Wednesday August 17, 2011, 10:41 pm
"When FDA scientists were asked to weigh in on what was to become the most radical and potentially dangerous change in our food supply—the introduction of genetically modified (GM) foods—secret documents now reveal that the experts were very concerned. Memo after memo described toxins, new diseases, nutritional deficiencies, and hard-to-detect allergens. They were adamant that the technology carried “serious health hazards,” and required careful, long-term research, including human studies, before any genetically modified organisms (GMOs) could be safely released into the food supply.

But the biotech industry had rigged the game so that neither science nor scientists would stand in their way. They had placed their own man in charge of FDA policy and he wasn’t going to be swayed by feeble arguments related to food safety. No, he was going to do what corporations had done for decades to get past these types of pesky concerns. He was going to lie.

Dangerous Food Safety Lies

When the FDA was constructing their GMO policy in 1991-2, their scientists were clear that gene-sliced foods were significantly different and could lead to “different risks” than conventional foods. But official policy declared the opposite, claiming that the FDA knew nothing of significant differences, and declared GMOs substantially equivalent.

This fiction became the rationale for allowing GM foods on the market without any required safety studies whatsoever! The determination of whether GM foods were safe to eat was placed entirely in the hands of the companies that made them—companies like Monsanto, which told us that the PCBs, DDT, and Agent Orange were safe."

Wednesday August 17, 2011, 10:45 pm
WHAT THE HELL?!? Please someone get me an international petition link for this immediately. Obama needs to be drowned in letters, emails and signatures from all over the world, so many that he can't think about anything else. This insanity needs to be sorted out before this maniac destroys the planet.

Wednesday August 17, 2011, 10:53 pm
Who's advising President Obama, Joseph Mengele? What's in the water the President's been drinking. Obama has taken all the foxes as his advisers and expects them to do what to the chickens? I have been at this for some time and this madness just keeps growing! Speechless does not cut how I feel in the pit of my stomach.

Wednesday August 17, 2011, 11:12 pm
This is one of the sickest moves Obama has made since we elected him to bring us hope. Why am I feeling so hopeless? Because he makes choices like this. This one sickens me move than his choosing to fill his cabinet and with Bush's leftovers. I don't want this to be true. I want to believe in this President but this choice is not only ridiculous, it is challenging his party to support him in the wake of his slapping us in the face... all of us! This is like supporting Mengele, as Barbara mentioned. The great experiment with America's and the world's food sources that we already know are toxic. What is he doing? He does not want to win the race is all I can think. He's had enough of the BS and just chooses this way to cut us loose. Well, we'd better get started finding replacements in the primaries. OMG I really can't believe this move at this moment can mean anything but that Obama wants out. Thanks, Barbara. I join you in feeling at a loss.

Wednesday August 17, 2011, 11:27 pm
Monsanto's Friends - spanning five Administration's from Reagan on ...
George W. Bush

Bush, in effect, lobbies internationally for Monsanto

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Linda Fisher

Top lobbyist

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Robert J Stevens

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Wesleyan University

Wesleyan is invested heavily in Monsanto.

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Calgene

Monsanto bought out Calgene in 1997

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Pharmacia

Pharmacia purchased Monsanto in 2000

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Department of Homeland Security

George Poste, DVM on the Board of Directors of Monsanto and appointed to Bio-terrorism division of Homeland Security by George Bush.

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GD Searle & Company (Pharmacia Company)

GD SEARLE & CO., INC. is part of MONSANTO COMPANYalong with PHARMACIA CORPORATION,and PFIZER INC.

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Donald Rumsfeld

Left DoD to join Searle and champion Aspertame approval in 1976. Rumsfeld, the current secretary of defense, was president of Searle Pharmaceuticals, now owned by Monsanto.

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Michael A. Friedman, M.D

Former former acting commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Department of Health and Human Services Now senior vice-president for clinical affairs at G. D. Searle & Co.,...

Michael Taylor

Current head of FDA - Obama Appointee and Monsanto industry friend

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Lidia Watrud

former microbial biotechnology researcher at Monsanto Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri, now with the United States Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Effects Laboratory, Western Ecology ...

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William D. Ruckelshaus

former chief administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and over 12 years as a member of the board of directors of Monsanto Corporation

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Cornell University

Founder Ed Queeny dropped out of Cornell but the connection remained. Monsanto-funded rBGH trial at Cornell University was used to get FDA approval for the growth hormone and the ties are deep direct...

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Michael (Mickey) Kantor

Former United States Trade Representative, the Secretary of Commerce for the United States, and a member of the board of directors of Monsanto Corporation.

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Rufus Yrxa

Rufus Yerxa, Monsanto's chief counsel, has been appointed as the US deputy to the WTO.

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World Trade Organization

Rufus Yerxa, Monsanto's chief counsel, has been appointed as the US deputy to the WTO but from the beginning the WTO has worked for Monsanto. Once the dairy was settled it was on to hormone treated ...

One thing you will never ever learn in the M$M is that the disruptive protests at the Seattle WTO meant that the meetings that would have forced GMO's down the throats of the European populace were not held. So now we do have some independent researchers in Europe who are able to study GMO's and come up with important conclusions - such as University of Caen (France) researchers recently discovering that there are indications that GMO foods are damaging to our kidneys and livers. (But who among us really needs their kidneys or liver working properly?)

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Thursday August 18, 2011, 1:03 am
Is it the President's intention to CULL the population of the U S A ?

Thursday August 18, 2011, 1:53 am
We consider Monsanto to be this nations [and the worlds] biggest threat...far worse and more of a threat than any terrorist . This kills all hopes for us that Obama will turn and start a new for the next year. We've lost all hope basically with this final straw that we are all in deep deep trouble now. No 'party' fighting for the people what so ever. GOP/TeaBaggers know to be bad for the nation and now...the Dem side has gone over to the darkest center of the Corporate center. The biggest difference now between those mentioned [Indy's/libratarians also] is that the GOP/TEA Baggers are pushing that fake religion into everyone personal lives via gov. positions so for me they are out of the running totally,leaving...Obama once again. Personally I see it as just a slower and slightly kinder death of our nation as we once knew it. The people have to find a way to over throw them all now..and that can only be done if all pull together but as we know that isn't going to happen any time soon..Dubya managed to divide the nation so deeply that the blind faither s will fight any changes as to 'their side' and only embrase changes from the other side...which is what 'they' know . That is the most depressing part for me...that makes hope...a word of the past in my/our book.

Thursday August 18, 2011, 1:58 am
The blind faithers [rightcrazwingers/Tea Baggers] will hang in with their hope of having religion being an equal in our government ..ie...our personal lives....and my guess is that is why we will nor can we pull together at this point.

Thursday August 18, 2011, 10:46 am
You all deserves stars, gave them where I could. I wish I could give you better hope, darn I wish I could get us all together and have a group hug, we need it. I know there are still some who cling onto Obama as the lessor of the two evils but I'm not seeing much difference. As I said on another thread one Party has us going to our destruction at 100 mph and the other has us getting there at 80 mph, however we still will get there.

If he doesn't want to be President as Caitlin had suggested, then let him step aside and get someone else to be there. We need a strong Leader not one who is pandering to the Corporate Elites and the Tea Party crowd. If he thought he could win them over by doing that, he should get a clue by now, he isn't and he won't.

He has the blacks disgusted and angry at him too as they have some of the highest unemployment figures and he never even went to one black neighborhood on his bus tour......again, he went into the part of the Country that has a strong Tea Bag following. That didn't sit well with all those who are of color and are hurting, they pushed hard to elect him and it's like they are forgotten.

The masses need to realize that neither Party is doing things for us and when I didn't see a change of faces behind the scenes, as Caitlin mentioned, the Bush holdovers. When I don't see anyone being held accountable for the economic mess, when even places he could of done some things, like when all 3 parties were Dem's and they still extended the Bush Tax Cuts, the extention of the Un-Patriotic Patriots Act, and can't even close Gitmo....I knew we were not going to see any improvements with a new face in the White House.

Until the masses rise up it will be more of the same and it will continue to get worse, so hold on to what you got best you can in hopes that enough eyes open and there is a true change within the people themselves. If we have to by the millions go to Washington and pick them up and move them out of their offices and replace them with the commoners within the masses, then that might be the only way we get back our Country. The few who truly are on the side of the people, and we know who they are, will remain to help the commoners in their new positions.

We won't be the first Country that has had to do such extremes.

Thursday August 18, 2011, 11:45 am
"Until the masses rise up it will be more of the same and it will continue to get worse, so hold on to what you got best you can in hopes that enough eyes open and there is a true change within the people themselves. If we have to by the millions go to Washington and pick them up and move them out of their offices and replace them with the commoners within the masses, then that might be the only way we get back our Country. The few who truly are on the side of the people, and we know who they are, will remain to help the commoners in their new positions.

We won't be the first Country that has had to do such extremes."

And so it may be...Like you Dandelion, I'm betting on the human spirit that reaches the point of no return.

Thursday August 18, 2011, 12:59 pm
Jae While I have my hair pulling moments, and trust me, I surely do, I still believe that American's, fully understanding what's at stake, will rally and come together. Many are leaving the Tea Party in greater numbers because they finally came to their senses that they were being used, betrayed, by the likes of corporations best friend, Dick Armey, and other politicians that serve personal agendas. We forget that many of these disenchanted folks also depend on the very programs their crony friends are now working over time to eliminate.

These were folks who were already angered by the way things were going in the country, much as we all are, but now they're finding that they've been had by those they believed were on the same page.

Hope is eternal my friend. Throughout the history of the world, America, though a young nation, climbed to the top of the list of nations that supported free thinking and protections of rights. If "We" had not become so very complacent for so many years "We" would be way ahead of the game by now. "We" were lulled into complacency by media giants/Plutocrats/dynasty's with an agenda that goes back many generations. No conspiracy! Truth!

How often over the years have we heard a way out story and the powers to be squelched the story as a conspiracy, when it was founded on real time facts? Americans, being shut off from the world, less those who've had the ability to travel the world, were easy game. We were spoon fed our own personal version of propaganda while being made to believe that other nations were serving up propaganda.

I know those of you reading this are well aware of our past. But American's are very much waking up and most do not like what they're discovering. Someone told me that it was the middle class that led the marches that opened many doors to truth and I am inclined to believe that.

My dad was middle class when he took up his quest to be part of forming the unions so others could find comfort in a fair wage, fair treatment. If the unions never were able to get a foothold I would have less hope for our future. If other great deeds, acts, laws never transpired, came to pass, I would have less faith in America's tomorrow.

As a follower of the fisher of men, NOT remotely tuned into organized religions, I believe that Jesus and other prophets/great minds like MAHATMA GANDHI opened the door to our strengths. Regretfully, because of men's gr$$d & lust for empire, which is as old as the earth itself, we're needing to revitalize and use our strengths.

Unfortunately, many who call themselves Christians In America are following mans version, not the humble fisher of men.

In America "We" use the quote "United We Stand, Divided We Fall" Can't beat that for an idea of truth.

Jesus bade US love one another and judge not! As I've said many times "What A Concept"...... With an action towards equitable deeds American's have strengths they've yet to discover and it's up to folks like US to open that door of new possibilities.

As many of you know, I am fascinated with Jefferson and his tenacity to stand away from the fray in order to see the bigger picture. We seem to believe that Jefferson's just a story that generations passed down but, he was, is, an example of what still can be! He would say as much if he were here today! He believed in US, not the Plutocrats.

So suffice it to say, "We" must believe in our power? "We" cannot rely on legislative thieves, plutocrats and liars to continue ruining America and in her name, ruining the lives of others throughout the world?

People of the world are out in great numbers. Do all Americans, via the sellout media, know this truth? No! But folks like US are making them aware and I have seen the growth of people rallying, learning, growing and doing commendable things in the last 20 years. There was a time I wondered if we would ever get it and felt like the lone stranger in my quest for answers to important questions. "We" are the people of the world, good people, and we're not food for the jackals.

Thursday August 18, 2011, 2:50 pm
Industry pressure is difficult to resist. I know this is no excuse for the appointment, but I want to remind people that our choices are limited. If we want a progressive government then we have to work to get out the vote, spend money, and fight back in the same manner as the those against a sane society. $5 or $10 here and there to Democratic candidates who support our ideals are the best way to go. The last 3rd party candidate led to 2 wars and millions of deaths.

Thursday August 18, 2011, 6:46 pm
We have not had a third party candidate in office to lead to 2 wars.
We need to choose a candidate of our OWN not a corporte employee like the last several candidates have been. Once we pick him or her we need to campaign and rally behind them like progressives did with Obama. The hard part is getting liberals and progressives to stop clinging to the One Party System we're in now. I don't see that happening. Americans are so strongly opposed to third parties and independents because they listne to corporate propoganda. The Democrats would never allow a progressive candidate within their party get support.
Kucinich even siad he's really an Independent. That's why all the Americans, "liberals" and "progressives" who liked him refused to vote for him. He wasn't backed by the Democratic Party. Why? Because they are really conservative corporate hacks just like the Republicans.
We need liberals and progressives to go out and vote. Instead we keep getting self proclaimed liberals and progressives who go out and vote conservative corporate candidates.
Obama is a real piece of work.
I am still trying to figure out how a Republican would have been worse. I mean since everything about Obama IS Republican.

Friday August 19, 2011, 12:30 pm
WHEN a President like OBAMA (intentionally & conscientiously) appoints such a person to the FDA then we know this an action purposely to destroy our food, thereby destroying us all! What are we waiting for to take action on such a leader who does not care about anyone of us! The TIME IS NOW PEOPLE! Do we have any rights left! Even now for just speaking out you will be arrested & jailed! Thanks Barbara.

Friday August 19, 2011, 12:55 pm
What? Put the fox in the hen house.

Friday August 19, 2011, 1:01 pm
http://www.yvfh.org/2011/08/millions-against-monsanto-call-to-action-101611-world-food-day/

http://organicconsumers.org/monsanto/index.cfm
I really hate monsanto.

Friday August 19, 2011, 1:07 pm
I hope the sleepy nation of America has an attention span long enough to remember this on election day.

Is there anybody out there who still believes there is a difference between the two teams Red & Blue.
If his &ss isn't thrown out of office you will deserve what is coming.
I hope the ones awake will be able to stop this Obama-nation wrecking ball from further destruction.

Friday August 19, 2011, 1:39 pm
I have just been enlightened on this issue by all the excellent comments here. Someone said something about drowning Obama with letters, but may I suggest drowning him PERIOD!!.........well I mean politically of course lest we should have a misunderstanding!! I think we can most appropriately call this a "grave matter."

Friday August 19, 2011, 2:55 pm
What was Obama thinking? or has he pulled a Daniel Webster too?
Has anyone in government heard of ethics and conflict of interest? This certainly reeks of all ethical standards I know. And conflict of interest, well, I thought the FDA food czar was supposed to be caring for the welfare of the people, not the big corporations. In the article, David Sungenis commented on
August 18, 201111:25 am
"I pledge allegiance to the flags of the global corporations that rule America, and to the corruption for which they stand, one nation, under deceit, with sickness and disease for all."

Mr Obama, you must reverse your decision and toss Monsanto out of government on their corporate butts! This is about as big a conflict of interest as can be. The health of your nation depends on it. Monsanto will only drive up medical costa that could bankrupt the nation.

Friday August 19, 2011, 3:40 pm
OBAMA is not thinking, he is blinded by Gr$$d & killing all of us faster then we would of hoped for! Time for a revolution, there is no more time left to wait! Wait we wont even be here come October, our foods will be laced with poison & without food well Good-buy every body!

Friday August 19, 2011, 9:14 pm

A Change You Can Believe In

Friday August 19, 2011, 11:29 pm
Wow.... I'm speechless. How can this be???

Friday August 19, 2011, 11:50 pm
Sorry, in a mad dash, but had to check this out. Thank you for posting it, and to Henriette for forwarding it. Doesn't surprise me, he appointed Salazar, a cattle man to be Secretary of the Interior (Freaking nightmare) so why not Monsanto's VP to be senior advisor for FDA. Thanks to all the great comments - got to go, just a thank you, and Vote him out!

Saturday August 20, 2011, 12:56 am
Thanks for the article.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 1:30 am
The left becomes the right and the right becomes the left. This is exactly the kind of thing that the Tea Party is trying to clean up but instead you believe all the damn lies that are being promoted against us. WAKE UP PEOPLE.

Real change begins and ends with the people - not the politicians.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 2:07 am
USA WAKE UP, YOU CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN!!!

Saturday August 20, 2011, 3:01 am
"You’re Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It’s Not So!"- what else can I say...
Unlike most of you -even former "clingers"- I still refuse to think just plain all bad of Obama, but my head keeps spinning as things are getting worse by the days, soon to be by the hours, maybe.
I've been asking myself over and over what could be the reason for his peculiar behaviour while refusing to simply follow all the conspiracy theories there are about his person. Is he just naive? Is he perhaps being blackmailed? Threatened for his life? Or just got hooked as a puppet on the corporate strings? Does he perhaps have an ingenious plan yet to be revealed how to fix the mess? After all we're talking about a highly intelligent individual and not about Jo Blo. Or is he really and in full awareness and intention continuing to go the road of destruction to achieve the goal of depopulation ? Just WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING???
Either way, whatever his motives and inner thoughts may be, you all, myself included, are correct with the assessment that something strong by the people for the people needs to be happening, and FAST!

Saturday August 20, 2011, 3:03 am
I forgot: Please everybody, whoever can spare a dime, please DONATE to October 2011 !! I already did.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 3:05 am
We should have pushed for Ralph Nader years ago. He was the only one warning we needed Corporate Accountability and campaign reforms! This is just disturbing news. Obama has lost his mind.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 5:22 am
This is insane. Doesn't he realize that all the damage caused by Monsato gonna come back and effect himself and his family as well. Very stupid! I don't really care about him but I do care about the "good" people who in USA and the rest of the world.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 5:56 am
More insanity. Monsanto as the FDA, the people who caused the S&L crisis as paid Presidential advisors, Michelle's highly paid and record brealing staff, etc. Wake up folks.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 6:02 am
The era of awakening?

Not in America!

Did you now that pigs in the truck to slaughterhouse have hopes for a better life till the end?

By the way, the belief that thinking hurts is a myth.

You can do it. I is for free (still).

Saturday August 20, 2011, 6:12 am
Do not forget: You get what you deserve.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 6:33 am
I think the children deserve better in Somalia but they don't get the food they deserve. Not all people are cruel Ralph and get what they deserve. Sometimes there are forces beyond their control. However that being said people do need to step up and take a better control over their lives were possible.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 6:35 am
Is this the change Obama promised America? To kill its people?
I thought he cheeted Muslims and Arabs only but now I realized that he is also trying to fool Americans as
well may be for the sake of Irael !!!!!!!!
Thanks Barbara for this important post

Saturday August 20, 2011, 6:41 am
The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html

I'm not sure why you push this Tea Party all over these threads so hard Cam. Are you friends with the Koch brothers or Murdoch perhaps?

I suppose it's no skin off of your nose if this Tea Party ruins this Country of the USA being that you are a Canadian.

You got a political party in Canada that you don't like? Let me know it so I can inform my Canadian friends how wonderful that Party is.

You become a US citizen and live in this Country, have to live under what the Tea Party is doing and wanting to have done, then I might listen to you.

This is NOT the Tea Party of the colonist from Boston back in the day.......in fact they are quite the opposite.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 7:10 am
lets draft bernie sanders for the 2012 presidential election
http://draftberniesanders2012.org/

Saturday August 20, 2011, 7:18 am
Monsanto owns the FDA. We have been doomed since the day we were born. Oh woe is me.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 12:26 pm
What a mistake the only thing Monsanto should be involved with is sewr rats, Obama is looking more like Nixon each day.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 12:33 pm
We need a 3rd party NOW! I'm petrified.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 12:33 pm
Now I have lost even more HOPE.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 12:48 pm
This two year old story sure is getting a lot of play lately. Folks, it happened in July 2009 - check out the date on the original story. Yes, it was horrible and yes all the criticism is well deserved - but this is not news any more than when Obama also appointed a Merck insider over our drugs or Wall Street insiders over our money. Obama has been revealed as a corrupt pretender who has been in the pockets of the corporatists from day one.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 1:09 pm
I disagree with you Tony! I knew this story went way back when. I wrote about it back then. But many American's, as you can see here, did not hear this one. That's because the media never plays up this sort of story like they once did. Folks are busy and so much is going on in many lives most cannot keep up with this onslaught of information and changes..

This is not old news because it's still affecting US today! Nothing's old until it's fixed. And Monsanto's power, stranglehold on this nations food supple, is just that, a stranglehold.

Ex: I put up a story about 18 days ago about Elizabeth Warren. Asked people to vote. Only a few even responded yet less then a day ago someone put this story up yet again, even the same photo and many are finding their way to this post! I'm pleased they are but that is my point, people are busy and old news is not necessarily old to those who have not seen it.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 1:21 pm
Jill P, you are so spot on it's not even funny! This news doesn't shock me one bit, coming from the man who claimed he was going to be the "environmental president." Go Green Party!

Jae, this topic has nothing to do with religion.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 1:34 pm
I can't believe my eyes. This is one of the WORST appointments the President has made. I am beginning to wonder who's side he is on. Certainly not the enviroment and safty of our water and foods. I am also beginning to doubt his leadership.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 1:34 pm
Very Bu$h League..*heavy sigh*..:(

Saturday August 20, 2011, 2:02 pm
Yes, this is yet another stupid appointment (Salazar is the 1st stupid appointment) that Obama has made. He is very far to the right for a "Democat" but I must ask all of you who are saying to get rid of him - who are you voting for in 2012? There aren't too many choices. Everyday, I question whether McCain/Palin would have been as bad as Obama has been. He is a pretty bad President but he still looks far better than Bachmann or Perry.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 2:25 pm
Here we go again! When Clinton appointed a Monsanto exec to head the FDA, he stayed long enough to get Bovine growth hormone approved for cows' milk. What disaster will this lead to?

Saturday August 20, 2011, 3:29 pm
Voted for change and got Monsanto instead......................depressed, angry, hurt ,dismayed, bewildered, upset..to name just some of the emotions this article set off. DAMN CORPORATE GREED KNOWS NO BOUNDS !!!

Saturday August 20, 2011, 3:36 pm
My Pit Bull would do better then Bachmann Janet and no, I'm not speaking about Sarah Palin. Since the people are not being listened too unless they have multi millions under their belt "We" THE PEOPLE have to CHANGE the way Washington does business. Let them play their election games. We'll choose the person We believe is better for the job and that includes the congress as well and vote that individual into office..

Our tax dollars pick up the congress' paycheck not the plutocrats who get them with graft which was once a big fat No, No! They're breaking laws left and right. The Supreme Court was even under great scrutiny during Jefferson's time. Jefferson said 8 years tops for a supreme court judge to serve gave them enough time to screw things up if one party or the other forgot to observe the Constitution during their judgeship! Hello, Citizens United!.

The Supreme Court picking the President of the "United States" would have Jefferson turning in his grave. I know it made me nauseous. We have the power. All it takes is using it!

Saturday August 20, 2011, 3:42 pm
If the tea party could drop their prejudice self-serving cold hearts and gr$$dy me, me rhetoric, own up about the dangers of Corporations running the country, they might get an audience of like thinkers on certain issues, Cam. Changes are certainly needed Cam and, on many fronts. Cutting your nose off to spite your face is lunacy. Fools need not apply.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 3:59 pm
Obama is the best Republican president in history. Who needs elections anymore?

Saturday August 20, 2011, 4:06 pm
Obviously, Monseto has Obama in it's pocket....And I had such hopes for that man!
So disapointing!

Saturday August 20, 2011, 4:21 pm
Time to sue Monsanto for trespassing on our DNA. Talk about invasion of personal space!!! This is just freakin' nutz!

Saturday August 20, 2011, 4:22 pm
If it wasn't for this computer I would have not know about a lot of things that is going on in this country. I now believe our government is totally corrupt. I will believe they are the ones who is bringing down this country. I see Obama gives a rat ass about the people or this country. They are all a like. EVIL.
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Saturday August 20, 2011, 5:17 pm
for shame, Obama. :(

Saturday August 20, 2011, 5:22 pm
Barbara is right Cam...the InsaiTEA Party is the most guilty of hiding their heads in the sand and holding on to the rightcrazywing side of things only. They are the very ones who need to wake up if anyone should. They are the strongest opposers of unity due to their holding on to their party choices ..which are the biggest problems in Congress at this time.

Back to topic now...MonsterSanto is our worst Corporate enemy out there. They will end all natural seeding and continue on with their toxic posioning of our food for profits sake. This guy must be made to resign from the appointment !! Target his corporate butt a.s.a.p. and let Obama know that we are not that frick'n blind or stupid.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 5:23 pm
Bah, humbug! What could he be thinking - being a 1 term prez?

Saturday August 20, 2011, 5:27 pm
This makes me sick. Obama must be a Republican in disguise. Damn corrupt politicians.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 6:07 pm
OK, Tony I.; so, sue me. I had not heard about this; so, thanks, Barbara - I guess. This is insane.

This isn't my highest priority issue, personally; maybe not even in my top 10, although I do consider it important. But this is so phenomenally blatant that feels like the last straw to me, same as Jae.

If there's no party left for us, then form our own. Whatever. This crap must stop. Or at least we must stop making it so damned easy for them.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 6:30 pm
So glad this was posted.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 7:14 pm
What a disaster.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 10:03 pm
Noted, again. I guess bad news needs to be told again, every so often so we don't forget. Write Obama. I did today. Not about this. But it may as well have been. I'm beat. At least for today.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 10:22 pm
Mr. Obama's actions prove Mr. Ralph Nader correct again. Sorry, Democrats -- this is what happens when you vote for the lesser-of-two-evils.

Saturday August 20, 2011, 10:31 pm
. I would have loved Nader. And if I voted for him he would have won right? I'll just shut up. Screw it.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 1:11 am
Thank you ALL for your comments. Please accept my green stars this way. Otherwise there would not be any stars left up in the skies. Thanks again. Herbert.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 3:36 am
What a nightmare !

Sunday August 21, 2011, 4:50 am
Watching British politics become more Americanised by the day I see the corporations paying to back candidates of either party. It doesn't matter who wins they will be in hock to those who funded their campaigns and we're fools enough to watch the brain-rotting adverts they pay for and choose our leaders as we would a shampoo.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 4:51 am
This had better be one really un-funny joke, or a case of "keep your friends close but your enemies closer".
If not either, than the man I have and do support just lost his rabbit-ass mind!

Sunday August 21, 2011, 5:11 am
Hey, I never said that the story was not newsworthy - just that it was not current news and noted that it was getting lots of play in recent days. It has re-surfaced all over the web. I agree that it is definitely worth sharing and retelling. The same is true of the story of Rick Perry and Merck. Perry's chief of staff went to Merck and, just five days after making a donation to Rick Perry, Perry tried to mandate Merck's Gardasil injections for Texas schoolgirls. Luckily, the legislature rebelled and voted it down. As far as I can tell, the corporations own Obama the same as they do almost all the GOP pretenders.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 6:29 am
Does anybody know why I voted for this SOB, I don't anymore.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 10:24 am
Janet, you say (re BHO), "who are you voting for in 2012? " My answer is: I don't disagree with you, but that's 15 months away. I actually am moderate on this. I'm not talking third part, because I think that probably would just get a Repug elected. But mostly, I'm just not thinking about next fall at all. I think there's work we can do, morally must do, between now and then. I think we should encourage a progressive challenge to Obama in the primaries if possible. Whether or not that happens, we definitely should push him hard on ALL our issues of concern NOW. Worrying about November, 2012, is exactly what he wants us to do; so he can continue to ignore us between now and then. If we let him do that, we're pretty much doing what many of us are upset with him doing by letting the GOP define the agenda. I don't want to let Obama define the Dem. agenda alone; there's too much about his agenda that I find morally repugnant. So. my suggestions, let's TAKE IT EASY - BUT TAKE IT!

Sunday August 21, 2011, 10:27 am
Sorry, typo: ". . . I'm not talking third party . . . ."

Sunday August 21, 2011, 11:03 am
I am stunned at this appointment.

Monsanto is a very dangerous company to the health and well being of the entire human race.
Animals and livestock are also effected as well.

Unbelievable!

Is there a petition to get this man recalled???

TY, Barbara.
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Sunday August 21, 2011, 11:10 am
"but this is not news any more than when Obama also appointed a Merck insider over our drugs or Wall Street insiders over our money" It was this remark that prompted my response Tony. No foul! Just an explanation Tony. And as you see this story is, as it should be, is picking up steam again. Forewarned is forearmed.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 11:58 am
This is not governance any longer; it’s now the full on, out right Judas goat syndrome.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 12:00 pm
Myron I agree with many of your thoughts here but President Obama is one man, presumably a Democrat, who has been seriously fumbling. And less "We" forget the democrats are big players in this fiasco facing this nation since many of them vote like a Republican or, have no backbone.

Why did the democratic party's leadership allowed the party of the people to be infiltrated in such a destructive manner? Jefferson would ask this question which should be burning in our heart of hearts. It Goes to the heart of the disease of gr$$d ruining everything in it's path. I agree! "We" should do everything within our power to light a fuse under OUR President. Many of US have been.

I'm also painfully aware we're running out of precious time ( Wisconsin, Ohio, Florida, New Orleans, et al )

We no longer can afford the luxury to indulge ourselves with tomorrow, tomorrow, in order to build another avenue of escape. At the rate we've been going, "Tomorrow" may never come! Both parties must be put on notice if we're to win this battle for our hard earned rights and freedoms.

At this juncture of America's crisis it would be fool hardy to wait. The disease of gr$$d, as has been seen in the Tea Party, corporate, agenda's, would destroy the majority without giving "US" a second thought.

The lesser of the two evils never did make sense to me. It's clear that this attitude has led to Americans capitulating to the detriment of our "Personal" freedoms.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 12:05 pm
Care2 has this up: At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett, American author.

I rest my case! BW

Sunday August 21, 2011, 12:28 pm
Out there in what they like to call the “heartland" self describing themselves as the heart, many, while rejecting science on many levels, embrace Monsanto. If money is success, Monsanto is very successful, using that success to sell themselves on media thankful for its dollars, as innovative and creating abundance. The very essence of what is American.

They didn't get to where they are because people haven't/don't buy the scent they sell. I'm sure they employ more lobbyists than we have representatives in Government. They camp in Washington, with cash and propaganda in hand to sell the idea of their intrinsic value to those in power.

We here in our relatively small numbers, question the wisdom of Monsanto's tampering, sold by them as innovation. I'm convinced, most don't, including our President who unlike us here, has Monsanto knocking at his door every day, with a big polished smile worn by someone who is considered in his field, able and expected to be able to sell balsa wood paperweights in a windstorm.

I have written and write regularly to the White House among others. And I, like you, who may also write, get formulated non responses generally thanking me for my efforts while ignoring them.

I wrote yesterday, asking in not very understanding tones, why I must wait to hear the only truth being spoken, from Bernie Sanders. I won't get a response. While un paid, I am it seems a part of the professional left that is cast as Radical in a way that is feared in our country. Feared more than poison water, food, or air.

Have you noticed that even now...the forces that keep our people afraid of the wrong things, gather and deride the intent/integrity/goal, of one WARREN E. BUFFETT, for speaking the plain simple truth. Many our there will I have no doubt, hear daily on their right wing radio, how Buffett has turned into a Socialist. The media has begun it already.

Its difficult to sell Buffett as a Socialist, but they will try, because America has been sold fear of the left, from the time they could understand the spoken word. Regulation of Companies like Monsanto is painted as Socialist, rather than an attempt to keep toxic chemicals out of bodies.

With clean water quickly running out in the world, ( in our lifetimes) the fewer and fewer places it can be found are being bought by the biggest Corporations (see Blue Gold) while bought Government still allows Fracking to continue, even as more and more people where its happening find they have flammable water. Yet regulation is cast as the demon. The utter and complete toxifying of aquifers is not something that can be "fixed" after the fact. Yet it continues, because like Monsanto and what it does, other huge interests have only one goal. Profit at any cost.

Regulation cuts into that profit. So does just taxation. Any and all facts, ideas, problems, that get in the way of profit will be sold as somehow striking at the heart of America. Regulation is sold as toxic to a system, which poisons us for profit, owns the media for the most part, and owns our Reps for he most part, because that’s what being good and patriotic American is all about. Doing what is profitable to some, no matter what the cost to the rest. To point out a problem with this, makes you a target, and on that target will be printed in big words…Socialist. Obama knows it. I may not like or agree with what he does, but he ain't stupid.

Context is everything.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 2:10 pm
You are so wrong about the Tea Party Jae. We do not support Obama but we do not support ANY political party as a whole. The only way to replace him is to support the other side. It is how your American system is set up so don't shoot the messenger. Get Hilary to step up and challenge this idiot in office and then see what happens.

The Tea Party is fed up with politics as usual which includes this kind of crap appointment. Serves no ones interest but the special interest groups in America which are all Corporations.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 2:28 pm
Old news or new news, it still is and remains bad news.

Higher politics is a dirty affair, as it has been since the time of the romans, and apparently -which must schock more than one- Obama isn't any (or just much?) better than all the others.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 2:34 pm
Its funny to read of the Baggers being small Government. They are of course, and that goal is shared by the very Corporate interests which support them. The Baggers may be fed up. So are the rest of us...with them.

Early on, Tea Partiers were often described as nonpartisan political neophytes. Actually, the Tea Party’s supporters today were highly partisan Republicans long before the Tea Party was born, and were more likely than others to have contacted government officials. In fact, past Republican affiliation is the single strongest predictor of Tea Party support today.

What’s more, contrary to some accounts, the Tea Party is not a creature of the Great Recession. Many Americans have suffered in the last four years, but they are no more likely than anyone else to support the Tea Party. And while the public image of the Tea Party focuses on a desire to shrink government, concern over big government is hardly the only or even the most important predictor of Tea Party support among voters.

So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.

More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government.

This inclination among the Tea Party faithful to mix religion and politics explains their support for Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas. Their appeal to Tea Partiers lies less in what they say about the budget or taxes, and more in their overt use of religious language and imagery, including Mrs. Bachmann’s lengthy prayers at campaign stops and Mr. Perry’s prayer rally in Houston.

Yet it is precisely this infusion of religion into politics that most Americans increasingly oppose. While over the last five years Americans have become slightly more conservative economically, they have swung even further in opposition to mingling religion and politics. It thus makes sense that the Tea Party ranks alongside the Christian Right in unpopularity.

By DAVID E. CAMPBELL and ROBERT D. PUTNAM

Sunday August 21, 2011, 3:14 pm
Though it is bad news, it is old news, and though I admire and respect the poster, I wonder at the wisdom of banging the Anti Obama drum right along with those who would bring him down. They have after all always been about bringing him down. They have said it, and have done it quite well. They don't hide it. I will not join them even if he has become to some extent the monster with which we do battle....I will not, follow suit, and think my time better spent drawing attention to those he has fought, and why he lost, even if he has not fought well, or won against them. I have other targets not so pleasing to our enemies with which to occupy myself. I won't defend Obama to a base taken for granted, and too often betrayed. I simply do not choose to dwell on that which feeds the other side. If you think he is the other side in every way important. Than to you we have lost. Perhaps your right, or perhaps attacking him is self fulfilling prophecy and we have yet to see what true defeat looks like. Only time will tell. Peace to those of good will.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 3:37 pm
You fail to add Anti Obama POLICIES Robert which is what this is about. Nothing to do with the man himself as I do not personally know him. Seems like a great father and husband and perhaps with more experience he may have been a leader -which he never was.

The time for mud slinging is way gone Robert. If Americans want real hope and change they are going to have to go after it themselves. Just like the Tea Party CORE VALUES are trying to do. Demonizing fellow Americans especially would be a start.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 3:39 pm
Sorry my keys are sticking. The grandkids have been using this here computer for a couple of days and it does not seem to like jam. Cease demonizing each other on both sides of your political arena and unite under that which you can agree upon to bring about real change in America and you will be making a good start.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 3:57 pm
Well golly gee wiz and shucks there Cam, You said to Jae here, at 2:10 pm
"You are so wrong about the Tea Party Jae." and "The Tea Party is fed up with politics as usual "

So forgive me Northwind, gosh dang it, if I followed up on your comment by showing facts supporting the Baggers ARE politics as usual for the right far section of the fringe hell bent on Theocracy.


I'm so sorry, NOT, if my siting the facts is your idea of demonetization. The time to shed light on the true nature the Baggers movement and intent, is my duty as an American. And I proudly do so... interloper.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 4:20 pm
So the personal attacks continue eh? No surprise because when you have NOTHING ELSE that is the last resort eh Robert?

Sunday August 21, 2011, 4:38 pm
Stop yer gosh darn whining dang it.

I said plenty Cam, all you have in response is Boo hoo. and anyone watching can see it Cam.

Get over it a get a pair and stop hiding.

Here, all nice and sweet for ya...so you have no excuse now.

Well golly gee wiz and shucks there Cam, You said to Jae here, at 2:10 pm
"You are so wrong about the Tea Party Jae." and "The Tea Party is fed up with politics as usual "

So forgive me Cam, gosh dang it, if I followed up on your comment by showing facts supporting the Baggers ARE politics as usual for the right far section of the fringe hell bent on Theocracy.


I'm so sorry, NOT, if my siting the facts is your idea of demonetization. The time to shed light on the true nature the Bagger movement and intent, is my duty as an American. And I proudly do so....

Sunday August 21, 2011, 6:13 pm
Barbara, thanks for the post. It is not important that the head of the FDA was assigned by Obama, at least not for me, BUT, it is important WHO the person is, where he or she's true allegiance lays. Usually that came be ascertained by looking at the person's prior missions and employers. Putting a (loyal-$$$) Monsanto Vice President into the position of Senior Advisor over our Food and Drug issues is another insane move for the Obama Administration. While this was done some time back, it IS an important issue "We" ALL should keep informed on. While I voted for, and financially supported Obama in 2008, cause I had big hopes that finally AMERICA would have a "People's President, working for the MAJORITY, it has not materialized, instead "We" supporter have been BETRAYED over and over again! 2012 may see some really BIG changes "We" can believe in, like a President that came from a "We" the People WRITE-IN, like a Bernie Sanders. Got my vote!!!

Sunday August 21, 2011, 6:14 pm
But you sir remain a member of the we the sheeple instead of we the people and therein lies the difference. You rant and rave about nothing. You are a divider NOT a uniter and if there was ever a time for Americans to come together that time has almost passed. YOU will not be one of them. But many are.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 6:14 pm
Cam, the Tea party had its day in the sun, now it's time to figure out what the hell good are they for "Our" COUNTRY. So far it has been a very negative BAG OF TRICKS!! I think the Tea Party needs align itself with the majority of the people in America that truly care for the welfare of her citizens over the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ (corporate or private), or fade away! There are some intelligent folks in the Tea Party, some that do care about "Our" nation, but unfortunately, it's hard to see the WALL one is headed for when the BAG is over the head;)

Sunday August 21, 2011, 7:27 pm
Oh Cam, have you nothing but with the old sheeple bit, with which to respond....how sad.

You cry about personal attacks and then name call.immediately. Are you off your meds? You capitalized NOT. Thats funny, and then YOU, which is even funnier. Its seems you are having a hissy fit. You should calm down, its most unseemly to Represent proud Canada in such a silly fashion.

Having one such as yourself who follows Palin the white trash quitter, like a hound dog who wants a treat, describe ME :) as a follower is the funniest yet.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 8:21 pm
Yes, I agree, old but very important news. Obama appointed a cabinet full of evil, and the policies coming out reflect that. We are killing all the mustangs, outlawing REAL food, and of course, the FDA just announced that Monsatan and other GMO producers are now responsible for their OWN safety reviews. So there will be NO real information coming from anyone about the dangers of GMO, unless privately financed research. I agree with the general debate, it's been going on for decades. Do you vote for the lesser of two evils? Or do you risk allowing Repugs in charge by voting 3rd party? I don't know the answer, but I know if a viable 3rd shows up, they have my vote. I honestly can't imagine Repugs being much worse, except they are stupid to boot, and that Obama is not. I don't believe anything will get any better, regardless of who is elected, until We the People stage a revolution to remove the money and corporate influence from our government, and that would required We the Sheeple to wake up and come together. Hell, we can't even stop fighting here on C2. (And why the he111 does Cam have an american flag as his avatar???) THEY have successfully fractured the american people, certainly with the goal of keeping us silent. I'm sorry, I continue my activism, but I believe I have lost hope.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 8:31 pm
WHAT?!

Sunday August 21, 2011, 8:31 pm
there may be a petition here:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18866.cfm

Sunday August 21, 2011, 8:47 pm
Hang in there Lisa, I love the way you're spot on target. Hope springs eternal. We may be down but we're not out. Personally I think the power brokers bit off more then they can chew.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 8:52 pm
Robert, "Though it is bad news, it is old news, and though I admire and respect the poster, I wonder at the wisdom of banging the Anti Obama drum right along with those who would bring him down." Yes it is bad and old news, but it is also important news that many are not aware of and should be, unless you do not care about where/what/how your food and drugs are produced, AND, you don't care that a franken-Corp will dictate where/what/how you will eat and medicate your body. As for Obama, he's "banging the Anti-Obama drum" by his continued actions. I, like many others were 2008-supporters of Obama. But at some point one must think about getting off this train of betrayal. Wisdom? To be wise is to know when enough, IS "ENOUGH!"

When Barack Obama said "Change We Can Believe In" did "We" believe it would include bailing out (with Tax-dollars) Banks, Lending Institutes, Insurers, Wall Street and major Corporations, continuing the Bush Tax-Cuts for the Top 2% (revenue lost) and the "Subsides" and "Loopholes" for the Corporations (more revenue lost), while "Our" infrastructure is crumbling (jobs?), "Our" families are losing their homes and, "Our" sons, daughters, mothers and fathers continue to die in wars all over this world? That is not the kind of "Change" "We" should believe in!

I believe in my heart that Obama is a good man, just too weak for the position of President of the United States, especially with the make up of his "ADVISERS", and the recent atmosphere in the Congress and the Supreme Court. Obama's shared-compromises, in reality, are losses for the majority of the American people, and gains for the Corporate and Private Gr$$d! Obama in 2012? I'm not sure the American people want to try and survive an additional 4-years under this Administration and its "Advisors. America is yelling ENOUGH, but "Our" leaders choose not to listen!

"... once the Washington politicos hear the "Rumble of the People", you will see a change that will surprise even the cynics among us."
... Ralph Nader

Sunday August 21, 2011, 8:54 pm
Thank you for the link Yvette'.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 9:03 pm
Cam, from what I've seen of the Tea Party's political savvy they would do well to take this advice you offered for the rest of US and put it to good use. I'm a firm believer that members of the Tea Party, certainly your avid corporate shill supporter, Dick Armey, who was, is, hell bent on doing everything with-in the corporate power to bring, not only this president down, but nail the coffin on the democrats and the people of this nation as well.

I am not about feeding the Republicans coffers, either, Robert! Both parties have damaged America. I'm not advocating a write in campaign because I feel "We" American's have reliable choices. America is at an impasse. Both sides of the aisle have failed the nation. There's no Light nor Equitable Right at the end of the dark tunnel they have us traveling through.

Democrats are not listening Robert. You've said as much yourself! I know this disappointment first hand from many years of knocking at the door, calling, faxing, emailing, Rallying. I support UNION building. I work to that end. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Both parties are afraid of "Power To The People". And they fear any other political party getting a foothold. Otherwise, the two party's would not band together to make sure no other party becomes their competition.

If I could believe otherwise about the sad state of my country I would not dream of supporting a write in campaign. But I feel confident, because of the state that the nations in today there's REAL power in the write in idea.

Third party? US!

NO MORE LESSER of the two evils for me. It's hypocritical and downright counter productive. Look what this "Lesser then two evils" mentality has done for the nation! I've heard the lesser of two evils all my life.. When does the lesser of the two evils finally become the evil we can no longer abide by?

If President Obama cannot perform his duties like he's capable of holding his own against those whose actions would tear he and the nation down, then President Obama cannot command the respect of those who voted for him. When Obama performs, after more then half the nations been behind him, like he's impotent, then write in, third party, whatever it takes, IS THE ONLY answer. It's time for America to finally face her "Moment Of Truth"

I hate repeating myself but feel I must! The Dare To Dream Network, members of my family & friends, devoted time, more then a year, donations and total support for Obama's presidency believing he would implement that change he promised.

We worked on the health care issue, got signatures for the Bills being presented, sent Obama and several others a 500 page, info on both sides, packet of peoples stories about what they went through in America's so called health and welfare mess, mostly dealing with INSURERS and the doctors who serve them. Did Obama or his administration respond? Even out of courtesy? NO! Dennis Kucinich's office who received a packet did however.

And by the way this same packet, less a few of the newer offerings, was sent to Clinton during his presidency. At least we received a thank you.

Obama went into the Whitehouse with the same self-serving adviser garbage "We" knew should have been thrown out and or prosecuted. Sorry, I cannot continue being part of what amounts to a charade. I will never take sides with Republicans because they serve the devil's own Corporate thinking.

Obama still has time to make up for lost time! I sincerely pray he does. But he had better get with it, not make more empty speeches. He would be wise if he stopped listening to advisers who have him playing Bin Laden games with the country. I once wrote that "I May Not Be Wise In The Way Of Politics, But I Have Found That Politicians are NOT Wise in the way of Common Sense"

Presidents and legislators are not in show biz! It's time they stopped acting as if they were. That's why Bernie, Dennis, Grayson and a hand full of others are respected as leaders. I will no longer be part of a charade.

Sunday August 21, 2011, 9:58 pm
Always love your comments Lisa. If I said don't loose hope, I'd feel hypocritical. So I won't. Well stated Danny, Barbara.

I listened. Nothing more for me to say. peace.

Monday August 22, 2011, 8:44 am
Diane, i have to assume, by your comment, that you support everything or most of what Obama has done. he continues let thousands die every year from lack of health care becasue he adamently opposes Medicare for All. You support all the offshore drilling leases, more than GW even tried to pass out. You support drilling in the Arctic waters. You support cuts to Social Sec urity and Medicare for no other reason than to siphon the saved money to corporte private insurance companies since cutting those programs does nothing for the Federal Budget since it is separate. I trust you support illegal wiretapping, homeland security arresting human rights, environmental and animal activists and labeling them "terorists" so they never see the light of day. I assume you support torture as well.
If you feel Barbara is only "bashing" Obama because he did not respond to her letters and calls, then you apparently feel there is nothing else to criticize Obama about.
Criticizing a dictator is hardly "bashing". He is anything but a victim. he only creates victims.
I am glad to hear you talk about supporting a real human Barbara. There is not lesser of two evils. Even so, why should Americans settle for that? We deservbe better. Americans need to start thinking about what kind of world they want to live in. What kind of world they want their children to live in. What kind of society do they want. A dictatorial oligarchy where the rich keep us in line and enslaved like Obama wants? Like the Repubs and Dems want? Or do we want a Society like our founding fathers wanted for us. A government that represents the people and their values. A government whose sole purpose to the welfare of the people since the government IS the people. Do we want a society where basic needs are met for all individuals whatever their income. Where seniors who worked their whole lives to give us an economy and society they pass on to the younger generation, to live out theri hard earned retirement in comfort and good care. If you want morality, compassion, privacy and justice...you CANNOT vote for Obama or any of the Dems the Party forces on us. They are all corporate shills.
Other countries have more choices. Why don't we? Why are Americans opposed to choices and competition?
We are defined by our actions, NOT our words. How you live, how you shop, and how you vote define you and your values.
supporting Obama is supporting corporate takeover and privatization of government which is supposed to be public...ALWAYS!
Where are your convictions folks? There is too much at stake. Too many people suffering and dieng, the planet collapsing..too uch irrepairable damage to play political games.
WE get to decide who goes in offcie if we have the conviction.

Monday August 22, 2011, 4:07 pm
"Barbara, it seems you are bashing Obama because he didn't respond to your "500 page packet" of info? Hmmmm, he didn't call ME, personally when I e-mailed him about a few issues, either, but that doesn't mean I'm abandonng him with my support. Dennis Kucinich replied. Big WHOOPEE DO. He was on the campaign trail and wanted votes."

First I'm not bashing Obama. I'm stating facts! You are so off base it behooves me to even respond. Kucinich was not on the campaign trail when I sent this packet to him, The Whitehouse, Kennedy, News organizations. The Congress was getting ready to debate the health care issue. Sadly we lost Teddy. This packet was not about me Diane. It was about dozens of families, some with children, who were going through hell! |

Stories about Americans! Let me share one with you Diane. There was this little girl, Sherry, about 4 or 5. Her mom and her Dad had been injured while working for a company that was not running safe operations.

This Childs dad was on a scaffold, several stories up, when the scaffold crumbled under his feet throwing him to the ground. His injuries were severe. Legs, spine, all impacted. Her mom also suffered an injury a few weeks later slipping on some grease. With both parents laid up and in pain, both having to PROVE their injuries since the insurer and the employer, more especially the dads employer and insurer, were questioning his injuries.

I was asked, as the founder of the DTDN, to meet with this family. I was sitting talking with this little girls mom when out of the corner of my eye I saw this little thing walking towards the door with a nap sack and trying to open the door. I cautioned her mom who then asked what she, Sherry, was doing.

This Childs response was earth shattering. I'm leaving home because mommy and daddy are not happy, I don't see them, their always hurting. fighting. I'm paraphrasing but that was the spirit of this Childs reason for leaving home.

Mommy and daddy had been in the fight of their lives for over a year with the screwed up, greed soaked system and they were at their wits end! He was not getting proper medical. One of his legs of this once well built young man was withering away. He was being called a malingerer by the claims examiner. Temporary disability checks were being, conveniently, not sent out. They were falling behind in payments on their living quarters. There was a baby boy not only this girl child to look after.

After DTDN became involved the insurer speeded up their assault on this family. They sent out an investigator to discredit this young man. Now this family lived in a split level home, bedrooms, baby room upstairs. Wife is working despite her injury. Dad has reason to go upstairs so he gets out of his wheelchair and begins to drag himself up these stairs. They had hoped to move to a place that had all rooms on one level but the checks kept coming late and or not at all.

I SAW THE VIDEO that the investigator took! Dads lame leg is flopping as he inches his way up. The insurer had the audacity to call this young mans attorney and say his client was faking his injury! HIS LEG MOVED! Hello!

This article and video made the news and that's when the insurer/employer decided to settle this crippled young mans claim. Needless to say this young family left the state with a crippled dad.

This is only one story of abuse by the powerful that was in that 500 page, written word on both sides.

Another was that of Ed Ellis, SOLDIER, POW (Unlike McCain Ed had to escape his capters) Ed became an INJURED employee, who died after suffering unbelievable pain due to a serious back injury, cancer which developed after Nickel ( That causes poisonous reaction as it leeches into the body) was placed in his back and the God awful treatment he was put through, by doctors, insurers, rehab, etc., before he died.

The insurer held back info about the cancer which was discovered by their creep of a doctor ONE YEAR BEFORE! One year before! It was through DTDN efforts that Ed got copies of his entire claim, someone on the inside slipped him this cancer ducument. THE DOCTOR LOST HIS LICENSE. Guess what state accepted this doctor of death? TEXAS! This doctor worked for the state & the private sector.

Ed, though on his death bed, called DTDN and asked that we tape his last words. We have Ed Ellis last words on tape. He exposes this cancer document that was kept from him for a solid year and asks that "We", the founders of DTDN, never let them, the insurer, employer, the system, forget his story nor the story of others we were assisting. That packet was a tribute to Ed Ellis.

With the exception of Bernie Sanders, Kucinich and a handful more of Washington legislators, none of America's leaders are good enough to have licked Ed's shoes.

Monday August 22, 2011, 4:09 pm
Diane, Re; "Barbara, it seems you are bashing Obama because he didn't respond to your "500 page packet" of info?"

Diane, you missed the point totally. Barbara isn't bashing Obama, only stating facts. She is not abandoning Obama, but definitely considering another direction since the direction Obama has continued to travel is not good for the majority of Americans, only the Banks, Insurers, Corporations, and the super-rich!

Why support Obama with our money, time and votes to do favors for those special interests? You gotta be kidding.

Diane, the large packet we sent to several in the Congress and Media, including Obama, which contained information on folks be suppressed through our present health care system. The packet was not some simple letter, but documentation of referencing different folks' personal open-letters, insurers' and hearings documents, doctors' reports, etc. You know, the kind of documents and experiences needed by our leaders when they are in the process of changing "Our" Health Care System!

We do care about Obama, and believe him to be a decent person, we just can't support his continued direction to support those special interests. Sorry you can!

At some point an intelligent person would abandon the ship when the Captain is busy "CUTTING" the bottom out! Right?

As for Dennis Kucinich, he nearly always reply's even though we are not from his district to vote for him, and for your information, he was not "on the campaign trail and wanted votes" in Nevada. DAH

The reality is, Dennis K., Bernie S., Alan C., Anthony W., Debbie W-S., Raul G., and several others are real fighters for the Peoples' interests. Betrayal to the majority of the People is not something I will tolerate for long!

Diane, sorry you didn't receive a response from your letters sent to Obama and Congress, but that's no reason to make your comments so personal towards the "poster", is it?

"The purpose of A "Government of the People, by the People, and for the People, IS JUST THAT!" -DW

Monday August 22, 2011, 4:48 pm
Due to what appears to personal attacks towards Barbara herein, tell you want, when you spend your own money, including becoming non-paid lobbyists to better serve people, coupled with several decades of your time (since 1980) helping folks fight for their rights against State/Federal Systems, Insurers, Doctors, Corporations and the like, as Barbara and I have. Maybe then you can make it personal if what we do offends you!

Or maybe, before you make your personal attacks, you should see a little of what we are doing, visit our sites at www.DareToDreamNetwork.net and www.TheBridgeToNowhere.org. We are not out here to play games, or go back and forth addressing stupid s--t, our activism activities are very serious, as are the issues we pursue! Have a nice day!

"Why do you open your eyes but do not see, listen but do not hear, speak but do not make a sound?" -DW

Monday August 22, 2011, 6:12 pm
Oh gross Barbara! Those stories.
What kind of THING does that to people? it certainly not a carbon based animal. Those have compassion, morality and ethics.
Those dirt bags are clearly some kind of mutant thing.
It never ceases to amaze me, the horrors the humanoids perpetrate.
We neeed to have human screenings. Mutations are not allowed in any position of authority or healthcare.

Tuesday August 23, 2011, 8:47 am
Sharing

Tuesday September 13, 2011, 3:25 pm
One mistake after another......we sit and watch it, but when we point it out....we are anti Obama. Oh well, and OMG. Carefully orchestrated plan....and the Obama fans keep rallying around him.

Tuesday September 13, 2011, 4:34 pm
One can be against much of what Obama has done, while being for much of what Obama has done, and within a complicated and urgent scenario, choose him over other Dems because they can't win, or Rebaggers because they lack even the few saving graces which one might hold up as Obama accomplishments and thus make things even worse. I would venture..far far, worse. Though some may say both parties are the same, I would say we too, are we all the same, yet different. The differences are not made moot by what we hold in common, and are our only guideposts between one and another, even as they appear in many ways the same. The differences are not so small. Its just that our frustration is so large, because as a metaphor or not....the solar panels are still not back on the roof of the White House.

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 12:47 pm
the tea party has had its day .... REALLY? Yet we just took that there seat in New York .... You know, the one that belonged to the Dems forever and was never held by a Republcan? Yep, the Tea Party is irrelevant all right. The only thing you doubters have done is draw attention to us and our membership has grown in leaps and bounds because of it so must thank you for that.

Phyllis, there is no accounting for people who are so entrenched in ideology they cannot open their eyes and see the destruction all around them. Yet they say they care about their fellow citizens .....

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 2:44 pm
I just read an article about what you Tea Partiers are following and their mission (Perry, Bachman, Palin). Politics and the Prayer Warriors
Doubters have not drawn attention to tea partiers. They have serious ties with the corporate world and therfore the corporate media. THAT is where their publicity is coming from. Corporations want to promte the tea partiers and balck out any other points of view.
No robert, we are not all the same. i would not make people suffer and die for my personal financial gain. i don't destroy the environment to turn a profit. I have nothing in common with Obama, his administrtion, most Dems in congress and not one Republican. I am still not convinced our species is even the same. I don't think they are carbon based creatures from Earth. They are too cold, calculating and violent.
Yes, Phyllis, "liberals" and "progressives" will still cling to Obama becasue they are afraid to turn to anyone else and instill REAL change.

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 5:48 pm
That right Jill, of course they are not from earth. When you can do something besides ranting against our only chance to beat Rebaggers, I will listen. Thinking that because people do rotten things, that they are not human, is silly, and as I look back through history i have to laugh at your naivety. You don't have to go off the planet to find horror. Its always been right here. In fact its at the door, and while I know, my thinking/saying that our only chance is to be smart/compromise/triangulate goes against your grain. I'd rather do that than loose to the very people you've linked us too. I am aware of them by the way, and have been...for awhile now. .

While no who can win has clean hands, I unlike you, refuse to loose everything to these cretins by damning our only chance, day after day to the delight of those who seem to hate Obama even more than you do.

Notice on the link i provided, Northern (Windy) Cal, says and i qoute,
"Saturday August 20, 2011, 1:17 am
Nope, most Tea Party members are not fans of Perry."

which highlights the fact that Northern again and as usual, doesn't know what he is talking about.

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 6:21 pm
Robert, while I know believing I am naive makes things easier for you, I am not. I know humans are so damaged and demented they are capable of things beyond comprehension.
You keep supporting Obama or whatever thing the Democrats throw at you. Don't make them work for your vote. Give it away for nothing. The compromise you talk of is not compromise. You have nothing to negotiate. No leverage. You pledge your support to whoever or whatever the Dems throw at you no questions asked, no conditions. You have nothing.
They hold all the cards.
Just like victims of abuse they stay with their abusers becasue they are afraid of change. No matter how awful the situation at least it is familiar. so they stay loyal.
I don't. Many crimes are intolerable...destroying the planet for greed, making people suffer and die for personal financial gain, slavery (lower wages, inprisoning people so they can work for corporations at .22 cents an hour,...
I find those intolerable and non-negotiable.
NONE of these things are necessary or too difficult or costly to stop. It is for nothing more than to satisfy the insatiable appetites of the rich for money and blood. It's the thrill of the hunt for them and the trophy in the end.
Support that if you wish but I won't.
I have zero tolerance for that behavior. It is abnormal, dysfunctional and should never be tolerated in a civil society. We've got to stop letting the mentally disturbed inmates run the country. Time for functional people to take the reins.

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 6:44 pm
If America wants to move forward and be able to look ahead, where some peace of mind may lie, they have no choice but to "THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX"! The Tea Party had an idea and went with it. But, shame on them, they allowed their true nature to emerge and that nature, with the backing of DICK ARMEY, Insurance companies, Drug "Legal" cartels, BP, Chevron, Exxon, Rupert Murdoch, Koch's, would "Dare" push grandma in front of the train.

Jill has reason to feel as she does John. So do millions of other American's wearing similar shoes.. While I agree with you're assessment of "It's them or US" it's more important to understand who US IS! This has been a merry-go-round and some of US wish to get off because the journey is not as comforting as it once may have been. I know that you realize people are really hurting but, with good reason, many are living in fear that the fools in Washington, no matter who is in the White house will still serve the same agenda with the same advisers who have a single track mind! "Take over the world and make sure no one gets in their way.

John, what the democrats have shown us is that they might not push grandma in front of the train. But the sad reality is too many DEMS would watch the train run over grandma! It's time, like our founding fathers did, to think outside the box!

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 6:55 pm
You cannot currently send a star to Barbara because you have done so within the last week.

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 7:02 pm
Jill, "I am still not convinced our species is even the same. I don't think they are carbon based creatures from Earth. They are too cold, calculating and violent.


Of course your not naive.

Support loosing to the worse of the bunch because those who can beat them are not up to your standards... if you wish. I won't, and If you pay taxes, or ever have, you are not pure, however much you wish to be. You lecture purity. What you'll get is Perry. The most insidious of those who help Perry, say with a smirk, vote Green. They know what they are doing, unlike yourself.

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 7:05 pm
"WE" will not get Perry! Perry is already self-destructing! Nature of the beast!

Wednesday September 14, 2011, 7:20 pm
Impressive pronouncement, what with exclamation points and all, and I hope your right. Meanwhile, I will not be voting Green or for any so called minor party in the presidential election. The Rebaggers will have to steal it....I'm not going to hand it to them.

Thursday September 15, 2011, 5:02 am
I agree with Robert for the most part. Jill, I think you may not be naive, per se, but you're certanly rude in assuming that because someone supports Obama IS being so! I've been a staunch Obama supporter since he started campaigning and still am, although I will be the first to state that not everything he's done is what I'd have wanted him to do, nor do I think he's done everything he's said he'd do. However, there is NO support, never has been, and he's done the best job he could do under the circumstances, and nobody is out there who could have done a better job, or is out there who WILL or CAN do a better job. The main things I've objected to are two of his cabinet appointees........Ken Salazar and the ex-Monstanto jerk.

Go ahead and waste your vote on some "nobody" who has a ZERO chance. You're not doing any service to this country by doing so. Don't vote, period. That's even better. Sit there and rant about the problems and "ills" of the country and do nothing to change a thing and then whine about what happens. That's the best approach!

Thursday September 15, 2011, 5:13 am
Cam, "that there seat" you speak of (great grammar, BTW) may have gone to a "teabagger" rather than a Democrat who held it for years, but sometimes people vote stupidly because they don't do their homework or research, are desperate for change and fall for the propaganda out there. So WHAT if someone from the Teabag party wins a seat in the legislature somewhere? I actually would vote for a non-Democrat IF he/she had better credentials than those running from either of the major parties if it wasn't for the U.S. Presidency, when it doesn't matter about my vote going "nowhere" as it would in that case. For every vote for someone other than the Democratic or G.O.P. running for President, it takes away from one of them and it just doesn't make sense. Many voted for Pat Paulsen when he ran as a JOKE, and it was so pointless!

Thursday September 15, 2011, 12:02 pm
For years I have listened to folks say vote. Great idea. But many of these same folks are caught up in a never ending merry-go-round ride which never stops going around in circles. "WE" dare say vote even if it's for the lesser of two evils. That's how Reagan got into office many Democrats voted for what they believed was the lesser of two evils! If your vote does not count and many believe this revelation then what?

//\\ Democrat/Republican //\\ Democrat/Republican //\\ Time to get off that dizzy, counter-productive merry-go-round and make a profound statement that "We" are NOT inanimate objects to be used, abused and pushed around, at the whim of the powerful two parties who serve the enemy's of this nation!

My mom and dad were die hard democrats when Democrats knew who they were in the scheme of things. This was a time, via the unions, when Americans were lifted out of poverty. Americans for a brief time in America's history had a chance at that ring on the merry-go-round because the gr$$dy were paying their fair share.

Now even the middle class is being sacrificed! Other then Bernie Sanders, Kucinich, and a handful of other leaders no one, not even our President, wants to talk about the growing poor! Many of the growing poor were/are/is the middle class. I consider myself a bleeding heart and I am not ashamed to admit it.. No one should ever go to bed hungry, especially children. No family should be left to suffer at the hands of the gr$$dy medical system.

Wars of convenience should have NEVER been allowed to grow much less, build such financial strength. But our complacency made that possible. This abuse of power did not only begin because of folks who may not have voted but due to those who are either die hard dems or repugs.

"We" have become shills for one party or the other. Both parties decide, in the end, not US, who they will run. The media, who makes billions off these two parties via commercial time,, stacks the deck and this corporate run un-American media touts ( Praises or publicize loudly) the next President. BAIT & SWITCH THEN SPIN The TALE TILL IT STICKS has taken over the mainstream airwaves.

President Obama had his chance to "Change" all that but he capitulated while the Dems bent over so far the Repugs had an excuse to go after the health care bill! While this bill has some good points it "DID NOT GO FAR ENOUGH"

Anyone who has had to deal with insurance companies, while a loved one suffered, understand what I'm saying! This abuse of power, whether it be within health care, Water/air//NUCLEAR or soil polluters, legal drug pushers, wars of convenience, banking scams, etc., is "NOT" an isolated problem. Anymore then the "Wall Street" rip off bank-sters are! ALL of them getting off without as much as a slap on the hands.. Hello?

President Obama said he wanted to look forward. Well if you don't look back, understands what went wrong, then you cannot move forward!

Since the Reagan years and now that the Supreme Court, via "Citizens United", has made GRAFT legal "We" are seeing corporate gr$$d, graft, conflicts of interest, collusion by the powerful go un-punished. The Democrats have allowed their party to be infiltrated by deceivers. Why? What's wrong with the Democrats, including their leader, the President of the United States, that they have no idea who they are any longer? Why has our President not vetoed any of these abusive deals?

For the record and I feel that I must repeat myself for those who have not heard this or refuse to deal with where my allegiance lies.. I spent long hours, more then a year campaigning, donating, getting petitions signed while also fighting those who were calling Barack Hussein Obama anything but what he was. I did not sit on my butt debating, was not an armchair voter. I put my families money and much time where my mouth was and is!

Any American that still believe that voting for the lesser of two evils is a fool! Advisers run this nation! Get that through your heads. I wrote Obama a letter that may not have made it to his personal hands and it, early on, said please clean house! Your advisers are crucial to the direction this nation takes. Do I need to paint a picture for those of you who still don't get it? Advisers, the faceless, not so any longer due to "Citizens United", run the show. Hello?

Why are you putting someone like Jill down? Have you wrote the president and received an answer to the WHY factor? Change "We" can believe in begins and ends with US not whoever's in the White house!

The framers had courage! Where is the courage in this nation today to set the record straight. Name calling, intimidation, coming from both parties, seems to be the name of the game.

This is not a cut and dry issue! It's multifaceted! And the survival of America and her (Honorable) standing in the world are at stake! Barbara/founder/dtdn.net www.TheBridgeToNoWhere.org

Groundswell of Support for Bernie Sanders to Challenge Obama in Primary http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/26/999201/-Groundswell-of-Support-for-Bernie-Sanders-to-Challenge-Obama-in-Primary

Thursday September 15, 2011, 12:58 pm
When I vote I am hiring someone for a very important job who will be paid by me. He or she is my employee. I don't hire bums or liars or crooks. As for voting for some "nobody" Kucinich is not a nobody. He was well qualified for the job and matched my values and what I felt needed to be done in this country. If everyone who claimed to like him had actually had the courage to vote for him and show him support h would have won the primaries. Instead everyone listenes to what the corporate onwed and run media tells them. They creat an illusion of only two candidates becasue the corporations won't show the ones they did not invest in. so people, like yourself Diane, swallow the lies hoook line and sinker and cling to Obama or Clinton. Why? Becaue they want to be part of the crowd, invited to the party. They don't take voting seriously enough to do the research, support and campaign for the best person for the job and cast their vote. They follow the crowd. They do as they are told by corporate media. Kucinich was blacked out from the media becasue he rated so well in the first primary debate the rich were afraid people would actually vote for him and he'd win. It worked. you fell for it Diane. you voted for someone who has been dubbed the third Bush/Cheney term. Thanks a lot! He's done nothing but continue the Bush agenda making things worse. I cannot think of one decent thing the trash has done.
Throwing away my vote? you fell for that too Diane. I am not betting on a horse. If I were I would put my money n who I think will win. I am hiring someone to run my country and do as i and millions of Americans tell him or her to do. I am hiring someone who is to be loyal to the people and the country NOT coproations or their own self interests. Taking single payer healthcare off the table was done by one man...Obama. That is not a democracy that is a dictatorship. He alone decided in spite of what the majority of Americans wanted. He's a dictator. he has his agenda and he is pushing it no matter what.
So it is impossible to throw your vote away if you do your research and hire the best one for the job. The one who will answer to you and not corportions becasue he is on their payroll while taking your tax money for his salary at the same time.
Throwing your vote away is voting for someone becasue the corportions told you to thru the media. Voting for someone becasue everyone else is doing it. s you feel part of a crowd instead of a thinking individual.
Other countrie have multiple parties. Americans are so oposed to third fourth or fifth parties. They obey their corporate masters. They cower in the corner and do as they are told instead of standing up for themselves and their fellow citizens. Americans are obedient corporate servants.
maybe you should stay home until you learn to do your research and stop hiring corporate shills and obveying corporate media. When you have the courage then come out again and sit at the adults' table.

Thursday September 15, 2011, 7:02 pm
And so they are. Interesting, so were some of the comments, especially about the Bluedogs.. Thanks for the link Robert. And yes we are on the same team just have different ideas on how to get the country back on track. With all my heart I wish Barack would remember who "WE" believed him to be. I like the man. I believed him when he said "Change" we can believe in. Crumbs are not change we can afford to live by! Cleaning the house of the people is the only way America can hope to find her way back into the light. Integrity, foresight & Courage are necessary in a President or, for that matter, any legislator. "Advisers" can make or break a presidency. Most people, even many voters, cannot get around that reality.

Sunday October 16, 2011, 8:46 am
Mr. Obama used fake birth certificate to become our president.
What can we expect from him!
I am sad and angry because I was one of his supporter and contributed $$ for him.
I signed the petition on 'Millions against Monsanto'.
Didn't t Monsanto penalized farmers who refused to buy genetically modified seeds?
I am sure millions (if not billions) of farmers suffered because of horrible injustice of Monsanto.
We are living in most corrupted society where honest people who speak up truth face jail sentence or life threat and Obama is appointing people who harm us and destroy us.

Tuesday January 24, 2012, 1:06 pm
Might as well eat your own crap. It will be healthier