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“This is a nation of inconsistencies. The Puritans fleeing from oppression became oppressors. We fought England for our liberty and put chains on four million of blacks. We wiped out slavery and our tariff laws and national banks began a system of white wage slavery worse than the first. Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street… Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us. We were told two years ago to go to work and raise a big crop, that was all we needed. We went to work and plowed and planted; the rains fell, the sun shone, nature smiled, and we raised the big crop that they told us to; and what came of it? Eight-cent corn, ten-cent oats, two-cent beef and no price at all for butter and eggs-that’s what came of it. The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve . . . → Read More: Thought Provoking Quote of the Day
The following is reposted from the very fine website, BlueNC. It’s time we demanded accountability from the heads of corporate America and corporate North Carolina. What are these people doing with the enormous resources at their disposal? Are they doing good or enabling evil? How are their funds being used to help or harm the people of this state (and this nation)? Demand answers. Hold these people and others in similar roles accountable. Their pay scale demands that they live up to a much higher standard of conduct. It’s a pretty sad day in the Old North State when captains of industry and business are silent on Republican efforts to discriminate against their workers. And sadder still that they have to look to the CEO of Goldman Sachs as a role model. Help build the list of North Carolina CEOs who put political expedience ahead of the rights of their workers. If they aren’t speaking up against the Marriage Discrimination Amendment, they are part of the problem. If they are contributing to candidates who support the Marriage Discrimination Amendment, they are part of the problem. It’s time for them to stand up and be counted – one way or the . . . → Read More: Where Does Your CEO Stand On Marriage Equality? There is simply no excise for this kind of behavior from human beings, especially medical professionals. When our immigration laws dictate who lives and who dies, our immigration laws need to be broken and changed. (Received in an email from Change.Org) “Jesus Navarro could die without a kidney transplant. His wife is a match, she wants to donate her kidney to save her husband’s life, and Jesus even has health insurance to cover the transplant. But because Jesus is undocumented, the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center is refusing to perform surgery, essentially leaving Jesus to die. Donald Kagan understands what Jesus is going through better than most. Donald immigrated from Nicaragua, and he needed (and received) a kidney transplant that saved his life. Donald is now a partner at a technology firm in Berkeley, CA – and he has offered to pay Jesus’s post-surgery medical bills. But UCSF Medical Center still says no. Donald thinks it’s unconscionable that UCSF Medical Center would deny Jesus medical treatment even though Jesus already has a willing kidney donor, insurance to pay for his surgery, and a benefactor to pay for his follow-up care. So Donald started a petition on Change.org asking UCSF Medical . . . → Read More: This Is Not An Immigration Issue, It’s Insanity Despite my strong anarchist sympathies, I have to agree with Chris Hedges on this. Humanity is not yet anywhere near evolved enough to handle true anarchism, and resorting to violence and destruction DOES play right into the police state tendencies growing like a cancer in our government. These people need to learn a lesson from the Zapatistas. No, they haven’t won yet, but they have neither been destroyed , nor have they been co-opted the way every other revolution of the left has been after this many years. The Zapatistas are onto something, as are the Cubans. Neither is perfect, but both are moving in the right direction. Can’t say as much for anything on the American left lately. (SOURCE) The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property—is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state. The Occupy encampments in various cities were shut down precisely because they were nonviolent. They were shut down because the state realized . . . → Read More: Hedges Is Right: Black Bloc Doing More Harm Than Good |
    
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