Monday, March 23, 2009

Open Letter To Campbell Brown...Stop Being Part of Obama Propaganda Machine!

Hello Campbell Brown:

Liars can Figure and Figures can lie, and I find it repugnant that you (and CNN) are now trying to get us to forget about the $165 Million in bonus money, trying to tell us to look at the BIG PICTURE. Big picture...

How about, for starters, $50 Billion or more of the money we gave AIG came in the front door, and went right out the back door to BANKS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES!
Big picture...lets talk about CV Starr-Starr International being set up to be the NEW AIG which has always been AIG...IE, seen how many AIG folks have been hired by Maurice Greenberg controlled companies?

Big Picture...$14 out of every $15 dollars to buy up TOXIC ASSETS is OUR MAIN STREET TAXES. You and CNN are trying to tell us, that in the long run we will or might see a return on our investment! Who are you trying to FOOL? Even if at some future date and time those investments break even or see a profit, WE WILL NEVER SEE A DIME OF IT.

Here is a CLUE...Main Street is tired of the games, and that includes the ones you people in the press are playing. IE...how come you and Rick Sanchez (as example) never do stories about the anger ON MAIN STREET at 7.5 million illegal aliens working while 12.5 million Americans are out of work. Trust me, we see Illegal Aliens as SCUM, not because they are of Latino descent, but because they are A) criminals and B) have stolen and are stealing food from our LEGAL AMERICAN FAMILIES.

How about you coming out and being honest Campbell Brown...do a story on how Obama LIED TO US about the AIG Bonus money, about how the White House wants the Senate to drop the AIG Bonus issue, and wants the press to TAMP DOWN MAIN STREET ANGER. How about doing a story about Obama and E Verify...you know, the one where he had Senator Reid kill E Verify as too many Illegal Aliens would lose their jobs before he and Congress could grant them AMNESTY!

How about a story telling Main Street Americans that we can kill the AIG Dragon by joining together and CANCELLING our business contracts with them in the form of insurance policies, by instructing our investment brokers to divest our 401 K's of anything directly or indirectly associated with AIG.

Start reporting like a reporter instead of acting as a mouth piece for the Obama Propaganda Machine. IT IS US OR THEM, and RIGHT NOW YOU ARE ACTING AND REPORTING LIKE A THEM.

Main Street America Can, Should and Must Kill AIG

Obama lied to America about what and when he knew about the AIG Bonus money. Treasury Secretary Geithner knew about and lied about the AIG Bonus Money. All of the Congress also knew about and lied about the AIG Bonus Money. Just in on CNN...President Obama has sent a CLEAR SIGNAL to the Senate that he wants them to KILL ALL LEGISLATION that would strip AIG executives of their BONUS MONEY. OK...time for Main Street America to flex its muscle, time for Main Street America to kill AIG ourselves, and yes we have the ability to make it happen almost over night...Washington Scandal gives you two words that will make it happen:

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Navy's Inspector General Refusing To Investigate USS Hartford Indicent, Seaworthyness of Nuclear Attack Sub

The US Navy's Investigation Into USS Hartford ACCIDENT IS MICKEY MOUSE!
Seems The United States Navy's Office of Inspector General sees no reason to investigate the MASSIVE COLLISION between the USS Hartford and the USS New Orleans in the Straight of Hormuz, even though various internet sources are starting to suggest the vessel (nuclear attack sub) is no longer seaworthy, may be nothing more than SCRAP METAL...three collisions now in the past two years (that we know of), the possibility that a Nuclear Attack Sub may now be SCRAP METAL, and the Navy Office of Inspector General sees no reason to investigate? WOW!



Mr. XXXXXXXXXXX,

This is in response to your e-mail of March 23, 2009 in which you request that the Office of the Naval Inspector General open a fully public investigation into the collision between the submarine USS Hartford and amphibious ship USS New Orleans.

While the Inspector General reserves the right to investigate any matter brought to our attention, we respectfully decline to open an investigation into this issue. The Inspector General is not the appropriate entity within the Department of the Navy to address this matter especially since it is currently being addressed using another more appropriate process.

We appreciate your concern and we are assured that this matter is being adequately addressed.
Vr/NAVIG Hotlines Division

Geithner Plan...HOSING Main Street Americans (In other words, middle class Americans, you are being RAPED.)


WAKE UP FOLKS...first we have Obama doing a forked tongue two steps as he decides to let AIG and everyone else KEEP THEIR (OUR) BONUS MONEY. Then we have Geithner coming out today and annoucing to the world that Wall Street made money as the market CRASHED, and now they will MAKE MONEY when the market goes up...OH, those TOXIC ASSETS...they get to buy them at SUPER MEAL DEAL PRICES, but if they do not shoot up in value over a period of time...WE TAX PAYERS GET TO TAKE THE HIT. This is not a necessary evil, this IS RAPE OF MAIN STREET.

USS Hartford No Longer Sea Worthy? Formal Request For OPEN INVESTIGATION

Naval Inspector General

Attn: Navy Hotline

Building 172

1254 Ninth Street, S.E.

Washington Navy Yard DC

Take Notice of the nice SMOOTH SEALED surface where the Sail joins the Hull.

Notice the vertical/horizontal alignments...compare this to the new CANT.

Dear Inspector General:
As an Anti-Nuclear environmentalist, I have grave concerns when it comes to all things surrounding the Military/Commercial Nuclear Industry...simply stated, there is more than adequate reason not to trust anything put out in the way of Propaganda from the Nuclear Industry (through NEI) or our government through various and assorted agencies (DOD, DOE, NRC, and yes, the US Nuclear Navy).

It does not take a rocket scientist to realize the horrific collision of the USS Hartford with the USS New Orleans was/is far more serious than the Navy is letting on. The few available pictures of the USS Hartford fast attack submarine show SERIOUSLY broken welds around the sail. The Conning Tower is canted from stem to stern, suggesting that periscopes are no longer working.

Further, it is my own belief and allegation that such a significant collision has impinged upon the reactor cores cooling capabilities. It is my belief that any attempts to navigate the USS Hartford back to America under its own power endanger the crew of the USS Hartford, as well as the citizens of the world, and our environment.

It is therefore respectfully requested that your office open up a FULLY PUBLIC investigation of how the accident occurred, and just what damage has been done to both vessels. This investigation should include inspection of the entire nuclear propulsion/cooling system to assure the safety of the world population. Said inspection should take place after the nuclear submarine has been returned back to America using the same technology used to transport the USS Cole. (see photograph)

World public health, the safety of the grew, and the protection of our world oceans should supercede whatever Middle East Agenda the USS Hartford was carrying out. When already we are hearing rumors of water tight doors below deck being incapable of closing, the Navy cannot and must not needlessly risk lives of our American Sailors.

Respectfully,
United States Citizen
Anti Nuclear Activist


PS,,,what environmental restoration work is underway for the TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND GALLONS OF SPILLED DIESEL, and what took the Superior Officers so long in getting a grew out to deal with that end of this accident.
Vice Admiral William E. Gortney
Rear Admiral Thomas A. Cropper
Rear Admiral Scott E. Sanders
Rear Admiral Scott E. Sanders

San Diego Drivers That Grabbed Money...Tell DEA TO FUCK THEMSELVES

By The Way...Why Is A DEA Agent Wearing a Blackwater T-Shirt?
How many of you watched the video news of the Money Flying all over Highway in San Diego as cops chased two drug dealers. Well now the DEA is trying to BULLY drivers who picked up some of the loot flying along the highway. GIVE US THE EVIDENCE are we will TRACK YOU DOWN says spoil sports from the DEA...hey DEA....FUCK YOU! To those that picked up the money...get yourselves a fist full of singles to hand over is some shit turb from the DEA comes knocking on your door...they have no way of proving how much money you picked up. FINDERS KEEPERS DEA!

Was Mast Of Nuclear Sub USS Hartford ALMOST TORN OFF?


BEAKING NEWS...Is DAMAGE so SEVERE on the USS Hartford that it is headed for the scrape heap, will be TOWED HOME like the Cole?


Look at the cant of the Hull in this photograph of the USS Hartford released by the Navy...Look at the close up detail of the steel plating. Just how SERIOUS was this accident, and where are the DAMAGE ESTIMATES? Further, even if the reactor core is secure, what about the PIPING SYSTEM and other internal submarine damage? The USS Hartford should be TOWED BACK TO AMERICA and put into Dry Dock for a full stem to stern inspection by outside INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATORS.



The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) pulls into Mina Salman pier in Bahrain where U.S. Navy engineers and inspection teams will asses and evaluate damage.


090321-N-9909C-211 BAHRAIN (March 21, 2009) The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) pulls into Mina Salman pier in Bahrain where U.S. Navy engineers and inspection teams will asses and evaluate damage that resulted from a collision with the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) in the Strait of Hormuz March 20. Overall damage to both ships is being evaluated. The incident remains under investigation. Hartford is deployed to the U.S. 5th fleet area of responsibility to support maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. Jane Campbell/Released)




he Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) pulls into Mina Salman pier in Bahrain where U.S. Navy engineers and inspection teams will asses and evaluate damage.



090321-N-9909C-848 BAHRAIN (March 21, 2009) The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) pulls into Mina Salman pier in Bahrain where U.S. Navy engineers and inspection teams will asses and evaluate damage that resulted from a collision with the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) in the Strait of Hormuz March 20. Overall damage to both ships is being evaluated. The incident remains under investigation. Hartford is deployed to the U.S. 5th fleet area of responsibility to support maritime security operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Cmdr. Jane Campbell/Released)



Obama On 60 Minutes...Going To Let AIG Employees Keep Their Bonus Money!

If you listened closely to President Barrack Obama tonight, he announced he was AGAIN going to betray Main Street Americans by refusing to sign the Bill Passed through Congress this past week that would TAX BONUS MONEY 90 percent. He said he would not govern in anger, and has decided NOT TO SIGN THE LEGISLATION! OUTRAGE PEOPLE! We need ONE MILLION AMERICANS LIGHTING UP THE WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARDS FIRST THING IN THE AM! This is either A) a REVOLUUTION, or B) the beginning of the end of America.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Main Street To Wall Street...We Will LASH OUT IF You Profit From Buying TOXIC ASSETS

The MONKEYS on Wall Street and in Washington DC Think They Can Screw Main Street Americans On TOXIC ASSETS.
Here is a message to Wall Street...President Obama and the Treasury are DEAD WRONG if they think America is going to TOLERATE YOU FOLKS MAKING A DIME ON TOXIC ASSETS! Further, we want limits put on ANY BANK, ANY FUND that purchases those TOXIC ASSETS. We here on Main Street paid the price, took the hit...THOSE ASSETS BY ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO US. We have ALREADY BOUGHT THEM THREE TIMES OVER, and are OPPOSED TO EVEN ONE THIN DIME OF OUR TAXES BEING USED TO BUY THEM. Obama, the Treasury and Geithner need to come MAKE A DEAL WITH US ON MAIN STREET, NOT YOU SCUM ON WALL STREET.

Those TOXIC ASSETS are worth about 10-15 cents on the dollar right now. Congress should change the 401K rules so that we can instruct our people (IE, in my own case TIAF-CREF)to issue us letters of credit that allow us to use the money we have in our 401 K accounts (without penalty)to purchase those toxic assets and sit on them ourselves...we have been FORCED to sit on assets and keep our money in funds because we could not afford the unfair TEN PERCENT PENALTY imposed on it...well, let us DUMP our bonds, get out of our funds and instead at our choice BUY TOXIC ASSETS at bargain basement prices. At 20 cents on the dollar, I can go out right now under MY PLAN outlined in this one paragraph and buy up (at AN OPEN AUCTION) some $1.5 Million worth of assets (at their pre disaster value). Let's say I picked up 15 foreclosed CONDO's as example. (Remember, we are BUYING TOXIC ASSETS, they are greatly depressed.) I guarantee you I could have those Condo's RENTED OUT in 60 days at lets say BARGAIN PRICES of $300 a month plus overhead (IE, commons fees). I own 15, which brings in $4500 a month in income...times a year is $54,000 that I could put back into the stock market. Tell me where I am going to get that kind of a return at in my 401K? Why do the BIG INVESTORS GET THE HUGE BREAKS, WHY ARE YOU KEEPING OUR FUNDS TIED UP IN EVER DECLINING 401K's?

Christina D Romer, you ARE DEAD WRONG...we here on Main Street see President Obama, his worthless Treasury FLUNKY Geithner doing business as usual, which is figuring out how you can get the Nation out of this mess in a fashion that lets the RICH AND ELITE EVENTUALLY TURN A HUGE PROFIT ON OUR PAIN....that is not going to happen! Do not try to bullshit us by painting these BARRACUDAS out to be NICE GUYS...anyone on Wall Street is A FUCKING CROOK, and we are tired of it...you people want to deal with the Toxic Assets, COME DEAL WITH US HERE ON MAIN STREET!


Some of them have told administration officials that they would participate only if the government guaranteed that it would not set compensation limits on the firms, according to people briefed on the conversations. The executives also expressed worries about whether disclosure and governance rules could be added retroactively to the program by Congress, these people said.


A spokeswoman for the Treasury declined to comment on the conversations over the weekend.


Administration officials took to the airwaves Sunday to reassure investors that the public would distinguish between companies like A.I.G., which are taking government bailout money, and private investment groups that, under this latest plan, would be helping the government take troubled assets off the books of some of the country’s biggest banks.


“What we’re talking about now are private firms that are kind of doing us a favor, right, coming into this market to help us buy these toxic assets off banks’ balance sheets,” Christina D. Romer, the White House’s chief economist, said in an interview on “Fox News Sunday.”


“I think they understand that the president realizes they’re in a different category,” she said, adding, “They are firms that are being the good guys here.”



Geithner says need private-sector help: report




WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Sunday that help from the private sector was critical to get toxic assets off banks' balance sheets and help resolve a credit crisis.


"Our judgment is that the best way to get through this is if we can work with the markets," Geithner said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "We don't want the government to assume all the risk. We want the private sector to work with us."


Geithner is set to reveal details on Monday of a plan to set up public-private investment funds that could buy up to $1 trillion in troubled loans and securities at the heart of the financial crisis.


The Journal said Treasury believes participants in the program shouldn't be subject to executive-pay rules imposed by Congress. The law authorizing a $700-billion bailout and a provision in a $787-billion stimulus package impose tough pay restrictions on firms that receive government funds, including limits on bonuses.

Wall Street,Banks, AIG, Illegal Aliens...Time For Main Street Retribution?

Is Your Main Street America Dream Worth Standing Up For, Protesting For, Dying For? Wake Up Main Street, It Is US OR THEM...Stand Up, Be Heard, Or Be Enslaved.






For those in the crowd who are news junkies today has been filled with a certain amusement as we watch the pundits make the Sunday Morning circuit of news shows, attempting to diffuse the anger on Main Street. The basic spiel goes something like, "We have to put the bonus money in its proper perspective, time for Americans to move on to more important issues...after all, these bonuses represent less than...blah, blah...blah, blah and blah. I can agree with the putting it all in perspective part.

So far, Main Street America has been put on the hook for two trillion dollars (and growing).

We have been forced to bail out both Wall Street and Main Street.

Of the $180 Billion promised to AIG, over $80 Billion (and growing went right in the front door and out the back door to banks in foreign countries!

We are going to be told on Monday that we have to take on the financial responsibility (as taxpayers) another $2 Trillion dollars to buy up the Toxic Assets that are floating around...what they do not want you too know, is we are going to be the BACKSTOP that will allow the banks we BAILED OUT to buy those assets from themselves with our money AT BARGAIN BASEMENT PRICES.

While 12.5 Million LEGAL AMERICANS are out of work, the Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Border Patrol and President Obama refuse to take any actions against the seven million illegal aliens that STILL HAVE JOBS...in fact, the TWO CUNTS PELOSI and NAPOLITANO (YES, I SAID CUNTS!!!) have said enforcement of OUR LAWS, conducting ENFORCEMENT RAIDS is CRUEL!

President Obama demanded that E Verify be kept out of the Stimulus Bill...as a result of this reality, 300,000 Stimulus Jobs PAID FOR WITH OUR TAXES will go to ILLEGAL ALIENS.

Senator Dodd, Treasury Secretary Geithner and President OBama lied to us about what they knew regarding AIG bonus money, and when they knew about it.

The list could go on, but Main Street Americans should be able to look at this list and realize it is time to nip Obama's AGENDA in the bud. It is time that Main Street Americans begin MAKING DEMANDS IN WASHINGTON, DC, and if necessary be prepared to take to the streets in seeing our demands MET...enough LIP SERVICE. In short, I am stating for the record, THE TIME HAS COME FOR RETRIBUTION.

1. We want Everify, and we want it mandatory FOR ALL BUSINESSES effective immediately, and we want it fully funded.

2. FUCK YOUR AMNESTY. (This goes for Reid, Pelosi, Obama and every other SCUM BAG wanting to REWARD ILLEGAL ALIENS.) Instead, we want ENFORCEMENT, WE WANT BORDER SECURITY, and if Janet Napolitano and Eric Holder are not willing to FULLY AND ACTIVELY ENFORCE OUR IMMIGRATION LAWS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, WE DEMAND THEIR RESIGNATIONS EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. 12.5 Million Americans ARE OUT OF WORK, and we want the SEVEN MILLION CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS STEALING OUR JOBS GONE, and that MEANS DEPORTATION.

3. We want Treasury Secretary Geithner GONE. We are talking RESIGNATION, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.

4. YOUR PLAN FOR buying up TOXIC ASSETS does not work for Main Street...we are not willing to have our money PUT ON THE LINE so that the rich can use it to buy up TOXIC ASSETS to cash in later at HUGE PROFIT. LET AIG and other Wall Street groups including banks FAIL! How much more can we get hurt anyway...you are already trying to force BOOMERS to accept a reality that they have to work till they are 68-72 so that you can reel in Social Security.

5. YOUR BUDGET Mr. PRESIDENT...FUCK IT TOO....we do not want THAT DEBT. Take your Health care and MOST OF YOUR Energy plan and PARK THEM! THIS INCLUDES ALL FUNDING AND LOAN GUARANTEES TO NUCLEAR. Simply stated...we in the middle class have suffered enough, and ARE NOT WILLING TO TAKE IT UP THE ASS so you can give what we have left to the poor and illegal aliens. You can come back and discuss these two issues with us once we have seen at least TEN MILLION ILLEGALS SHIPPED OUT OF AMERICA by any means possible, including by the point of a gun held by a member of our military.

To Main Street Americans...how long are you going to sit on your hands AND TAKE IT FROM A GOVERNMENT THAT HAS NOT PROTECTED YOUR INTERESTS FOR THREE DECADES. Please, WAKE UP...we are at a defining moment in America's history, and our destiny, the destiny of our LEGAL AMERICAN CHILDREN is at risk. Put aside political correctness, and DEMAND RETRIBUTION, MARCH IN THE STREETS, PICKET EVERY AIG BUSINESS LOCATION, put one million people on the street in Front of the White House, organize a sit in at the Washington Office of your elected officials.

Congress has for too long heard from Wall Street, From Banks, From the Insurance Industries, From Lobbyist, and FROM ILLEGAL ALIENS...now the time has come for Congress to HEAR MAIN STREET AMERICA LOAD AND CLEAR.

Bahrain, Nuclear Submarine Trashed! We GOT PICTURE!

The Green Nuclear Underground has found a picture of the Nuclear Navy's GREAT BAHRAIN COVER UP...as in a HUMONGOUS BLUE AND WHITE TARP (yes, like the BAILOUT) covering up very significant MAST DAMAGE...here is the story just posted.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

United States Nuclear Navy HIDING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE from Nuclear Sub/Ship Accident in Straight of Hormuz

A cursory Google Search, and a check of the Fifth Fleets Bahrain Web Site makes it abundantly clear that the Navy and its Nuclear Submarine people are DESPARATELY trying to keep the world from knowing just how much damage was done to the USS New Orleans and the Submarine, the USS Hartford. Two pictures (supposedly the USS New Orleans) are very obvious PROPAGANDA PIECES meant to present a BUSINESS AS USUAL, nothing is wrong appearance to the citizens of America. Oddly, the Fifth Fleet released NO PICTURES of the USS Hartford Fast Attack Nuclear Sub docking, or coming into port. It is this author's belief that the submarine's mast has suffered SIGNIFICANT damage. In other news...the old no harm no foul, we saw no DIESEL FUEL excuse has also been trotted out...that's right Commander Propaganda, 25,000 gallons of diesel just VANISHED! Where does a citizen file a complaint at? Do not believe that NUCLEAR REACTOR was not damaged until Congress conducts a FULL AND COMPLETE INDEPENDENT investigation...if the USS Hartford was NOT SIGNIFICANTLY DAMAGED, where are the photographs?

Well Well Well...HIDDEN on a MARINE website, a picture of the DAMAGE, or at least a TARP (as in Wall Street) covering the NAVAL NUCLEAR MISTAKE!

Hartford suffered “visible” damage to the sail and to a bow plane. Campbell could not say if components of the sail such as masts and periscopes are damaged.

“It’s important to point out that Hartford’s [nuclear] power plant was not affected in this at all,” she said. “We’ll be doing a full incident investigation report as well as a [Judge Advocate General’s Manual] investigation.” No DAMAGE, LET IAEA do independent verification. How about Union of Concerned Scientist? Mother's For Peace? By the way, isn't this the THIRD SUCH COLLISION RECENTLY? Yet no ADMIRALS have tenured their resignations out of SHAME?

This is third recent collision involving a U.S. submarine in the Strait of Hormuz or the Persian Gulf.


March 21, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Release #049-09

USS Hartford and USS New Orleans Arrive In Port Bahrain

MANAMA, Bahrain – The U.S. Navy submarine and U.S. amphibious ship that collided in the Strait of Hormuz March 20, arrived in port Bahrain today.

USS Hartford (SSN 768) and USS New Orleans (LPD 18) arrived at Mina Salman pier to further assess and evaluate the damage that resulted from their collision at sea.

The incident remains under investigation.

Overall damage to both ships is being evaluated. The propulsion plant of the submarine was unaffected by this collision. New Orleans suffered a ruptured fuel tank, which resulted in a fuel spill of approximately 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel marine in the Strait of Hormuz.

Aerial searches of the area where the fuel spill occurred were conducted yesterday, and revealed no indication of any remaining fuel on the ocean’s surface.

The U.S. 5th Fleet has been working in coordination with the Navy Oceanographic Office to determine refined search areas, based on currents and winds. Additional searches were flown by U.S. Navy aircraft today and found no remaining fuel on the surface.

The quick dissipation of the fuel is likely due to the type of fuel, and various environmental factors to include air and water temperatures, winds and seas.

Both Hartford and New Orleans are currently on regularly scheduled deployments to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations conducting Maritime Security Operations (MSO).

MSO set the conditions for security and stability in the maritime environment as well as complement the counter-terrorism and security efforts of regional nations. MSO deny international terrorists use of the maritime environment as a venue for attack or to transport personnel, weapons, or other material.

090321-N-8053S-130 BAHRAIN (March 21, 2009) USS New Orleans (LPD 18) pulls into Mina Salman pier in Bahrain to asses and evaluate damage that resulted from a collision with the submarine, USS Hartford (SSN 768) in the Strait of Hormuz. No personnel aboard New Orleans were injured in the incident. Overall damage to both ships is being evaluated. New Orleans is deployed to the U.S. 5th fleet area of operations to support Maritime Security Operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David K. Simmons / Released) USS New Orleans Arrives in Bahrain

090321-N-8053S-130 BAHRAIN (March 21, 2009) USS New Orleans (LPD 18) pulls into Mina Salman pier in Bahrain to asses and evaluate damage that resulted from a collision with the submarine, USS Hartford (SSN 768) in the Strait of Hormuz. No personnel aboard New Orleans were injured in the incident. Overall damage to both ships is being evaluated. New Orleans is deployed to the U.S. 5th fleet area of operations to support Maritime Security Operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David K. Simmons / Released)

090321-N-8053S-165 BAHRAIN (March 21, 2009) USS New Orleans (LPD 18) lowers the ships’ brow after mooring pierside in Bahrain where U.S. Navy engineers and inspection teams will asses and evaluate damage that resulted from a collision with the amphibious ship, USS Hartford (SSN 768) in the Strait of Hormuz. No personnel aboard New Orleans were injured in the incident. Overall damage to both ships is being evaluated. New Orleans is deployed to the U.S. 5th fleet area of operations to support Maritime Security Operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David K. Simmons / Released)

090321-N-8053S-165 BAHRAIN (March 21, 2009) USS New Orleans (LPD 18) lowers the ships’ brow after mooring pierside in Bahrain where U.S. Navy engineers and inspection teams will asses and evaluate damage that resulted from a collision with the amphibious ship, USS Hartford (SSN 768) in the Strait of Hormuz. No personnel aboard New Orleans were injured in the incident. Overall damage to both ships is being evaluated. New Orleans is deployed to the U.S. 5th fleet area of operations to support Maritime Security Operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class David K. Simmons / Released)

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By the way NAVY...in case you do not have the numbers, did a bit of research for you...did you report the ENVIRONEMENTAL SPILL of 25,000 gallons of diesel to anyone?

Saturday, March 21, 2009

USS Hartford MAULS USS New Orleans and Story DIES in Press...Did Military SLAP UP EXCLUSIONARY ZONE?

Talk about BLACK OPS...a NUCLEAR SUBMARINE SLAMS into another naval vessel, rips it open like a can of sardines as 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel spill into the Straight of Hermuz doing untold damage to the environment, and almost sinking the ship as sailors RUSHED to their emergency stations in an effort to the stablize the capsizing vessel just in time to save it from sinking into, and potentially blocking the busiest shipping channel in the world! Rumors abound that the repair costs to the USS Hartford Nuclear Attack Submarine and the USS New Orleans are going to run into the TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, and no one is whispering a word...hmmmm...was the accident FAR WORSE than we are being told? Has the nuclear reactor onboard the USS Hartford BEEN DAMAGED? Think it is time that the DOD, the Nuclear Navy and the Commander in Chief President Obama show us some of that transparancy we keep hearing about by inviting OUTSIDE INVESTIGATORS to inspect the submarine's nuclear reactor...I am recommending that the President agree to an outside inspection of said onboard reactor by three members of the IAEA. Further, where is the resignation of the Admiral in charge of the Nuclear Navy?
USS Hartford, USS New Orleans Collide in Strait of Hormuz

USS New OrleansTwo U.S. Navy vessels have collided in the Strait of Hormuz, near the Arabian Peninsula. The USS Hartford, a submarine, crashed in the USS New Orleans amphibious ship Friday morning. No serious injuries occurred, but gallons of fuel spilled into the water.

USS Hartford and USS New Orleans Collision

The USS Hartford and the USS New Orleans ran into each other during the early morning hours, at about 1 a.m. local time. Fifteen sailors from the Hartford are reported as “slightly injured.” They have all already returned to duty.

The Navy says the USS Hartford’s nuclear propulsion plant was not damaged. The USS New Orleans, however, suffered a “ruptured fuel tank.” Because of that, 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel marine were spilled.

Military officials say both ships were on their way into port when the collision happened. The submarine was underwater at the time. An investigation is now underway.

Both the USS Hartford and the USS New Orleans are being brought in for evaluation. Their exact locations are not being revealed because of security concerns.

The Strait of Hormuz

The Strait of Hormuz is located between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula. It is a narrow passageway and is considered one of the most highly trafficked commercial routes for tankers carrying oil.


Should City and Town Governments Have Legal Right To Bulldoze Foreclosed Homes Sold To Illegal Aliens?

There is a lot of talk that a major percentage of the foreclosed homes were sold to Illegal Aliens. Now I am not sure what the statistics are, have heard figures from 10 percent upwards of 40 percent in places like Las Vegas. What I do know, is that illegal aliens are criminals, and further I know they should not even be here in America. Further, in many cases, these homes were allegedly purchased using FAKE IDENTIFICATION. SO, the banks screwed up, the illegal aliens screwed up, and communities are left with EMPTY HOMES...my question....if it can be proven that the banks knowingly sold homes to Illegal Aliens, should communities be allowed to bring in a Bulldozer, get rid of the home and turn the area into City Parks to make up for the infestation that is Illegal Immigration?

Undocumented Immigrants Buy Into Home Owning Dream (Take note of the publication date of this article.


August 18, 2004 (By Nurith C. Aizenman, WP) - Gerardo Cabrera fell in love with the house immediately. There was the bay window in the living room, the fireplace in the den, and -- most enchanting to a man raised amid the concrete of Mexico City -- the woods in the back yard. (This couple as you will find out WERE ILLEGAL ALIENS.)


And so the auto mechanic and his wife, a secretary, decided to pay $200,000 for their own piece of suburban Gaithersburg, a classic tale of immigrants(ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE NOT IMMIGRANTS) achieving the American dream.


Except for one detail: At the time, they were in the United States illegally. (Simply stated, they were and are SCUM BAG ILLEGAL ALIEN CRIMINALS.)


Undaunted, Cabrera went to three lenders until he found one who was willing to accept identification in place of a Social Security card. (ONE CRIMINAL, DOING BUSINESS WITH ANOTHER...let the AIG shuffle begin!) "I believe in thinking positively," said Cabrera, 38, who became a permanent legal resident about a year after buying the house in July 1999. "It doesn't matter how many times you're told no, because you only need one person to say yes." (Notice it says he became a permanent legal resident...what about his illegal alien wife, and did he himself LIE to get his new status?)


Real estate agents and mortgage brokers say a substantial number of undocumented immigrants(ILLEGAL ALIENS are not undocumented immigrants, they are SCUM BAG CRIMINALS...do not like that descriptor? What do you call a drug dealer, a rapist, a murderer?) across the Washington region appear to be finding similar ways to buy their first homes -- their purchases just one more example of the extent to which the nation's estimated 9 million undocumented immigrants (Illegal Aliens) have become integrated in American society even as they remain outside the legal system. (Just because they think they have integrated does not MAKE IT SO...most of us being forced to live by them despise them, tolerate them only because doing otherwise is against the law.)

SMart Grid...Subject to Hackers, Or Not? That is The Question.

OH MY GOD! HAckers could break into the Smart Grid!...or not. I would venture to say the Smart Grid like everything else in the world (including this laptop I am working on) is subject to an every changing number of security vulnerabilities. It's part of living in a technological world. However, when reading the CNN security correspondent's article on the Smart Grid security vulnerabilities, was struck by a sense of CON, as in CON JOB. I am not doubting that we could have a MAJOR BLACK OUT caused through a deliberate attack of the smart grid...so what, we could have hundreds of thousands of lost lives from a successful terrorist attack on a Nuclear Reactor site, but do not see Jeanne Meserve writing that story.

I am suggesting we take her story with a VERY LARGE GRAIN OF SALT...she does not report the WHOLE STORY, but instead calls her story complete because she sites TWO INDUSTRY EXPERTS in her story...two industry experts that STAND TO MAKE A LOT OF MONEY if they are successful in slowing Smart Grid down until they get a larger piece of the pie by adding on a lot more of their companies security programs. Her first expert, "Ed Skoudis, a co-founder of InGuardians, a network security research and consulting firm" warns against rolling out the system to fast. Her other source, IO Active warns of a MAJOR TAKE OVER OF THE SYSTEM with an investment of just $500...sort of kind of.

Not to cast dispersions on the reporter here, but WHAT IS IN IT FOR HER in using this two examples? There is a $4.5 Billion dollar pile of money on the table for Smart Grid, and neither of these two names came up on the front page when googling Smart Grid...but, there being in your article sure puts them FRONT AND CENTER. Tell us Jeanne Meserve, do you have any kind of a relationship/association with any of the sources in this article?

By Jeanne Meserve
CNN Homeland Security Correspondent

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Is it really so smart to forge ahead with the high technology, digitally based electricity distribution and transmission system known as the "Smart Grid"? Tests have shown that a hacker can break into the system, and cybersecurity experts said a massive blackout could result.

If someone hacked into the Smart Grid, experts say it could cause a blackout that stretches across the country.

If someone hacked into the Smart Grid, experts say it could cause a blackout that stretches across the country.

Until the United States eliminates the Smart Grid's vulnerabilities, some experts said, deployment should proceed slowly.

"I think we are putting the cart before the horse here to get this stuff rolled out very fast," said Ed Skoudis, a co-founder of InGuardians, a network security research and consulting firm.

The Smart Grid will use automated meters, two-way communications and advanced sensors to improve electricity efficiency and reliability. The nation's utilities have embraced the concept and are installing millions of automated meters on homes across the country, the first phase in Smart Grid's deployment. President Obama has championed Smart Grid, and the recent stimulus bill allocated $4.5 billion for the high-tech program.

But cybersecurity experts said some types of meters can be hacked, as can other points in the Smart Grid's communications systems. IOActive, a professional security services firm, determined that an attacker with $500 of equipment and materials and a background in electronics and software engineering could "take command and control of the [advanced meter infrastructure] allowing for the en masse manipulation of service to homes and businesses."

The Hypocrisy of Michelle Obama's Organic Veggie Garden (STOP BEING FAKE)

For going on three days now I've had to listen to CNN talk about Michelle Obama's White House VEGGIE GARDEN...stop the hypocrisy here, who are we trying to FOOL? Did you watch Michelle working her shovel? It was OBVIOUS that she HAD NO CLUE about what she was doing. Did any one notice that the entire area had been PRE STAGED! How many tax dollars were spent on the THAT PHOTO OP? Where were some real questions for Michelle the Organic gardener? What is she going to prep the soil? Is she doing rasied beds? If this is to be an organic garden, does she have the White House Kitchen doing composting....if not, why not? Is this her personal project with her girls, or instead is it a project placed on the White House grounds crew that she will occassionally use as yet another PHOTO OP?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Want to know where the presidential produce comes from?

Washington's Bancroft Elementary School students help first lady Michelle Obama break ground on the garden.

Washington's Bancroft Elementary School students help first lady Michelle Obama break ground on the garden.

Take a walk past the White House. The answer may be planted right in front of you.

First lady Michelle Obama helped break ground on a new White House organic "kitchen garden" Friday. It will be the first working garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. since Eleanor Roosevelt planted a so-called "victory garden" at the height of World War II.

This time, however, the enemy is obesity. The first family is hoping to send a clear message to a fast food-driven nation that often seems to be losing the battle of the bulge.

"We're just hoping that a lot of families look at us and say this is something that they can do and talk to their own kids about and think a little bit critically about the food choices that they make," said Marian Robinson, the president's mother-in-law. Video Watch Michelle Obama tell students about the garden » (More like listen to her LIE.)

The first lady told a group of Washington schoolchildren on hand for the occasion that first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama were usually more willing to try fresh fruits and vegetables because fresh produce generally tastes better.

"What I found with my kids [is that] if they were involved in planting it and picking it, they were much more curious about giving it a try," she added.

"I've been able to have my kids eat so many different things that they would have never touched if we had bought it at a store because they either met the farmers that grew it, or they saw how it was grown," she said.

Friday, March 20, 2009

ANOTHER NUCLEAR SUB ACCIDENT...Where is Resignation of Admiral Kirkland H. Donald

Hey Admiral Kirkland!...the BUCK STOPS HERE, as in YOUR DESK...this is now officially one too many Nuclear accidents/mistakes ON YOUR WATCH. Where is your resignation, you are a disgrace to the Uniform! (Can someone dig up the theme song from the old Branded show?)

Friday, March 20, 2009

In Light of Another Nuclear Accident, Where is Admiral Kirkland Donald Resignation

OK...with the over night accident in the Straight of Hormuz where a Nuclear Attack Submarine almost sank one of our own ships, its time to demand the resignation of Admiral Kirkland Donald because of his FAILED LEADERSHIP. This is one too many NUCLEAR SUB accidents, and we as a nation cannot wait for a MAJOR breach of a on board reactor to ask Admiral Kirkland Donald to step down...maybe he can replace Admiral Skip Bowman at NEI...they seem to like inept, even dishonest leadership. Naval Reactors Leadership

Admiral Kirkland H. Donald
Deputy Administrator for NNSA's Office of Naval Reactors

Originally from Norlina, N.C., Admiral Kirkland Donald graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 with a bachelor of science in ocean engineering. He also holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix and is a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive Fellows Program.

After completing his initial nuclear power and submarine training, he served in USS Batfish (SSN 681), USS Mariano G. Vallejo (SSBN 658), and USS Seahorse (SSN 669).

Adm. Donald was Commanding Officer, USS Key West (SSN 722), from October 1990 to February 1993. He served as Commander, Submarine Development Squadron 12 from August 1995 to July 1997. From June 2002 to July 2003, he was assigned as Commander, Submarine Group 8; Commander, Submarine Force 6th Fleet (CTF 69); Commander, Submarines Allied Naval Forces South; and Commander, Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine Force (CTF 164) in Naples, Italy. Most recently, he served as Commander, Naval Submarine Forces; Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Commander, Allied Submarine Command; and Commander, Task Forces 84 and 144 in Norfolk, Va.

Two U.S. Navy Vessels Collide in the Strait of Hormuz
A U.S. Navy submarine and U.S. amphibious ship collided in the Strait of Hormuz March 20, 2009.

The collision between USS Hartford (SSN 768) and USS New Orleans (LPD 18) occurred at approxim...

The Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Hartford (SSN 768) is underway Friday, March 20, 2009 in the Persian Gulf after a collision with the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18).

Michelle OBama....Where Are Some White Kids?

No disrespecct meant Michelle OBama, but in the first couple of months that you have been in office, in all the various and assorted press events that involve you and children of varying ages, wondering where WHITE KIDS ARE? I seem to recall that the National Census puts the percentage of Black People in the American Population at around 13 percent. Now, seeing as you are the PEOPLES FIRST LADY, you have a duty to represent and reach out to ALL CHILDREN, not just ones of a ethnic back ground, not just black children. So I ask again, where are the White Children?

Ground is broken for White House 'kitchen garden'

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WASHINGTON – Twenty-six elementary schoolchildren wielded shovels, rakes, pitchforks and wheelbarrows to help first lady Michelle Obama break ground for a produce and herb garden on the White House grounds.

Crops to be planted in the coming weeks on the 1,100-square-foot, L-shaped patch near the fountain on the South Lawn include spinach, broccoli, various lettuces, kale and collard greens, assorted herbs and blueberries, blackberries and raspberries.

There will also be a beehive.

"We're going to try to make our own honey here as well," Mrs. Obama told the students from Bancroft Elementary School in Washington. The school has its own community garden.

The students will be brought back to the White House next month to help with the planting, and after that to help harvest and cook some of the produce in the mansion's kitchen. The first harvest is expected by late April.

Mrs. Obama said her family has talked about planting such a garden since they moved to the White House in January.

After she spoke, the students were paired off and handed a gardening tool. The first lady joined, with a tool of her own, and together they began raking and scraping up the grass and topsoil, dumping it into wheelbarrows and depositing the contents in a central location.

"Are we done yet?" Mrs. Obama jokingly said at one point. "I want to plant. Let's harvest something."

When the work was finished, the students sat at three nearby picnic tables and were treated to apples, apple cider and cookies baked in the shape of a shovel.

Some of the produce from the garden will be served in the White House, including to the First Family and at official functions. Some crops also will be donated to Miriam's Kitchen, a soup kitchen near the White House where Mrs. Obama recently helped serve lunch.

Assistant chef Sam Kass said the garden will exist year round, and the crops will change based on the seasons.

He gave no estimate on how much produce the garden would yield, but said, "It should be quite a bit, if we're lucky."