Obama: An Uncle Tom president

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Thursday October 14, 2010 · 2:54 PM PDT

2010/10/14 · 14:54

I realize that this diary will possibly get me kicked off of Kos, but I'm ok with it.

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Wednesday July 28, 2010 · 2:27 PM PDT

2010/07/28 · 14:27

What is Force Majeure? From the Yale web site:

http://www.library.yale.edu/...

"Force Majeure literally means "greater force". These clauses excuse a party from liability if some unforseen event beyond the control of that party prevents it from performing its obligations..."

I suggest we apply this to the unemployed, underemployed and students who cannot find jobs. More after the break. And I apologize in advance for not having a long diary about this, but sometimes simplicity is the best. Don't flame me over the brevity of my suggestion please.

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Saturday June 19, 2010 · 6:02 AM PDT

2010/06/19 · 06:02

June 16th: Republicans and a dozen Democratic defectors in the Senate dealt a defeat to President Barack Obama Wednesday, just days after he pressed Congress to renew pieces of last year’s economic stimulus bill.
A catchall measure combining jobless aid for the long-term unemployed, aid to cash-strapped state governments and the renewal of dozens of popular tax breaks for businesses and individuals failed to muster even a majority in a test vote.

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Monday May 31, 2010 · 6:39 AM PDT

2010/05/31 · 06:39

In the referenced "The Guardian" article, Nigeria's 600+ oil fields supply about 40% of all crude the U.S. imports. What is the 'spill status' like in Nigeria, in specific, the Niger Delta? The article spells it out.

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Sunday May 30, 2010 · 6:11 AM PDT

2010/05/30 · 06:11

There are two articles in the Financial Times Weekend edition (I subscribe) print edition about the Foxconn company, maker of many of Apple/Dell products. Foxconn has decided to raise incomes 20% at their main factory in the face of suicides at the main facility. The two articles speak to the Foxconn factory, and about globalization. Might be useful to ask ourselves who is getting rich from globalization. Chinese workers aren't, but 'at least they have jobs' I guess we could say. I'm going to quote from the two FT articles and let you draw your own conclusions, etc. Again, this all comes from the Weekend Financial Times print edition. It is online also for subscribers to the paper.

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Wednesday May 26, 2010 · 10:38 AM PDT

2010/05/26 · 10:38

So you're Apple computer. Not unlike other computer sellers, such as Dell, you want your margins to be as high as possible, right? Otherwise you would manufacture your stuff in the U.S. But that would lower your margins, so, you go to China. Take the iPad and iPod for example. Manufactured by Foxcomm in China, where employee suicide rates are through the roof. Meanwhile here in the U.S., we stand in line to buy the iPad, get the iPod, and other Apple products, and we use our credit cards because we can't afford it otherwise. Think of how much we couldn't afford it if Apple paid U.S. wages to build these things. So we're happy to get 'a good price' while the young kids that build these in China kill themselves.

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Tuesday May 25, 2010 · 6:29 PM PDT

2010/05/25 · 18:29

Not my 25 questions. They come from theeconomiccollapseblog.com.

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Tuesday May 11, 2010 · 6:59 AM PDT

2010/05/11 · 06:59

June 6 1944 was D-Day, and for CBS radio, and its news announcer Robert Trout (who was born near Raleigh NC), the initial news of the Normandy invasion came via German radio. Then, we had wire service, we had shortwave radio, and in the U.S., CBS affiliates were connected to CBS HQ in New York by frequency equalized telephone lines. No satellite, no Internet. Very little spin from CBS. Trout remains on the air, even taking the listener on a tour of CBS Radio's newsroom.

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 · 12:33 PM PDT

2010/04/27 · 12:33

Sign of the times:

An IBM executive says the company is considering a plan that would reduce the company’s full-time head count by 299,000 jobs – to 100,000 – by 2017.

Source: Personnel Today magazine.

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Friday April 16, 2010 · 3:28 PM PDT

2010/04/16 · 15:28

From CNN Money: General Electric filed more than 7,000 income tax returns in hundreds of global jurisdictions last year, but when push came to shove, the company owed the U.S. government a whopping bill of $0.

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Monday April 12, 2010 · 2:52 PM PDT

2010/04/12 · 14:52

We have heard since 9/11 the phrase 'keeping us (Americans) safe.'

So, what does this mean, actually? What does 'keeping Americans safe' mean?

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Thursday April 08, 2010 · 7:51 AM PDT

2010/04/08 · 07:51

From Thursday's Financial Times, page 2.

The U.S. government has vowed not to harm India's IT sourcing sector as it battles to create jobs at home in the worst labor market since the Great Depression of the 1930's.

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