Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon
HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING FROM SEVERE EXPLOITATION AND DISCRIMINATION
by Henk Ruyssenaars
FPF/HR comment: In the story below Palast describes the present system in which the money Moloch makes the poor poorer and the rich richer while eating the children. According to Unicef this system kills twelve thousand children every hour, most of starvation. Every hour!
The Unicef reports on children, like ''Children Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Reach'' describes how: ''Abused and Neglected, Millions of Children Have Become Virtually Invisible. Hundreds of millions of children are suffering from severe exploitation and discrimination and have become virtually invisible to the world, UNICEF said today in a major report that explores the causes of exclusion and the abuses children experience.
The agency said that millions of children disappear from view when trafficked or forced to work in domestic servitude. Other children, such as street children, live in plain sight but are excluded from fundamental services and protections. Not only do these children endure abuse, most are shut out from school, healthcare and other vital services they need to grow and thrive. - [end quote] - Unicef Url.: http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/press/release.php
"WE THINK THE PRICE IS WORTH IT"
Why don't people understand, one wonders, even when already a decade ago former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, in her comment on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq - said it openly and again: "We think the price is worth it" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084
It is not only a matter of jailing Bush, Blair and the rest of those 'front men': the group managing this cruel system has to be stopped and jailed as soon as is possible. They who hold the gold and thus the power, inflict this on humanity. And people like Palast, Zinn, herman, etc. 'the Chomskys of this world' do not write about the origin but only about the negative effects on 99.9% of humanity. All 6.5 billion are pestered by this plague: the banking system keeps killing millions, and not only the children, but all of us, as long as it is profitable. Just look around you. That has to be changed.
As long as in the present system 'the right price' to the creatures doing this is more important than human rights, the genocide for profit will go on. And the deterioration of the quality of living is the same in all countries under the influence of the London banking system.
The problem also being that many 'acceptable' writers are apologists concerning ''the elephant in the room'', the origin of all immense suffering and death. The huge omnivorous herd consumes everywhere on our earth as much as it can grab, and tramples millions of human beings to death. That doesn't seem to matter. The Chomskys of this world - the 'elephant boys' - don't speak about the bloody pulp underneath the feet of the big animals: instead they give'm a bath in the mainstream.*
ABOUT THE ANIMAL FARM, BUT NOT ABOUT THE OWNERS OF THE FARM:
TODAY'S PIG IS TOMORROW'S BACON (A LABOR DAY RECIPE)
SINCE THE BUSH PUTSCH IN 2000, MEDIAN INCOME HAS FALLEN 5.9%.
By Greg Palast
Some years from now, in an economic refugee relocation "Enterprise Zone," your kids will ask you, "What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?"
The trick of class war is not to let the victims know they're under attack. That's how, little by little, the owners of the planet take away what little we have.
This week, Dupont, the chemical giant, slashed employee pension benefits by two-thirds. Furthermore, new Dupont workers won't get a guaranteed pension at all -- and no health care after retirement. It's part of Dupont's new "Die Young" program, I hear. Dupont is not in financial straits. Rather, the slash attack on its workers' pensions was aimed at adding a crucial three cents a share to company earnings, from $3.11 per share to $3.14.
SO, HAPPY LABOR DAY.
And this week, the government made it official: For the first time since the Labor Department began measuring how the American pie is sliced, those in the top fifth of the wealth scale are now gobbling up over half (50.4%) of our nation's annual income.
So Happy Labor Day.
We don't even get to lick the plates. While 15.9% of us don't have health insurance (a record, Mr. President!), even those of us who have it, don't have it: we're spending 36% more per family out of pocket on medical costs since the new regime took power in Washington. If you've actually tried to collect from your insurance company, you know what I mean.
So Happy Labor Day.
But if you think I have nothing nice to say about George W. Bush, let me report that the USA now has more millionaires than ever -- 7.4 million! And over the past decade, the number of billionaires has more than tripled, 341 of them!
If that doesn't make you feel like you're missing out, this should: You, Mr. Median, are earning, after inflation, a little less than you earned when Richard Nixon reigned. Median household income -- and most of us are "median" -- is down. Way down.
SINCE THE BUSH PUTSCH IN 2000, MEDIAN INCOME HAS FALLEN 5.9%.
Mr. Bush and friends are offering us an "ownership" society. But he didn't mention who already owns it. The richest fifth of America owns 83% of all shares in the stock market. But that's a bit misleading because most of that, 53% of all the stock, is owned by just one percent of American households.
AND WHAT DOES THE WEALTHY ONE PERCENT WANT? ANSWER: MORE WEALTH.
Where will they get it? As with a tube of toothpaste, they're squeezing it from the bottom. Median paychecks have gone down by 5.9% during the current regime, but Americans in the bottom fifth have seen their incomes sliced by 20%.
At the other end, CEO pay at the Fortune 500 has bloated by 51% during the first four years of the Bush regime to an average of $8.1 million per annum.
So who's winning? It's a crude indicator, but let's take a peek at the Class War body count.
When Reagan took power in 1980, the One Percent possessed 33% of America's wealth as measured by capital income. By 2006, the One Percent has swallowed over half of all America's assets, from sea to shining sea. One hundred fifty million Americans altogether own less than 3% of all private assets.
Yes, American middle-class house values are up, but we're blowing that gain to stay alive. Edward Wolff, the New York University expert on income, explained to me that, "The middle class is mortgaging itself to death." As a result of mortgaging our new equity, 60% of all households have seen a decline in net worth.
IS AMERICA GETTING POORER? NO, JUST ITS PEOPLE, WE THE MEDIAN.
In fact, we are producing an astonishing amount of new wealth in the USA. We are a lean, mean production machine. Output per worker in BushAmerica zoomed by 15% over four years through 2004. Problem is, although worker productivity keeps rising, the producers are getting less and less of it.
The gap between what we produce and what we get is widening like an alligator's jaw. The more you work, the less you get. It used to be that as the economic pie got bigger, everyone's slice got bigger too. No more.
THE ONE PERCENT HAVE SWALLOWED YOUR SHARE BEFORE YOU CAN GET YOUR FORK IN.
The loot Dupont sucked from its employees' retirement funds will be put to good use. It will more than cover the cost of the company directors' decision to hike the pension set aside for CEO Charles Holliday to $2.1 million a year. And that's fair, I suppose: Holliday's a winning general in the class war. And shouldn't the winners of war get the spoils?
[FPF: This is what they deserve - http://tinyurl.com/95nk2]
Of course, there are killjoys who cling to that Calvinist-Marxist belief that a system forever fattening the richest cannot continue without end.
Professor Michael Zweig, Director of the State University of New York's Center for Study of Working Class Life, put it in culinary terms: "Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon."
Greg Palast
[andend] - Story Url.: http://www.gnn.tv/print/2519/Today_s_Pig_is_Tomorrow_s_Bacon
You can go to www.GregPalast.com for a special Labor Day treat: an excerpt from Air America Radio's Thom Hartmann's new book, "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- and What We Can Do About It."
FPF / Related:
* WRITERS AND 'THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM' - Url.: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/06/18285850.php
* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d
* FOX: Video 49 min. - The example how viewers are brainwashed and 'outfoxed' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b2zzl
* The Top Ten American War Criminals Living Freely Today - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dvudx
* Google search "Biggest threat to world peace" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dk2lj
* MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/
"People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq
* Those who first of all start shouting about 'conspiracy theory' and 'paranoia' or similar, are always the evil INFORMANTS The paid INFILTRATORS which are afraid of being disclosed. They are the real Judas's working for treacherous 'masters' - they are the 'Quislings' that will go to jail - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/clcjn
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The merciless engine of propaganda has been turned on: The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
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by Henk Ruyssenaars
FPF/HR comment: In the story below Palast describes the present system in which the money Moloch makes the poor poorer and the rich richer while eating the children. According to Unicef this system kills twelve thousand children every hour, most of starvation. Every hour!
The Unicef reports on children, like ''Children Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Out of Reach'' describes how: ''Abused and Neglected, Millions of Children Have Become Virtually Invisible. Hundreds of millions of children are suffering from severe exploitation and discrimination and have become virtually invisible to the world, UNICEF said today in a major report that explores the causes of exclusion and the abuses children experience.
The agency said that millions of children disappear from view when trafficked or forced to work in domestic servitude. Other children, such as street children, live in plain sight but are excluded from fundamental services and protections. Not only do these children endure abuse, most are shut out from school, healthcare and other vital services they need to grow and thrive. - [end quote] - Unicef Url.: http://www.unicef.org/sowc06/press/release.php
"WE THINK THE PRICE IS WORTH IT"
Why don't people understand, one wonders, even when already a decade ago former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, in her comment on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq - said it openly and again: "We think the price is worth it" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1084
It is not only a matter of jailing Bush, Blair and the rest of those 'front men': the group managing this cruel system has to be stopped and jailed as soon as is possible. They who hold the gold and thus the power, inflict this on humanity. And people like Palast, Zinn, herman, etc. 'the Chomskys of this world' do not write about the origin but only about the negative effects on 99.9% of humanity. All 6.5 billion are pestered by this plague: the banking system keeps killing millions, and not only the children, but all of us, as long as it is profitable. Just look around you. That has to be changed.
As long as in the present system 'the right price' to the creatures doing this is more important than human rights, the genocide for profit will go on. And the deterioration of the quality of living is the same in all countries under the influence of the London banking system.
The problem also being that many 'acceptable' writers are apologists concerning ''the elephant in the room'', the origin of all immense suffering and death. The huge omnivorous herd consumes everywhere on our earth as much as it can grab, and tramples millions of human beings to death. That doesn't seem to matter. The Chomskys of this world - the 'elephant boys' - don't speak about the bloody pulp underneath the feet of the big animals: instead they give'm a bath in the mainstream.*
ABOUT THE ANIMAL FARM, BUT NOT ABOUT THE OWNERS OF THE FARM:
TODAY'S PIG IS TOMORROW'S BACON (A LABOR DAY RECIPE)
SINCE THE BUSH PUTSCH IN 2000, MEDIAN INCOME HAS FALLEN 5.9%.
By Greg Palast
Some years from now, in an economic refugee relocation "Enterprise Zone," your kids will ask you, "What did you do in the Class War, Daddy?"
The trick of class war is not to let the victims know they're under attack. That's how, little by little, the owners of the planet take away what little we have.
This week, Dupont, the chemical giant, slashed employee pension benefits by two-thirds. Furthermore, new Dupont workers won't get a guaranteed pension at all -- and no health care after retirement. It's part of Dupont's new "Die Young" program, I hear. Dupont is not in financial straits. Rather, the slash attack on its workers' pensions was aimed at adding a crucial three cents a share to company earnings, from $3.11 per share to $3.14.
SO, HAPPY LABOR DAY.
And this week, the government made it official: For the first time since the Labor Department began measuring how the American pie is sliced, those in the top fifth of the wealth scale are now gobbling up over half (50.4%) of our nation's annual income.
So Happy Labor Day.
We don't even get to lick the plates. While 15.9% of us don't have health insurance (a record, Mr. President!), even those of us who have it, don't have it: we're spending 36% more per family out of pocket on medical costs since the new regime took power in Washington. If you've actually tried to collect from your insurance company, you know what I mean.
So Happy Labor Day.
But if you think I have nothing nice to say about George W. Bush, let me report that the USA now has more millionaires than ever -- 7.4 million! And over the past decade, the number of billionaires has more than tripled, 341 of them!
If that doesn't make you feel like you're missing out, this should: You, Mr. Median, are earning, after inflation, a little less than you earned when Richard Nixon reigned. Median household income -- and most of us are "median" -- is down. Way down.
SINCE THE BUSH PUTSCH IN 2000, MEDIAN INCOME HAS FALLEN 5.9%.
Mr. Bush and friends are offering us an "ownership" society. But he didn't mention who already owns it. The richest fifth of America owns 83% of all shares in the stock market. But that's a bit misleading because most of that, 53% of all the stock, is owned by just one percent of American households.
AND WHAT DOES THE WEALTHY ONE PERCENT WANT? ANSWER: MORE WEALTH.
Where will they get it? As with a tube of toothpaste, they're squeezing it from the bottom. Median paychecks have gone down by 5.9% during the current regime, but Americans in the bottom fifth have seen their incomes sliced by 20%.
At the other end, CEO pay at the Fortune 500 has bloated by 51% during the first four years of the Bush regime to an average of $8.1 million per annum.
So who's winning? It's a crude indicator, but let's take a peek at the Class War body count.
When Reagan took power in 1980, the One Percent possessed 33% of America's wealth as measured by capital income. By 2006, the One Percent has swallowed over half of all America's assets, from sea to shining sea. One hundred fifty million Americans altogether own less than 3% of all private assets.
Yes, American middle-class house values are up, but we're blowing that gain to stay alive. Edward Wolff, the New York University expert on income, explained to me that, "The middle class is mortgaging itself to death." As a result of mortgaging our new equity, 60% of all households have seen a decline in net worth.
IS AMERICA GETTING POORER? NO, JUST ITS PEOPLE, WE THE MEDIAN.
In fact, we are producing an astonishing amount of new wealth in the USA. We are a lean, mean production machine. Output per worker in BushAmerica zoomed by 15% over four years through 2004. Problem is, although worker productivity keeps rising, the producers are getting less and less of it.
The gap between what we produce and what we get is widening like an alligator's jaw. The more you work, the less you get. It used to be that as the economic pie got bigger, everyone's slice got bigger too. No more.
THE ONE PERCENT HAVE SWALLOWED YOUR SHARE BEFORE YOU CAN GET YOUR FORK IN.
The loot Dupont sucked from its employees' retirement funds will be put to good use. It will more than cover the cost of the company directors' decision to hike the pension set aside for CEO Charles Holliday to $2.1 million a year. And that's fair, I suppose: Holliday's a winning general in the class war. And shouldn't the winners of war get the spoils?
[FPF: This is what they deserve - http://tinyurl.com/95nk2]
Of course, there are killjoys who cling to that Calvinist-Marxist belief that a system forever fattening the richest cannot continue without end.
Professor Michael Zweig, Director of the State University of New York's Center for Study of Working Class Life, put it in culinary terms: "Today's pig is tomorrow's bacon."
Greg Palast
[andend] - Story Url.: http://www.gnn.tv/print/2519/Today_s_Pig_is_Tomorrow_s_Bacon
You can go to www.GregPalast.com for a special Labor Day treat: an excerpt from Air America Radio's Thom Hartmann's new book, "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- and What We Can Do About It."
FPF / Related:
* WRITERS AND 'THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM' - Url.: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/07/06/18285850.php
* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d
* FOX: Video 49 min. - The example how viewers are brainwashed and 'outfoxed' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b2zzl
* The Top Ten American War Criminals Living Freely Today - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dvudx
* Google search "Biggest threat to world peace" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dk2lj
* MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/
"People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq
* Those who first of all start shouting about 'conspiracy theory' and 'paranoia' or similar, are always the evil INFORMANTS The paid INFILTRATORS which are afraid of being disclosed. They are the real Judas's working for treacherous 'masters' - they are the 'Quislings' that will go to jail - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/clcjn
* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/byurp
* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v
* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm
* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The merciless engine of propaganda has been turned on: The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal
* Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/
FPF-COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107 - any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use, without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the information. Url.: http://liimirror.warwick.ac.uk/uscode/17/107.html
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Editor: Henk Ruyssenaars
http://tinyurl.com/amn3q
The Netherlands
FPF@Chello.nl
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