeting" at 15-21 Franklin Street {Everette Hodge Center} on Saturday, 2/21/09 / 10am -Noon. If you would like info. about the League, or would like to volunteer for the League's "observer corps", see the local League website at http://midhudson.ny.lwvnet.org/ This is a non-partisan group - and at this meeting the pros and cons of the Electoral College and direct voting will be discussed.

KAPA Com., Bob Smith, at Kingston MuddyCup Inaug. Party [Click Photo to Link to "What a Wonderful..

Singing "What a Wonderful World" [Photo (Copyrighted) by NS]
EVENT ANNOUCEMENT [EVENT DATE: This Saturday, 2/21/09] [KAPA FUNDRAISER]
This Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009, Keegan Ales, 7PM: "Public Access [KAPA / Channel 23 / Your Local Public Access TV Channel!] Awards and Fundraising Gala" - $40 per ticket / Music by Sonando - email jsmith37@hvc.rr.com or contact any of the KAPA Commissioners for tickets and/or more info.

UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Click Photo to "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" You Tube]

Photo (Copyrighted) by NS
CHECK THIS OUT... [AIR AMERICA BROADCAST]
Air America Politically Direct David Bender Sheldon Whitehouse
Inauguration Poster-Photo 2009 [Click Photo for Pres. Obama's Weekly Address 2/13/09]

"Thank You Obama-Biden!" Photo / Copyright by NS
POLLS, POLLS, POLLS...
YOUR "VOICE" MATTERS!

Do You Think the City of Kingston Should Fund (Do Their Part) Kingston Area Public Access (KAPA / Channel 23) TV?
KINGSTON ACTIVISM / Click Photo to Link to "A Peaceful Solution - Willie Nelson..." You Tube

Photo [Copyrighted by BF (Utilized with Permission)]
TAKE ACTION: Kingston Citizens Organization Alderman and Ward Info / Communications / Contact
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Al Teetsel, Ward 1
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Thomas R. Hoffay, Ward 2
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Charles Landi, Ward 3
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Shirley Whitlock, Ward 4
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Ann Marie DiBella, Ward 5
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Ron Polacco, Ward 6
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Bill Reynolds, Ward 7
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Bob Senor, Ward 8
Kingston Citizens. Org / Alderman Mike Madsen, Ward 9
Do You Believe the Proposed Cigarette Tax Rate Hike Reeks of Class Discrimination and/or a Violation of our Civil Rights?
Links Through Which You Can Protest the Proposed Hike in Taxes (Yet Again) on Cigarettes
To contact President Obama / Whitehouse.Gov/Contact
Senate.Gov
Do You Believe the Peanut Corporation in Atlanta Georgia (Alleged Peanut / Toxic Foods Issue...) Should be Allowed to Claim Bankruptcy?
GRANT ANNOUNCEMENT
The opportunity to attend workshops about the "Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Action Plan" and City of Kingston's "Annual Community Development Block Grant" have (to my knowlege) passed. However, applications for proposed funding will reputedly be accepted until 2/27/09. For more information, contact Michael Murphy, Community Development Director, at the Office of Community Development [845-334-3930].


Do You Support Funding Initiatives for Comprehensive Family Planning and Associated Educational / Awareness Programs
LINKS TO HEALTHCARESTAT (CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!!)
HealthCare STAT -- Protecting Patients' Rights and Access to Care in Ulster County
Links Associated With Most Recent Blog Posting [Regarding "Separation of Church and State..."
"Obama creates faith-based office with wide mission" - Road Runner
"President Obama’s Remarks at National Prayer Breakfast" - NYTimes.com
(Mother) "Theresa" You Tube
Freedom From Religion [and/or "religious tyranny"] Foundation
"Newdow Seeks 1000 New Plaintiffs in Inaugural Lawsuit..." Blogspot
"Bill Maher's 'Religulous'" You Tube
"In Tibet, it’s just the facts, ma’am" ("World Blog"; mssnbc.com")
"Larry King Live: Bill Maher on the Economy, the Obamas, Palin and Biden" You Tube
"Chavez wins vote to scrap term limits in Venezuela" Road Runner
"Bill Maher On The Ten Commandments"
"Religious police crack down on Saudi valentines... Holiday celebration is banned..."
"Bill Maher, Real Time season premeire Fri. Feb. 20th"
Wikipedia.org - "Lords Resistance Army"
"Bill Maher on Mormonism and Religion in Politics" You Tube
Do You Believe the Office of Faith Based Initiatives... (Even Expanded and Renamed) Violates the Constitutional Mandate of Separation of Church and State?
Do You Think BlackWater USA (Now Under a "New Name") and Similar Organizations (Highly Paid,,, Allegedly Less Than Ethical...) Should be Shut Down and Sincerely Investigated?
Do You Believe Former President Bush Jr. and Some Members of His Administration Violated the US Constitution, Bill of Rights and/or International Treaties?
If G. Bush Jr. and/or Others Did Violate Any or All of the Above, Do You Believe They Should Be Prosecuted to the Fullest Extent of the Law?
JUSTICE... WANT SOME?
Hold the Bush Administration Accountable.
JUSTICE... WANT SOME?
credoaction.com/campaign/accountability_commission/?r_by=-1835068-oNzHxpx&rc=confemail
Hope: One Word Says It All... Obama-Biden 2009" [Click Photo to Link to "One Hope.." / You Tube]

Photo / Copyright by NS
TAKE ACTION... [UNDER CONSTRUCTION]
LWV Take Action Governor David Paterson
LWV Take Action President Barack Obama
LWV Take Action Rep. Maurice Hinchey
LWV Take Action Rep. Nancy Pelosi
LWV Take Action Sen. Charles Schumer
LWV Take Action Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
LWV Take Action Senator Charles Schumer
New York Dems
New York State Assembly - Members
Ulster County Government County Executive Mike Hein
Ulster County Legislature Members Contact Info
One of Our Premier Community Activists / Kingston City Dem. Alderwoman

At the Kingston MuddyCup Inauguration Party / Photo (Copyrighted; Utilized with Permission) by N.S.
Economic Reinvestment and Recovery Plan... Keeping You Up to Date...
Recovery.Gov / Updates Re. Stimulus
Two of Our Premier Community Activists [a Dem Alderman and a Rep. with a Heart of Gold]

At the Kingston MuddyCup Inauguration Party; Photo (Copyrighted; Permissions Granted) by NS
To My "Sisters": I received this on MySpace and it was so beautiful I wanted to pass it on...
"... The lady reading this is beautiful, classy and strong... Help her live [] life to the fullest [] Promote her and cause her to excel above her expectations [] Help her shine in the darkest places [] Protect her at all times..."


Check Out My Slide Show {Please do not order prints from this link; prints are available from me!)
MSN Slide Show; Copyrighted Prints; Please Direct Any Orders to wingedbirdinflight@live.com
Reading Poem At Obama Inaugural Party / Click Photo to Link to One of The Karaoke Songs I Sang...

Hosting Kingston Muddy Cup Inaugural Bash, with MoveOn.org Civic Action and Affiliated Groups / Individuals [Photo / Copyright by BS]
My Inaugural [Barack Obama 2009] Poem (Copyright, NS)
My New Year's oath
To you and me
Was to become
All I can be

To live my muse
Pursue my dreams
With every drop
Of energy...

And courage
Drawn up from
My toes...

The fear I've known...
The fear I've known...

Handcuffed and chained
To walls of pain
This year, I say,
"No more."

And, as I stand
Before you now
A poet, dreamer,
Silly clown...

To celebrate
Obamas day...

I have to say...
I have to say...

Though I am white
My oath is true

My commitment firm
I've much to do

For I am, indeed,
A lot like you...

My freedom card
Long overdue.

And, although each day
Can be tough to face

It is worth the price
Because all our fates

Depend on you...
Depend on me...

On everyone struggling
To be free...

From the pain
That holds us back

(So much locked up inside)

Speaking its truth...
Speaking its truth...

Through all the tears
We've cried...

I really tried to hide...
I really tried to hide...

But this is the year...
This Is the year...

That I've been
Waiting for...

This is the year...
This is the year...

I finally say,
"No more."

And join
The chorus
Of voices
Singing...

"We can!"

NS [MoveOn.org Civic Action Member / Inaugural Party (Obama 2009) Host] [Copyright Jan. 2009]

VIDEO BAR NOTICE:
Please utilize discretion when viewing videos from the video bar, as it sometimes "has a mind of its own."

VIDEO BAR




powered by



EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE 3/9/09]
ULSTER COUNTY DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S (MEN ARE WELCOME, AS WELL) MEETING - 7 PM - AT THE NEW DEMOCRATIC HEADQUARTERS AT 275 FAIR STREET [CORNER OF FAIR AND JOHN STREETS] - #14 - SECOND FLOOR.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE 3/15/09]
Sunday, March 15, 2009: "Shamrock Run" [entry forms due in by March 3rd] and St. Patrick's Day Parade. Please check out the AOH website -http://www.ulsteraoh.com/ for more info.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE WED, MARCH 18, 2009]
The League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region will be hosting a discussion of the New York State budget with Rarbara Bartoletti, LWVNYS and Jay Gallagher - the head of the Gannett news bureau in Albany, NY. Please contact the League [links provided] for more information.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATES 3/21/09 and 3/22/09]
March 21st and 22nd, 09 - Hudson Valley Mall: "Lions Expo 2009" [primarily a fund-raising event geared towards aiding some community organizations; assisting families in need; and providing scholarships...] Please check out the Kingston Lions Club website - http://kingstonlions.com/ - for more info.

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT [EVENT DATE: 4/25/09]
Saturday, April 25, 2009: Earth Day Street Fair: Clinton Ave. United Methodist Church / More Info. Pending. For now, check out http://www.planetization.com/

Click Photo to Link up to a Beautiful You Tube Music Video

Photograph / Copyright by BF / Utilized with Permission
Quote and Poem (Most are Longer) from "Sunday Screw"
"When a child is allowed to die because he has no place to live, what is it? It is murder. Write it down" ["Elizabeth"; Character in a book by Jonathan Kozol (1988): "Rachel and Her Children..."; Crown Pub.; P. 144]

Poem ["Sunday Screw"; N.S.; iUniverse; 2007; P. 5 (Reformatted for Inclusion Here)]

"Trapped in Eden"

Vice:

----- Anger is gnawing, like a rat, at your insides;
----- Envy and lust breed within, stifled cancers;
----- Gluttony and greed await your command miss;
----- Sloth says don't listen; he promises warm bliss.

Virtue:

-------- I feel no anger; only love grows within me;
-------- Envy and lust, sir, are traits of a beast.
-------- I live to serve, not to gain, for my God sir,
-------- I labor for all; why don't you do the same?

Vice:

----- Your cheeks have reddened; your palms are sweating;
----- Your heart is pounding in concert with mine.
----- I believe you are lying, your bright eyes revealing,
----- Hungers and passions your words would deny.

Virtue:

-------What you say is not true, sir!

Vice:

----- Oh yes, dear, I'd say,
----- You are caught in a biblical snare.
----- Seven sins court you; this garden deceives you;
----- You stroll through a grand serpent's lair.

Virtue:

------- My conscience is clear, sir; I've nothing to hide;
------- Your sins, they mean nothing to me.
------- My heart is pure; I have nothing to fear;
------- Leave me now; just let me be!

Vice: (Laughs then and shakes her)

----- You self-righteous fool!
----- You had a choice of great sins!
----- But instead you choose pride,
----- The prettiest lie.
----- And your torment my dear, just begins...

Book Price: $14.95 plus shipping and handling / Inquiries to wingedbirdinflight@live.com

Click Photo to Link to Bruce Springsteen Song "Blinded by the Light"... You Tube

Photograph/Copyright by BF / Utilized with Permission
Quote and Excerpt from "Ode... Book I"
"The longer... ignorance is persisted in, the higher and the more terrible becomes the price that must be paid" (Aldous Huxley; "Religion and Time")

Excerpt (reformatted for inclusion here) from P. 5 of "Ode to the Wicker Man" (Book I); N.S.; 2007:

"Call it what you will...

Label it hedonistic, ethnic, uncivilized, occult, fundamental, paranoid, traditional, religious, cultic, evangelical, Satanic, or whatever you damn well please...

[But] at least admit to this...

[One] cannot see angels, spirits, demons, Baron Samedi, Jehovah, God, Kali, Beelzebub, Jesus, Allah, Mohammad, Baal, Yahweh, Satan, Osiris, Set or little green extraterrestials in one's bellybutton...

[Unless] one is in the midst of a psychotic breakdown, experiencing delirium tremors, suffering from an extremely high fever, or on some serious brain-zapping drugs...

[And] if I (being female, Agnostic and relatively poor) were to walk around claiming to have a pink and yellow flamingo perched on my shoulder that whispers sermons to me, and graces visions upon me...

[Someone (most likely aligned with the rich, the powerful, and/or one of their favored institutions)] would probably lock my as* up...

[And] pump me full of antipsychotics...

[Until] I twitched like bacon on a hot burner...

[Or] otherwise attempt to silence, contain, maim, or de-brain me...

So, what is up with "that?"

My pink and yellow flamingo "Godette" - a transexual bird that likes to wear spiked heals, by the way...

[Never] tells me to eat shi*...

[Doesn't] shi* on me...

[And] doesn't advocate or tolerate any kind of exploitation, abuse, or murder...

But then, perhaps that is the problem.

Do ya' think?"

Excerpt (reformatted for inclusion here) from P. 7 (Same Book):

"Have we all been under a Voodoo spell?

Does the mind matter when we pay "what matters" (honesty, kindness, respect, human dignity...) little mind?

Is the power of suggestion, deception, Orwellian "group-think," brainwashing, "mind control," and intensive social engineering [what] witchcraft and religion are really all about?

If your mom and pop "Voodooed..."

Your schoolteacher "Voodooed..."

[And] your president "Voodooed"...

[Do] you think you'd...

Voodoo too?"

Book Price: $26.95 plus shipping and handling / Inquiries to wingedbirdinflight@live.com

Click Photo to Link to Bob Dylan's Song "The Answer is Blowing In the Wind"... You Tube

Photograph/Copyright by BF / Utilized with Permission
Quote and Excerpt from "Ode... Book II"
"Serpent... a sly, sneaking, treacherous person" ("Webster's New World College Dictionary; P. 1310)

Excerpt (reformatted for inclusion here) from "Ode... Book II" [N.S.; 2007; P. 454]

"Amongst all else that has been put forth here, the number of poor children in the United States of America had increased - by 2004 - under Born Again Fundamental-Evangelical President George Bush Jr.'s "divine" guidance - by over 500,000...

[More] children were counted among the homeless than at any point since the Great Depression...

[College] tuition costs (particularly at the Community College level) jumped considerably...

[The] number of personal bankruptcies (often due to an inability to pay medical bills) increased radically...

[And poor folks... that turned to drugs as an escape and/or means of survival...

[Were] slammed into prison cells at ever-increasing and alarming rates...

[Whilst] corporate criminals were able to get away with the equivalent of socio-economic genocide and/or murder...

[And] the requirements for outside "objective" oversight and reporting in association with a number of State and Federal departments... were radically reduced or eliminated...

[An] all out "War on the Poor" (A. Huffington; "Fanatics and Fools..."; P. 340) ...

[Apparently] underway..."

Book Price: $38.95 plus shipping and handling / Inquiries to wingedbirdinflight@live.com

May Peace Truly Prevail On Earth... [Link to Video "Mother Theresa Quotes" You Tube

Photo / Copyright by N.S.
HEALTH RELATED LINKS / WARNINGS / RECALLS
medlineplus Heart Diseases
CDC - DHDSP - Heart Disease Prevention
CDC - DHDSP - Heart Disease Risk Factors
National Wear Red Day, DHHS, NIH, NHLBI
Heart Truth Lower Heart Disease Risk, DHHS, NIH, NHLBI
Peanut Product Recall
Recall Case Archive
NIH - Diabetes
CDC - Women's Health - Home
CDC Features
CDC Health-e-Cards Welcome
http--www.fda.gov-oc-po-firmrecalls-cropwellbishop01_09.html
N C H S Home
FDA MedWatch - 2009 Safety Alerts for Human Medical Products
Recall of Products Containing Peanut Butter Salmonella Typhimurium
Links Associated with Blog Posts...
"WSJ profile of Joshua DuBois" / Religious Right Watch
JFK on the Separation of Church and State" / You Tube
"House Passes Stimulus Plan With No G.O.P. Votes"; Jackie Calmes; "New York Times" (NYT) Online; 1/28/09
"Fair Pay Law Strikes A Blow For Equal Pay"; Nina Totenberg; NPR.org
Thomas.Loc.Gov
Re. Joshua DuBois / PolitckerNJ
"Obama calls $18B in Wall Street bonuses 'shameful'"; Ben Feller, AP; 1/29/09; Road Runner
USDA re. Super Bowl Parties / Health Issues
National Partnership for Women and Families
You Tube Video
"Leaders Say Obama Has Tapped Pastor for Outreach Office" New York Times Online
"House Passes Stimulus Plan Despite G.O.P. Opposition"; "New York Times" Online
"Obama set to sign equal-pay bill"; Philip Elliott, Associated Press (AP); 1/29/09
You Tube "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
MORE LINKS...
Obama warns of need for stimulus bill right away - Road Runner
Amid anger, Obama seeks right tone - Washington Post- msnbc.com
Obama lifts restrictions on kids health coverage - Road Runner
Barack Obama and Joe Biden The Change We Need Resource Library
Obama to Congress 'rise to the moment' - White House- msnbc.com
Obama signs bill extending kids health insurance - Road Runner
Obama plans review of faith-based policies - Road Runner
Barack Obama Change We Need Watch video and host or find a meeting
Obama to detail further compensation limits - Road Runner
What's Really In The Stimulus Package NPR
Obama Cracks Down On Influence Peddling NPR
YouTube - Obama Lashes Out At Wall St.
Mrs Obamas new roles as first lady mom-in-chief - Road Runner
YouTube - If Obama Doesn't Investigate Bush War Crimes, He Becomes An Accessory
In Kenya, A Wave Of Emotion As Obama Sworn In NPR
National Organization for Women Congratulates President Obama, Looks Forward to Restoration of Rights
NOW - VICTORY! State Child Health Insurance Bill Passes Senate
NOW Cheers Repeal of Global Gag Rule As First Step toward Worldwide Reproductive Justice
NOW - Promote Economic Recovery, Support Family Planning
oundtable Obama Reaches Out To Muslim World NPR
MySpace.com - Joe Biden - 100 - Male - Wilmington, Delaware - www.myspace.com-joebiden
MySpace.com - Barack Obama - 47 - Male - CHICAGO, Illinois - www.myspace.com-barackobama
LINKS, LINKS AND MORE LINKS...
1490 WKNY
92.7-96.9 WRRV "The New Rock Alternative"
94.3-97.3 The Wolf "This is Hudson Valley Country!"
Air America Media
Article: "Class Action Suit against Bush Crownies"
Article: "Gay NH bishop to offer prayer at inaugural... [AP; Road Runner]
Article: "Minister chosen for inaugural prayer service..." [AP; Road Runner]
Article: "Obama breaks from Bush and orders Gitmo to close"
Article: "Obama institutes ethics rules, freezes salaries..."
Arts Society of Kingston (ASK)
Auerbach for Comptroller
Change Gov / Newsroom / Blog
Change Gov/Plan
Chronogram Magazine
City of Kingston, New York - Government Agencies
City of Kingston, New York - Home
Colony Cafe / Woodstock... Poetry Open Mikes and More
Common Dreams News & Views
Contact Us Ulster County Press
eBay Deals
ERLC
Family of Woodstock
FDA Recalls, Market Withdrawals and Safety Alerts
Feminist Majority Foundation - Breaking News, Feminism from Affirmative Action to Sexual Harrassment to Women's Sports
feministing Main
HealthCare STAT -- Protecting Patients' Rights and Access to Care in Ulster County
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator from New York
Home AlterNet
Home Kingston Library
Kingston Area Public Access - Channel 23 - Time Warner Cable - Kingston, New York
Kingston Community Radio
Kingston Lions Club
League of Women Voters [NY State Offices]
League of Women Voters of the United States For Members
League of Women Voters of the United States Home
Logic over Liberalism - Windows Live
Mid-Hudson News Network - navigating the Hudson Valley!
Mike Hein for Ulster County Executive
MIX 97.7 - "The Hudson Valley's Best Music Mix!"
moveon.org Democracy in Action
National Partnership for Women
New York Dems
New York State Assembly - Members
New York State Assembly - Members [K. Cahill]
New York State Board of Elections Home Page
NPR.org
Project Sunlight
recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record, serving New York’s Hudson Valley and the Catskills
RIGHT TIME RADIO - Where your voice is heard... Fridays 6-7 PM on WKNY 1490 AM Kingston, New York
Rock the Vote register to vote, get educated, volunteer
Saugerties Town Hall - Lighthouse TV
Senator Charles E. Schumer
SeniorNet.Org
t r u t h o u t
The Daily Freeman Serving the Hudson Valley since 1871 (DailyFreeman.com)
The Hudson Valley Chronic - Volume 1, No. 1 - October 2009
The League of Women Voters of the Mid-Hudson Region
The National Organization for Women (NOW) web site
The New York Times - "Breaking News, World News & Multimedia"
The Phoenicia Times - Covering Shandaken, wild heart of the Catskills high peaks
Ulster County AOH
Ulster County Board of Elections
Ulster County Chamber of Commerce
Ulster County Democratic Committee
Ulster County Democratic Women
Ulster County Democratic Women Links
Ulster County Government Home Page
Ulster County Legislature
Ulster Publishing
ulstercorps Serving the Ulster County Community
VerifiedVoting.org Index
washingtonpost.com - nation, world, technology and Washington area news and headlines
Welcome to Obama for America
Welcome! KingstonCitizens.org
www.wpdh.com
YDA
YouTube - BarackObamadotcom's Channel
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
YouTube - hillaryclintondotcom's Channel
YouTube - Mychannel23's Channel
YWCA of Ulster County
MY BLOG LIST
the albany project - Front Page
Could Mixed Martial Arts Be Coming To New York? - The question is straight-forward: Could mixed martial arts, made popular by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) be coming to New York? The * Times-Unio...
17 minutes ago The Caucus
First Lady Lauds Transportation Workers - Michelle Obama visits another federal agency as part of her ambassador's role toward governmental workers.
43 minutes ago TV Decoder
Ratings: A Healthy Night For 'Anatomy' - CBS attracted the most viewers on Thursday during prime time, but for the third consecutive week, ABC won the night in the important demographic of adults ...
1 hour ago SPREADING OUR WINGS
VISION QUEST SONG... You Tube - I think I might have posted this before, but right about now I need to have it upfront and center (where I can try to draw some courage, strength and faith...
1 hour ago Green Inc.
Next Up: A Renewable Portfolio Standard? - And after that, renewables advocates will seek a carbon tax.
1 hour ago Freakonomics
Bring Your Questions for Lawrence Lessig - Stanford Law School professor *Lawrence Lessig* has spent much of his career focused on technology and the law, and how the two affect copyright. He repres...
2 hours ago Well
Slowing Down School Lunch - Many kids get less than 10 minutes to gobble down their school lunch.
6 hours ago Ulster County Politics
Kingston may place a six-month moratorium on new billboards - Kingston: February 19, 2009. Eighth Ward Alderman Robert Senor, the chairman of the council's Laws and Rules Committee gives The Kingston News a Brief rund...
14 hours ago kingston progressive
PATAKI FOR U.S. SENATE? - I know, you think I'm crazy. But I'm not making this up. One of the AP sources I follow, says George Pataki met with John Cornyn, the head of the Senate R...
16 hours ago Ira Fusfeld, Publisher
And so it goes - Next round of bad news in the regional newspaper business comes to you today from Catskill and Hudson, where the dailies serving those communities are cutt...
1 day ago Kingston Citizens
High-Speed, Wait, Slow Down - Did you hear that Amtrak was looking for several billion dollars of the stimulus package to use for its rail upgrades, specifically high-speed rail develop...
1 day ago Common Sense in Ulster County and Beyond
Save Kingston's Festivals!! - This morning in the paper I (as many of you) read about the cancellation of the Mardi Gras Festival on the Strand due to cost of insurance and Police relat...
1 day ago City Editor's Blog
Bailout blues - For nearly 18 years, my wife and I have made our monthly mortgage payments on time and in full. Never late. Never anything less than the total amount on th...
1 day ago "Life," I wrote.
Pets 2009, composition e-mail submissions -
1 day ago Blabbeando
Buffalo plane crash victim remembered for HIV prevention work, not for gay men's health advocacy work - Bronx-native Ronald Gonzalez, who dedicated his life to improving the life of disenfranchised youth and was a long time HIV prevention and gay men's health...
1 day ago Ulster County Mojo
Coincidence? - According to yesterday's Daily Freeman, Prism Solar Technologies is seeking Ulster County IDA assistance so it can move from its current offices in Lake Ka...
1 day ago Cahill on Kingston
Condolences to the Teetsel Family - I was very saddened this morning to learn of the passing of Dwight Teetsel, son of Alderman Al Teetsel. My heart truly goes out to the Teetsel family. This...
1 day ago the right outlook
A Very Good Read - There is a gentleman whose site I often read. He presents articles that are considerably "deeper" than the average blog, but often are cause for deep think...
1 day ago Ulster Politics
Memo to Patricia Doxsey - MEMORANDUM TO: PATRICIA DOXSEY FROM: ULSTER POLITICS SUBJECT: DISAGREEMENT IS NOT PARTISAN BICKERING The Daily Freeman’s reporter for Ulster County is...
2 days ago Hudson Valley Labor Report
It's That Time Again.... -
2 days ago KingstonTruth
Who is going to bail me out? - Chrysler needs another $5,000,000,000. What about us? Who is going to help us when we lose our jobs and can't pay our bills? Will the government lend me $1...
2 days ago Independent Ulster
Governor Patterson, WTF are you doing? - click on the picture to ENLARGE it I don't get Governor Patterson. He acts like he's serious about changing the ways of Albany. He even said that if NYS d...
3 days ago Jacobs Live People for People
"LET'S MAKE A DEAL" - So often today we the people get sidetracked in our daily lives by the phrase *"Let's Make a Deal".* Many individuals are looking out for themselves in how...
5 days ago DemWomen Brewing Change
Krugman's Book - Audrey suggested that we read Paul Krugman's latest book *The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008* (Norton). It is reviewed in depth in t...
1 week ago Blogging for America
Lilly Ledbetter - Gail Collins' column in today's NYT puts Lilly Ledbetter in a small crowd of other women who have taken on their employers in the name of fair pay, and whi...
3 weeks ago Common Sense Disaster Preparedness
COLD!!!!!! - We in the Hudson Valley are in for some extremely cold weather over the next couple of days including temps in the negative digits. Just a couple of thoughts...
5 weeks ago Blog Archive
▼ 2009 (108)
▼ 02/15 - 02/22 (13)
VISION QUEST SONG... You Tube
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton... You Tube Vi...
Some Interesting You Tube Videos...
Michael Moore's latest project You Tube... My Let...
U.C. Registered Sex Offender Open Meeting and Asso...
Signing Off this Day in PINK... You Tube Videos
Cancelation Finance Committee Meeting... KAPA Fund...
Combo Post... KAPA... Newspapers... Cities and Tow...
Your Home Town... Photo Shoot... Think About It.....
President Obama Addresses Economic Crisis... Note...
Campaign Financing: New Twist On Old Problem... W...
A LOT TO THINK ABOUT - RELIGION AND POLITICS - BIL...
A Hidden America... You Tube... New York State.....
► 02/08 - 02/15 (12)
Polls... Scrabble... Clue... Life... Funny Madaga...
Announcements and Polls in Sidebar... VISION QUES...
Native American Indian Dream Catcher... You Tube
How Hungry is America... US Senate 2009 02 11 Nan...
Abraham Lincoln's Birthday / Passing Some Info. O...
Cleaning Out my Favorites List... Passing Some In...
Price of Silence... Hillary Clinton 2007 HRC... ...
Truth... Enough is Enough... Sorry Mike... Chec...
Stimulus Plan Passes in Senate... Back to the Hous...
Weatherization Program... Obamas Reinvestment and...
Teen Pregancy Prevention... Youth Empowerment... ...
A Rubix Cube of Musings... Creativity... Artists....
► 02/01 - 02/08 (21)
Local Meeting on Obama's Economic Recovery Plan......
For Today's Meeting... Videos Below Regarding the ...
Obamas Weekly Address... Everyman... Jackson Bro...
Stimulus deal reached... Link and Video
From Barack TV...
Its a New Day.... Stimulus Plan... Have a Heart.....
Go Red for Women Day... Women and Heart Disease.....
Support Agressive Action Regarding Wall Street Gre...
Update Regarding Saturday's "From Hope to Reality"...
Contact your Senators now... Obama's Economic Rec...
IMPORTANT NOTICE RE. "FROM HOPE TO REALITY"... BAR...
From Hope to Reality... Obama's Economic Recovery ...
You Tube Videos on Barack Obama's Economic Recover...
League of Women Voters... Kingston City Council M...
Reminders for the Day... Obama Economic Recovery ...
Passing it On... Email From Obama... Economic Rec...
Public Notice Re. Kingston Common Council Caucus M...
Regarding the Posts... Local Politics... Activists...
Local Politics... 08 - 09 Activists... Kingston ...
Some Neat Stuff... Photo... You Tube Videos... A...
This Week's Meetings... You Tube Videos... Serio...
► 01/25 - 02/01 (11)
Passing it On: Obama... Holding Bush and Cheney ...
JFK on Faith and Politics You Tube... National Ne...
"The Universal Declaration of Human Rights" You Tu...
Activism in Action... Passing It On... Family Plan...
► 01/18 - 01/25 (22)
► 01/11 - 01/18 (16)
► 01/04 - 01/11 (13)
► 2008 (2)
► 12/28 - 01/04 (2)

COPYRIGHT NOTICE
The photos, printed materials and other materials on this website are protected by copyright laws. Please submit any inquiries re. the reproduction or further usage of these materials to wingedbirdinflight@live.com. Written permission --- by author / authors / photographers / etc. --- is required for any republication or usage of the materials on this blog.

i'm done watching this