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Monday, June 21, 2010

Simpson calls you "lesser people"

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Saturday, June 12, 2010

We are twittering away our freedom and happiness

Strike for better wages. Picket companies that send jobs and factories overseas - with actual humans, yelling, walking up and down with signs, not kids in basements twittering with both hands, facekooking and pasting talking points onto comment boards. Demonstrate in front of stores that pay dirt wages and no benefits to their workers. Condemn warmongers in public office, not just whoremongers.

Frighten the arrogant, evil turds, who are both destroying our economy and preventing the individual pursuit of life, liberty and happiness.

Create a human ring around every federal building in America until the government promises by law not to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Cobra subsidies and unemployment compensation.

Refuse to contribute to any political party until Congress brings back the tax rates for the rich that were good enough for the "free market" Reagan era, and which would now balance the budget.

At the turn of the 20th century Philadelphia decided to eliminate the volunteer fire company system, and the firemen got angry. They didn't send letters, but put on their uniforms, carried their pikes and torches through the city to meet the National Guard on the Green Lane Bridge. The Guard backed down at the sight of 10,000 protesters, and the fire system wasn't changed for 20 years.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

China workers strike, get contracts, severance, raises, while West builds $2 million fake lake

"Wherever exists exploitation and suppression, rebellion erupts. If the exploited are a majority of the society, the revolt draws even nearer and comes with a louder bout. For the past 30 years witnessing China's meteoric rise, multinationals and upstart home tycoons have rammed up their wealth making use of China's favorable economic policies as well as oversight loopholes. In sharp contrast, tens of millions of Chinese blue-collar workers who have genuinely generated the wealth...have been left far behind." - People's Daily

The Chinese workers go on strike and their government passes laws raising the minimum wage, giving workers written contracts with employers, very liberal severance, etc.

In America workers don't go on strike because the government follows the Homestead method to allow scabs and bring in the "security guards" to stifle "terrorist" unrest by the wage slaves.

The media sells everybody on the chance they will earn $900,000 an hour, like the average of the top ten hedge fund managers, and pay a lower income tax rate than a discount store greeter.

Meanwhile, in Canada they build a $2 million fake lake to entertain the G20 finance ministers, who are engineering the cuts in the West's pensions and public worker (union) salaries, while increasing everyone's retirement age (in the hope the poor will work themselves to death before they get their retirement savings).

NY Times background

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