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Because DC Douglas is entertaining when he makes fun of regressive tea baggers
So I got this email from the Spiegel Group about DC Douglas’ latest video making fun of Freedom Works and I thought why not spread the word!
Of course the first video he did was even funnier.
Plus he’s also a DCite and I got to support us DC metro area people 
We need more Romanoff-like candidates running
Considering Bennet’s wealth, corporate fundraising, incumbency and presidential support, it is astounding that a whopping 46 percent of this bellwether state’s Democratic voters cast their ballots against him, against their own party’s establishment and against their own party’s president.
For those who care about a progressive economic agenda and about injecting democracy into the Democratic Party, this is encouraging when put next to the similarly impressive results of White House-thwarting Democratic primary challengers in Pennsylvania and Arkansas. And that trend explains the increasingly fierce pushback from Washington.
Yes, this is why President Obama’s spokesman, Robert Gibbs, so vociferously berated the progressive movement on the eve of Colorado’s primary, and why DNC powerbrokers moved so forcefully against Romanoff. He was the latest candidate to represent what those elites know to be an ascendant national progressive uprising inside the Democratic Party — one that keenly understands money’s corrosive effects on public policy and that, therefore, rejects the Beltway’s corporatist model.
via Elites’ Democratic Days Are Numbered — In These Times.
Thank you Bill Halter and thank you Andrew Romanoff. Also I don’t know how progressive Joe Sestak is but he was clearly more favorable than Specter in PA.
Tell your Senators: Vote YES to extend unemployment benefits
From: Jobs with Justice National <jwjnational@jwj.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:37 PM
Subject: Tell your Senators: Vote YES to extend unemployment benefits
To: jason.gooljar
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Unemployment benefits expired for 2.5 million long-term jobless back in May. Since then, the Senate has almost restored unemployment benefits three times, but each time Republicans have blocked the votes with procedural delays. Tomorrow, the unemployment benefits extension is expected to come to a vote. Tell your Senators not to fall for GOP scare-tactics about the budget deficit — or their offensive assertions that the unemployed are “spoiled” brats who are just “sitting there” collecting unemployment benefits. One job for every five people looking for work is a jobless emergency, and we need emergency action now! ACT NOW! |
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Hey ASCAP Go Screw Yourself..
This isn't the first time that ASCAP has misrepresented the objectives of our organization. But could we make it the last? We have no objection to collecting societies: They too were an innovative and voluntary solution (in America at least) to a challenging copyright problem created by new technologies. And I at least am confident that collecting societies will be a part of the copyright landscape forever.
GlaxoSmithKline about to get the smackdown by the FDA on Avandia
We have long recommended that consumers steer clear of the type 2 diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) because it can increase the risk of heart failure and could possibly trigger heart attacks. Beginning today, the medication faces what could be its final trial, as a committee of experts convened by the Food and Drug Administration will consider whether the drug’s safety problems are severe enough to warrant increased restriction of its use or removal from the market altogether.
The evidence against Avandia has continued to mount over the last several months. The two most recent studies found that Avandia is linked to an increased risk of heart attacks, strokes and death. And, an internal analysis conducted by FDA officials that was released in February concluded the drug causes heart attacks and deaths and should be pulled from the market.
US Workers vs. Airbus
With as many as 50,000 jobs at stake across the country, members of the Machinists (IAM) and SPEEA/International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers Local 2001 rallied along with Washington State’s congressional delegation and a host of community and business leaders Friday in Everett. We rallied in support of Boeing, as the company turned in their bid for the contract to replace the Air Force’s aging fleet of air re-fueling tankers.
China can’t find wage slaves for their sweatshops anymore….
Assertive, self-possessed workers like Ms. Wang have become a challenge for the industrial titans of the Pearl River Delta that once filled their mammoth workshops with an endless stream of pliant labor from China’s rural belly.
In recent months, as the country’s export-driven juggernaut has been revived and many migrants have found jobs closer to home, the balance of power in places like Zhongshan has shifted, forcing employers to compete for new workers — and to prevent seasoned ones from defecting to sweeter prospects.
The shortage has emboldened workers and inspired a spate of strikes in and around Zhongshan that paralyzed Honda’s Chinese operations last month. The unrest then spread to the northern city of Tianjin, where strikers briefly paralyzed production at a Toyota car plant and a Japanese-owned electronics factory.
What’s the deal Costco? What are you hiding?
Costco consistently robs the ocean of its scarcest resources and sells them to shoppers at wholesale prices. Worse, the store provides no labeling information about the sustainability of the fish it sells, preventing shoppers from making the choice to avoid buying threatened species.
In response, Greenpeace just launched the "Oh-No-Costco" campaign asking the store to implement an effective and transparent sustainable seafood policy and stop selling Red List species.
When you compare Costco to Wal-Mart they come out looking like angels. That however doesn't mean that they do everything right.
Like UBS, HSBC also appears guilty of US Tax Evastion
Federal prosecutors are ramping up their criminal investigation intoHSBC concerning its sale of offshore tax services to wealthy Americans suspected of evading taxes, according to two people briefed on the matter and to court papers.
At least two American clients of HSBC, which is based in London, are aiding federal prosecutors by turning over account details, names of bankers and internal memorandums and other confidential documents regarding HSBC’s offshore private bank, according to one person briefed on the matter. He spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation.
Why I read the business press so much
… Sam Bowles and Herb Gintis, two economists, in their work on the American educational system some years back… pointed out that the educational system is divided into fragments. The part that's directed toward working people and the general population is indeed designed to impose obedience. But the education for elites can't quite do that. It has to allow creativity and independence. Otherwise they won't be able to do their job of making money. You find the same thing in the press. That's why I read the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times and Business Week. They just have to tell the truth. That's a contradiction in the mainstream press, too. Take, say, the New York Times or the Washington Post. They have dual functions and they're contradictory. One function is to subdue the great beast. But another function is to let their audience, which is an elite audience, gain a tolerably realistic picture of what's going on in the world. Otherwise, they won't be able to satisfy their own needs. That's a contradiction that runs right through the educational system as well. It's totally independent of another factor, namely just professional integrity, which a lot of people have: honesty, no matter what the external constraints are. That leads to various complexities. If you really look at the details of how the newspapers work, you find these contradictions and problems playing themselves out in complicated ways….
