BREAKING: Philadelphia Building Trades Union Alerted Inspections Office to Center City’s Dangers
Source: We Party Patriots
By Steve Cooper
When the awful story of yesterday’s fatal Philadelphia building collapse broke, our first inclination was to find out who the contractor was and how they could be so careless. Video subsequently surfaced of the company, Griffin- Campbell, doing a less than bang up job at a previous demolition last weekend adding fuel to the fire of outcry over their ineptitude.
Now, it has come to the attention of CBS in Philadelphia that union construction organizations alerted the city’s Licenses & Inspection office to the potential dangers of the Center City demolition:
Following a deadly building collapse in Center City, Pat Gillespie, the head of the Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council, told WPHT’s Dom Giordano that the unions alerted L&I about the building before it fell.
“[The building] brought in this contractor…who’s non-union. I do know that a carpenter working across the street…had gone over and warned people, ‘Look, this isn’t going to work,’” Gillespie said, referring to the way the building demolition was being handled.
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About the Author: Steve Cooper
employd [at] wepartypatriots [dot] com -- Steve Cooper is the editor of We Party Patriots. He manages its Twitter (@WePartyPatriots) and Facebook (/WePartyPatriots) accounts, so there are many ways to contact him. Cooper is an avid chef and musician whose music has been used on television programs such as 30 Rock, CSI:NY, and New Girl.
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Although it will be too late for the 6 people who died at the store.
All U.S. voting systems are electronic and run on 'TRADE SECRET' code--code that the public is not permitted to review. Half the states do NO AUDIT AT ALL (audit = automatic comparison of ballots to electronic totals) because they have NO BALLOT and not even a paper receipt that the voter verifies. The other half do only a miserably inadequate 1% audit. Experts whom I respect say that 10% is the minimum audit required to detect fraud in an electronic system.
Furthermore, 75% of these voting systems are now controlled by one, private, far rightwing connected corporation (ES&S, which bought out Diebold).
Office holders in half the states in the country CANNOT prove that they were actually elected, and office holders in the other half haven't proven it and don't seem to care that they haven't.
The voting system is not just broken, it is gone--dead, privatized, kaput.
You wonder why we have all these assholes running things? THAT'S why. Blame the American people for being asleep on the job when this 'TRADE SECRET' voting machine coup d'etat took place, but don't blame them for voting for assholes until you can prove that they did.
