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The offers of money came from "multinational corporations and through the Chamber of Commerce 200 PACs," according to Cook spokesman Richard Kuchinsky.
Kuchinsky did not identify the "multinational corporations," but said they want to build factories in China so they can take advantage of lower wages. He said Cook believes U.S. factories will close their doors here when they can hire "slave labor for 3 to 20 cents per hour. Corporate executives and owners get richer -- American workers get poorer," he said.
Cheap Labor.
The Chinese labor report, issued earlier this month by the National Labor Committee for Human Rights, details "brutal working conditions" in Chinese factories, where workers are paid wages as low as 3 cents per hour.
Employees working at Qin Shi Handbag Factory, where they sew Kathie Lee [Gifford] handbags for Wal-Mart, fare even worse. There, workers are paid 1/10th of a cent per hour, or 8 cents per week (36 cents per month).
The committee found that some Chinese workers put in 98-hour work weeks and compulsory unpaid overtime. Furthermore, the report said, some factories placed a ban on talking during work hours and incorporated 24-hour prison-like surveillance. Most factories, said the committee, had a host of unsanitary working conditions.
"For years, U.S. companies have claimed that their mere presence in China would help open that society to democratic values," the report said. "But, far from promoting human rights, the record shows that U.S. companies and their contractors in China are actively involved in the systematic denial of worker rights."
Though U.S. company executives argue that they and their factory contractors in China pay decent subsistence wages -- wages that are very competitive given the low cost of living in China, they say -- the committee disputed those claims.
"Wages in China's export assembly industry do provide a subsistence level existence if it is meant in the sense that H.H. Cutler's CEO said of the 28-cent-an-hour wages they paid in Haiti: 'Well, the workers are alive aren't they? So they must be subsistence wages,'" said the committee.
The committee said that averaging factory pay among all industries "amounts to about $65 per month." But to maintain a "very modest diet for a three-person family costs approximately $72.29 a month, which is more than most factory workers earn."
[ Stats gleaned from reports in WND ]
"Homosexual activists in Boston have managed to keep a court imposed 'gag' order against Scott Whiteman and Brian Camenker with the Parents Rights Coalition (PRC). They were sued by a lesbian HIV instructor and teenager for secretly taping several pro-homosexual workshops for teachers and teenagers at a 'Teach Out' at Tufts University on March 25. The judge had originally agreed to prohibit the Massachusetts state legislature, the Boston news media and the PRC from discussing the contents of the tape. On Wednesday, however, the judge lifted the gag order against the media. The order against the legislature and PRC remains in effect.
According to WorldNetDaily, Judge Allan van Gestal called the secret taping of the workshops "disgusting behavior" and said he was 'deeply offended' by Whiteman's actions.
Obviously this judge had not even listed to the tape, because if he had, he would know whose behavior was truly disgusting." (TRADITIONAL VALUES COALITION, May 26, 2000)
**Note by BIS Editor Tim Stowe: It is a PATHETIC day for our republic when a judge can flagrantly disregard both the united States constitution and the Massachusetts State Constitution by issuing an ILLEGAL order such as this on a state legislative assembly.
First the Vermont "court" issued an illegal order demanding that the state's assembly enact legislation legalizing sodomite marriages. Despite OVERWHELMING public opposition and despite the fact that nearly every assemblyman stated their personal opposition to the bill, the assembly did as it was told and passed a bill. Now a "court" is ordering the Massachusetts assembly and, like their neighbors in Vermont, they are jumping on command like trained dogs.
If either legislative body had ANY guts they would STAND for TRUTH, RIGHT, and LAW by IMPEACHING the CRIMINALS in judicial robes who have issued these ILLEGAL orders.
Such men who would ABUSE their judicial "power" by sidestepping the CONSTITUTIONALLY ORGANIZED legislative process deserve no less than impeachment and PUBLIC execution as TRAITORS to the republic. If such judicial abuse is not STOPPED and stopped NOW it will set a precedent that will have our united States congress jumping on command of the Supreme Court - rendering the congress USELESS and OBLITERATING the "checks and balances" of the united States constitution - creating an IMPERIAL JUDICIARY. It will be the END of government "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
State legislatures and congress HAVE the power and OBLIGATION to IMPEACH judges who abuse their power. It is high time they DO THEIR DUTY!
TCN ~~ Thank you Mr Stowe and the team at BIS! We couldn't agree more.
HILLARY! made 26 campaign trips to New York on government planes during the last seven months of 1999, at a total cost of $182,471. Her campaign was billed $36,685 based on the standard cost of first-class airfares, leaving taxpayers $145,786 in the hole. To add insult to injury, HILLARY! has only paid $32,878 of the amount owed.
The State Department has accused officials at the Cuban diplomatic mission of using little Elián González for political goals after Castro's cronies posted pictures of the child in Cuba's Communist Youth uniform on the Internet. The Castrites responded, "Hey, if the Democrats can parade him around a Georgetown fund-raiser, we can use him to slap Cuban-born Americans in the face."
TCN ~~ What next!?! Is the IRS going to complain about the people being greedy? Is the Census Bureau going to announce that people are getting nosey? Is the Department of Justice going to jump Congress for being used for political purposes? Is the Clinton/Gore administration going to complain about Republican unethical practices? What next?
In Massachusetts, two Department of "Education" staffers have lost their jobs after coaching 30 students, some as young as 14, on the finer points of sodomy positions and oral sex at a state-funded workshop called "What They Don't Tell You About Queer Sex and Sexuality in Health Class." The state's Parents Rights Coalition has called on Republican Governor Paul Cellucci to terminate his Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth.
As if fuel prices were not high enough, new Clinton/Gore EPA requirements for gasoline go into effect June 1st, meaning consumers will be paying record prices at the pumps next month.
"I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means...." -John Adams
"Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn." --Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint." --Edmund Burke
"It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country." --Horace
"It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." --George S. Patton, Jr.
"I'm afraid one of these days soon some fast operator will come along and try to change Memorial Day into something else. You know, a name change due to a new sponsor." --Col. David Hackworth
Presidential candidate Al Gore will address the commencement this weekend at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In 1996, Senator Bob Dole, a W.W.II veteran, was invited by the USMA's superintendent to deliver the address, but Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon explained it was against regulations for presidential candidates to be given any such platform. However Gore, Bacon explains, will be speaking at the event solely in his capacity as vice president.
"One of the [Million Mom] marchers said 'the hands that rock the cradle rule this nation.' I thought, 'no Madame, the hands that rock the cradle rule our families and governments and corporations. The hands that wrote the Constitution rule this nation'." --NRA President Charlton Heston
"Mr. Gore thinks he can win if he frightens women with lies about guns, then seduces them with promises about something called gun control. Well, manipulating women may be the Clinton legacy, but it won't work." --NRA's Wayne La Pierre
"Five years ago, there was great consternation when the Supreme Court ruled that carrying a gun near a school was not interstate commerce. On May 15, 2000, there was great consternation when the Supreme Court ruled that rape was not interstate commerce. It is a sign of how twisted the law has become that each of these common sense rulings was by a narrow 5 to 4 majority." --Thomas Sowell
"Some people believe the only way to win the White House is to build a big tent, but if you stand for everything you stand for nothing." --James Dobson
"Al Gore is Walter Mondale in Earth tones." --Hardball's Chris Matthews
"Vice President Al Gore has looked listless and unfocused since he muscled Bill Bradley out of the Democratic race. Some polls show him once again trailing the Texas governor by a significant margin, and his pandering to the Miami Cuban community's view on Elián González reinforced the perception that Mr. Gore too quickly puts politics ahead of principle." --New York Times
"George W. Bush told the Federal Election Commission Sunday his campaign has $5.9 million left after spending $80 million to win the primaries. That's insane. Abraham Lincoln didn't spend that much to capture South Carolina." --Argus Hamilton
Clinton said today that PNTR for China would be good for America because China will be a big customer. That's true. China is already the biggest consumer of American politicians. They have bought more than all the other countries combined
A new report says girls begin experiencing sexual harassment as early as high school. That's a pretty good time to start learning how our government works.
Bumper Humor: "NIXON 2000: He's not as stiff as Al Gore."
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