Say NO!!! To Globalization! U.S. + Foreign Multinationals Want to Privatize El Salvador

U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, by Privatization This Time

Unions in El Salvador are fighting a bill that would auction off everything from highways, ports, and airports to municipal services and higher education to private companies—mainly foreign multinationals.

Say NO! To Open-Mindedness. Not Just NO, But HELL NO!!!

No, I will NOT be open-minded about people who say women should have less rights than men. People who defend rapists might as well just get used to getting torn a new one if they spout that nonsense in my presence. No, you will NOT receive an "open minded" response.

No, I will NOT be open-minded about people who treat gays like they're second-class citizens.

The same goes for blacks, Hispanics, and every other race and creed. I will NOT be open-minded about Conservative race-baiting and dog-whistling. I will flat-out NOT tolerate anyone yapping about how they think President Obama is a Muslim or a Kenyan or any of that other nonsense. 

No, I will NOT be open-minded about global warming. Global warming won't be open-minded about letting humans get away with spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to help jeopardize my species' survival in the name of being nice.

I will NOT be open-minded about cutting welfare and leaving the poor to go hungry. We went through this shit before when we had millions of men who couldn't even qualify for military service during World War II because they were so malnourished. People DID die of starvation the last time we had a country without welfare. Over my dead body will that shit happen again.

I will be about as open-minded about gun control as Conservitards are. They can't tolerate moderate gun control laws, then I can't put up with their extremist bullshit, either.

And if the Tea Party shows up in my town, expect me to show up and give 'em hell.

I refuse to show these Conservative cretins civility. I refuse to let their bullshit go unassailed. I refuse to give these knuckle-draggers the common courtesies that they refuse to give the world around them. I will always go toe to toe, I will always stand my ground for a better America. I will always seek to undermine and subvert them, insult them, boycott their businesses, ruin their plans, and expose them for the hateful bigots that they are. Always.

Conservapedia: Training Ground for Idiocy?

No, really, it actually does say that.

The FBI Gets Kicked Out of Iceland! Way To Go, Iceland!

FBI Came to Investigate Wikileaks in Iceland

A group of FBI agents arrived in Iceland in August 2011, requesting collaboration with Icelandic police authorities to investigate Wikileaks, as revealed by Wikileaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson on RÚV’s news magazine Kastljós last night.

“The FBI came here in a private jet and landed at Reykjavík Airport. According to my information—which is very solid and I have had it confirmed—Minister of the Interior Ögmundur Jónasson was notified of their arrival and reacted angrily because it is unbelievably presumptuous to come here this way,” Kristinn stated.

“According to my information, he demanded that these agents pack their bags, embark the plane and leave the country,” Kristinn added. “I know that this was later discussed within the government, which formally objected to U.S. authorities.”

The Health Care Industry: America's War on Seniors

High Health Care Costs Bankrupt One In Four American Seniors

According to a new study released by the Journal of General Internal Medicine, out-of-pocket medical spending in the last five years of life left one in four American seniors bankrupt.

The study found that average “out-of-pocket expenditures in the 5 years prior to death were $38,688 for individuals, and $51,030 for couples in which one spouse dies.” That average was skewed upwards by staggeringly high out-of-pocket medical spending by seniors who had particularly expensive medical needs. All told, a full “25 percent of subjects’ expenditures exceeded baseline total household assets, and 43 percent of subjects’ spending surpassed their non-housing assets,” according to the report.

Poll Shows Most Americans Want To Be In Labor Unions

US unions' continued decline masks new forms of worker activism

But if labor markets are adapting to the reality of a mostly union-free America, so too is labor activism. Last year, two of the highest profile labor actions in the country – one-day "flash" strikes at fast food restaurants in New York City, and at Walmart stores nationwide – were coordinated by groups that are not traditional unions: New York Communities for Change and OUR Walmart (though both received union support). And both strikes were carried out without the traditional aim of formal union recognition.

Networks of new, grassroots workers centers – including the Restaurant Opportunities Centers, Retail Action Project, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, and National Domestic Workers Alliance – have grown in sectors which unions have found nearly impossible to organize due to their contingent or informal nature. And their victories – exposing safety and health violations, winning raises and backpay owed to workers, freeing some from virtual domestic slavery – have been achieved largely outside the purview of the body that governs union elections, the National Labor Relations Board.

Just a week before the BLS released its sobering report, Chicago passed a new law imposing some of the strictest sanctions on employers who do not pay workers the wages they are owed. It's an illegal but lightly enforced practice – and appallingly common in many industries, where it is used to force employees to work off-the-clock, as a means to avoid paying overtime rates, or simply as a way not pay staff for work they have done.

Another Problem You Can Blame On "Pro-Family" Conservatives