you are in the dark.

“Sounds to me as thought hey have fulfilled their purposes and I say we should all be thankful, our comfortable standard of living is a direct result of the world’s economy not repeatedly crashing.”

Are you kidding? This is the view of a nation that benefits from the debt slavery of the rest of the world. Their wealth flows into our economy and inflates our standard of living. This is the post WW2 plan for economic domination of the world, which was spelled out and implemented deliberately.

“All that we had borrowed up to 1985 was around $5 billion, and we have paid about $16 billion; yet we are still being told that we owe about $28 billion. That $28 billion came about because of the injustice in the foreign creditors’ interest rates. If you ask me what is the worst thing in the world, I will say it is compound interest. ” –President Obasanjo of Nigeria

Why is Iran Still in the Cross-Hairs?
Clues from the Project of a New American Century
by Dr. Ellen Hodgson Brown
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7783

I guess if rape and pillage makes you feel comfortable…

I think he appears to be wrong in this instance based on his position as a writer for a magazine.

However, I also think we should all take a chill pill. Let’s not crucify someone for one mistake.

Dear Entertainment Writers on Strike: Recently returned to so-called civilization from the canyons of Utah, I had the opportunity, after long hiatus, to enjoy the product of some of your writing as it gets shoveled into the American maw via television (no TV in my house). What a feat, this writing. It evidenced so much that was stale, false, crass, violent, foolish, salacious, gimmicky, irrelevant, sycophantic, complacent, compliant –it was, in short, the perfect distraction in a dying republic fast on its way to tyranny, the gift that keeps on giving to a government that would hope to turn the screw on free-thinking citizens. In other words, writers–you keep on striking!

Behold: The entertainment will grow cold and grey as the corpse that it already is, with no new cadavers to puppeteer for the newness of each season, where nothing is as new as the recycled dead from the last season. Like Plato’s chained slaves in the cave of shadows, let the viewers wake up, walk into the light, starved for reality–oh writers, let no new entertainments issue from your minds! You may just save the Republic.

You have a point about the difference between the union leadership and the union members, but it’s a small point. Union members are the ones allowing themselves to be duped into voting for sleazebags to lead them, and they’re the ones letting themselves be manipulated into voting for bad contracts by corrupt leaders. Even the good union leaders (and I suspect there are a lot of them) are stuck with crummy executive leadership or an “I want mine, screw everyone else” mentality in too many of their members. I’ve directly observed that mentality lead to short-sighted decisions by at least one union.

I actually agree that unions are a great idea – they’ve done a ton to give workers the protection they have – but the global economy (or some form of it) is here to stay for a long, long time and unions will have to adapt. Thus far the majority of them seem unwilling or unable to do so.

Unions would probably serve their members long term interests best by pushing for more investment in foreign economies, collective bargaining laws in other nations, human rights and freedoms around the world, and general push toward democracy and the rule of law than by lobbying for protectionism here in the U.S.

Senator Bob Graham tells us of “foreign governments” assisting the alleged hijackers, and the nation goes back to sleep? Senator Max Cleland tells us of a disgusting cover up and “national disgrace,” and nothing happens. Revelation after revelation of possible high treason is brought forth, and nothing is done, no one is accountable. It appears to be sanctioned by both criminal political parties.

FBI special agent Robert Wright uses the word “treason.”

FBI translator Sibel Edmonds describes treason and a host of other crimes leading right back to the white house. She’s gagged, more than anyone in the nation’s history, but is starting to spill the beans now.

And a lot of smug, ignorant stuffed shirts refuse to investigate, or even acknowledge the cover up as the elephant in the room, while we do not know, still to this day what happened on 9/11. The investigations were frauds, cover ups, fictions from government payroll operatives and supposed terrorists subject to infinite torture who were also reported dead before they became the authors of our modern fiction (KSM). These black holed sources have never been shown, or proven to be alive at all.

And they get away with it in broad daylight.

70 disturbing facts about 9-11
http://crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/2007/02/no-george-monbiot-these-are-facts-of.html

He does appear the hypocrit, I’m sure he would object if someone was selling one of his articles without giving him royalties.

Globally countries like Germany and England, with very strong labor unions, are beating our ass at everything. But people I know constantly jump to defend overpaid CEO’s and the Walmart heirs over people who earn their money.

That’s the root of the problem right there.. Global Economy.. That’s a failed model, it can’t work, you can’t expect a failed model to fit into successful patterns.

I’m sure you understand the position on this matter from Kucinich and Paul, correct? KILL the “global agreements” we have, become SELF sufficient.. That wasn’t a problem for a LONG time, then the Mega Corps successfully lied to the masses and told them “you can get more STUFF FOREVER if you let us do this!”..

The powers behind it are the World Bank and IMF..they are making a HUGE killing on this, and represent the “central bank” of the central banking world. It survives by exploiting everyone it can, and we have to tell them “not in my back yard”.. but, they own our leaders, so that’s not going to happen any time soon.

With regard to Unions.. it’s not “unions” that are “bad”, it’s their leadership. The wrong people get into the job for the wrong reasons, and the Corporations buy them off. Corruption is preached from the TOP, and rewarded.. so it flows down hill and spreads it’s rot into the lowest of the cracks.

What fixes it is MORE oversight.. that means MORE individual involvement by citizens. But, we’re all glued to that TV (by those writers, no less.. catch-22 there!) and suck up the “gimme gimme gimme! MORE MORE MORE!” mentality that’s being pushed by the Mega Corps. You DO realize they spend BILLIONS every year on psychologists and “experts” and “research” (like going into public schools and taking our kids out of classes to find out what THEY think would make them want to buy MORE stuff). We’re literally being abused by “professionals”, all for the same end.. GREED.

Until the MASSES -demand- that -all- violators of law, including those hiding behind their “job” and paper, are prosecuted, and we SEE that there truly IS -zero- tolerance and crime does NOT pay, we’ll have these problems. Corrupt leaders are allowed to keep getting rich even after they abuse the public. Why should they stop? And why shouldn’t it permeate -everything-?

Don’t blame the victim in all of this. Unions are an idea, and the idea is “good”.. it’s implementation by bad people is the problem, not the idea.

DMI Blog

The writers strike is still going on and going strong. Writers are still picketing The Daily Show.

So why did the self-professed “champion of the middle class” CNN pundit Lou Dobbs go on The Daily Show show last night? That’s scabbing. I…

I agree, and I’m not sure the entire details of their contracts, and I think writers should get their fair share of dvd/ad sales etc. However programs like this are a little different. I can forgive someone for crossing the picket line and going on a “news” show a lot easier. At least it’s not like the 80′s when Coy and Vance replaced Bo and Luke.