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Groups > DONE with Dubya (Formerly Down with Dubya) > Discussions > Topic: Jobs, Labor, Unions, Corporations, CEOs, etc. (3)
Topic: Jobs, Labor, Unions, Corporations, CEOs, etc. (3)

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Yvonne W.	October 27, 2009 2:12 PM Oct. 27, 2009 Marching with thousands of union members and allies in Chicago this morning, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is sending a strong message to Big Bankers: “Business as usual is over. We are shutting it down. You work for us—not the other way around.” Showdown in Chicago: Thousands Protest Bankers Read entire story & see pics at: by Seth Michaels, Oct 27, 2009 UPDATE: Check out photos and a video from today’s rally. More than 5,000 people are packing the streets of downtown Chicago this morning, chanting, marching and rallying against Big Bankers and financial institutions that have taken taxpayer money and are using it to give big bonuses to CEOs and to lobby against financial reforms that would ensure they don’t go back on the public dole. http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/10/27/showdown-in-chicago-thousands-protest-bankers/ [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	October 19, 2009 3:57 PM Oct. 19, 2009 Sens. Jon Kyl (Ariz.) and Orrin Hatch (Utah) are blocking the extension of unemployment insurance. Each day these two Republicans stand in the way of Senate passage, 7,000 more workers will run out of benefits. [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	October 16, 2009 12:00 PM A Robust Public Option Creates Competition Union Movement Rallies in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Workers Shuler: Young People Must Take Lead in Building a New Economy AFSCME Members Make ‘House Calls for Health Care’ Proposed Health Care ‘Excise Tax’ a Tax on the Middle Class The Chamber of Commerce’s Jobs Deception Campaign Dorgan: Financial Regulation Not a Four-Letter Word Symposium to Tackle Challenge of Putting America Back to Work Live Coverage of Liz Shuler at A Better Deal 2009 [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	October 16, 2009 11:58 AM As 200,000 people marched in Puerto Rico to protest the governor’s move to unilaterally end workers’ collective bargaining rights, union members rallied in support in states across the country. [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	October 11, 2009 4:15 PM Why France Telecom Employees Are Killing Themselves Mildrade Cherfils, GlobalPost: "The men and women who committed suicide while employed by communications giant France Telecom sent a clear message in the letters they left behind: They unequivocally blame the company for their demise. The deaths have provoked outrage over the firm's management practices and have led to the resignation of the company's deputy CEO." Read the Article I think this article shows the big difference between American & European workers - Americans probably would have taken out their tormentors before committing suicide.. and read some of the comments too! I agree with this, especially the last line : Sun, 10/11/2009 - 19:17 — Mark E. Smith (not verified) Suicide relieves the pressure on the victim but does nothing to remove the source of the problem. "Going postal" can remove some of the sources of the problem, but is a violent solution. I wouldn't advise it, but in that situation I think I'd "go postal" immediately before committing suicide, so as to help protect those who will replace me before relieving the pressure on myself. Counseling the victims instead of the perpetrators is no solution at all and is just as contemptuous of human rights as calling suicide driven by desperation, "a fad." [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	October 08, 2009 3:57 PM Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY) has placed a hold on M. Patricia Smith, President Obama's nominee to be the Labor Department's top enforcement official. Republicans are objecting to statements she made at her confirmation hearing and her "close ties" to New York unions. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) has said it's "an effort to try to delay the confirmation of the government's top advocate for our nation's workers." [ send green star]
Blue B.	October 08, 2009 3:42 PM Yvonne, just more government tentacles reaching out to financial in$titution$ .... This post was modified from its original form on 08 Oct, 15:42 [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	October 07, 2009 4:30 PM http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/03-4Do They Take Us for Schmucks? by Greg Kaufmann After healthcare--if you can imagine an "after healthcare"--the next Big Fight in Congress will likely be over financial reform, particularly the proposed creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA). The CFPA would focus solely on protecting consumers' financial interests--a task currently shared (with disastrous results) by several agencies whose primary focus is on monitoring the safety and soundness of financial institutions... [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 18, 2009 12:21 PM Time to Just Say No to Giant Corporate "Parasites" -- and Recognize Them for What They Are Robert Creamer, 09.18.2009 Political organizer, strategist and author The corporate parasites are the loudest defenders of "free markets" and the most vociferous opponents of "government takeovers," when in fact they exist by feeding off the taxpayers. Read Post \| Comments (148) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 14, 2009 8:12 PM Did Thomas Jefferson Think Corporations Were People? Carl Pope, 09.14.2009 Executive Director of the Sierra Club Will the Supreme Court overturn 102 years of precedent and rule that corporations have the same right to spend money to influence elections that citizens possess? Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 14, 2009 7:51 PM Debtor's Revolt: Woman Refuses To Pay Off Bank Of America Credit Card (VIDEO) More BusinessWhat Will "Wall Street 2" Be Like... France To Use Happiness As Economic Indicator Quick Read \| Comments (3085) \| Banks [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 14, 2009 7:44 PM The Most Damning Internal Emails Of The Financial Crisis Wall Streeters Talk Of "Crap," "Vomit" And Cows Quick Read \| Comments (29) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 14, 2009 7:38 PM Andrew Cuomo Preparing Charges Against Bank Of America Execs Judge Rejects Settlement Over Merrill Bonuses: Neither Moral Nor Just Quick Read \| Comments (571) \| Merrill Lynch [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 14, 2009 7:35 PM The Agonist: Monsanto [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 11, 2009 10:52 AM How JPMorgan Tried To Steal $7 Billion Worth Of Lehman Bros. Quick Read \| Comments \| Financial Crisis [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 11, 2009 10:51 AM Wells Fargo Exec Moved Into Surrendered Malibu Beach House, Neighbors Say Quick Read \| Comments (151) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 08, 2009 4:50 PM Wall Street -- Death Profits Stephen Gyllenhaal, 09.08.2009 Hanging in there Wall Street is back into the bundling business and this time they believe they've got it right. They're buying up billions of dollars worth of the insurance policies of the sick and elderly. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 08, 2009 4:50 PM Raymond J. Learsy: Wall Street Now Wants to Profit by Selling "Death Bonds" Scholar and author, "Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future" After leading the economy to the edge of the abyss, a new derivative has been concocted in a perverse quest for big and bigger bucks. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 07, 2009 9:28 PM If You Have A Paid Holiday Today, Thank A Union Member [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 07, 2009 9:21 PM So Now We Know Why Wall St. Doesn't Want Health-Care Reform: Death Panels! By Susie Madrak Monday Sep 07, 2009 7:00pm So now we know who the real death panelists are! After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one. The bankers plan to buy “life settlements,” life insurance policies that ill and elderly people sell for cash — $400,000 for a $1 million policy, say, depending on the life expectancy of the insured person. Then they plan to “securitize” these policies, in Wall Street jargon, by packaging hundreds or thousands together into bonds. They will then resell those bonds to investors, like big pension funds, who will receive the payouts when people with the insurance die. The earlier the policyholder dies, the bigger the return — though if people live longer than expected, investors could get poor returns or even lose money. And really, who could possibly have a problem with that? Why would we think that enormously powerful financial interests would want to, you know, protect their investments by making sure our health care is less than optimal? Tags: bonds, Investment Banks, pension funds, Wall Street, Wall Street Collapse [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 06, 2009 9:03 PM It Just Ain't Labor's Day Eric Schurenberg, 09.04.2009 Editor in Chief, CBSMoneyWatch.com Ugly as the recent 0.3 percentage point jump in the headline unemployment number is, a look behind that number is uglier still. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 06, 2009 8:58 PM A Message for Labor Day Gerald McEntee, 09.04.2009 President of the 1.6 Million-Member AFSCME Union This Labor Day, let's recommit ourselves to helping workers organize and fight for their rights. Let's work together to win meaningful reforms that ensure access to quality, affordable health care. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 06, 2009 8:56 PM Wall Street Gambles Again: Bankers To Buy Up Life Insurance Policies Of Ill And Elderly [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 06, 2009 8:55 PM The Real News About Jobs and Wages -- An Ode to Labor Day Robert Reich, 09.05.2009 Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley I keep hearing that the economic meltdown has taken a huge toll on the stock portfolios of the rich. That's true. But the rich haven't lost nearly as much of their assets, proportionately, as everyone else. Read Post \| Comments (97) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 06, 2009 8:50 PM This Labor Day, Is the World of Work a More Secure and Lawful Place? Nelson Lichtenstein, 09.05.2009 Historian at the University of California, Santa Barbara It has happened before. The Great Depression saw the moral and ideological collapse of an old order that no longer seemed rational, productive or democratic. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 06, 2009 8:49 PM Workers of the World Unite on Labor Day Bill Fletcher Jr., 09.06.2009 Chairman of the Board of Directors for the International Labor Rights Forum The right to join or form labor unions is so central but so often overlooked precisely because it goes to central questions regarding power in so-called free market societies. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 05, 2009 10:46 AM EMPLOYED... BUT ON FOOD STAMPS Number Of Workers On Food Stamps Surges... "A Dire Warning" [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 05, 2009 10:16 AM Labor Day Employment Report: If It's So Good, Why Do I Feel Bad? Jill Schlesinger, 09.04.2009 Editor-at-Large, CBS MoneyWatch.com The results are in -- the Labor Department said that 216,000 were laid off in August, bringing the total number of Americans out of work since the beginning of the recession to 6.9 million. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 05, 2009 10:12 AM It Just Ain't Labor's Day Eric Schurenberg, 09.04.2009 Editor in Chief, CBSMoneyWatch.com Ugly as the recent 0.3 percentage point jump in the headline unemployment number is, a look behind that number is uglier still. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 05, 2009 10:10 AM Happy 'Enlightened' Labor Day James P. Hoffa, 09.04.2009 Workers need the chance to decide for themselves -- without being spied on, threatened, or fired -- whether to join a union. The Employee Free Choice Act would give them that chance. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 02, 2009 6:31 PM * Can the AFL-CIO be satisfied with no card check in the Employee Free Choice Act? [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 02, 2009 6:23 PM * Largest Medicare fraud fine ever: "Top aides in the Obama administration announced a $2.3 billion settlement on Wednesday with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. over the company's illegal promotion of its now-withdrawn painkiller, Bextra." [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 02, 2009 6:23 PM Yvonne, the Prez meets with AFL-CIO 2 days before he addresses a joint session of COngress on health care. [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	September 02, 2009 2:51 PM *Right on! It's way past time we (the Unions) started throwing our weight around!* (Okay, I've done that ever since I gained enough weight to throw.. but it's exhausting by myself, I need physical help to actually throw my weight around!) [ send green star]
Blue B.	September 02, 2009 11:13 AM Labor Gets Tough and Threatens to Cut Off Cowardly Democrats Mike Elk, 09.02.2009 Campaign for America's Future The labor movement under the leadership of Richard Trumka intends to be much more aggressive in forcing Democrats to stand by their campaign promises to working people. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 27, 2009 10:10 AM Reid: Employee Free Choice Act Off The Table For Now Quick Read \| Comments (56) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 26, 2009 4:09 PM Unions Join Whole Foods Boycott Fray Quick Read \| Comments (213) \| Health Care [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	August 25, 2009 5:26 PM Aug. 25, 2009 Check out the new website for the AFL-CIO Convention in Pittsburgh next month for pre-convention information and up-to-date coverage. Michael Steele, Republican National Committee chairman, continues the big-lie campaign against health care reform. Yesterday, he announced that the same folks who’ve spent years trying to cut Medicare will “rotect” seniors’ health care with a so-called Bill of Rights that’s full of “gross distortions” and “hypocrisy,” says the Alliance for Retired Americans. Follow the AFL-CIO at: facebook.com/aflcio twitter.com/aflcio Got comments? Post them at www.aflcio.org/blog. RNC Chair Steele Tries to Scare Seniors with the Latest Lie About Health Care Reform Stop by the New AFL-CIO Online Convention Site Unions and Our Allies Keep Health Care Debate Civil Tropicana’s New Owners Get Chance to Treat Workers Fairly, and More Bargaining News New York EZ Pass Workers Need Your Help [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 22, 2009 2:09 PM Dr. Andrew Weil : Should You Get Your Drug Information From An Actor? Sally Field is a talented actor. But what qualifies her to promote Boniva, an osteoporosis drug that is of limited benefit, has worrisome side effects, and for which there are natural alternatives that merit careful consideration? [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	August 21, 2009 8:25 PM http://www.seiu.org/blog.php SEIU Blog MSNBC: SEIU's Anna Burger speaks on reform & the public option By Kate Thomas Today on MSNBC, reporter Andrea Mitchell spoke with SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger about health care reform--and why successful reform to contain health costs needs to include a public option. Hear what Anna has to say about moving reform forward in this country, and why co-ops are not a viable substitute for a public health plan option. [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	August 20, 2009 12:53 PM Aug. 20, 2009 AFL-CIO President John Sweeney joined hundreds of workers and community and faith activists in rally for justice for Los Angeles carwash workers. Around the country, union members are raising their voices for comprehensive health care reform and countering the bizarre and big lies many opponents are peddling. Follow the AFL-CIO at: facebook.com/aflcio twitter.com/aflcio Got comments? Post them at www.aflcio.org/blog. I don't Twitter or use Facebook - but I thought I'd include this part for any who do. YW [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	August 20, 2009 12:50 PM Aug. 20, 2009 AFL-CIO President John Sweeney joined hundreds of workers and community and faith activists in rally for justice for Los Angeles carwash workers. Around the country, union members are raising their voices for comprehensive health care reform and countering the bizarre and big lies many opponents are peddling. Health Care Reform Backers Out in Force as Support for Public Option Remains High Justice for Carwash Workers Too Radical for L.A. Trumka to Congress: Want Workers’ Support? Back a Public Option Holt Baker: Unions Leading Way to Green Economy In D.C.? Rally to Support Health Care Reform Aug. 20 Read more important news of the day on the issues working families care about on AFL-CIO Now. Coalition Concerned About Effect of Pulte-Centex Merger on Homeowners LabourStart and the U.S. Union Movement: Making Connections [ send green star]
Yvonne W.	August 19, 2009 1:32 PM I have a Union meeting (SEIU) Thurs. night - I'm SO ready to fight back against all the demonizing crap the Reich-wing has thrown at us for demanding Healthcare! [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 18, 2009 6:23 PM Labor Warns Dems: We'll Sit Out Election If You Oppose Public Plan Robert Reich: How Tough is Our President? Quick Read \| Comments (2746) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 17, 2009 6:31 PM You Can Feel the Electricity in the Air... Gov. Jennifer M. Granholm, 08.17.2009 Governor of Michigan A car that gets 230 miles to the gallon? It's coming soon to a dealer near you. And jobs in America making it all possible. Read Post \| Comments (77) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 17, 2009 10:44 AM Credit Card Companies Raising Rates Before New Limits Go Into Effect Quick Read \| Comments (777) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 17, 2009 9:46 AM Tax Fraud, Tax Havens, UBS and Bears...Oh My! Hale "Bonddad" Stewart, 08.17.2009 Former bond broker, tax lawyer, financial blogger The US government has come to an agreement with UBS regarding a long-running tax fraud investigation. This has been a fascinating case to watch for several reasons that I will explain. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 17, 2009 9:45 AM Enter the Golden Age of PR: Exit Reality Schuyler Brown, 08.17.2009 Trendspotter, Founder Skyelab-NY.com Brands are ditching advertising, which is really pretty transparent in its intentions, in favor of spin and PR, which really is not. This shift is partly because advertising is failing and partly because PR is right for the times. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 17, 2009 9:32 AM Letters From The Jobless: "I'm Not Exactly Sure Where I Went Wrong" Quick Read \| Comments (100) \| The Recession [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 10, 2009 10:22 PM SICK FOR PROFIT : Fight Back Against Health Insurance Lies The Democrats should've launched this campaign six months ago, easy. Take a look at what you're fighting for, teabaggers. [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 10, 2009 10:21 PM Goldman Sachs, the lords of time Forget about the beauty of space. The goal of "rocket scientists" in the United States in the 21st century is to develop market-data machines tuned to the microsecond, to help Goldman Sachs dominate the world of finance - and to avoid, if possible, the long arm of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Has investment that benefits only the few ever been so esoteric and glorious? - Julian Delasantellis (Aug 4, '09) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 08, 2009 6:45 PM Unions Receive Increasingly Scary Threats Of Violence For Town Hall Participation Quick Read \| Comments (3572) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 08, 2009 5:56 PM Unions Receiving Increasingly Direct Threats Of Violence Over Town Hall Participation [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 07, 2009 6:16 PM SEIU FACES THREATS.... The raucous event in Tampa last night was hosted by two Democratic policymakers and the Service Employees International Union. The event in St. Louis, which led to six arrests, also had SEIU members in attendance to support reform. Given the toxic environment, I suppose this was a predictable reaction from the far-right. An official with SEIU, which has been sending members to town halls to counterbalance the Tea Party brigade, sends over this audio of a phone call the union received on its central voicemail system, threatening to teach union officials a thing or two about "the Second Amendment." The call seems to refer to reports today to scuffles in St. Louis between SEIU members and town hall rowdies. "I suggest you tell your people to calm down, act like American citizens, and stop trying to repress people's First Amendment rights," the caller says. "That, or y'all are gonna come up against the Second Amendment." You stay classy, conservative activists. In fact, SEIU seems to have quickly become the new focus of far-right activists. A reform opponent in New Mexico, for example, has been using Twitter to encourage conservatives to consider violence. In one message, he wrote, "If ACORN/SEIU attends these townhalls for disruption, stop being peaceful, and hurt them. Badly." What's more, there's at least one right-wing protest scheduled for an SEIU headquarters -- and Rush Limbaugh has been reading the address of the headquarters on the air. It's part of a growing effort to encourage physical, if not outright violent, confrontations. When a caller to Lou Dobbs' radio show threatened to "brawl" with reform supporters, Dobbs stuck up for him. Glenn Beck suggested today that a caller should show up at policymakers' homes. Michael Savage said he'd like to see anti-reform protests include "violent motorcycle groups." I continue to think mainstream America -- the families who've been hoping to see meaningful health care reform for decades -- will see and hear about these tactics and run in the other direction. Right-wing mobs may think they're proving that there's a sizable group of Americans who are siding with the corporate interests who've made reform necessary. In reality, they're proving how crazy and borderline-dangerous the far-right base has become. —Steve Benen 3:55 PM Permalink \| Trackbacks \| Comments (54) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 07, 2009 6:15 AM SICK FOR PROFIT : Fight Back Against Health Insurance Lies The Democrats should've launched this campaign six months ago, easy. Take a look at what you're fighting for, teabaggers. [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 07, 2009 6:04 AM Health Industry Mogul Rick Scott Still Can’t Explain Billions in Fraud By: Jason Rosenbaum Thursday August 6, 2009 7:00 pm "Rick Scott is still unable to explain how he, as a 'successful' CEO, was unaware of billions of dollars in billing discrepancies and can therefore not be held accountable for Columbia/HCA's Medicare fraud." Read More » [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 07, 2009 12:14 AM Citigroup's Oil Trader's $100,000,000 Payday: A Wakeup Call for the Nation Raymond J. Learsy, 08.05.2009 Scholar and Author of 'Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future' The latest Citigroup episode puts into clear focus the question that should have been posited from the very outset: what in the world is a bank doing in the oil trading business?! Read Post \| Comments (105) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 05, 2009 7:57 PM GE pays $50M to settle fraud charges. [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 03, 2009 3:36 PM THE SHAME GAME Obama Administration To Publish Names Of Mortgage Firms Falling Behind On Homeowner Help Quick Read \| Comments (21) [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 03, 2009 12:22 PM BofA Pays $33M SEC Fine For Misleading Investors In Merrill Deal [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 01, 2009 4:42 PM Shareholders sue to 'punish' Halliburton [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 01, 2009 4:42 PM Dem senators: Take back KBR bonuses Cheney-linked contractor accused of electrocuting soldiers; got $83M bonus. [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 01, 2009 3:41 PM Wal-Mart weighs role in U.S. H1N1 vaccination plans 30 Jul 2009 Wal-Mart Stores Inc is discussing with U.S. health officials the possibility of putting vaccination sites at some of its stores for an H1N1 swine flu inoculation campaign this fall, a company official said on Thursday. Federal officials met with Wal-Mart executives on Wednesday in Arkansas to discuss the issue, Dr. John Agwunobi, president of health and wellness for Wal-Mart U.S., told public health leaders at a conference in Orlando. [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 01, 2009 3:39 PM Regulators shut down banks in five states 01 Aug 2009 Regulators on Friday shut down banks in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma and Illinois, boosting to 69 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year amid the pressures of the weak economy and mounting loan defaults. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver of the five banks. [ send green star]
Blue B.	August 01, 2009 3:38 PM Health Insurer Cigna's Second-Quarter Profit Surges By 60%; Tops Analysts' Estimates 30 Jul 2009 Health insurer Cigna Corp. will remain in the spotlight on Thursday in healthcare sector after the firm posted a 60 percent rise in profit in the second quarter that topped estimates. Net income in the second-quarter increased to $435 million, or $1.58 a share, compared to $272 million, or 96 cents a share, in the year earlier period. [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 31, 2009 11:37 AM Exxon Spends More On Lobbying Than Entire Clean Energy Industry Combined [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 24, 2009 6:17 PM * Effective today, the minimum wage goes from $6.55 to $7.25 an hour. [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 24, 2009 5:46 PM US Financiers Greenwood, Walsh Indicted for Fraud Indictments in purported $554 mln fraud; Prosecutors allege misappropriation of investor money; prosecutors are demanding that the men forfeit at least $131 million of investor money they received in the purported conspiracy at WG Trading and WG Investors [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 24, 2009 5:45 PM Guaranty Financial, No.2 Texas Bank, Says May Fail ...will probably fail after loan losses and write-downs left it "critically" short of capital. The bank, whose investors include Carl Icahn and Robert Rowling, is in talks with at least one investor group for a possible recapitalization, said a source [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 24, 2009 4:36 PM High-Speed, Computer-Driven Trading: Wall St.'s Unfair Advantage Quick Read \| Comments (28) \| Financial Crisis [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 24, 2009 3:01 PM Bernanke to Congress: I Don't Know to Whom We Gave Half a Trillion Dollars Sheldon Filger, 07.23.2009 Writer, founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com The Fed and its chairman have made many errors in judgment, not the least their overly-optimistic pronouncements when the first tremors from the sub-prime meltdown arose. Read Post \| Comments (21) [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 24, 2009 3:00 PM GE Moves Green Jobs To China Mike Elk, 07.24.2009 Campaign for America's Future In the last decade, GE has closed over fifteen factories in Ohio and downsized numerous others. Since 1980, employment in GE Lighting has dropped by 68 percent. Read Post \| Comments (17) [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 20, 2009 12:35 PM It's The Economic Paradigm, Stupid! Dave Johnson, 07.20.2009 "Dave Johnson is a fantastic grandfather of the blogosphere." The business practices that brought us here -- overextraction, overextension, overleveraging, overconsumption -- have also whacked the planet's resources. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 18, 2009 7:09 PM Exxon Faces $1 Billion Fine for Sabotaging Texas Oil Wells ExxonMobil's sabotage of some 100 Texas oil wells in the past 17 years -- going so far as to plug up some wells with explosives -- means the world's largest oil company could be liable for penalties of up to $1 billion, the Texas General Land Office says. [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 18, 2009 6:59 PM Mike Lux: We Don't Care. We Don't Have To Care. We're Goldman Sachs. Author, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be Goldman Sachs has openly, blatantly gone back to business as usual, knowing they will be bailed out by taxpayers if their high rolling gambles don't work, and they don't care who knows about it. Read Post \| Comments [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 18, 2009 6:55 PM Paul Krugman: The Joy of Sachs Goldman Sachs’s record quarterly profits show us that the investment bank is very good at what it does. Unfortunately, what it does is bad for America. [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 18, 2009 11:25 AM Senators “friendly to labor” have decided to drop card-check, the central provision of a bill that would have made it easier for workers to organize simply by signing cards saying they wanted a union. Several “moderate Democrats opposed the card-check provision as undemocratic.” Instead, “the revised bill would require shorter unionization campaigns and faster elections.” [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 17, 2009 11:20 PM Car Dealer Gives AK-47s To Buyers Quick Read \| Comments (330) [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 15, 2009 2:34 PM Pharmas Seek Flu Vaccine Suit Shield 15 Oct 2005 In Europe, Asia, South and North America governments clamor for bird flu vaccines - and they may have them so long as the pharmaceutical companies are indemnified against lawsuits. The U.S. Senate has already approved an amendment by Iowa's Democratic Senator Tom Harkin, adding $3.9 billion to a military appropriation for preparations for the expected outbreak. That money is earmarked for stockpiling medications to combat the virus, if it does occur, and also, reportedly for "immunity from lawsuits if a vaccination causes harm,” according to an article in the Washington insider publication, The Hill. U.S. orders $690M in swine-flu vaccine from Novartis, $71M from GSK 14 Jul 2009 The federal government is committing more than $800 million to buy more of the two key ingredients to make the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The money will be used to place additional orders on existing contracts with vaccine manufacturers including GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis. The former Chiron Corp. facility in Emeryville is now owned by Novartis, which makes vaccines there. [See: Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to subcontractor 26 Apr 2009.] [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 13, 2009 10:42 PM Goldman Execs Sold $700M Of Stock, Most Of It During Bailout [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 11, 2009 8:07 PM AlterNet: Hedge Fund would rather shut down a plant than pay it's workers a fair wage [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 10, 2009 2:30 PM Are Our Markets Being Manipulated by 'Rogues' or Firms? By Danny Schechter There's New Evidence to Suggest that Crime in the Financial Markets is Rife [ send green star]
Blue B.	July 09, 2009 12:33 PM Sen. Al Franken backs EFCA [ send green star]
Blue B.	Jobs, Labor, Unions, Corporations, CEOs, etc. (3) July 09, 2009 12:26 PM Discussion continues from Jobs, Labor, Unions, Corporations, CEOs, etc. (2) which grew too large to load quickly. [ send green star]