THANK YOU SCOTT WALKER!!!

I truly feel sorry for any anti-union right wing republican who stumbles upon this post looking for support, though for those of you who do, this may make you re-think your support for governor Walkers tactics. Because they are backfiring big time. The nature of politics is a push pull game in every direction, if you cannot foresee the results of your actions you may act boldly and aggressively pursue your agenda against the will of the majority of parties involved. Scott Walker did not get elected to office in the same way americans have elected their leaders over the course of american history. Our democracy has changed only slightly over the centuries to allow for more participants, and still not all americans are eligible to vote. But the recent changes in campaign finance regulations (or deregulations) are the final move in this long drawn out corporate coup to control Americo©

Scott Walker was bought and paid for by the multi-billionaire Koch Bros and from his first day in office it was clear exactly whose agenda was being implemented, Koch Industries© Scott Walker will prove to be very much like George W. Bush, 10% politician 90% puppet. As a result he doesn't understand or care about the delicate balance that is democracy, he only knows who pays him, and what for. He has a job to do, and when he's done, he has a job with Koch Industries© Not a real job of course, he'll be a "consultant" and get paid millions for sitting at home and making an occasional phone call or "business trip". Essentially, he'll be (or is) a corporate agent, not unlike a CIA agent, constantly on missions to defend or extend the empire. This is what we call the "revolving door" between politics and corporations, many of our politicians are "incorporated" into this process so that the line between the corporations and the bodies elected to regulate them has vanished completely.

The problem with this kind of chutzpah, is that it's actually pretty naive. We've been watching the corporate takeover of the planet unfold for many, many years and it's often compared to boiling frogs very slowly so that they don't realize what's happening until it's too late. But the Koch Bros aren't satisfied with a snails pace to progress, they've decided to kick it up a notch, accelerate the process, and who knows, maybe they know something we don't. But I know something they don't know, we the people are the greatest super power in the world. Our only problem is complacency, we're content to watch the world fall apart through a TV screen as long as disaster hasn't come knocking on our door,... yet. But the Koch Bros and their boy Scott Walker have ripped the mask off of the class war and the whole world is watching. Now there are about a dozen Tea Bag republican governors who are doing the same and more to destroy the unions on behalf of the corporations. And the people are beginning to rise up, I say beginning because I know how long this battle will go on.

In trying to destroy the unions with such callous brutality, Scott Walker and the rest of the Koch whores in office have created a vivid revival of the union movement and solidarity among the workers of the world. I for one would like to extend my deepest gratitude to Mr. Walker and the Koch Brothers, THANK YOU!!!!! I'm also happy that they have taken the corruption of government and our electoral process to exciting new heights, because it is more important than you may think to shake the peoples faith in their governments. Now that the frogs can see we are boiling, we can begin to take the steps that can and will bring us the change we can believe in, sorry Obama, it's our turn. Even as we are seeing heroes and heroines emerge from the Wisconsin democrats, I urge you to withdraw your support from the electoral system, republicans and democrats. In fact, if you really want to see the end to this insatiable and unsustainable capitalist machine, vote republican. Especially if it's Palin 2012, you better believe that would unite the majority (workers) against the ruling class in a hurry. And it would set the stage for the Global Uprising that can and will take place.

It cannot be more crucial that we think outside of the box of nationalism, that we use this moment in time to unite the workers of the world to fight for equal rights, human rights, for all people of the world, everywhere, regardless of nationality, ethnicity, gender, etc. Equal rights are not equal until they are universal, and until democracy is global it exists in name only. We have been taught the lessons and it's time to implement them, we know the workers have the most power with their hands in their pockets, thank you Utah Phillips! And we know that the workers of the world can unite, we have nothing to lose but our chains, thank you Karl Marx! I know, "Marx" is a bad word in america, but why? Most people in america have never read a single word he wrote so they rely on what they have heard, and if you listen to the main stream media you've only hear "Marx=evil" and "Socialism=bad". And this is the real reason the unions must go, without the unions carefully explaining to the american worker the dynamics between their bosses and their politicians most of the poor working class are vulnerable to this kind of propaganda.

This election season, VOTE GLOBAL UPRISING 2012!

Musical Uprising

Artist: Jasirix/ produced by Cynik Lethal and directed by Paradise Gray

This is not one of my usual posts in essay format but my attempt to make this video viral as rapidly as possible. This pro-worker hip-hop masterpiece was filmed live on location at various rallies in Madison, Wisconsin over the past weeks as the state workers unions and their many supporters are fighting for their rights to collective bargaining. Asking unions to give up their collective bargaining rights is like asking corporations to give up their limited liability status, though that would be a good idea. I'm keeping this brief so please repost this, we are the Global Uprising we have been waiting for!

Lyrics:

Scott Walker works for multi billionaires
John Boehner works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Sarah Palin works for multi billionaires
American workers vs multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare

Can main street get a bailout
Tell the president our checks weren't mailed out
Tell the house of representatives and senate
And whatever business got the stimulus and spent it
Now they getting record profit that's tripling with no limits
But they cutting jobs and unemployment benefits have ended
How we gone live with no income coming in
And the little help we get is cut from the budget then
What's the role of government
Do workers stand a chance if multi billionaires are running it
Oh now you worried bout the deficit and cutting it
But when them banks needed billions you had enough for them.
Them car companies you had bucks for them
2 wars rebuilding 2 countries guess we stuck with them
the average citizen just ain't lucky then
cause we be getting pimped so I guess we getting fucked again

Rush Limbaugh works for multi billionaires
Bill O'Reilly works for multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Sean Hannity works for multi billionaires
Crazy Glenn Beck works for multi billionaires
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare


When did the American worker become the enemy
Why is wanting a living wage such a penalty
What happened to justice and liberty
These billionaire haters wanna crush us literally
On the box is Murdoch and his foxes
And if you watch it you might as well be an ostrich
They terrorists cause they hold facts hostage
24 hours straight of we hate what Barack did
If you want to unionize your a communist
But if you buy a congressman they just call you a lobbyist
It's so obvious but here's where the problem is
they act like regular Americans but they sloppy rich
Why you think they wanna cut taxes
cause every single one of them in the higher brackets
This ain't white or black it's class warfare time for action
Just look at wide the gap is

American workers vs multi billionaires
The middle class vs multi billionaires
while corporations get billions in welfare
and millions in this country been out of work for years

Rupert Murdoch is multi billionaires
the Koch brothers are multi Billionaire
they wanna end social security and medicare
while millions in this country don't have a dime to spare

REPOST! THANK YOU!

Class War Criminals

The concept of a class war is somehow omnipresent and yet not there, a reference to nowhere. We hear about it once in a while usually when right wing conservatives are commenting on union activity in the news. On a rare occasion you may hear the opposing version when corporate friendly union busting politicians are attacking the hard won rights of the workers. But we are now entering a heightened stage of this mystical, metaphoric war in which both sides will be fighting for their very existence. Though we've never heard the term "class war" in most history classes, it's somehow more important, more prevalent, and more instructive in our current world of multinational corporate power than any military war in the history of the planet. In a way it's also the longest running war when you begin to see the consistent thread of aristocracy through the bloody legacy of empires from roman to american. Maybe it's time we include a history of class in history class, to teach about the class war on par with WWII.

Clearly the most notable difference between a military war and the class war is the role of nations, or the seeming insignificance of their roles. Wars are most often visited from one nation upon another, both with massive resources to draw from. When a nation wages a war it is overwhelmingly the poor to middle class (or bottom half) who put their actual bodies on the lines in the ultimate sacrifice. But this is not how class war works because the wealthy simply do not fight, and when they do join the military they are rarely if ever in harms way and historically enter the ranks at officer levels. Wealthy people have too much to live for, they cannot be expected to fight in infantry positions and therefore their numbers are severely low, especially when compared to the middle to lower classes who make up the bulk of fighting forces around the globe. Imagine if the class war were waged in the same military manner as WWI and II, the odds would be overwhelmingly in the favor of the poor. The rich and powerful upper 10% of the world population are not dumb enough to challenge the bottom 90% militarily. On the contrary, they're smart enough to get the bottom to do virtually all of the bidding for the top for a sliver of the reward.

In this very real war for the power and proprietary rights to the worlds resources, Fox news (or Faux news) is the pillar of propaganda for the rich and powerful, like the Koch brothers (pronounced "Coke") who have together bank rolled the entire tea party phenomena and all of it's puppet political candidates and campaigns. These billionaire cowboys have always been manipulating our so called democracy, but since the supreme courts handy work turned our corporations into "people" in a plot copy and pasted right from the script of Frankenstein, they can shop for the election results they want the same way they bid for fine art at Christie's in Rockefeller center. And wherever the Koch bros want them, there is Faux News repeating ad nauseum the talking points the wealthy corporate interests program them to say. Fox and all of the tea party candidates are little more than billion dollar Koch whores. There has never been a clearer demonstration of the corrosive effects of capitalism on democracy. The cohesion between Fox news and the republican party is seamless, and the claim of "fair and balanced" is designed to convince weak minded people that the far right is the center, effectively eliminating the left in a feat of overt Orwellian mind control.

There is no question that money makes a difference in elections, the only point that could be debated is exactly how much of a difference it makes in each individual election. And there is no doubt where the majority of money is coming from and where it goes thanks to many organizations tracking large campaign contributions from corporations and wealthy individuals. The average american doesn't contribute financially to political campaigns, most don't even bother to vote in midterm elections. So it's simple to conclude that the difference that money makes is overwhelmingly in the favor of the wealthy corporations and individuals who pitch the most into the pot. The one real variable is the significant sector of the poor who vote republican, but those numbers have been historically lower than the poor to middle class who vote for democrats. So for the sake of argument, let's be conservative and say that without any campaign contributions the races would be close, within a 5-10% margin. The difference that money makes only needs to be from 11-15% to ensure a republican victory at the polls. The reason democrats still win however is that without the extra money much fewer people would vote republican and that 11-15% difference just isn't enough.

In the state of Wisconsin there is a powerful, peaceful, peoples' uprising going on (as of this writing) over the recently "elected" republican governor Scott walkers' overt union busting tactics reminiscent of pre-FDR america. Walker has taken the gloves off making it easy to rip the mask off of the class war that is usually so subtle in it's ferocious appetite for destruction. He came into the drivers seat of a state that was well within budget and on track to have a surplus and declaring the state "open for business" (or "for sale") he immediately gave away over one hundred million dollars in corporate tax breaks putting the state into deficit. In the same stroke and without batting an eyelash he demanded that public workers make the sacrifices to pay for the hole in the budget, AND that their unions give up collective bargaining rights, the backbone of union power. Asking unions to give up their collective bargaining rights is like asking corporations to give up their limited liability status. When a somewhat weak union response came back to say "We'll make the sacrifices of our hard earned rights, but we won't give up our right to collective bargaining." Walker was uncompromising, unions must go so corporations could feel safe to call Wisconsin home. Walker beat his democrat rival by a mere 5%, this governor was purchased almost exclusively by the Koch bros for the purpose of destroying the unions and now his work has begun.

This is Class warfare union busting at it's finest, or worst, but one thing is certain, It's on. In the words of Florance Reese's classic union song it's time for everyone in the world to ask themselves deep down "Which side are you on?" The Koch bros and their cabal of Koch head republicans are watching this battle for Madison very closely, if Scott (The Imperial) Walker can destroy unions in their long time stronghold of Wisconsin, they are going to do it everywhere until there is nothing left for working people in this world. It's not as if they say amongst themselves "Lets destroy most unions, but leave a few here and there." they want them all dead, much more than they care to seek and destroy any terrorist hiding in a cave somewhere. And they argue somewhat effectively that our unions are driving jobs out of the nation, as if union members voted to have the factories moved overseas. The only reason the factories go where people won't defend themselves is because their unscrupulous owners want to exploit labor for their own disproportionate gains. Madison may not be Tunisia, but america is not the middle east, I see in Madison, Wisconsin a spark that can begin to resolve thousands of years of inequities in a mass global uprising of the people, by the people, and for the people.

If the unions must be sacrificed so must the system that justifies their existence.