Censorship on MySpace, News, Jargon, Conspiracies and other stuff you may have missed.
Posted on February 10.2008 by Anonymous
Heres a rather long post I did at JoesUnionReview.com originally entitled: Censorship, Atheists, Labor, Toxic Toys, Romney, Giuliani, Willie Nelson, 911 conspiracys and other stuff you may have missed
While I really wanted to concentrate on the recent attacks by social networking sites against Labor and Religion, I got kinda sidetracked into a whole lot of other stuff that crossed my mind, I really don't feel like writing another story just for here, so I'm posting it as is. It includes some other suppressed news with a touch of labor, toxic toys, ineffectual government, E-activism, injustice, politics, Giulanis' imaginary border fence, conspiracy theorists videos, etc.
Later, Joe
Random thoughts from around the net
Starting with censoring Atheists from Rupert Murdoch's MySpace:
Social networking site MySpace, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, has sparked controversy by deleting the world's largest online atheist group following complaints from people who find atheism "offensive".
"Atheist
and Agnostic Group" boasted 35,000 members until it was deleted on 1
January for the third time in as many years. It was founded in 2004 by
Bryan Pesta, an assistant professor at Cleveland University who
established it as a social network "specifically for godless people."The
group was closed down for the first time two years ago after an
organised campaign by Christians persuaded MySpace to delete it. It was
eventually restored and MySpace promised to protect it. This time,
despite a petition from 500 users and repeated emails to customer
services, MySpace seems reluctant to reverse its actions.
- MySpace deletes Largest Atheist Group in the World
- MySpace Atheist and Agnostic Group Restored (sort of)
What
is the real bad side effect of losing your social networking account?
Eric Lee creator of Labourstart could see this happening to organized
labor and expressed a very strong argument to not outsource your
campaign to their networks (back in Nov.07)
What
you're doing by outsourcing your campaigning to Facebook is growing
their company, giving them direct access to your supporters and
members. What's the alternative? Do-it-yourself online campaigns where
you retain the information on who has sent off protest messages.LabourStart
has campaigned this way for years. Every time we do a campaign, we
collect the emails, names and unions of participants. If they've given
us permission, we've added them to our mailing list and they receive
our weekly email newsletter. Our list has grown from 3,000 names five
years ago to 51,000 names today due to these campaigns.Imagine
if Facebook had existed five years ago and if we had tried to campaign
using it. We wouldn't have a mailing list today and we certainly
wouldn't be able to send out more than 50,000 emails a week.
Which
eventually we have seen come to pass, when a Union Organizer and
Labourstart correspondent, whose goes by the nickname Blackadder, had
his account removed from Facebook, it took John Wood, a dedicated
unionist from the United Kingdom who created a site urging people to
E-Mail Facebooks customer service and a Labourstart campaign sending
E-Mails direct, to get him reinstated.
This
isn't the first time a Big Media outlet has banned a less than
conservative opinion, in Sept. 2007 Verizon took the step of banning
text messages from the Pro-Choice group NARAL
The
dispute over the Naral messages is a skirmish in the larger battle over
the question of “net neutrality” — whether carriers or Internet service
providers should have a voice in the content they provide to customers.
Which
leads me to the impotence of the agency that is supposed to protect us
from unsafe products, the CPSC, better known as the Consumer Product
Safety Commission. This is a clusterfuck by all standards
Over
the weekend, the Consumer Product Safety Commission will lose its
quorum—just like it did for eight months in 2007 before Congress gave
it a temporary reprieve to continue to operate with full authority.Why
should you care? Because without a quorum (in the CPSC’s case a quorum
means having three commissioners), the agency’s activities are limited.
It cannot vote on new safety standards, issue mandatory recalls, or
take further action on civil penalties above $50,000 against firms that
have failed to report defective or hazardous products.
An
online friend, John, who has been following the toxic toys mess in this
country E-Mailed his Senator with an article which explained that Japan
has a very extensively researched product safety standard and a giant
list of unsafe imported products, he has a great point in just asking
for the list and giving it to the CPSC, I'd go one further, remove the
CPSC and outsource their jobs to Japan.
You would think the
Govt. wants sick and retarded citizens, could be theres an awful lot of
Big Pharma money getting stuffed in politico's pockets, look at how
they get whatever they want, look at how your asking your doctor for
Viagra and all the other shit they want you to jam down your gullet,
that hasn't been tested properly yet and makes you sicker so you can
get more shit that makes you sicker so you can buy more shit. Heres his
E-Mail:
Dear Senator Lisa Murkowski,
The enclosed
news articles show the persistent problem of importing unsafe and toxic
goods from China to America. The CPSC has been unable to get on top of
this problem, because they say they don’t have the resources to do the
job. I recently heard a news broad cast pointing out that America will
have this problem for years to come.The news story said that
Japan does not have this problem and will never have it. Japan sends
over inspectors to see to it that unsafe and toxic products are not
shipped to Japan in the first place. Japan has a list of products that
have passed inspection and a list of products that have not pass
inspection.What the US of A should do is get a copy of the list
of products that Japan has screened and follow it as they do. Then the
problem of shipping in unsafe and toxic products will come to a halt.
As Japan does not have this import problem of products from any
country, nether will the US of A.I am sure that Japan would be
willing to give a copy of their safe product list to the US of A for
free. I hope you get a copy of this safe product list and give it to
the CPSC for them to use in their screening of products that are
shipped to America.
I'm all for it John, unfortunately in
its impotent state the CPSC cannot do a thing. Speaking of ineffective,
did you catch Mitt Romney, who after blowing $40 Million of his own
cash bashing unions on the way out the door.
It’s
high time to lower taxes, including corporate taxes, to take a
weed-whacker to government regulations, to reform entitlements, and to
stand up to the increasingly voracious appetite of the unions in our
government!
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the
way out, the only thing better than him leaving the race is when
Giuliani dropped out, but has Mr.911 really dropped out. He has thrown
his support into Mr.War McCain, who the conservatives allege is a
Liberal, hoping all us closet Racists and Misogynists will storm onto
his bandwagon. Well as this article will explain, Giuliani would be the
perfect choice to make sure that the Fascist police state we are
heading towards is enforced
In
a McCain Regime, Cheney will be back in office with another stint as
Secretary of War. Norman “Bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran” Podhoretz will be
Undersecretary for Nuclear War with General John “Nuke them”
Shalikashvili as his deputy. Rudy Giuliani will be the Minister of
Interior in charge of Halliburton’s detention centers into which will
be herded all critics of war and the police state. billy kristol will
be chief White House spokesliar.
The first year
Mr.Giuliani was in office I got arrested while trying to convince my
friend to give the police his ID, who tried to remain in office during
our time of mourning the devestation, which has become a popular
thought as Mr.Bush has effectively created the National Security and
Homeland Security Presidential Directive.
The directive defines a “Catastrophic Emergency” as the following.
"Catastrophic
Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in
extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely
affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or
government functions;So what does this mean? This is entirely
subjective and doesn’t provide any real concrete definition of what
such an emergency would entail. Assuming that it means a disaster on
the scale of the 9/11 attacks or Katrina, there is no question that the
United States at some point in time will experience an emergency on par
with either of those events. When one of those events takes place, the
President will be a dictator in charge of ensuring a working
constitutional government.
Mr.Giuliani, as my friend George
at work informed me, had part ownership of SkyWatch, who in
collaboration with Raytheon(God how I love that companies name), a
large military contractor was developing technology to build a virtual
Border fence. Although he had dropped his assets in the company
Mr.Giuliani was promoting his "fence" for quite some time, as recently
as Feb.5th., the day he filed his papers to become a Presidential
candidate
(Feb.5th.2007
he stated)"I support security at the borders," Mr. Giuliani said. "I do
think that with the fence, the fence honestly has to be a technological
fence."
He forgot to mention 9-11 and Terrorism in that
statement, must have been an off day. Which brings me to conspiracy
theories, lets see, big politicos who have big military ties, big
corporations who swing right on the issues, terrorism, terrorism,
terrorism. America's favorite pot smoking country singer Willie Nelson
has come forward stating that 9-11 was an inside job.
This
comes less than a year after another beloved, well known and respected
member of the entertainment industry Charlie Sheen came forward
expressing his disbelief, I don't remember seeing this on the news or
in the paper, do you? God I got to see Britneys ragged snatch shot
thousands of times and her new drug of choice is plastered all over
everything, but when a legitimate member of the entertainment industry
comes forward with such shocking words its buried. Oops, I stand
corrected, Showbiz Tonight did a story on it.
Nothing
in this world could make someone wonder more than Zeitgeist Movie. When
first viewed it gave me the shivers, now I stick to the Serenity Prayer. The best comment I have read so far about it is from RustyLime.com
Well,
in saying all of that, remember that conspiracy is just another form of
propoganda. While movies like these, the Dawkins ones, the Loose change
series, Al Gore's movie etc are principally informative, all
information is greatly slanted towards the makers' own bias, prejudice,
translation and interpretation.The only source for information
that is trustworth is you. You do your own research and make up your
own opinions (if you feel it necessary). Otherwise, you are left with
mindless cretons, sheep if you will.
Warning: View At Your Own Risk
Enough with the conspiracies, read a few articles about construction safety here in New York
Construction
of low-rise buildings – 14 stories and under – is up 31 percent over
last year, and "construction incidents" on such buildings are up 2
percent, from 288 in 2006 to 294 in 2007, she said.But "the
regulation framework within New York City is geared toward high-rise
construction,” maintains Coletti of the building trades association. He
also thinks DOB is not proactive enough. “DOB has always been
reactive,” he said, voicing a sentiment echoed repeatedly by those
interviewed. Until recently, “it was the Wild West show out there. They
need more resources.”
I wholeheartedly agree, get
more people and funding. Start investigating even the smallest sites,
construction companies do not go into business to get smaller,
expecting the growing companies to concern themselves with safety when
they do get the larger projects, is like taking the driving test after
you already have bad habits.
I'm starting to think that all
pedestrians walking in the City Of New York should wear a hard hat,
they would be a hell of a lot easier to sweep up if they were crushed,
and at least it would make those guys digging 2 feet into the street
have a real reason to wear a hardhat.
Which makes me wonder
why the city is so lax on illegal aliens entering the state and working
in construction, wouldn't it really suck if say a terrorists were to
get underground at Grand central Station or the UN. Doesn't take a
genius to figure a way to make a steam main explode, sometimes it
happens on it's own. Hell if the workers are getting shit on for $8 an
hour for 100+ hours a week any Al Quaeda operative, who could figure
the correct language to speak to one, could surely get him to plant a
bomb for a pittance. Probably just for some medical insurance.
Meanwhile, Republican Senators have made sure via a threat of filibuster
that the better version of the Economical Stimulus Plan were not made
available to the public, unfortunately a plan which did not include
extension of unemployment benefits and heating assistance for those who
need it most has been adopted and voted in. John McCain didn't bother
to vote, some Liberal he is.
In the 110th Congress, out of 450 votes, McCain missed 56.7% of them. The only one who missed more was a senator who had a brain hemorrhage.
Senate, they don't have to worry, they get to collect their salary even after they have left office.
For
all practical purposes their plan works like this: When they retire,
they continue to draw the same pay until they die, except it may
increase from time to time for cost of living adjustments.For
example, former Senator Byrd and Congressman White and their wives may
expect to draw $7,800,000.00 (that's Seven Million, Eight-Hundred
Thousand), with their wives drawing $275,000.00 during the last years
of their lives. This is calculated on an average life span for each.Their
cost for this excellent plan is $00.00. Nada. Zilch. This little perk
they voted for themselves is free to them. You and I pick up the tab
for this plan.
Speaking of Liberals, a new friend and contributer here, Mike from Springfield, MA Union News had a great story which he posted on his site.
(excerpted)
Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot
full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for
minimum water quality standards. He takes his daily medication with his
first swallow of coffee. His medications are safe to take because some
liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised.All
but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical
plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid
medical insurance, now Joe gets it too. He prepares his morning
breakfast, bacon and eggs this day. Joe’s bacon is safe to eat because
some liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing industry.
Liberal,
socialism all that gets me confused, but I know that Starbucks
definitely fears union organizers, the Wall Street Journal explains
that there were E-Mails floating company wide to management, expressing
concern that they had union sympathizers in their ranks.
According
to several emails, in early 2006, Starbucks managers discovered that
two pro-union employees in New York were graduates of a Cornell
University labor program. According to an email, managers took the
names of graduates from an online Cornell discussion group and the
school's Web site and cross-checked them with employee lists
nationwide. They found that three employees in California, Michigan and
Illinois were graduates of the program and recommended that local
managers be informed.
The Gunite workers sure could have used unemployment extension in the Stimulous package if the are out too long.
Workers
say they’re still united to get a better contract but admit that two
months on picket lines collecting unemployment is a strain on their
families. While the unemployment benefit is about two-thirds of a
worker’s pay, it’s based on a 40-hour workweek. Gunite’s 136 union
workers average 66 hours a week, according to the UAW.“It’s
getting tougher all the time,” millwright Mark LeFevre said. “It gets a
little frustrating. For one thing, they stretched the talks out.”In
the meantime, security guards hired by the company keep a constant eye
on the pickets. Replacement workers and salaried employees are
operating the plant.
All leading to the newest book I have asked for a review copy of
"An
outstanding contribution to our understanding of the lives of working
people, past and present. Lawrence Richards's careful examination of
workers' resistance to union appeals breaks new ground, while his case
studies of failed organizing campaigns illuminate workers' ambivalent
and often hostile views of organized labor. This account of men and
women who are usually neglected by celebrants of unionism enriches the
historical narrative and reminds us of the cultural and ideological
obstacles that labor activists have faced and continue to
confront."--Robert H. Zieger, Distinguished Professor of History,
University of Florida
That's about all for now folks, L8t3rz
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