Category Archives: greed

THE LAND I LOVE by Robert Horn

January 19, 2012 – 1:58 am

An original protest song in honor of the 99%, members of occupy, working men and women, and those fighting for justice in the United States and everywhere. Home made and home recorded with no corporate support or funding. Putting this song on this site is not intellectual theft. No commercial value. No sell-out.

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Not So Fast

January 18, 2012 – 11:16 am

Hundreds of demonstrators for the OCCUPY CONGRESS gathered in Washington this week to protest the greed of Congress in sucking up the the corporate interests of America and the world. The organizers had been expected thousands to show up in force, but winter campaigns are renown for desertions from the ranks; see Valley Forge and […]

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UK First UK Second UK Third

December 13, 2011 – 9:06 am

The world economy has suffered numerous setbacks after the banking debacle came to light in 2008. Governments bailed out the banks and politicians told the taxpayers that they and their children were responsible for the debt. The USA merely printed for dollars, but the nations of the EEU were handcuffed by the Euro and the […]

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Oh No Canada

December 13, 2011 – 6:46 am

Like most New England hockey fans the national anthem of Canada has been screwed into our aural memory. Some of us even know the lyrics of the English version. Few can sing the French version and no one in my immediate family has heard the Inuit rendition. “O Canada! Our home and native land!” The […]

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The Unglitter of Gold

December 13, 2011 – 5:55 am

Last week Peru’s president suspended civil rights in a northern Andean region after a series of protests had shut down the development of a new gold mine. The locals had resisted the government’s attempts to aid Newmont Mining to exploit the region’s watershed for their project and the politicians have responded to the the violence […]

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