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How Trade Deals Boost the Top 1% and Bust the Rest | Robert Reich - 0 views
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Suppose that by enacting a particular law we'd increase the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. But almost all that growth would go to the richest 1 percent. The rest of us could buy some products cheaper than before. But those gains would be offset by losses of jobs and wages.This is pretty much what "free trade" has brought us over the last two decades.I used to believe in trade agreements. That was before the wages of most Americans stagnated and a relative few at the top captured just about all the economic gains.
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The biggest things big American corporations sell overseas are ideas, designs, franchises, brands, engineering solutions, instructions, and software.Google, Apple, Uber, Facebook, Walmart, McDonalds, Microsoft, and Pfizer, for example, are making huge profits all over the world.But those profits don't depend on American labor -- apart from a tiny group of managers, designers, and researchers in the U.S.
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According to Economic Policy Institute, the North American Free Trade Act cost U.S. workers almost 700,000 jobs, thereby pushing down American wages.
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OpEdNews - Article: The Golden Age of US Capitalism - 0 views
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"According to a recent study, from 2009 to 2012, 95 percent of all new income went to the top 1 percent. Meanwhile, since 1999, median family income declined by more than $5,000 after adjusting for inflation. Today, a record-breaking 46.5 million people live in poverty in the United States. At 21.8 percent, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world. One out of four of our kids now lives in a family that receives food stamps. "
Jesse Ventura - 1 views
Chart of who "owns" the Federal Reserve…once again… ;) | Project World Awareness - 2 views
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The two principal Rothschild representatives in New York, J. P. Morgan Co., and Kuhn,Loeb & Co. were the firms which set up the Jekyll Island Conference at which the Federal Reserve Act was drafted, who directed the subsequent successful campaign to have the plan enacted into law by Congress, and who purchased the controlling amounts of stock in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 1914.
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These firms had their principal officers appointed to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and the Federal Advisory Council in 1914.
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Examination of the charts and text in the House Banking Committee Staff Report of August, 1976 and the current stockholders list of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks show this same family control.
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Non-Hybrid Seeds | Non-Hybrid Vegetable Fruit Grain Herb Seeds - 0 views
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The Seed Vault is for emergency backup and 1 or 2-person use. The Family Pack is for larger family yards and seed storage. The Homestead and Farm Packs are for large properties, groups and investment-grade seed purchase. The Specialty Packs cover a wide variety of specialty needs. For an overview of Heirloom Organics Non-Hybrid Seed packs, see our seed pack comparison chart. If you are shopping seed suppliers, or are new to the subject on Non-Hybrid Seeds, read our guide: 7 Things You Should Know When Buying Non-Hybrid Seeds.
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Drying and Storing Herbs for Cooking Knowing what to do with an overabundance of unused herbs is a dilemma many of us encounter. Dealing with an extra supply of herbs on our hands does not only occur as we begin to hang up our gardening hat towards the end of the season. Read More >> Researchers Germinate 4,000-Year-Old Seed Announcing yesterday that a 4,000-year-old seed that was found during an archaeological dig in the Aegean city of Kütahya has germinated, Professor Nejat Bilgen from Dumlupinar University said that being able to analyze the characteristics of plants from centuries ago would be a scientific breakthrough. Read More >>
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Peter and Lou Berryman on Vimeo - 0 views
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"Solidarity Forever" When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run, There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun; Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one, But the union makes us strong. CHORUS: Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, Solidarity forever, For the union makes us strong. Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite, Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might? Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight? For the union makes us strong. Chorus It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade; Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid; Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made; But the union makes us strong. Chorus All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone. We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone. It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own. While the union makes us strong. Chorus They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn That the union makes us strong. Chorus In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold. We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old For the union makes us strong.
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Daily Kos: Kathy Nickolaus in Waukesha forgot to save? Really? - 0 views
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Nickolaus says repeatedly that she imported the data into Access, but through a process of "human error", she "forgot to save". Then come the tears, repeatedly, throughout her presser. Here's the problem. Microsoft Access (any version) doesn't ask you to save. When you enter data into a table, it automatically updates the underlying database. If you close the database accidentally, the data you entered (or imported, in the case of Nickolaus) remains. If you stop to take a phone call from your buddy the governor (for example), your data will still automatically save.
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Bottom line: Nickolaus is clearly lying. Not only did she insist on having her own private system based on some of the most unsecure, pedestrian computing technology available (Seriously? Access and Excel controlling such an important part of our democracy?), but she apparently assumes that nobody else has ever used Microsoft Access.
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On an almost daily basis, I recommend to my business users to avoid Microsoft Access, due to the almost complete lack of security and auditing within the tool. It's good for keeping track of your grocery list, perhaps. But not an election. It's difficult to imagine being any worse at stealing an election and lying about it. Honestly.
We're Not Broke: Congress -Here's $400 Billion In New Annual Revenue « SpeakEasy - 0 views
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Congress has blown holes in our tax code, losing hundreds of billions in revenue. Worse, lawmakers have averted their eyes as corporate lobbyists drill new tax loopholes and extract new corporate welfare subsidies.
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How else can we explain how a profitable company like General Electric pays no taxes?
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Other huge global companies such as Verizon, Boeing, ExxonMobil, and Bank of America also pay no taxes.
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Archives - Progressive Radio Network - 0 views
Yes, Islam condones wife beatings - 0 views
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"Recently, Marvin Levant (Dec. 28), Steve Harris (Dec. 30), Syed Soharwardy (Jan. 2), and Riazuddin Ahmed (Jan. 5) debated Islam through the forum of the Herald's letters to the editor. The issue of wife beating and gender inequality in Islam has become convoluted and highly controversial as many Muslims try to sugar-coat the ugly truths and others try to shed some light on the issue. Soharwardy's statement that "Beating one's wife is not only wrong, it is criminal and completely un-Islamic" is incorrect. The Qur'an says that "men are in charge of women because Allah has made one of them (men) to excel the other (women), thus man's superiority over women . . . good women are the obedient ones . . . admonish the rebellious women and banish them, and scourge them (whip them severely to inflict pain) (4:34) . . . smote them (hit or strike with the hand or with a weapon causing pain, beat them . . . (4:62)". Islam does not recognize gender equality. For example, polygamy is accepted in Islam, but polyandry is not. A woman's testimony is considered half as worthy as a man's in court; a son inherits twice as much as a daughter does. Muslim men may marry Muslim, Jewish or Christian women, but Muslim women can marry only Muslim men. In short, sharia law leads to the inhuman treatment of Muslim women by their husbands and others, especially in South Asia and the Middle East. Higher education is emphasized more for sons than for daughters; in cultural honour killings, almost always women are the target for murder. Under sharia, divorced Muslim women get custody of their sons under eight years of age and daughters until puberty, and then the fathers take the children away. Sharia enabled one of the worst fundamentalists, the vile and ruthless military dictator, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, to put more than 15,000 rape victims in jail because they could not comply with the absurd Islamic condition requiring them to have numerous male witnesses of their victimization. They were char
LITERATURE TABLE - 0 views
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Food Not Bombs without literature and a banner is just another charity supporting the current system of exploitation
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Food Not Bombs can be one of the most effective ways to encourage public support for peace, social justice and the protection of the environment
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we are often the only activists visible to our communities.
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Jim Hightower | Republicans Give Government Back to Their Corporate Paymasters - 0 views
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You see, the people he's giving the government back to are not tea partiers, but the rapacious corporate lobbyists who ran the Congress during the years when former Majority Leader Tom DeLay ran the show.
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In recent years, he has formed unusually tight legislative, political and even social ties with a group of lobbyists for such giants as Citigroup, Coors, Goldman Sachs, Google and R.J. Reynolds.
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Boehner had a private meeting with a flock of top corporate lobbyists to help shape "a new GOP agenda
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For many, a nurse practitioner is The doctor - 0 views
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During the past five years, the number of nurse practitioners in the United States has increased by nearly 40 percent, to 125,000, according to estimates by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Arizona's rate of growth has been slower in recent years, but since 2000, the number has jumped by 46 percent, to 3,000 practitioners, which is faster than population growth. The trend is being driven in large part by a shortage of primary-care doctors or general-practice physicians, medical experts say. Although most nurse practitioners work in settings supervised by physicians, more are striking out on their own, opening and staffing their own clinics apart from doctors. That has generated some controversy in the medical community, as physicians worry about the risk of misdiagnosis if NPs don't work collaboratively with licensed physicians.
America: No Vacation Time For You | NEWS JUNKIE POST - 0 views
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In the richest country in the world, there is no right to any vacation time
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In most other wealthy nations, there are between 20-35 vacation days per year (4-7 weeks).
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1 in 4 private-sector workers in the US do not receive any paid vacation or paid holidays
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Tax Retirement Fund - TRF - How to End Taxation - 0 views
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MichiganJudges Retirement ServicesMichigan Office of Retirement ServicesMichigan Public School Employees Retirement SystemMichigan Treasury/Michigan Bureau of InvestmentsOffice of Retirement SystemsPublic School Employees Retirement SystemRetirement Systems of the City of DetroitState Employees Retirement SystemState Police Retirement Board
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Prisoner Advocate Elaine Brown on Georgia Prison Strike: "Repression Breeds Resistance" - 0 views
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four prisons in Georgia remain in lockdown five days after prisoners went on strike
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Using cell phones purchased from guards, the prisoners coordinated the nonviolent protests to stage the largest prison strike in U.S. history.
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reports of widespread violence and brutality by the guards against the prisoners on strike
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