OPEC, Chavez & WalMart: Union-busting
Large And Small
21 December 2012
By Jane Stillwater
Recently I've been reading some really scary stuff
about the folks who own WalMart. For instance, despite
the fact that Jim and Christy Walton alone are worth
approximately 30 billion dollars each, they are still
treating their employees pretty much like chopped
liver http://abcnews.go.com/Business/walmart-ceo-pay-hour-workers-year/story?id=11067470#.UMYpM3ecHBY.
Like some modern-day Ebenezer Scrooges, WalMart's
avaricious owners appear to be hoarding every penny of
profits they make -- and just in time for Christmas
too.
Baby Jesus would NOT approve!
And recently I've also been reading Jimmy Carter's
excellent personal memoir, "White House Diary". And
what I have learned so far is that, first, Jimmy
Carter was one of America's greatest presidents
because he did everything he possibly could do to help
average Americans like you and me get ahead; fought
against climate change almost even back before Al
Gore; stood up for civil rights worldwide; and scared
the shite out of Wall Street, the Pentagon and AIPAC
-- thus almost guaranteeing that he would never ever
get re-elected, be cut off at the knees by the powers
that be and get defeated by a puppet like Ronald
Reagan as soon as humanly possible.
But if Carter had won a second term and our Ronnie had
been forced to go back to making grade-B cowboy
movies, we definitely wouldn't be facing a RepubliDem-generated
"Fiscal Cliff" right now http://www.nationofchange.org/archeology-decline-1354551090.
But I digress.
The second idea that I came up with after reading this
book was that back in the 1950s, the Middle East was
pretty much a hell-hole of poverty, thanks to the
American "extractive industry" and their scab pashas
who had been exploiting that area like it was 1859
back in the States and no one had yet freed the slaves
-- or like the coal-mine workers had been exploited in
West Virginia before miners there unionized themselves
back in 1902.
However, the exploited "sweatshop workers" of the
Middle East finally began to organize and form their
own union too. And they called it OPEC. And
practically the entire history of that region from
that day to this has been merely one episode after
another of what can only be described as UNION-BUSTING
-- except that the "extractive industries" no longer
use Pinkertons. They use GIs. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33286.htm
All over the world today, the "extractive industries"
are running people off their land, stealing their
resources and, in every way that they possibly can,
performing the type of union-busting activities that
would make WalMart owners proud. And whenever victims
of these "extractive industries" actually try to
unionize or rebel, we immediately have yet another
union-busting war http://www.roitov.com/articles/100.htm.
Incidentally, it is also my personal opinion that
Iran's leadership made a disastrous deal with the
devil when they started negotiating with Ronald Reagan
back in the 1980s -- because Reagan ended up supplying
weapons to both Iran and Iraq, a very clever example
of union-busting at its best. And thus the Ayatollah
Khomeini, after his deals with Reagan such as the
famous alleged October Surprise and the very real
Iran-Contra scandal, ended up having the blood of his
own people on his hands. One million Iranians died in
that "war". http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/23/iran-iraq-war-anniversary
PS: Have you been noticing lately how Muslims are
constantly being demonized and accused of being
terrorists and other types of bad people by the powers
that be? And have you also noticed that almost every
Muslim country from Libya to Indonesia also has oil,
valuable minerals or water resources under their soil?
Coincidence? I think not. http://windowintopalestine.blogspot.com/2012/12/mazin-qumsiyeh-on-12-12-12.html
Further, the Quran clearly states that, "God has sent
down the Torah and the Gospel, as a guidance to the
people...." And rest assured that this guidance
definitely includes the Sermon on the Mount. "Do unto
others as you would have others do unto you." But what
the pseudo-Jews and pseudo-Christians who spread this
crap about Muslims don't seem to understand is that
when they are happily busy dissing Muslims, they are
also dissing Judaism and Christianity too.
PPS: I just got an e-mail from a friend of mine in
Jakarta. She said, "Obama's better than most
presidents because he's got more dimension, having
gained more experience after living all over the
world. However, when Obama's step-father worked for
American oil companies in Indonesia, he took that posh
lifestyle too seriously. And that's why he lost
Obama's mom and his family."
Apparently Obama's mother couldn't stand being just
another member of the union-busting WalMart generation
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2012/12/2012121874846805636.html
and so left his step-father and moved back to Hawaii
where Obama had originally been born -- and how ironic
is that? That Obama's mother's son should now be
helping to preside over some of the greatest
"extractive industry" union-busting puschs of all
time?
PPPS: Remember the grape strikers out in California's
central valley back in the 1960s? How, under Cesar
Chavez, these little guys were demonized and
persecuted but they hung in there and persevered and
finally won a few union victories over the growers?
And also remember that Hugo Chavez is also a union rep
for OPEC -- and he too is being demonized and
persecuted. But he too is hanging in there and may
finally even win a few union victories himself.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0909/24/lkl.01.html
And remember back in 1965, when thousands of us
marched with Reverend King in Montgomery and chanted
"Wallace, you never can jail us all"? That attitude of
dogged resistance against injustice, against all odds,
also explains why I still keep grinding out this
Cassandra-like blog that nobody reads year after year
-- ever since GWB stole the 2000 election -- because
there are still more of us than there are of them and
eventually, someday, the "union" of all us underdogs
will finally prevail. Why? Because our immense
"collective bargaining" power is the only single thing
that the powers-that-be are afraid of.
And so the world's WalMart types always keep trying to
brainwash us peons into hating one another instead of
organizing against them. But this divide-and-conquer
technique can't go on forever. Sooner or later, as
things go further and further downhill across the
world both economically and democratically, all of us
little guys are gonna finally be forced to become
"Union Maids" too.
****
Here's an interesting blog which tells us day by
day what the freak is going on in Afghanistan in terms
of casualties and union-busting by the "extractive
industries" (and the news is usually grim): "Today in
Afghanistan" is the successor to "Today in Iraq"
http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/
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