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Post by jacquelope on Dec 19, 2011 21:31:24 GMT -6
Just wondering. It seems a private school just acquired itself a labor union. www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/15/arts-academy-in-the-woods-charter-school-union_n_1150009.htmlArts Academy In The Woods Teachers Vote To Unionize Charter School After a six-month organizing drive, teachers at a suburban Detroit charter school voted to unionize on Wednesday, simultaneously certifying a new union local for charter school teachers in Michigan. Teachers at the Arts Academy in the Woods high school in Fraser approved the new Michigan Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff (Michigan ACTS), a local affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers Michigan, by a vote of 20-1.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 19, 2011 2:21:47 GMT -6
On the second one I can certainly see your point... the first one, though, I feel every little step forward counts. Was there some counter-balancing negative factor involved in HR 4380? I did not see any.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 18, 2011 18:04:38 GMT -6
Also look at:
March 17, 1999 HR 975 Steel Import Limitation bill Bill Passed - House (289 - 141) Nay
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 18, 2011 17:57:52 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 17, 2011 21:48:23 GMT -6
www.latimes.com/news/local/environment/la-me-gs-breakthrough-double-solar-energy-output-20111216,0,3897047.story Breakthrough could double solar energy output A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin may allow photovoltaic solar cells to double their efficiency, thus providing loads more electrical power from regular sunlight. Not only that, but it’s way cheap. Chemistry professor Xiaoyang Zhu and his team discovered that an organic plastic semiconductor could double the number of electrons harvested out of one photon of sunlight. Yep, plastic. An issue with regular photovoltaic panels is that much of the energy delivered by sunlight comes in the form of “hot” electrons, which are too high-energy to be converted to electricity in silicon and are instead lost as heat. For that reason, the max insolation-to-electricity efficiency of a silicon solar cell used today is considered to be about 31%. Capturing those hot electrons could boost it to 66%...
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 15, 2011 15:29:12 GMT -6
I'd like to make some commentary here but I bet it would be a Federal crime to say what I want to say. news.yahoo.com/deutsche-bank-ceo-target-suspicious-envelope-police-001039090.htmlPackage sent to Deutsche Bank CEO was bomb By Maria Sheahan | Reuters – Thu, Dec 8, 2011 FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A suspicious envelope sent to Deutsche Bank Chief Executive Josef Ackermann - the face of capitalism in Germany - was a functioning letter bomb, investigators said on Thursday. No one has so far claimed responsibility for the package, which was intercepted late on Wednesday. It raised fears that a wave of protests against the failures and excesses of bankers could turn more violent, and prompted police across Europe to warn banks to be extra vigilant. Ackermann, 63, a Swiss who is the first non-German to head Germany's biggest bank, is one of the few senior managers in the country always surrounded by bodyguards.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 12, 2011 18:10:43 GMT -6
Calling Dylan Ratigan... would he put this on television? That's a great idea. Yes, I think he would put it on. How do we get into contact with him? Someone needs to bankroll some ads showing how we can't trust the country of origin for our foods. That'll wake up a LOT of people.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 11, 2011 16:42:56 GMT -6
Calling Dylan Ratigan... would he put this on television?
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 11, 2011 7:21:41 GMT -6
Jacquelope, Is there another way to view this video? I'm having trouble with it. Oh it was supposed to be a joke. It's Wil Smith from "I, Robot" telling the female lead "I warned you about this" after the robots went on a rampage. We kinda warned these corporations that China would turn on them...
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 9, 2011 23:05:04 GMT -6
news.yahoo.com/insight-ten-years-american-business-rethinks-china-dreams-064103909.htmlInsight: Ten years on, American business rethinks China dreams By Paul Eckert and Stella Dawson | Reuters – 13 hrs ago ........... Now American business, lured a decade ago by the promise of a fast-growing Chinese middle class, is starting to shift gears and rethink what the China dream can deliver. Some chief executives are questioning whether the United States is pressing China hard enough to hold up its side of the bargain in joining the elite trade club. ...........
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 9, 2011 0:58:59 GMT -6
Now THERE is a balanced point of view. This guy is a straight talker, he's on my reading list now.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 9, 2011 0:57:15 GMT -6
Actually, considering that worker productivity has risen 400% since 1947 and pay has only gone up 100%, 700 billion is one HELL of an understatement. IMHO.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 5, 2011 4:09:00 GMT -6
Large majorities of Americans fail basic statistics.
Only 1% of Americans can reach the top 1%. They don't call it 1% for a reason.
If everyone becomes rich a lot of people will get smacked right down again by INFLATION.
Spudbuddy hit it dead on the mark.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 5, 2011 4:07:29 GMT -6
Pfffft. How are they going to pay for all those jails?
Libya was even worse than that and they lost.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 4, 2011 21:36:09 GMT -6
Recessions vs. Depression A Republican ouster of Obama will do very little to change this. As various economists are baffled about 'why' the economy remains sluggish, their unwillingness to violate an increasingly absurd umbrella of 'political correctness' prevents them from seeing the blindlingly obvious root causes. We'll never recover, even with tremendous stimulus spending, until we greatly reduce imports into this country. You remember those retards on the Straight Dope forum? They were offering the suggestion of a BASIC INCOME GUARANTEE as a cure for this. Hope you weren't sipping coffee.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 3, 2011 5:31:46 GMT -6
They're running out of room in jail for all these people. Yes, for sure. Where are they going to put all those Occupy protestors? And where are they going to put all those "home-grown" terrorist suspects? Oh. Silly me. Of course. They'll send 'em to Guantanamo. They don't have any rights anyway, since they're all dangerous terrorists. That will come to include some soldiers who are Occupiers as well. I think they saw what comes of that in the case of Libya...
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 3, 2011 2:16:28 GMT -6
Betcha this guy would never summon the balls to try it. www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/12/01/bloomberg_articlesLVJAMK1A74E9.DTLFire Clarkson Over 'Shoot Strikers' Comments, Union Demands Thomas Penny, ©2011 Bloomberg News Thursday, December 1, 2011 (Updates with report of apology in fifth paragraph.) Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Television presenter Jeremy Clarkson should be dismissed by the British Broadcasting Corp. for saying public-sector workers who went on strike yesterday deserved to be shot in front of their families, the Unison labor union said. Clarkson, who is a personal friend of Prime Minister David Cameron and presents the "Top Gear" motoring show, attacked the strikers on the BBC's "One" program last night, saying: "I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families. How dare they go on strike?" Dave Prentis, the general secretary of Unison, Britain's biggest public-sector union, said today it's taking legal advice on whether it can sue Clarkson, who also has a column in News Corp.'s Sunday Times newspaper, and the BBC over the comments. "An apology is not enough; we are calling on the BBC to sack Jeremy Clarkson immediately," Prentis said in an e-mailed statement. "Such disgusting statements have no place on our TV screens." Clarkson later issued an apology for his remarks, the Press Association newswire reported. Members of 30 public-sector unions walked out yesterday to protest plans to make government employees retire later and contribute more to their pensions. The Trades Union Congress, the umbrella labor movement, said as many as 2 million workers took part. The government said participation was much lower. 'Fast Cars' "Jeremy Clarkson clearly needs a reminder of just who he is talking about," Prentis said. "Whilst he's driving round in fast cars for a living, public-sector workers are busy holding our society together -- they save others' lives on a daily basis, they care for the sick, the vulnerable, the elderly. They wipe bottoms, noses, they help children to learn, and empty bins. They deserve all our thanks, certainly not the unbelievable level of abuse he threw at them." The presenters of the show, which is broadcast live at 7 p.m. on weekday evenings, apologized for Clarkson's comments. "It was obviously a silly thing to say and I am sure he didn't mean that," Cameron said in an interview on ITV's "This Morning" show today.
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Post by jacquelope on Dec 1, 2011 12:53:10 GMT -6
They're running out of room in jail for all these people.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 29, 2011 0:29:38 GMT -6
Rhetorical question, of course.
Roosevelt's actions as President made Barack Obama look like Dick Cheney.
We need to start bringing up Roosevelt, big time.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 28, 2011 13:24:32 GMT -6
And again - most of what is considered high tech factory automation is mature technology - there haven't been any break throughs in the past ten years nor are there any on the immediate horizon that I am aware of I hope it stays that way because really, the Plutocrats' endgame strategy is to make workers completely unnecessary. Given their motives, it's only logical that they pursue that kind of goal. In the interim years, the captains of industry want to make it so that fewer workers are needed. Today they're just happy with not paying workers in proportion to the productivity increases created by current automation tech. We have to end that practice - and prepare for the next stage of their assault on workers.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 28, 2011 2:01:11 GMT -6
I keep telling people that we are either going to put up tariffs or the US dollar is going to collapse from all this debt we're racking up. Either way the era of mass imported goods is not sustainable.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 28, 2011 2:00:02 GMT -6
I would have never believed anyone was stupid enough to build new houses in this economy, but I saw a whole tract of them under construction just this last Friday. Absolutely. Totally. Un.be.lievable.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 28, 2011 1:56:59 GMT -6
That is all quite true, ULC - but the Plutocrats have a wet dream they've been pursuing that will change all of that, if they are successful.
They want fully automated factories. That means there are only 2 workers that they will need: a maintenance guy and a programmer, both of which can be brought in occasionally as contractors aka just-in-time employment. 99% of the time the factory of the Plutocracy's wet dream world will have no employees. Zip. Zero.
The goal of automation, in the hands of Plutocrats, is not reducing compensation for productivity increases. That's the short term. The long term goal is no human employees, period. What do we do then?
Ravi Batra is correct because that goal is unattainable for the near future. Machines augment humans today and cannot outright replace them. But what happens if machines totally replace humans in a factory? Is this possible?
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 27, 2011 20:08:56 GMT -6
Most of these "church going" Republicans are hypocrites. Their pastors refuse to denounce rampant greed, their vociferous and often downright virulent disdain for the poor is clearly denounced by Christ in the Bible, and the pedophiles... dear goodness gracious the sheer number of pedophiles. Not to mention Johns, bathroom stall tappers (hypocrites) and so on.
Let's not even talk about the megachurches and the money they waste on limos and giant church buildings. Where I came from churches were storefront-sized and often right there in former storefronts (like Los Angeles, the city is full of 20-person church gatherings renting former small store spaces).
Tons of Republicans may be going to church but their hypocrisy is like a wick burning slowly toward a karmic powder keg.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 27, 2011 14:00:32 GMT -6
So many flaws in the automation eliminating jobs arguments here are some comments on the subject I have made before but will repeat again There has been no break through automation technologies over the past decade that can begin to account for the staggering loss of manufacturing jobs. Robots, Lasers, PLCs, CNC, Servos, are all considered mature technologies and havent changed much in 20 years. While automation can eliminate some repetitive jobs, they also create jobs, programming, operating, maintaining, tooling, reparing and building the equipment - these are typically higher skill higher education jobs that require understanding of electronics, computers, fluid power and other engineering principles. The automation industry employs over 3 million people world wide according to Industry Week That has been true in the past. Very much so, in the past. However as you saw at Foxconn, they're about to replace a TON of workers with machines. Where are those workers going to find jobs?
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 27, 2011 13:56:02 GMT -6
It looks to me like there's not enough jobs to go around, period. College educated or not, there's not enough work for the number of people. Productivity gains and automation are starting to join in the game with outsourcing to put people out of work.
I'm telling you, it sounds far fetched, but the social darwinism mentality is at play here. Reducing the number of available jobs is the first step in determining who's a useless eater.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 26, 2011 22:22:24 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 22, 2011 22:15:51 GMT -6
Christians in Egypt were photographed standing around in a human chain to protect Muslims while they prayed. If only this kind of unity were to spread worldwide! The entire strategy of divide-and-conquer would fall apart!
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 22, 2011 12:06:28 GMT -6
My one question is: Are they going to try to sell them in the US? Of course.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 20, 2011 23:03:20 GMT -6
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