U.S. Agents in Child-Detention Center Mock Wailing Children, Hysterical Children Heard on Audio

Sub-human garbage at U.S. Customs and Border Protection
facility mock children screaming for their parents, (Propublica).

White Supremacist Party Is Now Pro-Child Abuse 

ProPublica has obtained audio from inside a child-detention camp in which frightened children are wailing, begging and screaming for their "Mami" and "Papá" over and over again, (Thompson, ProPublica).

The U.S. agents can be heard on the audio mocking the children.

What did you do you when they came for the  children?

ProPublica reports:

The audio obtained by ProPublica breaks that silence. It was recorded last week inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility. The person who made the recording asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation. That person gave the audio to Jennifer Harbury, a well-known civil rights attorney who has lived and worked for four decades in the Rio Grande Valley along the Texas border with Mexico. Harbury provided it to ProPublica. She said the person who recorded it was a client who 'heard the children’s weeping and crying, and was devastated by it.'

NAZIs.

One in Four Mothers Return to Work Within Two Weeks of Giving Birth

Republican Party-ALEC schemes against paid maternity and sick leave belie GOP's pro-family posturing

Sharon Lerner's investigative piece in In These Times reveals a fact of American society demonstrating how anti-family the Republican Party has become.

Thirty of 34 member countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—democracies with market economies—legally require an "average of more than a year of paid maternity leave," notes Lerner.

The United States is not one of those 30 countries, thanks to Republican Party efforts blocking paid maternity and paid sick leave laws.

Three states dominated by the Democratic Party—California (since 2002), New Jersey (since 2008) and Rhode Island (since 2013)—have paid family leave statutes.

In response, "[c]orporate-backed bills have passed at the state level in Wisconsin, Louisiana, and Mississippi that would preempt (or as one GOP operative put it, 'deliver the kill shot' to) local laws requiring paid sick days. ... In May of 2011, Governor Walker pushed Senate Bill 23 to override a Milwaukee ordinance providing for paid sick days. It appeared to be the first paid sick days preemption bill passed in the country. Milwaukee's ordinance specified that paid sick days could be used if a worker is ill or needs to care for a sick child, and passed via referendum with over 70 percent of the popular vote in 2008," notes Brendan Fischer and Mary Bottari at PRWatch.

Nationally, the Democratic Party is pushing for paid maternity and sick leave against Republican opposition, (a commitment originating from the corporate American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)).

Writes Lerner:

The Obama administration is attempting to build momentum for paid sick leave, one of the main ways women piece together paid maternity leave. In the 2015 State of the Union address, President Obama called on Congress to send him a bill guaranteeing U.S. workers seven days of paid sick leave—but in early August, Senate Republicans blocked a Democrat-sponsored bill to do so. In the meantime, Obama has an executive order in the works that will extend a week of paid sick leave to all federal contractors, and his adminstration has issued $1.25 million in grants to study how paid leave programs can be developed in states. Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who has been outspoken on the issue, has spearheaded a #leadonleave campaign, in which he and White House aide Valerie Jarrett travel the country to boost local paid leave policies.

Check out Lerner's piece that one hopes will propel the campaigns for the presidency to seek mandates for sane policy on paid maternity and paid sick leave, and simple decency.

Scott Walker-GOP's Halting Milwaukee Paid Sick Leave Is Reckless Public Health

In May 2011, Scott Walker and Wisconsin Republicans passed legislation that imposed a uniform Scott Walker-knows-best policy nullifying Milwaukee's Paid Sick Leave ordinance.

"When Governor Walker and state legislators overrode this ordinance, they not only steamrolled local democratic will (overriding a law that passed by an overwhelming vote), but they also repealed the rights of working people to get medical treatment they need, lead healthier lives, and help safeguard the health of their families, coworkers and customers," notes Emily Osborne.

Safeguarding the public should be a public health concern; why force sick people to come to work?

As the flu, or the Enterovirus D68 are likely to be immediately problematic to Wisconsin citizens than say Ebola, consider how irresponsible as a public heath and safety issue Scott Walker's politically motivated decision to disregard the will of the people and kill Milwaukee's Paid Sick Leave law.

This is the very definition of gross criminal negligence on the part of the Scott Walker and the Republicans.

Scott Walker imposes disaster and then moves on.

Scott Walker, Koch Stooge, Calls for New Federal Energy Policy

Scott Walker - Don't worry,
America, Walker won't be the next
president

"The governor told a group of Wisconsin farm reporters during a private gathering in his state Capitol office on May 28 that the country as a whole should be doing more to promote alternative energy sources like solar, wind, clean-burning coal, natural gas and ethanol," according to the Wisconsin Ag Connection.

The Wisconsin Ag Connection is an industry sell-out sheet, not worthy of a glance, except for the eye-catching hypocrisy (excessive even for Scott Walker) displayed as Walker's words on alternative energy are reprinted by the Ag Connection's stenographer.

Walker has blocked wind and solar energy as governor of Wisconsin, while specifically calling for solar and wind energy in his pretend run for the Republican Party's nominee for president in 2016.

Here are some relevant facts recently noted by Spencer Black:

Nearby states (to Wisconsin) are thriving. The director of Renew Wisconsin points out: 'Renewable energy is driving economic development throughout the Midwest and the nation. Our Midwest neighbors are investing heavily in wind power too.'

Walker administration policies are largely to blame. Under Walker, the Focus on Energy program curtailed funding for rooftop solar installations. State regulators appointed by Walker allowed utilities to reduce what they pay for power generated by utility customers' solar panels. Policies promoted by Walker have also made it harder to build new wind projects.

Ironically, while Wisconsin installs little new renewable energy, clean energy is still putting some folks to work here, but for projects in other states. For example, in Manitowoc, the Broadwind Energy factory will build towers for new Iowa wind farms. (The Capital Times, March 14, 2014) (emphasis added)

As Walker sucks in campaign money from oil, coal and gas interests, he continues his zealous opposition to critical and growing alternative clean energy industries that actually produce jobs.

Scott Walker takes his orders from ALEC, the Koch brothers and joins their assault on clean energy, to the detriment of American families' health as these special interests foul and toxify the environment.

This has been Walker's intention since he assumed office.

"Focus on Energy, a statewide program [since 2001] that promotes energy efficiency, is in the midst of big changes: new management by an out-of-state corporation, suspension of a popular rebate program, and sharp funding cuts in the pending state budget," reported Judy Newman (Wisconsin State Journal) on June 26, 2011, months after Walker assumed office. "Meanwhile, dozens of small Wisconsin businesses that specialize in setting up solar panels and wind turbines fear for their futures because of the slashed allocation and rebate removal."

Focus on Energy has a website, omitting mention of Walker's anti-wind power and solar energy policy that like most every Wisconsin state website under Walker has become a GOP propaganda outlet.

Scott Walker's pretending to be an pro-alternative energy governor is like Scott Walker pretending to be a pro-military veterans advocate—after Walker personally appointed two lackeys with no veterans' advocacy experience to run a non-profit charity for veterans and then stonewalled criminal investigators who later successfully convicted Walker's appointees for embezzling from these same non-profits. (Steve Schultze. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, January 22, 2013; and Dan Bice. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, May 31, 2012)