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00SL2 schreef:
I agree with Josh Freeman, they need to keep a close, ever watchful eye on the budget. And to start making cuts where necessary. Also, Kettering should hire its own security as other institutions have done.
Kettering has a security force , however, because they are a private educational institution they cannot have an armed and deputized police force of their own. State law allows U of M and Mott to have their own police force. Kettering may be looking at hiring armed security guards and/or off duty officers. I believe there is a security company in Flint that employs officers . I sincerely hope this situation can be resolved as these Kettering students are targets for criminal activity. The thieves know these kids are vulnerable and they are frequently victimized. |
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Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:08 am |
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untanglingwebs
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Ryan Eashoo schreef:
So now we own it, lets get it back on the city tax rolls!!!
Mott Foundation has wanted this building for a long time, however they did not want this price tag.
Former Judge Washington was the arbitrator in the case but he never disclosed that he had started working for the State of Michigan before he completed the decision. Neithercut understood the potential conflict but the Appeals Court never acknowledged it. The arbitration award was a piece of crap.
Flint had numerous complaints about Vemullapalli using unskilled labor for work that should have been performed by tradesmen. Water bypasses and more were found. Allegedly once the elevator were gerryrigged with extension cords instead of being repaired properly bu an elevator company.
Kurtz brought back a retired inspector, whose only task was to inspect the towere.
Watch for the tower to come down! i am told they will start demolition from the top down because of the proximity of other buildings. |
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Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:18 am |
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Ryan Eashoo
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Some people just don't understand BINDING ARBITRATION!
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Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:09 am |
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Ryan Eashoo
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What about make it into our next Casino?
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Wed Sep 29, 2010 6:28 pm |
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FlintCityMole
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| Several people with connections to Mott Foundation, Uptown, Ridgeway White, GRCC are involved with this building. They singled out this building because they wanted down or renovated. |
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Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:31 pm |
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Ryan Eashoo
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A Senseless War Begins Its 10th Year ...an address to the nation from President Barack Obama (as reported by Michael Moore)
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
My Fellow Americans:
Nine years ago today we invaded the nation of Afghanistan. I’d just turned 40. I had a Discman and an Oldsmobile and had gotten really into LiveJournal. That was a long time ago. It was so long ago, does anybody remember why we're even there? I think everyone wanted to capture Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice. But he got away sometime in the first month or so. He left. We stayed. Looking back now, that makes no sense.
Needing to find a new reason for the mission, we decided to overthrow the religious extremists who were running Afghanistan. Which we did. Sorta. Unlike Osama, they never left. Why not? Well, they were Afghans, it was their country. And, strangely enough, a lot of other Afghans supported them. To this day, the Taliban only have 25,000 armed fighters. Do you really think an army that tiny could control and suppress a nation of 28 million against their will? What's wrong with this picture? WTF is really going on here?
The truth is, I can't get an answer. My generals can't quite tell me what our mission is. If we went in there to rout out al-Qaeda, well, they're gone too. The CIA tells me there are under 100 of them left in the whole country!
My generals have also admitted the following to me:
1. There is no way we can defeat the Taliban. They enjoy too much popular support in the rural areas, the majority of the country.
2. Even though we've been there nine years, the truth is the Taliban, not us, not the Afghan government, control the country. After nine years, we’ve only completely run the Taliban out of 3% of Afghanistan.
3%!! (Just for reference, it took us only ELEVEN MONTHS after D-Day to entirely defeat the Nazis across all of Europe.)
3. Our troops and their commanders are still trying to learn the language, the culture, the customs of Afghanistan. The fact is, our troops are simply not trusted by the average people (especially after they've killed numerous civilians, either through recklessness or for sport).
4. The Afghan government we installed is corrupt beyond belief. The public does not trust them. President Karzai is on anti-depressants and our advisors tell us he is erratic and loopy on many days. His brother has a friendly relationship with the Taliban and is believed to be a major poppy (heroin) dealer. Heroin poppies are the #1 contributor to the Afghan economy.
The war in Afghanistan is a mess. The insurgency grows -- and why wouldn't it: foreign troops have invaded and occupied their country! The people responsible for 9/11 are no longer there. So why are we? Why are we offering up the lives of our sons and daughters every single day -- for no reason anyone can define.
In fact, the only reason I can see is that this war is putting billions of profits into the pockets of defense contractors. Is that a reason to stay, so Halliburton can post a larger profit this quarter?
It is time for me to bring our troops home -- right now. Not one more American needs to die. Their deaths do not make us safer and they do not bring democracy to Afghanistan.
It is not our mission to defeat the Taliban. That is the job of the Afghan people -- if that is what they choose to do. There are many groups and leaders of countries in this world who are despicable. We are not going to invade 30 countries and remove their regimes. That is not our job.
I am not going to stay in Afghanistan just because we're already there and we haven't "won" yet. There is nothing to win. No one from Genghis Khan to Leonid Brezhnev has been able to win there. So the troops are coming home.
I refuse to participate in scaring the American people with a phony "War on Terror." Are there terrorists? Yes. Will they strike again? Sadly, yes. But these terrorist acts are few and far between and should not dictate how we live our daily lives or make us ignore our constitutional rights. They should never distract us from what our real priorities are in making our country safe and secure: Everyone with a good job, families able to own a home and send their kids to college, universal health care that's coordinated by your elected representative government -- not by greedy, profit-hungry insurance companies. THAT would be true homeland security.
And what about Osama bin Laden? Nine years and we can't find a 6'5" Arab man who apparently is on dialysis? Even after offering $25 million to anyone who will tell us where he is? You don't think someone would have taken us up on that by now?
Here's what I know: Osama bin Laden is a multi-millionaire -- and if there's one thing I've learned about the rich is that they don't live in caves for 9 years. Bin Laden is either dead or hiding out in a place where his money protects him. Or maybe he just went home.
Just like we should do. Now. My condolences to the families of all who died in this war. Most of them signed up after 9/11 and wanted to do their duty because we were attacked. But we were not attacked by a country. We were attacked by a few religious extremists. And you don't defeat a few thugs by shipping halfway around the world thousands of armored vehicles and hundreds of thousands of soldiers. That is just sheer idiocy.
And it ends tonight.
God be with you.
I'm not a Muslim.
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Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:10 pm |
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Ryan Eashoo
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What now Flint? How do we move this town forward?
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Sat Nov 13, 2010 10:03 am |
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Adam
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Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:00 am |
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Ryan Eashoo
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Don't forget to tune in this morning at 7 am till 9 am. I will be hosting the Lou Lobsinger Show and we will be talking about local issues including Open of Michigan's Fire Arm Deer Season, Genesee Towers and the impact on tax payers and talking to Flint City Councilman Sheldon Neeley. We will be taking your calls all... morning, so make sure you call in at (810) 251-1570. SUPERTALK 1570 AM
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Mon Nov 15, 2010 5:56 am |
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Ryan Eashoo
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Don Williamson, Patsy Lou dealership countersuing ex-employee, Matthew Manley
Published: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 5:09 PM Updated: Tuesday, November 16, 2010, 5:10 PM
Kristin Longley | Flint Journal
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Share 2 Comments GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan — Former Mayor Don Williamson and the Patsy Lou dealership are countersuing a former employee and his brother, saying they conspired to "shake down" the dealership for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Williamson's lawsuit says Matthew T. Manley's pending lawsuit against Williamson and the Patsy Lou Buick-GMC-Chevrolet dealership is "frivolous," and claims Manley leveled accusations of improper business practices against Williamson in an attempt to extort cash payments.
Manley's attorney denied the claims this afternoon.
Don Williamson
Williamson's countersuit also says Manley conspired with his brother, attorney Michael Manley.
Williamson's attorney, Frederic E. Champnella, declined to comment on the details of the case this evening, but said he expects it to go to trial.
"It will be hotly contested," he said.
There are three counts listed in the Nov. 12 countersuit — extortion, civil conspiracy and interference with business relationships.
It says Matthew Manley misrepresented his professional background and was involved in an "interstate fraud ring."
Thomas Waun, Matthew Manley's attorney, said the lawsuit's accusations are "baseless."
"They're just grasping," Waun said. "It's all a smoke screen to hide what they really did."
Manley previously filed his lawsuit against Williamson in May, claiming he was demoted after telling police that the dealership was cheating its customers.
Manley, who worked at the dealership for a few months, says he reported a practice called "packing the payment," in which customers were charged for accessories they never realized they were purchasing.
Manley's lawsuit claims the dealership targeted black and elderly customers with the practice.
Williamson's suit said the dealership repeatedly won compliance awards and is one of the "crown jewels" of General Motors' dealerships.
Michael Manley said today he was aware of the countersuit, but has not yet been served. He said it's "another attempt by Williamson to bully and intimidate."
"I can assure you he does not intimidate me, and he has messed with the wrong family," he said. "He will be exposed for what he is and what he's been doing to his customers."
The lawsuit is assigned to Genesee Circuit Court Judge Geoffrey L. Neithercut. A hearing is scheduled for Nov. 22.
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Tue Nov 16, 2010 6:23 pm |
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untanglingwebs
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| Too bad the Williamsons did not get a better attorney! |
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andi03
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| Not crown jewels, but "family jewels"....oy. |
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Wed Nov 17, 2010 9:59 pm |
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Ryan Eashoo
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How Corporate America Is Pushing Us All Off a Cliff ...a letter from Michael Moore
Friday, November 19th, 2010
Friends,
When someone talks about pushing you off a cliff, it's just human nature to be curious about them. Who are these people, you wonder, and why would they want to do such a thing?
That's what I was thinking when corporate whistleblower Wendell Potter revealed that, when "Sicko" was being released in 2007, the health insurance industry's PR firm, APCO Worldwide, discussed their Plan B: "Pushing Michael Moore off a cliff."
But after looking into it, it turns out, it's nothing personal! APCO wants to push everyone off a cliff.
APCO was hatched in 1984 as a subsidiary of the Washington, D.C. law firm Arnold & Porter -- best known for its years of representing the giant tobacco conglomerate Philip Morris. APCO set up fake "grassroots" organizations around the country to do the bidding of Big Tobacco. All of a sudden, "normal, everyday, in-no-way-employed-by-Philip Morris Americans" were popping up everywhere. And it turned out they were outraged -- outraged! -- by exactly the things APCO's clients hated (such as, the government telling tobacco companies what to do). In particular, they were "furious" that regular people had the right to sue big corporations...you know, like Philip Morris. (For details, see the 2000 report "The CALA Files" (PDF) by my friends and colleagues Carl Deal and Joanne Doroshow.)
Right about now you may be wondering: how many Americans get pushed off a cliff by Big Tobacco every year? The answer is 443,000 Americans die every year due to smoking. That's a big cliff.
With this success under their belts, APCO created "The Advancement of Sound Science Coalition." TASSC, funded partly by Exxon, had a leading role in a planned campaign by the fossil fuel industry to create doubt about global warming. The problem for Big Oil speaking out against global warming, according to the campaign's own leaked documents, was that the public could see the "vested interest" that oil companies had in opposing environmental laws. APCO's job was to help conceal those oil company interests.
And boy, have they ever succeeded. Polls now show that, as the world gets hotter, Americans are getting less and less worried about it.
How big is this particular cliff? According to the World Health Organization, climate change contributes -- right now -- to the deaths of 150,000 people every year. By 2030 it may be double that. And after that...well, the sky is literally the limit! I don't think it's crazy to say APCO may rack up even bigger numbers here than they have with tobacco.
With this track record, you can see why, when the health insurance industry wanted to come after "Sicko," they went straight to APCO. The "worst case," as their leaked documents say, was that "Sicko evolves into a sustained populist movement." That simply could not be allowed to happen. Something obviously had to be done.
As Wendell Potter explains, APCO ran their standard playbook, setting up something called "Health Care America." Health Care America, according to Potter, "was received by mainstream reporters, including the New York Times, as a legitimate organization when it was nothing but a front group set up by APCO Worldwide. It was not anything approaching what it was reporting to be: a 'grassroots organization.' It was a sham group."
Health Care America showed up online in 2007 (the year "Sicko" was released) and disappeared quickly by early 2008. You can still find their website archived here. As you'll see, their "moderated forum" allowed normal, everyday, in-no-way-employed-by-the-insurance-industry Americans to speak out. For instance, here's something Nicole felt very strongly about:
"Moore shouldn't be allowed to call his film a 'documentary.' It should be called a political commercial. We need to fix our health care system, but we shouldn’t accept a Hollywood moviemaker’s political views as the starting point."
Here's what Wendell Potter revealed about the insurance industry's media strategy:
"As we would do the media training, we would always have someone refer to him as 'Hollywood entertainer' or 'Hollywood moviemaker Michael Moore.' They don't want you to think that it was a documentary that had some truth."
Thanks for your perspective, "Nicole"!
Now, how big was THAT cliff? A pretty good size -- according to a recent study, 45,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance.
And here we are in 2010. A lesser PR firm might be resting on its laurels at this point, content to sit back and watch hundreds of thousands of people continue to be pushed off the various cliffs they've built. But not APCO! Right now they've taken on their biggest challenge yet: leading a giant, multi-million dollar effort to help Wall Street "earn back the trust of the American people."
We may never know the size of this particular cliff. But we can be sure it's gigantic. According to the New York Times, one of the things Wall Street's recession gave us is "the crippling of the government program that provides life-sustaining antiretroviral drugs to Americans with H.I.V. or AIDS who cannot afford them." Internationally, organizations fighting AIDS and other diseases are "hugely afraid" of cutbacks in funding.
Of course, there are the 101 ways recessions kill quietly. For instance, children's hospitals are seeing a sharp 55% rise in the abuse of babies by parents.
And that's just the previous cliff. If APCO and its Wall Street co-conspirators lull us into turning our backs on them again, we can be sure the next cliff -- the next crash -- will be much bigger.
Anyway, this is all just a way for me to say to APCO: No hard feelings! My getting mad at you would be like a chicken who's still happily pecking away getting mad at McDonald's. Compared to the millions you've already turned into McNuggets, you've actually treated me much, much BETTER! Spying on my family, planting smears and lies about me, privately badgering movie critics to give the film a poor review, scaring Americans into believing they'd be committing a near-act of treason were they to go to the theater and see my movie -- hey, ya done good, health insurance companies of America. And, most important, you stopped the nation from getting true universal health care. Good job!
There's only one problem -- I'm not one of those "liberals" you fund in Congress, the ones who fear your power.
I'm me. And that, sadly, is not good for you.
Yours in good health,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
P.S. It seems to me that APCO's discussion of pushing me off a cliff should legitimately be part of their Wikipedia page. And why not something about their role in Wall Street's new PR offensive? So I'm asking everyone interested to write something up that meets Wikipedia's guidelines and help bring the APCO Worldwide entry up to date. Post it somewhere online and send a tweet about it to @mmflint. I'll award a signed copy of "Sicko" by noon Sunday to the best entry...and then deputize you to post it on Wikipedia for real and make sure APCO's minions don't take it down. Just be sure afterward not to walk near any cliffs!
P.P.S. The late, great comedian Bill Hicks had some thoughts about marketing and the people who do it.
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Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:00 pm |
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Dave Starr
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| Right, Mike. Lets get rid of all businesses. All they do is provide jobs so people can have shelter & buy food & clothes. After all, the government will do that, we don't need businesses for anything. |
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Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
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Mon Nov 22, 2010 9:44 pm |
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| Like most libs Old Mikey has hated corporate America every since he published back in the 70s his little I hate corporate America and America in general marxizst rag newspaper in Burton known as The Voice. The same America by the way that allowed him (along with the folks dumb enough to support him financially) to become a millionaire by producing his so called documentaries about everything he thinks is wrong with America. Just shows what a fat dope smoking ex hippie can become if he can scam enough people. Im surprised some leftist college hasnt invited him to be a professor. |
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