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My mother has worked for Wal-Mart 20+ years and she is 62yrs. old. She is a manager over the Domestics Department, which covers the bedding and curtains etc. My mother on her annual Evaluations has always gotten "Exceeds Expectations" on her scores. She has been Employee of the Year before, and Employee of the month before in her store. She is always on time for work, and never calls in unless she is extremely sick, which is very rare. She is a hard worker, thus that is why she is a manager.

The dilemma is that, recently my mother has gotten a new supervisor that is over her in her department and Softlines which covers clothing. This new supervisor I will call her "Evil" is a slave driver and everyone hates her, but does not say anything, because they are scared of losing their jobs. My mother said that this supervisor gives her a long list of things to do that she knows my mother will not be able to finish, because my mother is setting up modulars, helping customers, stocking, scanning in pallets, doing exceptions and more. My mother said that this supervisor when telling her what she wants her to do today has the look of "I know your not going to be able to finish this ha ha" thus why I call her evil, she wants my mother to fail. This supervisor complained about my mother saying that she is not finishing her work, but she does as much as she possibly can. My mother said that she was working so hard that she was panting. When this supervisor complained about her, my mother got called into the office for a "Coaching" and they told her she has to work even harder to try to finish. My mother came home that day crying, I had to watch as my wonderful mother cried and it broke my heart. My mother is scared, because of her age and how long she has been there that maybe they are trying to get rid of her. This evil slave driving supervisor made my mother cry. My mother said that none of the other supervisors are like that. This one takes pride in making people uncomfortable and feel bad, how can this be what Wal-Mart has become.

I thought that Wal-Mart helped others and the community, then why are they trying to get rid of their long-term employees? This evil supervisor got someone in Softlines dept. fired that had been there 11 years, only by saying that she was not working fast enough. This supervisor came to dayshift from overnights, so I think that may have something to do with it, because the overnight workers are treated different and worked harder than the day workers usually. I pray that my mother does not lose her job, because it would be a Wrongful Termination. They should let these older workers finish out their retirement. Is Wal-Mart that greedy that they would lose so much by letting these people stay in their jobs?

Unfortunately, Alabama does not have a Wrongful Termination Law, so employers are free to fire someone for any reason, which is also wrong. Every state should have a law to protect employees from wrongful termination.

I am asking you to help me in emailing the Wal-Mart CEO, executives, and your local store manager to complain about the treatment of long-term employees that have worked 10+ years and about the need for supervisors to be more understanding of the people under them.

Thank you,

Cynthia Yildirim
http://www.twitter.com/cynthiay29

Here is there site you can send Wal-Mart comments or complaints
http://walmartstores.com/7663.aspx

Has it ended? Think again. There are evil people at the top.

MKULTRA Victim Testimony:

MKULTRA Victim Testimony:

CIA Brainwashing Experiments - MKULTRA

MKULTRA, was the code name for a covert CIA mind-control and chemical interrogation research program, run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence, that began in the early 1950s and continued at least through the late 1960s.^[1][2][3] There is much published evidence that the project involved the surreptitious use of many types of drugs, as well as other methodology, to manipulate individual mental states and to alter brain function.^[4]

Project MK-ULTRA was first brought to wide public attention in 1975 by the U.S. Congress, through investigations by the Church Committee, and by a presidential commission known as the Rockefeller Commission. Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MK-ULTRA files destroyed in 1973.^[5]

Although the CIA insists that MK-ULTRA-type experiments have been abandoned, 14-year CIA veteran Victor Marchetti has stated in various interviews that the CIA routinely conducts disinformation campaigns and that CIA mind control research continued. In a 1977 interview, Marchetti specifically called the CIA claim that MK-ULTRA was abandoned a 'cover story.'.^[6][7]

On the Senate floor in 1977, Senator Ted Kennedy said:

The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an 'extensive testing and experimentation' program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens 'at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign.' Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to 'unwitting subjects in social situations.' At least one death, that of Dr. [Frank] Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers.

This video is from C-SPAN, broadcast June 9, 2008

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Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles

June 9, 2008

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An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W Bush to Congress

Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep.

Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on CSPAN

"The House is not in order," said Kucinich to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), upon which Pelosi pounded her gavel

"Resolved," Kucinich then began, "that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate. ...

"In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and to the best of his ability preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power..."

The first article Kucinich presented, and many that followed, regarded the war in Iraq: "Article 1 - Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false case for war against Iraq

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Kucinich, a 2004 and 2008 Democratic candidate for the White House, abandoned a prior attempt to begin impeachment proceedings against Bush in January of this year

In April of 2007, Kucinich presented impeachment articles against Vice President Dick Cheney, but the effort went nowhere.

Kucinich exclaimed that "impeachment may well be the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran

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Before leaving office in January 2007, Rep Cynthia McKinney--currently a Green Party presidential candidate--introduced articles of impeachment against President Bush as her last act in Congress, but that effort also was fruitless.

Rough closed caption transcript of the first 10 minutes of proceedings follow...

the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to.

and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table

the speaker pro tempore: will the house come to order, for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio rise?

mr.

kucinich: madam speaker, the house is not in order

the speaker

pro tempore: will the house come to order. please take your conversations off the floor. the speaker pro tempore: will the house come to order.

the gentleman from ohio

mr. kucinich: madam speaker, pursuant to clause 2 of rule 9, i rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the house. the form of the resolution is as follows.

the house is not in order

mr. kucinich: the form of the resolution is as follows. a resolution, articles of impeachment of george bush, president of the united states. resolved that president george w. bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanor and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the united states senate. articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of representatives of the united states of america in the name of itself and of the people of the united states of america in maintenance and support of its impeachment against george w. bush for high crimes and misdemeanor. it is conduct while president of the united states, george w. bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faith fully execute the office of the office of president of the united states and best of his ability, preserve protect and defend the constitution of the united states and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be safely executed has committed the following abuses of power. article i, creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false case for war against iraq. in his conduct while president of the united states, george w. bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faith fully execute the office of president of the united states and to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states and in violation of its constitutional duty to take care that the laws be safely executed, has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the vice president, illegally spent public dollars on a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false cause for war against iraq. the department of defense has engaged in a years long secret domestic propaganda campaign -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. the house will come to order. please proceed. . mr. kucinich: the president and the department of defense promoted a secret program for war with iraq this program follows the pattern of crimes detailed in articles i, ii, iv, and 7:00 -- strike that, 8:00. the mission of this program placed it within the field controlled by the white house iraq group, known as whig, a white house task formed -- task force formed in 2002 that ind colluded karl rove, lewis libby, mary matalin, nicholas calleo, and james r. wilkinson. the white house iraq group, or whig, produced white papers detailing so-called intelligence of iraq's nuclear intelligence that later proved to be false. this sprosed -- supposed intelligence included the claim that iraq had sought uranium from niger and that the high-strength uranium tubes were to be used for building centrifuges to enrich uranium. unlike the national intelligence estimate of 2002, the whigs' white paper provided lit rare license on intelligence. it was written at the same time and by the same people as speeches and talking points prepared for president bush and some of his top officials. the white house-iraq group also organized a media campaign in which, between september 7 and 8, 2002, president bush and his top advisors appeared on numerous interviews and all provided similarly gripping images about the possibility of a nuclear attack by iraq. the timing was no coincidence as andrew card explained in an interview regarding waiting to labor day to try to sell the american people on military action against iraq he said, quote from a marketing point of view, you don't introduce knew products in august. september 7 and september 8, 2002, nbc's "meet the press," vice president cheney accused saddam of moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons over the past 14 months to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms. cnn. then national-security -- then-national security advisor race side of iraq obtain agnew clear weapon, we don't want a smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud. president bush said saddam was six months away from developing nuclear weapons and cited photos of weapons inspectors in iraq that saddam was trying to develop nuclear arms. the pentagon prop began dist military program was revealed in an april 20, 2002, "new york times" article. the program illegally involved, quote, attempts to change opinion through the use of third parties. secretary of defense donald rumsfeld recruited 75 retired military officers and gave them talking points to deliver on fobblings, cnn, abc, nbc, cbs, and msnbc, according to "the new york times" report, which has not been discomputered by the pentagon or white house. quote, participants were instructed not to quote their briefers directly or otherwise describe their contact with the pentagon. according to the pentagon's own internal document the military analysts were considered, quote, message-force multipliers, unquote, as surrogates to deliver administration themes and messages to millions of americans in the form of their own opinions. in fact they did deliver the themes and messages but did not reveal the pentagon had provided them with their talking points. robert s. bevelaqua a retired green beret and fox news analyst, described this as follows. he said, it was them say, we need to stick our hands up your back and move your mouth for you. congress has restricted annual appropriations bills since 1951 with this language, and i quote, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the united states, not here turnover authorized by the congress, unquote. a march 21, 2005, report by the congressional research service states that publicity or propaganda is defined by the u.s. government accountability office, g.a.o., mean either one self-aggrandizement by public officials, two, purely partisan activity, or three, covert propaganda. these concerns about covert propaganda were also the basis for the g.a.o.'s standard for determining when government-funded video news releases are illegal, and i quote. the failure of an agency to identify itself as the source of a prepackaged news story misleads the viewing public by encouraging the viewing audience to believe that the broadcasting news organization developed the information. the prepackaged news stories are purposely designed to be indistinguishable from news segments broadcast to the public. when the public does not know the stories they watched on television news stories they watched about the government were prepared by the government the stories are in a sense, no longer purely factual. the white house's own office of legal counsel stated in a memorandum tpwhrin 2005, following the controversy over the armstrong-williams scandal, i quote, over the years g.a.o. has interpreted publicity or propaganda restrictions to preclude the use of appropriated funds for, among other things so-called covert prop began dasm squint that view, the office of ledge -- of legal counsel demermed 1988 that a statutory prohibition on using appropriated funds for publicity or propaganda precluded undisclosed agency funded of advocacy by third-party groups. we stated that covert attempts to mold opinion through the undisclosed use of third parties would run afoul of presixth -- restrictions for using funds for propaganda. asked about the pentagon's propaganda program at a white house press briefing, white house press secretary dana pe reno defended it not by arguing it was legal, but by suggesting that it should be. he said, quote, look, i didn't know. look, i think you guys should take a step back and look at this look. d.o.d. has made a decision. they decided to stop this program. but i would say that one of the things we try to do in the administration is to get information out to a variety of people so everyone else can call them and ask their opinion about something. i don't think that should be against the law. i think it's fropet provide information to people who are seeking it and will be providing their opinions on it. it doesn't mean the military analysts agree twhed administration. i think you can go back and look and think thi a lot of their analysis was tough on the administration that doesn't mean we shouldn't talk to people, unquote...

Government Lied (Gas should be cheap)

For more information check out:

Trends to a New World Order, parts 1 and 2:

http://www. oldthinkernews. com/Article…

The full presentation (shown in my short film) by Adam Greenfield, author of “Everyware” can be seen on youtube here:

 

PBS breaks ‘media blackout’ of NYT story on Pentagon propaganda»
                    

On Sunday, The New York Times published an explosive report exposing the Pentagon’s secret campaign to use analysts in order to “generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance-” Since that time, TV news organizations have largely been silent on their role in the propaganda- Ari Melber notes that last night, PBS’s Newshour finally broke this blackout, but couldn’t convince the other networks to participate:

JUDY WOODRUFF: And for the record, we invited Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC and NBC to participate, but they declined our offer or did not respond-

Watch PBS’s segment here:

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