Secretary Clinton joins Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullens in concern over National Debt,..."...it makes us appear weaker..."

Following a speech today, Secretary Clinton stated the current National Debt tends to inhibit the activities of the USA when it comes to acting in our own behalf and it makes the USA appear to be weaker internationally.  Secretary Clinton never stated any assistance to foreign areas was ever in question.

Clinton Says Obama Foreign Policy Beginning to Yield Dividends (click title to entry - thank you)

David Gollust | State Department

08 September 2010

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the Obama administration's foreign policy strategy of rebuilding alliances and applying so-called soft power is beginning to yield dividends.  But Clinton warned that mounting government debt is beginning to erode U.S. power abroad.  

Progress report

Clinton's address to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington amounted to a foreign policy progress report, a year and a half into the Obama administration.

She said the administration's approach of rebuilding traditional alliances and acting multilaterally, as opposed to the Bush administration's reliance on military power is beginning to show dividends.

Clinton declared that U.S. global leadership remains essential and that the United States "can, must and will" lead in the new century, even if it must do so in new ways.

Perceived threats

But in a question and answer session, Clinton also acknowledged that U.S. national security and global influence are being threatened by a debt burden she blamed on Bush-era unfunded tax cuts and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan waged on borrowed funds.

"It undermines our capacity to act in our own interests and it does constrain us where constraint may be undesirable," said Clinton. "And it also sends a message of weakness internationally.  It is very troubling to me that we are losing the ability to not only to chart our own destiny, but to have the leverage that comes from this enormously effective economic engine that has powered American values and interests over so many years."...

This was a provoked attack. Just so it doesn't happen again anywhere.

While this seems spontaneous, it is not.

BOZEMAN, Mont., Sept. 8, 2010

Vegas Lion Attack Caught on Tape by Honeymooners  (click title to entry - thank you)

Animal Turned on a Trainer; He Escaped Close Call; Newlyweds Got It All on Video

(CBS)  Most couples never forget their honeymoon.


But Titus and Drew Ellis have a special reason theirs will always stand out.


The newlyweds, who live in Montana, were in Las Vegas on Sept. 1, and decided to check out the lion habitat at the MGM Grand Hotel.


Titus was videotaping the lions and their two trainers, when all of a sudden one of the lions lunged at one of the trainers.


A struggle ensued, and he managed to free himself with the help of his colleague.


Titus and Drew told "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith what it was like to witness the attack: 

At the beginning of the video it is noted the lions were calm and not the least bit interested in anyone else.  Either of the lions never moved to any aggression toward the first trainer.

It was only after the second trainer entered the 'territory' of the two lions that the male felt threatened.  The First Trainer was never in danger.  The Second Trainer was a threat because he was not 'accepted' into the pride.  The male lion was naturally protecting its territory which included in 'the pride' a female and the First Trainer. 

The First Trainer was instrumental in calming the lion as he was an accepted member of 'the pride' and had 'influence.'   

The female acted 'in influence' against the male when the First Trainer reacted to stop the aggression.  Between the female and the First Trainer, the male clearly received the 'signal' he was inappropriately moving against a potential 'pride member.'  The male has his 'own self will' and while he broke from his aggression, he clearly felt threatened and apprehensive about the Second Trainer's presence.


If the appearance of the Second Trainer was better 'introduced' and he was 'accepted' by 'the pride members' this would never have been an issue.

If hotels are going to have live animal exhibits they should have handlers and caretakers for those animals whom know what they are doing !  None of these animals should be adversely effected by this incident.

It isn't enough to get folks to agree on the agenda of the talks, but, there has to be bigots in the USA to complicate it all.

 

Netanyahu and Abbas in Washington (Photo: AP)

I am quite certain the 'agenda' will be reviewed by more than the leaders of Israel and Palestine.  Jordan, Egypt and the USA have sincere interests in the outcome to this process.  I am sure the rough edges will be worked out.

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Dispute in peace talks: Borders or security first?

Palestinian sources tell Ynet Israel trying to 'play for time until US elections,' admit will be forced to accept certain resumption of settlement construction

Ali Waked

Published:  09.07.10, 13:24

The direct negotiations have just been launched, and the parties are already in disagreement over the order of the talks: Palestinian sources told Ynet on Tuesday that Israel was insisting on starting the negotiations with the security issue, while the Palestinian Authority wanted to begin with the border issue. The negotiating teams are expected to meet in the coming days, and possibly as early as Tuesday, and to try to reach an agreement on the basic guidelines of the talks….

Perhaps Mr. Beck and Ms. Palin will learn their hate mongering actually costs soldiers their lives.

When are charges going to be levied against responsible parties in the USA?  When  is the FCC going to put a lid on the level of hatred allowed to be conducted on the airwaves of the country, when all our commanders are dead?

2 U.S. troops shot dead in Iraq  (click title to entry - thank you)

Nine others are injured as they come under fire from a man wearing an Iraqi army uniform. The troops were part of a security detail for a U.S. commander meeting with Iraqi officers in Salahuddin province.

...The soldiers were members of a security detail protecting a U.S. company commander who was meeting with Iraqi security forces, according to a statement issued by the U.S. military. It wasn't clear whether the assailant actually was an Iraqi soldier; Iraqi police said the shooting occurred after an altercation between the American soldiers and an Iraqi soldier.

The two deaths are the first U.S. casualties in Iraq since Obama's Aug. 31 address to the nation on Iraq. But it was the second time that U.S. troops had been caught up in violence in the last week....

Rev. O'Neal Dozier is an interesting example of 'opposition' to 'elements' within the Islamic faith that a community might find 'undesirable.'   Whether they are or not is another question, but, opposing the 'elements of violence' in a community is quite different than slamming an entire faith for doing nothing more than carrying out its worship.  

 And Bloomberg is wrong.  A USA General is asking an entire community to stop their demonstration of hatred.  That is far different than building a mosque that will serve the community in New York.  The two events do not equate.  One is an issue of national security and the other is a matter of community preference.

Anti-Islam Pastor Condemns Qur'an Burning by Gainesville Church

By Thomas Francis, Tue., Sep. 7 2010 @ 2:51PM

There are few pastors in America more extreme in their opposition to Islam than the Rev. O'Neal Dozier of the Worldwide Christian Center in Pompano Beach. In 2007, Dozier sued to prevent the construction of a mosque in the city, claiming that the Council on American-Islamic Relations had ties to terrorist groups.

Asked whether he supports the right of the Dove World Outreach Center to burn copies of the Qur'an, Dozier said, "Absolutely not. I don't think the we need to provoke Islam in that sense. I think that there are other ways to express our protest against Islam."...

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2010/09/burning_quran_dove_world_outreach_islam_dozier.php

The USA is serving no purposeful role in Iraq for training anyone if they are chronically under attack due to Americans behaving badly.  Bring the troops home now. 

NATO chief: Please don’t burn the Quran in Florida

Posted By Josh Rogin

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 12:03 PM

..."I strongly condemn that. I think it's a disrespectful action and in general I really urge people to respect other people's faith and behave respectfully. I think such actions are in strong contradiction with all the values we stand for and fight for," said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen. "Of course, there is a risk that it may also have a negative impact on the security for our troops."
Rasmussen's comments came just one day after Afghanistan commander Gen. David Petraeus issued a statement criticizing the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Florida, which plans to burn copies of Islam's holy book for 10 reasons they explain on their website....

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/09/07/nato_chief_please_don_t_burn_the_quran_in_florida

Neither Rasmussen or Petraeus are Muslim.  The 'mood' in the USA is so completely hideous.  Who do Americans think they are anymore?  


Attacks by international criminals have happened to many other countries and while there have been issues in regard to other buildings and the like there hasn't been this level of hatred rendered in any other country.


There was that hole mess awhile ago about soldiers desecrating the Quran, too.  So, this is just adding fuel to the fire. 

Even Indonesia is calling up protestors.  After all the good will, it only takes a small match to light the fire of unrest.   The USA will end up with embassies on fire and all sorts of stuff.

Isn't it wonderful to have a country that stands solidly behind the peace process in the Middle East, huh?

...About 3,000 members of a hard-line Islamic group marched Saturday to the U.S. Embassy in downtown Jakarta, waving banners and posters condemning the plan. The group organized similar rallies in five other cities across Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation....

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20100904/ARTICLES/100909740/1002

 

It is called Freedom of Speech.

Just because the ad appears on the internet doesn't mean it is real.  If the Attorney Generals, whom are outside the ability to legislate, what to run "Craigslist," whom is a highly successful Wall Street firm into the ground for political purposes, doesn't mean they are the ones to elect into office.

Why aren't the Attorney Generals doing their job and picking up the prostitutes? 

Tell me that, rather than making a spectacle of themselves?

These ads might be real, but, they could be a fabrication or stunt.  But, the ultimate resolve is that this is an easy arrest and if "Craigslist" were viewed by Attorney Generals and police as a real place to look for arrests I guarantee you it would stop.

The complaining is a political stunt and a sorry one at that.  See, Attorney Generals don't have legislative records, they simply have arrest and prosecution histories when they run for office, so when they say something people want to hear it is a 'gimme' for the Republicans.  That is all this is really.  People like what they hear and they 'want to give 'em a chance.'  Temptation in every sense of the word.  They should be prosecuting these women and if minors they should be prosecuting their pimps.

A quote from the Prophet Muhammad...

... “Adhere to truth, for truth leads to good deeds and good deeds leads him who does them to paradise. Falsehood is wickedness and wickedness leads to hell.”


"Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me." John 14:6

The USA Karzai. This is corruption and the constituents are getting kick backs, only they think it is a family charity.

This is the face of American political corruption.  This is outrageous.  A Congressman solicits Wall Street for money so he can stay in office to protect their interests while duping the public.

It doesn't get worse than this, except, maybe if you have your own bank that goes belly up.

Representative Joe Baca

Where are the ethics investigations here?  This is profound cronyism and conflict of interest.  There isn't much difference between this and putting money in a freezer.  Seriously.

This is nothing short of influence peddling on both the electorate side and the legislative side.  They are buying their votes and deceiving the public all the way to the bank ! 

No.  No.  This is not honest dealings and it certainly isn't honest government. 

Unless one is corrupt, DISCLOSURE isn't all that has to take place here.  This is outrageous.  Disclosure has become the 'latest' and 'greatest' American scam, huh?  I don't think so. 

...“It’s great,” (click title to entry - thank you) said Laura Goodloe, 36, as she watched her 8-year-old son, Jordan, play at the arena in San Bernardino, Calif., where the Baca Foundation offered a free basketball clinic last month. “He is giving back to the community.”

But unlike most private foundations, Mr. Baca’s gets little of its money from its founders’ pockets. Instead, local companies and major corporations that have often turned to Mr. Baca’s Washington office for help, and usually succeed in getting it, are the chief donors.

A review by The New York Times of federal tax records and House and Senate disclosure reports found at least two dozen charities that lawmakers or their families helped create or run that routinely accept donations from businesses seeking to influence them. The sponsors — AT&T, Chevron, General Dynamics, Morgan Stanley, Eli Lilly and dozens of others — contribute millions of dollars annually in gifts ranging from token amounts to a check for $5 million...

The tropical season continues. But, why where did Earl and Fiona finally end their reign.

September 6, 2010

1217 gmt

Mexico Satellite

Now that Earl and Fiona have resolved their heat in the Arctic Circle, the increase in heat activity in the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific is picking up.

Looks like the Atlantic season is waning somewhat.  True to form the Gulf season makes up for the loss.

The Atlantic still isn't absolutely quite yet.  There is plenty of activity off Africa.

The nation's weather (click title to entry - thank you)

By WEATHER UNDERGROUND

The Associated Press

...There was a high chance of this system becoming a tropical cyclone as it trekked northwestward at 5 to 10 mph throughout the day. Regardless of further development, heavy rainfall was expected along the western Gulf Coast. This area was encouraged to monitor the development and progression of this system throughout the day....

The weather at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve (Crystal Wind Chime) is still plenty warm.:

Summer of 2010 was hottest ever in Tri-Cities - so far  (click title to entry - thank you)

By Michael Buettner (Staff Writer)
Published: September 6, 2010

PETERSBURG - Everyone in the Tri-Cities already knows that the summer of 2010 was hot.

How hot was it?

According to figures from the National Weather Service, it was the hottest ever recorded in Central Virginia. And because it followed the warmest spring on record, it means 2010 as a whole stands a fair chance of being the hottest year ever for the region - for now.

James Byrd of Petersburg took advantage of the relatively cool weather on Friday to make a visit to the U.S. Post Office in downtown Petersburg. Byrd, who said he wasn't surprised to hear that this summer was the hottest on record, had been staying home a lot over the summer to avoid the heat.

"I used to do construction, masonry work," Byrd said. "We had some hot days, but not like this."...

Weather at Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Local Time: 5:51 AM AKDT (GMT -08)

 Lat/Lon: 58.8° N 137.0° W

Elevation  ::  33 feet

Temperature  ::  48°F 

Current: Partly Cloudy

Wind: N at 0 mph

Humidity: 93%

Dew Point  ::  46 F

Wind  ::  Calm

Pressure  ::  29.87 inches ( Steady )

Visibility  ::  10 miles

UV  ::  0 out of 16

Clouds  ::  9500 feet

                  (Above Ground Level)

"Morning Papers" - Its Origin

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

Of course, everyone knows this American sweetheart.

This is our Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis.

She is Labor through and through.  It doesn't come better than this.  She can speak for herself.

Hilda take it away, honey.

Celebrating American workers and progress on Labor Day

Posted Sunday, Sep. 05, 2010

By Hilda L. Solis

Special to the Star-Telegram

These are tough times for American workers. There are too many parents out there who have lost a job and are choosing between losing their home and sending their children to college. There are too many workers who are desperately searching for employment and just can't seem to find an opening or even get an interview.

The unemployment rate in the Fort Worth area may be holding steady, but it clearly needs to start dropping -- and quickly. As we stem the loss of jobs, we must accelerate growth in all sectors of the economy, from tourism to manufacturing, so that everyone who wants a job can get a good one.

Fortunately, there are positive signs that the tide is turning. The country was losing a staggering 800,000 jobs a month when President Barack Obama took office 20 months ago. Now, we are adding jobs -- almost 100,000 every month. That's not nearly enough, of course, but we are moving in the right direction. The administration's efforts are effectively preserving jobs for the middle class, fostering business start-ups and helping companies expand. The jobs are beginning to come back.

So on this important day, when our nation celebrates the American worker, we have an opportunity to take stock of who we are and what is ahead.

Look around your community and you will find people just like you, who believe in playing by the rules and working hard to get ahead. Our families, our neighbors, our fellow Americans: They are the country's greatest resource. They are the reason I remain optimistic and committed to serving workers. They are also why I believe in extending a hand when a worker becomes unemployed and offering a leg up when one is looking for a new job.

I also believe in efficiency and looking ahead. So not only is my department helping to ease the transition during economic down times, but we are also preparing workers for in-demand jobs and high-growth industries -- from high-tech and healthcare to wind and solar power. We have already invested $2 million in five communities -- including Arlington -- to upgrade the renewable energy skills of 500 ironworkers and place them on wind turbine projects. That makes good sense in Texas, already a leader in wind power and energy. The grant will help ensure not only that workers have the skills they need to get these good jobs but also that businesses have the trained workers they need to succeed. It's what I call win-win.

Those and many other examples point to one clear fact: Our economy is changing quickly, one community after another. And, despite challenges, the nation is also growing stronger. So we have a choice before us. We can dwell on today's problems and repeat the mistakes of the past. We can miss golden opportunities for progress and let benefits be perks for the privileged few at the expense of the working many. Or we can look forward and seize opportunities in growing industries and thoughtful undertakings that will benefit entire communities.

I believe that now is the time to ramp up, to build on the progress we've already made in getting Americans back to work. Now is certainly the time to remember our workers. After all, they have always played a key role in revitalizing our economy. They surely will again. At the Department of Labor we know that well, and we intend to support them every step along the way.

Hilda L. Solis is U.S. secretary of labor. www.dol.gov

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/09/05/2447065/celebrating-american-workers-and.html#ixzz0yiM7qcnC

The birth of the United Auto Workers. "The Flint Sit Down Strike of 1936-37"

Why a sit down strike?  Silly, don't you think?

Well, they the laborers at the GM Flint plant didn't have a choice.  They received word that GM was about to remove the 'dyes' from Fisher plant #1.

To protect their jobs, they occupied the plant and invoked a strike.

While occupying the plant the laborers maintained the plant in good working order.  Elected a mayor and civic leaders to organize the community that was not living inside while sympathizers carried out protests outside.

The laborers were supported by the community.  THAT is an integral part of the union movement.  Communities that 'gather' around the unions help a great deal to support their right to work and their right to a decent wage.  Communities would provide support because it also insured their existence.  As an example, grocers would supply food to strikers and their family on credit.  Store credit.  When the strike was over, the grocer was assured to have his clientele and his income while the laborers, now back to work, paid off their credit accounts.

It worked well.  It worked out well for local governments that were successful in keeping their tax base.  A tax base that included the plant and its profit margin once it was anchored in a contract with the union.

It was Americana through and through.  It was an enforced 'jobs structure.'  Companies stayed and towns did well.  FDR was no fool.

The Labor Movement gets 'relief' from FDR.

Unemployment During the Great Depression

The Great Depression of 1929-1930 was a massive economic downturn, worldwide. The implications of the largest economic depression in the 20th century, included unemployment to an unprecedented scale...

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/unemployment-during-the-great-depression.html

 We have all seen this picture. 

Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers during the depression in California, centering on Florence Owens' Thompson, a mother of seven children at age 32, March 1936.

FDR saw the Dust Bowl.  He had his environmental issues as well.

But, he was the People's President.  He wanted the USA 'back.'  And of course the much maligned "New Deal."  Will Social Security ever be safe under Republican influence?  Why would the citizens of the USA ever trust a Republican with that again?  Makes no sense.

At any rate, besides all the great legislation of FDR which was backed by a supportive Congress, he passed the National Labor Relations Act.

There it was.  The one federal law that would bring collective bargaining and union clout to a pinnacle. 

The Great Depression. How could a union survive this?

The stock market crash of October 1929 would leave the USA with an unemployment rate of 25%.

Besides lost union members, the members that remained fell on hard times trying to support more family than they had before and could not afford to pay their union dues.

Oddly enough, the unions did not rally behind the extremist that was over taking the populous movements.  They stood by until 1932 when "The Norris - La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act was passed.

President Herbert Hoover recognized the need for unions to protect workers more than ever and passed stringent laws against injunction laws during labor disputes.  These new laws would apply to the federal courts, but, many states would follow.  It gave a reassurance to the labor movement which gained the confidence of the American public and a nod from government to protect its laborers.

The Boston Telephone Strike of 1919

The cost of living was rising.  The average telephone worker's income was half that of a government clerk and about 65% of the average female industrial worker.

The 'thing' was this.  The New England Telephone Company had just raised it rates for what seemed no other reason, except, profit driven ambition.

Imagine that.

Julia O'Donnell, President of the Boston Telephone Operators' Union proposed a new wage scale.  Well, guess what?  It was rejected.

Go figure.

6000 Boston operators walked off the job, followed by 3000 operators throughout New England.  They shut it down.  The entire New England Telephone system was out.  Their strike was accompanied by every male plant worker as well.  Support was offered by the Cook and Waiters Union when they refused to serve any 'student' strikebreaker that was injured due to angry strikers.

Julia O'Donnell went on to become a national leader that was instrumental in bringing about fair wages for all telephone workers throughout the country.

Oh, the men that accompanied the women operators?

They received a thirty cent per day increase.  Remember now, this was 1919.  

Now that is the way to run a union !

Women, I am tellin' ya.  Women !

Not to be minimized. As time went on Public Education would become an integral part of the 'worth' of American Labor.

Horace Mann.  Of course, everyone has heard of him.  But, in case you haven't.  He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1827 to 1833.  He then was elected to the Massachusetts Senate in 1834 and hung out there until 1837.

He was the brother-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne.  (click here)  You'll remember him.  He wrote that racy romance novel called, "The Scarlet Letter."

But, Horace was an interesting guy.  He served as the Secretary of the Massachusetts State Board of Education.  In 1848 he would enter the US House of Representatives.

Today, Horace is called "Father of the Common School Movement." 

His Massachusetts model would be adopted all over the country as a method to educate children into responsible citizens.

Oh, yeah.  The guy wasn't some 'knee jerk' reformist.  His first schools were to educate teachers.  Imagine that.  Before he could educate children he knew he had to have the teachers to do it.

With a Public School education the American Laborer would become the most valuable and most productive worker on Earth.

Social unrest has always accompanied severe economic conditions.

The Pullman Strike of June 26, 1894 was the first national strike in the history of the USA.

Here again over financing of the railroads caused insecurity in the markets.  As a result the railroad companies began to reduce wages.  

The first to cut wages was the Pullman Palace Car Company.  Many of the workers were members of the American Railway Union.  Back in the day, and at 'first breath' of an economic downturn for workers, there was strong loyalty that had built among union labor.  

The owner of Pullman refused to speak to the workers.  The union launched a boycott.  Within four days, 125,000 workers from 29 railroads had quit.  

There was a racial element that entered the game when African Americans were recruited to replace the union members.  

Of course, violence followed and there was mayhem at most union meetings. 

President Grover Cleveland would send in US Marshals and 12,000 US Army troops since it interfered with mail delivery.

Clarence Darrow entered the scene as one of the first attorney to defy the USA government.  He eventually gets conspiracy charges dropped against the union leader and he only serves six months for violating a court injunction.

So it was never easy to be a union leader.  They have a long history of being pursued by the federal government in one method or another.  And today, with companies being international corporations with large sums of income on the line on a daily basis, the unions are always receiving injunctions for their strikes to send them back to work.

Modern day unionism is more or less watered down in its ability to successfully conduct itself with strikes and opposition of unfair labor practices that leads to downsizing and outsourcing.  Modern Day USA has sincerely turned its back on laborers and sold out to Wall Street.

Today, when the Obama Administration sought to infuse the American economy with new labor jobs, there were dearly few manufacturing plants to produce trains, wind turbines and solar panels for the new energy economy.  Luckily, we have had some willing Governors rush to the forefront of 'seizing the moment' and recruited manufacturing into the USA.  Let's hope the trend continues in strongly Democratic states where American labor is still valued as the best in the world.

Oh, yeah, the Pullman strike.

Well, he was "W"rong.  He was capitalizing on every aspect of his employees lives.  The Illinois Supreme Court would divest Pullman of his 'company town' and it was annexed by Chicago.  It was declared Un-American.

Oh, George Pullman.  He was eventually buried in a lead lined and concrete vault to prevent any labor person from desecrating his body.  He was mostly hated.

Then came Mother Jones.

She was born in Ireland.  Mary Harris Jones was born to Freedom Fighters in Cork, Ireland.  She would  become known as Mother Jones.

Her father, Richard Harris, would immigrate to the USA to work on the railroad.  His work took him all the way to Canada where Mary would be raised after being brought to the USA from Ireland.

Her life would not be a simple or easy one.  She was educated as a teacher and began her teaching career in Michigan.  As time went by she would move to Chicago and work as a seamstress.  After traveling a bit to better her lot in life she eventually would marry and have four children.  

Through her spouse she was exposed to the labor movement and once stated, "The wife must care for what the husband cares for, if he is to remain resolute."

She would become the lone survivor of her family after Yellow Fever in 1867,  That wasn't all of it and in a way she is an example of the lack of compassion of a Plutocratic America.  She would return to Chicago and return to a dressmaking business which was burned to the ground during the Chicago Fire of 1871.  Again, for the second time in her life she would loss everything except her life.

She returned to dressmaking, but, also to a union movement.  

"By 1880," she said in The Autobigraphy of Mother Jones,

"I became wholly engrossed in the labor movement. In all the great industrial centers the working class was in rebellion. The enormous immigration from Europe crowded the slums, forced down wages and threatened to destroy the standard of living fought for by American working men."

She would participate in a violence ridden demonstration of American Labor called "The Haymarket Demonstration," to demand eight hour work days.  The demonstration would be marred by criminals hired by Pinkerton.  Bombs went off within the crowd, police attending the rally were killed.  Eventually some of the demonstrators would be arrested for the deaths and hanged because of it.

Mother Jones would not stop at that and she also went on to participate in organized rallies for the United Mine Workers.  It would be there she would find her most frequent place of involvement focusing on the high mortality rate of West Virginia mines in the years 1890 to 1912.  

She would become a focus of investigation and was declared a danger to the country after a demonstration when she marched with coal miners children.  She was arrested and convicted to conspire to commit murder and sentenced for 20 years.  She was 68 years old and in ill health.  Governor Henry D. Hatfield would pardon her and order an investigation into the deaths in the coal mines.  The Governor would go on to issue settlements in the coal strikes ordering nine hour days and the end of coal miner owernership of every aspect of the laborers lives, allowing them to shop freely for goods wherever they chose.

Mother Jones would die at the age of 83 and be buried in the Union Miners Cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois.

Mother Jones is testament to the voracity of the American Labor Movement and the dedication of its founders.

In actuality the price of labor would continue to be an issue for the aristocracy for millenium to come.

As a matter of fact, shortly after the famine the English Aristrocracy would be faced again with a waning labor force and a return of high wages with The Black Death.  

And these weren't mechanized jobs.  These were agricultural jobs.  The laborers really had the aristocracy by 'the balls.'  I mean do you actually think Edward was going to work in his fields?  Heck, no.  He'd go hunting for deer, but, pick up a hoe?  Never.  So the market came to bear and in some instances the common laborer got what he asked as their numbers dwindled.

See, if it weren't for modern medicine we might not be facing all these issues today when it comes to outsourcing.

In a way, health care legislation is indirectly helping the Plutocrats.

Oh, well.