Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Reading List June 26, 2013

Who needs those pesky worker protections anyway? There's little focus on this but it certainly makes work life that much harder now, especially in Right To Work states (HA!).

From the Better Late Than Never Department:
This is a huge load off of my mind. I was so worried about the sexual assault epidemic in the military but apparently, it's not so bad and it's easily explained.

This is the reality of the SCOTUS decision on voter registration. I first voted in 1992 in my college town of Rome, GA. Fast forward a decade (plus)  and this certainly would have been my story.

#IStandWithWendy What an amazing act of courage! And what an amazing display of asshattery for the Texas Legislature to try to sneak #SB5 through after midnight. Of course Texas has been trying to turn back the clock for years... to 1850.

And speaking of screwing American workers, let's look at Hostess to see how it's done.
  • Unionized Hostess workers made major concessions, taking pay and benefits cuts. That money was supposed to be reinvested into the company. It wasn't.
  • As the company was struggling, its CEO pay skyrocketed, and as it was going into bankruptcy, Hostess pushed to give $1.75 million in bonuses to top executives.
  • Hostess claimed it had to close plants because workers went on strike, but in fact, the company was already planning to close nine bakeries and wasn't telling which ones.
  • Hostess stole its workers' pension money to fund itself and still went bankrupt.
  • And, as Media Matters points out, "while the AP story claims that "workers" are blaming the company's woes on mismanagement and a failure to adapt to evolving consumer tastes, this has actually been the opinion of informed and objective third parties."

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Reading List June 16, 2013

Edward Snowden Had a Breaking Point, Where He Decided to Risk It All to Fix This Country -- What's Yours?
Sometimes the smallest action can have the greatest impact. All it takes for change to occur is for one person to speak up and then another to join with their voice. What Snowden did was controversal but he had courage to act on his beliefs.

And speaking of the need to speak...

Courtesy of http://www.bradleymanning.org/ and http://iam.bradleymanning.org/

The Dangers of Corporations Controlling National Secrets
A topic worth looking at, why do we have private corporations who are not answerable to the people of the United States doing so security work on our behalf?

Friday, June 14, 2013

Tha Australians Are Doing It Right!

So when the hell will the United States get it in gear and actually do something meaningful to address the issue of sexual assault in the military?

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Join Me For Today's Episode of "No Shit, Ya Think?"

Excuse me while I go bang my head on my desk.
Army chief of staff on sexual assault: 'Maybe we have a bigger problem than I imagined.' You think?
The light bulb dawns and a clue descends on the head of General Ray Odierno;
“The amount of reports that are now coming out—people willing to go public, which I think is a good thing—has brought this to a head for me,” he told reporters at Army’s sixth annual Sexual Harassment/Assault Prevention summit at Joint Base Andrews, Md. “Maybe we have a bigger problem than I imagined.*”
That only took 26,000 anonymous reports of sexual assaults to the U.S. Military in the last year. 

* Emphasis mine.