Ballet measure 92 in Oregon is turning the state into a battle ground.
The editors of the largest and most rapidly declining newspaper in Oregon, The Oregonian, have made it clear that it’s in the public interest not to allow people to know if they’re consuming GMO poisons. Monsanto and Sygenta and other manufacturers of profitable GMO poisons are also for continuing to poison the 99 percent with GMO, and keeping them uninformed about this crime to boot.
The No on 92 campaign reported contributions last week from Pepsico of $250,000. Virtually, all of Pepsico’s products have the poison in them. The same is true of Hersey products, such as their candy bars. Hersey donated $160,000 to stop people from knowing it puts poison in their food products.
J.M. Smucker has donated $147,000, so don’t go eating that rat poison they call food. The McCormick Company has donated $65,000, Ocean Spray has contributed $35,000, and Bumble Bee has added $22,000. These companies want to keep you ignorant and poisoned. Perhaps it’s because there is a potentially trillions of dollars in class actions lawsuits soon to be on the horizon. Don’t let these CEOs get away from the damage they have caused to your health and the health of others.
Meanwhile, many companies want to expose the GMOs in foods, such as Whole Foods, Health Resources (which has donated $550,000 to the Yes on 92 campaign), and Presence Marketing ($200,000).
Are you standing in line longer to pay your parking tickets? Or to go through the metal detectors? Is it more difficult to find a court person to answer questions? If your answer is yes, blame free trade treaties.
On Monday, Aimee Green of the Oregonian newspaper reported that budget cuts were slowing Oregon’s courts. Of course that wasn’t true, and Ms. Green knew this. Free trade has slowed down the courts by shipping much of the tax base overseas, thereby forcing budget cuts on the courts of Oregon.
“By May 1, court administors expect expect to eliminate the equivalent of 95 full time employees statewide.” That means there will be fewer employees who will take your money for your parking tickets at the counter, to answer questions, to get files from the archives, “to enter warrants into the computer system and to staff courtrooms that hear criminal and civil cases.”
These newest cutbacks mean 296 jobs will have been cut since 2009.
The Oregoninan never reports the truth in these matters simply because it is the voice of the one percent in Oregon. The purpose of the newspaper is to help its corporate masters redistribute income and wealth from the 99 percent to the one percent by misleading the vast majority of Oregonians. And that is precisely what Aimee Green has done.
Perhaps as many as seven thousand patriotic citizens of the United States converged at the last hour to lend their support in defense of Occupy Portland.
A few days ago, Mayor Sam Adams had given Occupy Portland until 12.01 am Sunday morning to leave the two parks they occupy in downtown Portland, just across from the justice building. When the police arrived in force, so did thousands of patriots to block their attempt to destroy Occupy Portland. And justice was served.
The patriots were mostly young, under thirty years old, but there were plenty of older people there, too. Some appeared to be in their sixties and seventies. As the police looked on, at different times our citizens chanted “Our Park,” “Our street,” and “Our Police.”
The police had formed a line along third avenue. It looked as though they were trying to keep the street open. The patriots and the police conversed all along the line and many of our men and woman in blue were smiling. Then things got a little ugly.
The police, of course, were just doing their jobs as tools of the one percent. The chief propaganda organ of the one percent in Oregon is the Oregonian newspaper, which had been a bitter critic of Occupy Portland and of middle class America in general. The newspaper has been a primary supporter of legislation to outsource middle class jobs via free trade treaties, which redistributes income from working Americans to the mostly idle rich of Wall Street.
When I arrived just before midnight, there were thousands of middle class patriots prepared to do battle against the agents of the one percent, the rich people that want to turn the United States into a banana republic by destroying the middle class.
Patriots stood along both sides of Third as cars passed by honking horns in support. Patriots also huddled on Main Street, which separated the two parks in which Occupy Portland was located.
The police brought in horses on Main, formed them into a line, and then like an ancient Macedonian phalanx, they pushed forward against the crowd with grim determination. The patriots stood their ground in the street, and they held firm.
Then the police retreated. By 3:00am, two thousand or more patriots still defended Occupy Portland, but the majority of police had left.
The video below shows the attack of the horses and the refusal of the patriots to budge. It also shows the police in retreat. Sadly, the video is from the Oregonian newspaper, the primary propaganda agent of the one percent in Oregon. It’s as if their editors take their orders from the Koch Brothers, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce or Rupert Murdoch. Some of their editorials appear to have been stories written by one of those anonymous sources often cited by Fox News as a credible news source, but which is most likely created by a low paid fiction or fantasy writer sitting in a Fox News cubicle. On behalf of the one percent, the Oregonian editors claim that treaties that outsource jobs, destroy our tax base, pauperize funding for schools, libraries, roads and police; that diminish our wages, pensions, benefits and salaries and raise unemployment, while redistributing income from working Americans to the rich is good for working Americans. They actually want us to believe that. That’s why the Oregonian newspaper is a simple propaganda tool of the one percent.
It’s also why so many people are taking to the streets. It’s why Occupy Oregon is here to stay. The working people of this country have had enough of seeing their futures and livelihoods redistributed to the rich by corrupt government at all levels, including the corrupt corporate wing of the supreme court.
Like Derek and I this morning, the majority of the United States have been foolishly sleeping in and walking around brain dead.
I woke up, but stayed half asleep this morning. I listened to the sounds of people getting up in the tents around us. The light wind briefly blew a hot breath of port-a-pottie fragrance our way, much like the port-a-pottie of rich man’s politics has been filling us with the foul stench of lies and led us down the road to economic depression by diverting and depriving us of our senses and common sense for thirty years.
I was sore and tired and ready to return to sleep, but I couldn’t. I dragged my battered, aching body out of bed and headed for the communal showers. These are located in trailer rigs.
I grabbed an Oregonian newspaper and headed for breakfast with Derek. We grabbed pancakes, eggs, mush, sausages and coffee and headed for a table. I read the Oregonian. The front page didn’t shock me. I read the article.
“Hey Derek,” I said, “listen to this.”
Derek stopped eating and looked at me.
I read, “‘According to the Census figures, the median annual income for a male full-time, year-round worker in 2010–$47,715–was virtually unchanged, in 2010 dollars, from its level in 1973, when it was $49,065, said Sheldon Danziger, professor of public policy at the University of Michigan.'” I inhaled. “That’s stupid. Obviously these wages are not the same. They’d probably have to go all the way back to the sixties to make a more accurate comparison because wages were a tad lower in the years before 1973. That’s when wages peaked.”
I turned the page of the newspaper and read more, “‘And in new signs of distress among the middle class, median household incomes fell last year to levels last seen in 1997. Economists seized on a telling statistic: It was the first time since the Great Depression that the median U.S. household had a lower income, adjusted for inflation, than 13 years earlier, said Lawrence Katz, an economics professor at Harvard University.'”
Derek tilted his head a little and asked, “What does that mean?”
I said, “It means we’re in a Great Depression and the only thing holding up the economy is the New Deal. You can thank Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Blumenauer, Wyden and the Oregonian newspaper for that. I slammed the paper on the table.
This article will continue tomorrow if I have computer access. I’ll explain how the Oregonian newspaper, Blumenauer, Senator Ron “Hedge Fund” Wyden, and others brought about this disaster, and more importantly, how they intend to follow the same policies that they know will make things worse for the middle class. They’ll do this by redistributing income from the middle class to rich people.
The Rigged Game: Corporate America and A People Betrayed
The Rigged Game: Corporate America and a People Betrayed
Wall Street is up to no good, and has been since 1980, when it took over the Republican Party, and then the Democratic Party in 1994. Income has been massively redistributed from the 99 to the 1 percent via legislative scam after scam, from tax cuts for the rich to international income redistribution schemes falsely labeled as trade agreements. In The Rigged Game, John Hively exposes how this has all come about starting with a revolutionary, but simple reality, all recessions begin in the financial markets.
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