“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the
government fears the people there is liberty.”
How is it that a congress with only 10% approval rating from
the people but has no fear of the people.
Is it because through legislation passed by this congress ensures that
the people have no say about the outcome of elections? After the passage of Citizens United which
wrested the right to elect our leaders from the hands of the people and placed
the power into the hands of special interests and billionaires, government no
longer fears the people.
The American people have no power and suffer greatly from
the actions of the treacherous congress.
Members of congress and the CIA controlled media are engaged in “divide
and conquer” in America in order to preserve their power and wealth at the
expense of the American people. These
are the same tactics we have seen most recently in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and
Rwanda. Divide and conquer, capitalize
on the peoples differences and choose one side over the other to stoke racial
hatred and division.
The “Never Trump” faction brought into the White House by
Mike Pence with the consent of our treacherous congress is now demanding Trump be
impeached for his speaking the truth about the alt-Right and alt-Left outbreak
of violence in Charlottesville over the weekend. Members of Pence’s “Alliance for American
Manufacturing” who represent capitalist America who has crushed the American
worker, are resigning from the council in protest to Trump’s “insensitivity.”
CEOs to Trump: 'We
quit'
“Several CEOs and business leaders
— the heads of Merck, Intel, Under Armour, the AFL-CIO, and the Alliance for
American Manufacturing — have stepped down from President Trump's advisory
councils following his initial remarks about violent protests in
Charlottesville, Va. Now Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon has criticized the
president, saying he "missed a critical opportunity to help bring our
country together," but that he'll stay on the council. • Will there be
more CEOs backing away from Trump?
The CEO’s on the council, who were selected by VP Mike Pence
in order to continue the Deep State’s war on American workers now jump ship. After President Trump failed to side with one
over the other after the violent outbreak that resulted when properly permitted
protesters were attacked by likely paid non-permitted violent protesters. Comically Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon said “he
missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together,” but he’ll stay
on the council. Not likely he’ll miss
the opportunity to keep his snout in the trough.
Wal-Mart CEO Doug
McMillon:
What a profile in courage.
Wal-Mart whose slave wages cannot sustain a family and whose own workers
can’t even afford to shop at Wal-Mart, relies on government handouts to
maintain the gross profits that make the Walton Family some of the richest in
the world. From Zero Hedge:
Excerpt:
WalMart "Absolutely Shafted" Washington DC; Here's How
It’s been nearly a year since a grinning Doug McMillon recorded a
video message to the world in which he explained that WalMart was set to raise
the minimum wage for its lowest paid employees.
After all, McMillon said, “it’s our people that make the difference.” 11 months later, those “people” (the lowly shelf stockers and cashiers) aren’t
materially better off than they were before, because handing someone
$10/hour instead of $9 is such a small concession that you might as well have
done nothing. In other words, $10 is no more of a “living wage” than $9 is…
First WalMart tried squeezing the supply chain by asking vendors to
pass along savings to Bentonville and by charging a variety of storage fees. When that didn’t work, the company started
firing people and cutting hours…
Some of the cuts came at the home
office in Bentonville, meaning that the move to put a few extra pennies
in the pockets of hourly workers resulted in the loss of hundreds of
breadwinner jobs… Earlier this month
WalMart doubled down on the wage hike debacle by promising to raise wages for employees higher up the corporate ladder…
The retailer announced the new wave of
raises just days after saying it would close 269 stores and fire 16,000 people…
"The nation’s capital is now losing about 700 jobs a year at
restaurants, hotels and other leisure and hospitality sector venues, a
sharp reversal from the gain of 2,000 such jobs per year the city was enjoying before it hiked the minimum wage by 27%,
first from $8.25 to $9.50 an hour in July 2014 and then to $10.50 in July
2015." Here's more:
Now, as D.C. employers brace for
yet-another minimum-wage hike to $11.50 set for this coming July, Wal-Mart has called off two of the city’s
most-prized retail developments.
Wal-Mart said it would close 154 stores in the U.S., mostly
small-format locations. But even as the nation’s biggest retailer said it would
keep opening supercenters, including 50 to 60 in the coming year, it
told District officials that it won’t go forward with plans for two huge stores
that were expected to create hundreds of new jobs in ONE OF THE CITY’S POORER
SECTIONS.
What some hollow words from Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon in
his criticism of President Trump, “he
missed a critical opportunity to help bring our country together.” What a joke, President Trump being schooled
by Wal-Mart CEO Doug McMillon on how to bring the country together.
Merck CEO Ken
Frazier:
Ken Frazier, CEO of Merck a Big Pharma company responsible
for thousands of deaths was first to resign.
From Natural News:
Excerpt:
Memo to Merck CEO Ken Frazier: Your company has easily killed 100,000
times the number of those killed in Charlottesville violence
In case you haven’t heard, Merck
CEO Ken Frazier resigned from President Trump’s manufacturing council, blaming Trump for the violence in
Charlottesville that killed one protester and two police officers (whose helicopter
fell out of the sky for yet-unknown reasons).
Yet Ken Frazier himself should be arrested and imprisoned for carrying out
mass chemical violence against all Americans through the fraudulent sales
of toxic, deadly prescription pharmaceuticals and vaccines manufactured and
sold by Merck on a daily basis. Nearly all of Merck’s drugs are “approved” by the FDA through an utterly
fraudulent process of fake science, cherry-picked clinical trials and
regulatory corruption and fraud.
Remember, Merck is the same company whose own virologists filed a False
Claims Act with the federal government, explaining they were ordered by Merck management to fake vaccine
trial results in order to “trick” the FDA. Merck’s entire mumps vaccine
operation is a complete and total fraud…
Merck is to medicine, in other words, what Monsanto is to the food
industry: They’re both steeped in evil, scientific fraud and deep
deception. The number of deaths in
Charlottesville absolutely pales in comparison to the number of Americans killed each year by Merck and other pharmaceutical
giants. As PharmaDeathClock.com documents in real time, chemotherapy drugs have killed 17.6 million
people since the year 2000. SSRI drugs have killed over 700,000 people, and
the generic category of “prescription drugs” shows at least 400,000 deaths.
Merck’s share of these deaths is
substantial. So why aren’t millions of Americans marching in the streets to
demand Ken Frazier’s scalp? (The answer, of course, is that public outrage is entirely manipulated by
George Soros and the mainstream media to be directed at their political
targets. It has nothing at all to do with the truth about which
corporations or people are actually doing the most killing of innocents…)
Merck is also heavily involved in profiting off the opioid addiction
epidemic that’s now ravaging America while generating record profits for
companies like Merck. If anyone is committing
mass violence against America, it’s people like Merck CEO Ken Frazier, a
person who belongs behind bars for his continued sacrificing of human beings
for corporate profits. The violence in Charlottesville is nothing at all
compared to the violence carried out by Merck’s vaccine division alone, not to
mention its other drugs.
Disgusting, what a profile in courage on the part of Merck’s
Ken Frazier. Don’t let the door hit you
in the ass on the way out.
Intel's CEO Brian
Krzanich
Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich joined the cadre of clowns to
jump out of the “Alliance for American Manufacturing” clown car stating "Earlier
today, I tendered my resignation from the American Manufacturing Council. I
resigned to call attention to the serious harm our divided political climate is
causing to critical issues, including the serious need to address the decline of
American manufacturing.”
Bleech. Oh please, can someone
hand me a Wal-Mart barf bag. From
Breitbart:
Excerpt:
Intel Lays Off 12,000 After Seeking Visas to Import 14,523 Foreign
Professionals Since 2010
Technology giant Intel announced
April 19 it will fire 12,000 skilled
U.S.-based professionals — after already swelling its workforce with 14,523
requests in Washington D.C. since 2010 for visas to import foreign professionals through the controversial H-1B and
Green Card programs.
The company said the layoffs were
part of a restructuring plan to help shift its focus from desktop PCs to mobile
devices. But the company is very
profitable, and first-quarter 2016 profits
were 14 percent above predictions.
Amid the layoffs, Intel is one of the nation’s largest users of the
H-1B outsourcing program which allows companies such as Disney and Abbot
Laboratories to replace white-collar
American professionals with cheaper professionals from India, China, and
other countries.
Intel has insisted that it cannot find enough skilled American workers to
fill its needs. From 2010 to 2015, it filed requests for up to 8,351 H-1B
visas, plus 5,172 applications for permanent Green Cards for its foreign
employees, according to MyVisasJobs.com. That data shows the company sought to hire 14,523 foreign professionals
instead of many Americans eager to work at Intel.
So long, farewell auf wiedersehen, adieu. Those words are too kind for a parasite like
Brian Krzanich. What the hell kind of
council is “Alliance for American Manufacturing.” It sounds like a group
organized by the Deep State to kill of what few good paying American jobs remain.
Under Armour CEO
Kevin Plank
Under Armour CEO Kevin Plan resigned from Trump’s “Alliance
for American Manufacturing” saying “Under Armour engages in innovation and
sports, not politics" Plank said in a statement. He said he would
"continue to focus my efforts on inspiring every person that they can do
anything through the power of sport which promotes unity, diversity and inclusion." Oh, what noble words. But those words don’t apply to Under Armour whose
sweat shirts are made in foreign sweat shops.
From Baltimore Sun:
Excerpt:
For Under Armour, why not 'UA Made in the USA'?
Wondering why Under Armour couldn't
make some products in U.S.
When I consider what Kevin Plank,
the CEO of Under Armour, has going on — running a global sports apparel company that broke $3 billion in sales last year;
developing a new hotel in Fells Point across the harbor from UA's Baltimore HQ;
rolling out a sparkling vision for the redevelopment of Port Covington,
including a whiskey distillery; raising thoroughbred racehorses on historic
Sagamore Farm — all I can say is: Whew!
Plank has proven to be a smart
businessman and a good citizen of Baltimore and Maryland. The only
thing that seems to be missing from Plank's big plans is a factory that would
put his fellow Marylanders to work making some of the products Under Armour
sells around the world…
But why couldn't Under Armour
stitch together some of its products here — in a Maryland city or town, where jobs are needed — and market them
as "UA Made in the USA"? Doesn't
that declaration have cachet with its young, hip and fit customer base?
Would the men and women who already like and buy UA products pay a few
bucks more for clothing manufactured at Port Covington, or on the Eastern
Shore or, say, near Cumberland in Allegany County?
Is Under Armour the NCAA's new cinderella
team?
Under Armour is making waves in
NCAA basketball, aiming for Nike's crown in the sneaker and apparel wars… Sam Poser, an expert analyst of the sports
apparel and shoes trade for the Sterne Agee investment group, said in a
telephone interview that, if Under
Armour could maintain quality and still make money, domestic manufacturing might be a possibility.
Product quality, he said, is vital to the UA brand, and product
quality is tied to manufacturing costs. And
cheap labor makes product quality sustainable… But it seems that, if Under Armour were to
make a choice to have a limited manufacturing operation here, it could save other costs, starting with
shipping…
Products made in the U.S. are
likely have a smaller carbon footprint.
Most importantly, they would provide
jobs for people in a city or county where the unemployment usually runs higher
than Maryland's statewide rate.
Recently, Under Armour tried to woo
NBA All-Star Kevin Durant to endorse UA's basketball shoes over Nike's. Plank's company offered Durant $280 million
over 10 years. Durant still went with Nike, but clearly, as it surpasses
Adidas and gains a bigger piece of the athletic footwear and apparel market,
Under Armour has money to invest.
Maybe the company could invest some
of it in American manufacturing.
"Imagine if they took $280 million that they were going to pay
Kevin Durant and used that to pay U.S. workers," David Scharff, a
Baltimore physician, wrote me in an email after I suggested in a recent column
that Under Armour get into manufacturing at home. "How many Baltimoreans
could they employ with $28 million a year?
Two-hundred-and-eighty workers making $100,000 (pay, 401k, health benefits).
What would it be worth in marketing value? What advantage over Nike would that
be in the marketplace?"
It certainly seems like a way to
differentiate a product line: "UA Made in the USA."
Thank God and Greyhounds he’s gone. Can you imagine what Kevin Plant brought to
the table of the “Alliance for American Manufacturing?”
Scott N. Paul former
lobbyist for AFL-CIO and leader of AFL-CIO Richard Trumpka
The latest Rats to abandon the Pence selected ship of rats
a/k/a “Alliance for American Manufacturing” council are Scott N. Paul and
Richard Trumpka. I have chosen to couple
these two rats as they are both longtime Democratic tools who have failed
America’s trade unions while enriching themselves. Paul, feigning indignation stated “I’m
resigning from the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative because it's the right thing
for me to do” while Trumpka said he was “stepping down from Trump’s
manufacturing council “effective immediately.”
Good riddance. From Black Agenda Report:
Excerpt:
Freedom Rider: The Defeat of American Workers
American workers have been
completely crushed by capitalism. That is the goal of the capitalists after all
but working people in this country have fallen further and faster because they are without any political friends
and because they declare allegiance to a compromised political party.
The evidence can be seen in the
vote against union representation at the Renault-Nissan plant in Canton,
Mississippi. Additional proof of the
assault can be seen in the decision by the state of Wisconsin to promise
electronics giant Foxconn $3 billion in subsidies to create 3,000 jobs.
Foreign auto makers and other
industries have been building plants in southern states for many years. That region of the United States is the
modern day embodiment of enslavement and Jim Crow segregation. It is among
the most conservative regions, has little history of unionization and is always
run by the white peoples’ party, which for the last 50 years have been the
Republicans…
Mississippi won the race to the
bottom to lure the Renault-Nissan corporation to build a plant in Canton, a
suburb of Jackson, in 2000. The state
made good on its promises and has given Renault-Nissan over $1.3 billion in
subsidies...
Mississippi is a state which ranks last in anything good and first
in everything bad. It is one of the
poorest states with one of the most reactionary political systems. The
large black population is under constant political assault. Medicaid expansion
was rejected, SNAP benefit recipients are required to work for benefits or
suffer from hunger.
… the state of Wisconsin and the
Donald Trump administration announced another theft of public assets to benefit a multi-national corporate giant
and once again under the guise of helping workers. Foxconn, maker of LCD
screens for Apple and other companies, announced plans to open a plant in
Wisconsin in 2020. That state agreed to
give Foxconn $3 billion in tax incentives and pay $200 million every year in
order to keep 3,000 people employed…
If the state of Wisconsin wants to provide 3,000 jobs it could simply
hire 3,000 people, but employment is obviously not the real point.
Wisconsin is under complete Republican control, the worst of the worst as it
were, with the Koch brothers and their ilk in charge. In 2011 they succeeded in ending collective bargaining rights for
state employees. The Obama administration neither said nor did anything on
behalf of these workers. Other Democrats and labor unions chose to involve
themselves in a losing electoral recall campaign and ended up with ignominious
defeat for themselves and their voters.
These two states exemplify how the two wings of the political duopoly
work together to eviscerate workers rights. The far right Republicans are
openly hostile and the center right Democrats talk a good game. Unions also deserve some of the blame.
They cling to the Democrats, even when they do less and less for their members.
Union leaders are like many Democrats,
political chumps, locked in the duopoly with a party that is dismissive of
them and their people and never daring to make demands…
The Democratic Party recently made
a big announcement about a “better deal”
for working people that is even more insulting than their usual rhetoric. Despite
all of the fanfare the deal doesn’t even advocate for an increase in the
minimum wage. It says only that “many Democrats are calling to increase the
minimum wage” and then presents a plan
to raise the minimum to $15 per hour but not until 2024. This legislation
is co-sponsored by the “revolutionary” Bernie Sanders… But
the Democrats don’t care about worker rights any more than Republicans do…
Wisconsin residents will be on the hook for billions of dollars to
Foxconn. Not only are their pockets going to be picked but the deal allows Foxconn to bypass environmental and other
regulatory approvals so that it can dredge wet lands and access fresh water
from lake Michigan. Theft of public funds and environmental degradation
will all happen with an assist from government officials.
Make no mistake about it.
The violent outburst in Charlottesville was the result of radical
factions on both the right and left funded by billionaires to marginalize the
power of the people. The real threat is
to the political elite member of congress who will do anything to preserve
their power and wealth. President Trump
is a threat to the status quo and by refusing to condemn one side and exonerate
the other, he has exposed the violent ploy for what it was. A ploy.
The “Alliance for American Manufacturing” is a Deep State
appointed council of billionaires whose job is to ensure the further
destruction of the American workforce. Our
brilliant President Trump basically told them to pound sand and disbanded the
councils that serve to further destroy the American worker. Good Riddance. Glad to see you bite the dust.
By Patricia Baeten
