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The Ludlow Legacy, Part 2: Ignoring History Print E-mail
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Pro Union
Pro Union
The Ludlow Legacy, Part 2: Ignoring History. By David Sirota Syndicated Columnist. The Ludlow Massacre's tiny monument off Interstate 25 in Southern Colorado is easily missed if you don't know where to find it. Though the nearby coal mine garnered international attention April 20, 1914, after a government militia slaughtered union organizers there, the minimalism of the memorial is predictable. History books venerate Rockefellers — the union-busting mine owners — and disregard agents of progress like the labor movement.

But remember the parable about those ignoring history repeating it. As noted in last week's column, the methods of Ludlow are being celebrated in our foreign policy. But they are also being trumpeted at home.

The Bush administration has abandoned American workers. While not sending militias to execute labor organizers, the feds now look away as corporations kill unions before they are ever born. And today many states are replicating that anti-union model.

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The Ludlow Legacy, Part 1: Colombia Print E-mail
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Banana Laborer
Banana Laborer
The Ludlow Legacy, Part 1: Colombia By David Sirota Syndicated Columnist. Ninety-four years ago on April 20, America made international news when a government-sanctioned paramilitary unit murdered Colorado union organizers at a Rockefeller-owned coal mine. The Ludlow Massacre was "a story of horror unparalleled in the history of industrial warfare," wrote The New York Times in 1914 — and the abomination was not just the violence, but the way political and corporate leaders colluded on their homicidal plans to protect profits.

Sanitized history teaches that our government has since changed. Quite the contrary, as the Bush administration last week moved to legitimize the methods of Ludlow through its Colombia Free Trade Agreement.

Colombia resembles Colorado in the early 20th century, only with more frequent slaughters. In the past two decades, more than 2,500 Colombian labor organizers have been assassinated, making Colombia the world's most dangerous place for unionists.

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Money Making Strategy: Make It Better! Print E-mail
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Want Buyers? Make it Better
Want Buyers?
Money Making Strategy: Make It Better! by Remy Jirek. Making money can be as simple as making it better. Better product, better marketing and a better message.

First you take a product that sells well. Then you make it better. If you are good at this, you will be able to locate products that not only sell well, but are poorly made, poorly marketed and have a so-so message.

Once you find one of these, you test the product to make sure that you can sell it and still make money. How? You find a product that pays an affiliate commission. You then use Pay Per Click advertising such as Google Adwords to generate traffic to the sales page.

Once you prove that you can sell the product at a profit (your sales exceed the cost of the Adwords fees) you are ready to make it better.
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Eliminating Downtime For Your E-Commerce Store Print E-mail
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eCommerce Business
eCommerce Business
Eliminating Downtime For Your E-Commerce Store. by Edward Cole. Running an e-commerce business isn't just about keeping your website up and running. Customers rely on your ability to serve them via telephone, fax, email, or other means, and it requires all of your systems to be working to be able to fulfill customer requests. Often, a single failure in your infrastructure can disable your ability to serve clients, ship orders, answer calls, and process transactions.

The true cost of downtime can be significant, and includes many things other than just lost revenue from lost orders. Increased (and expensive) customer service time, refunded and cancelled orders, loss of customer loyalty, and opportunity loss associated with handling the outage itself can be tremendously expensive.
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The Paradigm Shift • The Aquarian Conspiracy Print E-mail
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The Paradigm Shift • Quotes from The Aquarian Conspiracy
Paradigm Shift
"A leaderless but powerful network is working to bring about radical change in the United States. Its members have broken with certain key elements of Western thought, and they may even have broken continuity with history.... This network is the Aquarian Conspiracy....

The Paradigm Shift • Quotes from The Aquarian Conspiracy by Marilyn Ferguson -Thomas Kuhn and Social Transformation.

"Broader than reform, deeper than revolution, this benign conspiracy for a new human agenda has triggered the most rapid cultural realignment in history. The great shuddering, irrevocable shift overtaking us is not a new political, religious, or philosophical system. It is a new mind--the ascendance of a startling worldview that gathers into its framework breakthrough science and insights from earliest recorded thought. .......

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