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I keep watching this one from time to time. It is Alan Grayson questioning the Fed. Where did the money go?LOL It is a gem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJqM2tFOxLQ
very lois learner-ish. Gods work and what have you.
This is bullshit.
Smokers are not a protected legal class, so there is no “right to smoke” under any U.S. law
The fight is coming now that we smokers are getting organized around here and we want to be able to smoke on our outdoor balconies. I will use what they say against them. Oh, you are a self-righteous non-smoker? Good for you. I have pictures of all of the health code violations around here. And what is with the pets? My daughter is allergic to animal dander. These self-righteous motherfuckers pissed me off and they tread lightly around me now but they had best not tread at all. I don't bother my neighbors.
Double standard much here? I will bring a lawsuit and I will win. No smoking? Then no pets either. My ten year old daughter has a medical condition with animal dander. Don't care about the kids anymore now? Now all you care about is your fucking dogs and cats and that is OK to run them up and down the hallways shedding hair? Wrong answer.
This will be a good one.;-) Banzai7 has a law background and he will tell you that I have them over a barrel here and that does not count all of the other violations I have documented. If they want hell, then that is exactly what they are going to get. Do not piss off a patient man.
http://www.mnsmokefreehousing.org/tenants/tenant_rights.html
It's even worse at a hospital for the staff or the patients. I had one of my former coworkers (I left.) tell me HR followed him all the way out to the back end of the parking lot on lunch break, tapped him on the shoulder, and told him that this was his last warning about smoking on "hospital property."
Cigarettes and alchohol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaeLKhRnkhQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nrSfC76lLI
monitary policy explained in a concise manner.
More than just a day at the beach
'The rebellious spirit of Matthew Maguire's first Labor Day is spreading again across our country. Join the parade!'
It's a bit odd that in America's thoroughly corporatized culture we have no national day of honor for the Captains of Industry, and yet we do have one for working stiffs: Labor Day! Where did it come from? Who gave this day off to laboring people? History books that bother mentioning Labor Day at all usually credit president Grover Cleveland with its creation: He signed a law in July 1894 that proclaimed a holiday for workers in Washington, D.C., and the federal territories.
Cleveland? Holy Mother Jones! He was an extreme laissez-faire conservative, a "Bourbon Democrat" who never lifted a presidential pinkie to ameliorate the plight of exploited workers. To the contrary, in that same month of 1894, Cleveland enshrined himself in Labor's Hall of Eternal Infamy: At the behest of robber baron George Pullman and other railroad tycoons, he ordered some 12,000 U.S. Army troops in to crush the historic Pullman Strike, which was being led by union icon Eugene V. Debs. Thirty workers were killed, Debs was arrested on trumped-up charges of conspiracy, and all workers who supported the strike were fired and blacklisted.
Far from being a gift to workers, Cleveland's recognition of Labor Day was a desperate political ploy to mollify the anger of the union movement he had just decimated. He and his Democratic Party rushed the federal holiday into law only days after his military assault on Pullman strikers. In fact, this day was not "given" by anyone in power--it was taken by laborers themselves. In a bottom-up act of democratic audacity, this was our first national holiday to be put on the calendar by ordinary people. And they were not doing it just to get a day at the beach, but to get into the faces of power.
The real history
Matthew Maguire, a 19th-century New York machinist and an unrelenting activist for higher wages and shorter hours, was the one who first proposed a day-long solidarity rally to focus the forces of labor on reclaiming the democratic rights of workers and gaining a fair share of the wealth they create. Known as "the dauntless Maguire," he was secretary of the fledgling New York Central Labor Union, and in May 1882, he called for all 56 unions in the vicinity to make "a public show of organized strength." The CLU agreed and set the date of Tuesday, September 5, for a "Mammoth Festival, Parade and Pic-Nic." Adding to the audacity, the union council unilaterally declared that the day was to be a holiday for all workers who wanted to leave their jobs and join the action. Doing so was beyond bold, for it could get them fired--the bosses ruled workplaces with an iron hand, compelling 12-hour days, six days a week, for $2 a day.
"What can Labor do for itself? The answer is not difficult. Labor can organize, it can unify; it can consolidate its forces. This done, it can demand and command." -- Eugene V. Debs
Sure enough, as the 10 a.m. start time approached, only 80 union members had mustered at City Hall. But then came a faint sound of horns and drums--200 members of the jewelers union from Newark were just minutes away, coming with a 35-piece marching band! This small starter group kicked off the parade, and after a few blocks 400 bricklayers merged with them from a side street, moving in step behind wagons bearing artistic arches of brick as testaments to their skills. At nearly every cross street, more marchers joined: longshoremen in checkered jumpers; frame makers wearing beaver hats, carrying huge axes, and escorting a large wagon proudly displaying furniture the framers produced; cigar makers with red banners, a red-sashed official, and a singing society belting out ballads; and piano makers marching with a float bearing one of their trade's well-crafted instruments and a union member enthusiastically pounding out tunes. Thousands of workers paraded--row after row of laborers, marching six abreast with verve for miles through what was then the most ostentatious corridor of wealth and power in America.
In a 1982 article, historian Richard Hunt described the wondrous incongruity of this mass of working-class Americans striding so purposefully up Fifth Avenue: "They passed August Belmont's house; they trudged on past the tonish Burnswick Hotel; past the uptown Delmonico restaurant; past the elegant new Union League Club; past the mansion of Vincent Astor. Mrs. Astor--along with many of her millionaire neighbors--was in Newport for the season. Nonetheless, if the consciousness of capitalism was not penetrated, its precinct was."
The day culminated with a frolicking festival attended by 25,000 at Elm Park, which included the city's biggest beer garden, a dance pavilion, playgrounds for children, and ample picnic areas. [Note to present-day organizers: If you want people to turn out, follow this 1882 model of providing beer, music, food, and fun--so people will want to come.]
It was from this march and festival that both the concept and name of "Labor Day" was born. Afterwards, New York's CLU resolved to do it annually. Of course, barons and bosses damn near swallowed their $10 cigars at such effrontery and tried to forbid it; editorialists decried it as rank ingratitude to the "job creators" of the day; and the establishment's politicians warned that labor's show of strength was anarchy on parade. But workers had found their voice and a measure of class consciousness in a day to focus the public on their cause, and unions quickly spread the idea to other cities across the country. By 1894, when Grover Cleveland finally sanctioned the federal holiday, 23 states had already set aside September's first Monday as labor's own day.
Meanwhile, in 2015...
It's easy to ridicule what Labor Day has now become for many of us: Just a day off to go golfing, take a swim, watch a ballgame, crank up the grill, and do some 12-ounce elbow bends. Oh, yeah--and also hit the malls for the sales. What irony--labor's day has been turned into a corporate Shop-a-Palooza by megachains and big box stores, requiring millions of low-wage retail employees to put in a full shift on what's supposed to be their day.
But ridicule only leads to debilitating cynicism and surrender--the exact opposite of the rebellious spirit that created Labor Day and exactly the defeatist spirit that the corporate order thrives on. So rather than sinking into the murky waters of pessimism, let's notice that (1) our modern-day George Pullmans and Grover Clevelands have created a new Gilded Age of gross inequities and worker exploitation, and (2) that this is sparking a rising new rebelliousness among all sorts of workers. In fact, the spirit of Matthew Maguire's Labor Day is spreading again across our country, and a grassroots social justice movement is emergent.
This is coming despite 50 years of hearing the corporate mantra that unions are passe, fusty relics no longer needed. The modern world of work, they chant, is no longer the brutish place it was in the early days of industrialization, but instead is a sophisticated,
widely prosperous entrepreneurial economy of high-tech and ser-vice-based work that rewards individual initiative. Here's a typical version of the mantra from a CBS MoneyWatch commentator:
"There was a time when America needed labor unions to organize for worker's rights, but federal and state laws prohibit workplace atrocities of the past... I spent decades in the high-tech industry where unions had no traction... High-tech employees are typically treated well and if they're not, there are always state labor boards and lawyers to intervene on employees' behalf."
What a slaphappy planet he lives on! There's no need for workers to unite for their own protection and advancement because individuals can count on the generosity of the corporate hierarchy for fair treatment. And if any unpleasantness does arise, you can just hire a lawyer or a lobbyist to get justice from the worker-friendly court system and the always-helpful regulatory agencies.
But no matter how hard the "unions-are-obsolete" propaganda is pushed, there's one truth it can't overcome: Real life. The majority of Americans have now had personal experiences with the loss of jobs, income, homes, pensions, middle-class possibilities--and power. Corporations view workers (now including white-collar professionals) not as assets, but as costs to be cut and then disposed of as soon as possible. Corporate greed has knocked down, held down, and stomped on so many workaday people that wage earners are realizing anew that their only hope is to organize.
That's easier said than done. Even though public approval ratings for unions are on the rise--according to a Gallup poll released this August, 58% of Americans approve of unions--the deck is outrageously stacked against those who try organizing unions in their workplaces. Not only do corporate executives, financiers, politicians, and the media almost always oppose a union drive, but national labor law itself has been perverted during the past three decades into a corporate joker that now plays as the anti-labor law.
Nonetheless, through existing unions, union-affiliated organizations, and populist coalitions that focus on worker issues, America's grassroots have come alive with organizing campaigns to reverse the rampant inequities and abuses being perpetuated every day by the plutocratic powers. The Lowdown has been covering and supporting many of these uplifting working-class rebellions: Fast food workers and the "Fight for $15," adjunct college professors, Moral Monday, a Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service,National People's Action, Black Lives Matter, Working Families Party, Amazon workers, Occupy Wall Street, Our Walmart, United Workers Congress, and opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Such uprisings now exist in practically every zip code--from Silicon Valley to most college campuses, from day laborers gathered at your local Home Depot to nannies in the homes of the rich. New groups are popping up regularly, as unorganized, maltreated people not only get fed up, but also see other groups standing up, getting organized, and showing the way. Moreover, with the 1-percenters grabbing ever more for themselves at our expense, America's political zeitgeist has shifted against the grabbers and for the populist rebels. From Pope Francis to Bernie Sanders, the call for new egalitarian policies to advance the ethic of the common good is resonating with people who only a few years ago passively accepted corporate dominance.
The H-1B and H-2 people
Anyone still believing that workplace atrocities are things of the past needs to meet some of the immigrants in our country. And not just undocumented workers. Much more attention should be given to the outright abuse of people who not only have the proper paperwork, but who are actually corporate sponsored.
Two distinct groups of foreign workers are being brought here under special US visas to be [WARNING: Ridiculous Orwellian euphemism straight ahead] "Guest Workers." Both sets of guests are imported for one reason: to inflate the bottom lines of powerful, very profitable corporations by giving them a cheap, easily exploitable workforce. This artificially distorts the labor supply, suppresses wages, and redistributes income from the many to a rich few.
H-2: Low-tech labor. The government's H-2 visa category is a boon to corporations dependent on manual labor but unwilling to pay high enough wages to attract American workers. The handy H-2 "rent-a-worker" program lets these companies import more than 100,000 low-wage workers a year from impoverished communities in Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere. The workers clean rooms in luxury resorts, peel crawfish in seafood plants, do the sweaty things for landscape outfits, and otherwise toil at our economy's bottom rung, usually paid minimally (or less) by companies that profit from their labor.
How to squeeze low wages lower
Harvest Time Seafood, a Louisiana processing corporation, has been a beneficiary of the H-2 visa program... [read more]
Our "guests" tend to be treated as the indentured servants of their corporate sponsors. In a stunning new report this July titled "The New American Slavery," Buzzfeed.com found that H-2 workers are commonly cheated on pay, made to work extremely long hours with no overtime wages, forced to pay illegal fees, housed in squalid and dehumanizing conditions (such as horse trailers), sexually harassed, not allowed to travel, and kept under constant surveillance by employers and local police.
The "guests" can only work for the employer that sponsored their visa. Plus, employers often confiscate (illegally) the workers' passports.
Why doesn't the government do something to stop these outrages? Because Congress protects corporations, not people. Even though the Labor Department, which administers H-2 visas, found violations of the guest worker law in 82 percent (!) of the cases it investigated last year, Congress funds so few investigators and enforcement agents that the vast majority of companies bringing foreign workers to our Land of the Free are not monitored. If a company is prosecuted, fines are minor, and even repeat violators can keep getting new workers through the program. Almost none of the abusers are ever charged with a crime.
H-1B: High-tech labor. At the opposite end of the guest-worker scheme are visas reserved for brand-name corporate giants wanting to import college-educated workers with specialized information-technology skills. But wait--don't we have a lot of top-notch IT specialists born and raised on our own soil? And aren't the high-tech fields of science-technology-engineering-math (STEM) a priority of the US educational system, already producing twice as many university graduates as there are jobs? Yes and yes. But the royals of high tech--companies such as Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard, Intel, and Microsoft--don't want to pay the market rate of salaries, benefits and promotions that good IT employees can command. So to break the workers' power, the industry's PR specialists first concocted a "crisis" by screeching that America's educational system fails to produce the number and quality of STEM graduates that their corporations must have, thus creating a brainpower shortage that threatens tech innovation. Second, their lobbyists, using ample campaign donations as a lubricant, keep convincing Congress that the only solution to this national emergency is to let the corporations import more tech workers from abroad.
This phenomenally rich industry is presently allowed to bring 65,000 foreign workers to their campuses each year. In violation of federal laws, the corporations do not "make every effort" to find qualified US employees before seeking H1-B workers, nor do they pay the prevailing US salary to these workers. The temporary visa holders generally don't get promotions or retirement benefits, and after being used for three years or so, they're sent back home to be replaced by a new batch of disposable foreigners.
High-tech execs insist they wouldn't think of misusing the program to fluff up their own profits, but--oops--just this year it's been revealed that both Disney Inc. and Southern California Edison have fired hundreds of their US technology employees after getting the okay to import temporary foreign workers. Then the corporations required the displaced Americans to train their replacements as a price of getting any severance pay.
Meanwhile, industry lobbyists are demanding that Congress triple the number of high-tech workers they can import each year.
Onward!
Chiseled into the marble facade of the US Supreme Court building is this noble sentiment: "Equal justice under law." But most Americans today know that there's no use hoping that the next president, the Congress, or the courts will turn our country's egalitarian pretensions into fact. Only you and I can do that by building, step by step, a grassroots social justice movement. The good news is that various progressive campaigns and coalitions are out there, building and beginning to unite into a whole much bigger than its separate parts. In the spirit of that first Labor Day, let's take heart in this rising rebelliousness, join the parade, and take part in lifting our society closer to America's highest democratic ideals.
Do something!
The guest worker visa program not only leaves foreign workers subject to exploitation and abuse, but the program also undermines pay and working conditions for many American citizens. The National Guestworker Alliance advocates to end the abuses of the H-2 and H1-B visa programs. A recent op-ed by NGA's executive director in Washington's The Hill newspaper imagines the lives of guest workers at Donald Trump's ritzy Mar-A-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida. According to US Department of Labor records, the would-be "greatest jobs president" has obtained some 350 visas for H-2B waitstaff, cooks, and housekeepers since 2009.
Find out more at www.guestworkeralliance.org
And for tools to help organize change at your own workplace, check out Coworker.org. Launched in 2013, Coworker aims to make it easy for individuals or groups of employees to launch, join, and win campaigns to improve their workplace.
By Jim Hightower http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/4046
My favorite one yet, Banzai7!!
I teach HVAC (Refrigeration / Air Conditioning) to a group of 15 that have either borrowed or gotten govt. freebies in order to take an accelerated tech course that will end up costing someone $18,000.
One will definitely pass the course, three might squeak by, the rest believe that they can attend half of the classes, be late for those, and expect it to be handed to them as it has their entire life.
Since there are Government loans involved, a larger number will be "passed" by hook or crook due to "pressure on the school to produce results." They will lose any job in the workplace during their first week on the job due to the same attendance and go crying to the government for more money...
William I had a good idea for a cartoon, remember the german pilot that crashed into the alps on purpose. How about Merkel in a drawing doing the same to a plane with Germany on it crashing into a mountain of Immigrants or vice versa.
Labor day = millions of shoppers and eaters doing what they do best. Shopping and Eating. Shopping and Eating. Shopping and Eating. And every now and then stopping to scream.
Have you notice that the people who promote labor day have no experience in the private sector? Their callouses are on their behinds not their hands.
All holidays are just fake holidays to get people out and spending.
Why do you think there are so many so called holidays in the winter when everyone should be home staying warm and cozy.
With the U.S. economy depending on nothing but shopping and eating, imagine what the markets would look like in Nov Dec. Jan. without Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.
There are only 2 things you need to know in this new world odor.
(1) everything is a scam
(2) follow the money
Well, you know. I took a job on golf course. I have been a GCSAA superintendent before. I have my credentials. I turned down the spray tech job at the course I work at now. I work at said golf course for fun with a sense of professionalism because I can't unknow what I know after twenty years in the industry. Chemistry is interesting to me and I know a bit about it. Funny, I turned down the spray tech position yet now I am the guy spraying. Spraying greens requires that you know what you are doing. Our spray tech is a good guy and is smart.....has a degree in math in fact. Well, I have been doing the spraying down the gallon.
I am old school so I had to learn the Raven and Sharpshooter systems. I am old school but I learned it within two greens. That shit is all GPS now but it still requires that you know what you are doing. I can do it both ways and I guess our spray tech can't figure it out. Am I am I ever working for cheap but I am working for someone I know. The original spray tech fucked up and my resume is long in this business. It's right around $10K per mix for 150K.
Whatever. I would do it differently but that is my style. It is OK though because maybe I do not know it all. I won't fuck a up $10K application though. Most folks would not understand but I do.
After twenty years of being in the business you would hope I would know....and I do.
Who will pay for what I know about horticulture? We have had a very good community garden under my direction. I am depressed that I know what I know and that it pays so little. I thought I was supposed to get a lot fiats but that is not the case. That pisses me off.
Fuck your fucking golf course. Why should I care?
i hear the golf industry is shrinking very quickly.
Thats why I am long miniature Golf !!!
miniature golf all closed down around here along with the water slides. Not exciting enough for the bored to death teens these days.
Now we have zip lines, climbing parks and paintball warfare parks.
Got to keep them all excited ya know, lest they stop and wonder.
https://youtu.be/QYLLFpNn4lM
ding ding! wow, I finally got why Obama has played more than 250 rounds of Golf .... he IS wearing his corporate sponsorship for all to see, and you WB7 have already done the "Entitleist" theme well ... just think how far the "golf industry" would have fallen without the POTUS continuing efforts to shore up the sinking putters ....
Silicon Valley - biking has vastly overtaken golf as the sport of the moment
I a not sure he has helped them. The duffing douche bag meme ain't pretty.
The golf industry William. I don't know why I am back at it again. I guess because it is something I am really good at doing. I am not doing for the money and everyone knows that. Too many years of experience shine through. I think some of why I do it is because it is so hard to do. I am fighting nature and creating an artificial enviroment that normally would not exist in nature. It is the ultimate fight club and what reality is not anything you can learn in a classroom.(where you can rack up some non-dischargable student loan debt) I have made my mistakes in the past and I have learned the hard way several times.
I am getting respect. Hell, this is my fifth golf course. I get a kick out of the younger Assistant Supt. This guy is all asses and elbows. He seems to think that working long hours is what is going make him he wants to be. I confuse the hell out of him and even though he is technically my boss he knows that he is not my boss. He is learning and that is great. I don't mess with him too much and he has figured that out. I am not in it for the money. It is a passion and if you don't have that passion you will end up hating everything.
My passion is plants. I like to do what people tell me I can't do. It is like the community garden where I was told that I can't grow pumpkins because of this that or the other. Oh really? You want to make a bet? I will send you a pic. The most important thing that I know is the virtue of patience. There is no immediate gratitude with plants. You can not make a corporate board room decision on how it should work with plants.
Some people you can't reach. I gave that notion up many years ago. I do my own thing; I can't "hear" well and that offends some people. I don't care what anyone thinks of me. I only care what plants think of me.
I am sure you would do well on the East coast as an upscale garden manager. Westchester County or Greenwich and Vicinity. Lots of fancy grounds to tend there. But who needs the fucking aggravation right?
Correct again WIlliam. I have been known to walk off a job if I hear some shit said. I have earned the right to do so. I charge plenty for what I do but sometimes I will do it for free. I am pretty quiet about it. I was asked if I need another guy to help. No, I will do it myself.
I hate golfers. They all think they are special and 99% of them suck and should take up another hobby. People pay shitloads of cash to play goof(sic) but why? They just get in my way with their futile attemps to hit a golf ball. Yeah right. No, you fucking golfers suck and I know it. I like how they just hit golf balls into the swamp after all of the posturing at the tee. You always have to hit two right? Three? Four? I can tell by your 20 practice swings where the ball will go. Oh yes, I have something to prove and I can all hit the ball 350 yards or mostly hit the trees near the swamp instead of the fairway. Take your ego and shove it up your ass. You are not good at golf and never will be but don't blame me.
My hatred of golfers runs deep.
Manny I sent you an email a while ago and it bounced? Do you have mine still?
Chunga, here you go. tkufalk2@gmail.com Try that. Now you have to assume that I will check it once every few days. +1 for you though.
Thanks I had a (perfectly legal) horticulture question of 2 to impose on you, now I gotta remeber what they were. I won't remember anything today though, my chores are done so I'm starting to fuck off early for Libor Day. I have a jar of what they locally call "liquor" and cold beer of course. I'm ready to plug in and make noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXY6scMwsio (dueling rabbis)
Dueling rabbits? That was pretty cool. I love that banjo. Are you from North Carolina? I played some baseball in NC in my NCAA days. I remember playing against Chowan and we were 12-0 going in. When it was over we were 12-1. I will never forget all of the of the jacked up pick up trucks with kegs of beer in the back. Talk about being heckled...WOW! "Fucking Yankees" we were called.LOL After the game we were invited to stay and get drunk and we all really wanted to stay but the coach wouldn't let us. We all shook hands. I thought that offer was classy in a white trash way but we were white trash too. I still am white trash and I always will be. We are the last ones who might be able to do anything to try to save our sorry asses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IerahEMmYZk
Dude can pick huh? Nah, we're in Tennessee. This isn't for everybody here unless you like very rural. Most of the time you can't hear a single noise that isn't natural. The people around here are very rugged and *everybody* carries a gun. There's one little store (groceries, beer, ammo, bait, hardware) nearby and open carry is very common. You know some of the nicest, most generous people we know could fall under the white trash label. About 5 miles away there's this super junky yard with shit stacked up everywhere, front door wide open...guy has a sign out front "Home Remodeling and Design" lol.
I tell you what though, these people are rugged, very friendly, but it's not a good place to be a dick. Everybody knows everybody and if a strange vehicle is around they all know about it. How many cops did it take to catch/kill the 2 guys that escaped prison in NY....2000? It might be different here...I'm told there are some people that *never" come out of the woods and do not like visitors.
"Yankee" is a dirty word...another popular term is "fancy people". They don't like fancy people lol. The road we live on is named after our closest neighbors that live in a farmhouse that's been around since before the Civil War. The old man's name is "Junior" and he's come over a few times advising we might need to do some "southern justice" about something or other. I'm not exactly sure what that means but I think it involved capturing someone bad. We fit right in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APoE4yreT8w
It's not the only golf course around. As long as Obummer continues wasting our collective oxygen and wants to play the links, then there's possibilities. I'm presently in energy with a degree in it. Things look rather fucked for me, spare WWIII and I'm NOT alone. Watching people get pink slips from the Bakken doesn't sport well, but hey! Gas is under 2 bucks a gallon in the Texas Panhandle.
I've got a question for you, Bill.
The United States has 93 MILLION people who are unemployed right at this moment.
'Labor Day' is the national 'holiday' that is coming up on Monday, 7 September 2015.
What are 93 million people who don't work going to do on Monday?
Take the day off, perhaps?
Go to WORK in celebration of a holiday meant to commemorate LABOR?
By the way, it was fucking V-J day on the second (the OFFICIAL CEASING OF HOSTILITIES WORLDWIDE THAT ENDED WWII). The Totalitarian Socialists managed to re-write this time of rememberance; grieving for the lost; and time for reflection on the evil of WAR IN GENERAL; in to some spastic Communist Union-led movement that gave people a day off 'just because they work' (thus sewing more seeds of the 'entitlement mentality').
Fucking BLANKFEIN and HIS ILK are the ones who 'led the charge'... funding BOTH SIDES in the WAR TO THE DEATH...
94 million.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-04/record-94-million-americans-not-labor-force-participation-rate-lowest-1977
SIMON AND GARFUNKEL GREATEST HITS (18 SONGS CONTINUOUSLY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJe3dQ8haoU
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".. the words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls and
tenement halls
whispered in the sounds
of silence..." ..ps.?
I clicked on the link to the "Sound of Silence".....nothing...
Start Off Each Day With A Song Jimmy Durante
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFLLpvAQtWg
Blindman, popular music is a psy-op. Its imposed as part of the media cocoon that tries to manage your/ our perceptions. You like Bob Dylan. Who chose Bob Dylan? Bob went around the upper midwest picking up what he could and stealing original rare (Guthrie) recordings that he "borrowed" from friends.
Look into Laurel Canyon, home of the LA music scene, under Hollywood/ CIA propaganda factory at Lookout Mtn. All these young rock stars who went to HighSchool together in Arlington, Virginia, just across the Patomac from DC.
David McGowan has a great site that goes into this. Unfortunately, now he wants you to buy his book, so he only has some teaser chapters up there.
all public broadcast is such.
does it have a beat, that is the
question?
Most excellent WB7.
Yes, happy Libor day; manipulating mortgage rates, and bailouts and selling CDS's and MBS's to Pension funds and the FED - nothing but profit for the vampire squid on the backs of the working folks and families!
Get back to work Serfs! Wall Street needs more! Always more! And no consequences for the Robber Barron's, other than coke, Bollinger, and hookers galore!
A legalized organized crime syndicate! Pay the Capo! Pay the Godfather! Hey, is your "health"care insurance affordable? No? Work harder you mules!
labor and labor day.
.
you do, with eyes and ears, realize
the global "money" system has replaced
outright slavery regarding the relationship between
a human "person's" worth and the "owners" use of that
particular skill, effort, expertise, individual enterprise,
work, initiative, aspiration or life.
.
owning, as an asset or property,
another person's desperate delusion, rarely bears fruit/s.
no mystery there, right?
.
this idea in "economics" that labor is a mere factor
in the master calculus is just a symptom of the mental
illness that is "economics" as studied and practiced
today. here this, it is more than "economics", it
has become "governance". there is a critical difference
between them that your "owners would have you ignore,
be indifferent to or otherwise be a consumer rather than
citizen conceiving and experiencing.
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epic failure , hallelujah, here it come.
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[KR805] Keiser Report: ‘Crack now, pay later’
Posted on September 4, 2015 by Stacy Herbert — 64 Comments ?
We discuss the ‘frack now, pay later’ economics of a desperate energy sector. In the second half, Max interviews Michael Hudson, author of Killing the Host, about how the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate sectors compromise our economies.
Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/09/kr805-keiser-report-crack-now-pay-later...
Using human beings as collateral as policy is a human rights violation
Loudon Wainwright III - I Am The Way (CBS 1973).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-4o-VQlRho
Make lame men run and the blind see again. End all of the world's problems by arresting Lloyd Blankfein and shutting down Goldman Sachs. WWIII the war to end central banks and banking families.
Go a little further and shut down all Red Shield banksters and start boiling rope.
Start in Switzerland
this voice told me "once you have seen
the light, there is nothing left to see."
not sure what that means. anyway,
just passing it on.
to think about, some shite,
this labor day weekend; here come
all the hollow daze in the grand shemitah
cycle. apparently, it is all the work of god
and has been written?
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Not John
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_IWNO-U_YE&index=5&list=RDs2XMh8gbiCU
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Suicide Song - Loudon Wainwright III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7nIdg-CTQk&index=5&list=RD1OkyVdgA814
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"I'll Be Killing You (This Christmas)" by Loudon Wainwright III
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8XjOWiieYYe
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alternate version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoJvY5cnPHs
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i suppose the state of man and "his" world could be much worse
and thank goodness, there being still room for the entertainment
and journalistic industries to scare us to near spiritual death
for the price of a ticket or subscription. i guess they learned
the technique from the dark ages and those associate authorities?
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Sandy Hook And The Politics Behind Mass Shootings
http://www.gunsandbutter.org/
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g money
I'll raise ya a dead skunk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu5hzc2Mei4
..."i'm very interested in this process of
deterioration." ...l.w. III
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Loudon Wainwright - Interview - President's Day / White Winos (Dutch)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQHs8HJmzmM
Which god chose him and his cronies?
What god do you speak of? Allah
zion amen
The Mourge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2XMh8gbiCU