October 18, 2012

WalMart, strikes, unions, wages etc.

Nice bit of writing in the following article:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/category/social-policy

October 2, 2012

French researcher answers the critics of his Gm research

The article and the comments are a bit long, but well worth reding:

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/271-38/13715-study-linking-monsanto-corn-to-cancer-must-be-taken-seriously-by-regulators

September 21, 2012

"Legit" and big local media stalls in reporting on MN

ALEC voter restrictions. These restrictions will prove costly and possibly impossible to enforce.


One edit: Seriously how will any small community of less than six thousand people be able to come up with $ 720,00 ? Especially in this economy...

Where is the Democratic leadership on this? Why does Dem leadership continually have their heads in the sand? I have been thinking "collusionary" for many years now.

Read this and weep:

http://phoenixwoman.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/the-strib-finally-joins-outstate-minnesota-papers-in-noticing-the-huge-costs-and-problems-of-alecs-voter-id-amendment/

September 19, 2012

Washington State - its Supreme Court states that foreclosures are to be banned

If they occur under MERS -- this is a significant ruling.


Remember, during the Great Depression, 35 states forbade the foreclosure on the primary residence of any individual or family. If only our modern day state legislatures were not owned by the Big Financial Firms.

I expect the case will be appealed to the SCOTUS, where our ever loving corporate-owned judicial members (of both parties) will overturn said ruling.

But let's rejoice in this just a little today:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/08/washington-supreme-court-issues-mers-smackdown.html

September 17, 2012

Merrill Brokers get award - judge vacates objections from BoA

This is not good news for Bank of America. Merrill Lynch brokers legally entitled to get their 10 million bucks, for their severance bennies from the firm when it was acquired by BoA. WIth the decision being in favor of the two brokers, other Merrill brokers will be going forward with insisting that BoA pony up.

And of course, BoA is on the hook for the lawsuits as well. Only relief is when the statues of limitations come into play - which could be a full six years from the date of acquisition.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-merrill-lynch-rulingbre88g1ef-20120917,0,5042785.story

September 7, 2012

Darth Vader, Math heads upset Einstein's field theory.

New calculations relating to dark matter brought by a Chinese mathematician and a UI mathematician adjust science's Big Old Relativity Equation.

But what will physicists say about all this?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120906092059.htm

From the article:

Wang said negative energy produces attraction while the positive energy produces a repelling force fundamentally different from the four forces -- gravity, electromagnetism, the weak interaction and the strong interaction -- recognized in physics today.
"Most importantly, this new energy and the new field equations offer a unified theory for both dark energy and dark matter, which until now have been considered as two totally different beasts sharing only 'dark' in name," he said. "Both dark matter and dark energy can now be represented by the sum of the new scalar potential energy density and the coupling energy between the energy-momentum tensor and the scalar potential field."
The negative part of this sum represents the dark matter, which produces attraction, and the positive part represents the dark energy, which drives the acceleration of expanding galaxies, he said.
"In a nutshell, we believe that new gravity theory will change our view on energy, gravitational interactions, and the structure and formation of our universe," Wang said.

August 29, 2012

Another warning about the analysis of "yet another glitch" in the ACA

Apparently, when the government is deciding if your family needs a subsidy or not to afford your health insurance, that evaluation will only examine if the person in the household working for the company can afford that insurance.

So if you work for a large employer, and they have decent health insurance, and for you as an individual, it is affordable, but not if you add in the three kids and the spouse.

As the ACA is now written, the examination that is made only looks at whether as an individual your salary can offer you the means to pay.

We really need to be shouting about this to any and all Congress critters that want our vote. Especially any that mention how decent a thing their vote for the ACA happened to be.

Please visit the URl to read the entire discussion:
http://www.healthcare-now.org/a-glitch-in-health-care-reform

August 29, 2012

Desmond Tutu refuses to share stage with Blair -

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2012/08/28-5

He is the man of the hour, as far as I can tell.

If you read the above article, make sure you read the comments as well.

My hat is off to you Mr. Tutu.

On edit: And how totally cool is it - this OP is my 25K post here on DU (May 2005, to now)

Glad the subject is worthy of my milestone.

August 28, 2012

So you know how horrified Republicans are about voter fraud?

The issue being - we really can't let people vote in an illegal manner -

Well here's a nice BWAHAHAHAHA!!

In the June primary in Wisconsin,it seems that something must have been in the drinking water, because some rather elite Republicans got caught in attempting to vote fraudulently.

So maybe we should support the Republican meme that voter fraud is not that unusual - but remind them:

it's people in their party that are doing it.

From the Bradblog article, here is the full report:
http://addins.wkow.com/blogs/scoop/2012/08/lawmakers-wife-casts-vote-while-idaho-resident


On edit - apology that at first I had a different voting issue story up instead of the one about Wisconsin election fraud.

August 19, 2012

He posted about "revolution" on FB - now he is held by NDAA

Provisions:

http://www.businessinsider.com/brandon-raub-marine-911-detained-2012-8