Just another day in Paradise PLC
by hakmao, 29 March 2008
There’s a word for being forced to work without pay:
Migrant construction workers building the ‘new Beijing’ are routinely exploited by being denied proper wages, under dangerous conditions with neither accident insurance nor access to medical and other social services, Human Rights Watch said […] an estimated 1 million migrant construction workers, hailing from other parts of China, make up nearly 90 percent of Beijing’s construction workforce […] employers routinely force migrants to work, withhold wages for up to a year, then offer a lump sum payment which is considerably below the agreed wage rate and Beijing’s minimum wage rate. Some employers refuse to pay anything at all.
There have been scuffles in Athens along the route of the Olympic torch relay. Something to do with not embarrassing a state which allows no independent trade unions, no independent judiciary, where demonstrations and strikes are prohibited, where there is no freedom of movement or assembly, whose citizens are subject to arbitrary detention and torture and where elections are a sham, by mentioning nasty divisive things like politics. According to a not entirely serious column in The Times, officials are worried about expected protests along the torch relay route in London:
Our expert also criticised the proposed route for the torch: “Nelson’s Column, Downing Street, St Paul’s Cathedral–these are exactly the kinds of places protesters are expecting the torch to pass. If your priority is to give potential paint-slingers the slip, you need to think much more laterally about how you get the flame across South London.
“We’d be in favour of using a few taxi-driver’s rat runs, cutting across some of the less well-known parkland, ducking down some service alleys and going in through, for instance, the back of Marks & Spencer’s Simply Food on the Balham High Road.”




Sunday 30 March 2008 at 3:34
Spiked cunts — genocide deniers, child fucking partisans, pro saddam loving cunts and that… they love the maoists they do.
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/issues/C136/
PS. Seb Coe passed me in the street today and he didn’t fucking recognise me. He’s either blind or stupid and nothing in-between or a fuckwit or all of the above. he’s also a tory piece of filth.
Kill them. Kill them all.