When is having a family member murdered by an American soldier like winning the lottery?
The families received around $50,000 for each person killed and about $10,000 for each wounded in the shootings in two villages in Panjwai district earlier this month.
via Afghan gun massacre families paid compensation | Reuters.
“Our officers are committed to treating every passenger with dignity and respect,” the agency said in a statement.
The statement went on to say, “Hahahahaha!”
via Travel | Two elderly women object to security search at JFK | Seattle Times Newspaper.
NPCV* Mark 16:15-16
15) And he said unto them, Go ye into all the stores, and buy new possessions for every creature.
16) He that buyeth on his credit card shall be saved; but he that buyeth not shall be damned.
It started on Thanksgiving, when Los Angeles authorities say 20 people at a local Walmart store suffered minor injuries when a woman used pepper spray to gain a “competitive” shopping advantage shortly after the store opened.
via Earlier deals, longer hours woo Friday shoppers – Yahoo! News.
*NPCV: New Panzo Capitalist Version
And the suck-up merry-go-round continues to spin. Not even the music has changed.
Starbucks leadership, employees and the company’s lobbying firm have continued to contribute thousands of dollars to federal officeholders despite Schultz’s urging, according to campaign records reviewed by The Associated Press.
via Politics | Despite pledge, donations flow from Starbucks | Seattle Times Newspaper.
According the Seattle Police Department, exerising the rights thousands of Americans have died to protect is equally as important as a corporately contrived ritual of excess.
The warning to evil doers that breaking laws will not be tolerated is laughable, considering most of the evil in this country is carried out high above the streets in executive board room that the police will never enter.
http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2011/11/23/message-to-shoppers-demonstrators/
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Pepper spray does not hurt, it “creates compliance”. The U.S.A. does not torture, it “intensely interrogates”. Pizza is not bread, cheese and tomato sauce, it’s a “vegetable”. Bank credit cards aren’t traps designed to suck as much cash out of your pocket as possible ion the form of interest and fees, they’re “smart money”. Freedom is slavery. War is peace. Ignorance is strength.
Orwell was right.
Charles J. Kelly, a former Baltimore Police Department lieutenant who wrote the department’s use of force guidelines, said pepper spray is a “compliance tool” that can be used on subjects who do not resist, and is preferable to simply lifting protesters.
“When you start picking up human bodies, you risk hurting them,” Kelly said.
It’s time to return to those days of old when gods of freedom walked the earth and sarcasm was a fearsome tool in their quiver.
(Slightly Altered) Piggies
By the Beatles
Have you seen the right wing piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the right wing piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the newsmen piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the newsmen piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their sties with all their backing
They don’t care what goes on around
In their eyes there’s something lacking
What they need’s a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there’s lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
(cue Pink Floyd)
If you don’t eat your corporate greens, you can’t have any E.coli!
How can you have any E.coli if you don’t eat your corporate greens?!
Ready Pac Foods has recalled more than 5,000 cases of bagged salad because of a possible E. coli contamination.
The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that the bagged romaine lettuce and salad mixes were distributed to 15 Western states.
via Ready Pac recalls 5K cases of bagged salads – seattlepi.com.
This is how capitalism works in America.
The State of Washington is getting paid good money — $22 per hour per worker — to provide prison labor in Washington’s apple orchards. But experienced farm workers, willing and eager to pick apples for decent pay, are being told they must work for minimum wage… or else take a hike.
So the long-term unemployed are being completely screwed by not only big business but the Republican majority in Congress that won’t do a thing to help them.
But who will Republicans help? Well, their rich banker friends, that’s who! As seen in this CNN story from 2010, the bankers backing Republicans in Congress are doing juuuuuust fine: Big banks mint money again: $18.7 billion
Occupy Wall Street chant: Banks got bailed out, we got sold out.
Why can’t Conservatives see this? They can’t all be that stupid, can they? Is it wanton ignorance, then? Conveniently ignoring the problem while they drive their 2.5 children to mall to buy more superfluous stuff? Do they just hate the poor and unemployed?
The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.
Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America’s 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.
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