At the moment that the "normal" police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state of equilibrium - the turn of the fascist regime arrives. - Leon Trotsky 27 Jan 1932.
Up in Northern Wisconsin, a mining company named Gogebic Taconite was approved by the Republican Wisconsin Legislature to engage in a massive mining operation which will devastate and befoul Lake Superior and the surrounding pristine Northwoods environment. Protests have been staged, so Gogenic Taconite hired Bulletproof Security to stalk the area in pseudo-military vehicles carrying semi-automatic rifles and wearing fully decked out camo uniforms.
Duped Conservatives and apologists for Corporate Malfesance defended the Walker and the Parliamentary Screens when they passed legislation which allowed Plutocrats to buy up Wisconsin's public utilities and public resources for whatever price the Plutocrats wanted as long as the Wisconsin Republican got a nice little kickback.
While everyone is focused on slimy Scott Walker's Independence Day Rape Wand Signature, and rightly so, the Corporate Overlords are ensuring they get to extract money, power, and resources from Wisconsin at rock bottom prices.
The Rich are interested in maximizing their profits, the Great Lakes be damned. Another Wisconsin/Michigan based company Lake Michigan Carferry uses the last coal-fired ship on the lake, the S.S. Badger which as it travels from its home port of Ludington, MI, to Manitowoc, WI, it dumps 509 tons of coal ash into Lake Michigan each year – a quantity greater than the total waste dumped annually by the 125 other largest ships operating on the Great Lakes.
“The S.S. Badger, the filthiest ship on the Great Lakes, has been given two more years to dump hundreds of tons of dangerous coal ash into Lake Michigan. The millions of people who live, work and play in and around this beautiful Lake should be outraged that this filthy ship will continue to operate,” said Senator Dick Durbin.
But, Senator Durbin the Rich run the US Government. So the flithy owner of the S.S. Badger, Robert Manglitz, used his connections and legalese to bypass and ignore laws. Manglitz got the S.S. Badger originally a barge whose keel was laid in 1953 and was later refitted to transport cars, declared a "historical site" in both Michigan and Wisconsin.
Manglitz has called Coal Ash "Harmless Sand" though I doubt he's ever relaxed on a sunny beach made out of it.
Destroying the Teachers' Union was a step, eliminating Public Service Employees Collective Bargaining powers was a step, selling off public resources to whichever company gives the Corporate Owned Politicians was another step, allowing Companies which rape and despoil the environment, to field paramilitary squads threatening to gun down protesters while defending Corporate Crimes is another step.
The Koch Brothers like to style themselves Libertarians, but you can know them by their true name Fascists. Like their Plutocratic brethern on Wall Street, the Kochs have set up multiple avenues of attack to deter and confuse the American People from identifying their true enemy the Koch Brothers themselves and the Capitalist Bourgeoisie.
Through the fascist agency, capitalism sets in motion the masses of crazed petty bourgeoisie and bands of declassed and demoralized lumpenproletariat - all countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy. - Leon Trotsky, What is Fascism?
Wall Street, the Rich Plutocrats and the Banking and Finance Industry brought the economy to ruin through their legerdermain, degenerate gambling and rampant criminal theft and then turned around and blamed the Poor and Unions.
Then they unleashed their hordes of duped and battered conservative drones to blame other middle and working class peoples for the devastation wrought by the Banksters.
Exactly, as Trotsky wrote 80 years ago, The fascists find their human material mainly in the petty bourgeoisie.The latter has been entirely ruined by big capital. There is no way out for it in the present social order, but it knows of no other. Its dissatisfaction, indignation, and despair are diverted by the fascists away from big capital and against the workers.
The Koch Brothers like to style themselves Libertarians, but you can know them by their true name Fascists. Like their Plutocratic brethern on Wall Street, the Kochs have set up multiple avenues of attack to deter and confuse the American People from identifying their true enemy the Koch Brothers themselves and the Capitalist Bourgeoisie.
Through the fascist agency, capitalism sets in motion the masses of crazed petty bourgeoisie and bands of declassed and demoralized lumpenproletariat - all countless human beings whom finance capital itself has brought to desperation and frenzy. - Leon Trotsky, What is Fascism?
Wall Street, the Rich Plutocrats and the Banking and Finance Industry brought the economy to ruin through their legerdermain, degenerate gambling and rampant criminal theft and then turned around and blamed the Poor and Unions.
Then they unleashed their hordes of duped and battered conservative drones to blame other middle and working class peoples for the devastation wrought by the Banksters.
Exactly, as Trotsky wrote 80 years ago, The fascists find their human material mainly in the petty bourgeoisie.The latter has been entirely ruined by big capital. There is no way out for it in the present social order, but it knows of no other. Its dissatisfaction, indignation, and despair are diverted by the fascists away from big capital and against the workers.
The Rich are interested in maximizing their profits, the Great Lakes be damned. Another Wisconsin/Michigan based company Lake Michigan Carferry uses the last coal-fired ship on the lake, the S.S. Badger which as it travels from its home port of Ludington, MI, to Manitowoc, WI, it dumps 509 tons of coal ash into Lake Michigan each year – a quantity greater than the total waste dumped annually by the 125 other largest ships operating on the Great Lakes.
ReplyDeleteThat is rich. More than the 125 other largest ships... Does the S.S. Badger by chance fish for RED HERRING when it's out on the lake? It is after all the only coal burner on the lake.
The only thing which smells of Rotten Fish here are the apologies for Corporate Criminals you routinely engage in Chicken Hammer.
ReplyDeleteAfter all if Corporations want to dump all manner of waste into the Great Lakes:
BP acknowledged that for the last six years its Whiting refinery violated federal pollution limits on benzene, a highly toxic chemical linked to leukemia and other health problems.
BP reported that it had processed too much benzene at the refinery's sewage treatment plant, about 15 miles southeast of Chicago.
Last year alone (2008), the company processed more than 95 tons of benzene waste -- about 16 times the amount allowed. BP also violated the 6-ton limit from 2003 to 2007.
And from June this year,
– Indiana environmental officials were investigating whether a Porter County manufacturer was responsible for a slick of glittery material that kept many swimmers out of Lake Michigan in northwest Indiana on Monday.
“The material that was found in Lake Michigan yesterday, we do know that it’s tri-calcium orthophosphate,” said Dan Goldblatt, spokesman for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, who added the test results are preliminary.
Swimmers in Lake Michigan along Porter Beach and other parts of northwest Indiana were ordered out of the water on Monday after several people ended up covered in the glittery substance.
Just keep Hammering that Chicken man...
Does BP own or operate the S.S. Badger? So what does BP have to do with the red herring you tossed out there with the Badger comparison?
ReplyDeleteThe other point you're throwing out there really doesn't reinforce the prior argument.
– Indiana environmental officials were investigating whether a Porter County manufacturer was responsible for a slick of glittery material that kept many swimmers out of Lake Michigan in northwest Indiana on Monday.
Reading the linked story tells me that environmental investigators were unable to determine the source of a non hazardous substance observed on the lake's surface. Let me repeat that, a non hazardous substance of unknown origin.
See, there you go, if we can't be sure of the source of the giltter then move along, no crime, be happy, swim, fish. Besides everyone knows Unicorns fart glitter, shoot the unicorns.
ReplyDeleteYeah, and water is a non-hazardous substance so stick your head in a bucket of water for 5 minutes and get back to us Chicken Hammer.
ReplyDeletePossible side-effects from tri-calcium phosphate may include nausea, vomiting, decreased appetite, constipation, dry mouth, increased thirst and increased urination.
Do your arms ever get tired of flogging for Criminals Chickenhammer?
That you repeatedly offer supposition as fact causes me to think you don't know the difference. Mix that with the amateurish distorting of facts and the iniquitous use of red herrings I'm left to wonder; is this blog only here to troll conservative commenters?
ReplyDeleteI've shown you to be wrong on every post you attack. Go back and look. I rebut and refute every slimy right-wing lie, evasion and distortion every time.
ReplyDeleteIs the Coal Ash dumping fine with you or not?
That the Great Lakes provide the drinking water for Tens of Millions of Canadians and Americans and represent 21% of the World's Fresh Water and you don't give a shit except to try and win a pointless right/left debate with me shows that you are an unflinching zombie for Right-Wing Nonsense.