Sunday, November 01, 2009

What's happening while you read this blog post (Part IV)

Posted by Mickey Z on 11/01 at 08:24 AM
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  1. Holy shit,

    read this report on Detroit. One third of the city, an area the size of San Fran, abandoned now.

    Here it is

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  11/01  at  09:29 AM

  2. Thanks, Andy.

    The genius of the propaganda system is to make realities like this invisible.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/01  at  10:26 AM

  3. Did you read the comments after that article? Deeply conditioned Americans are blaming unions.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/01  at  10:27 AM

  4. Yeah ...

    It’s the stubborn working people’s refusal to be exploited that led to their downfall.

    You hear that poisonous nasty lie all the time. If they don’t accept that the elite take every last penny they can while the people that make the money are forced below the poverty line and stripped of healthcare and basic rights, then it’s their own fault if things turn to sh*t.

    What is testament to the power of USA propaganda is that you often hear people who are in the danger zone themselves repeating it.

    Posted by Andy from shanghai  on  11/01  at  10:33 AM

  5. Yep, they’re right there alongside the others, screaming about Obama being a socialist.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/01  at  10:40 AM

  6. Mornin’ Mickey, Andy, and all…

    My first job in Vermont was working as an advocate for the poor. It amazed me that even they held a prejudice against those in their own economic class.  They were always ready to turn in the struggling guy next door for working under the table, but they failed to see the big picture - the guys on the top who were responsible for poverty.  I named it ‘the halo effect of wealth’.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  11/01  at  11:07 AM

  7. Hi RMJ.

    I just found some quotes I posted nearly here nearly two years ago:

    Senator John McCain: “Americans don’t dislike wealthy people; they want to be wealthy people.”

    Springsteen, from “Badlands”: “Poor man wanna be rich/Rich man wanna be king/And the king ain’t satisfied/Till he rules everything.”

    Captain Paul Watson: “All people are the same. The poor are simply wannabe rich people. The oppressed are wannabe oppressors.”

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/01  at  11:11 AM

  8. Good quotes, Mickey.
    I just left a comment on your parental poem - It does not show up on the site?  I like the poem a lot.

    Here is a link to my latest.  It is on a Canadian site that deserves support.
    http://tinyurl.com/y9l8shg

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  11/01  at  11:21 AM

  9. Great article, RMJ. Simple truths.

    As for the poetry site, I think it take a short while for replies to appear.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/01  at  11:35 AM

  10. Just added a link to the main post: vegan cookbooks. Please vote for it if you can.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/01  at  11:59 AM

  11. Just added one more link: greenest poem ever. Thanks in advance for the hits and votes.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/01  at  12:44 PM

  12. Hello all. Captcha says ‘trouble’.

    The same culture that slices off the heads of mountains (in passing, on the way to our joyous modern infrastructure), also slices off the heads of children (in passing, on the way to ‘liberation’).

    Today is the day of the dead in some cultures. I went looking for the photos that used to be at that “Robert Fisk” site (it wasn’t his), and managed to find some. They remain horrific. And the systematic aggression and particular policies that have caused all that horror also remain. Not for the weak of heart, here they are.

    Posted by Keir from here and there  on  11/01  at  01:07 PM

  13. Brutal stuff, Keir.

    Posted by Charles from Jersey City  on  11/01  at  02:17 PM

  14. The article on Detroit is strong, and typical that it appears in England. (Do other countries’ media need to report on troubles in that happen in the UK?) The Boeing plant near my place is on the way out; the corporation made a too-thin attempt to play off another state against workers here. Senator Patty “Airhead” Murray’s office expressed surprise that Boeing wasn’t serious about keeping the production line here.

    The replies to the article are also typically shocking; during the Civil War house negroes must have issued dire warnings about emancipation, and Frederick Douglass must have been the biggest villain of all.

    Here It Comes Dept: I haven’t been to Detroit and can’t know all the story, but aren’t these results more in line with Jensen’s Endgame? The only downside that I can see to the abandonment of large areas is the pollution left by corporate thieves...but that’s a given almost anywhere.

    Nature Poems: Antler’s stuff is cool (breeze, not fad) and energetic. Scroll down to “Campfire Talk” http://www.antlerpoet.net/poems.php

    Great article, RMJ. Funny you reference Car Talk, as I’ve been listening to them lately. They’ve got common sense of humor.

    Posted by Zen Prole from Pac NW  on  11/01  at  03:49 PM

  15. Thanks, Zen. Yep, good humor is hard to come by these days. Most of my laughs are provided by The car guys and Stephen Colbert.

    Thanks, Keir. Please keep the photos coming when you find them.

    Posted by RMJ from Ward Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts  on  11/01  at  05:01 PM

  16. As always:  great quotes, cartoons, pieces - what’s not to like?

    Hello, Andy, Mickey, Rosemarie ("It amazed me that even they held a prejudice against those in their own economic class.  They were always ready to turn in the struggling guy next door for working under the table, but they failed to see the big picture - the guys on the top who were responsible for poverty.  I named it ‘the halo effect of wealth.” That amazes me as well, Rosemarie), keir and Zen Prole.

    Re Detroit:  read a piece in Time Magazine recently, wherein the unions also got at least part of the blame but the CEO’s - not so much (Mickey #3).

    All best for all you expendables,
    Helga

    Posted by Helga Fremlin from Daylesford, Australia  on  11/01  at  06:35 PM

  17. I remember Pete Seeger reciting that Whitman poem at a Hootenanny concert, must 50 years ago!
    Keep the good truths alive!

    Posted by Bob T. from Archer, FL  on  11/01  at  08:44 PM

  18. Hello everyone.

    Bob T: Wow...I had no idea. Thanks.

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/01  at  08:56 PM

  19. Thanks, everyone. A new post is now up.

    P.S Go Yanks…

    Posted by Mickey Z. from Astoria  on  11/02  at  05:58 AM

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