White Power and Dark Forces

[Octafish]

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Larry Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College recently used the phrase "dark ones" to refer to his institution's minority enrollment.

“The state of Michigan sent a group of people down to my campus, with clipboards … to look at the colors of people’s faces and write down what they saw,” Arnn explained. “We don’t keep records of that information. What were they looking for besides dark ones?”

Hillsdale is home to a very nice bronze of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, BFF of Ronald Reagan and conservatives everywhere, including Arnn. People the world over feel her politics reverberate today, unfortunately.

The great DUer Junkdrawer reminded me that it wasn't just Thatcher and the modern conservatives who use nefarious tactics to rule over the Untermenschen. In fact, it goes back quite a ways, to the time when one group feels itself superior to another. News today about events from almost 75 years ago show that these oligarchs and racialists did big business with evil, and that the UK helped Hitler sell a billion in gold after the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939,


Thankfully, not all Caucasians with power are evil. Untold thousands if not millions volunteered to defend the union and defeat the slavemasters in the Civil War, as did thousands more to fight the fascists in Spain and millions in World War II to defeat the NAZIs.

What's maddening is that the NAZIs and their ideology are still around. The reason for that can be found in the heart of America's national security state.

[malaise]

1. The sad truth is that our governments have forgotten

that they represent us. They are afraid of us because most of them are owned by corporate interests and they are not working on our behalf.

Good post.

[Octafish]

2. Oligarchs or Royalty? What's the difference?

They both love feudalism, from both personal and political perspectives.

'The Gilded Age' Statistics Corporations Don't Want Workers, or Anyone, to See

Aggressive lobbying effort fights disclosure of just how big the income disparities are

-Jon Queally, staff writer
Published on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 by Common Dreams

If there's one thing about what many are calling the "The New Gilded Age," it's that well-known corporations—not to mention less well-known, but extremely powerful ones—will fight extremely hard to keep secret just how lopsided the economic disparities have become in recent decades between low-paid workers in the society and the executive and ruling class that have reaped the words of a globalized, top-heavy economy.

In but one example, the CEO of JC Penney in 2011 made 1,795 times the amount of money as the average paid worker at the retail chain. Overall, the CEO-to-worker gap is up nearly 20 percent since 2009. What the numbers show, once again, is that in the US economy, some workers are more equal than others.

And as Bloomberg news reports, new disclosure laws designed to reveal the income gap between top executives and regular workers within their companies have been stonewalled by an aggressive lobbying effort at the Security and Exchange Commission. Among the corporations waging war against requirements imposed by the Dodd-Frank financial law are McDonald's, General Electric, and AT&T—all led, according to Bloomberg, by "a Washington-based non-profit called the HR Policy Association, which represents top human resources executives at about 335 large corporations."

SNIP...

The Dodd-Frank financial reform law aimed to make it easier for the public to know how much CEOs are getting paid in comparison to their workers. The law includes a provision requiring public companies to disclose their CEO-to-worker pay ratios, but nearly three years after the law passed, the Securities and Exchange commission still hasn't put the rule in place, thanks in part to business opposition to the proposal, according to ABC News.

Giving an explanation for all this, Roger Martin, dean of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, told Bloomberg in an interview, “It’s not that [CEOs or investor capital] hates labor, or wants to crush their lives. They just don’t care.”

SOURCE: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/01#.UYgTXcRdlsc.twitter

Most importantly: Vielen Dank, Fraulein mailaise...und ich liebe Wetterballone.



Did I ever tell you what happened that time the sheriff at Hillsdale did a phone conference, the day after Dr. Hynek had major oral surgery? Amazing stuff happened that year, out there. My neighbor's aunt's younger best friend was a co-ed...