TPMtv: Marianas: Let's Go to the Videotape

[Ladiestreat]

The Republican utopia. Ah who cares fuck the poor, they want to be that way. These lazy poor people working 18 hr days. I'm glad a conservative Christian leader campaigned for this style of government.

[ikekll]

"Isaac Baichu works for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Serv. Agency as an "officer." A few days..., he phoned a 22-year-old Colombian woman whose green card ap. he was reviewing and asked her to meet him—in his car...Baichu explained that there were some problems with her record. He'd be parked on...The woman agreed to the meeting...Baichu, got right to the point. In exchange for his help establishing lawful permanent residency, he said, "I want to have sex one or two times, that's all."

[ikekll]

Hmmmm, a hack isn't so bad. Say NoMoreBlatherDotCom, have you looked at my favorites? Something for everyone

"GeoManhattan" PDF link is on the personal page. Another experimental program costing billions of dollars.

[NoMoreBlatherDotCom]

Josh Marshall is just a partisan hack.

Illegal immigration is similar to the guest program described in the video, yet virtually every Dem supports illegal immigration and Marshall says nothing about it. The Dem solution of "reform" will make things worse; the only way to prevent abuses is to enforce our laws, something Dems constantly oppose.

For examples of Obama supporting not enforcing our laws, see tinyurl dot com/5ahkeu and tinyurl dot com/5osd3n

Let's see Marshall discuss that.

[hajqbvii]

Labor Camps?...Didn't the Nazi's have them in WW2?...and the southern states in america now have them, the american territories too?....Wow...The Jewish gov. aren't the only ones to learn from the Nazi's!

[ikekll]

January 17, 2008 - "Introduction to Google . org's new initiative, Predict and Prevent. Its goal is to identify "hot spots" and enable rapid response to emerging threats, such as infectious disease and climate risk."

hmmmm, another initiative!

Predict and Prevent Initiative

watch?v=7XxrZAgIgMM

[Ouroboroz]

So.... who's gonna stop shopping at banana republic? slave trading scum.

[ikekll]

Follow the money. As citizens of the U.S., many of us have written our representatives only to be ignored. It is with a sadness but with intense passion that we continue to find some way to help stop the killing, and the corruption. The harder we try, the more secrecy the "government" uses to cover their actions.

I say follow the money-research where members of neo-con think tanks have their investments and their interests. It is a serious conflict of interest to gain profit off of destruction

[neotoy]

Right now G. W. Bush is trying to force congress to pass his Colombia Free Trade Deal so that American corporations can take advantage of Colombia's lax workers rights legislation and abundant slave labor opportunities. The fact that these monsters remain free to betray everything America stands for is a crime against humanity.

[ikekll]

neotoy,

Why the Colombia Free Trade Agreement Will Benefit America

watch?v=N6gJBBTOIoA

Plan "Colombia" is well-funded in the name of fighting drugs, so the money's there. Now, the think tank is going after support.

"Plan Colombia: The Real Destabilizing Force in South America, March 7, 2008

[ikekll]

Countries fighting for their independence from the World Bank assassin tactics, pulled out of the training terrorist program offered at Ft. Benning School of Americas.

[JerezJulio]

Complete separation of the ruling class from the middle class is the goal of Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics ideology.

WorldCom, Enron, Chevron, Exon Movil, Haliburton, Black waters, Unbalanced Free Traded agreements, and now the slave swept shops are just examples that stand out, but we are in serious deep problems because of continues application of these dreadful diregulations policies for the pass 24 years.

Do we want another conservative extremiost to continue this.

[sugarpuddin88]

Frankly, everyone I know in Chinatown NYC sleeps & lives in living quarters tighter than what I see in the beginning of this vlog - AND THEY WORK IN SWEAT SHOPS EXACTLY LIKE THOSE ON THIS vlog: Write here in the USA

Here in the USA, they ALL work off the books for less than min wage -- Which they are more than happy to do because the Government gives them money-housing-medical benefits since their income is unreported

[VelocityTheory]

we never outlawed slavery in america, we simply exported it to other countries.

[Myxale]

It's mind bending, that even in 2008 some people are forced to live like like this!

The issue in the US of A also applies to the rest of the world. Some more some less obvious!

Great coverage there Josh!

[huskercane]

The USA was built on a foundation of slave labor, and will always stick to it's roots. Behind every great fortune, is a great crime.

Shame on this nation.....

[ikekll]

What a shame, mainstream media have CHOSEN the top candidates for president. All three of them STINK. What a shame MSM blacked out

those who hold the true principal of freedom.

Here is one...btw, David Rockefeller had NO idea who Ron Paul was when asked in an interview his op on R. Paul-that demonstrates how out of touch the elite, how far removed from ordinary citizens who they feed upon!

WAR IS PEACE, says George Bush!

Dennis Kucinich at the School of Americas

watch?v=MeDYRjkgVMY

[doug47130]

Agian it's the "Haves vs The Have Nots"

[JayKHazen]

TPM, you can be so tenacious. Please don't let up on this story.

[libertyerian]

I think that any guest worker program should demand that the companies send the workers home very couple months. Some of these people really need the work but trapping them on an island with no way home is fucked up.

[hajqbvii]

It's happening in another american territory. try American Samoa....same thing happen, asian sweatshop...there's video a student in amer. samoa posted on youtube...look under american samoa on search.

[uru86]

Free Market Fundamentalism is the greatest enemy of workers, we have to change the economic system away from Reagan's supply-side neoliberalism!

[hypnofan35]

You cannot really force rich people to care about anything but money or that good exists outside of selfishness. Likewise people believe their status gives them the power of god and to kill. Normally people don't see their own situation as being so bad or as bad as it is. It is status quo and becoming accustomed to it. People don't just want money they become megalomanic and want it all. It is sometimes seen as the gambling compulusion.

[hypnofan35]

Life is just like that. i had a boss who thought it was ok to try to make me drive a heavy truck in an urban area without adequate brakes. When finally i had to put it in a ditch after warning him for months he blamed me.. Had another boss who told me he would kill me. It was something about loyalties after another young fellow fell to his death. People in uniforms and suits can be like that. The difficulty is status protects status and worker protection laws don't mean crap. Fired and quit.

[hypnofan35]

This is why slavery has always existed. It is a kind of social organization, where some loyal group of people mobs up against a population and defends each other's action by conspiracy to evade the written laws. Normally enforcement will be in on it, and the only thing that will dent it is some kind of exposure war or perhaps the more effective sniper rifle. Rich has a responsibility to be rich and status has a responsibility to status. These human attributes are different from human decency.

[FeelFreeToArgue]

Those are some awful experience, condolences. I wish they were more uncommon but I've had friends go through similiar things. Business has been chipping away at unions and labor rights for years, the pendulum is way over on their side now. Just another case in point proving that if you want business to act responsibly, make a law with a meaningful punishment and effective enforcement. A business will be precisely as moral as it is required to be.

[UTBESUX]

Global greed has become the biggest threat to the entire world. We see it close up, or filtered through the media with the Iraq war. This is INSANE & of course a Republican would say it's all great. I have never seen so many scandals in my life. THE PBS site is PBS dot org. All I can say is we MUST riot for change it ha come to that. They have stolen TWO elections and we have corporate, lawyer control all over the globe. Remember Obama is the ONLY candidate who isn't funded by corporations!

[mooseman2006]

forced abortion, sex trafficking, child prostitution, even slavery? shit man! bring it to the mainland! true republican values....

ridiculous

[RemiG2006]

Everything that each American can be proud of! :D

[oldbaldy129]

This is disturbing. Bob Schaffer should be ashamed. Everyone vote against him.

[ikekll]

AmeriKA land of the free!

BUSHshit!

Had enough of corruption yet!

[greywolf4744]

you didn't show the whole address for the pbs site. please link to it next time