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Thomas Paine's version of "you didn't build that":
"Separate an individual from society,and give him an island or a continent to possess,and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end,in all cases,that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore,of personal property,beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice,of gratitude,and of civilization,a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came"
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Palestinians again protest on Land Day, against more land seizures & more settlements. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZiOMs9qTRk?rel=0&w=560&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvdFQJHP-Bk?rel=0&w=560&h=315] […]
She was making a statement with her art while he was making the best statement of his art.
You better get yourself together
Gettysburg Address
1863: Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Mitt Romney Turns a Deaf Ear to Pleas of Illinois Workers Whose Jobs Are Being Outsourced to China by Bain
Mark
Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: “More than 170 workers in Freeport, Illinois, are about to lose their jobs, outsourced to China by the majority shareholder in their company: Bain Capital. Sensata is the name of the firm, and the soon-to-be-former employees sent a direct appeal to Mitt Romney to get his former colleagues to keep their plant in the United States, according to The Associated Press.”
In
today’s On the News segment: Yesterday, Senate Republicans dropped
their filibuster and allowed an up or down vote on extending the Bush tax cuts
for 98 percent of Americans; a Japanese newspaper is reporting that plant
operators still face a number of hurdles before they can decommission the
Fukushima nuclear plant; President Obama spoke tough words on gun control
Wednesday night in a speech at the Urban League in New Orleans; Chicago is now
the latest city to approve a resolution to amend the Constitution to overturn
the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision; and more.
Dina
Rasor and Jason Leopold, Truthout: “How is it possible that, for two
decades now, Mitt Romney has successfully avoided revealing any details about
his vast wealth, has been able to manipulate and stash wealth overseas with no
public accountability, has not been held to account for his complete lack of
transparency, has painted himself as a creator of thousands of jobs even though
the public record shows business decisions he presided over resulted in the loss
of jobs because of mass wealth being scooped out of the assets of these same
companies?”
Robert
Naiman, Truthout: “Rep. Michele Bachmann is using her position on the
House Intelligence Committee to promote a conspiracy theory that government
officials, including State Department official Huma Abedin, are part of a Muslim
Brotherhood plot to infiltrate the US government. Bachmann also claimed that
Rep. Keith Ellison is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Bachmann has refused to
apologize or back down, even after prominent Republicans like Sen. John McCain
demanded that she stop.”
Jason
Leopold, Truthout: “After Morello’s second band, the multiplatinum,
hard rock super group Audioslave, broke up in 2007 he started recording albums
under the moniker ‘The Nightwatchman’ and reinvented himself as a ‘black Woody
Guthrie,’ he told Truthout in an interview, armed only with an acoustic guitar
and his deep baritone voice. He sang songs about corporate greed, class war and
workers’ rights. But on his fourth Nightwatchman album, ‘World Wide Rebel
Songs,’ released last summer, Morello plugged back in. Supported by a full
electric backing band called the Freedom Fighting Orchestra, Morello has
described ‘World Wide Rebel Songs’ as ‘troubled songs for troubled times.’”
Kristin
Rawls, AlterNet: “As an education journalist, I have watched Jerry
Sandusky’s downfall with a mixture of horror and fascination. But as a graduate
school alumna of Penn State, it has been difficult to separate my own
experiences as a student and instructor from what I am seeing in the news. Based
on my own observations of abuse and misconduct while at Penn State – none of
them related to the football program – I have every reason to suspect that the
allegations released last November, and the punishments leveled just this week,
mark only the beginning of a long and painful fall from grace for the
institution as a whole. After all, Sandusky is just one man, but it took a
proverbial village to hide three decades of overt abuse.”
Brad
Evans, Truthout: “So, the Olympic Games are finally upon us. Whether we
perceive this global extravaganza to be a triumphant social gathering which
reveals all that is remarkable about the human spirit or yet another corporate
feast of plenty, it nevertheless provides us with a pertinent moment to evaluate
the operations of power in contemporary liberal societies. Not only does it
illustrate how our post-industrial lifestyles are increasingly defined by
‘event-based’ experiences, it also shows how terror has become normalized in the
current historical conjuncture. As securitization policies become more visible,
the corporate militarization of public space appears routine. It is even to be
applauded as a reasoned and rational choice.”
John
Pilger, Truthout: “This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The
first letter was written by Sebastion Coe, the former athlete who chairs the
London Olympics Organizing Committee. He is now called Lord Coe. In the New
Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Coe by the Vietnam Women’s
Union that he and his International Olympic Committee (IOC) colleagues
reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the
companies that manufactured dioxin, a poison used against the population of
Vietnam.”
Jessica
Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check: “Republican lawmakers have a host of
weapons at their disposal in the battle over women’s reproductive rights, but no
weapon may have as much impact as unlimited campaign spending. How do we know
that dark money is a key to a Republican anti-woman, anti-family agenda? Just
look how hard they are fighting to protect it.”
Tom
Engelhardt and Nick Turse, TomDispatch: “On July 12th, TomDispatch
posted the latest piece in Nick Turse’s ‘changing face of empire’ series:
‘Obama’s Scramble for Africa.’ It laid out in some detail the way in which the
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has, in recent years, spread its influence across
that continent, establishing bases and outposts, sending in special operations
forces and drones, funding proxy forces on the continent, and so on. As last
week ended, TomDispatch received a ‘letter to the editor’ from Colonel Tom
Davis, director of the U.S. Africa Command Office of Public Affairs, disputing
in some detail a number of Turse’s points.”
Dick
Meister, Dick Meister’s Blog: “The coming of the Internet has had a
profound impact on media coverage of working people and their unions. No, the
mainstream media have not expanded their generally limited and shallow labor
reporting or their generally anti-labor editorial positions. But there now are
dozens of non-mainstream websites and blogs that provide in-depth labor
coverage. The print versions of union newspapers and newsletters could never
reach the very much larger audience that’s now available via the Internet.”
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