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A Mexican Truck Blew Up, killing 34 people.
It was loaded with dynamite.

This happened on the very day the Teamsters are trying to gain support for an amendment introduced by Byron Dorgan to stop this pilot program.

In May, the House of Representatives passed Peter DeFazio’s H.R. 1773, the Safe American Roads Act of 2007 to stop unsafe Mexican trucks onto U.S. highways. The vote was 411 to 3. That is overwhelming bi-partisan support. Yet, the Bush administration, with their corporate agenda at any cost to the American people, went ahead with this dangerous pilot program anyway.

Allowing Mexican trucks and workers onto U.S. highways also affects American jobs. By allowing Mexico to bypass US ports and truckers, safety standards, training and U.S. wages, once again we have more labor arbitrage at the expense of the U.S. worker.

Please show some solidarity and ask your Senators to support the Dorgan amendment.

Update: Dorgan amendment passed the Senate!

Thank you Senator Dorgan!

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Below is a must see video clip of Senator Bernie Sanders on the true economic state of working America.

Reported by David Sirota, Senator Bernie Sanders is trying to block the confirmation of White House budget director nominee Jim Nussle.

A little background on Jim Nussle.

The Huffington Post has more.

Way to go Bernie!

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The United States Bachelors degree is a 120 credit hour undergraduate degree taking four and sometimes 5 years to complete. Well….

A little birdy told me about an unusual blog site celebrating Indian 90 credit hour (3 year) engineering degrees now being accepted in the United States as fully accredited.

In a significant development, Indian engineering degrees will now be accredited in the United States and will be internationally recognised.

This follows India’s induction into the prestigious Washington Accord, an international agreement between registering bodies of member countries accrediting academic engineering programmes, at the university level, leading to the practice of engineering at the full professional level.

and this lovely statement:

The really great significance of this is what we call credit transfer and mobility.

Like in the US, if you do two years at one institution, two other semesters somewhere else and graduate from a different university or college or institution, all of these credits will be accepted by all of the member countries that are a party to this accord

Washington Accord

From any evaluation of universities, such as Academic Ranking of World Universities one can see that the United States is the most dominant in higher education.

Yet this article suggests many top tier…

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