Area PGR mission Staff Sgt. Linwood Brown, 71 Vietnam Veteran-tomorrow

HONOR MISSION

Staff Sgt. Linwood Brown, 71,

Vietnam Veteran

US Army, 82nd Airborne

28 APR 11

The wife of Staff Sgt. Linwood Brown has invited the Patriot Guard to stand in honor of his service to our country.  He served with the 82nd Airborne, was a Vietnam Veteran, and earned 3 bronze stars during his service.  Sgt Brown was medically retired.  It is now time for us to stand for him as he stood for us during his time with the Army.

The service will be held at Bethel AME Church, 501 W. Orange Ave. in Tallahassee, Fl. at 12:00p, followed by an escort to Oakfield Cemetery in Monticello, Fl. on County Road 257.

Stage:  10:50a  Winn Dixie parking lot, 110 Paul Russell Rd. (between S. Monroe & S. Adams near the fair grounds)

Briefing: 11:15a

KSU:  11:20a

Set flag line: 11:30a

Escort following service.  (Oakfield Cemetery Co. 257, Monticello, Fl.)

Flags will be available

Ride Captain Joe Parmer
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Workers Memorial day-April 28th, the dangers of working in America

Workers March after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

This year is the hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. We remember the 146 mostly young immigrant women who died; and we work so that immigrants today do not have to work under unsafe and unsanitary conditions.  We also remember the 29 miners who died last year in the explosion in that coal pit in West Virginia.  And we do not forget that this mine, owned by Massey Energy company, was cited for more than 3,000 safety violations since 1995.

Massey Energy owned and operated Upper Big Branch Mine where thirty-one miners at the site were killed in April 2010.

The FBI reportedly also launched a probe, investigating possible criminal wrongdoing at the mine, including criminal negligence and possible bribery of federal regulators. Questions about Massey Energy's mining safety practices, along with questions about CEO Don Blankenship's excessive spending on court appointment campaigns, are coming from the public, the Dept of Labor, and President Obama.

Massey Energy Mines has a long history of buying of politicians, safety inspectors and settling suits for money to avoid criminal prosecution for to many violations to list here.  You can find them here.


In 2009, 4,340 workers lost their lives on the job as a result of traumatic injuries, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). 

Each day in this country, on average 12 workers die because of job injuries—women and men who go to work, never to return home to their families and loved ones.

This does not include those workers who die from occupational diseases, estimated to be 50,000 each year—an average of 137 deaths each day.

Compare that to the current combined total of soldiers killed in combined in Iraq from 2003 to 2010, 3,519 and Afhganistan, 2001 to present according to wikipedia, 1,081.

In 2009, more than 4.1 million workers across all industries, including state and local government, had work-related injuries and illnesses that were reported by employers, with 3.3 million injuries and illnesses reported in private industry. Due to limitations in the injury reporting system and underreporting of workplace injuries, this number understates the problem. The true toll is estimated to be two to three times greater—or 8 million to 12 million injuries and illnesses a year.

Compare this to, 36,395 wounded in the Iraq war and 12,035 in Afghanistan to date. 

Obama's Birth Certificate released-Trump YOUR FIRED

Now the fun part as all those mainstream politicians that "duhed", and "I don't knowed" throwing gasoline on  the fire started by America's dumbed down racists, start doing the flip-flop dance.

But even then, you got to know that there will still be people that say this is a conspiracy, rather than admit they are wrong.

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The Corporate State Wins Again by Chris Hedges

Found here at Truth Dig.  Emphasis ours:  When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater? When did the press, labor, universities and the Democratic Party—which once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible—wither and atrophy? When did reform through electoral politics become a form of magical thinking? When did the dead hand of the corporate state become unassailable?

The body politic was mortally wounded during the long, slow strangulation of ideas and priorities during the Red Scare and the Cold War. Its bastard child, the war on terror, inherited the iconography and language of permanent war and fear. The battle against internal and external enemies became the excuse to funnel trillions in taxpayer funds and government resources to the war industry, curtail civil liberties and abandon social welfare. Skeptics, critics and dissenters were ridiculed and ignored. The FBI, Homeland Security and the CIA enforced ideological conformity. Debate over the expansion of empire became taboo. Secrecy, the anointing of specialized elites to run our affairs and the steady intrusion of the state into the private lives of citizens conditioned us to totalitarian practices. Sheldon Wolin points out in “Democracy Incorporated” that this configuration of corporate power, which he calls “inverted totalitarianism,” is not like “Mein Kampf” or “The Communist Manifesto,” the result of a premeditated plot. It grew, Wolin writes, from “a set of effects produced by actions or practices undertaken in ignorance of their lasting consequences.”  


Corporate capitalism—because it was trumpeted throughout the Cold War as a bulwark against communism—expanded with fewer and fewer government regulations and legal impediments. Capitalism was seen as an unalloyed good. It was not required to be socially responsible. Any impediment to its growth, whether in the form of trust-busting, union activity or regulation, was condemned as a step toward socialism and capitulation. Every corporation is a despotic fiefdom, a mini-dictatorship. And by the end Wal-Mart, Exxon Mobil and Goldman Sachs had grafted their totalitarian structures onto the state.

Florida Senate Sneaks RFID Drivers License, Internet ID into Transportation Bill

H/T Gypsy&Gold Iron: Floridians and the rest of the Country.  Would this be anything 666 like stamped onto your forehead???

Stay tuned for a post on how to disable rfid devices on a Drivers License.



TALLAHASSEE – The Florida Senate Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability on Wednesday approved an amendment to include “electronic authentication,” as well as “biometrics” to Florida Driver’s licenses. In addition, the amendment to SB 1150, which passed committee on a 12-0 vote, instructs the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to provide a security token that can be electronically authenticated through a personal computer.

The amendment can be seen here  an amendment

This new amendment lays the groundwork for radio frequency identification (RFID) chips to be implanted into drivers’ licenses. In much the same way that merchandise in a warehouse includes RFID tags to track items through the distribution process, RFID tags on drivers’ licenses would give authorities an additional tool to track anyone carrying a drivers’ license within the reception range of an RFID reader.

The Real ID Act of 2005, implemented in Florida on January 1, 2010, has integrated the more expansive personal data set collected by drivers’ license issuing agencies in the participating states into a national database.

In Florida, this database already includes biometrics in the form of computer facial recognition data, collected at the time one’s DHSMV photo is taken. Sheriffs’ departments in at least 22 Florida counties tap into the database as part of their facial recognition system, or FRnet, and feed real-time images from video cameras to instantly identify anyone whose face is in these cameras’ field of view.
This FRnet database, which is accessible to federal, state, and even local municipal agencies, also contains highly personal information, including scans of birth certificates, social security cards, marriage licenses, and other documents.