So I have been away for a while now as you have most likely noticed. Well, to be frank, I've had things to take care of. So, I'm reading a rather interesting story in regards of a Marine biologist who is now facing 20 years behind bars. What a shame, guess having a degree doesn't make you smarter. To top that off, she faces fines of half a million dollars and for what? Feeding killer whales... Yes, that's right... She got caught feeding a damn whale, altering the video, and then lying to authorities. So, what exactly is wrong about this? Well, she violated the Marine mammal protection act but it also shows a lovely display of justice in our country. Hell, it just isn't justice if you don't get punished for feeding an animal... Now, I'll be honest, I think this is a crock of shit. I can understand fines and prison if she was caught with a harpoon and doctoring up a tape in regards of throwing the damn thing at the whale, but to be imprisoned for feeding a whale? What is our Government afraid of, she might give them indigestion? The Biologist who is being charged, Nancy Black, states she was conducting research. I say the Government needs to leave the lady alone to conduct her studies... If you're interested in reading the full story, I have a link just for you below.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/marine-biologist-could-20-years-prison-feeding-whales-192317791.html

            Upon investigating the corporation Aramark, I found that there are much bigger problems than those at the college.  Among the problems we have complaints pertaining to food quality, abuse toward students and fellow Aramark employees, and barring specific people entry to eating facilities (even if those people have health issues that require them to eat.)  While there are many complaints pertaining to Aramark at the University, I found that this is not the only place where this company has upheld its horrid reputation.  The company not only has a bad reputation locally, the reputation even goes internationally. 

        Before I go into the international complaints against Aramark, let us start here in America. Among the most popular complaints against the company was poor food quality, employees bullied from supervisors, and of course harassment. To quote the site “Aramark is Evil,” “Aramark is a horrible, abusive company that has a well-documented history of mistreating employees, lowering industry standards, and using public dollars to kill other businesses; especially mom-n-pop food establishments near campuses with their wicked "Dining Dollars" system. This blog was created to cry out against Aramark and request a Congressional investigation of their unseemly practices.” Of course, you do not have to take my word for it; you can simply look for yourself as I have cited all my sources.

First, let us look into the most popular complaint against Aramark; let us review the food quality. When we evaluate the food, there is usually the same problem: the food is either burned, undercooked, or simply tastes horrid. In fact, these three elements alone have sparked an international war against the Aramark Corporation. When evaluating the food for myself, what I observed made me gag. First off, the food was very poorly prepared. For example, the chicken was very dry and obviously not cooked that day; in fact, I would have been amazed if it had been cooked that week. Secondly, regarding the chicken, I had even found some pieces that had not even cooked thoroughly; can you say food poisoning?  However, the problems seemed to go on.

               Putting the food quality aside, there have also been complaints regarding harassment, stealing, and abuse. First, let us review the harassment. Even at the university I attend, it is not rare to see employee abuse. Rather it is toward fellow employees or students the abuse thrives in Aramark. I recall an incident that involved two female students. They had come in shortly prior to closing (according to the clocks in the cafeteria) and met with screams from an Aramark employee. The confrontation, however, did not start out as a scream match. At first, she rudely informed the students that they were closed and they had to leave. When that failed, she then resorted into screaming at the students who could do nothing more than stand and listen. While a complaint was filed against the employee, I was amazed to find that the employee had not been terminated. In fact, she was simply relocated into the kitchen area.

               When we evaluate the ethics of Aramark, we find that trait simply does not exist. In recent years, Aramark was placed under the gun for stealing from its employees. Aramark had apparently been taking Union dues while at the same time pocketing the cash. It was, at this time, the Union filed a criminal complaint against them. To make the situation worst it is unknown as to which Union actually represents Aramark. Regardless, it is known that 1,700 employees were affected by the theft. “Aramark does not have the right to take money out of workers’ paychecks and then do whatever it wants to do with it,” Bruce Raynor, president of Workers United, told one source.

               Finally, due to time, we have the claim of Harassment; something I have seen first-hand from Aramark supervisors. In Milwaukee Wi., a chef had a habit of stating things that were highly inappropriate. Like the Aramark in other locations, complaints to the management were left unheard. To directly quote the article, “he acuse(d) workers of using drugs when they don’t do drugs, he call(ed) us stupid, he talk(ed) badly about a workers sexual orientation.” This type of abuse is common among Aramark employees. Furthermore, it’s not uncommon for the management to partake in this behavior.

               There are many cases more that I can go into. In fact, if you Google “Aramark complaints,” You will be amazed as to what you find from other people. Though some of the people are/were employees of Aramark, you’ll learn that most of them are simply customers. When you run a company, you are expected to uphold certain ethics and morals. However, if you run Aramark, it is almost expected to toss that out the window. While I write this one article against the Aramark Corporation, be aware that there is a war being waged against them. The corruption within the company, the abuse, and the food quality are only minor reasons for this war. If you search online, you will find that there are countless other reasons for this war.

~The Syndicate Project~

                                    Works Cited

admin. www.mycomplaint.com. 5 August 2009. 23 April 2011 .

Battle, Johnny Lunch. Aramark is Evil. 29 Novemeber 2008. 23 April 2011 .

Darby. www.ripoffreport.com. 9 June 2007. 23 April 2011 .

man25. www.complaintsboard.com. 14 10 2009. 23 April 2011 .

RedPoet. alt.society.labor-unions. 29 April 2008. 23 April 2011 .

Good evening everybody. It has, in fact, been a while since I've had time to do this. College does that, I suppose. So, with no further adue, I present a man who simply died for his beliefs... Perhaps what he was intending to start will spread like wildfire.

This is the Letter of Joseph Andrew Stack, who recently crashed his plane into the IRS building in Austin Texas.

Admittedly, you need to read the treatment to understand what it is saying but it's not very complicated. The bottom line is that they may as well have put my name right in the text of section (d). Moreover, they could only have been more blunt if they would have came out and directly declared me a criminal and non-citizen slave. Twenty years later, I still can't believe my eyes.

During 1987, I spent close to $5000 of my ‘pocket change', and at least 1000 hours of my time writing, printing, and mailing to any senator, congressman, governor, or slug that might listen; none did, and they universally treated me as if I was wasting their time. I spent countless hours on the L.A. freeways driving to meetings and any and all of the disorganized professional groups who were attempting to mount a campaign against this atrocity. This, only to discover that our efforts were being easily derailed by a few moles from the brokers who were just beginning to enjoy the windfall from the new declaration of their "freedom". Oh, and don't forget, for all of the time I was spending on this, I was loosing income that I couldn't bill clients.

After months of struggling it had clearly gotten to be a futile exercise. The best we could get for all of our trouble is a pronouncement from an IRS mouthpiece that they weren't going to enforce that provision (read harass engineers and scientists). This immediately proved to be a lie, and the mere existence of the regulation began to have its impact on my bottom line; this, of course, was the intended effect.

Again, rewind my retirement plans back to 0 and shift them into idle. If I had any sense, I clearly should have left abandoned engineering and never looked back.

Instead I got busy working 100-hour workweeks. Then came the L.A. depression of the early 1990s. Our leaders decided that they didn't need the all of those extra Air Force bases they had in Southern California, so they were closed; just like that. The result was economic devastation in the region that rivaled the widely publicized Texas S&L fiasco. However, because the government caused it, no one gave a shit about all of the young families who lost their homes or street after street of boarded up houses abandoned to the wealthy loan companies who received government funds to "shore up" their windfall. Again, I lost my retirement.

Years later, after weathering a divorce and the constant struggle trying to build some momentum with my business, I find myself once again beginning to finally pick up some speed. Then came the .COM bust and the 911 nightmare. Our leaders decided that all aircraft were grounded for what seemed like an eternity; and long after that, ‘special' facilities like San Francisco were on security alert for months. This made access to my customers prohibitively expensive. Ironically, after what they had done the Government came to the aid of the airlines with billions of our tax dollars … as usual they left me to rot and die while they bailed out their rich, incompetent cronies WITH MY MONEY! After these events, there went my business but not quite yet all of my retirement and savings.

By this time, I'm thinking that it might be good for a change. Bye to California, I'll try Austin for a while. So I moved, only to find out that this is a place with a highly inflated sense of self-importance and where damn little real engineering work is done. I've never experienced such a hard time finding work. The rates are 1/3 of what I was earning before the crash, because pay rates here are fixed by the three or four large companies in the area who are in collusion to drive down prices and wages… and this happens because the justice department is all on the take and doesn't give a fuck about serving anyone or anything but themselves and their rich buddies.

To survive, I was forced to cannibalize my savings and retirement, the last of which was a small IRA. This came in a year with mammoth expenses and not a single dollar of income. I filed no return that year thinking that because I didn't have any income there was no need. The sleazy government decided that they disagreed. But they didn't notify me in time for me to launch a legal objection so when I attempted to get a protest filed with the court I was told I was no longer entitled to due process because the time to file ran out. Bend over for another $10,000 helping of justice.

So now we come to the present. After my experience with the CPA world, following the business crash I swore that I'd never enter another accountant's office again. But here I am with a new marriage and a boatload of undocumented income, not to mention an expensive new business asset, a piano, which I had no idea how to handle. After considerable thought I decided that it would be irresponsible NOT to get professional help; a very big mistake.

When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl's unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn't have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me.

This left me stuck in the middle of this disaster trying to defend transactions that have no relationship to anything tax-related (at least the tax-related transactions were poorly documented). Things I never knew anything about and things my wife had no clue would ever matter to anyone. The end result is… well, just look around.

I remember reading about the stock market crash before the "great" depression and how there were wealthy bankers and businessmen jumping out of windows when they realized they screwed up and lost everything. Isn't it ironic how far we've come in 60 years in this country that they now know how to fix that little economic problem; they just steal from the middle class (who doesn't have any say in it, elections are a joke) to cover their asses and it's "business-as-usual". Now when the wealthy fuck up, the poor get to die for the mistakes… isn't that a clever, tidy solution.

As government agencies go, the FAA is often justifiably referred to as a tombstone agency, though they are hardly alone. The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government. Nothing changes unless there is a body count (unless it is in the interest of the wealthy sows at the government trough). In a government full of hypocrites from top to bottom, life is as cheap as their lies and their self-serving laws.

I know I'm hardly the first one to decide I have had all I can stand. It has always been a myth that people have stopped dying for their freedom in this country, and it isn't limited to the blacks, and poor immigrants. I know there have been countless before me and there are sure to be as many after. But I also know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at "big brother" while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won't continue; I have just had enough.

I can only hope that the numbers quickly get too big to be white washed and ignored that the American zombies wake up and revolt; it will take nothing less. I would only hope that by striking a nerve that stimulates the inevitable double standard, knee-jerk government reaction that results in more stupid draconian restrictions people wake up and begin to see the pompous political thugs and their mindless minions for what they are. Sadly, though I spent my entire life trying to believe it wasn't so, but violence not only is the answer, it is the only answer. The cruel joke is that the really big chunks of shit at the top have known this all along and have been laughing, at and using this awareness against, fools like me all along.

I saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

Joe Stack (1956-2010)

02/18/2010

Though what he did was done incorrectly, I can only hope it makes us realize just how much power our Government has compared to what it should of had.

It's been a long time since I've had a chance to post here. So, as you know, a lot of things are starting to surface; about damn time if you ask me. So, if you haven't heard, Obama is apparently going to court next week to determine rather or not he can legally be president. Though we all know the answer to that, I guess he may as well have a fair trial. So far he has done everything in his power to stop the trial, but the judge just won't budge. For a man who claims to be an American, you would think a simple "citizen" checkup wouldn't be an issue.

As though that wasn't bad enough, the two wars have now topped $1 billion dollars! Yes I know, we just spent a shit load of cash in this epic failure of a war, but that's not even the best part; Obama is expected to ask for $33 billion more this year; there goes the neighborhood.

Below is an article I found, it's not real long, but it's interesting.

Cindy Sheehan leads protest at CIA, Cheney's house

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan leads protest at CIA, home of former VP Dick Cheney

Staff
AP News

Jan 16, 2010 17:40 EST

A group led by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan has protested near the CIA's headquarters and former Vice President Dick Cheney's home in northern Virginia.

They were protesting the use of unmanned drone aircraft to attack al-Qaida and Taliban targets.

The group of about 70 people rallied alongside a highway near the CIA compound Saturday. About half then marched to Cheney's nearby street and stayed for 20 minutes. Police kept them from going down his street.

Sheehan's 21-year-old son Casey was killed in Iraq in April 2004. She staged a prolonged demonstration outside former President George W. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas, in 2005.

She says using drones is "cowardly" and "immoral."


Alright, in a personal note, I got some emails regarding the forum. I'm sorry to say that it was sabatoged by somebody I thought was a friend. For those who wish to see the damage he did the link is included: thesyndicateproject.openmsl.net/index.html I'm sorry if it's offensive. Please note that I don't support this in any form. For those who emailed asking about the forum, I'm going to be getting a new forum for to long... one not hosted by this guy. Anyways, bots, that's all for now. Peace.

Good morning robots, another fine day in paradise. You're probably wondering about the title; well, fact is The Commies have approved the Healthcare reform plan in both H.O.R and the senate. What does this mean for us? Bye bye America. In other news:

A Nigerian banker believes his son may have been the one carrying a bomb in a recent terrorist attack. Apparently the retard couldn't do the job correctly as not only was nobody hurt, he was found to only have "minor" injuries. The lesson is: If you're going to blow up an airplane, don't use a condom to do the job. However, not suprsing enough, the United States had placed him as being a possible terrorist. This is lesson 2: Apparently the United States Government can actually guess something right. I think they deserve cookies for that.

Below is an article I found on a news site:

Family Pleads for Return of Captured Soldier
by Jason Ditz, December 25, 2009
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The Taliban released a video today showing an apparently unharmed Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, the Sun Valley, Idaho soldier captured in Afghanistan in late June.

In the video, the soldier sharply criticized the Afghan War, likening it to Vietnam and urging the American public to “stand up and stop all this nonsense.” The video is the first sign of Bergdahl since a mid-July video.

Bergdahl’s family issued a statement by way of the Idaho National Guard, calling for the release of their only son and urging him to “stay strong” while he remains the only US soldier currently in captivity in Afghanistan.

Bergdahl’s capture was something of a news story in early July, and the soldier was condemned as a traitor by some pundits, who accused him of deserting his post and aiding the enemy.

US officials condemned the release of the video as an outrage, declaring that it was an affront to Islam to do so. Still, while the release of the video was doubtless for the Taliban’s own benefit by way of propaganda, it at the very least gives Pfc. Bergdahl’s family a measure of assurance that he is apparently alive and unharmed.

Let's hope he gets out of there.

Alright robots, that's just some of the stuff going down recently. Until next time, this is the Raven signing off.