Rupert Murdoch and David Koch Collude Against Wisconsin Workers | | AlterNet

INFRASTRUCTURE, Folks, Infrastructure
Retrieved by Pat Darnell and this PHOTO which will get your attention: the Cheese Bra

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Rupert Murdoch and David Koch Collude Against Wisconsin Workers | | AlterNet: "You might think it's all about what brings in the advertising dollars for Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Fox's parent company, News Corporation. But it runs much deeper than that, involving key players at the Wall Street Journal, News Corp.'s crown jewel. The informal partnership between billionaire David Koch, whose campaign dollars and astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, have fomented the Wisconsin crisis, and billionaire Rupert Murdoch, is profoundly ideological -- the ideology being the exponential enrichment of the two men's heirs, all dressed up in the language of libertarianism and free enterprise. Together with his brother, Charles -- also a big donor to right-wing causes --David Koch runs Koch Industries, the conglomerate that sprang from the oil and gas company founded by his father."

STATUS: “Come to Madison,” said Norm Stockwell, a local community radio station manager. “You needn’t worry where to sleep or about food, simply bring a sleeping bag and we can assure you that you’ll be fed.” Ian’s Pizza, a popular town favorite, has been fielding donations from all over the world for pizza deliveries to protesters.

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Patrick Darnell This is how my ticker works: if AMerica looks at itself with objective eyes, we will see that our infrastructure is kaputz, not maintained, lacking new structures.... right? Why is that? We depend on 'illegal immigrant workers' at slaves' wages to do the maintenance on billion dollar sewer systems, rusting bridges, and damns. Am I the only person who ever traveled to Mexico?

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Patrick Darnell The Great Recession did blow a massive hole in state and municipal government finances, with tax receipts—including income, sales and property taxes—dropping sharply along with household incomes, spending and real estate values. Meanwhile, demand for public services, such as Medicaid and heating oil assistance, has risen as people’s circumstances have worsened. But let’s remember that the recession was caused by Wall Street hyper-speculation, not the pay scales of elementary school teachers or public hospital nurses.

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Patrick Darnell Yes, I am on the SOAP-Box with my appeal to all-o-us about INFRASTRUCTURE in all our neighborhoods.

Here's what to do: Find your city's budget long form, not the summary, usually published in a public forum. Notice the various amounts of money going to projects, but then take a look at the enormous amount of tax money going to Insurance, and Lawyer retainers. The people of government elite are all lawyers, remember they will look after their own. Even the election judges are lawyers. We need them, but what we don't need is the excess of them. We need street people, who will take up the responsibilities of their neighborhoods, and recruit others to do the same. IF all we do for the rest of our lives is pick up and take out the trash, then so be it. At least we leave it cleaner for our kids.

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And Now for Something Completely Different

Beating the Pavement Chalk Dreams?
All the plain Political parlay of Palin and the others getting to be too much? Too much talk about recession? Well, it is at MooPig Headquarters.... let's take a well deserved break from it.

Today, here is some more sidewalk artistry for your cogitation, and consideration. We do not know who the sidewalk artist is -- these photos keep coming into MooPig email... here is the latest lot.

the artist could be one of these or all:

Kurt Wenner HERE
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Julian Beever HERE
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Half Bakery just add Oughta' HERE
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youTube Time Lapse J. Beever HERE
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Ulla Taylor HERE
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Maybe we could provide Public Works jobs for all these out of work stock brokers. They appear to have slurped up a bowl of Depresso Soup..

"Tell them they can keep their hats on."

UPDATE: Look Out Baby, 'Cause Here I Come....... RECESSION

Ides of March -- Idus Martiae... Recession !!!!

Any language you say it, it means doom. "Ides" is the 15th of the month, as in the day Caesar was assasinated in 44 BC, the term has come to be used as a metaphor for impending doom. This story has the drama and the look of a curse upon it. Bear Stearns, see also: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bear+stearned Urban Dictionary.

"March 15 - a weekend - JP Morgan and the Federal Reserve Bank Board stepped in to rescue an 85 year old Bear Stearns Wall Street Investment bank. A company that was valued at $20,077 million last year, was bought for a mere $2,362 million on that beleagured weekend just past, JP Morgan was the buyer at $2 per share, 98% less than what it is worth."

"The Federal Reserve has agreed to put $30 billion in the deal." (Mark, Roy & Perelman. eweek, March 24, 2008; paraphrased pp 33-4.)

"Well tweedle dee, tweedle dum, look out baby 'cause here I come. (Rare Earth. Get Ready) Here is Dusty Springfield, because when I feel the doom I play this tune:


Buy Low Sell High: the article goes on to say: "On March 5, 2008 the Federal Reserve put out a report that found economic growth to be sluggish in 2/3 of the 12 districts it surveys... rising food, energy, and materiels costs utting pressure on growth ans slowing hiring..."(eweek; March 24, 2008, pp34).

"It is certainly a buying opportunity for strategic investors," [said Ward Carter, president of mergers and acquisitions advisory company Corum Group], "After all, you want to buy at the bottom, not the top."

Well Duh! Man, we were a bunch of Freaks in 1973! The year I graduated HighSchool:

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On this Day March 15, 1973:

by Charlie Crane, Thorofare, NJ
Pink Floyd, Spectrum, March 15, 1973
Pink Floyd had been touring for over a year doing the Dark Side of the Moon line-up of songs — although they hadn’t released the album yet. Everywhere they played, it seemed a bootleg of the concert was released. The album would be released on March, 24th 1973 — but at that time it was still somewhat of an unknown for many. The program called the concert “Eclipse - a Piece for Assorted Lunatics,” as it had been called for about a year of live shows. But it was song-for-song and word-for-word Dark Side of the Moon.

PF came out without much fanfare and proceeded to perform the entire album uninterrupted by breaks for applause. It was awesome. They just played it straight through. Back then they hadn’t developed the elaborate special effects such as remote-control planes, flying brass beds, mirror balls, laser-beams, larger-than-life projections and red eyed floating pigs. The effects were limited to carbon dioxide “smoke” illuminated by mostly pink and green floodlights. There was a large gong that they used for their encore numbers, but it broke loose from its mountings when struck and the roadies had to do a quick repair. It was worth the wait, as they played “Set the Controls for the Center of the Sun” and set fire to the kerosene-soaked rim of the gong. The flickering flames dwindling down as the long epoch song slowly ended seemed to weave a magic spell and draw everyone into the gong — as if it had become the sun.

Before the show, almost everyone made paper airplanes out of their program and sailed them around the Spectrum waiting for the concert to begin. I kept mine as a souvenir and still have it — a testament to this piece of music history. http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/09/06/pink-floyd-spectrum-march-15-1973-dark-side-of-the-moon/