Praise Uncle Sam and pass the 18p an hour

Observer, London ^ | Sunday, June 20, 1999 | Gregory Palast's

[Calpernia]

This is one of my links I kept for notes. I notice this article isn't available online anymore. I pulled this from the Web Archives to post here for safe keeping.

[denydenydeny]

I'm not the biggest Wal-Mart fan, but foreign hatred of them such as this--based primarily on its "Americanism"--makes me want to shop there on principle.

[Calpernia]

I didn't archive if for the foreign view of walmart. I clipped it for the Clinton connection.

[JoJo Gunn]

It's from Palast. Not good enough to print for toilet paper.

[Calpernia]

What does the article being from the Palast have to do with Hillary being a lawyer for WalMart?

[JoJo Gunn]

Do you know who Palast is?

[Calpernia]

The author of the article. What does that have to do with Clinton's law firm being the lawyer's for Walmart since 1985?

I posted in post 1 that was only archiving here at FR since the article is now offline.

[JoJo Gunn]

Hey, you do what you want, but be aware that a couple of threads have even been deleted because of his sterling reputation.

[Calpernia]

Then ping the admin.

[JoJo Gunn]

What's your problem? How about you go to his site and see for yourself what he is instead of acting like a petulant crybaby?

[Calpernia]

And how he acts bothers you because?

[JoJo Gunn]

And his kind doesn't bother you because?

[Calpernia]

I don't follow his work. I just want the walmart hillary reference posted here.

Thank you for your concern.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Thank you for finding and posting this.

It will take all we can get come 2008.

proves even the evil left, can goof and write something worth reading.

Since Walmart is the #1 store in this area, I won't comment on the Made in USA, wish I could do so.

[Calpernia]

Wow, I just picked up on something else.

See this:

>>> But among its suppliers is Shantou Garment Trading Company, based in Guandong Province.

What on earth is Guandong Province?

This area made an entire section of my newspaper back in 2001 covering about HIV tainted blood. Villagers there sold their blood to make money, then most of the village was whiped out from HIV.

Then, while we were tracking the SARs threads, we just about pinned SARs to Guandong from that inspector that caught it there.

Now, this WalMart article is making reference to prison labor camps in Guandong.

A pretty horrid picture is being painted of this area.

[JoJo Gunn]

Then perhaps you should follow his work.

Palast is one of the cheerleaders for the wacko Left, as evidenced in his many scrivenings over the "theft" of the Election by President Bush, not once, but twice. Yes, he claims that Kerry won.

That obsession alone means he hasn't one scintilla of credibility about anything, hence my comment that his "writing" is nothing better than toilet paper, which I threw out there in passing and went on my merry way, but you seem to have taken offense. Before you take such umbrage in the future I suggest you haunt a few of the various hippie sewers, see how Palast is held in such regard, and maybe you'll at least have a little understanding of why some of us totally dismiss him.

Hang in there....

[Calpernia]

Dang fly on my monitor.

[investigateworld]

I went two months without Wally Bashing as they allowed the Salvation Army to fund raise in front of their stores.
HOWEVER, when they had their boy in congress try to change the hours of service for truck drivers, they got me riled up like the Irish I am.
I used to admire Sam Walton as anyone who can make millionaires out of truck drivers is my kind of capitalist!
But doing research on that greedy old blankety-blank, sure turned me off on him and his mating with Satan. (Don't tell me Satan don't exist, I was married to his sister for five years)
Anyhow, if one reads Sam's book, plus knows a little back ground, it's easy to see why unions will make a comeback.
Does anyone recall that Sam found out his employees died at a faster rate than the insurance companies actuaries allow for?
Well now, Sam not being one to miss out on picking up a quick if sleazy buck, took out insurance on his people and made himself the beneficiary!
And before the Branch Creek Knob's WM asst manager of ladies notions and mustache wax's flames me, may I point it out that it's all IN HIS OWN BOOK!
On the plus side he cop's out to the fact that the FRENCH are major stockholders.
But someone started a rumor that Target (which I don't shop at) was owned by le Frenchies.
(Whew...nuff said...back to my corner)

[nw_arizona_granny]

One has to ask how easy it is for SARS and HIV and other germs to travel in shoes, clothes and toys?

What are we buying with our bargains?

[Calpernia]

I remember flutters has an older bump list when we were following this more closely. We saw articles that said the germ can live on money. So I would imagine it can live on other materials too.