Apple Shareholders to Vote on Anti-Discrimination Proposal
Cupertino, CA / Washington, D.C. - At today's Apple shareholder meeting in Cupertino, California, shareholders will vote on a resolution submitted by the National Center for Public Policy Research, a shareholder, requiring Apple's management to prepare a report identifying Apple's criteria for operating in regions with significant human rights violations ...
Apple Inc. Asked to Adopt Human Rights Proposal
Apple Management Asked to Report to Shareholders on Its Operations in Countries With Brutal Human Rights Abuses Apple, Inc. Urges Shareholders to Vote "No" FBI-Apple Debate Repeatedly Mentioned Jesse Jackson Addressed Shareholder Meeting, Saying FBI Could Use a 'Back Door' Into the iPhone to Spy on His Group and Black ...
Tomorrow I Will Speak to Apple Shareholders About Human Rights
Tomorrow morning, at the annual Apple meeting of shareholders in Cupertino, California, I will speak in favor of Proposal #7, "Human Rights Review," a shareholder proposal submitted by the National Center for Public Policy Research. (To read it, go here and scroll to page 62). Last spring, Apple CEO Tim ...
“John Deere Consistently Surrenders to the Left”
John Deere Shareholders Voted Today on Political Transparency Proposal Asking Company to Report to Shareholders When It Supports Groups that Do Not Share Its Stated Corporate Value of Being Pro-Free Enterprise Proposal Comes as Deere Voted One of Fortune Magazine's "Top 50 Admired Companies" - But Will Deere Still Be ...
Pro-Liberty Resolutions to Be Presented to John Deere and Apple Investors This Week
National Center for Public Policy Research Asks John Deere Investors to Support Its Call for Increased Transparency Surrounding the Company's Anti-Free Market Policy Activities National Center's Proposal to Apple's Shareholders Highlights Dangers of Corporate America's Fight Against Religious Freedom Moline, IL / Cupertino, CA / Washington, D.C. - At tomorrow's ...
Starbucks May Soon Have the World’s Largest Menu
Does the fact that there are 36,000 possible Frappuccino combinations at Starbucks mean that Starbucks soon must print the calorie count for all 36,000 combinations on its menu, under little-known regulations brought to us by the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)? Apparently so. It's going to be interesting to see what ...
Look at American Vets to See Future of Government Health Care
Project 21’s Kevin Martin participated in a televised discussion Wednesday about whether employers should be able to mine data about their employees in order to predict health risks. Kevin pointed out that government employees already have their data mined. He then took it a step further to say veteran health ...
Liberals, It’s a Lie to Say Criticism of Obama Is Because He’s Black
To hear MSNBC tell it, Obama is prohibited from doing many things because of his black ancestry. Case in point is an on-air discussion between MSNBC employees Joy Reid and Chris Matthews, in which Reid alleges that Barack Obama "uniquely" among Presidents (code for "he's black") is "not allowed" to ...
Nannystaters Try Censorship Again, Put Lives at Stake
The National Center's Jeff Stier is in Salt Lake City today, where he and a group of about thirty people politely, and silently, held signs opposing a massive 86.5 percent tax hike on e-cigarettes, the tobacco-free devices that permit people who are addicted to nicotine to get that nicotine "fix" ...
Obama and Friends Cry False Racism for Supreme Court Battle
I wrote yesterday about President Obama's attempt to cast the coming Supreme Court confirmation battle as being about him personally, so he can cast it as an issue of mostly white Senators opposing the nominee of a (half) black President. This, he and his allies hope, will anger black Americans ...
It’s Not About You, Mr. President
Handing more ammo to people who suspect he's a narcissist, President Obama in his news conference today referred to Senators who might choose not to give consent to a future judicial nominee of his as doing so because they "don't like the President." As even middle schoolers know, people who ...
Supporters of Health Benefits of E-Cigarettes as Alternative to Tobacco to Speak at Utah State Capitol February 17
Salt Lake City, UT - On Wednesday, Feb. 17th, National Center for Public Policy Research Senior Fellow Jeff Stier will join the Utah Smoke-Free Association and the Utah chapter of the Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Association (SFATA) in Salt Lake City to take on opponents of e-cigarettes, highlighting the safe ...
Genital Checks: Not Coming to a Restroom Near You
Left-wing websites have in recent weeks been running false stories that Republican legislators in various states are introducing bills to mandate "genital checks" - literally, genital inspections, on the public to make certain their anatomical gender matches the restroom they are entering. The proposed bills do no such thing. In ...
Congress to Vote on Scaling Back ObamaCare’s Requirement that Restaurants Print Calorie Counts in Menus
Obama Administration's FDA Makes it a Felony if Even Small Restaurants Make an Error When Posting Calorie Counts Administration Also Forbids Restaurants from Posting a Range of Calories for Items, Such as Pizza, That May Be Ordered With Variable Toppings New York, NY - "Few people realize ObamaCare's tentacles extend ...
Exposers of Planned Parenthood Should Be Hailed as Good Journalists
On RT Network’s “The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann,” Horace Cooper went on the attack against Planned Parenthood, and urged the organization to refuse federal funding. “The lion’s share of Planned Parenthood’s work is killing people. They ought to call it Death Care, not Health Care,” said Cooper on the ...
Liberal Activists, Mainstream Media, Law Enforcement Bear Partial Blame for Showdown in Oregon that Led to Death of LaVoy Finicum
Left-Wing Civil Disobedience Often Goes Unpenalized, With Media Complicity Is It Any Wonder Some Conclude Civil Disobedience is a Safe and Consequence-Free Activity? Washington, D.C. - Left-wing activists and news outlets that only partially cover their activities are in part to blame for the confrontation in Oregon that led to ...
March for Life: Will the Washington Post Cover It As It Did in 2014 (Fairly), or 2015 (Not)?
It's no secret that the mainstream media under-reports the massive "March for Life" held every January 22nd in Washington, D.C. Will it do any better this year? In 2013, the National Center for Public Policy Research's David Almasi took the issue to the shareholder meeting of the then-publicly-held Washington Post ...
Is Apple’s Workforce Sufficiently Diverse? A Shareholder Proposal Says No, But I’m Skeptical
Is Apple's workforce sufficiently diversified? Antonio Avian Maldonado II, a shareholder, says "no." He's submitted a shareholder proposal to be voted on at Apple's next shareholder meeting calling on the corporation to adopt an "accelerated recruitment policy" to increase diversity. In its proxy statement, which contains the proposal and Apple's ...
Yes, Conservatives DO Have ObamaCare Alternatives
On RT Network’s “The Big Picture,” Project 21’s Hughey Newsome told host Thom Hartmann that the reason Hartmann knew of no conservative alternatives to ObamaCare isn’t because there aren’t any — it’s because the mainstream media refuses to talk about them. “I think that Republicans are focused on stopping ObamaCare ...
Oregon Standoff is Just a Symptom of a Much Larger Problem Congress Can Help Fix
National Center for Public Policy Research Calls for Three-Step Plan to Help Relieve the Rural West Washington, D.C. - As the country continues to focus on the ongoing standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, the National Center for Public Policy Research reminds federal elected officials in Washington ...
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