Finally, an economic bailout program enacted at the level of the working class...
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Represent Me! Restore my Copyright Protection
In 1999 a Congressional Aide, authorized only to make spelling and grammatical corrections in a bill, inserted a "technical amendment" into a bill that defined recorded music as a "work for hire" as defined under the 1978 Copyright Act. Three months later, this aide was hired by the Record Industry Association of America as a top lobbyist at a salary that was obviously much higher than he had as the aide!
The clause was inserted into a bill known as The Satellite Home Viewing Act of 1999 after the committee debates were over. By the time anyone found out about the change it was on its way to the president for a signature. This action has stripped millions of artists of their copyright protection for the profit of the record industry. Now regardless of what the contract the artist signs with the record label states, their copyright protection could be lost forever. Ten years later this crime remains uncorrected.
Due to the way record company contracts are constructed, most costs come out of the artist's advances and any hope of making money off their work comes AFTER the rights to their work have reverted back to them.
The irony is that this bit of fancy footwork may have hurt the record labels as badly as the artists they attempted to exploit. More and more artists are refusing record label contracts and have chosen to promote and market their work independently.
When you fail to protect the rights of the individual, it also harms the oppressor.
Represent me! Please restore copyright protection to its rightful owner, the artist.
Please send this image to your elected officials with a demand that they represent you and restore your copyright protection!
Special thanks to MJ, aka Brown Girl with Murder Rank for allowing me to use the photo I took of her in this composition.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Represent Me - Protect the rights I fought for!
Each year when Congress meets our rights and freedoms come under attack from powerful vested interest groups who seek to manipulate Congress for their own gain. As they are well funded, it is easy for our elected officials to forget they represent US, the backbone of America. As most of us are too busy leading productive lives to read each bill searching for the next assault on our freedoms, we depend on our elected officials to protect the rights our forefathers fought for.
It is my hope this image will remind them to protect the American public that they were elected to serve and protect.
Please send it on to your Congress person or activist group.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Economic Slavery
I'll pretty up this blog later. It's purpose is to shine the light of truth on some of the worlds current problems through images. As the images have been created to enlighten our elected officials and others in positions of power, the images on this blog may be downloaded, reposted and used for non-commercial purposes without permission (note, that applies ONLY to images here, unauthorized use of any of my other images will result in legal action).
New images will be added weekly. I encourage downloading the images that will appear her and urge you to send these on to our elected officials. After having fought many a political battle I see that the common denominator in ANY of the battles we fight is that our elected officials have forgotten they represent US and not the vested interest groups who descend on Washington each year. We are real people, not the masses. We are intelligent, educated, hard working and good. We are the backbone of the nation.
The first image is entitled Earth 2010. To many it will be self explanatory. If it is not, a brief explanation: During the Asian financial crisis it was interesting to note that the same small group of multi-billionaires and private foundations were showing up on the scene, first to advise the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on how to proceed with bailouts to the various nations and what strings had to be attached to the money. In Korea, laws had to be passed permitting foreign investors to own Korean companies (previously Korean law prohibited foreign interests from ownership of Korean business). Due to the severity of the economic hardships most of these companies were bankrupt. The same billionaire who advised the IMF of the needed changes Korea had to adopt before receiving the bailout money then snapped up the bankrupt Korean companies for pennies on the dollar, after which the economy magically recovered.
Flash forward to America 2009 and we find the same billionaire has been spending millions of dollars per year to 1. Encourage offshoring of American jobs to India and China, and 2, to flood the US labor market with illegal immigrants. I must say the man and the foundations that have joined him in his cause are brilliant. They are using our own greed against us. Major corporations have been only too happy to pay skilled workers less than minimum wage while the government (that is you, the taxpayer) has picked up the tab for the difference in what it actually costs the imported labor force to live: healthcare, food, housing etc.
What the corporations who were an all too willing pawn in this game failed to consider was that when the labor force no longer makes enough to cover basic living expenses, they default on their mortgages, fail to pay installment loans and stop purchasing new goods and services. One by one the corporations are now failing. As they line up to accept their bailouts they are finding untenable strings attached to the funds - undoubtedly written by the same individuals who created and profited from the Asian financial crisis and have been funding the elimination of American jobs. And while the government printing presses are running overtime printing more money than ever before, the cause of the problem is being ignored. Our scarce jobs are still being moved overseas and the flood of illegal immigrants continues. The newly minted bailout money is not working its way into the hands of the American citizens - that would require we had jobs. It is instead moving directly into the pockets of those who orchestrated the demise of the most productive nation on earth.
The goal is not riches for the few. It isn't about money. The goal is world slavery. Don't let it happen. Demand the return of our jobs, fair pay, and OUR right to be represented. Please download the image below and send it on to your elected officials. If enough of us do this, they just might start to get the picture.
New images will be added weekly. I encourage downloading the images that will appear her and urge you to send these on to our elected officials. After having fought many a political battle I see that the common denominator in ANY of the battles we fight is that our elected officials have forgotten they represent US and not the vested interest groups who descend on Washington each year. We are real people, not the masses. We are intelligent, educated, hard working and good. We are the backbone of the nation.
The first image is entitled Earth 2010. To many it will be self explanatory. If it is not, a brief explanation: During the Asian financial crisis it was interesting to note that the same small group of multi-billionaires and private foundations were showing up on the scene, first to advise the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on how to proceed with bailouts to the various nations and what strings had to be attached to the money. In Korea, laws had to be passed permitting foreign investors to own Korean companies (previously Korean law prohibited foreign interests from ownership of Korean business). Due to the severity of the economic hardships most of these companies were bankrupt. The same billionaire who advised the IMF of the needed changes Korea had to adopt before receiving the bailout money then snapped up the bankrupt Korean companies for pennies on the dollar, after which the economy magically recovered.
Flash forward to America 2009 and we find the same billionaire has been spending millions of dollars per year to 1. Encourage offshoring of American jobs to India and China, and 2, to flood the US labor market with illegal immigrants. I must say the man and the foundations that have joined him in his cause are brilliant. They are using our own greed against us. Major corporations have been only too happy to pay skilled workers less than minimum wage while the government (that is you, the taxpayer) has picked up the tab for the difference in what it actually costs the imported labor force to live: healthcare, food, housing etc.
What the corporations who were an all too willing pawn in this game failed to consider was that when the labor force no longer makes enough to cover basic living expenses, they default on their mortgages, fail to pay installment loans and stop purchasing new goods and services. One by one the corporations are now failing. As they line up to accept their bailouts they are finding untenable strings attached to the funds - undoubtedly written by the same individuals who created and profited from the Asian financial crisis and have been funding the elimination of American jobs. And while the government printing presses are running overtime printing more money than ever before, the cause of the problem is being ignored. Our scarce jobs are still being moved overseas and the flood of illegal immigrants continues. The newly minted bailout money is not working its way into the hands of the American citizens - that would require we had jobs. It is instead moving directly into the pockets of those who orchestrated the demise of the most productive nation on earth.
The goal is not riches for the few. It isn't about money. The goal is world slavery. Don't let it happen. Demand the return of our jobs, fair pay, and OUR right to be represented. Please download the image below and send it on to your elected officials. If enough of us do this, they just might start to get the picture.
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