Archive for September, 2014
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Sunday, September 21st, 2014California Economic Recovery? General Mills to Close 67 Yr Old Lodi Plant, Eliminating 430 Jobs–Reelect Gov Jerry Brown
Friday, September 19th, 2014(WSJ) General Mills will close its 67 year old Lodi, California plant eliminating 430 more jobs in a struggling economy–in August, California reported 1,563 new jobless claims, the states unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.4% higher than 43 other states and the national average.
Related: California Commercial Electricity Rates Soar in 3 Mo Period
California 7.4% Jobless Rate Higher Than 43 Other States: Reelect Gov Jerry Brown
Friday, September 19th, 2014California Unemployment Rate Unchanged in August
Image: Soquel by the Creek
Related: New California Jobless Claims Increase by 1500+ –LA Biz
Chinese Activist Hu Jia Finds Car Vandalized, Why the China Regime Won’t Stop Harassing Him
Thursday, September 18th, 2014Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia Tweeted Found his Car Vandalized This Morning, Is This Another Warning to him by the China Regime?
On the 05 January, 2008 I wrote here that Chinese authorities arrested Hu Jia at his Beijing home accusing him of “Subverting State Authority” a charge often times used against dissidents.
In August, Foreign Policy reprinted an open letter by Hu Jia to the China regime in which he described his life as a “prisoner of conscience” and being under constant surveillance by Chinese authorities, preventing most people from visiting him.
“I’m not alone. All Chinese dissidents are in prison, some are in official prisons, guarded by police that stand behind high walls and electric wires, others are in societal prisons buttressed by “stability maintenance” the name the Chinese Communist Party’s system of controlling what it sees as unstable elements and some like me, move back and forth between the two.”
In July, Radio Free Asia published a photo of Hu Jia after he reportedly was beaten up by “trained men’ (plainclothes cops) on a Beijing street.
Isn’t it ironic and quite frightening, that the annual Beijing Forum on Human Rights kicked off this week when the China regime has such a dismal human rights record.
Related: Chinese Activist Gao Zhisheng Out of Prison But Not Free –WaPo
Sen Elizabeth Warren: I Think Its “Fair” to Compare Israel to the Nazi’s
Thursday, September 18th, 2014Liberal Lefty Crackpot Sen Elizabeth Warren –Image: Elisabeth@Twitter
(Power Line) Massachusetts Liberal Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren appearing at Tufts Univ on Monday, was asked a question by an audience member Eva Moseley:
“I’m not a student, I’m not an alumnae but was in faculty life. I was also a holocaust refugee and I’m extremely concerned that Jews don’t do to another people what was done to them.”
This received a thunderous applause in the midst which Sen Warren replied: “I think that’s fair.”