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Forum Post: Workers gunned down, for demanding a higher wage.

Posted 11 years ago on Aug. 16, 2012, 1:54 p.m. EST by richardkentgates (3269)
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[-] 2 points by TrevorMnemonic (5827) 11 years ago

thanks for the share of knowledge.

It's sad that the world is so beautiful but it contains such misery.

[-] 1 points by richardkentgates (3269) 11 years ago

That is a contrast that has always confused me as well.

[-] 2 points by jph (2652) 11 years ago

Gotta get the new iphone,. need more platinum.

Sadly people here just do not want to admit cause and effect, especially when the cause is the low price on that new phone.

[-] 2 points by richardkentgates (3269) 11 years ago

Exactly.

[-] 2 points by richardkentgates (3269) 11 years ago

Ignite ignite ignite http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdnxBA7qLjU ... feel the critical mass approach horizon.

[-] 1 points by TrevorMnemonic (5827) 11 years ago

When I was in my young teens I listened to Rage because I liked their sound. It wasn't until I got older that I realized they were trying to tell me something.

WAKE UP

[-] 1 points by hchc (3297) from Tampa, FL 11 years ago

RATM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Sheep tremble then here come the votes, thrown the throats, cages, and scapegoats...."

[-] 1 points by TrevorMnemonic (5827) 11 years ago

Vietnow is actually my favorite song.

I'm a truth addict ahh shit I got a head rush

[-] 1 points by richardkentgates (3269) 11 years ago

I actually didn't care for rage until I listened to the words. When I was younger I had no interest in anything but kick me in the face Metal. Rage was not only then something I could relate to, but also helped me expand my view of the world and music.

[-] 1 points by TrevorMnemonic (5827) 11 years ago

Darkness of Greed

forced to conform to a system responsible for genocide

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jCHb9b-4c

[-] 1 points by 1169 (204) 11 years ago

workers of the world unite, power to the people

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 11 years ago

Very shocking story. Just watching it on UK C4 News. The 'ANC' has been so heavily Corporate Captured that it is in danger of going the way of DemoCraps & RepubliCons. Sad, sickening & spine stiffening !

A miner's quote from the TV news : "We work hard in a dangerous place with dangerous machinery (but) we can't even afford to send our kids to school or feed and clothe them".

The mine is a Platinum Mine btw !!!

Thanx for posting.

fiat lux ...

[-] 2 points by richardkentgates (3269) 11 years ago

Same bodies buried hungry, but different last names. These vultures robbing everything leave nothing but chains. Pick a point on the globe, yes the pitch is the same.

[-] 2 points by gnomunny (6819) from St Louis, MO 11 years ago

You forgot the quotation marks. It is a song lyric, right?

(just bumping you Richard, no biggie)

[-] 2 points by richardkentgates (3269) 11 years ago

It is a song :)

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[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 11 years ago

I got you ! 'RATM' rt ? & bump ~;-)

[-] 1 points by richardkentgates (3269) 11 years ago

indeed. Love the RATM

[-] 0 points by funkytown (-374) 11 years ago

Something's never change, do they? You know they've been mining precious metals - gold - in Africa for over five hundred years now? And until recently always with an enslaved population.

[-] 2 points by fiftyfourforty (1077) from New York, NY 11 years ago

This just happened yesterday. It's the "anti apartheid" government that did this.

[-] 2 points by shadz66 (19985) 11 years ago

That's a cheap shot & the ANC are far from a Revolutionary Party Now. Mandela was a great man BUT he sold out The 99% very early on after / before release. He stood his ground on the basic ideals but much was lost thereafter. Consider : "They" sounded him out when he was still imprisoned on Robben Island and indeed - had he not been amenable to 'Their' interests he'd have been 'Heart Attacked' before release or soon thereafter !!!

e tenebris, lux ...

[-] 1 points by fiftyfourforty (1077) from New York, NY 11 years ago

I respect Mandela and those who struggled against Apartheid. It seems though that while "Jim Crow" aspects of the old regime were indeed wiped away, the poverty of the majority has not been relieved.

[-] 1 points by shadz66 (19985) 11 years ago

Exactly. Though the abject abhorrence of Apartheid was removed, the deeper social inequalities remain. The ANC's failure to ensure that the proceeds of the wealth of this rich country are shared with deep investment in society ... because 'investment' IS what it is or rather would be as it will give huge returns in future ... will spell their diminution if not demise. They will have to refind their soul or move over.

per aspera ad astra ...