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• Employers Pressure Doctors, Workers to Stay Mum on Workplace Injuries

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 642
  More than two-thirds of injured or sick workers in a recent survey feared employer discipline or even losing their jobs if their injuries were reported, a new study from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed today. The GAO surveyed more than 1,000 occupational health practitioners and found: More ...
  5 hours ago

• Taking a Closer Look at Payday Loan Abuses

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 513
  Rep. Mary Still (D-Columbia) is hosting a "district hearing" at the Columbia Public Library tonight for public and expert input on the abuses of payday loan companies .  Still sponsored legislation this year to restrict interest rates on payday loans, but Speaker Ron Richard refused to assign the bill to a ...
  12 hours ago

• Conspiracy Theories: Which Do You Believe?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 562
         Last week I had a visit from my cousin and his new wife who we will call John and Barbara. I had always believed that he was rather ordinary but sensible and intelligent. We got to talking about swine flu. His wife Barbara told me that the H1N1 virus was less serious than ordinary seasonal flu and that ...
  3 days ago

• Your two lips are dripping honey, ah

  
  SteveAudio — Authority: 124
  How can you tell Dick Morris is lying? He writes an editorial : As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama health care reform despite the drubbing their party took in the 09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. Um, yeah. ...
  3 days ago

• ‘16 Deaths Per Day’ Highlights Weak Penalties for Worker Fatalities

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 642
  Every day, 16 workers go to work and don’t come home. They are killed on the job. But far too often, employers that have created or ignored dangerous workplace conditions are not held accountable. Civil penalties are weak and criminal prosecutions rare. Now, “ 16 Deaths Per Day ,” a new video from Brave New ...
  4 days ago

• Post Dispatch Welcomes Blunts Self-Serving, Selective Outrage About Special Treatment For Wall Street

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 513
  Responding to Roy Blunts recent grandstanding about wall street firms receiving early H1N1 vaccine shipments, the Post-Dispatch today welcomes Blunts newfound interest in the special treatment received by the folks on Wall Street . Whatever the reason, we welcome Mr. Blunt to the populist outrage front. Mr. ...
  6 days ago

• Employment Bill Called ‘Corporate Giveaway’

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 159
  By Mike Lillis The Washington Independent Last week, as House Democrats took to the floor with near-unanimous praise for legislation to help the unemployed and stimulate the fragile economy, Rep. Lloyd Doggett ( D-TX ) offered a wildly different message. “This bill,” he said, “represents a textbook ...
  1 week ago

• Wall Street at Front of Line for Swine Flu Vaccine

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 642
  Just when you think you can’t be shocked by Wall Street outrages, we hear Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other Wall Streeters are getting supplies of the H1N1 ( swine flu ) vaccine, while school kids, pregnant women and the chronically ill are being turned away at clinics around the country because there is a ...
  1 week ago

• Big Oil, Corporate Greed, and Social Sin

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 640
  As an urbanite fortunate to live within walking distance of work and trendy restaurants, I rarely drive these days. But running late to a pickup basketball game recently, I was low on gas and quickly pulled into the first station…
  1 week ago

• After the boys of summer have gone

  
  SteveAudio — Authority: 124
  In sports news, the NYYankees, a small market team with the lowest payroll in the majors, staged an historic and heroic come-from-behind win, against all odds, to defeat the highly favored Philadelphia Phillies tonight in the World Series. With their lack of well-known superstars, an old decrepit stadium, and ...
  1 week ago

• Clatstop County, Oregon to fight a new Wal-Mart on Columbia River Wetlands

  
  Brave New Films blog — Authority: 424
  Here in Clatsop County, Oregon, we are just starting to fight a Wal-Mart super store from invading our beautiful area. Astoria is on the mouth of the Columbia River with a population of 10,000. The next town, about 3 miles south of Astoria, is Warrenton, population 4,600. There is wetlands all around Warrenton. ...
  1 week ago

• More from My Inbox ...

  
  YayaCanada — Authority: 424
  (1) Pig tales ... Earlier I said that if Evan Frustaglio is turned into a poster child for the promotion of H1N1 vaccine, we may never learn of any underlying conditions that may have contributed to his death - including what other vaccines he had received that may have interfered with his bodys normal defences. ...
  1 week ago

• Who are these 46 million who are not insured?

  
  Where's the Outrage? — Authority: 524
  Liberals have been accused of misrepresenting the data on those who are uninsured. So, I thought take a couple of seconds and set the record straight. The U.S. Census has released a report on income, poverty and health insurance status a couple of months ago. The data is from 2008. There are 46.3 million people ...
  2 weeks ago

• Article Title Unknown

  
  GEEZERPOWER — Authority: 125
  No need searching the tubes today, Black Listed News widgit is sitting on my home page and this is the three articles that it referred to earlier today. It reminds me of an old friend that came into the antique shop almost every day. Thats when my brother was still around. If business was slow, usually was, we would ...
  2 weeks ago

• Labor Across Prime Time TV

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 642
        Prime time last night was well worth watching. The NewsHour on PBS profiled AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann hosted California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee ( CNA/NNOC ) Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro.  NewsHour showcased Trumka’s ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lion sleeps tonight

  
  AmeriNZ — Authority: 469
  Lion Nathan, one of New Zealand’s oldest companies, ceased to exist today: It was de-listed from the New Zealand Stock Exchange (and Australia’s, too) after the company was acquired by Japan’s Kirin Breweries. While this was a bit of a yawn by itself, I think it says something about the modern business paradigm. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mass Politics, Violence and the Radical Intellectual

  
  Kafila — Authority: 420
  With the debate on Maoist violence and Operation Green Hunt hotting up, things are taking a disturbing turn. The danger really is that all spaces of radical political movements and indeed the entire space of the Left, part of it gradually vacated by the parliamentary ‘Left’ in recent decades and finally completely ...
  2 weeks ago

• Iowans Play Prominent Role at Showdown in Chicago

  
  Blog for Iowa — Authority: 473
  Iowans Play Prominent Role at Showdown in Chicago Larry Ginter of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement (ICCI.Org) was featured on Amy Goodmans Democracy Now! this morning, shown on video rallying the crowd of protesters at the American Bankers Association convention in Chicago.  Watch the video on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Glimpsing the Beloved

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  Ive been writing of the importance of interacting with the wild "out there"[click here] . Ive also said that wildness exists within, and is readily accessible through the passions - primal passions based on responsible use . Ive expressed this idea as a rant . Heres another, which again I think reads best read ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wanted: directors with backbone to check corporate greed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 718
  By Arun KumarWashington, Oct 25 (IANS) In the midst of a controversy over President Barack Obama’s ‘pay czar’ slashing executive salaries, a leading management guru says the best way to guard against corporate greed is to more fully empower shareholders to pick more courageous directors with “backbone”.This ...
  3 weeks ago

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