Category Archives: poor

Wage Slavery for the Movies

March 26, 2012 – 11:01 am

Two weeks ago a casting director asked if I wanted to work a long day as an extra. “It’s $8 an hour.” She sounded apologetic, since the last three gigs had been at AFTRA rates. “Put me down. I”m not doing anything.” Nimmt geld or take money was one of the first rules of my […]

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Take It All

November 29, 2011 – 4:55 am

David Cameron touched the third rail of British politics in April 2009 with his address to the Tory Party entitled ‘The Age Of Austerity’ in which called for his fellow conservatives vow to cut spending in order to pay down the debt incurred by the Welfare State. Pension programs, clean water, and cheap housing were […]

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Froide Comme Une Reine

October 24, 2011 – 8:07 am

The Financial Times, which is the foreign rival to the Murdoch-onwed Wall Street Journal, has reported that Buckingham Palace has joined millions of other homes throughout Britian in ‘fuel poverty’ in which a homeowner pays more than 10% of their income on fuel. Oil prices in Britain are at an all-time high as commodity traders […]

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Billionaire BackLash

October 8, 2011 – 8:05 am

Thousands of demonstrators have been protesting against the banks and the rich in New York. The NYPD outstepped the boundaries of ‘to serve and protect’ during the first rally by beating and tear-gassing women. Arrests for civil disobedience climbed into the hundreds, as the anti-rich mob was directed onto the Brooklyn Bridge by white-shirted NYPD […]

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Fucking Robin Hood

September 14, 2011 – 1:12 pm

The Heritage Club is not an online shopping organization. The Washington-based think tank has been a leading source of information for the media since its inception. The official home page has declared the non-partisanship of the group, while holding the same values as the GOP and the Cato Institute. On July 19, 2011 the Heritage […]

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