The Audio Streams have been restored Troubadour 1700/97.9 - http://50.58.47.66:7010
Liberty & Justice 87.5 - http://50.58.47.66:7012 Liberty & Justice 1640/95.1 - http://50.58.47.66:7014 The new server is in Orlando, FL. The old one was in Portsmouth, NH. The
listen by phone service from Zeno Radio has been updated and is now
functioning. The number for Troubadour 1700 is 786-265-1649. The number
for Liberty & Justice Radio is 786-265-1650. For L&J only, when
prompted, press 1 to hear the Thom Edition, press 2 to hear the Alex
Edition. The ability to listen at TuneIn.com should be restored in the next day or two for all three streams. Unfortunately,
for some reason, this new server is not streaming song and program
titles in Winamp. Different servers mean different software and
different settings. It's typical. I'll try to see if the feature can be
enabled. If not, I am also working at getting song title (and possibly
artwork) streaming for Troubadour (at least) through its page at Tune
In.
6/11/13 Due to some difficulties with
a now-former provider, the host of our audio streams has been busy
trying to regroup and save his business. As soon as he is able, we will
work to get the streams back on line with a new URL that is already in
place. Thanks for your patience.
Also, I am pleased to announce that the micro FM signals at 97.9 and
95.1 were restored to their original coverages a couple of weeks ago
thanks to new transmitters. Tweaking of the antenna for 97.9 is a
project that has been on my "to-do" list since the frequency change
last fall. A further (very) slight improvement in coverage should occur
once it is completed. If you would like to donate to our transmitter
fund, you may do so here.
As for plans for the stations, I have decided for a number of reasons
that the two editions of Liberty & Justice should once again
be combined to a single service, with one AM and one FM
frequency, billed as "The Mulpus Brook Talk Alternative." First and
foremost is my increasing lack of time, combined with the demise of
Oracle Broadcasting, leaving one less service to choose from when
filling two schedules. The reworked station will offer the best of the
best and emphasizes the issues of agreement among progressives,
democratic socialists, non-violent anarchists, and populist
libertarians, especially concerning economic justice, health freedom,
and official transparency... and of course, it will be totally
anti-corporate! The 87.5 frequency will likely be dropped. Just when
the FM dial should be expanding downward from 88.1, more and more
manufacturers are starting their FM dials at 87.9, especially with OEM
equipment in cars. So fewer receivers are able to tune the frequency.
The signal at 95.1, however, should be slightly enhanced because my
plans call for greatly reducing the length of its transmission line.
Now... to find the time to do all the work this recombining project
involves!
By the way, 102.9 is also back on the air broadcasting local NOAA
weather most of the time, but also available for special events at any time (such as the anti-Monsanto protests that occured on Memorial Day weekend).
2/11/13
On the evening of Friday, February 8th, as the recent New
England blizzard was reaching the height of its furry, I was taking
advantage of a rare night off from my job to add a large amount of
music to the Troubadour 1700 format. In the midst of my work, I
detected the smell of either burning plastic or a burning electronic
component. I first assumed that I had placed a cardboard box (with a
line of cellophane tape across its top) a bit too close to the wood
stove. A quick inspection of the box revealed that although it was a
bit warm, no tape was melting. I then turned on one of my radios
and discovered that all of my FM signals were off the air with the
exception of 102.9, The Voice of the Resistance. Unlike the three
other FM's, the 102.9 signal utilizes a vertical dipole that is
sheltered from the weather under a wooden roof. As I moved
toward the 87.5 FM automation computer and transmitter, the smell
was particularly strong. The computer was functioning normally, but
when I put my fingers on the transmitter, the entire unit was hot to
the touch! I immediately shut it down, and when I took it apart, I
found three surface mount chip resistors that were cooked. The smell
was powerful enough to give me a low level headache for 24 hours. When
I inspected the transmitters for 95.1 and 97.9, they were only slightly
warmer than usual with no visually obvious destroyed components. Yet it
was evident that their final output stages were largely destroyed and
they were providing hardly any measurable signal output.
I was able to get 87.5 back on the air rather quickly with a lower
powered back up transmitter I had right in the house. When I tested the
connection to the antenna with an SWR meter, it indicted a normal
connection, or at least a normal connection had been restored by that
point, even though the blizzard was still raging. Later, I was able to
connect another lower powered backup transmitter for 95.1. Again, the
SWR meter indicated a totally normal connection to the antenna. Finally
on Sunday afternoon, with access to my shed cleared, I was able to
fetch an audio connector I needed to restore 97.9 with another small
backup transmitter. Again, everything was normal with no signs of any
distrupted connection to its antenna.
At this time, it remains a mystery as to what exactly caused the
destruction of the output stages of these three transmitters. All three
use the same style of thin, low profile quarter wave ground plan
antenna. Due to the thin elements, it is possible that in the
hard, wind whipped snow, ground elements and the vertical whip
elements touched each other at various times, or bad
connections in all three occurred for long enough periods to destroy
the output stages of the transmitters. Another explaination would be
that electrical energy from the storm hit all areas of the property at
the same instant and struck all exposed, elevated, metalic objects. But
there was no trace of thunder or lightning during the entire blizzard,
and the two AM transmitters were unaffected, which is unusual, because
1700 AM has a history of a weak connection in its antenna system.
It is usually the first to be affected in wet windy weather. The
AM antennas also reach a bit higher in elevation than the FM's. So it
is more likely that the behavior of this particular FM ground
plane antenna in wet, windy, cold conditions had something to
do with it. But the exact cause I still can't determine.
The back up transmitters have either somewhat or significantly reduced
signal coverage, depending on the frequency. The backup operating at
97.9 has only slightly more power than the typical
Satellite-Radio-to-FM Converter and reliable coverage is now limited to
3/4 of a mile. I would like to buy new transmitters and sell the old
ones for parts because it would save the time required for diagnosis
and repair, which would be significant. I also have little experience
with surface mount components and finding the correct replacements for
them. To make matters worse, no schematic of these transmitters appears
in either the user's manual or on the internet. I simply do not have
the time to diagnosis and repair them, even though they represent a
combined investment of $450.
If you are able, please consider a contribution to our replacement FM transmitters fund on our advertise and contribute page. Thanks for your consideration.
12/30/12
In this article, Naomi Wolf indicates who was really calling
the shots: the "too-big-to-fail banks" who stole trillions of our tax
dollars. The organizers were in more danger than they realized. They
could have been assassinated by sniper fire. It was a miracle no one
died.
Friday, December 28, 2012
The following are a summary of blog entries I placed on the Liberty & Justice 1640 website concerning the Sandy Hook school shootings from December 2012 to February 2013
**************************************************************** Feb. 15, 2013
There's been some fascinating information
circulating in parts of the Sandy Hook investigation community over the
past few days. Remember those reports persisting for many hours on 12/14
that the shooter is the son of a kindergarten teacher
at the school? It may turn out to be more truthful than we've been led
to believe. It defies some conventional wisdom, but the earliest reports
in the unfolding of a crisis are usually the most accurate, not the
latter ones that have been "corrected."
**********
At this point in time, I think we
need to ingest some humor into a mass murder mystery... 1/20/13
872 YEO (the Sandy
Hook Truth Song) [A parody of Tommy
Tutone's "867-5309"]
Chrissy, Chrissy who can I turn to?
For the price of a grand I can always buy smack from you.
872 YEO
872 YEO
What was your car doin' in
Sandy Hook that Friday morn'?
Did you really shoot that green car?
872 YEO
872 YEO
I got it! I got it!
Your plate is on the radio
We gotta getaway
Getaway, GO!
(Ahh... that's as far as I got.)
Establishment rag Salon's attempt to debunk debunkers
1/19/13
On January 16th, Salon Magazine published a largely pathetic
attempt
to
debunk "Sandy Hook Truthers" in an article entitled, "Your
comprehensive answer to every Sandy Hook
conspiracy theory." Well, it was hardly comprehensive, and it
predictably stuck to issues that still have at least some wiggle room
for debate. It didn't surprise me, however, that Salon completely
ignored three issues that they are not going to touch with a ten foot
pole. They are issues I have mentioned in my two previous blogs on
Sandy Hook, and they are as follows:
1) The total lack of any video footage released to the public from the
school's new, state of the art surveillance system. Had the
disgustingly
corrupt state of Connecticut been honest and smart, and not regard
its adult citizens as little children incapable of handling the images,
it would have released the entire school footage, regardless of its
complexity. Even if it involved more than sixty cameras and microphones
recording every second of activity, they should have released it all
WITHIN HOURS of the attack. In the Brazil school shooting of 2011,
local authorities released the surveillance videos. Have you stumbled
over any Brazil School Shooting "Truther" blogs or YouTube videos
lately? It is now far too late for Connecticut authorities to correct
this mistake. In a little more than a month's time, with today's
technology, that footage could have undergone so many edits and CGI
effect add ons ("officially" or unofficially) that none of us will ever
know for sure if it is still original.
2) The prohibition on the families from directly identifying the
bodies. This is unprecedented. When Lauren Rousseau's family asked to
see her remains for positive identification, they were denied. Instead,
they were presented with pictures. This can only mean one of two
things: A) Evidence of fraud or a coverup, especially in this era of
Photoshop, B) Evidence of a nanny state that doesn't regard
adult men and women as true adults capable of handling the
hard core realities of life and death. This was a blatant and likely
illegal attempt
to deny the families a TRUE sense of closure through a positive eye
witness identification of the bodies.
3) State Troopers being assigned to supposedly "protect"
each of the victim's families around the clock until the "official"
report is released by the Connecticut State Police. This is actually a
two way street that also prevents the families from speaking to the
press, which amounts to a gag order. This is also highly
unusual.
The article concludes by basically insulting the intelligence of
researchers. It reminds us that different people handle grief in different
ways, and no one in mourning is in tears all the time because the human
system can't endure such intensity. Gosh Salon, you don't say! I've
been to plenty of wakes, funerals, and associated family gatherings
since I was 8 years old. Did people laugh and tell funny stories,
sometimes about the deceased? Of course they did. But there is one
thing I've noticed over the years: the younger the deceased person was,
and the more sudden or violent their death, the more laughter
and smiles were at a premium, regardless of the range of personalities
in attendance. I've also been to a couple of wakes where the
deceased died suddenly, in the prime of life,
and family members couldn't stop weeping the whole time.
Look, I know that stretch of western Connecticut from Danbury to
Southbury is a haven for theatrical types. But when a father of a six
year old girl, who was just brutally and mercilessly
murdered hours
before, appears before international TV cameras like a 1960's disc
jockey entering a TV game show set - then realizes he's supposed to be
"mourning" and does 20 seconds of deep breathing to get into character -
I think at least 90 percent of the public would agree that's WAY over
the top. When something is that inappropriate, how can it not breed
suspicion?
As for the interview with the Soto family, the fact remains that they
were communicating in subtle and not so subtle ways that they were
taking
part in something that, at least on a subconscious level, they truly
detested. To put it bluntly, they were pissed! Yet,
they continued to play along with
the script. How I wish one of them would have spilled the
beans and blurted out what was bothering them, right there on
live television, letting the chips fall where they may. But because
they didn't, I could not feel a connection with them like I could with
Russ
Hannoman and Nancy Lanza's other friends. Sorry, Salon Magazine. Body
language says it all and body language doesn't lie.
So go ahead, folks. Keep those "Sandy Hook Truth" blogs, websites, and
YouTube videos coming. At the rate things are going, there will
probably be more "Sandy Hook Truth" pages on the internet in six months
than 9/11 Truth pages. And it's all brought to you by the massive
corruption, incompetence, and total lack of honesty on the part of
federal officials and the State of Connecticut. A mentally retarded
greyhound could run that state and this crisis with more
competence, ethics, and transparency than the likes of Lt. Paul "Mis-information-will-be-prosecuted" Vance,
Medical Examiner Wayne "Kids-Stuff" Carver, and Governor Dannel
"Don't-label-GMO's-in-my-state" Malloy. In spite of their complaints, I
am pleased these low lifes are now reaping so abundantly the exact measure of what they have
sown.
Adam Lanza was a
vegan... and what body language reveals
1/18/13
Over
the past month, I must have spent over 100 hours and searched over a
thousand web pages trying to glean every drop of information
and insight into the Sandy Hook shootings that I can
find. It continues to be an obsession, often at the expense of
important day to day matters, and I know I'm hardly alone in that.
However, it was not until several days ago that I stumbled across
information indicating that accused shooter Adam Lanza was a practicing
vegan. The ultimate source of this information is Russell Hannoman, one
of Nancy Lanza's closest friends and the only known friend who has both
met Adam (on several occasions) and has spoken to the media (on at
least two occasions). In an interview with WPIX 11 News, Russ Hannoman
states that the Adam Lanza he knew deplored violence and adopted an
organic, vegan lifestyle because he didn't want to contribute to animal
suffering:
[WPIX video no longer found. Sorry.]
As a vegan
myself, and understanding from the inside how a vegan views the
initiation of force, either against other humans or an animal, it opens
up a plethora of additional inconsistencies and likely cover ups in
what has emerged as the "official" Sandy Hook story.
My evolution to veganism was a long one that lasted around ten years
and my motivation for that journey was entirely selfish: I wanted the
best possible health, skin, and energy. I didn't want to become another
heart disease statistic as I got older with a pot belly and a fading
mind. I had also come to what should have been an obvious
realization that cow's milk was designed to nurse young calves into
becoming big cows or bulls, not to nourish adult humans. The fact
that there were no maggot attracting bones and gristle to dispose of
after dinner, and that no animals were killed or exploited were huge
pluses but were not the prime motivators of my evolution. Only later on
did I understand the philosophical implications of what I had adopted.
And my entire journey did not begin until around age 38.
Yet, here was young Adam Lanza, probably in his teens at the time,
cutting right to the chase by mentioning that he had become an organic
vegan because he did not want to exploit animals. The juvenile
butt heads who follow Howard Stern (the same type of people who likely
motivated Nancy Lanza to pull her son out of school in favor of home
instruction) have looked at this with pointed fingers and exclaimed,
"See, these faggy assed vegans will flip over backwards to save some
animal but have no problem mass murdering their own species." Such an
assumption misses the entire point. If we have a problem initiating
violence against even a small animal, how much more conflicted will we
be to initiate violence against a member of our own species? We vegans
want an
end to ALL violence, and the best, most personal, most intimate way to
start is to get violence off our plates.
Adam Lanza's veganism is one of many aspects of this case that is going
to cause BIG problems for the intelligence agencies, the FBI, the
Connecticut State Police, the corporate media, and any clandestine
"secret society" that is planning to cram some whitewashed "official
story" down our throats. It's right up there with the fact that not a
single frame of surveillance video of the attack has been released,
in spite of the recent installation of a state of the art system at
Sandy Hook Elementary.
[Do you remember the Brazilian school shooting back in April
2011? It took place in a dirt poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro at a school
with a third rate video surveillance system (probably black and white
only). Still, it caught everything. And since Brazilian
authorities had no problem releasing the footage to the public, it
is now all over the internet. Hmm... That's funny. The last time I
checked, Newtown, Connecticut is in Fairfield County, the 44th richest
county in the first nation of the first world. Yet, no video. And
nobody was allowed to identify actual bodies either. Nevertheless,
they complain about "conspiracy theorists!"]
No vegan in his natural state of mind - even one addled by autism or
Aspergers and taunted for his condition by former
classmates - is going to spent his entire day locked up in a basement
playing violent video games. Nor is he going to aspire to join the
military (apparently so he can kill without the legal ramifications),
or create a web page honoring Satan, or attempt to buy guns illegally,
or plot a mass shooting at his former grade school. It is simply
preposterous.
In light of the discovery of Adam Lanza's veganism, and taken
in context of everything else I have studied about this
tragedy over
the past several weeks, I can only come to two possible conclusions
about Adam's
role in the attack:
1) Adam was an innocent patsy who was taken hostage from his
home by a small group of highly trained assassins. They first murdered
his mother, smashed his computer hard drives, dressed him
in SWAT gear, and drove him to the school. They then broke into the
building and proceeded with the executions. When it looked like police
were about to arrive, they murdered the young man with gun shots to his
skull and
left the weapons near his body to make it appear like a mass
shooting/suicide.
2) In the weeks preceding the attack, Adam was given a cocktail of
powerful psychotropic drugs that drastically altered his personality,
deteriorated his state of mind, and made him vulnerable to powerful,
evil people. Due to his condition, they saw an opportunity to mold the
perfect Manchurian candidate. In spite of being a lightweight, he
carried out the executions as a pure zombie, bearing the heavy weight
of his weapons arsenal and its fire power on shear adrenalin. When
confronted with the prospects of a gun fight with police, reality hit
and he committed suicide.
I can't think of any viable possibility that doesn't roughly resemble
these two scenarios. And with either one, you can't escape the prospect
that other individuals had to have been involved. Evidence at the
school that morning supports this, including the "off duty SWAT
officer" chased into the woods and handcuffed by local police, the two
shadows that teachers reported seeing move across the parking lot, and
the dark colored van with the blown rear window and a passenger
dressed up to look like a nun.
I realize that my conclusions ultimately stem from the
testimony of Russ Hannoman. Why do I think Russ's testimony is
credible, even though some of it contradicts the testimony of others
who have also known Adam Lanza? The answer, in short, is body language.
In the video above, when speaking about Adam's non-violent nature,
Russ's voice is slightly shaky. He then appears to have a
spontaneous recollection of Adam's veganism, which only serves to
reinforce his point. The recollection causes his voice to become even a
bit more shaky. This is a man who is truly in shock. He is
composed enough to carry on an intelligent, coherent interview. But
there is evidence on his face that he has been crying in his private
moments over the loss of his beloved friend and her son, and is trying
to come to grips with the contrast between his memories of that son and
the massive damage he may have caused. This is unmistakably someone who
is experiencing genuine grief. It is something you cannot
fake.
Below is the first appearance we saw of Russ Hannoman, along with three
other friends of Nancy Lanza, on the Today Show the Monday morning
after the shooting. The segment begins with interviews from a few of
Nancy's friends at the bar she frequented, followed by a segment filmed
outdoors where Russ appears with three of Nancy's other friends:
After you view this clip in its
entirety, go back and pause it around the beginning of the segment with
Russ Hannoman, at approximately the 7:40 mark. Take a good look at all
four of Nancy Lanza's friends in this scene. Notice the amazing
uniformity in their facial expressions and demeanor. It is one of
shock, horror, and grief. If some one gave me this picture a week
before the shooting, never having seen it before or knowing
what is was about, then I was asked to verbalize what
their facial expressions were saying, I would respond that something
truly horrible had just occurred and they were all trying to come to
terms with it. THESE PEOPLE ARE GENUINE. The same goes for the workers
and management filmed inside the bar. These individuals are grieving
the loss of their friend as well as the entire scope of the tragedy,
and everything they exude is communicating that.
Now, by contrast, let me show you something that upon close examination,
is rather disturbing.
Here is a clip of the Soto family being interviewed by Piers Morgan,
apparently at the Firehouse on the evening after the attack:
I don't wish to appear
disrespectful of the Soto family, but I find this clip difficult and
tedious to watch. There is an emotional wall between myself and them,
and this is a sign that something is not on the level. Their answers
and descriptions are stereotypical, generic, and unconvincing. There is
no uniformity whatsoever in their facial expressions and demeanor.
Various family members get fidgety and smirk at different times. At one
point, the father almost seems to be thinking, "I can't wait for this
to be over so we can collect our money and get out of here."
Here is a paraphrase from the description of this video, as written by
the original YouTube poster, which I think says it best:
*****
First of all, pay attention to the way Vicki's family is reacting in
this interview, especially her father. But also notice the playful
smirks and body language from her brother and sister around the 20
second and 31 second mark. The body language of the youngest sister and
brother are not even of a person that just lost a sister. And notice
the constant blink rate of all the family members. (Lots of blinking
means lies.) Now, concerning the father, anyone can tell that this man
doesn't want to be a part of this video. His body language is negative
throughout the entire interview. How could a father be so disgruntled
and annoyed from questions asked about his daughter (Vicki
Soto), who apparently died in a violent attack just hours before?
Notice at the 2:30 mark when Piers asks about the green ribbons and the
father instantly looks like its all a bunch of made up bologna. He even
drops his head, looks down, and constantly blinks over and
over to
make things worse. At the 2:40 mark, when Piers mentions that the snow
was a sign from their sister, notice the father smirk. It was as if he
was thinking, "Really Piers, you couldn't come up with
any better scripted bologna than that?" This
alleged "father" doesn't even look like he belongs with
this family.
*****
Now I know what some people might be thinking. "Oh, come on! They are
displaying typical New England reserve. And teenagers do get fidgety."
Well, New England "reserve" is one thing. Smirks, rapid blinking, and
outright disgust is something else. Russ Hannoman, in my opinion, also
displayed typical New England reserve. But underpinning it was total
sincerity and genuine grief. And I don't see any of that
coming from this family. All I hear are scripted lines.
When I first began my research into the entire Sandy Hook tragedy, I
was very hard on the Lanzas. But as the weeks have passed, I am
increasingly believing that they are, by far, the biggest
victims. This study further supports that view. As for anything
beyond that, I don't know what to assume at this point, or whether it
is safe to draw any conclusions. But for scores of reasons, something
is very, very wrong with the nature of this entire event. And I fear
that the combination of a tightly controlled media, the erosion of the
Bill of Rights, the decimation of the middle class, and
a general public that shuns curiosity and lets personal
political ideology do their thinking for them, the story
of what really occurred on December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut
will never be widely known or accepted.
Two weeks after Sandy Hook there are more contradictions and
inconsistencies than answers.
12/28/12
As a native of Connecticut who attended the next grade school
due
east of Sandy Hook Elementary, in the town of Oxford, the Newtown
school shootings of December 14th have been an inescapable aspect of
life since the day they occurred. My closest connection to any of the
victims is through my nephew. His current boss was the husband of Anne
Marie Murphy, the special education teacher who was gunned down trying
to protect her students. A connection like that, I suppose, is typical
of most people with ties to the area.
I have spend many hours on line studying
practically
every conceivable aspect of this tragedy, and I have to say, I have
never in my life seen a story with more contradictions,
inconsistencies, changes in the sequence, mysterious parallel events,
and odd behavior than this one. After 9/11, that is certainly saying
something. First we were told that Nancy Lanza was a kindergarten
teacher who was gunned down by her son Ryan (not Adam) in her classroom
before he went on a killing spree. Then we were told she was murdered
at home while still in bed, was never on the school staff, and ended up
homeschooling Adam due to disagreements with the school district over
how to handle him.
We were told that Adam Lanza drove his mother's car
to
the school. But the car turned out to be registered to Christopher
Rodia, a petty criminal from Norwalk with close ties to two other petty
criminal families in that area, one of which has been involved in gun
running. We were told that Nancy Lanza was a "prepper" and
"survivalist" who owned a huge cache of legally registered guns and
ammunition. But her closest friends say that although she did own guns
and brought her two sons to the firing range when they were teens, it
was hardly the main focus of her life. She was more interested in arts
and culture and was a kind, generous person. Then, an on-line
journalist states that he cannot find any evidence with Connecticut
authorities that Nancy Lanza had any gun registrations at all.
Concerning the weapons, we were told that the long
gun
(the Bushmaster semi-automatic .223 caliber) was recovered from the
truck of Adam Lanza's car many hours later and never made it into the
school. But then the coroner stated that all the shots that took down
the victims were fired from the long gun. (Say, what?) Then there was
the part about the two or more men in camo running away from police
into the woods. News helicopters from local TV stations caught the
footage. The shadows of these men were seen on the parking lot by a
surviving teacher while she was still in the building. Do innocent
people run away when confronted by police? Yet, the mainstream media
suddenly dropped the issue like a hot potato and we haven't heard a
peep from them about it since the day of the massacre.
Combine all this confusion with the odd behavior of
the
state coroner at his news conference, the stone cold silence of Lt.
Vance at his press conference when asked about Nancy Lanza's
relationship to the school, and the puzzling public behavior of
"laughing dad" Robbie Parker and one or two other parents and
survivors, the implication to me is that even greater forces of evil
may have had a hand in this. Was all of these factors caused by Adam
Lanza allegedly blowing his stack while perhaps under the influence of
a psychotropic drug?
At the two week mark, it is time to manage our
grief,
shock, and horror, and bring the critical thinking portion of our
brains back on line concerning this tragedy. Detectives don't solve
crimes by believing everything the mainstream media and the "official"
story tell them. A good place to start is with the links below, which
appear to be from credible sources that do their research.
I visited Newtown, CT on December 26th and took pictures of the
memorials in the village of Sandy Hook and at the Newtown Town Hall.
They have been added to the Minimum Wage Media Facebook page and you
may view them here.
"Political democracy without economic democracy is a system destined to
fail."
- My summary of Professor Richard Wolff's thesis
Listen to
Economic Update with Richard Wolff, Sunday evenings from
11-midnight, on Liberty & Justice 87.5.
And... continuously, through the month of December, listen to various
lectures, interviews, and speeches by Professor Wolff on
The Voice of the Resistance 102.9 FM
The Occupy Movement and Progressive Activism for Shirley Center, North
Shirley, and Woodsville
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Walmart: A textbook case of everything that is wrong with
modern American capitalism
11/20/12
I urge all Liberty & Justice listeners to support and
express
solidarity with Walmart workers during their massive walkout
planned for Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. If you
can, take a spin by your nearest store or warehouse, give them the
thumbs up, and contribute a few dollars to their food fund. As for me,
I have been boycotting Walmart for well over a decade for reasons too
numerous to mention here, reasons that are well documented all over the
Internet. Since my boycott began, the only time I have set foot in one
was to exchange or return a Christmas gift I had received a few years
back.
If I were appointed czar of the U.S. Department of Justice and given
absolute dictatorial powers for one month, I would dig up every dormant
anti-trust law on the books and break the Walton empire into
approximately 50 to 75 much smaller retail, wholesale, and distribution
companies. I would then order the Federal Reserve to make investment
funds available to COMMITTED, ETHICAL entrepreneurs who pledge IN
WRITING to treat their associates fairly, to provide safe working
conditions, reasonable scheduling, freedom of association, and MORE
than just a living wage but a prosperous wage. (Walmart employees would
get first shot at these opportunities.) If, somewhere down the road, an
entrepreneur violates this agreement, their corporation gets dissolved
and turned over to someone who WILL keep the agreement. Over time,
these smaller companies can become employee-owned cooperatives, if the
associates so choose, and then they will determine their own pay and
working conditions, and elect their own CEO. All problems solved,
wouldn't you say?
"Share your profits with all your associates and treat them as
partners."
"Appreciate everything your associates do for the business."
-Sam Walton
Rules for Building a Business, numbers 2 and 5
