Funny, must have missed the part in the Constitution where it was written that citizens had the choice of getting skewered by companies or hung by government. Don't recall either of those rights and privileges in the document the founders passed around to the states.
Nor does any state constitution contain them.
Isn't something desperately wrong here?
Having been born and raised in Wisconsin, I am proud of the direct action taken by citizens and public officials in the face of such irresponsibility. While disappointed with Walker's victory, I hardly think he made this farcial "plan" known in any campaign speech. No, this is something one keeps in the bag until one's victory is confirmed. Having read and heard the entirety of his rationale for such cost-cutting, I see many errors in logic, or even critical thinking.
As the article points out, it was a constant and expensive media barrage that put him over the top in November.
One can hardly believe all the pies in which the Koch Brothers have a finger. In this, the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision bulldozed the way clear for such billionaires, millionaires, and multi-national corporations (which need not be American) to donate however much they want to any campaign, anywhere they want. Because a corporation should have the same rights as a citizen. Let that sink in.
By the way, if a corporation has these same rights, can I thence sue, or swear out a criminal complaint against, a corporation for libel, slander, environmental law-breaking, tax evasion, misrepresentation, money laundering, etc? Or, in fact, was the CU decision just so much garbage?
Republican, and Ronald Reagan Appointee, Sandra Day O'Connor's legal opinion seems to bear this out. The former Supreme Court Justice came out strongly against this ruling in her address at the Georgtown University Law Center. To this, she also warned that the decision has the potential to destroy the independence of the judicial branch, since so many districts and states elect their judges.
You seem to think that Whole Foods, which DID cave to the pressure, from their internal profit-makers, should not be focused on. I disagree, their caving was central to allowing the approval of GMOs to be offically given by the USDA. Whole Foods did not, and does not, want to be known far and wide as selling foods tainted with GMOs, which independent tests have shown to be the case. They call them "natural" when in fact they are nothing but the same GMO-tainted foods you could buy - for a whole lot less, at that - in a Safeway store. They are doing two things:
1) covering their butts, so they now won't be so liable to false advertising claims, and
2) can go on selling GMOs in their stores at inflated prices. And you want to excuse them? I don't think so.
Their caving in, along with the others, now will result shortly in there being no non-GMO alfalfa left in the U.S., at least. You apparently don't know or care about a number of issues;
1) in one growing season, a field of GMO alfalfa next to an organic field of alfalfa will 'infect' that organic field so that it can not be considered organic any more, as it will show up as GMO to testing.
2) Estimates are that in one or two years at most, there will be no non-GMO alfalfa left from such 'infection'
3) Monsanto has very cleverly made their GMO seed so that it is only good for one growing season, and
4) Monsanto also has lobbied successfully to have laws passed that state that if a field of non-GMO crop is infected by having been grown next to a field of GMO crop, that seed from the non-GMO crop belongs to Monsanto, because they have patented their product.
Check the laws. Still think Whole Foods should get a pass on this? They had to know this was the case, and chose to cave in so that they could help their short-term bottom line.
It is time to boycott. I don't know of a better way to let Whole Foods and the others know they do NOT get a free pass for what they have done.
There is without a doubt a "kill switch" on internet service here in America. We also have without a doubt the most sophisticated spy net and mis-information agency that has ever existed. Consider the fact that Mubaric was a puppet of our corporate driven "democracy". What should be troubling is despite the fact that taxpayers spend over $50 billion each and every year on the C.I.A., there was apparently no "intelligence" about such a significant event. Could this be because we are spying on our own citizens too much? We need a kill switch for other dictatorships and the repressive regimes that support them. We need to kill the secrecy that protects the true terrorists from exposure. We need a kill switch for the ability of tyrants to consolidate media and control the flow of information to such an extent that we become ignorant of the impending doom that organizations such as the G-20 are secretly planning for freedom and democracy in the new world order.
Thanks to CMD I am more aware of the effort to undermine the workers and give all the control to the power elite. I am glad you can balance the hype all around me.
You seem to think that Whole Foods, which DID cave to the pressure, from their internal profit-makers, should not be focused on. I disagree, their caving was central to allowing the approval of GMOs to be offically given by the USDA. Whole Foods did not, and does not, want to be known far and wide as selling foods tainted with GMOs, which independent tests have shown to be the case. They call them "natural" when in fact they are nothing but the same GMO-tainted foods you could buy - for a whole lot less, at that - in a Safeway store. They are doing two things:
1) covering their butts, so they now won't be so liable to false advertising claims, and
2) can go on selling GMOs in their stores at inflated prices. And you want to excuse them? I don't think so.
Their caving in, along with the others, now will result shortly in there being no non-GMO alfalfa left in the U.S., at least. You apparently don't know or care about a number of issues;
1) in one growing season, a field of GMO alfalfa next to an organic field of alfalfa will 'infect' that organic field so that it can not be considered organic any more, as it will show up as GMO to testing.
2) Estimates are that in one or two years at most, there will be no non-GMO alfalfa left from such 'infection'
3) Monsanto has very cleverly made their GMO seed so that it is only good for one growing season, and
4) Monsanto also has lobbied successfully to have laws passed that state that if a field of non-GMO crop is infected by having been grown next to a field of GMO crop, that seed from the non-GMO crop belongs to Monsanto, because they have patented their product.
Check the laws. Still think Whole Foods should get a pass on this? They had to know this was the case, and chose to cave in so that they could help their short-term bottom line.
It is time to boycott. I don't know of a better way to let Whole Foods and the others know they do NOT get a free pass for what they have done.
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