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The Darkness and the Power

Posted by seumasach on December 21, 2008

 

Jim Kirwan

Rense

20th December, 2008 

The Dictator announced his relief-package for the Big Three yesterday: The media is calling it “a Christmas-gift.” This is a LOAN-agreement: Gift’s do not come wrapped in razor wire. This too-little-too-late proposal is meant to bring an end to the problem of having to pay anyone, for whatever they do on-the-job in the United States.

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Detroit vs. Wall Street: The Trillion Dollar Class War

Posted by seumasach on December 4, 2008

Cameron Salisbury

Smirking Chimp

3rd December, 2008

If anyone doubted that a class war is in progress, hidden beneath a variety of euphemisms, like ‘bail out’, ‘downsizing,’ ‘outsourcing’ and ‘NAFTA’, their doubts can now be given the decent burial that they deserve. There has been no more blatant act of class antagonism in recent memory than the apparent willingness of Congress and Wall Street’s appointed grifter, Henry Paulson, to let a major part of the American manufacturing sector die.

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