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News for June 1 "Five More U.S. Banks Fail" "U.S. banks are collapsing" Remember... Stormy Future... News for May 28 You Inky Al-Jihadi Give Him A Hand Our Debts... You Know This One... Liberty... Why Can't Truth Overcome Lies... News for May 25 Executive Order 13522 - Creating Labor Management Formus in Federal Government DoD Memo: Establishment of Labor-Management Forums in the Department of Defense News for May 24 A Bad Month... Free Trade... Ecological Disaster... Backdoor Legalization... Crapthink... Filthy As Always... News for May 19 BPA in Cans Poses Health Threat - BPA Found in 92% of Cans Tested - U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked to ban BPA in food packaging Having Health Problems? Guess What...BPA Pervasive in Our Canned Food How much BPA is in your food? More than was previously thought... News for May 12 Data Seizure at the Airport - Not a stretch to see it happening in Kansas News for May 11 McChrystal's War Plan Viewed As Failure News for May 10 Bungling Petroleum - British Petroleum - BP... Off-Shore Drilling Dead... What will tomarrow bring... Clean Hydrogen would avoid this... News for May 06 April Iraq Casualties Lieberman: Strip terror suspects of their U.S. citizenship - So anyone accused, ANYONE? Not convicted? Complicit Agents of Crimes Repeats...Repeats News for Apr 29 Wall Street Grins as Washington Fiddles Palindrome - Watch/Listen Carefully Mars or Bust... Sheriff... Front Burner... Business as Usual... Yep... Census Reveals... Oil and Water... Just Like Government... Priced Out of Reach... News for Apr 28 Army surgeon general notes concern about drugs prescribed to wounded soldiers Feeling Warehoused in Army Trauma Care Units Little progress so far in southern Afghanistan News for Apr 27 Obama signs law to protect Tricare Protect Yourself, Do NOT Travel in/to Arizona... Out of Control Greed... Finest Politicians Money Can Buy... Why DRAFT Won't Work... Arizona Facism... News for Apr 26 Brig. Gen. Stephen Townsend: [Suicide] "It's bad for soldiers, it's bad for families, bad for your units, bad for this division and our Army and our country and it's got to stop now," he insisted. "Suicides on Fort Campbell have to stop now." Cheating US Workers News for Apr 22 FLRA ordered agency to negotiate over three proposals regarding bargaining unit workers' access to dining facilities at a military base FLRA ordered agency to negotiate over two proposals regarding bargaining unit workers' access to a base exchange and commissary Born to Lose News for Apr 21 The Paycheck Fairness Act: Now an Economic Imperative When the Union's Die, This is How You Will Work News for Apr 20 Soldiers in "Wikileaks" Unit Apologize for Violence Colorful... Short Memories... Anti-Tax Pros... The Herbal Party... An Example of Why 80% Don't Trust Government... News for Apr 19 Blackwater [XE] Indicted for Violating Federal Firearms Laws Lie to Congress; Get Fourth Star News for Apr 16 AFGE Campaigns against Use of Potentially Harmful UV Flashlights - This is why Unions are needed! News for Apr 15 How Americans Benefit from New Health Care Law The troops were, in essence, used as bullet magnets. News for Apr 14 More than 53% of your taxes go to the military. Some also want a war tax Gates criticizes leak of Iraq killings Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late More charges facing Iraq contractor The health insurance industry adds huge administrative costs to our system, not to mention the profits they siphon off. WellPoint is a parasitic middleman that adds no value, but actually increases the cost of health care for all of us. Anti-Government Extremists: On the Rise and On the March News for Apr 13 Union Proven Right, Free Traders Proven Wrong Winning Hearts and Minds Reality... How it works... Broken Government... Pretty Much... High Finance... No Logic... News for Apr 12 Ex-Bush Official Wiliing to Tesitfy Bush, Cheney Knew Gitmo Prisoners Innocent Pentagon Reeling After Cover-ups Exposed Why More Immigrants Are an Answer to the Coming Boomer Entitlement Mess De-regulation at its best... We ARE the World's Largest Arms Dealer After All... News for Apr 09 NarcoMex US Military Slaughters Sheep in Apology for Afghanistan Deaths News for Apr 07 March Iraq Casualties March Afghanistan Casualties Youtube Video (as seen on NBC) Maligning U.S. Military News for Apr 05 A Society Consumed by Locusts: Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues News for Apr 02 Carrying a Backpack of Sorrow ... Soldiers on the Edge of Suicide War Profiteer KBR Sued for Stealing from Taxpayers Pentagon to Increase Security Measures Thrift Savings Plan Funds Bloom in March Inherently Governmental Defined The Federal Reserve In Hot Water News for Apr 01 Federal Judge Finds N.S.A. Wiretapping Program Illegal News for Mar 30 EPA Lists Bisphenol (BPA) as a 'chemical of concern' So our government tortured and lied about this person and it took a U.S. Court to reveal the truth News for Mar 30 FDA pressured to combat rising 'food fraud' WARNING: Thousands swindled using soldier-in-need ruse An Interesting Editorial on how a State can be seen as facist News for Mar 26 Parts & Parcels News for Mar 22 Financial Crisis Continues as Banks in Five More States Fail News for Mar 18 Reports of Military Sexual Assults Rose 11 Percent Stop Mistreating Working Women! Yale Researchers: Exposure to BPA may cause permanent fertility defects News for Mar 16 U.S. Military Accused: Killed were Afghanistan Police Commander Dawood his pregnant wife, his brother (a local procecutor), another pregnant woman, and an 18 year old girl. Military offers $2000 per person killed. Of torture and murder by U.S. Government employees, condoned by politicians Interesting paper on manufacture of BPA News for Mar 15 Wasting a thousand billion on oil wars and now... The New McCarthyism Do nothing politicians... Not really... Yep... Ever increasing insurance premiums... All thanks to do nothing polticians and people who like paying more for less... Still think doing nothing is better?... Definitely not all there... News for Mar 12 GAO analyst critical of Joint Strike Fighter program's cost overruns, delays Good Debt, Bad Debt Afghanistan Debate: Rep Donna Edwards Afghanistan Debate: Rep Alan Grayson Afghanistan Debate: Rep Ron Paul Afghanistan Debate: Rep Cheillie Pingree Afghanistan Debate: Rep Dennis Kuciich Drinking From Plastic Raises BPA Levels 70 percent Tests show Bisphenol A in a range of US canned food products including DelMonte, Campbells, Progresso, Similac. BPA Worries Food Manufacturers Food Makers Battle to Avoid BPA Containers News for Mar 11 Majority Rule 3.10.2010 AARP Speaks Out Against BPA in Our Food News for Mar 10 Attacks on federal employees, facilities a hot-button issue at union conference News for Mar 09 With TSA Administrator in the Wings, AFGE renews call for bargaining rights Alarm Bells Sounded Over Skyrocketing Number of New Anti-Government Groups U.S Marines Accused of Lying - Fiction of Marjah as City Was US Information War News for Mar 08 Congress to Debate to Continue Afghanistan War U.S. Military Embraces Convicted Felons in Afghanistan Afghanistan's My Lai Massacre - Is it true the U.S. military is doing nothing about these? UN Envoy Says Afghan Strategy Is "Too Military-Driven" Fiancial Crisis Continues - More Banks Fail in Florida, Illinois, Maryland and Utah The richest and most powerful country on earth is subject of damning report to the U.N. Human Rights Council. Guess Who? Are you helping the enemy... Kentucky Derby Clown... Yep... News for Mar 05 Horrible - Shooting at Pentagon Senator Warns Against Awarding $1B Contract to Blackwater Criminals The Big Lie News for Mar 04 DoD Reveals More Illegal Domestic Spying on U.S. Citizens After Poisoning/Killing Our Troops, KBR Still Get U.S. Contracts? Past Presidents Plummeting Death Reform News for Mar 03 VA [Finally] Agrees to Take Second Look at Thousands of Gulf War Vets Disability Claims Sliding Backwards on Iraq - Is the Military Really Running the Government? Criminal Blackwater [X, Paravant, Preidential Airways, Blackwater Lodge & Training Center, US Training Center Inc] Migrains Multiply News for Mar 02 TSP returns more in February Bipartisan Brawlathon News for Mar 01 Trust issues raised at first meeting of labor-management council The cost of doing nothing on health care Wall Street Journal Recommends Walking Away From Your Home BPA Raises Risk of Asthma in Kids 90 Percent of Cord Blood from U.S. Babies Tests Positive for BPA Yep Same Ole S... A Gouging We Go... News for Feb 26 Marine Corps leader stands against gays in military Wimpy Democrats Vote to Extend USA Patriot Act for 1 Year Despite Known Continuing Abuses Fix is in for criminal Blackwater to get another DoD contract Senate Panel Blasts Blackwater Over Theft of Assault Weapons, Civilian Deaths Angela Braly Cooking the Books to Justify Massive Blue Cross Rate Hikes US Using Iraqi Political Discord to Justify Continuance of Occupation News for Feb 24 Troops dying for military politics to justify Afghan war to U.S. citizens - B.S. as usual 'Don't ask, don't tell' repeal faces long battle Senior US military leaders tell Congress they oppose moves to quickly repeal or suspend policies barring gay soldiers National labor leaders back AFGE in effort to organize screeners Example of how big money works in U.S. health care As usual, OPM does not have a clue BPA poison omnipresent in U.S. foods...large beltway law firm says "you don't have the right to know" President above law according to DOJ Lying taken personally as it should be News for Feb 23 Afghan Push...Not Going So Well Probes Overlook McChrystal's Role in Costly Afghan Battles Terroism Law, McCarthyism AGAIN News for Feb 17 TSP's international fund continues to slide Beware Fear's Racist Temptation News for Feb 16 TSP funds slip in January Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek - From This One Learns Law Does Not Apply to Everyone...Therefore Law Applies to None News for Feb 12 Blackwater [XE, Preidential Airways] Accused of Defrauding U.S Taxpayers News for Feb 11 Hundreds of Backwater [AKA "XE" AKA "Presidential Airways"] Contractor-Thugs Ordered to Leave Iraq Women Continue to Face Sexual Assault While In Military News for Feb 10 Were is all the money going? ($700+Billion per year) There is No Agreement For U.S. Troops To Operate In Pakistan But... ABC: Soft Drinks Linked to Pancreatic Cancer Risk FTC probing CVS Caremark's [Supplies Drug Prescriptions for Most Federal Employees] prescription drug practices Industry Out of Control: Obama Administration Demands Anthem Blue Cross Justify Massive Rate Hikes Tom Tancredo Urges Tea Party to Embrace Racism Down the Hole... Unions Contribute Less than 1% of Campaign Contributions and Yet They Are Equated With... The U.S. Space Program Dies... Screw the Humans... How it really works...Just ask a waitress... No chioce at all... News for Feb 9 Study: Soda drinkers at increased risk of pancreatic cancer - Due to BPA in the can? WEBMD: 2 Sodas per week raises cancer risk 87% NTEU National Vice President Frank Ferris Discuses Requirement to Bargain Ground Rules in FLRA Decision: Dept of Treasury, IRS and NTEU, 64 FLRA No. 67 (2010) Federal Employees with Blue Cross Blue Shield Standard Ripped Off Purchasing Generic Drugs News for Feb 8 The only reason to end 'don't ask, don't tell': military effectiveness Health Care Spending Skyrockets and Shows No Signs of Tapering Scary - The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism - Part 1 The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism - Part 2 Newly-Frugal Guy Tackles the Deficit News for Feb 4 Defense budget tackles major management issues Colin Powell shifts stance on "don't ask, don't tell" policy Unconstitutional So-called Patriot Act News for Feb 3 Joint Chiefs Chairman Mullen supports right of gays to serve in military DoD Panel will study impact of gay ban repeal on military Unremitting Ambition [GREED] Tempered by Political And [U.S.] Military Failure Despite Law, Equal Pay For Equal Work Not Happening Not A Defense Budget...A Death Budget President's YouTube Interview News for Feb 2 Six More Banks Fail Federal Employee Lags Far Behind Industry The State of the Union We'd Like to See Aid Quake Our True State... Yep... Bought and Sold Every Day... Nightmare Continues... The End Cycle... Monopolies... Just Sad... No Substance Here... News for Jan 25 Join AFGE Local 3615 in the Haiti Relief Effort AFGE Local 2924 Wins Significant ULP Bill to boost oversight of FEHBP prescription drugs No Justice in U.S. Courts for Iraq's Murdered By Blackwater Gates Confirms Blackwater Thugs in Pakistan Financial Crisis On-Going as Banks Close In Five States New Classes of U.S. Citizens: Corporations, Consumers, Warriors, Prisoners U.S. Republic Sold To Highest Bidder...Democracy Now Just A Sham-Word Declining U.S. Birth Weights Possibly Linked to BPA? BPA Low Birth Weight Connection Corporation Money Wins Again...FDA says it's unable to regulate BPA Big Money Wins Against You... Who Owns You... What Supreme Court Has Done... Compliments of Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, Kennedy and Alito... News for Jan 22 CDC: "Bisphenol A (BPA - Used as a can liner and in #3/#7 Plastics) is another toxin ... More than 90 percent of those tested in the CDC study were found to have BPA in their bodies" BPA found in 90% of newborns HAITI: "There are 200 flights going in and out every day, which is an incredible amount for a country like Haiti," adding, "But most flights are for the U.S. military." Amen... News for Jan 19 Health Human Services Issues Warning on Feeding Infants And Toddlers Food From or Using Bottle/Cups/Etc Made of Plastic BPA - Used in Cans, Plastic Food Containers - Linked to Heart Problems and Cancer - Now Banned in Canada Scientists: FDA Knew About BPA Dangers ABC News: BPA in Soda Pop Cans, Other Food Containers FDA Issues BPA Warning: BPA Causes Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity, Brain/Liver/Prostrate Problems Click Here for Wikipedia Link on How to Identify Plastic Containing BPA Haiti earthquake: How to help - A list of charitable organizations Limbaugh Denigrates Helping Haiti Even As Our Troops Do Their Best To Help All But The Radicals Another DFAS (contractor) Screw-up: 18,000 pay statements sent to wrong addresses Brass: Leaders must beware self-radicalization - 1st Step, Don't Lie To Troops Protecting The Force Healing Suicidal Veterans: "Military Efforts Are Disgraceful" Only The Guilty Are Afraid Of Recordings News for Jan 15 DEFCON Announcement Schakowsky Prepares Legislation to Ban Blackwater (XE) - Well Earned Banishment Meet Mikey, 8: U.S. Has Him on Watch List - Just Plain Stupid Insanity: Obama wants record $708B for military next year- Rest of the World Combined Spends $170B Mullen lawyers: Delay overturning of gay ban - "It's not a good idea to change the law right now" Charges filed against non-deployed single mom - Its a man's world What Commitment to End the War?... The Big Sell...Different Words...Same Actions... What So Many Seem to Believe... Thanks to GREED!... A Classic Re-run... News for Jan 14 New VA Statistics Show Young Veterans Committing Suicide at an Alarming Rate OPM official Griffin emphasizes workplace diversity Only Fox Would Pay The Dumb Cluck... Just Wrong... News for Jan 13 Suicide prevention continues to elude Army leaders And They Continue To Get Away With It... He Has The Right But Is Completely Wrong... Insurance Industry Wins, People Get Screwed... News for Jan 12 Labor leaders pitch health bill concerns to Obama AFL-CIO President: Lawmakers Lack "Political Courage" to Tackle Unemployment Full-Body Scanners Used on Air Passengers May Damage Human DNA Three Approved GMO's [Corn] Linked to [Human] Organ Damage No Heart... Human Nature What It Is... Just Wait And See... Gone With The Wind... News for Jan 11 Perfectly Safe Airlines 1.06.10 New Years Redux 12.30.09 Ho Ho Whoa 12.22.09 Bonusmas 12.16.09 Science-gate 12.09.09 Exit Interruptus 12.02.09 Happy Thanksgiving 11.25.09 Terrorist Lockup II 11.18.09 Learn to Speak Tea Bag 11.11.09 Time Flies 11.04.09 Credit Reform 10.28.09 Balloon Bank 10.21.09