Arrest Warrant Issued for Amy Goodman in North Dakota After Covering Pipeline Protest

[JimBowie1958]

Jim Bowie is one of the best posters here. Place wouldn't be the same without him.

Thanks, but I am sure this message board can survive without me.

And it wouldnt be the same without you either, would it?

I do appreciate your compliment though and I return it with heartfelt sincerity.

This place wouldnt be the same without you and every other voice that works to defend the Judeo-Christian civilization of Western Europe.

God has a role and use for everyone of us who try to fight the good fight.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Nothing new here.

 

[OffensivelyOpenMinded]

Jim Bowie is one of the best posters here. Place wouldn't be the same without him.

Thanks, but I am sure this message board can survive without me.

And it wouldnt be the same without you either, would it?

I do appreciate your compliment though and I return it with heartfelt sincerity.

This place wouldnt be the same without you and every other voice that works to defend the Judeo-Christian civilization of Western Europe.

God has a role and use for everyone of us who try to fight the good fight.

Amen.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

The issue is that today I read that the N Dakota AG said the pipeline wasn't crossing Indians burial grounds and will proceed as planned. Things could change 'cause you never know what bullcrap the tree huggers will come up with next.

Yeah... fuck Native Americans and trees......

You mean Indians. I'm a native American as I was born and reside in the US.
Word fascists need to be called out.

Actually, the word "Indians" comes from Christopher Columbus, when he first saw them and referred to them as "indios" (meaning in god's way as they were naked). It just got corrupted by Europeans as they came in. A more accurate description would be by their tribal (Lakhota, Cheyenne, et cetera) name or individual given names.

I'm aware. I'm referring to American culture and tradition. The 'Native American' bullshit is a fascist censorship play.

We call ourselves Indians and laugh at Native American.

That's refreshing.

 

[Tehon]

Amy Goodman, host and executive producer for Democracy Now, has been criminally charged for documenting attacks on indigenous protesters.

No, she was charged for criminal trespass, not for covering the protest.

Amazingly, you have sunk to a new level of stupid.

How so?

I got nothing. JimBowie1958 is an upstanding individual, a gentleman and a scholar. He is absolutely correct, Goodman was charged with trespass. Just part of the job I guess, she got the story.

Jim Bowie is one of the best posters here. Place wouldn't be the same without him.

Interested?

 

[JimBowie1958]

No, she was charged for criminal trespass, not for covering the protest.

Amazingly, you have sunk to a new level of stupid.

How so?

I got nothing. JimBowie1958 is an upstanding individual, a gentleman and a scholar. He is absolutely correct, Goodman was charged with trespass. Just part of the job I guess, she got the story.

Jim Bowie is one of the best posters here. Place wouldn't be the same without him.

 

[MikeK]

[...]

....but they are anti-America and anti-American values.

The Union Movement was and is by far the most important element in your entire listing -- and you think of it as "anti-American?"

How old are you? And what is your social background?

Instead of picking one or two minor....minor....and materialist endeavors, consider the heart of every Leftist iteration....

"Minor." You consider the Union Movement a "minor" issue? Again, how old are you? And what is your social background?

I will assume you are simply unaware of how beneficial the Union Movement has been to every ordinary American alive today, probably including you, your family and your friends.

 

[PoliticalChic]

[...]

....but they are anti-America and anti-American values.

The Union Movement was and is by far the most important element in your entire listing -- and you think of it as "anti-American?"

How old are you? And what is your social background?

Instead of picking one or two minor....minor....and materialist endeavors, consider the heart of every Leftist iteration....

"Minor." You consider the Union Movement a "minor" issue? Again, how old are you? And what is your social background?

I will assume you are simply unaware of how beneficial the Union Movement has been to every ordinary American alive today, probably including you, your family and your friends.

I won't embarrass you by demanding your age and your educational background.

I'll simply educate your myself.


"Communists in the United States Labor Movement
(1937–50)
The Communist Party (CP) and its allies played a role in the United States labor movement, particularly in the 1930s and 1940s, but never succeeded, with rare exceptions, either in bringing the labor movement around to its agenda or in converting their influence in any particular union into membership gains for the Party. The CP has had only negligible influence in labor since its supporters' defeat in internal union political battles in the aftermath of World War II and the CIO's (CIO) expulsion of unions in which the party held the most influence in 1950."
Communists in the United States Labor Movement (1937–50) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"....but never succeeded,..."

Of course, that is nonsense.





"AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’"
Those who doubt the connection between the communist party and the unions need only to read accounts of a recent awards ceremony to see how both groups view each other.

On Sunday, December 5, the Communist Party USA gave awards to a pair of labor leaders and a former state legislator and assistant attorney general.* Among the recipients was Connecticut AFL-CIO head John Olsen, who not only gladly accepted the award, but garnered “loud applause” when he said he stands with CPUSA." AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’

 

[PoliticalChic]

Trade unions are a school of communism.

-Vladimir Lenin

 

[MikeK]

[...]

Those who doubt the connection between the communist party and the unions need only to read accounts of a recent awards ceremony to see how both groups view each other.

On Sunday, December 5, the Communist Party USA gave awards to a pair of labor leaders and a former state legislator and assistant attorney general.* Among the recipients was Connecticut AFL-CIO head John Olsen, who not only gladly accepted the award, but garnered “loud applause” when he said he stands with CPUSA." AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’

The Communist Party did indeed exert some level of influence within the Labor Movement during its early stages, but only because of its Socialist aspect which the Labor Movement continues to manifest. But because Communism is useful only to peoples who are beset by otherwise inescapable destitution, and because American Union leaders of that era had complete confidence in the future of American Capitalism, the Communist Party's influence on the Union Movement remained tenuous and eventually dissolved.

Present references to Communism ("commies," etc.) in relation to unions is a tiresome gimmick of the far-right and is effective only where abject political ignorance prevails.

 

[MikeK]

Trade unions are a school of communism.

-Vladimir Lenin

Wishful exaggeration on his part. (Obviously not his only mistake.)

Trade unions plainly proved to be fundamentally essential to the growth of American Capitalism because of its critically important influence on accelerated circulation of the Nation's wealth resource. Without the increased wages effected by union activity circulation would have remained stagnant and there would not have been the phenomenal growth we experienced between the 40s and the 80s -- which was interrupted by Reagan's "trickle-down" scam.

Unions obviously are essential to capital expansion.

 

[PoliticalChic]

[...]

Those who doubt the connection between the communist party and the unions need only to read accounts of a recent awards ceremony to see how both groups view each other.

On Sunday, December 5, the Communist Party USA gave awards to a pair of labor leaders and a former state legislator and assistant attorney general.* Among the recipients was Connecticut AFL-CIO head John Olsen, who not only gladly accepted the award, but garnered “loud applause” when he said he stands with CPUSA." AFL-CIO Leader Accepts Communist Party Award: ‘I Stand With Them’

The Communist Party did indeed exert some level of influence within the Labor Movement during its early stages, but only because of its Socialist aspect which the Labor Movement continues to manifest. But because Communism is useful only to peoples who are beset by otherwise inescapable destitution, and because American Union leaders of that era had complete confidence in the future of American Capitalism, the Communist Party's influence on the Union Movement remained tenuous and eventually dissolved.

Present references to Communism ("commies," etc.) in relation to Unions is a tiresome gimmick of the far-right and is effective only where abject political ignorance prevails.

Backing up a little, Mikey?
Good.


"Present references to Communism ("commies," etc.) in relation to Unions is a tiresome gimmick of the far-right and is effective only where abject political ignorance prevails."
Think so?

You may recall this recent attempt by Leftists to infect the workplace...."The Employee Free Choice Act' so-called.....


The Democrat Party and the (communists) Unions demanded that they be able to strong arm workers into their 'cells'....unions, via what was called the Employee Free Choice Act....

"Under the current rules the secret ballot election takes place at a neutral location, typically the workplace in question. The NLRB, which oversees the process, has successfully conducted over 400,000 elections.5 It should be noted that the NLRB has a long history of running elections competently, and that this part of the process has received little criticism from any party. The party with the majority of votes cast wins the election. A tie results in the status quo being maintained.6 Under EFCA, a card check procedure is all that is necessary for a union to become recognized as the exclusive bargaining agent for all employees at a company. Under card check, when a union organizer has collected a majority of signatures from the employees at a particular workplace, the union is then automatically certified as the bargaining representative without an election.

The voting booth offers the anonymity that allows individuals to vote their conscience. By contrast, the card check process exposes employees to coercion in many different forms, which may include peer pressure, deceit, and intimidation—including visits to employees’ homes.

EFCA effectively will end secret ballot elections in union organizing drives. An employee who has signed an authorization card but who wishes to have it returned is at the mercy of the union, which has no obligation to give back a signed card. Card check in its current form is already bad enough. The Employee Free Choice Act would make it even worse."
https://cei.org/sites/default/files/Russ Brown - Ivan Osorio - EFCA OnPoint.pdf


Wadda ya' think.....American values on display there?



Or when the communist controlled the Hollywood unions and censored anti-communist works and workers?
Dalton Trumbo bragged about it in "The Daily Worker."
Before Liberals whined about a 'blacklist.'

 

[PoliticalChic]

Trade unions are a school of communism.

-Vladimir Lenin

Wishful exaggeration on his part. (Obviously not his only mistake.)

Trade unions plainly proved to be fundamentally essential to the growth of American Capitalism because of its critically important influence on accelerated circulation of the Nation's wealth resource. Without the increased wages effected by union activity circulation would have remained stagnant and there would not have been the phenomenal growth we experienced between the 40s and the 80s -- which was interrupted by Reagan's "trickle-down" scam.

Unions are essential to capital expansion.

"Unions are essential to capital expansion."

Really?

Is that why union membership is at an all time low?




"Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says"

Breaking News at Newsmax.com Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says

 

[PoliticalChic]

1. Now, about that euphoniously named “Employee Free Choice Act,” aka ‘card check,’ if you hate capitalism, this is the bill for you! 1) it eliminates secret ballot elections in favor of public ones: just pass a paper around the office, and if a majority of employees sign on, you have a union. Get it: a little take between you and the ‘organizers.” 2) the bill has no safeguards that mandate what ‘voting’ cards must look like, and 3) it would impose binding government arbitration if the employer and union fail to reach agreement within 90 days of a ‘new’ union being certified. (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0409/21509.html)

So, the Feds inform the employer of the ‘new salary and benefits.” Who owns the company? Capitalism or communism?



2. so·cial·ism/ˈsōSHəˌlizəm/
Noun: A political and economic theory of that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. More »
Wikipedia - Dictionary.com - Answers.com - Merriam-Webster

3. "In what may be the strongest signal yet of the new pro-labor orientation of the National Labor Relations Board under President Obama, the agency filed a complaint Wednesday seeking to force Boeing to bring an airplane production line back to its unionized facilities in Washington State instead of moving the work to a nonunion plant in South Carolina.

4. In its complaint, the labor board said that Boeing’s decision to transfer a second production line for its new 787 Dreamliner passenger plane to South Carolina was motivated by an unlawful desire to retaliate against union workers for their past strikes in Washington and to discourage future strikes."
HolyCoast.com: Obama Admin. to Boeing: You Can't Build a Plant in a Non-Union State



"Present references to Communism ("commies," etc.) in relation to Unions is a tiresome gimmick of the far-right and is effective only where abject political ignorance prevails."
Still think so?

 

[MikeK]

"Unions are essential to capital expansion."

Really?

Is that why union membership is at an all time low?

"Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says"

Breaking News at Newsmax.com Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says

And the Cost-Of-Living progress of American wages brought about by unions has proportionately diminished.

The present stagnation of American wages and the diminution of unions was initiated by Ronald Reagan, the hero of the politically ignorant right wing. He commenced it with an Executive Order which effectively dissolved the Air Traffic Controllers' union -- one of the most egregious act of political treachery in the history of labor relations. The subsequent progression of "Right-to-Work" states, another example of deplorable ignorance on the part of contemporary generations of working-class America, is putting the finishing touch on the Union Movement.

Right-wing propagandists, water-carriers of the monied elite, are responsible for the regression.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Of course....some folks imagine that 'workers' benefit.....you know, like the Soviet Union was 'the Worker's Paradise.'


"We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama -- $60.7 million to be exact -- and we're proud of it," boasted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, to the Las Vegas Sun this week. The behemoth labor organization's leadership is getting its money's worth. Whether rank-and-file workers and ordinary taxpayers are profiting from this ultimate campaign pay-for-play scheme is another matter entirely.
Big Labor's Investment in Obama Pays Off | RealClearPolitics



It's all about using workers for the efforts toward political power.....socialist/communist power.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Unions are essential to capital expansion."

Really?

Is that why union membership is at an all time low?

"Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says"

Breaking News at Newsmax.com Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says

And the Cost-Of-Living progress of American wages brought about by unions has proportionately diminished.

The present stagnation of American wages and the diminution of unions was initiated by Ronald Reagan, the hero of the politically ignorant right wing. He commenced it with an Executive Order which effectively dissolved the Air Traffic Controllers' union -- one of the most egregious act of political treachery in the history of labor relations. The subsequent progression of Right-to-Work" states, another example of deplorable ignorance on the part of contemporary generations of working-class America, is putting the finishing touch on the Union Movement.

Right-wing propagandists, water-carriers of the monied elite, are responsible for the regression.

"The present stagnation of American wages and the diminution of unions was initiated by Ronald Reagan,..."

Gads, Mikey...you believe every talking point of the Left, huh?


Check this out:

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577621083163383966.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics#Fiscal_consequences



And the tax cuts of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 stimulated economic growth. “As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,[1] similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid.” http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm

“As inflation came down and as more and more of the tax cuts from the 1981 Act went into effect, the economic began a strong and sustained pattern of growth.” http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

b. and c. http://www.kiva.org/team/real_americans



Obama and the Obamunits WISH they could point to those numbers.



And this:

Obama is the first President never to have had a year of 3% or better economic growth: "... annual growth during Obama’s “recovery” has never topped 3%. By comparison, it never fell below 3% during the Reagan recovery. And in the nine years following the 1990-91 recession, GDP grew faster than 3% in all but two. Heck, even Jimmy Carter had some strong growth years." President Obama's Growth Gap Hits $1.31 Trillion

a. "The years since 2007 have been a macroeconomic disaster for the United States of a magnitude unprecedented since the Great Depression." Obama: Always Wrong, Never In Doubt

b. ".... first president since Hoover to never have a single year above 3% GDP growth." Obama economy is 'amazing,' says hedge fund billionaire




See if you can find a single error in any of the above.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Unions are essential to capital expansion."

Really?

Is that why union membership is at an all time low?

"Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says"

Breaking News at Newsmax.com Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says

And the Cost-Of-Living progress of American wages brought about by unions has proportionately diminished.

The present stagnation of American wages and the diminution of unions was initiated by Ronald Reagan, the hero of the politically ignorant right wing. He commenced it with an Executive Order which effectively dissolved the Air Traffic Controllers' union -- one of the most egregious act of political treachery in the history of labor relations. The subsequent progression of "Right-to-Work" states, another example of deplorable ignorance on the part of contemporary generations of working-class America, is putting the finishing touch on the Union Movement.

Right-wing propagandists, water-carriers of the monied elite, are responsible for the regression.

"Right-wing propagandists, water-carriers of the monied elite, are responsible for the regression."

1. Everything I post is accurate, truthful, and documented with links and sources.

2. I am RightWing....and monied beyond your wildest dreams.
None was stolen, nor illegally gained.
Be sure to ask me how rich.

3. While I wasn't born here, I'm far more of an American than any socialist, communist, Democrat...based on this:
As Thomas Jefferson once wrote regarding the "general Welfare" clause:

'To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

http://www.founding.com/founders_library/pageID.2190/default.asp

 

[PoliticalChic]

Amy Goodman is a moron

Glad to see P F Tinmore was able to turn you on to this issue

The issue is that today I read that the N Dakota AG said the pipeline wasn't crossing Indians burial grounds and will proceed as planned. Things could change 'cause you never know what bullcrap the tree huggers will come up with next.

Yeah... fuck Native Americans and trees......

Be accurate.

"Native" Americans is a misnomer.

 

[P F Tinmore]

"Unions are essential to capital expansion."

Really?

Is that why union membership is at an all time low?

"Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says"

Breaking News at Newsmax.com Union Membership Hits All-Time Low in US, Report Says

And the Cost-Of-Living progress of American wages brought about by unions has proportionately diminished.

The present stagnation of American wages and the diminution of unions was initiated by Ronald Reagan, the hero of the politically ignorant right wing. He commenced it with an Executive Order which effectively dissolved the Air Traffic Controllers' union -- one of the most egregious act of political treachery in the history of labor relations. The subsequent progression of Right-to-Work" states, another example of deplorable ignorance on the part of contemporary generations of working-class America, is putting the finishing touch on the Union Movement.

Right-wing propagandists, water-carriers of the monied elite, are responsible for the regression.

"The present stagnation of American wages and the diminution of unions was initiated by Ronald Reagan,..."

Gads, Mikey...you believe every talking point of the Left, huh?


Check this out:

1. Under Reagan, the debt went up $1.7 trillion, from $900 billion to $2.6 trillion.
2. But….the national wealth went up $ 17 trillion
3. Reagan's near-trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism. Spurring a stock-market, energy, venture-capital, real-estate and employment boom, the Reagan tax-rate cuts and other pro-enterprise policies added some $17 trillion to America's private-sector assets, dwarfing the trillion-dollar rise in public-sector deficits and creating 45 million net new jobs at rising wages and salaries. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577621083163383966.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics#Fiscal_consequences



And the tax cuts of the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 stimulated economic growth. “As a 1982 JEC study pointed out,[1] similar across-the-board tax cuts had been implemented in the 1920s as the Mellon tax cuts, and in the 1960s as the Kennedy tax cuts. In both cases the reduction of high marginal tax rates actually increased tax payments by "the rich," also increasing their share of total individual income taxes paid.” http://www.house.gov/jec/fiscal/tx-grwth/reagtxct/reagtxct.htm

“As inflation came down and as more and more of the tax cuts from the 1981 Act went into effect, the economic began a strong and sustained pattern of growth.” http://www.ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

1. The benefits from Reaganomics:
   1. The economy grew at a 3.4% average rate…compared with 2.9% for the previous eight years, and 2.7% for the next eight.(Table B-4)
   2. Inflation rate dropped from 12.5% to 4.4%. (Table B-63)
   3. Unemployment fell to 5.5% from 7.1% (Table B-35)
   4. Prime interest rate fell by one-third.(Table B-73)
   5. The S & P 500 jumped 124% (Table B-95) http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/tables10.html
   6. Charitable contributions rose 57% faster than inflation. Dinesh D’Souza, “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary May Became an Extraordinary Leader,” p. 116

b. and c. http://www.kiva.org/team/real_americans



Obama and the Obamunits WISH they could point to those numbers.



And this:

Obama is the first President never to have had a year of 3% or better economic growth: "... annual growth during Obama’s “recovery” has never topped 3%. By comparison, it never fell below 3% during the Reagan recovery. And in the nine years following the 1990-91 recession, GDP grew faster than 3% in all but two. Heck, even Jimmy Carter had some strong growth years." President Obama's Growth Gap Hits $1.31 Trillion

a. "The years since 2007 have been a macroeconomic disaster for the United States of a magnitude unprecedented since the Great Depression." Obama: Always Wrong, Never In Doubt

b. ".... first president since Hoover to never have a single year above 3% GDP growth." Obama economy is 'amazing,' says hedge fund billionaire




See if you can find a single error in any of the above.

Looks good. Reagan set the stage for a bubble that grew and popped in the Clinton years. They tried to rebubble the economy but it popped again in 2008.

There has been nothing done since to actually improve the economy.