Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and business officials to organize opposition to the U.S. labor community's top legislative priority.

Participants on the October 17 call -- including at least one representative from another bailout recipient, AIG -- were urged to persuade their clients to send "large contributions" to groups working against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), as well as to vulnerable Senate Republicans, who could help block passage of the bill.

Bernie Marcus, the charismatic co-founder of Home Depot, led the call along with Rick Berman, an aggressive EFCA opponent and founder of the Center for Union Facts. Over the course of an hour, the two framed the legislation as an existential threat to American capitalism, or worse.

"This is the demise of a civilization," said Marcus. "This is how a civilization disappears. I am sitting here as an elder statesman and I'm watching this happen and I don't believe it."

 

Tony takes on the BBC   Whatever happened to the left in politics but more importantly when are we ever going to become decent world citizens. Is the BBC in the right or the wrong I don't know but if they allow other fund raising activities to be aired you'd have to say in the wrong. Is it kowtowing to Israel though?  Some more reading on the conflict.  A well written article imho here  A piece of propoganda here  Edit: http://annainpalestine.blogspot.com/