Saturday, July 29, 2023

Immigrant problems: Europe, America & the Smashed Beehive Effect

 

Immigrant problems: Europe, America & the Smashed Beehive Effect

       I was hanging out in Paris back in 1969, not a care in the world.  Wandering through Montmartre, ogling the Eiffel Tower, eating croissants in front of Notre Dame and sipping absinthe outside the Louvre.  Life was good.  And while I was happily strolling down the Champs de Elysee one day, a very forlorn Black man approached me.  "Why do you look so sad?" I asked him.  Rhetorically.  Sort of.

     "I used to live in the Congo," he said.  "I was happy.  Then some Americans gave the order to murder Patrice Lumumba -- and now here I am.  A stateless refugee.  Stuck in this cold climate, away from my family, working some stupid menial job."  My heart went out to him -- but not enough to sleep with him of course.  Charity only goes so far.

     And that was my very first experience with the Smashed Beehive Effect.  I've had many more such experiences since then but they all followed the same pattern.  America (or France or Britain or The Coalition of the Willing) goes into some small poorly-defended African, Latin American, Asian or Middle Eastern country, smashes it to bits --
and then, as a result, these same Yanks, Brits and Frogs start to sit around and bitch because Europe and America have suddenly become flooded with poor desperate refugees who have different skin tones and are not One of Us.

     If Americans and Europeans don't want to be flooded with desperate and needy refugees, then they either shouldn't go around smashing and bullying third-world countries that are smaller than them -- or else Europe and America should simply stop whining and complaining when thousands and thousands of starving immigrant refugees wash up on their shores.
 
      These poverty-stricken and desperate immigrants and refugees are only following the trail of the stolen honey that Europe and America have blatantly robbed from them once their beehives have been smashed.

     Congo, Honduras, Syria, Libya, Ukraine, Guatemala, Palestine, Mexico, Ethiopia, Somalia, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Laos, Yugoslavia, Uganda, India, Iran, Afghanistan, Chile, Iraq, Kenya, Panama, Korea, Columbia, Yemen, Haiti, Philippines, El Salvador, whatever.

Resources:

Here's an excellent series that covers the European economy, NATO, and a whole bunch of other important stuff: 




Why are folks fleeing Latin America?  Because their countries are being destroyed for lithium in order to make Americans think that they are "green"!  Horrific lithium mines to make our Priuses happy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozekmn92Y-Q

Max and Aaron from The GrayZone cover a whole bunch of highly important subjects that we are being lied to about:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Dr3XBgQj0
 
 Is America is trying to open up a second front in Syria (again) so as to cover up its fiasco in Ukra$ne?  https://www.patreon.com/posts/terrorist-crop-u-86878704?utm_medium=post_notification_email&utm_campaign=patron_engagement&utm_source=post_link
 
Nobody in America seems to not want to know what is actually happening in Ukra$ne:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_z3MshIvI4&t=13s

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Thursday, July 27, 2023

Saving Grandma: My own personal SAG-AFTRA strike story

 

Saving Grandma: My own personal SAG-AFTRA strike story

       One of the few advantages of being old is that I've been able to play the role of a sweet little grandma in over 200 students films.  And a mean grandma.  And a vampire grandma.  And even a grandmotherly nun....  But when you see the phrase "student film" on an audition notice, it basically means that you don't get paid.

     And then finally I managed to get enough brownie points to join SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union.  Got a job in a Nissan commercial.  They paid me $1,500.  Damn.  I had it made!  And then, two days later, that stupid Lock-Down dictum was forced down our throats in order to "save grandma" -- and there went my acting career.

     Looking back, however, I realize that a one-time payment of $1500 wasn't all that much -- not for a commercial that played a gazillion times on TV.  I shoulda at least been paid $1600!  Screw that.  Let's strike!

    Recently I attended a SAG-AFTRA strike rally -- on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall.  And the speakers there pointed out some very inconvenient truths:  Studio execs were not interested in saving grandma.  Not at all.  They were not interested in sincere negotiations for instance.  "Let's wait until they can no longer pay rent on their apartments or meet their mortgage payments," studio execs were overheard to say.

      We're talking about studio execs who make bank to the tune of $900,000,000 a year and studios that make billions in profits every quarter.  My union asked the studio execs for a reasonable cost of living increase, a buffer against inflation.  Apparently they laughed.  "Let them eat cake." 

     We asked that our jobs not be replaced by AI technology.  Who the freak wants a robot grandma?  The studios just would take a screen shot of us once, hand us some hush money and that would be that.  It's like if you study hard in school, do well on the test, have the creep sitting behind you copy your paper and then he gets into Yale -- not you.

     Meanwhile, back at the strike rally in front of City Hall, a rep from the Teamsters Union said that Teamsters would back our strike.  Hey, all these tough Teamsters have grandmas too.

     Don't mess with grandma!

Resources:

New York is a union town!  Rock the City video:  https://www.sagaftrastrike.org/post/rock-the-city-for-a-fair-contract

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