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Post by jacquelope on Nov 19, 2011 20:01:29 GMT -6
Apparently the forum was made 5 years and 4 days ago.
Congrats on still being around!
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 18, 2011 11:08:41 GMT -6
Arizona Supreme Court Overturns Gov. Jan Brewer's Removal Of Redistricting Chair www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/jan-brewer-redistricting_n_1100595.htmlThe Arizona Supreme Court dealt Republican Gov. Jan Brewer a blow Thursday, overturning her decision to oust the chairwoman of the state's independent redistricting commission. The Arizona Republic reported that the court found that Brewer's removal of Colleen Coyle Mathis did not meet state constitution guidelines. Brewer removed Mathis on Nov. 2, with the consent of the Republican-controlled Senate, for holding too many secret meetings and for drafting a map that Brewer said did not meet guidelines for compact districts and keeping together "communities of interest." In court papers, Brewer had argued that Mathis did not use a grid format, as specified in the state constitution, for creating the districts. In addition, Brewer argued that Mathis, a registered independent from Tucson, did not disclose her husband's involvement in the campaign of a Democratic state legislator in her application for the commission. Brewer's spokesman said it is possible that the governor could seek Mathis' removal at a future date.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 18, 2011 11:07:33 GMT -6
That was intended to send a message to future dictators. Instead, when they gang raped the third one, it made the rebels look just as bad as Moammar himself. The worst part is, without a trial and the discovery of evidence that comes with it, we have no hope of really knowing if these women really were his bodyguards.
But we Americans can hardly claim much moral high ground - here we would put those women on trial, but when we throw them in prison with other women - we decline to even care that women prisoners rape each other more often than male ones. And worse than forgetting it, many Americans even make jokes about prison rape or say "she or he deserves to get raped in prison".* (Hell in America some people even legally make and sell female prison rape porn, how's that for trivializing?)
* I'm guilty of that one, too.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 17, 2011 23:01:59 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 17, 2011 22:51:51 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 17, 2011 13:58:39 GMT -6
and helped by OWS protesters. Honestly? I wouldn't have lifted a finger. Let them get beaten by their Plutocrat Masters' minions. It builds character and teaches important life lesson about what happens when you bow down before evil people. thinkprogress.org/special/2011/11/17/371349/reporters-for-right-wing-publication-daily-caller-beaten-by-nypd-helped-by-protesters/The right-wing Daily Caller website has been anything but kind to Occupy Wall Street, even going so far as to condemn the protest movement as generating riots, murder, and arson. But when a couple of Daily Caller employees were at Occupy Wall Street this morning, it was the very protesters they had been demonizing who ended up helping them out. Daily Caller reporter Michelle Fields — who faced off with actor Matt Damon earlier this year over education policy — and videographer Direna Cousins both claim they were attacked by the New York Police Department (NYPD) while covering the raucous protests in the Financial District today. Fields added that Occupy Wall Street protesters immediately came up to her to offer their help...
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 16, 2011 10:48:34 GMT -6
Just a thought, but maybe their tech club could start making the hard drives themselves--and making some extra money while doing so. Manufacturing hard drives is an extremely complicated task requiring a very high tech fabrication system - not something that a tech club of any sort can acquire under just about any non-corporate level budget. Modern hard drives include a lot of nanotech-level manufacturing.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 16, 2011 10:09:58 GMT -6
the class war has been lost a very long time. The 1% is fully protected by govt, they own the airwaves, they control the authorities. The OWS crowd is america's last gasp at righting the ship and it will not happen violence free I am afraid. The ongoing assault against the 99% has been continuous and successful. We the People........something thats been lost a very long time. Even OWS doesn't realize that the whole point is the slow, systemic starvation-to-death of the working class. The plutocracy wants to reduce the number of non-elite human beings to what they consider a "manageable" amount: a few useful peasants and "entertainers"(follow them to Thailand to get a CLEAR understanding of what I'm saying here - their "entertainment" zones in NYC recently got quite conspicuously busted by the cops). Everything they're doing, from killing workers' rights to getting rid of welfare, to their total negligence of the homeless and the deadly diseases spreading among them, is aimed at this purpose: death by deprivation and negligence. It's not that the Plutocracy doesn't care - it's that they're actively trying to wipe the working class out.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 16, 2011 1:58:41 GMT -6
How about a new child's song: "Oakland bridge is falling down, falling down... I like it. The song, that is, not the reality conveyed. If it falls down while absolutely no one but the Free Traitors are driving on it, I'd like the reality of it.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 15, 2011 4:22:57 GMT -6
How about a new child's song: "Oakland bridge is falling down, falling down... I'll take the long way around to SF, thankyouverymuch
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 14, 2011 8:48:14 GMT -6
Obama makes a strong statement at China but what are the odds that he'll back them up?
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 14, 2011 8:45:51 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 8, 2011 22:48:28 GMT -6
Hoorah. Is Wisconsin's Scott Walker next? www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/08/ohio-issue-2-_n_1083100.htmlOhio voters rejected Issue 2, a ballot referendum on Senate Bill 5, a measure that restricts collective bargaining rights for more than 360,000 public employees, among other provisions. Opposition to the legislation inspired large protests from residents around the state this year.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 8, 2011 14:17:46 GMT -6
LOL how about American companies hiring the American engineers we have now?
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 5, 2011 6:06:34 GMT -6
You are NOT ready for this. Finish drinking your Pepsi and definitely be sitting down before you watch this.
If you have asthma or other pulmonary-related issues, do not continue or you may die laughing.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 4, 2011 10:33:26 GMT -6
The problem with dumping the Chinese crap into the ocean is the Ports are protected upon pain of FEDERAL prosecution.
That's going to take a rally of about 100,000 people. At that point the Federal courts will be unable to handle it... much less Federal prisons.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 4, 2011 10:30:19 GMT -6
They won't last much longer in office. If they do, their austerity dreams will result in economic collapse - the resulting anarchy will NOT be a good scenario for the Plutocrats.
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 3, 2011 10:29:05 GMT -6
www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers/CorporateTaxDodgersReport.pdfCompanies that paid no income taxes: Pepco Holdings General Electric Paccar PG&E Corp. Computer Sciences NiSource CenterPoint Energy Tenet Healthcare Atmos Energy Integrys Energy Group American Electric Power Con-way Ryder System Baxter International Wisconsin Energy Duke Energy DuPont Consolidated Edison Verizon Communications Interpublic Group CMS Energy NextEra Energy Navistar International Boeing Wells Fargo El Paso Mattel Honeywell International DTE Energy Corning
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 3, 2011 10:21:31 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Nov 3, 2011 5:02:24 GMT -6
Hey guys, I was there at the Occupy Oakland rally at the Port of Oakland.
LOTS of anti-offshoring folks there, man. TONS of people wanting to rebel against free trade.
If you look at the China currency votes in Congress you can see America is about to burst at the seams with opposition. And the Occupy movement has officially joined the fray, at least in Oakland we have.
Apparently the cops came and attacked a few hours after my wife and mine left, though.
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 30, 2011 11:35:43 GMT -6
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 30, 2011 0:18:52 GMT -6
I'm not sure what would stop China from stealing that technology and moving up the value chain to take those jobs.
We've always designed built-to-last in America. America moved away from that to the buy-every-three-years bullshit because of cheap labor. If we go back to built-to-last we'll just get smacked right down again by cheap foreign labor.
None of that is going to work unless you back it up with tariffs, or sit back and let cause-and-effect drive the US dollar down until foreign currencies make offshoring too expensive.
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 29, 2011 20:16:58 GMT -6
The government’s patronage of the bank was never clearer than in recent weeks, when B of A quietly decided to move trillions of dollars (trillions, not billions) in risky Merrill Lynch derivatives contracts off Merrill’s books and onto the books of the parent/retail arm, Bank of America. This decision was done at the behest of counterparties to those transactions, who wanted those contracts placed under the aegis of Bank of America, whose deposits are insured by the FDIC. The move was made, according to reports, so that Bank of America could avoid posting $3.3 billion in collateral to satisfy the company’s creditors. In other words, Bank of America just got You the Taxpayer to co-sign as much as $53 trillion worth of dicey derivative contracts. If B of A goes boom and requires a bailout, how much money might they need? How potentially big is this transplanted tumor that we're talking about? I'm no economist but I know the taxpayer tab can't be $53 trillion... can it?
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 27, 2011 0:12:36 GMT -6
Are these nurses aiming to do the same work as Primary Care doctors? I ask this because we have a big PC doctor shortage due to the fact that PC doctors earn far less than specialists. The only logical reason to increase the number of NPs is to fill in this gap.
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 26, 2011 20:18:05 GMT -6
The attorney representing the group says the protesters will fight on the grounds that their freedom of speech and assembly were violated.
Jam up the courts, man, jam up the courts!
I went to the Sacramento OWS protest twice, but the cops apparently chose another protest in this area to get tough.
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 25, 2011 21:20:33 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/25/novartis-layoffs-profit_n_1030137.htmlNovartis, Pharmaceutical Giant, Plans 2,000 Layoffs Despite Profit Increase GENEVA -- Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG said Tuesday it will cut 2,000 jobs as drug prices come under pressure from governments seeking to reduce health care budgets. Novartis, which posted a 7 percent increased third-quarter net profit of $2.49 billion Tuesday, said 1,100 jobs will disappear in Switzerland, with a further 900 to be cut in the United States. Some 700 new positions will be created in low-cost countries such as India and China, resulting in a net loss of 1,300 jobs. "The health care industry is facing a difficult external environment," Chief Executive Joseph Jimenez told reporters in a conference call. "The financial crisis has become a debt crisis and you've got governments around the world that are pushing down prices of pharmaceuticals and other health care products." Novartis shares fell 2 percent to 50.75 Swiss francs ($57.71) by late morning on the Zurich exchange. In Europe, prices had dropped by about 5 percent already this year, with no end in sight, said Jimenez. "We can't absorb these price cuts without taking action." He said Novartis remains better placed than many of its rivals to weather the price cuts as reimbursements from government entities only account for 55 percent of its sales, compared with an average of 80-90 percent among peers. The Basel-based company plans to shut two manufacturing sites in Switzerland, transferring production to other locations or to third parties. Some research and development jobs in Switzerland and the United States also will be outsourced, resulted in estimated annual savings of over $200 million.
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 25, 2011 18:47:52 GMT -6
Alright. It has finally BEGUN. The riot police have no chance to stop this now.
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 25, 2011 0:50:36 GMT -6
Overwhelm the jails. Completely jam up law enforcement.
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 24, 2011 16:34:22 GMT -6
Pretty good voting record. Interestingly enough, his name wasn't listed on the previous list of those voting against the Korean Free Trade Agrievance. Oh, classic mistake on my part, you can find his voting record here: www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=27110Look up 'trade'. Edit: Oh I see, NV must mean no vote, not No
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Post by jacquelope on Oct 24, 2011 9:55:32 GMT -6
Has anyone noticed Sanders' voting record regarding trade as of late?
10/18/2011 Repeals Funding for Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms: NO
10/12/2011 Free Trade Agreement with Korea: NO
10/12/2011 Trade Promotion Agreement with Panama: NO
10/12/2011 Trade Promotion Agreement with Colombia: NO
10/11/2011 Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Act of 2011: YES[/b]
09/22/2011 Extends Trade Adjustment Assistance: YES
02/04/2009 Removing the Buy American Clause: NO
07/22/1998 Disapproval of 'Normal Trade Relations' Status with China: YES
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