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Southern Avenger - Are Tea Partiers Racist?
How does that video prove anything?
I see an executive for a large corporation calling the union racist. It seems a little odd, and more than a little suspicious, considering the number of minority members in that union. Far more likely the veep was just looking for something nasty to say, in an attempt to keep the workers divided. You know, like claiming that workers having a -choice- between secret ballots and card checks somehow weakens workers rights.
Maddow Exposes Fake Protesters At Health Care Town Halls
>> ^Lolthien:
>> Okay, you are much less an informed person than WP..
You're saying that because I disagree with you, which is a rather silly thing to say, since you're wrong.
1. 'read a poll sometime' I have just as many polls available saying middle class people approve of healthcare reform as I have polls that say the opposite. Also, no polls anywhere refer to 'Obamacare'.
That word just shows you have very little original thought and are using regurgitated Fox News drivel to argue against something you haven't bothered to inform yourself about.
What an amazingly powerful argument. The possibility hasn't suggested itself to you that 1) I don't watch Fox News (except at the gym, which is all that they have on), 2) I have informed myself as much as possible about the issue, 3) I think Obamacare is the perfect name for it, and 4) I have read the polls, and people don't support it. Hell, the NYT showed 70% of people were worried about Obamacare. Not that it matters to Rachel Maddow, since all those people must be part of the Republican Secret Masters of the Earth organization.
2. I have to challenge you to submit evidence that she said anything about ending secret ballots being pro-labor, and also challenge you to present evidence that the Employee Free Choice act does nothing besides end secret ballots.
3. I submit that you, sir, are a troll of rather poor talent.
Pot, Kettle.
She said the EFCA was a pro-labor bill, when it is anything but. If she had said it was a pro-union bill, then yes, absolutely true.
There's a good summary of why it is anti-labor here:
http://www.heritage.org/research/labor/bg2027.cfm
(And yes, I know the Heritage foundation is right-wing, but it's a good summary of why the bill is bad for workers.)
Maddow Exposes Fake Protesters At Health Care Town Halls
EFCA does *not* eliminate secret ballot elections.
"The Employee Free Choice Act preserves "secret ballot" elections, but also ensures that workers, not CEOs, decide whether to form a union at work through "majority sign-up." Right now, even when a majority of employees in a workplace sign cards saying they want to form a union and have them certified by the federal agency that oversees labor law, the company can decide that workers have to do it all again months later by forcing them to hold an election."
Maddow Exposes Fake Protesters At Health Care Town Halls
>> ^ShakaUVM:
She's also kind of wrong about middle class people being upset about Obamacare. Read a poll some time.
She also claims the Employee Free Choice act is "pro-labor". What? Ending the secret ballot for working people in Unions is, quote, "Pro-Labor?" She's either an idiot, or ridiculously uninformed.
Maddow? "Smart"? Give me a break.
Okay, you are much less an informed person than WP..
1. 'read a poll sometime' I have just as many polls available saying middle class people approve of healthcare reform as I have polls that say the opposite. Also, no polls anywhere refer to 'Obamacare'. That word just shows you have very little original thought and are using regurgitated Fox News drivel to argue against something you haven't bothered to inform yourself about.
2. I have to challenge you to submit evidence that she said anything about ending secret ballots being pro-labor, and also challenge you to present evidence that the Employee Free Choice act does nothing besides end secret ballots.
3. I submit that you, sir, are a troll of rather poor talent.
Maddow Exposes Fake Protesters At Health Care Town Halls
She's also kind of wrong about middle class people being upset about Obamacare. Read a poll some time.
She also claims the Employee Free Choice act is "pro-labor". What? Ending the secret ballot for working people in Unions is, quote, "Pro-Labor?" She's either an idiot, or ridiculously uninformed.
Maddow? "Smart"? Give me a break.
Rachel Maddow Show 3/9/09 - Employee Free Choice Act
Unions are not needed in the majority of businesses in the US. They are shrinking in the private sector and growing in government jobs. They add cost to a company without really adding value.
This act removes the power of the secret ballot. If a majority of workers agree to a union with a "card check" then a secret ballot is not required. So unions will utilize pressure and even dubious methods to obtain a simple majority so companies cannot request a secret ballot. A common dubious method is to simply use a "sign in sheet" for a meeting. They say, "sign in so we have a record of your visit." Unbeknown to the employee they just signed a "card check" and basically voted for the union.
This act makes it easier for unions to get in and harder to remove them. It is bad for America.
Siftquisition of Member ietest (Siftquisition by rasch187)
>> ^lucky760:
In actual trials are defendants first introduced to each member of the jury?
They're peers not because you know their name but because only peers have the ability to vote.
The concern isn't that they might not be peers, it's that if you're going to pull the trigger on banning someone temporarily, it's main purpose is to shame people into modifying their behavior, and putting faces (or at least avatars) to the vote enhances that effect.
If the vote is about permaban, I'd hope people were confident enough in their decision to put their name on it. If they have a personal conflict, they can go on record with an abstention.
Secret ballots have their place, I'm just not so sure a siftquisition is that place.
Russians mark Anna Politkovskaya's Murder
On August 28th 2007 it was announced that 10 people were arrested in connection to her murder:
- NYTIt was standard Soviet practice to blame any problems that occur within its borders on foreign influences in the past. The press brief went on to state the murders were designed to destabilize the political situation in Russia and blame the Kremlin for it. This is totally ridiculous considering that the only people to benefit from her death was the Kremlin and specifically Putin himself.
Alexander Litvinenko, the ex-FSB Lt.Col and dissident accused Vladimir Putin of personally ordering the assassination of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. He himself was poisoned on November 1st of 2006, via lethal dose of polonium-210. As of 26 January 2007, British officials said police had solved the murder of Litvinenko. They discovered "a 'hot' teapot at London's Millennium Hotel with an off-the-charts reading for polonium-210, the radioactive material used in the killing." In addition, a senior official said investigators had concluded the murder of Litvinenko was "a 'state-sponsored' assassination orchestrated by Russian security services.
Putin offered an example of that at the news conference when defending his decision last fall to abolish elections of regional governors. "The leaders of the regions of the Russian Federation will not be appointed by the president," he said. They will be approved by "regional parliaments, which are directly chosen by secret ballot." Putin compared this to the Electoral College, which selects U.S. presidents. "It is not considered undemocratic, is it?"
In fact, under the new system, Putin will appoint governors. His selections have to be ratified by regional legislatures, but if such a legislature rejects his choice twice, it will be dissolved. As for secret ballots, Russian regional leaders have proved adept at generating the outcomes they wish.
Anna Politkovskaya was just one of the dozens of reporters to meet their end during the reign of Putin, yet the press which is 80% state controlled dare not question the official line from Kremlin. She was murdered on October 7th 2006, which also happened to be Putin's birthday.
- Source http://www.pbs.org/
I watched the main prosecutors briefing on PTP Planet in Russian that morning. The rhetoric, method of presentation, hostile opposition to any questions by the press left no doubt in my mind that it was simply a political ploy to ease criticism of the Putin government with regards to the murders. Suddenly after years of inaction not one, but several murders are explained away neatly, however neither actual motives, names of other suspects nor any concrete evidence backing up the claims were presented.
For more on Russian subversion of democracy I recommend you check out my sift - http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Rise-of-Pro-Putin-Youth