We're All Sheeple Now!

A most excellent post from our friend the Olive Farmer...............

Sunday, March 6, 2011



We're all Sheeple now.

It's just that there are new shepherds.

Is that, then, our perpetual destiny?

To need to be led?

Have we been brought to fear one another so much that we bend our knees to monsters rather than trust one another?
To seek out and pray for a kindly master whilst forever accepting an evil one, but better that than trust each other.
And never pause to ask: Who taught us to be this way?
And when we see light ahead, rush towards it without asking who is holding the torch?
When our history teaches us that the light bringer, the saviour, is always just another parasite, feeding on our misery.
With the odd, always murdered, exception.
This taught yearning for leadership divides us rather than uniting us. It splits us into camps.
So the new world we build should do without leadership, and replace it with trust.
And love.
In the coming months, beware anyone that offers the light of leadership.
This is not how things will be. It is the old way.

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Auspicious dawn

What we have always known will heal us


1st March 2011

John Kaminski

Lemon Bay, Florida, March 1, 2011, 5:45 a.m. Auspicious dawn. Huge creamy diamond Venus aims at a soft landing on the awe-inspiring Earthshine of the nearby crescent moon, comfortably reclined in a welcoming mode. (Of course this is a big blast of love wafting toward us from our mother in the sky.) As the clear blue dawn with flecks of gold will arrive in a few minutes, Northern birds chatter amiably, making travel plans. Around the world, a new chant bursts the bonds of the aimless silence that never stirred until justice finally reached the hearts of men, and insisted the honesty within them be extended into the outer world choking on smoke and soot and the injustice of institutions designed to protect them that really hurt them. Bastiát was right. Down through history, the biggest hazards to human life have been the very systems humans have devised to protect themselves. And we could never fix them until we could fix ourselves.

Now, the sullen soiled world structure we have created for ourselves — or have had created for us — is crumbling. The foundation stones of our social system are revealed by the parasitic infection of suppressed fear which has undermined every effort we have ever made at anything. The ancient myths that were supposed to have guided us became our prison wardens, shackled our thoughts, smelted them into robotic repetitions of rancid rituals that said we should have no fear if we just hung onto this handy little crucifixional device that would save us in any situation. All that was was something we already had; they just gave it a name and an image, but we already possessed it long before they repackaged it and sold it to us in exchange for our souls, which they acquired at a very cheap price.

As we learn that the spread of Roman Christianity that evolved into the Dark Ages was first inspired by the first recipients of this blessed miasma of ancient anagrams. These were the slaves, criminals and other maladjusted barbarians who were given an instant promotion to full Roman citizenship by a simple wave of the hand in a crosslike pattern, without any of the ancient requirements and tasks essential to achievement of emotionally invested citizenship in the real world. This is ultimately how Rome was destroyed. The passivity engendered by this otherworldly takeover of people's minds sabotaged the traditional fabric of every society it engulfed. And the hypocrisy that seeped from something we truly believed in yet was based on stolen myths and concealed identities created a secret and evil level to all human machinations that has compromised our efforts down through time, and created a culture that worships death, power and force instead of the life affirming practicality and forthrightness that still rules the less developed societies, the indigenous people whom we have just about completely extincted with our technological poisons.

As we begin the transition to a society in which people begin to see their connection to each other in a much more actualized way — hence revealing the ultimate absurdity of war and murder — most of the world remains trapped in the artificial media mindlock, where governments repeat their orders from the bankers through shillistic journalists with fat wallets in a manner in which the details of what they have actually done are very different — if not diametrically opposed — to the version they have crafted and distributed for public consumption.

It is in this gap we all can clearly observe the connection between a contemporary U.S. government utterly controlled by a nearly invisible foreign power herding a drugged and demented populace toward its own extinction and a two thousand year old religion whose very foundations stand now revealed as stolen traditions disguised and subverted to a purpose very different from its purported aim, which is your own salvation.

As Venus and the moon dance across the sky, once again the universe is showing us how it's done, had we but eyes to see it.

The caveat, of course, is that you must take somebody with you when you go off on your journey, or bring somebody home when you come back. Otherwise it doesn't really count.

As the New World Order unleashes its deadly but profitable schemes on the unsuspecting herd, all over the world, life is busting out all over. It's entirely up to us to determine who wins. Will it be perpetual servitude or spontaneous jubilation? Yes, you get to pick.

Have absolute confidence in your decision. You have always had all the information you need. It's inside you, but they tried to convince you they were keeping it for you, and you had to go visit it there. When you know that, all your decisions will be right and healthy. And if you weren't a friend of mine, I wouldn't be telling you that, would I?


John Kaminski is a writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida, urging people to understand that no problem in the world can be authentically addressed without first analyzing tangents caused by Jewish perfidy, which has subverted and diminished every aspect of human endeavor throughout history. Support for his work is wholly derived from people who can understand what he’s saying and know what it means.

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People Without Dreams

By Jim Kirwan

3-2-11

Strip away all the political and social 'add-ons' that we live with as we try to survive in this completely broken world and at the end of the day we are all just 'people.' What does that mean? It means that within every person, regardless of race or religion, ethnicity or gender, there is a tremendous capacity for the unbidden-dreams that make life worth living. This is not about what happens in the subconscious while one sleeps; rather it is about that intuitive-yearning for freedom that walks with everyone who seeks a better world: Not in some 'faraway-tomorrow' but in the everyday world of "today."


What began with Tunisia and has moved into Egypt and beyond; has now reached into the belly-of-the-beast-masters of raw-Capitalism: The old USA. Capitalism itself has become the Dreamslayer of the world: And without real and personal dreams there can be no life-left in those that are in theory, still alive.

The enemy of all of us has always been the Apathy which ultimately gets wrapped in the spider's-silk that allows us to become just paralyzed- roadkill, waiting to be devoured by raw and unchecked Capitalism, anywhere in the world today. This global revolt against that all-consuming brand of Capitalism is still growing because what is really at stake are the real and potent DREAMS of every man and woman; anywhere in the world today.

Thanks to Libya and Iraq today, we can begin to see the inner layers of the nightmare as the uprising continues to challenge those that know the time has come for taking RISKS! In Libya the Dreamslayer is returning with the promised intervention by Western-military forces that still seek only more of the same that we brought to the wider-world. With our invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq; in addition to the longer simmering fires in Palestine, Pakistan, Lebanon, and to a lesser extent Yemen and Saudi-Arabia; it is clear that we still seek, global dominance at any price. The first casualties of this war have always been the people that have resisted, anywhere: But who have now taken the personal and vibrant initiative that could lead billions out of bondage. (1)

In Iraq what we see today are a captive and imprisoned people still in the middle of opposing their own captivity; rising yet again in league with Egyptians and Tunisians to add their voices to the international-Cry-of-Freedom everywhere. A protest within a twenty-year long war that is itself one the most illustrative-examples of why belligerent and militarily-enforced rulers can never succeed in the end. Truly this is a bizarre new twist on an ages-old problem. This 'twist' is being added to by protests here in Wisconsin, in Ohio and in Indiana which will soon be added to by other states where the 'super-glue of naked-greed' has begun to lose its absolute grip upon this dying nation. "Kafkaesque" has become something of a guiding principle wherever Capitalism and corrupted state power have combined their 'forces' to crush the same people they actually NEED, to continue their own race toward national oblivion.

Corporations; despite all the illegally-conferred "rights" they have artificially acquired; are not and can never be "people." Corporations develop 'plans' and are infected by monomaniacal lusts; but they can never DREAM the dreams of the living-they can only smash and destroy in their current­quest to leave behind their scorched-earth-policies that seek-only to kill nearly five billion people worldwide. That is not a dream: That is the Global-Nightmare that all of us must work together to defeat!

Here are three short-videos. The first two have to do with "Where Are the Handcuffs" for the financial crimes committed in the last eleven years: The third video is an overview of CFR and the particular way in which membership in that organization has been used to by-pass the "isms & ists" - to not only shape US policy but to define what gets published anywhere in the world today." (2)

The nearly invisible contributor to all of the real-problems we have today has always been the false-dichotomy of the leading political parties inside USI. Going back over their entire history, at least since the end of WWII they have been responsible for hollowing out this country-from a nation where dialogue and differences were 'possible,' to a place where only one point-of-view can now be tolerated. When the UN was formed; one of the major points in creating that supposedly international organization was to create an international "institution," to officially be able to sanction the totally criminal-creation of "Israel" as a legitimate state, among the nation-states of the world: Dirty-Harry-Truman was the Zionist that made both the UN and Israel, not just possible, but on Truman's-watch both of these crimes took place! (3)

There is one other almost completely overlooked causality in this the entire question of public-education; which is part of the Governor-of-Wisconsin's demands to severely impact public-education in Wisconsin. For decades public-education has been little more than a cadaver pretending to educate our children and young adults. I say pretending because the whole purpose behind "education is NOT to just teach courses, but to teach students "how to learn" about anything they choose to study. Of course this is exactly the opposite of everything that began with Reagan and Bush, and has been furthered by Obamanation to actually ELIMINATE this most crucial core-value. Without a complete understanding of the need to know "HOW TO LEARN" the entire point of acquiring any knowledge about anything is meaningless.

That is why the nation was forced to politically-adopt "No Child Left Behind," because the only way they could eliminate the need for teachers to concentrate on teaching their students "how to learn" was to refocus every effort into the cul-de-sac of "teaching to tests." These "tests" are used to skew the efforts of real teachers and in most cases have ended any real possibilities for anyone attempting to go through-the-system to obtain any real knowledge that would have improved lives in the long-run. This too, of course, will never get any attention in the financial-battle over how to continue to fund education in any form that is currently accepted. inside US Incorporated (USI).

This is also why so many Amerrikans are so completely unprepared to deal with anything that does not come with rules and guidelines: And neither legitimate revolutions nor the public's demands for the actual freedom to decide anything for themselves; has ever come with an instruction manual!

We must end the DREAM-SLAYERS and begin to believe again in who we are as people-because that is the only thing that has ever enabled success in anyone's real life. This is also the only real way to end this massively-criminal dependence upon the criminal-organizations that only exist to end our lives-and will never help any people, anywhere, to be free (of them entirely). The N.W.O. has begun to try to reverse this global-Uprising in order to continue with business as usual (universal-USURY), by trying to use yet another unilateral and illegal invasion and occupation (this time in Libya). To take control of yet another oil-rich-state while frustrating the continued spread of liberation just as it has begun to cause Saudi-Arabia and other states in the region to panic. The surest way to end this practice is to end the power of the Dreamslayers here: By ending global-capitalism and corporatism as a legally-viable pursuit; anywhere on earth. (4)

Now is the time to intensify and expand public demands around the world and keep the pressure on the every aspect of the New World Order and the International-Criminal-Corporations that are funding those that want to kill us all.

kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net



1) US Government is Silent on Deadly Iraqi Crackdown

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/2/us_silent_on_deadly_iraqi_govt

2) Organization Chart of the Shadow Government

http://vaticproject.blogspot.com/2010/03/organization-chart-of-shadow-government.html

3) Take it Back, Take it ALL Back ­ The Second Footnote:

http://www.kirwanesque.com/politics/articles/2011/art60.htm

4) Peace and Justice Movement Should Oppose US led Intervention in Libya

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/2/prof_horace_campbell_peace_justice_movement



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Look a friend in the eye and ask......

From our friend the Olive Farmer......

A hug for you all, dear readers, as we slip inexorably towards the unfortunate realisation that we are living in times that will become interesting to history students and make you and I say “I was there” when we have our grandchildren sitting at our knee.


Be there for that, my friends.

You will have noticed the speed at which these world altering events are unfolding with such orchestrated rapidity. The plan unfolds as does a flower, revealing petal upon petal, bursting into stamens of malignancy.


Example:

The murderers in Iraq have been dropping “illegal” bombs, “made to combine cluster and penetrator munitions”.
They killed 60 “civilian” human beings.
Ruined the lives of the those in the root systems of their existences, from mothers to casual friends, for the rest of their lives. Read the rest here.....

Directions to the revolution

Step 1


UNPLUG THE JEWISH ROBOT STATE

22nd February 2011 - John Kaminski


Shackled by debt, deluded by prescription drugs, and agitated into righteous rage against anything that doesn’t speak of the real problem debilitating us all, Americans are now virtual prisoners in their own homes. You can talk about anything else anywhere you like, but to talk of the real problem that causes all the other problems is to invite derision, defamation, and death courtesy of the people who don’t like you talking about such hateful things as their rape of your entire life, and the lives of the ones you love.

If I were to conduct a voice vote right now in an acoustically perfect arena with every single one of our 300 million Americans in attentive attendance, the American government would fall in a heartbeat, in a truly unanimous show of hands accompanied by enthusiastic cheers with all the assembled thumbs pointed straight to hell. The spontaneous appreciation of the world would then echo across the skies.

The American government would instanteously crumble in a tumultuous paroxysm of moral outrage by shamefaced Americans at the sexually perverted and criminally negligent actions of their treasonous rulers who have sold our jewel of the world to the pawnbrokers on the corner for a fistful of shekels.

(Hmm, sounds kind of familiar when you put it that way, doesn’t it?)

It’s time to tell our so-called leaders that we don’t trust them — in no uncertain terms. It’s clear to everyone — they are not working for us, they are working for them — the predators. As such, they are clearly guilty of multiple counts of treason that multiply daily, but as they own the judges, who often just send them back to Israel for their own safekeeping, the U.S. courts are no longer — if they ever were — effective avenues of redress for the complaints of legitimate Americans (excluding those recently imported from elsewhere to mow the lawns of the rich).

It’s time for you and me — and most especially, prominent members of every community who aren’t in on the take, if there are any — to tell their local cops, the mayor or selectmen, county commissioners, especially sheriffs and every government employee whose throat you can get your hands around that the American people know they’re being treated as prisoners in their own homes, and anyone who assists the predators in their enslavement policies is now an enemy of the people, us prey, who, like everyone else in the world, only ever wanted a chance to dream in peace, without being constantly sold something by somebody who makes us want to puke.

It’s time to demand of these fat government characters whose side they”re really on — ours? or theirs? Because we need to know. The big cloud is comin’ down if we don’t do something about it right now.
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GORDON DUFF: IS AMERICA’S MILITARY PREPARED FOR THE ISRAELI THREAT?

CAN AMERICA STOP AN ISRAELI “NUCLEAR” 9/11?
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

“The American people are afraid, they see disaster coming. Everyone is waiting to see what city is chosen to be sacrificed. Will it be Phoenix or Sacramento or perhaps Atlanta? This is the real fear, the “not so secret” fear in the heart of every American.”

For years, America’s military has been divided, competent military professionals and patriots on one side and Christian Zionists, loyal to Israel and addicted to a propaganda “dreamworld” on the other. Americans sat, on 9/11, with their military “asleep at the switch,” their president in a daze and Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, perhaps out of confusion, we may never know, talking about airliners being shot down and the Pentagon being attacked by missiles. Yes, he said these things, things he couldn’t “unsay” but things the press showed once and quickly buried. Something terribly wrong happened, something years in planning, but not planned in a cave in Afghanistan. Everywhere investigators look, one thing pops up, Israel. The moment that door is opened, it is slammed shut, often with threats, often with more than threats.

We may never know the full extent of the brutality used against those who have spoken up. We know that Arab leaders can be assassinated anywhere, any time. America will remain silent and the news will always support Israel. Israel owns the news.

What about the “suicided” British scientist Dr. David Kelly, the man responsible for moving the Israeli nukes out of South Africa? Reliable sources tell us he was ready to come forward with the facts about a massive political scandal, a cover-up of lost nuclear weapons, blackmail and bribery. More............


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Bob Hope - Illuminati Pimp

The disparity between Bob Hope's public persona as entertainer of US troops, and the truth is so vast that it causes cognitive dissonance in most people.


by Zen Gardner (for henrymakow.com)

Bob Hope's work with the private "United Services Organization," (USO) entertaining troops around the world, was part of the Illuminati's MK-Ultra program where they used mind controlled sex slaves to convey messages, advance policies, and dispense sexual services to deserving generals.


The bimbos that Hollywood has foisted on us for decades as "stars" are largely mind-controlled playthings of the elite.

When you look back at the sexed up mannequins that Bob Hope toured with, it makes perfect sense. Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, Jane Russell, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Eden, all stamped out by the same mold. Then later on Monarch subjects like Brooke Shields, Jessica Simpson and Carmen Electra joined the squad. It's mind-bogglingly obvious when you stand back to look at it, knowing even they don't know.
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U.S. Military - "We Take 'Em, We Rape 'Em"

Whatever happened to G.I. Joe? You remember him, the good guy that always carried himself proudly, had morals, was kind to women and children. That man in uniform that created an image in the world that the United States was the greatest country on the earth! I miss that guy, but then again I miss a lot of things that used to be.

It seems that there has been a strategic shift in who joins the military now. The all volunteer military seems to be drawing a lot of violent, sexually maladjusted, and downright psychopathic individuals! The evidence points to a percentage of people joining the military in order to act out their fantasies of violence and sexual sadism with almost complete impunity from the law.

At an almost 1 trillion dollars a year budget ( depending on who you ask ), you would think the Defense Department would have a vetting procedure in place for these volunteer soldiers that would ensure that only the best and most stable of individuals would be allowed to wield weapons of mass destruction and act as representatives for our country!

Sadly, this does not seem to be the case. On a regular basis, we are informed of an ongoing problem with rape and sexual assault in our military. Woman in the military are being raped with very little consequence. Men too are going public with stories of being raped! Where are the heads of the military complex? Why are they not making this a priority? How can actions like this be swept under the rug so many times?

Atrocities and murders of innocent civilians by our soldiers are also leaked through the media occasionally, though the real number of these crimes can only be guessed at.

"Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs, who is accused by fellow soldiers of being the mastermind behind the formation of the “kill team,” is also under investigation for similar murders in Iraq, military documents obtained by the Washington Post reveal. Army documents also indicate that at least one other unarmed Afghan civilian was shot dead during the group’s killing spree."

The decline of quality personnel in our military could be attributed to many causes. A generation of kids fed non-stop violence and immoral propaganda through the zionist controlled Hollywood satanists is one of the causes that comes to my mind. Other factors could be the violent and sexually oriented video games that have infested most housholds in the U.S., coupled with absent parents, working two or more jobs just to keep their families housed and fed.

Perhaps, the real reason that these crimes are trickled out by the media is for desensitizing the decent citizens to these atrocities. Creating apathy is a major tool of the New World Order, and they have been playing this game for a long, long time.

By no means am I including all members of the military in this statement, but I for one, have lost much respect for all things military and feel great empathy with those in the world who consider the U.S. to be a criminal state. The shining light of our liberty has become a death ray  for the rest of the world ( with the exception of Israel ), and our "war heroes" are returning home to wreak terror on their own people as jack-booted thugs in domestic police forces.

Dear readers, you visit these blogs because you care, and want answers to the problems facing our world today! Good news then, because you are the answer! Spread the truth you find to all who are willing to listen, call your "representatives" in government and voice your outrage. Use your voice while you still have one!!

"All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing."

~Edmund Burke~

BREAKING NEWS - MASSACRE IN BAHRAIN; HOSPITALS FULL; DOCTOR URGES WORLD TO HELP

This out pouring of blood is brought to you by the joint efforts of

The US and Israeli Centers for Human Destruction!

Checking The Foundation For Cracks

Foundations are very important. Everything that exists has a foundation to support it's existence, from single cell organisms, to the largest man-made buildings, all need the basic support system given by a foundation. Concepts and organisations all need foundations, without which they have no stability.

Given the importance of the foundation, it is therefore necessary to periodically check the integrity of it, making sure there are no defects such as would cause instability of the structure that is supported. Cracks and signs of weakness in the foundation must be repaired at the time they are found in order maintain the stability of the whole, putting off this inspection and repair procedure puts the whole system of support in dire jeopardy!

As the news of protests keeps coming in from around the globe, closer inspection has revealed major cracks in the foundation of society that have been neglected for way to long. Society is showing all the sign of an impending collapse from the years of neglect and erosion of it's physical and moral supports, there also appear to be signs of deliberate vandalism and sabotage to our supports that are only visible under close scrutiny of the structure.

The U.S. has recently seen a surge in protests over the slashing of foundational support systems being implemented by the uber-rich republican governors and representatives that recently purchased positions of power across our nation. These power crazed republican shills for the zio-pharisees are hell bent on doing irreversible damage to the most vulnerable pieces of our society's foundation, the working, labor class!

Shill, Rick "The Nerd" Snyder, whose recent purchase of the Governor's title in Michigan is a perfect example of the destructive force at work across our country. He announced he will perform the duties of Governor for the paltry sum of $1 per year, proving that his primary motive is to exercise power over the commoners, not to actually improve living standards for the residents of the raped and pillaged State of Michigan!

In his first act of dictatorship, he lowers taxes for all his wealthy business buddies, and presents a budget that will increase taxes on the elderly pensioners of the state. He is raping the communities safety net programs, and gutting laws that protected workplace safety and fairness. The wealthy in Michigan are literally pissing themselves with delight at  being freed to abuse the working poor with the blessing of the State.

Wisconsin is facing the same fate for it's people, being perpetrated by the same republican zio-trash that bought the elections in their state also.

To me, it is obvious that their purpose in these attacks on the working poor are being used to destroy the foundation of this country in order to collapse our society and rebuild it in their warped and power crazed image of perfection. When everyone is desperate and hungry, they will serve their new masters with little hesitation! Desperation leads people to do things that would otherwise be unthinkable, a hungry man will do almost anything to quench his hunger!

We still have time to stop the monsters that have purchased our country, the foundation is damaged, but it is not beyond repair! If we work together, we can stop these vandals and repair our home. It will not be easy, and it will require effort, but the alternative is the collapse of our home!

Wake up, check your foundation for cracks! Do the repairs now, don't wait! Protest and refuse the usurpers of our freedoms NOW! The time is at hand and, dear reader, we will not have another opportunity!

Please read this excellent post At the Goon Squad!

David Icke - Bankers Parasiting Off The Backs Of The Working Man.

http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/44889-david-icke-the-parasite-society

Rep. Ryan: It's Like Cairo Has Moved To Madison

Wisconsin: Protest like a Egyptian? — By Siddhartha Mahanta
Thu Feb. 17, 2011 8:08 AM PST.

Is this the Middle East? Nope, it's the Midwest.

For the second straight day, demonstrators have been pouring into the streets of Madison, Wisconsin to protest Republican Governor Scott Walker's anti-union plan to address the state's $137 million budget shortfall, prompting comparisons (and denounciations of these comparisons) to the uprising in Egypt. Walker's proposal would limit the collective bargaining power of many state and local employees, and roughly doubles their health care premiums. It would also give public union members the right not to pay their dues, deflating the groups' coffers. Experts expect that Walker's provisions will be voted into law by the end of the week by the state assembly and senate—both of which are controlled by Republicans.

In response, Madison public school teachers have called in sick for a second straight day. And teachers in over a dozen other school districts have followed suit. Meanwhile, union leaders are picketing the capitol, planning vigils and setting up phone banks to try to block Walker's effort. Other state legislatures, meanwhile, could see Walker's assault on public employees and their unions as a blueprint for how to fix their own budget catastrophes. The New York Times reports that such plans are already under consideration in places like Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee, where the GOP scored major electoral victories last November.

Walker insists that he's not deliberately targeting unions. But he's not far from targeting workers themselves: he's threatened to call in the National Guard if public employees decide to walk off their jobs. Protestors say that sounds a little…Mubaraky. They're carrying signs saying things like "Mubarak-check. Walker—?" and "Hosni Walker, Elected Dictator." And local liberal pundits are feeding the flames of anti-MubWalkerism. Liberal columnist Pat Schneider wrote that "[t]he success of a grass-roots uprising in Egypt in toppling strongman Hosni Mubarak was a source of inspiration for many of those who brainstormed Tuesday in Madison about resistance to attacks on US workers in several states." Meanwhile, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) told CNN "it's like Cairo's moved to Madison these days…[h]e's basically saying I want you public workers to pay half of what our private sector counterparts are, and he's getting riots."

But Harold Meyerson sees some instructive parallels:

Our unions have already been decimated in the private sector; the results are plain. Corporate profits are soaring, while domestic investment, wages, and benefits (particularly at nonunion companies) are flat-lining at best. With nobody to bargain for workers, America increasingly is an economically stagnant, plutocratic utopia. Is everybody happy?

American conservatives often profess admiration for foreign workers' bravery in protesting and undermining authoritarian regimes. Letting workers exercise their rights at home, however, threatens to undermine some of our own regimes (the Republican ones particularly) and shouldn't be permitted. Now that Wisconsin's governor has given the Guard its marching orders, we can discern a new pattern of global repressive solidarity emerging— from the chastened pharaoh of the Middle East to the cheese-head pharaoh of the Middle West.

Walker is no Mubarak, and the political and civil conditions that precipitated the events in Egypt obviously have nothing to do with those in Wisconsin. (Still, this website is totally hilarious.) But the double standard for American workers is maddening. And, in light of the fact that other states intend to follow Walker's example, we may soon have a real uprising on our hands.

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