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Hugo Chavez in hospital 'for kidney failure'
Hugo Chavez, who has been fighting cancer, was rushed to a military hospital for emergency care following kidney failure, according to reports.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/…------------
//BOO FUCKING WHOOOOOOOOO!?
- wow.********
- There goes your third biggest source of oil.zarkonite
- wow.
- 74LEO0
2 Tibetan monks self-immolate amid Dalai Lama feud
Chinese Government forcing Tibetan people into ghetto housing camp. We are now seeing the beginnings of another Hitler backed by the U.S. Government.
http://thomaslkelly.smugmug.com/…
- TheBlueOne0
Man, when the actual grassroots left gets moving as it looks like it;s starting to - man..I'm going to love the heart attack popfodder will get.
You've been dealing with cowardly corporate dems and sellouts like Obama thinking they're what constitutes the "left". You just wait. You won't know what hit you.
- agree. he thinks obama is a liberal he should listen to fred goldstein, stewart alexander, cynthia mckinney or mike gravel74LEO
- mike gravel74LEO
- or ronald reaganBonSeff
- Blah, blah, blah... WTF are you talking about. Obama is a fucking sellout, whippeee, as if he's not going to relected in********
- the Dem ticket obviously..********
- what's your fucking point? you think grass rooties are going to kick Barry out the door? Doubt it********
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Obama's Euro-Crisis Lecture Is 'Pitiful and Sad'
http://www.spiegel.de/internatio…US President Obama has given the Europeans a harsh lecture on the dangers of their ongoing debt crisis. Offended by the unsolicited advice, Europeans have suggested the US get its own house in order first. Obama's remarks were "arrogant" and "absurd," German commentators say on Wednesday.
Europeans are well aware of the seriousness of their ongoing debt crisis. But they don't, it seems, like to receive lectures from other countries -- especially the United States, which is struggling to deal with its own mountain of debt.
On Tuesday, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble curtly rejected recent American criticism of Europe's approach to solving its debt crisis. "I don't think Europe's problems are America's only problems," said Schäuble, who has become increasingly sharp-tongued as the euro crisis deepens. "It's always easier to give other people advice."
Schäuble was referring to strongly worded comments made by US President Barack Obama and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in recent days. At an event in California on Monday, Obama warned Europeans that their inaction was "scaring the world."
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Can someone say God Complex. Barry, you need to shut the fuck up while your ahead, wait... he's not really ahead any longer.
- BonSeff0
4 more years. If you think it is gonna be anything else you are fucking retarded. who is gonna pop up on the right, christie? That rotund fatfuck wont pass a physical, much less a buffet.
- Nope, it ain't going to matter at this rate. Look at unemployment and the economy. He's fucking Jimmy Carter.********
- Carter. The second coming. Just like Bushie, anyone but Obama.********
- Nope, it ain't going to matter at this rate. Look at unemployment and the economy. He's fucking Jimmy Carter.
- BonSeff0
you are a delusional asshole. what should obama do to create jobs? deregulate? throw more money at the banks who will hoard it? you think any of these things would immediately turn the economy around?
seriously dude, you are a fucking cartoon.
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Dudes. Wait until Sarah Palin joins the race before you start predicting the election outcome.
- TheBlueOne0
Here, let me interrupt your rightwing bullshit agitprop stream with some real news:
Bank of America to institute $5 debit card fees.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT…
Man, am i happy we bailed these guys out on the taxpayer dime so they can charge us rent to hold onto our money.
Meanwhile, even the nut job goldbug libertarians are starting to think the Occupy Wall Street thing's got legs:
- charge me to track my spending habits? OK!!!BonSeff
- isnt it becuase they cant collect fees on irresponsible people and have to tax the responsible ones to make up for it?********
- blue man thoguht u were possibly smarter than tossing out the agitprop u accuse others of doing********
- No it is because they can't charge retailers exorbitant fees for people using their debit cards.DrBombay
- Nice try though, trying to pin it on poor people.DrBombay
- not pinning on poor peopel commenting on the regulations that helped change their policies********
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WOW. Iraqi man in St Louis writes a poem stating he feels sorry for the jews from the holocaust. He is pulled off the street and two men carve a star of david in his back.
the police 'think' this might be a hate crime but not sure.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/…In Iran, a death sentence has been given to a christian who won't denounce his faith? Nothing new right? Whats new is the media will not talk about this but sure loved to talk about the self hating americans that were held captive in iran.
Communist held captive in iran = Media Love
Christian Iranian threatened to death if he doesn't denounce christianity = No Media Love"Iran follows an Islamic fatwa and defies own constitution: it threatens to hang ex-Muslim Youcef Nadarkhani for refusing to recant his Christian faith.
Read more at Suite101: Christian Pastor Nadarkhani Stands Firm—Iran Threatens Execution | Suite101.comhttp://www.suite101.com/news/chr…
See the pattern?
Communists, fascista and radical islam will work together to take down the United States and Israel.
How many of you care?
Christians don't have the right to live under their own faith, right?
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Ever read this? Whole Foods Resignation Letter
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Dear Whole Foods Market,
My experience at Whole Foods was like an increasingly sped up fall down a really long hill. That got rockier with every metre. And eventually, just really spiky ... With fire, acid and Nickleback music. I was hired about five or six years ago. I appreciated and respected what the company said it’s philosophies were at that time. The “core values” essentially. However, it didn’t take long to realize what complete and utter bullshit they are:
Oh, you don’t recycle properly? (Caring about our communities and our environment)
Oh, you throw out enough food to feed a lot of hungry university students. (Caring about our communities and our environment)
Oh, you’re asking me to put latex gloves on the sales floor so customers can throw a pair out for every handful of gummy bears they take? (Caring about our communities and our environment)
Oh, you’ve installed massive television screens all over the store, sucking up energy and polluting the environment with tacky advertisements. (Caring about our communities and our environment, Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you waste an absurd amount of energy, ink and paper in your offices for useless bureaucratic nonsense. (Caring about our communities and our environment, Supporting team member happiness and excellence, )
Oh, you just write off 10-20% of the product that you buy for your bulk department because the bins look nice. (Caring about our communities and our environment).
Oh, you sometimes intentionally order too much just to guarantee a full shelf, knowing full well the product will most likely be thrown out? (Caring about our communities and our environment)
Oh, you don’t actually audit or evaluate each product you sell? (Caring about our communities and our environment, We sell the highest quality natural and organic products available)
Oh, you force team members to come in to work, on their day off, once a month, at 7 in the morning, knowing a lot of them live an hour away and the TTC isn’t completely running that early in the morning and then force feed them useless updates on the company and embarrassingly artificial pep talks ([Redacted] once compared Whole Foods Market to religion... had to throw that in there. That was definitely a “Did she really just say that moment.”)? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence, Caring about our communities and our environment)/
Oh, you buy poorly made, ugly t-shirts for your employees that will just be thrown in the trash and pretend they‘re gifts when they’re really just advertising tools? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence, Caring about our communities and our environment)
Oh, the food here is really quite awful on average? Almost everything that prepared foods makes is terrible. The pizza used to be pretty good but the slices have shrunk, the toppings are sparser and it’s usually extremely overcooked. The sandwiches are the stuff of nightmares. (It’s amazing what advertising can make people think. It can even trick their senses.) (We sell the highest quality natural and organic products available)
Oh, you let some customers abuse your employees and then actually reward the customers for their behaviour and then trample on the integrity and honour of your abused employees? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you practice discrimination by offering “healthier” employees better discounts? And you think having different rules for new smoker employees versus old smoker employees is a good idea? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you purchase products from Israel (Or any distant country) if they’re slightly cheaper than local alternatives? (Caring about our communities and our environment)
Oh, you‘ve somehow created the worst computer program I’ve ever used to run your entire buying system? IRMA is some Windows 95 era stuff, guys. I could design a significantly better interface in 30 minutes on a pad of paper. I know several students who could create a superior program in their spare time. Was someone actually hired to create that thing? Was it the Realplayer dudes? Even Captain Picard couldn’t facepalm hard enough to express the amount of failure in that... that, thing... (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you push employees into greater responsibilities without compensation? Often having them essentially do all the work of a higher position without the pay? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you ambush employee’s [sic] using two managers when you want to write someone up? No warning. No representation. All reasons and excuses fall on deaf ears. (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you’d rather attempt to create some sort of fake “culture” with signs and forced meeting than let it happen naturally by letting employees socialize lightly as they work? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you like to manage “systems” instead of people? You don’t hold critical thinking and discretion in high regard? You encourage blindly following rules? I.e., no recourse in challenging write ups. Employees given cold shoulder when they attempt anything like this. (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you want us to politely call and let you know if we’ll be late... but you’ll still write us up when we arrive? Kind of a dick move, guys. (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you actually think being 20 minutes late matters? You know Whole Foods Market is just a grocery store, right? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
Oh, you don’t believe inflation exists? Cost of living raises aren’t given here? (Supporting team member happiness and excellence)
I notice a trend... Honestly, I could go on and on and fill out the details but since most people will just dismiss this email I should probably not put too much effort into it. I should have kept a blog...
Now the employees have lost a lot of their former power and the store is being sucked into some centralized monster. Quality is being thrown out in favour of the people at the top having to do a little less work. Competition is being destroyed and you’re not even pushing that many healthy products. Every second endcap is potato chips or pop or some sort of salt filled snack (Promoting the health of our stakeholders through healthy eating education). A lot of the stuff in Whole Body doesn’t even work or has absolutely no credible evidence to back any claims up. You’re kind a faux hippy Wal-Mart now. Great. Job.
Dear [REDACTED],
How you haven’t been fired by now is a massive mystery to, not just me, but many people. You probably belong in a psychiatric ward. If you didn’t have such a constant negative impact on everyone around you I might just feel sorry for you. BUT, you’ve hurt too many people. You create a hostile work environment with your flashes of insane anger and passive (I hesitate to use the word passive...) aggressive behavior. Please, just leave and piss all over the patio at [REDACTED]‘s again. Maybe [REDACTED] will help this time. Her childish, two-faced personality suits you quite well. The fact that you still have a job is also a massive failure by your department’s leaders as well. I’d be ashamed of being such push-overs who refuse to support good people if I were them. Quite ashamed.
Dear [REDACTED],
I don’t think you could calm down enough and become a happy, tolerable person if you were to do yoga in a hot spring while high on ecstasy. Daily. For the rest of your life. Just wouldn’t happen. I haven‘t met a single person working under you or who has worked under you who doesn’t loath the way you treat people. Your job doesn’t matter AT ALL. Get over it, relax and start treating people with a shred of respect. Chances are, you’ll improve a lot of lives. Possibly even your own. I do have a suspicion that you’re a sociopath though. Especially now, after seeing your reaction to you-know-who’s hospital visit. If that is the case, this was futile. May I suggest some acting classes? You’re not very good at pretending to be a complete, emotional, sincere human being.
Dear [REDACTED],
You win a lot of awards in my book. Best at being a chauvinist. Least likely to realize he’s about to walk into someone. Just another sign that shows how inconsiderate and egocentric you are. Or, if you do realize you’re plowing through people... well, I won’t get into that... Best at ruining the entire meat department vicinity by blasting terrible music. Do you ever think about the people around you? By the way, how did you manage to spit on the back hallway’s floor with your head so far up your ass? I guess I can at least forgive you for never learning employee’s names because of that. It’s probably difficult to hear up there.
For the love of god, learn to respect women. You have no idea how insulting and aggravating it is to be around someone who is so condescending to all the women you work with. Stop calling them “mamma” don’t refer to them as “beautiful”... for christs sake, just keep all pet names off the table. You are NOT complimenting women, you are being open about not knowing knowing their names, and lazy enough to not read a name-tag. Lazy, or you are just that self centered? You have no clue. Take notice of people around you. If you are dumping work on them without real communication we are going to think you are a dick. Take the holiday table for example. You have nothing to do with it, take credit for it and can barely remember the people who run it so smoothly. Who do you think you are?
Dear [REDACTED],
You confuse the hell out of me. Sometimes you seem like a reasonable person and then sometimes you refuse to support your employees and in some cases even treat them quite terribly. Unfortunately, you’ve been hanging out mostly in Terrible Person territory lately. You’re not welcome there! [REDACTED] owns it. You show little to no support for your team members and turn everything into a boy’s club. You rant and bitch and moan to the wrong people, because it always get back to the people you rant and bitch and moan about. Quit rolling your eyes and let people speak. You might actually like and understand more of your employees this way. Respect your employees and the precious time that they are giving up to work for you. Perhaps take some time yourself and relearn the core values you are supposed to hold so dear. Stop taking your personal life out on everyone and have some compassion for the team members you disregard so much.
Dear [REDACTED],
Your dot idea was a really, really stupid idea. Try to learn how an operation works before trying to “fix” it. All of your suggestions so far have been outdated, time consuming, poorly thought out nonsense. You aren’t impressing anyone or increasing your chances of moving up in the company with these terrible attempts at seeming proactive and full of “ideas.” You’re just frustrating to work with. Also, I think you should stand a little further back from people when you talk to them.
Dear [REDACTED],
We get it, we get it. You go to the gym. Nobody is impressed. In fact we all just laugh at your inferiority complex.
Dear [REDACTED],
Stop being such a cowardly weiner, hiding behind your emails and that awful hallway grin. Try communicating with people under you. Face to face when it’s possible. If you’re overworked you need help. Especially if your lack of time is affecting other people’s jobs and the store/company.
Dear [REDACTED]/[REDACTED]/Anyone else who visits our store,
Do you guys realize that the store NEVER looks as good as it does when you arrive? When word spreads that you’re coming to inspect the store almost every team leader begins running around like Brampton teens on PCP. They whip their employees into a frenzy. They sweep anything under the bed that they think you won’t like. They attempt to make the store look like nobody ever shops there. This stops us and them from doing actual productive work which in turn impacts sales and creates a lot of pointless stress. Then you arrive, hand out your almighty advice. The team leaders grovel at your feet and follow your advice. Then you leave and they put everything back the way it was. Undo a lot of what you suggested. Oh, I‘m sure there are things happening that I don’t see. But you really do waste a lot of time. Even making our efforts regressive sometimes. Meanwhile, if I’m awesomely efficient at my job and take a moment to chat with a fellow employee, I’m bitched at. Seems to me a costly double standard.
Consider checking some of the “stats” and “facts” used in your in store education. They’re often faulty logic, myths, misconceptions and lies used by so-called “environmentalists”. I agree we‘re currently destroying our environment and I’m quite liberal and all for natural living. But evidence and credible sources very often disagree with the propaganda spouted to us at Whole Foods. It’s just a little too extreme and biased sometimes which I believe just discredits the environmentalist movement in general, sadly.
Dear everyone else,
As I’ve said above a few times: you work at a grocery store. Go ahead and relax. Also, Whole Foods will try to make you feel like they are doing you a huge favour by employing you. It’s really a mutual agreement or transaction. Don’t fall for the guilt trips. Call in sick if you need to, etc.. There are laws in place to stop them from taking advantage of you. And if you’re thinking “This is just the way it is. Suck it up!”. You’re the biggest part of the problem. I‘m afraid we can’t be friends.
Just enjoy life. It’s pretty short, you know?
Good luck,
[REDACTED]- supposed to be in the whole foods thread?johnny_wobble
- i think his pussy hurts and i dont need to read all his bitching to realize what teh produce and food business is doing to us.74LEO
- TheBlueOne0
The problem with this circus of a thread and with media in general is that there is intel and there is bullshit. A 2,000 word screed about some food resignation letter is not actionable intel. Most of the right wing and conspiracy bullshit is not actionable intel. It os crap designed to invoke anger or emotion and keep anyone in their lizard brain mode and from doing anything real about something.
But you guys keep it up. Its fun to watch your ignorance play itself out in glowing pixels.
- like the wallstreet protests and the tea party movement?********
- deathboy--
defender of the fucktardsRamanisky2 - go ahead and try to explain that RAM. how does that make sense********
- let me try your style on. wow blue is a fucktwit defending fucktards. im so right********
- like the wallstreet protests and the tea party movement?
- ukit0
- http://blogs.suntime…locustsloth
- fuck me look at obama yeah lets walk this time. you fat fuck puggie vanillaface74LEO
- DrBombay0
Chris Christie hasn't ran anywhere in decades by the looks of him.
- ha ha, he's not running, neither is Palin, it's eventually going to be Romney and he's not that Conservative. moot********
- ha ha, he's not running, neither is Palin, it's eventually going to be Romney and he's not that Conservative. moot
- utopian0
U.S.-born al Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki killed
Al-Awlaki's death, confirmed by U.S. and Yemeni officials, dealt yet another blow to the al Qaeda network, reeling from the killing and capture this year of several top leaders, most notably Osama bin Laden.
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- yaaaaawnRamanisky2
- FYI: The Washington Examiner is owned by the same company as the Weekly Standard.DrBombay
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Former Washington tax office employee charged with stealing more than $400,000
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lo…
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The Not-So-Green Mountains
Wind turbines destroy Vermont's Green Mountains
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/2…BULLDOZERS arrived a couple of weeks ago at the base of the nearby Lowell Mountains and began clawing their way through the forest to the ridgeline, where Green Mountain Power plans to erect 21 wind turbines, each rising to 459 feet from the ground to the tip of the blades.
This desecration, in the name of “green” energy, is taking place in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom on one of the largest tracts of private wild land in the state. Here and in other places — in Maine and off Cape Cod, for instance — the allure of wind power threatens to destroy environmentally sensitive landscapes.
Erecting those turbines along more than three miles of ridgeline requires building roads — with segments of the ridgeline road itself nearly half as wide as one of Vermont’s interstate highways — in places where the travel lanes are now made by bear, moose, bobcat and deer.
- DrBombay0
Poop, I didn't peg you as an environmentalist...
- i don't think that's what his angle was with that one. just an argument against alt energy.johnny_wobble
- He'll take up any argument if it suits his ends was my point. Trolls do that.DrBombay
