Want to get a free college education?  MIT, yes THAT MIT is offering free online college level coursework.  http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

 

Even if you aren't able to graduate from college from this work, you can take it to suppliment work you are doing at other colleges and reduce your overall COST of going to college!  For some colleges you can take work that you have done and take CLEP exams to get credit for courses if you can pass the exam, without having to take the entire course, for a much lower cost!  For more information on this go to:

 

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=2&oq=CLEP&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4SNNT_enUS334US357&q=clep+testing+centers 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUPPORT COMPANIES THAT SUPPORT YOUR VALUES!   BUY BLUE!!  Go to WWW.BUYBLUE.ORG to search for companies to buy from in your area!

 

Boycott Fox News Advertisers

 

 

Current Advertisers ( 8/9/09 )

60Plus.org (an organization which sent out dishonest political advertisements and had their phony information put out under the FAKE "Progressive Policy Council" by REPUBLICAN attorney Jason Torchinsky, who was an attorney with/behind the 60Plus.org ads.  Torchinsky was also involved with the Bush DOJ pushing public focus to "voter fraud" cases which DIDN'T EXIST.)  http://politicalcorrection.org/print/factcheck/201009270003

AARP Insurance

Accu Chek Aviva

ADT Security (They still remain part of TYCO International of former CEO Dennis Kozlowski scandal infamy.  He and other executives walked away with $170 million of stockholder money.  After the scandal broke TYCO stock value tanked.)

Ally Bank (allybank.com) (This is one of the banks which was recently found to have been improperly foreclosed on mortgage holders.)

Apple

Avodart (GlaxoSmithKlein's prostate drug)

Brita Filter

Broadbive Security (I think this was a misprint and should be Broadview Security, which used to be Brinks and was bought out by TYCO/ADT.)

Conservatives for Patients Rights (A fraudulent anti-healthcare group founded by Rick L. Scott, who was CEO for Columbia/HCA for ten years while they fraudulently billed Medicare for $1.7 BILLION.  They were recently forced to REPAY what they fraudulently billed for, but Rick Scott ended up winning election for Florida's GOVERNOR.)

Ditech (ditech.com) (Part of Ally/GMAC which was recently stopped by government investigators for improperly foreclosing on mortgage holders.)

Forex.com

Golden Corral

Healthy Choice

HSBC Life Insurance (HSBC also owns several banks, several of which were taken over during the economic collapse, and then jacked up credit card interest rates)

Mens Warehouse

Mercedes-Benz

Metastock

Nexium

Pepboys

Radio Shack "This confirms that there is no advertising we (RadioShack) [are] buying on the Glen Beck Show or anywhere on the Fox News Channel," said Dave Hamlin, Director of Media Services for RadioShack, in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "What viewers are seeing on FNC and Glen Beck is manufacturer advertising that has tagged their messages with "RadioShack" as the retail destination to purchase their product(s). In this most recent instance, it is most likely the product called magicJack that has tagged our name throughout their commercial."

Rapid Wash

Red Lobster (owned by Darden, a holding company, along with Olive Garden, which hires undocumented workers for cheap labor, but who's stock is owned by Congressman Sensenbrenner)

Sargento Cheese

Super8 motels (super8.com)

Superior Gold Group (A company which Glenn Beck is a paid spokesperson for, recently had its gold and assets frozen. Judge turned assets over to a receiver as they investigate fraudulent business practices.   http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/09/business/la-fi-gold-coin-dealer-20101209 ) 

United Healthcare Insurance (One of the largest health insurance companies in the country which was the subject of investigation for denial of healthcare for their customers.)

United States Postal Service

Wallstreet Journal (now majority owned by Rupert Murdock, who also owns FOX Broadcasting)

Weitz&Luxemburg

 

 

FOX News has always been the propaganda arm of the Republican Party, willing to twist facts and even lie to promote the Republican agenda.

But the election of President Obama in 2008 pushed FOX News into outright hate-mongering and incitement of violence, which is intolerable in a democracy.

 

Tell FOX News advertisers to cancel their ads:

http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers?cid=ZGVtczE2OTUwN2RlbXM=  

 

Here are some examples of intolerable hate speech and incitement to violence:

6/30/09 Glenn Beck agreed with guest who urged bin Laden to attack U.S. with nuclear weapons.

7/25/09 Neil Cavuto and guest said health care reform will impose universal euthanasia like "Soylent Green."

7/28/09 Glenn Beck said "The President has exposed himself as a guy .. who has a deep-seated hatred for white people ... or the white culture... This man is a racist."

8/6/09 Glenn Beck "joked" about giving Speaker Pelosi a glass of wine with poison.

 

We join with FoxNewsBoycott and Color Of Change  in this boycott, which is already producing outstanding results. In the first week, 11 advertisers cancelled their FOX ads: Campbell Soup, Chrysler, General Motors, Kellogg, Kraft Foods, Lawyers.com, Nestle, Pfizer, Proctor & Gamble, Progressive Insurance, and Walmart. Read the latest update.

 

 

Tell FOX News advertisers to cancel their ads:

http://www.democrats.com/boycott-fox-news-advertisers?cid=ZGVtczE2OTUwN2RlbXM=  

 

 

 

 

 

BUSH LIES http://theunitedamerican.blogs.com/Movies/2000A/2000.html  The question asks, "Do You Know What 2,000 Looks Like?"  Well, we are now over 4,300 U.S. military deaths today with no end in sight.  http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx has details on coalition casualties by year/month.  http://mibazaar.com/costofiraqwar/iraqwarcasualties.html tracks the war dead and wounded by state.

 

 

Civilian death counts aren't kept by the U.S. military, (General Tommy Franks said "We don't do body counts"), so observers can only estimate the civilian casualties.  http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ is one site that provides some information on civilian casualties. 

 

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SENSENBRENNER WATCH  http://sensenbrennerwatch.blogspot.com/

 

WATCHDOG MILWAUKEE  http://www.watchdogmilwaukee.com/

WATCHDOG MILWAUKEE BLOG  http://www.watchdogmilwaukee.com/blog/

WATCHDOG MILWAUKEE's SENSENBRENNER WATCH (archives) http://watchdogmilwaukee.com/blog/category/sensenbrenner-watch/

 

 

LOOKING FOR GREAT, PROGRESSIVE MOVIES?
Dear Activist,

Do you love to watch movies, but struggle to find what you want at the local megaplex or video store? Let's face it, the huge multi-national corporations that are cranking out the Hollywood "hits" aren't making movies for folks like us.

Well, our friends at Ironweed, the new progressive film club, have a solution for progressives looking for quality, independent films. We're proud to be able to give Democrats.com members the first opportunity to be charter members of this fun new effort to take back the media.

The idea is simple: sign up for the club and every month you'll get a DVD in the mail that contains an award-winning feature film, a short film, and free extras.

https://www.ironweedfilms.com/subscription

 

The films are yours to keep - add them to your library, show them to your friends, or pass them on. If you don't think the films are great, you can cancel with no hassles.

What kind of films do you get? Films like Power Trip, the tragicomic film that follows an American company that buys the energy system in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia and sends two bungling Americans to make the Georgians pay for power. The film won the Berlin Film Festival, but you can't see it anywhere except through Ironweed.

Or Wetback, the touching award-winner that follows two friends who leave Nicaragua to find their fortune and experience the untold story of American immigration as they face the vigilante Minutemen on the Arizona border.

Ironweed scours the world's best festivals and critics' circles to promote the "underdog films" that audiences love but the major Hollywood studios avoid. With your support, we can push these films - these powerful weeds that are so often ignored - into mainstream distribution. And Ironweed gives you the chance to join a local film club, or, start your own.

We hope you'll become an Ironweed charter subscriber and help make the studios stand up and take notice.

Together we can change the face of media in America.

 

 

 

 

Who are the Financial Backers of the Political Candidates and Incumbents?

 

Find Out HERE!!

 

 

There is a new website http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/ that tracks Bush Campaign Contributors.

or other sites like www.opensecrets.org that post who's giving what to whom.  http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/index.asp if you want to
check by large PAC or organizations.

 

For example, if you check Phillip Morris, you'll see that almost all of their donations go to the Republicans. (Small wonder, Republican Presidential candidate,
Bob Dole, was spewing the lie that "there is no proof that smoking causes cancer." - how much did they pay him to say that?)

 

OPENSECRETS.ORG 

 

Industry Links

 

Blue Chip Investors

 

POLITICAL MONEY LINE http://www.tray.com/

 

You can easily find out who the top contributors are by going to the FEC http://www.fec.gov

 

or  The Center for Public Integrity  http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/index.asp?L1=20&L2=24&L3=20&L4=50&L5=20

 

 

 

Up Front
Edited by Deborah Stead

Talk Show

"I'm patient, but enough is enough." -- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Citigroup's largest shareholder, recommending that investors sell their stock if the company doesn't rein in costs

 

 

POLITICAL CASH
Companies Are Showing Their Hands

General Mills (GIS ) has become the latest company to agree to disclose its political donations -- and the sixth this year. It joins Amgen (AMGN ), Bristol-Myers Squibb, Staples, Southern Co. (SO ), and McDonald's (MCD ) in yielding to shareholders' demands for more transparency in this area, especially in state and local politics.

Such investor resolutions are gaining momentum. Some 21% of stockholders supported them this past proxy season, up from 11% last year, according to the Center for Political Accountability. Last year five blue chips agreed to the disclosures, up from one (Morgan Stanley (MS )) in 2004, when the resolutions started surfacing.

The disclosures, typically posted on company Web sites, can make for compelling reading. (Corporate gifts to PACs are already made public in Federal Election Commission filings.) While Morgan made no political donations in 2005, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ ) made quite a few, including $9.8 million to PhRMA California Initiative Fund, an industry group opposing a state proposition to create a drug discount for low-income families. The proposition failed.

"Political spending has consequences," says the center's co-director, Bruce Freed. In a post-Abramoff, post-SarbOx world, he adds, "investors are sending a message that they want accountability."

By Nanette Byrnes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working America has a new Job Tracker On-Line Tool that allows you to search for businesses reported as exporting jobs from your area.
You can also see the companies which have been impacted by trade.  In addition, you can find companies which have had violations of
safety and health regulations, workplace fatalities or catastrophic incidents, or high rates of workplace illness and injury since
2000. You can also find companies which have violated worker's rights under the National Labor Relations Act since 2000. These
lists are not all inclusive, so there are many companies who are in these categories, which have not made the list. You can report
companies that you know of by going to this link.
http://www.workingamerica.org/jobtracker/report.cfm 

 

Wisconsin's list is at this link:
http://www.workingamerica.org/jobtracker/index.cfmzipCode=&stateSelect=WI&companyName=&industry=&appState=zipSearch&sortToggle=ASC&x=15&y=11

 

In Wisconsin as of May 27, 2006:

68 Companies made the list as exporting jobs.
175 Companies have been reported as having laid-off workers because of the impact of trade.
4501 Companies were found that have violations of safety and health regulations, or have workplace fatalities or catastrophic incidents,
or have high rates of workplace illness and injury since 2000.
107 Companies were found with cases involving violations of worker's rights under the National Labor Relations Act since 2000.

You can search the entire state or a zip code or a particular business, or search by industry. Job Tracker has 60,000 Companies
listed on their database nationwide.

Search here: http://www.workingamerica.org/jobtracker/

Ask yourself.

If Conservatives are ranting about low paying jobs lost here in the U.S. because of immigration, why haven't they done anything about
the exporting of good paying jobs here in the United States, when they control trade agreements which give those jobs away to foreign
workers outside of the United States?

And, is it morally right to break the law and ignore workplace safety rules to cut costs, while endangering the health and lives of their workers?

Who is standing up for worker's rights? It certainly isn't Bush and the RepubliCON party.

 

 

 

Alfred McCoy: CIA Drug Trafficking & Mind Control
by DEMOCRACY NOW
(This is an edited transcript of an interview between Amy Goodman and Alfred McCoy from Democracy Now!. It originally aired on February 17, and is available for download from DemocracyNow.org.)

 

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED
http://www.alternet.org/story/32638/

Here's the link to the Democracy Now! Archive at Pacifica if you
want to download and listen to the entire show.
http://www.pacifica.org/programs/dn/0602_index.html
2/17
Australian Report Reveals More Abu Ghraib Torture Photos, Drawing
Public Outrage; Salon.com Runs Abu Ghraib Torture Photos Leaked from
Internal Army Source; Professor McCoy Exposes the History of CIA
Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror

 

 

 

United Nations Association

www.unausa.org and www.un.org

 

 

 

RESEARCH RESOURCES
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH
People Searches
http://person.langenberg.com/

White and yellow pages lookup. Site features a reverse directory, links to encyclopedia, dictionary, and an acronym finder. Langenberg also has professional directory lookups.

Professionals
http://www.martindale.com/xp/Martindale/home.xml

 
Martindale Hubbell law directory. Free and allows searches by name, firm, corporate legal departments, government or faculty. Comprehensive listings, but not all lawyers and/or firms are necessarily listed.

http://directory.findlaw.com/

West Legal Directory. Allows searches by lawyer or by firm. West is similar to Martindale, but records are less comprehensive than Martindale Hubbell. Not all lawyers and/or firms are necessarily listed.

http://www.searchsystems.net/

 
SearchSystems links to 12,153 free searchable public records databases. Most states will allow a search for licensed professionals. Information available varies by state.


http://www.ama-assn.org/

American Medical Association online database. Searches can be conducted by name or specialty. Information provided includes specialty, medical school, residency, etc.

http://www.nasdr.com/2000asp

National Association of Security Dealer (NASD) BrokerCheck online database. Provides free information about the professional background, registration/license, and conduct of NASD registered firms and their registered brokers. Searches for individuals require require broker's name and firm name or broker's name and firm's CRD number.

http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

U.S. Congressional database - 1774 to present. Biographies are about a paragraph in length and provide date of birth, education and highlights of career.

http://www.state.WI.us

Generic site for state government. Substituting any state abbreviation in this URL will guide you to most state web sites. Drilling down from the "government" (or equivalent) link will take you to legislative and congressional biographies, in most cases. Results may vary by state.

http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law.html

Law Library of Congress Home Page

 

The Library of Congress Government Resources

 

The Library of Congress Webcasts

 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html

A Century of Lawmaking

 

U.S. CODE

 

 
Hoover's Online business information database. While some information is free, a subscription is required for access to more comprehensive information such as selected biographical profiles of officers and directors of public companies. Profiles are taken from companies' proxy statements.

http://mddi.dnb.com/mddi

Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Directory online. Subscription is required. Biographical information on principal executives varies but can include employment history and educational background. Companies must have annual sales of at least $1 million or twenty or more employees to be included.

http://www.iwave.com/

 
Prospect Research Online. Subscription is required. PRO's database specifically serves the nonprofit industry, providing information on foundations, corporations, and individuals. Individual research sections include officers and directors, executive alerts, attorney archive, hot prospects, sports figure archive, women in the spotlight archive, wealth and power archive, and top philanthropist archive. Subscription also provides access to 600,000 biographies taken from various Marquis Who's Who print titles.

http://www.tray.com/

Federal Election Commission's database. Among other things, this site provides a lookup of political contributions by donor name. By clicking on "View Image," user can access itemized receipts for political donations, where they exist. Receipts show employer name and title of donor.

Newspapers
http://www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm

 
This site links U.S. daily and weekly newspapers, Canadian, international, and college papers. Search capabilities and fees to access full text articles vary with each paper, but most are $5 or less per article. Years covered by archives vary with each paper.

http://www.newspapers.com

Similar to Newspaperlinks.com.

Libraries/Reference Librarian
http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/

 
Marquis Who's Who. Citations for over 1 million individuals, searchable on a variety of fields. Records usually include personal, professional/career information, honors/awards, etc.

http://www.galegroup.com/

Biography and Genealogy Master Index. Citations from more than 2,500 editions and volumes of approximately 1,500 current and historical biographical sources. Citations refer you to the appropriate publication.

Assets

Assessor Links
http://www.searchsystems.net/

See above. Click on appropriate state, then select "property" or similar descriptor, for access to assessor databases. Availability and results will vary by county and state. Most searches are free.
http://www.pulawski.net/
This site provides direct links to assessor databases by state.

Property Comparisons
http://realestate.yahoo.com

Searches return property sales in proximity of address provided by user. Coverage is spotty, however, and value of information is be limited without prior knowledge of the neighborhood.

http://www.domania.com/index.jsp

Same as Yahoo.

Salary Information
http://valuationresources.com/CompensationSurveys.htm

Links to a number of salary survey sites. Most are free, but some are fee-based.

http://www.salary.com

User can search by job category and geographic location, then narrow search by adding job title. Results give salary range and estimated bonuses and benefits.

http://jobstar.org/tools/salary/sal-surv.cfm

Provides access to general and profession-specific salary surveys. Information available may consist of a collection of discussion articles or charts with dollar amounts for specific entities.

http://www.ecomponline.com

Allows searches by public company name and returns salary information for highest paid officers.

Insiders

User can search for insiders by company or individual name. Searches on individual name list all companies for whom the individual is an insider, the amount of stock owned, and its value. A search by company will list all insiders for that company.

CORPORATE RESEARCH

 

 

 

·        MacRAE’s Business Directory is one of America’s leading B2C websites, as is ProFile Canada in Canada, each with over 11 million annual visitors. (Source: Google Analytics, March 2009)

·        The site features a rich, relevant and searchable database of more than 3,000,000 U.S. and 1,000,000 Canadian businesses respectively.

·        The sites are free to users and allows someone to search, identify and locate businesses by company name, product, size of business and more.

 
Hoover's online database provides comprehensive company, industry, and market intelligence. Many company capsules are free and link you to SEC filings. Advanced features are available by subscription. E-mail news alerts are also available for tracking companies, industries, and individuals.

http://www.sec.gov

 
Official site of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Provides free access to public company files. Hint: go to search company filines, then historical Edgar archives for quick and easy search.

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/

 
Up to the minute stock prices. Historical stock prices are also available. Searchable by company name or stock symbol.

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/insiders.asp?siteid=mktw

 
User can search for insiders by company or individual name. Searches on individual name list all companies for whom the individual is an insider, the amount of stock owned, and its value. Search by company lists all insiders for that company.

http://www.searchsystems.net/

 
Select "companies/corporations" to access and search secretary of state corporate filings. Most sites are free and allow searching by company name or agent/officer.

http://mddi.dnb.com/mddi

Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Directory online. Accesses approximately 1,600,000 U.S. and Canadian public and private businesses. Information includes industry information, sales, number of employees, type of ownership, principal executives, and biographies. Subscription is required.

http://dnb.com/US/

 
Dun & Bradstreet Business Information Reports. Individual company reports are available by credit card or subscription. Free searches on company names.

http://www.forbes.com
Home pages for Forbes Magazine. Access to lists produced by Forbes such as Wealthiest Americans, 400 Biggest Companies, and Largest Private Companies.

FOUNDATION RESEARCH

 
The nation's leading repository of philanthropic information. The Foundation Finder accesses information on over 70,000 private and community foundations. Information includes contact information, web site, assets, total giving and a link to the most recent IRS filing. Information is also available on CD ROM through a subscription.

http://guidestar.org

 
Information available on approximately 850,000 IRS-recognized non-profits. Information includes contact information, web site, type of foundation, assets, total giving, and the most recent IRS filing. Must register.

http://www.philanthropy.com

 
Web site for the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Electronic access to this publication is available to subscribers. Grant listings from 1995 to present are searchable to separate subscription.

Foundation/Company Web Site
Searches within a company of foundation web site for giving programs can be conducted using the advanced search on Google.

http://www.chronicle.com

 
Web site for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Electronic access to this publication is available to subscribers. Grant listings from 1995 to present are searchable for subscribers.

http://www.bigdatabase.com

 
Provides profiles on 67,000 foundations, corporate donors, matching gift programs, in-kind donations, and government grant makers in the U.S. Profiles provide some biographical information on officers and trustees.

http://www.nccs.urban.org

 
The National Center for Charitable Statistics is the national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. NCCS is a program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Institute.

http://www.iwave.com

 
Provides information on individuals, foundations and corporations and is searchable by a variety of criteria. The company accepts requests for research on companies and foundations not listed.
Subscription is required.




ODDS AND ENDS

Access to public records nationwide, plus reverse phone lookups, area and prefix city finder, social security death index, zip+4 city and name search, and federal inmate lookup.

www.zipinfo.com/search/zipcode.htm

Find a county name by entering the city and state, or zip code.

http://zipcodes.homestead.com/_zip_codes_finder_.html

Links to various zip codes searches. Includes a link to University of Southern California's Wealthy Zip Code web site (lists top 100 wealthiest zip codes from communities listed in Worth magazine).

http://www.usps.gov/

Find zip codes, calculate postage, track packages, buy stamps, and more.

http://www.cheaptickets.com/trs/cheaptickets/flighttracker/flight_tracker_home.xsl

Track a flight in progress graphically by entering an airline name and flight number.