Mickey Z

Cool Observer

Friday, September 30, 2005

Dubya in the docket, 21st century slavery, cats named Frank, & much more

By the power vested in me by this bald kickboxer dude…

...I bring you a batch of unrelated posts all adding up to something.

Larry Everest (http://www.larryeverest.com) just told me about this:

The 2005 International Commission of Inquiry on
Crimes Against Humanity
Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States
October 21-23 in New York City
http://www.nion.us/Commission/call-charter.htm

(Courtesy of Rosemarie)

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Speaking of crimes against humanity, I offer this “re-run”:

Slavery (a capitalist parable)

In the most remote regions of Brazil, slave labor is employed to cut down grand swaths of the precious rain forest to make room to grow eucalyptus which is then burned by male slaves (who exploit the body, mind, and spirit of female slaves forced into prostitution) to make charcoal for the steel mills of Brazil where the poorest of the poor toil for wages that do not sustain them so that steel can be shipped to a General Motors plant in Mexico (GM is now the second largest employer south of the border...behind Wal-Mart) where the poorest of the poor endure maquiladora conditions so these automobile parts can then be shipped to a GM plant in the U.S. (roughly 50 percent of what is termed “trade” consists of business transactions between branches of the same transnational corporation) where even the poorest of the poor proudly take on imposing debt to possess a car “made in the U.S.A.” so they can clog the highways that were paved over inestimable eco-systems, filling the air with noxious pollution as they make their way to the drive-through window of an anti-union fast food restaurant that purchased the beef of slaughtered cattle that once grazed on land cleared by male slaves who exploit the body, mind, and spirit of female slaves in the most remote regions of Brazil…

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