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turbinetree's JournalThe Total Cost of Gun Violence, in 90 Seconds
FUCK YOU NRA, I HATE THE NRA and there lackeys
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/true-cost-of-gun-violence-in-america/
Think Your Job Is Safe From The Robot Invasion?
Reprinted with permission from Creators.
Industrial automatons have been on the march for years, devouring the middle-class job opportunities of factory workers. But this time is different.
If you think your family’s future is safe because you don’t rely on factory work, think again. Rapid advances in AI have already turned yesterday’s science fiction into today’s brave new “creative destruction” — the constant churn of economic and cultural innovations that destroy existing ways of doing things. A network of inventors and investors, hundreds of university engineering and math departments, thousands of government-funded research projects, countless freelance innovators and the entire corporate establishment are “re-inventing” practically every workplace by displacing humans with “more efficient” AI robots.
This mass-scale deployment of robots has already ushered in a whole new world of work. It’s a CEO’s capitalist paradise, where the workforce doesn’t call in sick or take vacations, can’t file lawsuits, doesn’t organize unions — and is cheap.
As a result, robots are rapidly climbing the pay ladder into white-collar and professional positions that millions of college-educated, middle-class employees have wrongly considered safe, including:
http://www.nationalmemo.com/think-job-safe-robot-invasion/
And has a aircraft inspector this is what is happening:
Is Betsy DeVos Winning Her War Against Public Schools?
Reprinted with permission from AlterNet.
If Betsy DeVos enjoys the occasional quaff of champagne on her private jet, the recent news that the Supreme Court is poised to deliver a knock-out blow to public sector unions presented a reason to celebrate. The announcement was made just hours before DeVos alit at Harvard last week, where she was the star attraction at a school choice conference. At Harvard’s Kennedy School, DeVos was met by one of the largest protests she has encountered to date: an all-ages demonstration vs just about everything Trump’s Secretary of Education has said and done during the past seven months. Inside, the event was tense, even hostile—another rocky outing in a tenure replete with them. Or at least that is the conventional wisdom.
Turning red
The latest Supreme Court case to take aim at unions, Janus vs AFSCME Council 31, got its start two years ago with a suit filed by yet another right-wing billionaire: Illinois’ Bruce Rauner. While it is framed by conservatives as a case about individual rights and freedom, the aptly named “Janus” is about politics and power. Public sector unions, among the only unions left at this point, provide the bank and the foot soldiers that get Democrats elected, and at their best they’ve spearheaded progressive causes that go far beyond the interests of their members. In Massachusetts, the teachers unions have been the driving force behind successful campaigns for a minimum wage hike, paid sick time for all workers, and are now pushing a tax on millionaires. The unions are also virtually the last organized defense of what’s left of our safety net—Social Security and Medicare; the right wants those next.
Just days before DeVos appeared at Harvard, she was back in Michigan, taking what was essentially a victory lap. She exhorted the crowd at a conservative gathering on Mackinac Island to pat themselves on the back for the Mitten State’s having gone Republican in the 2016 Presidential election—the first time since 1988. “We in Michigan have a lot to be proud of, but nothing more than that,” DeVos said. The story of just how the DeVoses pulled off the feat of turning Michigan red is long and ugly, involving mountains of cash, the steady erosion of representative democracy, and a decades-long effort to dismember the state’s once powerful teachers union: the Michigan Education Association.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/betsy-devos-winning-war-public-schools/
And just think in wisCONsin, if you stand up and protest, after the third time you get thrown out of the UW degree program you enrolled, gotta pay off the debt, and really see the effects of the "Animal Farm and 1984 " in real time, with a dose of the Dutch Reform Movement of a Ayn Rand coming to a college near you, attacking the very framework of what Thomas Jefferson wanted the country to have "PUBLIC EDUCATION
I hate republicans and religious fanatics
Here's How Breitbart And Milo Smuggled Nazi and White Nationalist Ideas Into The Mainstream
In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that "there's no room in American society" for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK.
But an explosive cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News proves that there was plenty of room for those voices on his website.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart courted the alt-right — the insurgent, racist right-wing movement that helped sweep Donald Trump to power. The former White House chief strategist famously remarked that he wanted In August, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville ended in murder, Steve Bannon insisted that "there's no room in American society" for neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates, and the KKK.
But an explosive cache of documents obtained by BuzzFeed News proves that there was plenty of room for those voices on his website.
During the 2016 presidential campaign, under Bannon’s leadership, Breitbart courted the alt-right — the insurgent, racist right-wing movement that helped sweep Donald Trump to power. The former White House chief strategist famously remarked that he wanted Breitbart to be “the platform for the alt-right.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.kcGZbvpRP5#.rkbjn4py6x
I HATE NAZI's and WHITE SUPREMACISTS----------------F*CK YOU
And has for Robert Mercer--------------why are there not laws on the books blocking these people from doing what they are doing......................no wonder this country is in a world of shit, this is not free market capitalism, this fascists at work
Trump Justice? A Preview of Cases in the Supreme Courts First Term in the Trump Era
Table of Contents
1) Voting Rights
2)Workers’ Rights / Corporate Power / Arbitration
3)Religious Liberty and Speech
4)Immigration
5)Privacy From Police Searches
6)Conclusion
The erosion of democratic norms we have already seen during the Trump era poses a significant threat to our system of government and the liberty it is supposed to protect. That makes it all the more important to stand up to threats to our fundamental rights and to our democratic form of government.
As the Supreme Court opens its new term, it does so in the shadow of an administration that has ignored or destroyed civic norms, brushed aside or encouraged racism and anti-Semitism, and regularly peddled falsehoods on a wide range of subjects.
Under our Constitution, the federal courts—especially the Supreme Court—should stand as a bulwark against threats to our democracy and our rights. However, the Court itself has been affected by the erosion of democratic norms. Throughout 2016, conservatives prevented the Senate from even considering President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat. As a result, the vacancy was available for President Trump to fill. Judge Neil Gorsuch was confirmed after the Senate majority changed the chamber’s rules to overcome the opposition to Gorsuch and make his confirmation possible.
The Supreme Court whose term begins October 2 is not the one it would be under ordinary democratic norms. Nevertheless, this is the Court that will be deciding cases that will be critical to protecting our democracy and our rights. Among the issues the Court is scheduled to address:
Is there any limit on a political party’s ability to gerrymander their opposition’s supporters and deprive them of the chance of winning elections?
Can corporations get around worker protection laws by forcing their employees to sign agreements waiving those protections?
Does the First Amendment create a constitutional right to discriminate against LGBTQ people?
Can immigration authorities detain immigrants indefinitely without a bond hearing?
Is President Trump’s Muslim immigration ban legal?
http://www.pfaw.org/report/trump-justice-a-preview-of-cases-in-the-supreme-courts-first-term-in-the-trump-era/
US Capitol Switchboard (202) 224-3121.
It is about the courts, it always has been and always be about the courts, the Constitution since it was written and the amendments that were ratified, everything centers around the courts...............we need to get out and vote
Trumps Texas Judicial Nominee Jeff Mateer Is Unfit to Serve
Just when you think Donald Trump’s judicial nominees can’t get any more extreme, along comes Jeff Mateer of Texas. Yesterday, CNN and Right Wing Watch reported on Mateer’s long history of extremism against LGBTQ people, including his assertion that transgender children are part of “Satan’s plan,” his defense of dangerously harmful “conversion therapy,” and his belief that allowing people to marry someone of the same sex would lead to allowing people to marry animals.
Mateer also spoke at a 2015 conference organized by right-wing extremist Kevin Swanson. As Right Wing Watch reported in 2015, before the event:
Swanson has called homosexuality a “death penalty crime” and defended a Ugandan measure to make homosexuality a criminal offense punishable by life imprisonment or the death penalty, saying he was glad the country was “standing strong” by adopting extreme anti-gay laws. He has said that it’s acceptable to attend a gay couple’s wedding only if you hold up a sign telling them they should be put to death.
Swanson was far from the only conference speaker who called for the execution of lesbians and gays. However, this did not deter Mateer from attending and lending his support to what Rachel Maddow dubbed the “kill the gays rally.”
http://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/trumps-texas-judicial-nominee-jeff-mateer-is-unfit-to-serve/
House and Senate Switchboard (for address and phone information) (202) 224-3121
Trumps Texas Judicial Nominee Jeff Mateer Is Unfit to Serve
And just think they are everywhere, if he and the other rabid theocracy asshole get into power Roy Moore, whats next?
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