When Unions Act With Conscience

From The Times Online with a h/t to the fine folks at dailykos

A Chinese ship carrying arms destined for Zimbabwe was last night forced to turn back after South African unions refused to unload it, claiming that to do so would be “grossly irresponsible”, South African media reported.

The reversal is a humiliation for President Mbeki, who had said that the Government was powerless to stop the shipment of three million rounds of AK47 ammunition, 1,500 rocket-propelled grenades and more than 3,000 mortar rounds and mortar tubes to President Mugabe’s armed forces.

The next time that someone says that unions are only useful to protect the weak I think that I will show them this story and say "yes ... you are right".

Could the world's biggest debtor default?

From Naked Capitalism

The idea that the US would default on its debt seems inconceivable. Nevertheless, we are in the same position as Thailand and Indonesia, circa 1996, except we have the reserve currency and nukes. It will be interesting to see how those two assets influence the end game.

Yves Smith's place is one of my favorite places, along with Calculated Risk, for smart commentary of economic issues. Today there is an interesting bit on the idea that just maybe there is a chance that the historical practice of defaulting on sovereign debt by countries has not ended ... and the next major country that could be in trouble is this one. Quite sobering.

Wow

Obama has got to get this guy signed up !

h/t to crooks and liars

Back to Blogging

Well, it seems that I took a bit of a break from this .. I missed it so .. starting tomorrow I am going to resume posting

Has anything happened since I was away? Hmmmmmm let me see

yeah, I think that I should have lots to talk about.

My challenge to myself ... get up to 1000 pageviews a day at least 3 times on my google stats by the election. Let's just see if I can do it.

Just Fucking Kill Me

Ralph Nader could be poised for another third party presidential campaign.

The consumer advocate will appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday. Nader launched his 2004 presidential run on the show.

Please someone stop this man before he fucks up a perfectly winnable election.

Details at CNN

Note to H. Clinton

Fire Mark Penn

Obama For President

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He has won me over