Thursday, October 31, 2013

You can BUY mercury at MSU???? And the UK has announced that the child smuggling market now includes cutting out their organs for wealthy people on the waiting list for new organs!!

Michigan State University sells deadly toxic waste to the public on its surplus website

Wednesday, October 30, 2013
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042718_deadly_toxic_waste_Michigan_State_University_surplus_laboratory_equipment.html#ixzz2jLIDu3Ns 


(NaturalNews) An exclusive Natural News investigation reveals that Michigan State University (MSU) is eliminating toxic waste / deadly environmental toxins by selling them to the public as "surplus" materials. At least one of these materials can be weaponized by terrorists and used to poison municipal water supplies and cause widespread neurological damage to the population.

Using nothing more than a credit card on the MSU surplus website (MSUsurplusStore.com), I was able to accidentally purchase an enormous quantity of liquid mercury inside a "surplus" polarographic analyzer that MSU sold me for a mere $100.

The unit was packaged in bubble wrap and styrofoam peanuts, then placed in a cardboard box. It contained absolutely no warnings about hazardous materials as is required by carriers such as UPS and the USPS. There was no MSDS in the box and no indication whatsoever that the equipment should be kept in an upward orientation to prevent mercury from spilling out. No doubt the people who also packaged this laboratory equipment at MSU were also exposed to mercury during the packaging process (is that what undergrads are for?)...

"It takes only a tiny amount to do serious damage: One-seventieth of a teaspoon can pollute a 20-acre lake to the point where its fish are unsafe to eat," reports the Sierra Club. Yet Michigan State University shipped me thousands of times that amount, no questions asked!

Confirmed: Girl smuggled into UK to have her organs harvested for wealthy recipients

Thursday, October 31, 2013 by: J. D. Heyes
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042731_human_smuggling_organ_harvesting_United_Kingdom.html#ixzz2jLNqKqmn
 
 
(NaturalNews) There's a new kind of human trafficking taking place, and it has nothing to do with the Triangle Trade and slavery during the Colonial Era of American History. But it is every bit as sinister.

Authorities in Great Britain have confirmed for the first time that a young girl was smuggled into the country specifically so her organs could be harvested and sold to wealthy recipients.

As reported by The Telegraph:

The unnamed girl was brought to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them on to those desperate for a transplant.

Child protection charities warned that the case was unlikely to be an isolated incident as traffickers were likely to have smuggled a group of children into the country.







Tuesday, October 29, 2013

More details leaking out about the new "Common Core State Standards" (CCSS) in our public schools....Watch the video from the Truth in American Education website (down below)

Common Core State Standards
Truth in American Education.com
http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-state-standards/

"...there will be a delay in students meeting new standards, resulting in the possible need for a delay in graduation requirements..." and "...estimated implementation costs range from $183 million in Washington State to $1.6 billion in California...paid by taxpayers at the local level..."


Common Core Equals Federalized Education

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Common Core Equals Federalized Education


Do you know what Common Core is yet? Here is a taste of what is to come …

Recently, parents in Maryland got concerned when their kids were “FORCED” to take a survey with questions like, “What is your religion?” and “What is your parents’ political affiliation?” and “What is your sexual orientation?”

When the parents asked the school about the survey, they were told no such questionnaire ever took place—and mysteriously, the evidence of the survey was removed from the school website. Then, the school blamed it on one lone teacher.

This is how Common Core operates: in the dark, and when someone asks questions about it, they are shooed away like a pesky fly or accused of “not wanting what is best for the children.”

Just ask the Maryland parent who dared stand up at an informational meeting to ask questions. He was arrested.

Common Core is a nationalized education program that 45 states have adopted, basically sight-unseen. It is a grand progressive plan to create a federal “plan” for each of our kids, Kindergarten through age 20, and prepare them for government service or “the trades.”

According to many experts, this will kill innovation in the classroom, no more personalized study, and educational standards will plummet.

Parents and teachers across America are up in arms—but the peddlers of Common Core are pretending we are just hysterical, misinformed and fear mongering. They are hoping we’ll go away or that people will think better of associating with us.

Michelle Malkin: “Hidden in Common Core is the real objective – presenting the minimal amount of material that high-school graduates need to be able to enter the work force in an entry-level job, or to enroll in a community college with a reasonable expectation of avoiding a remedial math course.”

Jason Zimba is one of the CHIEF DRAFTERS of the math standards. HE ADMITTED in 2010, at a public meeting of the Massachusetts State Board of Education, that Common Core is designed to prepare students only for a non-selective community college, not a university.

Parents and teachers are being completely removed from the education process and the government is stepping in to take over. Fax Congress right this minute and tell them to STOP COMMON CORE before it destroys the American educational system!

THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMON CORE

Forget the educational standards for the moment, which will destroy the intellect of this nation, and we will explain further—let’s examine the mindset that Common Core weaves throughout its lessons.

All children in all states, at all levels of society, will learn the same lessons in the same way. Those lessons will be that statism is good, humans are harming the planet, wealth is bad, and Western civilization is therefore, terrible by nature.

There are educational videos being used in some schools explaining that everyone has a right to healthcare, high quality food, enough money for retirement, a decent job and a house, as well as the right to join a union. Eight weeks in the curriculum is solely dedicated to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

It doesn’t matter if your kids do not attend a public school. Eventually the curriculum requirements will be included in the state longitudinal databases, and college admissions standards will draw from Common Core expectations.

National standardized tests are already rewritten to align to Common Core.

There will be no escape unless we educate parents and stop it now.

STOP THE INDOCTRINATION OF OUR CHILDREN AND PROTECT OUR FUTURE…

FAX CONGRESS and tell them to fight tooth and nail at the federal level and in their districts to END COMMON CORE before it is too big to fail!
[Sidebar: in the below graph > Red states are pending rejection; Blue states have already rejected it; Gray states have accepted it]


ENGLISH

By the end of high school, at least 50 percent of student instruction will involve reading “informational texts” like EPA manuals and government white papers. Fewer and fewer time will be spent on literature classics!

If the federal government creates the national curriculum, who will decide what our kids will learn, what they believe is truth or what ideological pathway they will be “NUDGED” to take?

MATH

Common Core wants students to “feel” the answers and have a “deeper conceptual understanding” of the answers, whatever they want them to be, and however they arrive at them. Two plus two can equal ten as long as the student can make a case for how they got there. A Stanford University professor says Common Core will put the U.S. at least two years behind other developed countries in math.

We believe this will strangle our progress much more than that.


The curriculum was developed behind closed doors, with very little input from teachers and without one classroom teacher signing off on it in the end! In fact, the very people peddling the new Common Core approved textbooks and Common Core standardized tests are—you guessed it—the same people who went behind closed doors to develop the curriculum in the first place.

Even professors who were involved in developing the curriculum have expressed huge disappointment and caution at the outcome.

Obama’s fundamental change in education uses database tools and analysis to define a plan for your child based on their strengths. They are carving out a place in government for your faithful and humble public servant to flourish.

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American patriots, take notice: COMMON CORE IS THE EDUCATIONAL EQUIVALENT OF OBAMACARE.

Obama and his administration don’t want you to know what’s in it. They don’t want you to know how much it will cost. They have no proof it works and they are using “the children” to pressure you into silence.

A teacher responding to criticism of Common Core said: “I am a teacher that understands and dislikes Common Core, and I do not know of any teacher that likes the program. It is another example of BIG GOVERMENT taking over more of our lives. We do not need a Department of Education at the federal level, because states know their educational needs better than Washington. States may disagree with what the federal government mandates to them, but they will do whatever they have to for federal money. Common Core and many programs get into our educational system in this manner. Doesn't this sound like the way big government is trying to take away our freedoms? Citizens of this country better wake up and stop big government, which needs to begin within our educational system.”

Help this teacher and others like her FIGHT THE SYSTEM and stop the federal government from destroying our children’s education. Fax Congress right this very minute and end it!

Barack Obama’s far-Left, socialist national education program known as Common Core is coming to get your kids, and fast. They are testing components of it right now. And its success all depends on you, the parents and grandparents, NOT KNOWING ABOUT IT and NOT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT even when you take notice.

Americans on both the Left and Right side of the political spectrum are raising holy fever about this program. We want everyone to know what it is, who is behind it, and what it means for our educational system.

Please, pass this message along and let them know our kids are being used as guinea pigs, and the schools are covering it up and lying about it so the real truth won’t come out.

We will not stop fighting against Common Core and we need your help.

This statist national curriculum will not raise academic standards, it will stifle them. It will end classroom creativity and innovation, and it will indoctrinate entire generations of kids into the belief that the government is their true parent and that is where they should seek all the comforts they need in life.
So very much is wrong with Common Core. Please spread the word to your friends, family, teachers, clergy and neighbors, EVERYONE needs to know that this kind of nationalized indoctrination is going on in America right now.

Please, help us stop this nationalized, progressive scheme designed to change the American educational system into a shadow of its former self—exactly what they did with our great healthcare system when they implemented Obamacare. If you don’t want Obama’s radical Left ideas drummed into your child’s head every day, you need to FAX Congress right now and tell them to fight this tooth and nail at the state and federal level.


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Monday, October 28, 2013

35 companies SECRETLY donating money to fight GMO labeling that's on the ballot Nov. 5th in Washington State!

GMO Labeling Has Its Day In Court

Story at-a-glance

  • On November 5, Washington State will cast their votes for the people's initiative 522, "The People's Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act." Your support is urgently needed
  • Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed suit against the GMA in Thurston County Superior Court on behalf of the State of Washington, alleging the association violated the state’s campaign disclosure laws
  • Ferguson alleges the GMA illegally collected and spent more than $7 million on the No On Initiative 522 campaign, while hiding the identity of its contributors in order to shield them from consumer backlash
  • The lawsuit forced GMA to establish a political committee, aptly named Grocery Manufacturers Association Against I-522. A list of the financial donors has now been disclosed to the Public Disclosure Commission
  • Biotech are now trying to find a way to label that will still permit them to exist and make a profit. Pushing for federal labeling is one part of the plan to dilute the value of the label
As of this writing, the list of donors and amount of each company’s donation submitted to the Public Disclosure Commission includes the following, which totals up to $7,222,5006, 7. Looks like Pepsi, Coke, and Nestle are the top funders trying to hide their identity. Quite the triangle of authority of junk food producers, and purveyors of chronic disease:

CompanyAmount donatedCompanyAmount donated
Abbott Nutrition127,459 Bimbo Bakeries USA94,693
Campbell Soup Co265,140 Bruce Foods Corp3,006
Cargill Inc98,601 Bumble Bee Foods36,073
Coca-Cola1,047,332 Bunge North America94,993
ConAgra Foods285,281 Clement Pappas & Co. Inc21,043
Dean Foods120,245 Clorox Company12,024
Bush Brothers & Co16,233 Flowers Foods141,288
Del Monte Foods 86,576 Hormel Foods52,908
General Mills598,819 J.M. Smucker Co241,091
Hershey248,305 Knouse Foods14,429
Hillshire Brands97,398 Welch Foods28,859
Kellogg221,852 Land O'Lakes99,803
Moody Dunbar1,804 McCormick & Co102,208
Nestle USA1,052,743 Mondelez Global144,895
Ocean Spray, Cranberries, Inc55,313 Pinnacle Foods Group120,846
PepsiCo1,620,899 Rich Products Corp24,049
Sunny Delight Beverages Co21,043 Shearer's Foods, Inc25,251

Benghazi is not going away, no matter how many diversions -- Newest "idea" to collect money for repairing our roads while keeping track of each vehicle for "public safety" that also could become a nightmare, depending on WHO really is operating that black box -- Latest political news on both ObamaCare and on 7 cures of cancer having been hidden to keep the profit--wouldn't that be called murder????

60 Minutes Confirms Benghazi Is A Real Scandal, And You’ve Been Lied To

October 28, 2013






Federal government planning black box vehicle mandate to track, tax and even remotely control all personal vehicles

Sunday, October 27, 2013
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042690_vehicle_black_boxes_mileage_taxes_remote_control.html#ixzz2j3KpRePm
 
 

Obamacare will cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance

Sunday, October 27, 2013 by: Ethan A. Huff
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042689_Obamacare_health_insurance_freedom_of_choice.html#ixzz2j3XPGu7m

Top seven natural cures for cancer that got buried by the FDA, AMA, CDC

Sunday, October 27, 2013 by: S. D. Wells
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/042688_natural_medicine_cancer_cures_government_agencies.html#ixzz2j3fkUOfR

Friday, October 25, 2013

2016 already?? We're not done with the effects of 2012 yet!! -- And the full truth about Benghazi ain't over yet, is it??

Billionaire Soros Joins 'Ready for Hillary' Team




Thursday, 24 Oct 2013 04:55 PM

By Cathy Burke 
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/george-soros-hillary-clinton-pac-president/2013/10/24/id/532952?ns_mail_uid=42803916&ns_mail_job=1543175_10252013&promo_code=154AC-1


Liberal billionaire investor George Soros kicked in $25,000 to Ready for Hillary, the super PAC organizing support for a possible 2016 presidential run by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Politico reported Thursday.

Soros will be co-chair of the group's national finance council, Soros' political director Michael Vachon said in an emailed statement.

"George Soros is delighted to join more than 1 million Americans in supporting Ready for Hillary," Vachon said. "His support for Ready for Hillary is an extension of his long-held belief in the power of grass-roots organizing."

Talking Points Memo reported the finance group is working to persuade the former first lady to run for president.

The group confirmed the news on Twitter:

The wealthy Democratic donor's contribution comes as the countdown to Clinton's 66th birthday on Saturday begins — and the Ready for Hillary PAC hopes to cash in, The New York Daily News reported.

"I hope you can take a second to add your name and help show her just how much support is out there," Adam Parkhomenko, the PAC's executive director, wrote to supporters in an email that prompts Clinton enthusiasts to "sign" an electronic card — and donate, the newspaper reported.

Politico reported supporters of Clinton, who has yet to say if she'll run for president in 2016, are trying to figure out the co-existence of "Ready for Hillary," which is focusing on grass-roots involvement, and Priorities USA, the former pro-President Obama super PAC that launched devastating attack ads against Mitt Romney last year.
Soros, who ultimately gave $1 million to Priorities USA last year, has expressed greater interest in grass-roots groups and has shunned negative ads, Politico reported.



'We're Here to Kill Americans,' Benghazi Attackers Declared: Witness

        
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Newest Inventions - 3-D printing to make a statute of yourself!! And a new Army helmet with the latest bells and whistles with "apps" inside the helmet, and bullet-proofing against 9mm...but soldier comments below article aren't buying it....hummmm...why not? (neither video allows it to be embeded...click on weblink to watch!) And then there's the BREAKING NEWS about the TSA is now using NSA database to "screen" all passengers prior to buying their airline ticket...is this really necessary in America?? Does this bother anybody who's reading this??

3D printing: watch a statue spring to life – video
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2013/oct/23/3d-printing-statue-come-to-life-video

From the paparazzi-style photobooth – with 50 cameras snapping at once – to the printing in plaster, the excavation, the hoovering and the final dusting off, Oliver Wainwright watches a mini 3D-printed model of himself come to life ... and wonders if he could really give it to his grandma for Christmas

It is now possible to get 3D models made of yourself in the time it takes to do your shopping. We sent five writers to test out the latest 3D printing technology...



US Army's new awesome helmet turns war into deadly video game - video

http://front.kinja.com/check-out-this-futuristic-new-soldier-helmet-discovered-1451682335/@charliejane


TSA now spies on you 24/7 even before you fly
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/10/23/330883/tsa-spies-before-you-fly/

TSA Adds Full Background Check Prior to Travel

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/10/tsa-adds-full-background-check-prior-to.html

One comment posted below the article:

Anonymous said...
@ David A. Laibow, "Air travel is a privilege, not a right.
 
You are incorrect.

All travel is a natural right that has been accepted and even put into the US Constitution under the Ninth Amendment: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

Traveling freely where ever one wanted to go, be it across the seas in the fastest manner or across the nation in the quickest way without being bothered by government officials is now, as it was then, the law of this land. It is a natural right of all mankind.

"A citizen of the United States has a public right of transit through the navigable airspace." 49 US Code-Section 40103

Thursday, October 24, 2013

A South Carolina doctor going off-grid by having no insurance, charging lower fees, no Internet computer connections to protect his patients' privacy, etc. etc.

EXCLUSIVE: DR MIKE VASOVSKI DISCUSSES REASONS FOR GOING OFF THE “INSURANCE GRID”

3 days ago | Interviews, US | Posted by Joshua Cook


Read more: http://benswann.com/exclusive-dr-mike-vasovski-discusses-reasons-for-going-off-the-insurance-grid/#ixzz2ih8Nm5US 
South Carolina Doctor Mike Vasovski has joined a growing group of doctors and taken his medical practice off the insurance grid.
Last week Dr. Vasovski wrote on his Facebook page:
“My medical practice has gone off line. Effective yesterday, the computers that contain patient’s account information including billing diagnosis, have been completely de-linked from the internet. Therefore, your health information is completely secure. Accounting will be done in house with Quickbooks on a PC that is not connected to the internet. We are moving towards a payment at time of service model in which my practice does not participate with insurance companies. Fees will be truly affordable and your medical records will not be in a format that can be accessed electronically. Peace and Liberty, Dr. Mike Vasovski.”
In an interview with Joshua Cook, he discussed a variety of reasons – both ideological and practical – for his choice, and described the effects of these actions on patients.  Vasovski showed how such practices could keep a free market healthcare system alive even as Obamacare takes effect.
“Off grid” or “cash only” practices collect money directly from the patient at the time of service.  Vasovski described two off grid payment models, one in which doctors charged a per month fee in which people could visit as often as necessary, and one in which there is simply a reasonable office visit charge.  Vasovski’s practice has chosen the second model with a $45 benchmark, and says that is enough to provide most services because most vaccinations and other shots are being provided by pharmacies.
“So we’re not responsible for buying those things, storing them and counting them and that kind of stuff.”  Adding that cost-saving development to the nearly $6000/year saved on insurance software, this becomes an increasingly viable business model.  There is also a huge number of generic drugs – over 300 – available for $4/month at major pharmacies.  “That’s less than a 6-pack and it gets you a month worth of your medicines.”
The direct payment business model has a number of benefits for both practices and patients.  One of the most topical is security.  Because Vasovski’s office isn’t connected to insurance companies, he has been able to take his entire practice off the internet.  No hackers, Assange-like activists, or government entities can access any patient information, like Social Security numbers or health problems.
Even the most “secure” encryption services cannot provide that assurance.  He even described a telephone call in which a salesperson tried to sell him a 284 bit encrypted program.  When Vasovski asked him what he thought of Julian Assange, he replied that he didn’t know who that was.  “At that point I said, ‘you’re trying to sell me a computer security program and you don’t know who Julian Assange is?’”
Another benefit Vasovski described is lowered costs.  With insurance companies acting as the middle man, there is no check on costs because there is no incentive to cut back on costs.  Insurance companies earned more the higher the prices, and consumers aren’t paying the bill.  “So it looks like healthcare costs more, but that’s not the true bottom line.”  In fact employers had to deal with most of the costs of care.  “In the price of a new car from GM, like 14-15% of the cost of the car is nothing but health insurance.”
Vasovski also said that the off grid system improves the doctor patient relationship.  “You do spend a little more time – not less time – you spend more time with them, and by design, you’re going to be a little bit more interested in satisfying them than if it’s just a checkmark on a sheet with the bill going to the insurance company.”
On a more ideological level, the direct payment model also gets back to the true nature of insurance.  “If you’re dealing with no deductible or a $20 co-pay for a visit or something, it’s not really insurance because then it’s like going to eat at the Golden Corral.  Once you’re in you get to eat all you want.”  People don’t use car insurance for oil changes; they use it for wrecks.  A $5000 deductible means people can use insurance for any major event – even a broken leg will cost about $10,000 to fix and any emergency room visit will start at $2,500 – while paying $45 for simple visits.  A high deductable “turns it into real insurance.  It’s only used when there is something really bad, and the rest of the stuff you have to pick up on your own.  Then you become a very good shopper.”
Dr. Vasovski eliminated the insurance aspect of his practice because he could provide better care cheaper on a free market system.  Many doctors who are currently deliberating whether to keep their practices open may choose to convert to such a system, too.  Direct pay programs, along with generic drugs and pharmacy-provided shots and vaccinations, mean that the free market will continue to play a role in healthcare and insurance.


True Story from One of our Office Staff -- as told to her by her spine doctor on Oct. 18th -- How many more people have to die from ObamaCare protocols??

Our spine doctor shared an extremely sad experience he's already had with the parts of  already in place.
A few weeks ago he attended a meeting where they explained the new "protocol" that no doctor could send a patient immediately to the ER, that they had to send the patient to a specialist first, and then the specialist had to perform tests before sending the patient to the ER.
Our spine doctor raised his hand to object, saying that he'd sent 3 of his patients directly to the ER based on the symptoms they had when they arrived in his office, and it saved their lives. All 3 of them had stints put in at the ER, and would never have lived long enough to go home and have it done following their "protocol."
He was told that he ever did it again, that he'd be fined, lose his license, or both, and that the patients going to ER would not have insurance coverage for their expenses because they had not followed "protocol." Our spine doctor said that he told them that he'd never follow such a "protocol" if his patients' lives were in danger.
Fast forward to Sept. 9, 2013. On Monday morning his mother calls from out-of-state, saying that it feels like she has a pinched nerve in her neck and would like to come see him, but her husband thinks she should go see a doctor first before traveling. Our spine doctor said that he agreed with Dad, do what Dad said, and if the doctor couldn't fix it, then he and the siblings would pay for their flight tickets to see him.
Tuesday morning his mother was able to get in to see their regular doctor, and he said he couldn't fix the pinched nerve in her neck, and referred her immediately to a cardiologist that same day. The cardiologist ran one test, said he knew what was wrong, but the new "protocol" required him to run 2 more tests first before sending her to the ER, and scheduled her to come back on Thursday or Friday to have the 2 new tests. She agreed. Tuesday night she died.
They don't need the "death panels." The new "protocol" will take care of everything just fine for them.
ur spine doctor shared an extremely sad experience he's already had with the parts of place.
A few weeks ago he attended a meeting where they explained the new "protocol" that no doctor could send a patient immediately to the ER, that they had to send the patient to a specialist first, and then the specialist had to perform tests before sending the patient to the ER.
Our spine doctor raised his hand to object, saying that he'd sent 3 of his patients directly to the ER based on the symptoms they had when they arrived in his office, and it saved their lives. All 3 of them had stints put in at the ER, and would never have lived long enough to go home and have it done following their "protocol."
He was told that he ever did it again, that he'd be fined, lose his license, or both, and that the patients going to ER would not have insurance coverage for their expenses because they had not followed "protocol." Our spine doctor said that he told them that he'd never follow such a "protocol" if his patients' lives were in danger.
Fast forward to Sept. 9, 2013. On Monday morning his mother calls from out-of-state, saying that it feels like she has a pinched nerve in her neck and would like to come see him, but her husband thinks she should go see a doctor first before traveling. Our spine doctor said that he agreed with Dad, do what Dad said, and if the doctor couldn't fix it, then he and the siblings would pay for their flight tickets to see him.
Tuesday morning his mother was able to get in to see their regular doctor, and he said he couldn't fix the pinched nerve in her neck, and referred her immediately to a cardiologist that same day. The cardiologist ran one test, said he knew what was wrong, but the new "protocol" required him to run 2 more tests first before sending her to the ER, and scheduled her to come back on Thursday or Friday to have the 2 new tests. She agreed. Tuesday night she died.
They don't need the "death panels." The new "protocol" will take care of everything just fine for them.

The media said that Oprah refused the invitation to promote ObamaCare after it failed, but looks like they found a winner after all! What's your thoughts--is this a good thing to involve sports and politics together to "sell" a product??

WASHINGTON SECRETS

Super Bowl champ Baltimore Ravens getting paid $130,000 to promote Obamacare

BY PAUL BEDARD | OCTOBER 23, 2013
Despite a decision by the NFL to ignore the administration's pleas topromote Obamacare, the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens have decided to go all in -- in exchange for a $130,000 contract, according to documents unearthed by a public watchdog group.
Judicial Watch told Secrets that the team was recruited by Maryland state officials to help it sell Obamacare, the new health care insurance program that has run into mammoth computer and bureaucratic troubles in its first three weeks.
The state previously announced its plans but the size of the check was not released. Judicial Watch received a copy of the agreement between the 2013 football champs and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange.
Below is the release from Judicial Watch:
The professional football team that won this year’s Super Bowl is getting $130,000 from American taxpayers to promote Obamacare, according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch this week.
The deal was secured on September 9 between the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL) and Maryland health officials. The White House has tried recruiting professional sports leagues — especially the NFL and the National Basketball Association (NBA) — to help promote the president’s healthcare law but they have declined.
In fact, the NFL confirmed months ago that it would not participate in the Obamacare public relations campaign, offering the media this written statement: “We have responded to the letters we received from members of Congress to inform them we currently have no plans to engage in this area and have had no substantive contact with the administration about [the health-care law’s] implementation.” Washington D.C.’s mainstream newspaper called it a “blow to the administration.”
But Maryland officials evidently appealed directly to the home team, announcing in early September that the Ravens would help market the state’s Obamacare exchange known as Maryland Health Connection. Both parties refused to offer specifics when the deal was initiated and Judicial Watch filed a Maryland Public Information Act request for details.
In a “Sponsorship Agreement” between the Maryland Health Connection and the Ravens, the state will pay the Super Bowl champs $130,000 to push Obamacare on television, radio, the team’s official website, its newsletter and in social media. This includes the Ravens Report Show on cable TV and a number of pre and post-game radio segments as well as Facebook and Twitter plugs.
 [3 comments from the article that show the general responses:]



Lola Guin  

The entire NFL has a thing with the federal government. They do stuff for them all the time. DHS and the NFL have worked together before. So this is nothing new. The government loves the distraction that football provides for many Americans.

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      LuppersMom  

      Football is to Americans what gladiatorial circuses were to the Romans, a massive distraction from cultural destruction. Free food from welfare plus NFL games: panem et circenses.
      Nothing against football. I used to like the Ravens' literary name, but as everyone says, Nevermore. Sellouts.
    BruddahNui  
    The enjoyment of pro sports is an escape for the populace that has always been on neutral ground as far as politics. The Ravens have now inserted partisan politics. This is about politics.
     

    Tuesday, October 22, 2013

    Even with another increase in stamp prices for 2014, the post office is still losing....people are using emails and paying bills online more and more...read below for their proposed "fix" to the problem

    Post Office $5.6 Billion Default Raises Urgency of Reforms
    Tuesday, 22 Oct 2013 11:13 AM
    By Jennifer G. Hickey

    http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/post-office-5-billion-default/2013/10/22/id/532408?ns_mail_uid=42803916&ns_mail_job=1542801_10222013&promo_code=1543C-1

    With Congress and the media focused on the government shutdown and how to avoid default on the national debt, little attention was directed toward the U.S. Postal Service which earlier this month defaulted on a required $5.6 billion payment for the healthcare of its future retirees.

    The third default on the down-payment in just over a year underscores the necessity of much-needed reforms for the beleaguered Postal Service.

    Rep. Darrell Issa of California told Newsmax that without "the freedom to realign its infrastructure and operations in line with the changing way Americans use mail, the agency will remain insolvent."
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