truedelphi's Journal - Democratic Underground

If you love dogs, don't read this link -

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:30:07

If you want democracy to continue to be part of the game plan, you must read

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/11/29/live-blog-for-occupy-movement-occupyphilly-occupyla-being-evicted-now/

Poor Lucky. Her owner is in jail, and possibly Lucky will be euthanized before the owner is released. ...

Yes and no. What really matters is who you are.

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:42:34

We citizens can sign various petitions that are dismissed out of hand by the WH.

We can watch out beloved community activists work for years and years, with true dedication, to see that the laws in each state are changed so that the ability for a sick person to have medical marijuana is recognize...

Yes if you add up all the promises, big and little,

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:43:49

He fulfilled 85%. He has been especially good at the little promises.

Bu the problem is, for most of us, the big issues were ignored. So while Monsanto was made stronger and stronger by Obama appointments, including pro-Monsanto Sotemayor on the Supreme Court, the small farmers suffered as they ...

Weather modification - an interesting article from archives of WSJ

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:28:08

WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTS -- 1997

NEWS BRIEF: "Malaysia to Battle Smog With Cyclones", by Chen May Yee, Staff Reporter of the Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal,

Thursday, November 13, 1997, page A19.

"KULA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's war on smog is about to get a new twist. The gover...

A decent report and some interesting numbers from an unlikely source:

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:47:13

From the URL: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Tom Coburn Flips Out Again-- But In A Good Way

Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is, at best, a crackpot. Usually his reactionary core is more powerful than his crackpot nature. But not always; sometimes the crackpot ...

For Those attending Occupy activities - here's a site abt the law should police harrass

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:32:14

You --

http://public.findlaw.com/civil-rights/more-civil-rights-topics/police-misconduct-rights.html

From the above site: Police officers generally have broad powers to carry out their duties. The Constitution and other laws, however, place limits on how far police can go in trying to enforce ...

Why are UC Berkeley students upset? Why will everyone "UC" be upset

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:25:16

Now I do not want to dismiss all the various reasons that the Occupy Movement is flourishing on the UC Berkeley campus. I am sure that given the hefty grade point average that most students there need to meet in order to even become students, they are outraged at economic inequality, the wholesale s...

You say - and I agree (but must quote you so can add to my journal -)

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:45:55

Comment from DeSwiss

Icelanders figured out that what the banks lent them wasn't money at all. Just air. Stale, rank, deadly air.....

Iceland Showed The World How To Become Free
URL is at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/01/1001662/-Icelands-On-going-Revolution
Contrary to what co...

If you only read one article about Soc. Security - make it this one:

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:39:33

The article has the words "Brain Damaged" in the header. Currently it is the top article, but if not, you'll need to scroll down.

http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/003566.html#more

Specifically regarding Social Security, we're currently tr...

Statins and our health - are anti-cholesterol drugs worth It?

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:30:06

A close friend of mine revealed to a group of us yesterday that her doctor pestered her so much about not being on anti-cholesterol drugs that she finally went on them.

Now, five weeks later, and she has developed Bell's Palsy. She feels terrible, as she knew that these were risky. She had heard ...

Thank you! I followed the Phillipine Uprising of the 1980's and

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:09:51

The very first thing the people there did in their very successful bid to get rid of Marcos' regime was to occupy the news media outlets.

And the media can't refuse us. It is OUR BANDWIDTH and OUR AIRWAVES they are using to destroy us. And the destruction has worked - we have only two very miser...

"Whose world? Our World!" Occupy Oakland right before the attack

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:56:49

Notice that everyone in this crowd looks so glum.

And then the retaliation - for being members of a nation where supposedly democratic actions are to be respected. I mean, we saw Hillary Clinton almost in tears over people in Egypt and Libya turning against their one percent.

http://www.ktvu.c...

So are we/aren't we, out of Iraq by Dec 31st 2011?

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:31:36

Seems things are still up in the air. No one seems to know for sure.

This report from five hours ago:

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/204907.html

The Pentagon denied reports Saturday that the U.S. abandoned plans to keep several thousand troops in Iraq after a year-end deadline, saying talk...

Everything happening last week, and this week, in California

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:12:41

Indicates how very much that the Empire wishes to keep drugs illegal, even despite the electoral wishes of an entire populace.

The drug culture has a lot of layers, each one revealing even more corruption than the level above.

Drug cartels in Mexico clean up one person who is then released int...

The first person they martyr - and it's over -

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:39:04

Doesn't anyone in Homeland Security remember what happened after Kent State? Someone should lend them a few news reels...

And one other thing - the stupidity of this Administration knowing no bounds - last week was the week that the Feds decided to get "tough" on medical marijuana her in Californ...

"Pres. Obama, you promised you would let the earth heal..." On C Span

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:14:31

Right now, the ordinary everyday people who are testifying about the intense damage to the water and the land that is expected if the Keystone Tar Sands Pipeline project continues to get the go ahead from our government.

You can watch on TV, or at C Span on your computer:

http://www.c-span.or...

Well Bloomberg news good enough for you? They obtained thousands of

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:28:37

Pages of doucments through the FOIA

And then, a very nice piece on this issue jsut came out today

http://www.nationofchange.org/first-federal-reserve-audit-reveals-trillions-secret-bailouts-1314633089

The first-ever audit of the U.S. Federal Reserve has revealed 16 trillion dollars in sec...

I can't be in NYC any time soon. So here's what I will do.

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:27:37

I call the WH every day to explain that the only way it is ever going to look like Obama works for the people, and not for Wall Street, is that he fires his "good Buddy" Tim Geithner, and that he allows
Geithner to face criminal charges.

If you don't know what criminal charges I mean, read Oct...

The bigger problem right now - the money for anything he proposes is already gone.

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:17:58

He was apparently looking the other way when all his friends on Wall Street were being offered up trillions of dollars via the Paulson/Bernanke/Geithner -- Federal Reserve-Treasury loopholes.

The audit fo the Federal Reserve that has only a little peek into goings on at the Fed showed some Nine T...

I am sorry but I am having a hard time abt the Geithner "disobeyed me"

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:18:49

Story.

I cannot for the life of me imagine an Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt, or a John F Kennedy, or a Lyndon Johnson, or a Jimmy Carter letting an appointee know that a great deal more was needed in terms of having a bank being placed under more direct supervision, and telling an appointee that m...

AND OBAMA'S JOBS PROGRAM IS MOSTLY ABOUT CONSTRUCTION JOBS.

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:45:45

No one in my age group will benefit from those.

A friend called to say that her daughter, a board-certified lawyer working for the City of San Francisco CA was given her pinkslip last week. Along with 211 other employees.

Yet every Talking Head has people from this Administration on TV braggin...

People on the right and people on the left make so many blatantly false

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:02:06

Comparisons, out and out false statements.

When my Congressman, a Blue Dog named Mike Thompson (And he proudly proclaims his "blue dog status" as a glorious and many splendored thing) shows a pie chart of the US budget for one year, he includes the Social Security spending as being one huge part...

Here is some more information:

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:52:23

http://www.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/tesla.htm

on edit [b]The modified car [/b] was a Pierce Arrow, one of the luxury cars of the period. The engine had been removed, leaving the clutch, gearbox and transmission to the rear wheels undisturbed. The gasoline engine had been replaced with a round, compl...

Well what i think is we need --a real FDR style Presidential candidate to stand up and to say

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 18:25:50

"I am aware of the biggest heist of the average citizen's dollars EVER! Some twenty trillion and counting, and most of it going to the largest Financial Players. I will return that money to the Government Coffers, and will no longer blame the unemployed, the elderly, the pre-mature baby et al for be...

When I vote in 2012 -

Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:54:33

I will not vote for EVIL.

Evil comes in many forms.

May 2009 - Evil is a woman, the First Lady, planting a garden that is "organic" and the newspapers swarm over to the Rose Garden/WH lawn and anyone who loves ecology feels good about the birds and bees, and the healthy food that the Obama O...