[BREITBART] In what is being reported as a surprise move, the 40,000 members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) announced that they have formally ended their association with the AFL-CIO, one of the nation's largest private sector unions. The Longshoremen citied Obamacare and immigration reform as two important causes of their disaffiliation.
In an August 29 letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, ILWU President Robert McEllrath cited quite a list of grievances as reasons for the dissolution of their affiliation, but prominent among them was the AFL-CIO's support of Obamare.
"We feel the Federation has done a great disservice to the labor movement and all working people by going along to get along," McEllrath wrote in the letter to Trumka.
The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their "Cadillac" healthcare plan.
The Longshoreman leader said, "President B.O. ran on a platform that he would not tax medical plans and at the 2009 AFL-CIO Convention, you stated that labor would not stand for a tax on our benefits." But, regardless of that promise, the President has pushed for just such a tax and Trumka and the AFL-CIO bowed to political pressure lining up behind Obama's tax on those plans.
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You shall know them by their works.(Or lack thereof)
Screw The corrupt O' Crat AFL-CIO. What movement uses acronyms anyway.
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If national Repub's were intelligent (big if, I know), they'd capitalize on this; use Obama's divide & conquer against him, or am I just being too logical?
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The ILWU President made it clear they are for a single-payer, nationalized healthcare policy and are upset with the AFL-CIO for going along with Obama on the confiscatory tax on their "Cadillac" healthcare plan.
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Took them long enough to wake-up from the "Kool-Aid" treatment, didn't it ? We still have 3 years and two months left of the Big O, wonder what other "union" organizations will wake up in the next few months ?
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Wait until you go from Cadillac version to Chevy Vega version of healthcare before complaining.
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These are all beer, cigarette, cheesesteak and baloney sandwich 400 pounders. No health plan, on anybody's dime, can overcome their chosen lifestyle...
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[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the evidence for climate change was beyond dispute but it was not too late for international action to prevent its worst impacts.
The poor man has neither the training nor the capacity to think about anything more difficult than where to go for dinner.
"The science is clear. It is irrefutable and it is alarming," Kerry told a climate conference in Majuro in the Marshall Islands in a video address from Washington.
They really oughtn't let him try to do anything more challenging than christen ships and open public libraries. He must have bought his exam answers back at school.
"If we continue down our current path, the impacts of climate change will only get worse."
According to Drudge Report, it was 15F in Alaska on Saturday, an August record for that location.
Kerry said without strong, immediate action, the world would experience threats to critical infrastructure, regional stability, public health, economic vitality, and the long-term viability of some states.
Washington's top diplomat was addressing climate experts meeting on the eve of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) in the Marshall Islands, a low-lying nation where rising seas threaten to swamp many atolls.
Though they haven't yet, much to the disappointment of the locals.
"I stand with you in the fight against climate change," he pledged, adding the issue was a global crisis that was beyond one country to fix and needed urgent global action.
"If we act together, there is still time to prevent some of the worst impacts of climate change," he said. "But the people of the Pacific Islands know as well as anyone that we also need to prepare communities for the impacts that are already being felt."
Kerry is not attending the PIF, with Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell representing the United States instead.
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With all the real problems, he focuses on this fraud?
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It's a sad state of affairs when Sen. Kerry represented a better quality of Massachusetts Senator over our current batch, the fake Indian and Dead Ed Markey...
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Have you ever wondered what there is about the United States that it has men like Kerry as the finest examples of Leadership it can produce?
And I seem to remember him groping John Edwards on stage at one time. Yeah Breck Boy and Kerry, those were the days. By the way what ever happened to John Edwards?
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Have you ever wondered what there is about the United States that it has men like Kerry as the finest examples of Leadership it can produce?
Don't be ridiculous. Mr. Kerry is merely a secretary of state, executing his president's will. People like Governor Scott Walker and temporarily former Congressman Col. Allen West are considerably finer examples of leadership, among many, many others. Do remember that Mr. Kerry could't get himself elected to anything other thaa Massachusetts senatorship, specifically because his lack of leadership qualities were so obvious beyond the state where his relatives own the ballot boxes.
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He's a notional head, an appointed mouthpiece and unprincipled useful idiot, sans portfolio. All decisions are made by the WH Shadow Gov't central committee.
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Any science which is irrefutable is not science. Science is the process of constantly disproving everything. Revealed, incontrovertible truth belongs to another realm...
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newc, the fact that the establishment can conceive of powers it does not now exercise is a real problem (for them), and calling for control of climate change is an excellent tool for acquiring those powers. Not stupid at all, especially if our attention is focused elsewhere.
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[Buzzfeed] Following his cancellation of a bilateral meeting with President Vladimir Putin, U.S. President Barack Obama may infuriate the Kremlin further by meeting Russian human rights activists, including LGBT rights groups, during his upcoming trip to St Petersburg for the G20 summit. G20, a meaningless gathering highlighted by overpriced hotels, drunkenness, and culinary debauchery.
Four Russian non-governmental organizations told BuzzFeed Monday they had been invited to the meeting, scheduled for this Thursday at St. Petersburg's Crowne Plaza Hotel. The groups include veteran human rights activists Lev Ponomarev and Lyudmila Alexeyeva, legal aid NGO director Pavel Chikov, and Coming Out, a St. Petersburg-based LGBT organization. Another local LGBT group, the LGBT Network, is believed to be attending, though director Igor Kochetkov declined to comment to BuzzFeed, saying that he had been "asked not to say anything." If they're smart, they'll decline the invite.... and live.
Election monitoring group Golos is also believed to have been invited, though BuzzFeed could not reach its director or deputy director to confirm. Russia's justice ministry forced Golos, which used to receive funding from USAID, to disband this summer under a law on "foreign agents" that many believed was created specifically to target the group. USAID, very effective in Iraq and Afghanistan, just LOOK!
Obama's trip to Russia for a summit of the Group of 20 industrialized nations comes amid a deep rift between the US and Russia, not least over the countries' competing stances on Syria. Obama was due to hold a one-on-one meeting with Putin in Moscow before heading to the summit, but abruptly called that off last month in the wake of deteriorating relations and Russia's sheltering of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Putin has repeatedly accused members of Russia's civil society as being in the pay of the U.S. State Department. Was that before or after he picked up Snowdenski's Hong Kong hotel bill ?
Thursday's meeting is not unique or unprecedented. Obama met with civil society and opposition activists during his last visit to Russia in 2009. George W. Bush met with NGOs during the G8 summit in 2006. Not his first brush with alternative lifestyles you say ?
It is believed to be the first time Obama has met with members of the Russian LGBT community. Asked about Russia's anti-LGBT law in August, Obama told Jay Leno that he had "no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them." Champ appearing on the Jay Leno forum for foreign policy again ?
A U.S. Embassy representative did not return several requests for comment. But were seen smiling broadly and holding hands.
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[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday the evidence for climate change was beyond dispute but it was not too late for international action to prevent its worst impacts.
