"The wealthy, not only by private fraud but also by common laws, do every day pluck and snatch away from the people some part of their daily living. Therefore, when I consider and weigh in my mind these commonwealths which nowadays do flourish, I perceive nothing but a certain conspiracy of rich men in procuring their own commodities under the name and authority of the commonwealth.
They invent and devise all means and crafts, first how to keep safely without fear of losing that which they have unjustly gathered together, and next how to hire and abuse the work and labor of the people for as little money and effort as possible."
As we watch the Goldman Sachs con men twist and shout before a suddenly agitated Senate banking committee shocked, shocked! to hear that there's rampant fraud on Wall Street I think it's instructive to revisit a bygone era when similar forces were arrayed against the interests of the general population yet the warnings went unheeded. Courtesy of Jessie's Cafe Americain:
It is one of the serious evils of our present system of banking that it enables one class of society, and that by no means a numerous one, by its control over the currency to act injuriously upon the interests of all the others and to exercise more than its just proportion of influence in political affairs. The agricultural, the mechanical, and the laboring classes have little or no share in the direction of the great moneyed corporations; and from their habits and the nature of their pursuits, they are incapable of forming extensive combinations to act together with united force. Such concert of action may sometimes be produced in a single city or in a small district of country by means of personal communications with each other; but they have no regular or active correspondence with those who are engaged in similar pursuits in distant places. They have but little patronage to give the press and exercise but a small share of influence over it; they have no crowd of dependents about them who hope to grow rich without labor by their countenance and favor and who are, therefore, always ready to exercise their wishes. -Andrew Jackson farewell address The rest...
I was rummaging through the archives of the Socialist Worker website when I ran across this gem from the great satirist:
Oh Lord, our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded...help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the waste of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst. -Mark Twain The War Prayer
Isn't it funny how we never had the opportunity to explore this aspect of him in school? The rest...
As I slowly ease back into this blogging thing I think it's important that I share with you this little nugget from the incomparable Wikileaks organization. Yes children, it's good to see that Uncle Sam is still winning precious hearts and minds over in Iraq one at a time...
What Women Voters Want
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Republicans are really struggling winning over women voters, especially
while they are trying to take away the women's rights. So the GOP is
focusing on ...
Telegram cracks down on ‘terrorist’ spam
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[image: Preview] The messenger app Telegram has hammered down on thousands
of accounts attempting to goad users into committing terrorist acts
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Injured
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My run of bad luck with health continues. A week ago I fell, dislocated my
shoulder and damaged my knee. I am very strapped up and won’t have the use
of ...
The state of capitalism
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The book, The State of Capitalism, is an ambitious work. Written by the
NAMe Collective with the lead from Professor Costas Lapavitsas from SOAS
Universit...
Rinse and repeat – Truss chaos – the new benchmark
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For years, those who want selective access to government spending benefits
(like the military-industrial complex and other parasitic sectors), while
claimi...
Spring Breaking
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Just a quick note to mention that we are standing down this week for a
much-needed Spring Break. That comes not a moment too soon, as it turns
out. Close l...
Poster? Child.
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Is it gauche to wear your own blog’s hatto the trampoline park? Not
necessarily,though other parents look away and warilygrasp the fleeing hand
of their ow...
Media Say ... Gloom And Doom In China
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The New York Times, and other western media, are running a 'doom and gloom
in Xi's economy' campaign. The latest entry is this piece: China’s Economic
Pain...
Baddiel, an ignorant, arrogant charlatan
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If Twitter obsessed David Baddiel's book, *Jews Don't Count* was a
*Wikipedia* entry it would be flagged as having "multiple issues".
The first problem ...
The Great Student Loan Ruse
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These appalling figures don't fully capture the cruelty of the reality to
which they refer.
The post The Great Student Loan Ruse appeared first on The Co...
Moving Interruptus, and Why Hospitals Suck
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In the event, June turned out to be the horrible month I had expected --
but June also proved unexpectedly resourceful. It was horrible for reasons
I hadn'...
Taking our final steps
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From the ISO
Members of the leadership team responsible for carrying out the decisions
made by current and recently resigned ISO members in voting to diss...
On Fetish
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God creates Adam and immediately—sooner than we thought—He speaks to him.
This first address, according to the midrash, is a seduction:
*“And the Lord ...
Responsibility Is For The Poors
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*Paul Ryan fixing Obamacare.*
Let's talk about responsibility.
When you break something, you have a responsibility to fix it. When you do
your damnede...
Yoshie Furuhashi, "After MRZine"
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[image: MRZine]Today MRZine comes to an end, after over a decade's run.
Thank you for your past support. . . . My next project is to establish
Movement Tra...
Trump Era Fresh
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For those who still swing by to see if I'm around, you might want to go here.
Yes, it's a new site for a New Day. Let's learn together.
The Return on My Investment
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By: Aaron Datesman
It's easy to recognize a win when it comes with a trophy at the end (or, in
the case of politics, an inauguration). It's harder to rec...
It's really very simple
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[Note: I am pushing this article live two days early because ZeroHedge
somehow managed to get a hold of it and post it before I did. Needless to
say, I do...