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Archive for February 15th, 2014
Union Vote Fails in Tennessee
Right Wing Tactics Block Union in Tennessee The UAW and Volkswagon worked together to offer workers in Tennessee a plan very similar to the plans that work well In Germany. Despite support from management the vote failed after Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee claimed that that he was told that VW woul[...]
Russia: Putin backs dictator for Egypt
Putin backs Egypt army chief’s run for president MOSCOW (AP) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday wished Egypt’s military chief victory in the nation’s presidential vote, even though he has yet to announce his bid – a strong endorsement signaling Moscow’[...]
A Scot Views Seattle
Real Change Ever notice this man? He is an important part of Seattle, a vendor for “Real Change” You should buy the paper. The paper was founded to provide opportunity and a voice for low-income and homeless people. The transformational magic of Real Change resides in the 1[...]
DAVEY JONES: Shipboard culture
Bitchy Captains Sorry its taken me a while to get back to you, a lack of sleep both due to time changes, some major, and a few minor, repairs and a ship trying to get back on schedule, have taken my time. Back to The Maersk Alabama, and its former captain. You asked me to […][...]
CHINA: Liu Xiaobo
Liu Xia speaks out from house arrest Wife of China dissident Liu Xiaobo reads two of her new poems in footage screened at international writers’ event in New York How China treats a peace prize winner’s wife[...]
Buchenwald 21: Five years and seven months after my father’s death
Five and a half years after my father’s death, my brother Hugh Schwartz and his co-executor Martin Miasserian, still refuse to allow my father’s pictures to be preserved and made public. The pictures, as described elsewhere on THE Ave, were made when then Captain Robert Schwartz, along w[...]
Bill Quick is Right
Bill Spews: “I have challenged the author (SMS) to produce any e-mail or other documentation that I used the words “psychotic” or “psychosis” to describe him. He was unable to produce any such correspondence. I asked him to remove the sentence at this blogpost that falsely sta[...]