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September 1, 2013

Durham Lockout

in our Durham county I am sorry for to say
that hunger and starvation is increasing every day
for the want of food and coals we know not what to do
but with your kind assistance we will stand the struggle through

I need not state the reason why we have been brought so low
The masters have behaved unkind as everyone well know
Because we won't lie down and let them treat us as they like
to punish us they've stopped their pits and caused the present
strike

the pulley wheels have ceased to move which went swift around
the horses and the ponies too are brought from underground
our work is taken from us now: they care not if we die
for they can eat the best of food and drink the best when dry ...

September 1, 2013

Trimdon Grange Explosion

... men and boys left home that morning for to earn their daily bread
never thinking that by the evening they'd be numbered with the dead
let's think of Mrs Burnett, once had sons but now has none
by the Trimdon Grange Explosion
Joseph George and James are gone ...


September 1, 2013

Undzer shtetl brennt

September 1, 2013

Pancho Lopez

nació en Chihuahua en 1906 en un paquete bajo un ciprés
a los dos años ya hablaba inglés
mató a dos hombres a la edad de tres
Pancho Pancho López
chiquito pero matón ...

Pancho Pancho López se fue a la revolución
aquí la historia se terminó porque a los nueve Pancho murió
y el consejo de la historia es -- no vivas la vida con tanta rapidez ...

Born in Chihuahua in 1906 in a package under a cypress tree
at age two he already spoke English
killed two men at the age of three
Pancho Pancho Lopez
tiny but useful ...

Pancho, Pancho Lopez went to the revolution
here the story ends because at nine Pancho died
and the moral of the story is: don't live life so quickly ...




There's an English version with a somewhat surprisingly stereotyped character
August 31, 2013

The end is near

August 31, 2013

Soweto by night

August 31, 2013

Weeping

... it doesn’t matter now
it’s over anyhow
he tells the world that it’s sleeping
but as the night came round
I heard its lonely sound
it wasn’t roaring
it was weeping

and then one day the neighbors came
they were curious to know about the smoke and flame
they stood around outside the wall
but of course there was nothing to be heard at all
"my friends" he said
"we’ve reached our goal
the threat is under firm control
as long as peace and order reign
I’ll be damned if I can see a reason to explain
why the fear and the fire and the guns remain"


-- Dan Heymann

August 31, 2013

Paul Craig Roberts was a devoted Reaganite, wasn't he? An advocate of the position

that the Civil Rights Act institutionalizes discrimination against white males? Winner of an award from ALEC?

Let's take a quick peek at his notion of sound economic theory:

If you want to understand what is happening to Microsoft, read “Atlas Shrugged” ... Hank Rearden, inventor of the fabulous Rearden metal, is harassed and blackmailed by unaccountable government until he, like other persecuted businessmen, shrugs and walks away to join John Galt in a passive resistance ... Rand is scathing in her comparisons of the government class with the entrepreneurial class. She could rewrite her story today using real characters ...
Bill Gates, Meet Ayn Rand
Paul Craig Roberts (2001.01.02 )

Want to guess who he supported in 2012?

... Ron Paul is our last chance .... the other candidates offer no hope whatsoever ...
How Ron Paul Could Win
January 27, 2012

Bottom line: um, he's a rightwing libertarian

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