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June 16, 2007 at 11:07:40
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Of course the easy thing to do here in fat and happy America is to look down our nose at the Chinese. That's the most wonderful aspect of outsourcing the corporate capitalist has the ability to bring about these conditions and yet stay at arms length saying, tisk tisk. Is it a stretch to believe that the coal or the bricks or iron mined by these slaves would not have been used for the products that fill our Wal- Marts shelves today?
Globalism is but a synonym for slavery, the hunt for the cheapest workforce on the planet, so how could the inevitable outcome of slavery be a surprise to anyone? The corporate master doling out bread in a reverse auction of labor, no different from the Incas or the mid evil serf. The old style practice of American slavery was abolished in 1863 for areas in rebellion meaning play along and you can keep your slaves but this was soon replaced by a more modern version.
After the US civil war as areas of the south's agricultural empire attempted to rebuild a new improved slave was introduced. No longer could a man own another man we had trampled out the vintage where the grapes of wrath were stored, now a man could own a man's debt. The sharecropper borrowed money from the landowner and shared the profits from the crops. If however the crop failed the new slave still owed his debt to the master they shared only profits while the slave assumed all the risks.
In the industrial north the same abuses were rampant child labor, virtual slave labor unsafe conditions, inhumane hours were common in America until the New Deal. The rise of labor unions was a direct response to low wages and unsafe working conditions. The capitalists and bankers fought back with all their might against every reform as an unfair intrusion into their rights. Even today the party line is to get government off our backs unless of course it's their ox gored (no pun intended) then they run straight to the courts seeking relief.
This week the Extreme Court ruled in a case involving the California teachers union limiting how the union may use the dues of its members for political actions. Some union members objected to supporting pro-choice candidates preferring instead pro-life anti union candidates. Now as it stands Judas may go to court for his right to sell out Christ, the party that bemoans too much litigation is always ready to help Judas split the union.
If you as a shareholder of a corporation don't approve of the boards political action contributions you can sell your stock or fight to change the board. Try your luck at suing the board and see how far that gets you, imagine Barry Bonds traded to an American league team hiring a lawyer arguing to do away with the designated hitter because it is unfair to him as a position player.
But the extreme court is just another brick in the wall of the fortress to protect the right to exploit and control workers and to protect the new slavery. In the 1970's the American worker maintained his life style with one income in the 1980's and 90's two incomes and now two incomes with two jobs. As the great slave master maintained while on the campaign trail, "How very American!"
How loving and compassionate is our great slave master, concerned as he is about the poor suffering masses crossing our southern borders. His deep love for the poor Iraqi peoples plight if US troops were to withdraw from the blood bath he created. His compassion for his new and future slaves is touching while totaling lacking is any concern for the current crop of slaves now doing the fighting. He calls for his slaves in New Orleans or tornado victims in Kansas to be strong and self-reliant as he reminds us the slave masters role is to lead and to give orders not to assist.
Meanwhile back in China the slavery story is the lead item in the state controlled media for remember this is a communist country that does not share our values of freedom and justice.
"The workers were not paid and were forced to work 15 to 16 hours a day and finish their meals within 15 minutes. The workers slept on the ground in a dark room without heating in the winter."
" In a raid carried out on May 27, police in Shanxi freed the 31 migrant workers, and detained five suspects. Among the detainees were Wang Bingbing and four others.
Police are still hunting for three alleged accomplices, including Heng Tinghan, from central China's Henan.
The bank accounts of Wang Bingbing's brick kiln have been frozen."
What! They've frozen their bank accounts! Those dirty communists! Don't they understand the blessing's of liberty would they have frozen Enron's bank accounts as well? Ken Lay's rights had to be defended conviction or not he died before damages could be assessed and it would be unfair to assess damages on a dead man.
But those communists not content to meddle with honest businessman who might have made a slight oversight or transgression are not satisfied with just paying out monetary damages they want even more!
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Slavery
I couldn't agree with you more! They say what comes around goes around . For the past twenty five years America has been at war with its working class by promoting outsourcing, in sourcing, free trade and globalization. The results have been a steady depression of wages and benefits for the middle and working class. The relentless demand for ever cheaper labor has industrialized communist China at a speed never seen before. Our trade deficit with China is completely outrageous and China now has the money to build up a military that will in the near future completely dwarf ours. Some day those greedy corporate bastards that set out to politically destroy the working class will find themselves penniless and working in a Chinese forced labor factory. America will only be a memory. by Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 283 comments) on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 1:11:02 PM  (0+)
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Oil Profits Equal New, Oil Dependent Products, & that's BAD!
Slavery was supposed to be deposed once industrialization was able to provide a job that paid enough for the head of the household to support their family, trickle down economics in it's finest hour. Until the workers formed unions when they realized just how little they were getting. But then unions and management forgot there was a third person at the bargaining table, and that was the consumer. by Alessandro Machi (13 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 174 comments) on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 2:21:08 PM (0+)
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capitalism
Dear David Cox, I agree that American capitalists exploit cheap labor. What to do? Fight back! Every family their own corporation! Every man is own company! You are right that the living conditions in poor nations are deplorable. The problem is that capitalism is not taught to those who need it the most, the poor. What we have is not true capitalism, it is Fascism. Corporations are not bidding for contracts in Iraq and instead going to benefit cabinet members (such as Dick Cheney, who is receiving pension funds from companies doing business with the federal government). I say teach the masses how to run a business and compete in the open market. For example Wal-Mart pays laborers two cents an hour. These same laborers could start their own business, pay themselves fifty cents an hour, and compete with Wal-Mart. by Barker (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 120 comments) on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 3:52:10 PM (0+)
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Subjugation does indeed take many forms
....from the creation of credit debts by enticements from credit companies... to the outsourcing of product manufacturing in countries with little labor oversight. Child labor and slave labor still continues globally from Africa to India and throughout Asia. Problem is, consumers most of the time don't care or even bother to ask... who makes their shoes? their dogfood? their furniture?their hi tech toys? Just as domestically no one asks who grows or picks their food? Yet most feel emboldened to demand 'more border fences', more arrests of migrants, the denial of healthcare services to illegals. They trivialize the role of those who do hard work and backbreaking labor to provide them agriculture products, contruction labor and menial labor services. Those who do the most screaming seem to forget to ask at what price has their own quality of lifestyle been procured. by chariotdrvr14 (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 159 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 4:10:13 PM (0+)
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A new slavery
I have been saying what you have been writing for 30 years. Tell me something that I do not know! Everytime I open my mouth, I was fired. The writing has been on the wall for years; but, no one cares, unless, there is great pain and suffering to move mountains by faith. My little one! People live out their lives has sheep made for slaugther. They go about eating the grass of the fields in Gods house until the moment of truth embraces them. Will I die on my feet or will I die on my knees! I chose to die on my feet! by matt (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 16 comments) on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 4:38:28 PM (0+)
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Chineese Goveverment v. Fox News?
It is progress that many like yourself continue to raise the awareness of important issues to the level of political discourse and public policy. I admire that. However credible your article was, however, its credibility was lessened when at the end you resorted to an absurdity by the statement, "The Chinese for their part deserve kudos' for airing a situation that could have so easily been covered up, would Fox or CNBC have been so forthcoming? " If one expects the level of debare on important social issues as "slavery," the argument must be kept in the realm of of reality even if it appears at its apogee. Otherwise, those in disagreement may merely pass you off as just another fringe "secular progressive," and you deserve more. There is enough data to substantiate your message. by Robert Baldwin, MD, MA (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 15 comments) on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 4:57:10 PM (0+)
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Reply: For all the other abusive practices of the Beijing Gov't
like the continual sinofication of Tibet (i.e., the expulsion of native tibetans and populizing tibet with ethnic chinese)... their rigorous censorship of the press and of the web, the razing of villages and towns for needless dam projects.... and the list goes on ad infinitum, ad nauseaum. Butttttt, on this issue, to be fair,... prestige is everything to them and I think every proveable case of child and worker exploitation is probably quite a black eye for them. Especially for a self described socialist state. From my own fringe anarchopunk perspective, I don't think they (the chinese authorities) would take this issue lightly. by chariotdrvr14 (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 159 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 8:04:13 PM (0+)
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Groundbreaking New 9/11 Film "September Clues"
Groundbreaking New 9/11 Film "September Clues" reveals the truth about 9/11. by CB Brooklyn (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 465 comments [18 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Saturday, Jun 16, 2007 at 10:40:41 PM (0+)
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it all starts with debt/economic slavery
and as long as it is not understood - forget about hopes! cheers - an article of mine http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_sb_kayse_070409_the__22_s__22_word.htm by sharon kayser (13 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 33 comments) on Sunday, Jun 17, 2007 at 3:44:10 PM (0+)
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