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Wells Fargo Is Worst Friend Ever, Borrows $377.09 For Two Weeks Without Asking

This is a great letter outlining how I'm sure most of us feel when we get screwed... more

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Texas legislature is in session "LOOK OUT"

The Texas Legislature meets only every two years, but with the egos of all the... more

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10 Items You Didn’t Know Were Illegal to Mail via USPS

If you are shipping articles across international borders, you may not realize that... more

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12 Common Scams That Target College Kids

There’s a lot of room for growing pains in college, from switching your majors... more

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Synthetic drug, subject of proposed bans, kill teen

Amid efforts by authorities to stop the use of illegal synthetic drugs, revelers at a... more

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Big Whup & Moses Campbell Takeover The Lamar Bridge (SXSW 2010)

This was an impromptu and illegal show during SXSW 2010. A large group of DIY... more

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International Labor Rights Group: Assualt on Collective Bargaining Illegal !

The International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) sent a notice to the Wisconsin Legislature, explaining that its attempt to strip collective bargaining rights from public workers is illegal.
Anyone who has watched the events unfolding in Wisconsin and other states that are trying to remove collective bargaining rights from public workers has heard people protesting the loss of their "rights." (For more on the record turnout, see this story.) The ICLR explained to the legislature exactly what these rights are and why trying to take them away is illegal.
The ICLR is a New York-based nongovernmental organization that coordinates a pro bono network of labor lawyers and experts throughout the world. It investigates labor rights violations and issues reports and amicus briefs on issues of labor law.
The ICLR identified the right of "freedom of association" as a fundamental right and affirmed that the right to collective bargaining is an essential element of freedom of association. These rights, which have been recognized worldwide, provide a brake on unchecked corporate or state power.
In 1935, when Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (also known as the NLRA, or the Wagner Act), it recognized the direct relationship between the inequality of bargaining power of workers and corporations and the recurrent business depressions. That is, by depressing wage rates and the purchasing power of wage earners, the economy fell into depression. The law therefore recognized as policy of the United States the encouragement of collective bargaining.
While the NLRA covered US employees in private employment, the law protecting collective bargaining in both the public and private sectors has developed since 1935 to cover all workers "without distinction."The opening paragraph of the ICLR statement reads:

As workers in the thousands and hundreds of thousands in Wisconsin, Indiana and Ohio and around the country demonstrate to protect the right of public sector workers to collective bargaining, the political battle has overshadowed any reference to the legal rights to collective bargaining. The political battle to prevent the loss of collective bargaining is reinforced by the fact that stripping any collective bargaining rights is blatantly illegal. Courts and agencies around the world have uniformly held the right of collective bargaining in the public sector is an essential element of the right of Freedom of Association, which is a fundamental right under both International law and the United States Constitution.

The ICLR statement summarizes the development of this law from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through the International Labor Organization's (ILO) conventions on freedom of association (that is, the right to form and join unions) and collective bargaining. It cites court cases from the United States and around the world. All embrace freedom of association as a fundamental right and recognize the right to collective bargaining as an essential element of freedom of association.
Some anti-union voices argue that since federal employees presently do not have the right to bargain collectively, neither should state workers. In fact, the argument should go the other way. The law cited in the ICLR statement means that denying federal employees collective bargaining rights - which they have had over the years when presidents have recognized them by executive order - is just as illegal as denying collective bargaining rights to state public employees. President Obama should take this opportunity to reinstate the rights of federal employees to collective bargaining. (more links ,sources and the rest of the story at link) story via:Truthout.com http://figrd.blogspot.comThe International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) sent a notice to the Wisconsin... more

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Motorists illegally detained at Florida tolls - for using large bills!

Tampa, Florida -- Meet Joel Chandler, who just paid his $1.00 toll on the Polk Parkway... more

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YouTube - 9/11/01 - WTC Hard Drives Show $100 Million In Criminal Credit Transfers Before Towers Fell

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Internet-controlled shotguns are the high-tech, extremely illegal solution to hog infestation

A man in southern Georgia, apparently fed up with all the wild hogs on his property... more

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America, Hell Yeah! Electric Scooter Dude Cruising Down I-95 (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

Fairfield, Conn. - Don't try this at home! Motorists on I-95 in Fairfield may... more

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Miley Cyrus HI Smoking A Bong ! ( Actual Video )

David Spates shows and talks about and shows Miley Cyrus Hi smoking a bong.

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Fracking Fluid Dumping In PA - Video

Caught this guy dumping Frac Fluid on Rt 19 approximately 4 miles north of Washington,... more

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Corrections Corporation of America's Illegal Immigrant Prison in San Diego

Corrections Corporation of America operates a one of there for profit facilities in... more

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The LSD Blotter Art Gallery + Mind States Highzzz documentary

Blotter Art is a term that refers to the artwork that liquid LSD is dropped onto. The... more

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One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

At the heart of the controversy over "body scanners" is a promise: The... more

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Life And Death On The Border: Vanguard Premiere

Vanguard correspondent Christof Putzel travels to the U.S./Mexico border to... more

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This election day...Just Say No! - Lexington courts | Examiner.com

Former Soldiers like, Mike Prysner, come together to tell why they oppose war: Our... more

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Think Progress » GRAPHIC: How The Chamber Gets Its Foreign Money

Faiz Shakir, a reporter at ThinkProgress.org has uncovered money donated to the... more

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Report: Lou Dobbs Employed Illegal Immigrants! - Hipocracy

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Lou Dobbs has long railed against illegal immigration and the employers who hire undocumented workers. Dobbs generated controversy — and faced boycotts — for attacking "illegal aliens" as host of a nightly CNN show. And since leaving the network in December, Dobbs has kept talking about the issue in interviews, in which he's also left open the possibility of running for senator or president.

But Dobbs might want to pause before making illegal immigration a signature campaign issue: At least five illegal immigrants have reportedly worked on his properties.

The liberal Nation magazine, in a yearlong investigation conducted with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute, found that "Dobbs has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of his multimillion-dollar estates and the horses he keeps for his 22-year-old daughter, Hillary, a champion show jumper."

The Nation's Isabel Macdonald writes that while Dobbs has bashed employers for hiring immigrants without papers, he "has been far from vigilant about the status of workers laboring on his own properties." (The Nation has long editorialized against Dobbs and those who agree with him on immigration.)

Dobbs owns a 300-acre estate in Sussex, N.J., and a winter home in West Palm Beach, Fla. His daughter keeps five show horses worth about $1 million each at several stables; the horses are owned by the Dobbs Group, of which Lou Dobbs is president.

Macdonald spoke with several immigrants who were employed to work on winter property and helped with the upkeep of Dobbs' horses at stables in Vermont and Florida. "I looked after Dobbs' horses while I was illegal," said one man. Another worker said that he believed Hillary Dobbs knew they didn't have papers. (The workers did not give their real names for fear of deportation.)

Macdonald wrote that another worker worked on the garden at Dobbs' Florida property. On one occasion, that worker said, Lou Dobbs — who referred to himself as "Luis" — instructed him in Spanish to talk to his boss about moving a specific plant. Macdonald interviewed other immigrants who worked at the holiday home.

Hillary Dobbs did not comment for the article. And Lou Dobbs, through a radio producer on "The Lou Dobbs Show," declined to comment. Robert Zeller, Dobbs' attorney, said Dobbs would answer questions only on his live radio show; the Nation agreed to be on the show, but only after publication.

Dobbs has not yet responded to a request from The Upshot to discuss the allegations, which are sure to get attention given the commentator's very public views on the subject. The Nation compiled a video of Dobbs' past statements:;_ylt=Au1bDgfQisvvnYBg6P1tO9th24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTQ0aG0wYWVqBGFzc2V0Ay9zL3libG9nX3Vwc2hvdC9... more

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