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- At the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s regular press
conference last week, spokesperson Liu Weimin’s revealed that Chinese
Premier Wen Jiabao was awarded ”the Best Friend of American Worker” by
the US International Longshoremen’s Association.
- On Tuesday, the AFL-CIO, of which the
Longshoremen Association is an affiliate, endorsed President Obama for
reelection.
- Unions plan to spend $400 million in the
upcoming campaign season, according to the New York Times.
In
the olden days the East coast ILA was controlled by the Italian
Mafia; the West coast ILA by the CPUSA. The FBI waged a
successful war on
the Mafia; the CPUSA waged war on Richard Nixon and J. Edgar Hoover
(more than metaphorically speaking). Guess who won?
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