Wisconsin

Nature versus Nurture

by on March 10, 2011

China is frequently railed against for its corruption; eg. the senior rail official who embezzled more than a hundred million. Corruption is common and I have seen it – in a nightclub the police arrived and waited until the foreign manager gave them a paper bag – and not secondhand – the ‘red envelopes’ my factory-owning friends say they pay to local officials. It’s not acknowledged but everyone knows.

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“Imperial Walker” ~ IfIHadAHiFi

by on February 27, 2011

Palindromic Wisconsin noise-rock outfit IfIHadAHiFi has released a banging protest song in solidarity with Wisconsin’s working classes, with all proceeds from the $1 (or more) single going to Russ Feingold’s Progressives United.

IfIHadAHiFi couldn’t be prouder of our Wisconsin roots and our state’s progressive heritage. The current assault on working Wisconsinites on the part of our current governor is an affront on that heritage, and an all-out class war

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Wisconsin Workers: Waiting for Obama

by on February 25, 2011

Remember that pro-labor, advocate of unions who mobilized millions of union workers to knock on doors and phone bank for him in 2008?  The guy who said this in 2007:

“And understand this: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I’m in the White House, I’ll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I’ll walk on that picket line with you as

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Grand “Compromises”–And People Power

by on February 20, 2011

So,  Greece, Ireland, Portugal and the UK.  The “austerity” being imposed on various economies by neo-liberal policies makes the innocent (average citizens) suffer while at best tut-tutting the real malefactors (the bankers who, it needs to be said, have been bailed out by the very same citizens).  Contrary to the usual propaganda, these measures are not “necessary” as many of these countries, as a certain noble …
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“Calling Out the Guard”–Gov. Walker Goes Literal on the Class War Front

by on February 18, 2011

UPDATE: PolitifactWisconsin considers any reading of Governor Walker’s mobilizing the National Guard as an implicit threat to protesting workers as a “pants on firre” lie.  I would like to read their reasoning, but the link is broken at their website.  That said, I am not sure I would agree that any deceit is going on when people show concern.  Since the National Guard has not been mobilized by any state …
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