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Archive for March, 2014
Chomsky on Unionizing Universities
Noam Chomsky Addresses the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers Edited transcript of remarks given by Chomsky via Skype on 4 February 2014 to a gathering of members and allies of the Adjunct Faculty Association of the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh, PA. The tra[...]
March 10th, 2014 - 12:08 pm § in Misc.
Legal Thuggery in South Carolina
Attorney who extorted $1 million from clients gets 63 months in prison, Claims Bad Heart as Defense This horrific story of attorney abuse is all too typical of the real world where attorneys get away with thuggery by making threats. How many of you have received threats from an attorney claiming th[...]
March 10th, 2014 - 11:15 am § in Misc.
How Does A Company Based on a Virtual Coin Go Bankrupt?
(Reuters) – Mt. Gox, once the world’s biggest bitcoin exchange, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on Friday, saying it may have lost nearly half a billion dollars worth of the virtual coins due to hacking into its faulty computer system. Clearly, traders didn’t use the bitco[...]
March 10th, 2014 - 7:57 am § in Misc.
Letter from South Carolina
This letter serves as formal notification that we wish you to immediately cease all writing on your blog about either of us or about the State of South Carolina where we reside. The tone and frequency of your communications are intolerable and we consider them to be harassment. We have previously [...]
March 10th, 2014 - 7:22 am § in The Ave Scene
Endorsement for Chair of UW Faculty Senate: Mark Haselkorn
I would like to urge the election of Mark Hazelkorn as the new Vice Chair of the Faculty Senate. If elected, Mark will serve in 2015 as the Chair of the Senate. This endorsement does not come lightly. As readers of the Ave know I have been critical of the Faculty Senate and feel strongly [&helli[...]
March 10th, 2014 - 4:27 am § in America
DIC … the D is for diabetes and the industrial complex.
The Diabetes-Industrial Complex As with the companies that profit from the “military industrial complex,” companies like Novo Nordisk, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Johnson & Johnson com are only the biggest and most visible parts of the vast “diabetes ind[...]
March 9th, 2014 - 12:15 pm § in The Ave Scene
Danny Westneat at Seattle Times has a Good Idea: Why shouldn’t WA woo Airbus?
Screw Boeing. Airbus tries to get into U.S. markets, so why not woo them to WA State? So Boeing is no longer a WA state company despite the largest ever offer of a state pay off if the now Chicago based predator plane company builds its 777x here. Danny Westneat points out that WA did […][...]
Legal Thuggery: Louisiana Sends Cease and Desist to Move On
Louisiana Charges Move On with Violating The State’s Trademarks! Louisiana Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne sent a cease-and-desist letter to MoveOn, demanding that s billboard criticizing Gov. Bobby Jindal for not expanding Medicaid under Obamacare be dismantled. It is currently stationed alongsid[...]
Message From Outer Space
Dear Earthlings, Your fellow humans will be returned to you after we lobotomize them and implant new brain chips. Unfortunately, their aircraft didn’t survive the trip through the wormhole, so you won’t be getting it back. Signed, The Aliens Author’s Note: The characters and even[...]