#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Cantor's con would steal workers' overtime pay http://www.jimhightower.com/node/8035#.UZ1uDqL7JaY Little Eric Cantor, the prancing political prissy who serves as the GOP's House majority leader, apparently thinks he's too slick to get caught in an outright legislative lie – or maybe he thinks we rubes are too dumb to figure out that he's trying to slick us. Either way, a crude deceit is at the very heart of his “Working Families Flexibility Act,” which he recently slid through the House. It eliminates a central piece of America's middle-class framework, namely the 8-hour workday and 40-hour week. Under the 1938 Fair Labor Law, bosses can make hourly employees work extra, but only by paying an overtime wage for the …http://www.twitpic.com/csi5b2
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Kinsley loves austerity because it is “spinach” http://www.salon.com/2013/05/17/kinsley_loves_austerity_because_it_is_spinach/ The liberal pundit supports a worthless international initiative So the other day Paul Krugman had a long, very good piece in the New York Review of Books on the arguments and flawed research used to justify austerity measures, and why the notion that it’s necessary for countries to “pay” for booms and expansionary fiscal policy with spending-slashing measures in the midst of recessions has so much appeal to certain elites. And in this month’s New Republic, former editor Michael Kinsley responds to Krugman’s anti-austerity crusade with a very poorly argued piece about how even though austerity has been a disaster basi…http://www.twitpic.com/cs25y3
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] Taibbi Joins Rich Eisen's Podcast http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/taibbi-joins-rich-eisens-podcast-20130501 Checking off a long-desired Bucket List entry, I joined up with the legendary Rich Eisen of the NFL Network on his podcast on NFL.com yesterday. Rich, who logged an awesome 27 hours on-air over three days last week covering the NFL draft, had me on to talk not only about my “NFL Draft Decoded III” piece from last week, but also about the coverage of the draft and the tension between Twitter and the TV networks in the reporting, a new issue that has ramifications beyond sports (and was felt among other places in the marathon bombing coverage)…. RELATED: http://richeisen.nfl.com/2013/04/30/rich-eisen-podcast-charles-davis-and-matt-taibbi/http://www.twitpic.com/cnolgx
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty On 10th Anniversary, Working America Sets ‘50 in 5’ Goal http://blog.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/On-10th-Anniversary-Working-America-Sets-50-in-5-Goal Working America, the AFL-CIO’s more than 3 million-member community affiliate for people without unions, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, Working America tomorrow will unveil its “50 in 5” initiative to expand into all 50 states in five years, as well as new efforts to organize workers at their workplaces. Says Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum: “Every day, we talk to people struggling to support their families or piece together a living with their current jobs. These are people who want to see changes in their communities or on the job. This expansion al…”…http://www.twitpic.com/ck3ep9
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty America’s Unions Ensuring Immigration Reform Is Not ‘If’ but ‘When’ http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/America-s-Unions-Ensuring-Immigration-Reform-Is-Not-If-but-When Recently, the bipartisan group of senators—known as the “Gang of Eight”—who are crafting immigration legislation in Congress signed off on yet another piece of the reform puzzle: a mechanism for new workers to come to the United States regardless of whether they have family living here or the ability to qualify for one of the existing visa programs. Related: http://www.voxxi.com/american-unions-immigration-reform/http://www.twitpic.com/cih8wr
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Artists stand united against war in exhibition http://www.icenews.is/2013/03/21/artists-stand-united-against-war-in-exhibition/ A new exhibition at the Holstebro museum called KRIG, KUNST OG DANMARK (War, Art and Denmark) aims to shake the average Dane out of complacency and examine the bloody truths of war through the realms of art. This exhibition throws up strong images for an audience to take away. One of the more provocative ensembles include a 15-portrait piece of various Danish political leaders with mangled, bloodied, distorted faces. Foreign Minister Villy Søvndal sports a shredded face haemorrhaging blood in one piece while former PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen wears a grotesque injury in the eye in another. The exhibition is sometime observ…http://www.twitpic.com/cee2q9
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty At Least We're Not Measles: Rationalizing Drone Attacks Hits New Low http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/at-least-were-not-measles-rationalizing-drone-attacks-hits-new-low-20130214 Read an absolutely amazing article today. Entitled “Droning on about Drones,” it was published in the online version of Dawn, Pakistan's oldest and most widely read English-language newspaper, and written by one Michael Kugelman, identified as the Senior Program Associate for South Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. In this piece, the author's thesis is that all this fuss about America's drone policy is overdone and perhaps a little hysterical. Yes, he admits, there are some figures that suggest that as many as 900 civilians have been killed in drone s…http://www.twitpic.com/c3sl1b
#union #iww #ows #occupy #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot The “Beckinization” of the far right http://www.jimhightower.com/node/7944#.UQYCTx26paY Perhaps you thought that, surely, the far right wing in American politics couldn't get any nuttier. If so, you clearly hadn't factored in Glenn Beck. Since losing his glory-spot as a Fox-TV yackety-yacker, Beck has been less visible, but no less busy, continuing to promote himself as leader of the political wacky, and still delighting them as the P.T. Barnum of conspiracy theories. His hottest-selling shtick in recent months is a piece of fear mongering about an entity that few other people in the world consider at all fearsome: The United Nations. “Agenda 21,” wails the Beckster on his subscription-TV show and other forums, re…http://www.twitpic.com/bywakg
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Hands off our heritage: Some wary of China's reach http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/Hands-off-our-heritage-Some-wary-of-China-s-reach-4110433.php Life in this French village revolves around wine. The backyards of its tidy houses nurture the grapes that have made Burgundy famous the world over. At an auto repair shop, everyone seems to have an opinion about the recent sale of a local vineyard to a Macau casino magnate. “It's a piece of French heritage that's heading abroad,” says mechanic Bertrand Babouhot. Across the road, rows of gnarled vines lead to the rundown chateau that was sold. “It's like selling the Eiffel Tower to the Americans.” On the other side of the globe, farmer Margaret Peacock expresses similar outrage over the sale of 13 dairy farms in N…http://www.twitpic.com/blgr67
#union #iww #ows #p2 #tlot #tcot Overdose Antidote: What The Government Doesn't Do, And What You Can http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2012/11/opioid-overdose-naloxone You hear a lot these days about the national epidemic of painkiller overdoses. What you don’t hear so much about is what you can do to respond to those overdoses when they happen, much as we learn about CPR or defibrillators for heart attacks. In an opinion piece just out in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Northeastern University assistant professor of law and health sciences Leo Beletsky and his co-authors argue that the government should do far more to enable the public to fight overdoses. Why doesn’t it? And what can each of us do? He explains here. By Leo Beletsky …http://www.twitpic.com/bfkcy0