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Let @BP_America know the #OilSpill is important to you

joelmackey — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:56:55 +0000

What is most tragic about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is that it could have been taken care of and addressed much sooner. When the tragedy first hit, BP Oil made some deceiving statements to locals. Cade Thomas, a fishing guide in Venice, worried that his livelihood will be destroyed. He said he did not know whether to blame the Coast Guard, the federal government or oil company BP PLC.

“They lied to us. They came out and said it was leaking 1,000 barrels when I think they knew it was more. And they weren’t proactive,” he said. “As soon as it blew up, they should have started wrapping it with booms.”

Government officials said the blown-out well 40 miles offshore is spewing five times as much oil into the water as originally estimated — about 5,000 barrels, or 200,000 gallons, a day. At that rate, the spill could eclipse the worst oil spill in U.S. history — the 11 million gallons that leaked from the grounded tanker Exxon Valdez in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989 — in the three months it could take to drill a relief well and plug the gushing well 5,000 feet underwater on the sea floor.

It’s time to see BP take their revenues and pay for the lives & wildlife they have ruined. If you have wondered how much money they bring in and if they have the resources to take care of this problem look at these numbers: BP is one of the most powerful corporations operating in the United States. Its 2009 revenues of $327 billion are enough to rank BP as the third-largest corporation in the country. It spends aggressively to influence US policy and regulatory oversight.

Get on Twitter and tell @BP_America to take their billions and hold nothing back to fix this problem.

Please help by tweeting this tweet out on Twitter:
Let @BP_America know the #OilSpill is important to you http://bit.ly/BPoilspill

Peace, Love and Chicken Grease,
- webaddict

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First Celebrity Swine Flu Death

joelmackey — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:17:11 +0000

We know you’re probably very upset. Please leave your condolences in the comments section for this well loved star. Rest in peace Kermit. Dang you, Miss Piggy!

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Social Media takes AIG reputation to it’s knees

joelmackey — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:15:23 +0000

A lot of people don’t like to believe that the people have any power. Social Media may be changing that as the world has taken hold of an idea and had noticeable effects on company reputations, stock prices and news coverage. Check out this slideshow that details exactly how sites like Digg, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and the blogosphere powered action and influenced market moves and annihilated any standing reputation of AIG.

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Give Bush The Boot

joelmackey — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:33:06 +0000

So you’re sitting on your couch or in your easy chair and taking in the new president of the United States, Barack Obama. You can take part and show your individual feelings about sending President George W. Bush out of office with style, Give Bush The Boot!

It was on the winter day of December 14th, 2008 that “Giving Bush The Boot” became a way to show that you are ready for new leadership in the United States or in our case now, celebrating new leadership in the United States. In a Baghdad press conference an Iraqi broadcast journalist, Muntadhar al-Zaidi, threw his shoes at US president George W. Bush while Bush craftily dodged both shoes!

Now you can make sure Bush doesn’t dodge your boots and shoes. Print out the graphic below, tape it to your wall, a sign, your door or wherever you want and GIVE BUSH THE BOOT!!! Before you take part in this festivity though, get out your camera, video camera or start up your webcam and record your shoe throwing. Follow the directions below and we’ll include you in the YouTube Give Bush The Boot playlist you see playing below. Make sure you leave a comment here putting a link to your YouTube video or just leave us your feelings on Bush and let us know if you’re giving him the boot.

How to GIVE BUSH THE BOOT:

1. Save & Print out this image on your printer, CLICK HERE
2. Tape, Staple or place your paper somewhere you can aim
3. Find favorite shoe or boot
4. Start up your camera, video camera and record boot throwing!
5. Upload your video to YouTube
A. Try to use title, “Give Bush The Boot YOURCITY, YOURSTATE”
6. Comment here at OpenPressWire with a link to your YouTube video
7. OR email us at openpresswire@gmail.com with a link to your YouTube video
or raw video if you need help uploading to YouTube!

Take part in history, exercise your freedom and Let Freedom Ring by launching your favorite shoe at Bush while president Obama takes office.

Enjoy the GIVE BUSH THE BOOT playlist below, it will play all the way through without changing it. If your throwing isn’t added just email us or leave a comment! For those that don’t know you can skip any video in the playlist below by hovering your mouse over the current video and selecting the arrows or the small videos at the bottom.

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ATA urges Bush to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserves

joelmackey — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:28:08 +0000

Only hours after a “solidarity shutdown” in Pennsylvania the American Trucking Associations delivered a letter to President Bush urging him to release oil from the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve). It is expected even more trucking shutdowns will follow as high diesel prices are pushing trucking companies and owner operators out of business. The first shutdown was carried out in Vandergrift, PA with about 35 trucks and 60 people in attendance and was covered by Landline Magazine. Before this shutdown discussions have been going on at places like the Social Truckstop debating a nationwide trucking shutdown to save the entire trucking industry.

With those discussions brewing and small shutdowns taking place the ATA President and CEO Bill Graves on Monday released a press release and delivered a letter that urged President Bush to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an attempt to break the current run-up in crude oil prices before they further constrain the U.S. economy.

In a letter to President Bush, Graves cautioned that skyrocketing diesel prices will magnify the current economic slowdown and delay an economic recovery. Graves advocated for the Bush Administration to implement policies that will ensure a steady, affordable supply of oil for the nation’s 3.5 million truck drivers and all American consumers.

“We are very concerned that out-of-control energy prices will greatly magnify our current economic slowdown and delay our economic recovery,” Graves said. “If households have to spend their forthcoming tax rebate checks on energy, the stimulus will be significantly limited. The more consumers spend on fuel the less they have to spend on other goods or services.”

Rising fuel prices have been a significant burden on the trucking industry. The industry is on a pace to spend an unprecedented $135 billion on diesel fuel this year, $22 billion more than a year earlier.

The trucking industry is experiencing the highest prolonged fuel prices in history. Historically, fuel represented the second-highest operating expense for motor carriers. For many motor carriers, however, fuel is surpassing labor as their largest expense. This ultimately will increase the cost of everything delivered by truck.

More than 750,000 motor carriers in the United States transport nearly 70 percent of tonnage carried by all modes of domestic freight transportation.

To view a copy of the letter please go to: Letter from ATA CEO to President Bush Urging SPR Release.

The American Trucking Associations is the largest national trade association for the trucking industry. Through a federation of other trucking groups, industry-related conferences, and its 50 affiliated state trucking associations, ATA represents more than 37,000 members covering every type of motor carrier in the United States.

SOURCE: American Trucking Associations (ATA) and Social Truckstop

American Trucking Associations (ATA) Clayton Boyce, 703-838-7902

Recall: General Mills Progresso Italian-Style Wedding Soup

joelmackey — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:07:43 +0000

The largest beef recall in U.S. history on February 17th is still producing shockwaves of recalls throughout the country in products that utilize beef in their products. The latest product to fall under the major beef recall is General Mills Progresso soup brand. General Mills is not recalling all types of the Progresso soup brand but specifically the Italian-Style Wedding Soup.

There have been no illnesses reported and this is a voluntary recall done by General Mills and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Recall Covers:

Progresso Italian Wedding Soup
18.5 oz cans and 15.25 oz microwaveable bowls

· 18.5 oz. cans of Progresso Italian Wedding Soup, “Best if Used By” dates from 12OCT9 to 08NOV9, UPC# 41196-91505, CODE: 22511, GROUP: 1286

· 15.25 oz. Microwave Bowl of Progresso Italian Wedding Soup, “Best if Used By” dates from 12OCT9 to 08NOV9, UPC#: 41196-40339, CODE: 11311, GROUP: 1286.

Total numbers on the number of items being recalled have not been released. The true situation is that beef has not been labeled as having any bacteria or mad cow scare, which is typical for beef recalls, the recall is due to Hallmark / Westland Meat Packing Company in Chino, California not being completely and properly inspected by the USDA.

“Families should check their cabinets for this widely-distributed, popular product, and return unopened cans to the store for a full refund,” Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. said. “Anyone who has open cans or ‘bowls’ subject to the recall should throw the containers and food away.”

For more information, please call General Mills at 1-800-200-9377, the FDA at 1-888-SAFEFOOD or the Department of Consumer Protection at (860) 713-6160.

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File sharing site Rapidshare shut down by anti-piracy officials

joelmackey — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:38:59 +0000

Another blow to file sharing was made public on January 19th, 2008. As user’s cries and pleas rang out through forums and blogs on the Internet, news continues to leak about the shutdown of Rapidshare.com. Currently as this is released Radidshare.de is still functional, however, all Rapidshare Premium account holders have stated they cannot download.

Wikipedia has had over 20 different versions of the account with some of the first statements from RapidShare themselves. At first it was announced that over 360 Rapidshare servers collapsed due to overload and that the servers would be up within hours. As the clock ticked by users have become more irate and confused. There is now information hitting the press wire that German anti-piracy officials are involved.

An organization called, GEMA, which is a society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights has obtained from the District Court in Cologne temporary injunctions against the operator of the data exchange services www.rapidshare.de and www.rapidshare.com. The dot com version of Rapidshare was specifically targeted as GEMA members claimed their copyright protected works had been used in an unlawful way.

RapidShare services are well known throughout the Internet for file sharing. In fact, according to Alexa traffic metric’s service Rapidshare.com is ranked as the #11 website in the world. According to another competing and generally more reliable traffic analytics service, Compete.com, Rapidshare.com holds a ranking worldwide of 879. You can see screenshots from these ranking services below:

The RapidShare service allows users, both free and premium, to upload files onto their servers making the files publicly available and searchable through different search engines. A detailed press report from Heise Online states that the GEMA spokesman Hans-Gerwig Geyer believes that both Rapidshare sites should be taken down and not allowed to operate in their present way.

Very broad statements have been made by Harald Heker, the chairman of the executive board of of GEMA saying that this injunction and process could have sweeping effects for other sites like YouTube and MySpace. Mr. Heker sums it all up by saying, “the mere circumstance of shifting acts of use to users and the purported inability of the operator to control content do not relieve the operator of a service from the copyright liability he/she/it possesses for the content made available for download from the operator’s website(s).”

With statements being made about the Web 2.0 sites like YouTube and MySpace user’s have also been brought into question. It has also been stated by sources that GEMA officials and other related anti-piracy officials are looking into pursuing legal action against users who distribute and download pirated copies of software and movies from these servers.

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Iowa Caucus tallied by Israeli Defense Firm

joelmackey — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:15:22 +0000

ELRON ELECTRONICS:
The Israeli Defense Company
That Tallies the Iowa Caucus Released by Christopher Bollyn on December 31st, 2007 at 8:10am
The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation’s attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus? The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don’t expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American “democratic” election process.

VOXEO

In the summer of 2004, I first learned that a foreign and out-of-state company using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology tallied the Iowa caucus results.

The system used to tally the 2004 Iowa caucus results was provided by a company called Voxeo, which was apparently based in Orlando, Florida. (Yellow flag goes up in the mind of those familiar with Orlando and electronic vote fraud history. See Bollyn article on Wang below.)

The calls from the nearly 2,000 caucus centers in Iowa went to a Voxeo call center in Atlanta, Georgia.

On January 31, 2005, I wrote to Michelle Bauer, Iowa’s Secretary of State with some questions about the use of Voxeo, a foreign company located in Florida, to tally the results of the Iowa caucus:

Subject: How was the Iowa Caucus Tallied?

Dear Sirs,

When I visited the headquarters of the Democratic Party in Des Moines last summer, I learned that the tally of the Iowa caucus had been “out-sourced” to a company in Atlanta, Georgia.

What this means is that the tallying of the Iowa caucus results was done over the telephone, using the touch-tone buttons, to enter the results from each caucus location…

I am interested in how this was done, and why. Why did the Democratic Party allow the crucial tally of the caucus results to be done by a company in Atlanta? Don’t they trust their own math skills?

Can any of you provide any information about this matter?

Kind regards,

Christopher Bollyn

A person named Mike Milligan wrote back on behalf of Secretary of State Bauer:

Mike Milligan <milliganconsulting@mchsi.com> wrote:

Dear Christopher:

The Secretary of State forwarded me the email you sent to then on Monday, January 31, 2004 [sic] regarding the Iowa Caucuses.

Unfortunately you either received some incorrect information in your travels or are confused. The Iowa Democratic Party completed all of the caucus night tabulations in Iowa, in the Des Moines/Polk County Convention Center, which was the Caucus night HQ. In fact, our tech staff wrote the software that tabulated the results.

To answer your second to last question, we feel we have a comfortable grasp of mathematics.

Sincerely,

MWM

Mike Milligan, Executive Director
Iowa Democratic Party
(515) 244-7292 ex. 676

I wrote this note back to Mr. Milligan:

Dear Mr. Milligan, I am responding to you about how the caucus results for the Iowa Democratic Party were tallied on the night of the nation’s first caucus. After checking my sources, I can assure you that it is correct that an out-of-state telephone/computer system tallied the Iowa precinct results.

The system used was provided by Voxeo Corporation based in Orlando, Florida. The calls went from Iowa to a call center in Atlanta, Georgia.

See: http://www.voxeo.com/

This information was first provided to me last August by John McCormally, Communications Director for the Iowa Democratic Party in Des Moines, Iowa.

Today I called Voxeo (800) 305-5771 in Orlando and although I didn’t go into detail, the receptionist confirmed that Voxeo had conducted the telephone tally of the Iowa Democratic Caucus results.

How is it that you don’t know that?

McCormally told me that chairmen were selected in all 1,993 precincts and these chairmen called in on touch-tone phones and after giving their PIN number, were able to enter the results from their precinct using the touch-tone number pad.

I’m not going to go into great detail at this point, but this procedure of using an out-of-state computer company to tally the precinct results for the Iowa Democratic Caucus lacks the transparency and openness that one might expect in this exercise in grass-roots poll.

Clearly, if someone wanted to adjust the results, it would be the easiest thing to do to do it through this computer system in Orlando, Florida. The Democrats in Iowa would never be aware of it, regardless of their math skills, unless the paper results were carefully audited in an open and honest manner.

Christopher Bollyn

THE ISRAELIS & VOXEO

Now, who really is Voxeo, and why are the Iowa caucus results tallied by them? I don’t know if the 2008 Iowa results will be tallied in the same way, but I wouldn’t doubt it.

Voxeo is headed by Jonathan Taylor, who is the company’s President and CEO. This is what his Voxeo webpage says about him:

Jonathan combined his experience in both business operations and technology innovation to found Voxeo in 1999. Under his guidance, Voxeo has seen triple-digit revenue growth for four consecutive years and has been profitable since January, 2004. Prior to Voxeo, Jonathan founded and helped bring three additional software and infrastructure service companies to profitability. From 1995 to 1997, Jonathan was the founder and President of InterResearch and Development Group (IRdg), Inc. IRdg created and licensed iPost – the first internet powered OEM unified messaging solution – to leading telecommunications providers including Ericsson, Motorola and Unisys. IRdg was acquired by Elron Electronic Industries (Nasdq: ELRN) subsidiary MediaGate in 1997.

There you have it. Jonathan Taylor’s company, which he founded, was taken over by Elron Electronic Industries, the Israeli defense high tech company:

In its early days, Elron focused on defense, particularly electronics and avionics, as well as the emerging medical and technology sectors. In 1966, Elron founded Elbit, which combined the expertise of the Ministry of Defense-Research Institute in special computer design with Elron’s experience in electronic product design, manufacture and management.

Source: http://www.elron.net/default.asp?PageID=203

This is important information that Americans need to know and which they will not find in the Zionist-controlled media in the United States. It needs to be understood that the entire election process in the United States is a fraud. More than that, it is a fraud that is being perpetrated by the Israeli defense establishment on the naïve and gullible American public.

The sine qua non of an honest and transparent election process is the open counting of the votes by the voters themselves in each polling station in front of the open eyes of other citizens and members of the media. Any compromise in this most fundamental and essential process which acts to remove the citizenry from the vote-counting process simply cannot be accepted.

This is what Americans MUST get back to, in every polling station in the nation: paper ballots that are hand counted in front of the public.

Nothing else will do to protect their democratic franchise in the United States – NOTHING.

Christopher Bollyn is an independent journalist who needs the support of his readers. If you value his research and writing, please send a donation via PayPal to: bollyn@bollynbooks.com or shop@bollynbooks.com