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Today the intelligence community employs some 100,000 people operating as a loose guild in agencies that waste billions of dollars in redundant services. Five organizations buy or run spy satellites, while eight process and analyze their photos. In addition to the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard have their own intelligence services. The Energy and Treasury departments, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have intelligence units as well...
...electroplating industry. For viewers who think the Oscars are too elitist, there's the People's Choice Awards, chosen by a Gallup poll of moviegoers. For those who find the Oscars too mainstream, there's the Independent Spirit Awards, recognizing films made outside the studio system. The Screen Actors Guild has its own televised awards show, and so does the Blockbuster video/music chain. There are awards for sports stars (the ESPYS), for outstanding African Americans (the Essence Awards) and for well-dressed rock musicians (VH1's Fashion & Music Awards). There are even awards for giving awards: Ellen DeGeneres was named...
Corporations in cahoots are able to face down even the most powerful unions. Despite the fact that the Newspaper Guild has been supported in its strike by the leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the Teamsters Union and the United Automobile Workers, its best efforts are failing. The result is that unions are banding together in order to upend their growing impotence. Combined operations reduce bureaucracy, increase membership and generate a greater revenue pool from which to draw members' benefits...
...Newspaper Guild itself merged with the Communication Workers of America on June 19. Ten days later, the International Ladies Garment Workers Union combined with the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers' Union to form UNITE. On July 3, the United Rubber Workers Union voted to combine with the United Steelworkers of America. On July 4, the National Education Association consolidated its presence in our nation's schools by absorbing the United Federation of Teachers. Does there seem to be a trend here...
...disperse striking newspaper workers who tried for the second time since Saturday to block delivery trucks carrying the day's combined editions of The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. "Either this is a prelude to a prolonged period of violence, or this is the endgame of the newspaper guild," reports Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "But it really looks like its the latter. As much as this is a pro-labor town, it's even more a pro-law town, and these strikers weren't going against the company today, they were going against the police. Besides, he says...