Stand With Us is a Jewish organization intended to combat conflation of antisemitism and hatred of Israel. Their main target is the boycott movement, BDS. Here in the Northwest the current focus is opposing the Portland Human Rights Commission’s endorsement of a BDS proposal that Portland boyc[...]
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The Danger to The UW of an SEIU Union: BY THEIR FRIENDS SHALL YE KNOW THEM
….Matthew 7:16 The SEIU brings with it an agenda that few faculty are likely to accept and that certainly will turn off most legislators. The post on the left shows the problem . The organizations on this post are no more likely to get what the UW faculty wants from the legislature than an [...]
February 9th, 2015 - 1:53 am § in Misc.
The Ministry of Truth
Comcast has decided to turn every cable router on its network into a public wi-fi access point. DON’T CALL IT A MONOPOLY! While trying to buy out all of its competitors, Comcast is also trying to make its network available everywhere .. at the expense of its own customers! The idea is that[...]
November 17th, 2014 - 12:19 pm § in America
Facebook on Saul Alinsky
How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky (according to a right wing FB nut) There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important. 1) Healthcare- Control healthcare and you control the people …̷[...]
November 13th, 2014 - 1:18 pm § in Misc.
RADICAL REPUBLICANS: Huckabee and God
Sitting watching TV, the phone rang. Comcast showed a number someplace in Florida. I answered the phone. A new friend from Florida wanted to know whether I believe that we should have national prayer day. This friend told me that national prayer day was being threatened by militant atheists. Whil[...]
Does the University of Hawaii Practice Free Speech”
Is Regulated Free Speech Free? At the UW, faculty have complained that the AAUP has restricted the use of its listserv to speak out on the issue of boycotting Israel as an occupying country. While I oppose the boycott, I am even more disturbed by the lack of a free discussion. Two examples from t[...]
March 16th, 2014 - 1:21 pm § in The Ave Scene
Wolf of Wall Street: An Amazon Alternative?
We are waiting for Wolf of Wall Street to be a free show on Cable. Seems appropriate given the theme. Funny thing about that sort of movie. As fewer movies are made and as Comcast expands its empire, our choices of movies is becoming limited by what “they” want us to see. [...]
February 22nd, 2014 - 8:49 am § in America
What is Monopsony?
We all know what a monopoly: is one seller with many buyers. Exxon’s ancestor, Standard Oil, controlled all the oil in the US. A monopsony (pronounced muh-NOP-suh-nee) is one buyer with many sellers. So if Amazon become the only way of selling books, it will be a monopsony, the only op[...]
February 19th, 2014 - 9:21 am § in America
Schumer endorses BIG BROTHER!
What does Senator Schumer NOT understand? The merger of Comcast with Time Warner amounts to a takeover of America, a corporate coup. After coming out in support of Comcast’s proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Sen. Chuck Schumer ,,, a member of the Senate Anti Trust Committee, will REC[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Supreme Court Replaces First Amendment with Pay to Play Ruling
Supreme Court Strikes Down Overall Political Donation Cap New York Times - by Adam Liptak - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday continued its abolition of limits on election spending, striking down a decades-old cap on … Letter written by Lenin in 1921 Lenin G. Myasnikov [...]