NAFTA merely legitimized what had already been going on for 20+ years.

Corpocrat or Corpublican matters not.

I?m sure by now you?ve heard somewhere on the mainstream media that the Occupy Wall St. protestors are a bunch aimless college kids running around not really sure of what it is they are protesting or what it is they want. Well they have released a mission statement and it appears to me that they know exactly what they want and exactly what they are protesting. Check it out below: As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human race requires the cooperation of its members; that our system must protect our rights, and upon corruption of that system, it is up to the individuals to protect their own rights, and those of their neighbors; that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We come to you at a time when corporations, which place profit over people, self-interest over justice, and oppression over equality, run our governments. We have peaceably assembled here, as is our right, to let these facts be known. They have taken our houses through an illegal foreclosure process, despite not having the original mortgage. They have taken bailouts from taxpayers with impunity, and continue to give Executives exorbitant bonuses. They have perpetuated inequality and discrimination in the workplace based on age, the color of one?s skin, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation. They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization. They have profited off of the torture, confinement, and cruel treatment of countless nonhuman animals, and actively hide these practices. They have continuously sought to strip employees of the right to negotiate for better pay and safer working conditions. They have held students hostage with tens of thousands of dollars of debt on education, which is itself a human right. They have consistently outsourced labor and used that outsourcing as leverage to cut workers? healthcare and pay. They have influenced the courts to achieve the same rights as people, with none of the culpability or responsibility. They have spent millions of dollars on legal teams that look for ways to get them out of contracts in regards to health insurance. They have sold our privacy as a commodity. They have used the military and police force to prevent freedom of the press. They have deliberately declined to recall faulty products endangering lives in pursuit of profit. They determine economic policy, despite the catastrophic failures their policies have produced and continue to produce. They have donated large sums of money to politicians supposed to be regulating them. They continue to block alternate forms of energy to keep us dependent on oil. They continue to block generic forms of medicine that could save people?s lives in order to protect investments that have already turned a substantive profit. They have purposely covered up oil spills, accidents, faulty bookkeeping, and inactive ingredients in pursuit of profit. They purposefully keep people misinformed and fearful through their control of the media. They have accepted private contracts to murder prisoners even when presented with serious doubts about their guilt. They have perpetuated colonialism at home and abroad. They have participated in the torture and murder of innocent civilians overseas. They continue to create weapons of mass destruction in order to receive government contracts. * To the people of the world, We, the New York City General Assembly occupying Wall Street in Liberty Square, urge you to assert your power. Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone. To all communities that take action and form groups in the spirit of direct democracy, we offer support, documentation, and all of the resources at our disposal. Join us and make your voices heard!

Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending ?Freetrade? by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field for domestic family farming and domestic manufacturing as most nations that are dumping cheap products onto the American market have radical wage and environmental regulation advantages. Another policy that must be instituted is raise the minimum wage to twenty dollars an hr. Demand two: Institute a universal single payer healthcare system. To do this all private insurers must be banned from the healthcare market as their only effect on the health of patients is to take money away from doctors, nurses and hospitals preventing them from doing their jobs and hand that money to wall st. investors. Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment. More tyranny at gunpoint, the sort of persuasion preferred by socialists. It is obvious the OWS socialists didn?t think this one through. They are obviously misinformed on how fractional reserve banking and the fiat money system work and how it perniciously destroys wealth. Wages are now largely and increasingly insufficient because of inflation that is epidemic (regardless of what the government and corporate media tell you) due to the fact the monetary base is ?elastic,? in other words manipulated and inflated by the Federal Reserve and the money masters. If you?d like to get an idea of how much the banksters have debased the dollar and jacked up inflation since 1913 (when the Federal Reserve was established), Demand three: Guaranteed living wage income regardless of employment. Demand four: Free college education. Demand five: Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same bringing the alternative energy economy up to energy demand. Demand six: One trillion dollars in infrastructure (Water, Sewer, Rail, Roads and Bridges and Electrical Grid) spending now. Demand seven: One trillion dollars in ecological restoration planting forests, reestablishing wetlands and the natural flow of river systems and decommissioning of all of America?s nuclear power plants. Demand eight: Racial and gender equal rights amendment. Demand nine: Open borders migration. anyone can travel anywhere to work and live. Demand ten: Bring American elections up to international standards of a paper ballot precinct counted and recounted in front of an independent and party observers system. Demand eleven: Immediate across the board debt forgiveness for all. Debt forgiveness of sovereign debt, commercial loans, home mortgages, home equity loans, credit card debt, student loans and personal loans now! All debt must be stricken from the ?Books.? World Bank Loans to all Nations, Bank to Bank Debt and all Bonds and Margin Call Debt in the stock market including all Derivatives or Credit Default Swaps, all 65 trillion dollars of them must also be stricken from the ?Books.? And I don?t mean debt that is in default, I mean all debt on the entire planet period. Demand twelve: Outlaw all credit reporting agencies. Demand thirteen: Allow all workers to sign a ballot at any time during a union organizing campaign or at any time that represents their yeah or nay to having a union represent them in collective bargaining or to form a union.

Thanks! Yeah, I like to think I cough-up a good one every now and then.

Dark Days As the old year wanes, rusty weather vanes Creak, strive and struggle to have their say. Dark days get colder, my old soul grows older And it is already older than days.

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Did anybody besides me see those clowns Scarborough, Barnicle and Ford slandering the Oakland police the other day? I guess that's what we should expect from msnbc And then mayor Quan, instead of sticking up for the police for doing their job, goes on tv and folds like a marzipan dildo. Disgraceful.

If the shitty shoe fits...

I say again: The United States knew exactly what Weapons Saddam did and did not have ... because ... The United States gave them to him back in the 1980's to use against Iran!

The United States Government knew EXACTLY what Saddam did and did not have. How? Because The United States Government gave it to him!

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Mom and Pop America is officially dead It starved to death at Wal-Mart As all The Barons were being fed It would have been much kinder And spared US such misery To have gone behind the Whorehouse And just shot it in the head

Miserable Miserly Ribald clown; smile my frown Don't let it bring you down Gilded crown; beggared town Don't let it mar your renown Flaccid fool; tarnished tool Gold always makes you drool Rancid rules; starving ghouls Niggardly miserable miserly Yule Fetid reek; puerile shrieks Come on in and have a peek Eat the meek; Circus Freaks Hit the stem and get a geek

Choices Are you evil, or are you good? Do you struggle with both? Do you think you should? Do you wander, or are you lost? Have you found the weapon? Stop the holocaust?

Lost Maybe Found Behold the chiaroscuro Of night and light intaglioed Upon the fabric of my soul Be sure to judge me by my goals Revealed and reviled Denounced and defiled I bite the hand of Greed One wheel tracking; thousands are mired Gravy Train Conductor is tired Weary, leery, teary and wired

March of the Maggots Maggots march down Wall Street, Eyes as hard as stones. Concrete and asphalt wasteland, Brick and mortar bones. Don't care about your children, Don't care about your old, Don't care about you, But that's nothing new; They're getting lots of Gold! Don't want a revolution, Can't stand blood and gore. Work within your institution, And do your massas' chores. Don't care about your children, Don't care about your old, Don't care about you, But that's nothing new; They're getting lots of Gold! Maggots march down Wall Street, A fetid stench of rot. Whitehouse open for business; Just bring all you've got!

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