#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Some Retailers Rethink Role in Bangladesh http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/business/some-retailers-rethink-their-role-in-bangladesh.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 Ever since a building with garment factories collapsed in Bangladesh last week, killing more than 400 people, Western apparel companies with ties to the country have scrambled to address public concerns about working conditions there. Benetton repeatedly revised its accounts of goods produced at one of the factories, while officials at Gap, the Children’s Place and other retailers huddled to figure out how to improve conditions, and some debated whether to remain in Bangladesh at all. At least one big American company, however, had already decided to leave the country — pushed by the last devastating disaster, a fire just …http://www.twitpic.com/cnpeae
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Boston blasts rekindle terrorism fears in U.S. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/16/world/boston-blasts-rekindle-terrorism-fears-in-u-s/#.UW39T6L7JaY No claim of responsibility for attack on marathon; three dead, more than 140 hurt; two bombs defused Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the attack is being treated as an act of terrorism. President Barack Obama, speaking from the White House, pointedly avoided using the words terror or terrorism, saying officials…http://www.twitpic.com/cjvlkn
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty How Do We Control Rising Health Care Costs? It's Medicare, Stupid http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Economy/How-Do-We-Control-Rising-Health-Care-Costs-It-s-Medicare-Stupid Americans overspend 0 billion in health care each year. One-fifth of our economy enriches very few at the expense of everyone else. Labs, drug companies, medical device makers, hospital administrators and purveyors of CT scans, MRIs, canes and wheelchairs are some of the entities and people reaping the financial rewards by gaming the health care system, writes Time magazine's Steven Brill in a fascinating, in-depth look at why health care prices are just “too damn high” in Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. Brill says too often in the health care debate, we argue over who should pay. …http://www.twitpic.com/c5r648
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty The Devil You Know: Apple and Slave Labor http://thebigslice.org/the-devil-you-know-apple-and-slave-labor/ US Uncut: ”Take a group of people and force them to live on your property. Pay them a hundred dollars a month to work 60 hours a week. Take over half of that hundred in required rent and monopolized food and supplies to those people. Give them buckets to wash their clothes. Create an environment that is such a hell that people are killing themselves to get out. Sound like slavery? Sounds like Apple.” Thanks to The Pragmatic Progressive Page ://thebigslice.org/the-devil-you-know-apple-and-slave-labor/http://www.twitpic.com/c57v3k
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty [VIDEO] Beck: Dorner part of a ‘radical left’ conspiracy for ‘oppressive government’ http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/13/beck-dorner-part-of-a-radical-left-conspiracy-for-oppressive-government/ Conservative radio host Glenn Beck explained to his audience on Tuesday that ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner’s killing spree was part of a plan by “radical progressives” to create an “oppressive government.” As San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies were facing off against the suspect holed up in a mountain cabin on Tuesday afternoon, Beck took to his Internet show to point to a Facebook page with “thousands of likes” as evidence that “the left is actually supporting Dorner.” “It’s not tea parties, it’s the progressive people,” he asserted. “We know, as we have …http://www.twitpic.com/c3tl5n
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p2b #tlot #tcot Justice Department Memo Reveals Legal Case For Drone Strikes On Americans http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/04/justice-department-memo-r_n_2619220.html NBC News: A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” — even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to attack the U.S. Read the whole story at NBC Newshttp://www.twitpic.com/c0zxiz
#job #union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #tlot #tcot Militants Occupy BP Gas Complex in Algeria http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2013/01/16/algeria-8-foreigners-kidnapped-at-gas-plant Islamist militants attacked and occupied a natural gas field partly operated by BP in southern Algeria early Wednesday, killing two people and holding foreigners hostage while surrounded by Algerian forces. A militant group claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for Algeria's support of France's operation against al-Qaida-linked Malian rebels groups far to the southeast. It said it was holding dozens of foreigners hostage. In a statement BP said the site was “attacked and occupied by a group of unidentified armed people,” and some of its personnel are believed to be “held by the occupiers.” The n…http://www.twitpic.com/bw3kub
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Poland asks EU to pressure Moscow for Smolensk wreckage http://www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/article.php/23133/news Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Monday he asked EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton to formally raise the issue with Russia next week, at an EU-Russia summit in Brussels, concerning the return of the wreckage of the plane that crashed in Russia in 2010, killing President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others. Since then Russia has failed to return the wreckage. Sikorski said he raised the issue last week with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov but did not get any information from him on when the wreckage might be returned. Tu-154 plane carrying a delegation of senior Polish officials, who were …http://www.twitpic.com/bkx9ey
Secret laws, secret courts, secret surveillance, secret prisons, secret killing #p2 #tcot #OWShttp://www.twitpic.com/alzs7z
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot #bub A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/04/letter-kathryn-bigelow-zero-dark-thirty By peddling the lie that CIA detentions led to Bin Laden's killing, you have become a Leni Riefenstahl-like propagandist of torture The Hurt Locker was a beautiful, brave film; many young women in film were inspired as they watched you become the first woman ever to win an Oscar for directing. But with Zero Dark Thirty, you have attained a different kind of distinction. Your film Zero Dark Thirty is a huge hit here. But in falsely justifying, in scene after scene, the torture of detainees in “the global war on terror”, Zero Dark Thirty is a gorgeously-shot, two-hour ad for keeping intelligence a…
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot #bub A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty's apology for torture http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/04/letter-kathryn-bigelow-zero-dark-thirty By peddling the lie that CIA detentions led to Bin Laden's killing, you have become a Leni Riefenstahl-like propagandist of torture The Hurt Locker was a beautiful, brave film; many young women in film were inspired as they watched you become the first woman ever to win an Oscar for directing. But with Zero Dark Thirty, you have attained a different kind of distinction. Your film Zero Dark Thirty is a huge hit here. But in falsely justifying, in scene after scene, the torture of detainees in “the global war on terror”, Zero Dark Thirty is a gorgeously-shot, two-hour ad for keeping intelligence a…http://www.twitpic.com/btnhq3