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October 25, 2026

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October 22, 2026
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October 22, 2026

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Why We really Raise Interest Rates

October 7, 2026

This is Talk is Cheap on KEPW, LP 97.3 FM, Eugene Peaceworks Independent Community Radio,
and also on KEPW.org, and don’t forget Radio4All.net.

Just want to add here that the reason our overlords give for not seizing the assets of abusers like the Russian Oligarchs is they claim everyone will be afraid to put their money in US banks. Well first of all where else are they going to put it? You think China or Russia wont hesitate to seize assets at the drop of invisible hand? Seize the assets of the Russian Oligarchs and use it for reparations. That would distribute w3ealth evenly for once.
Okay, interest rates are, what, at 7%, and the Fed is talking about raising them,
so I follow the Fed as a hobby, and by the way, all of this,
please research this yourself, use your own brain, this is not for financial advice,
please. Use a financial advisor for any investments that you do. But I’m kind of an armchair
economist. Families and banking back when banks were,
well, they were savings and loans.
So there’s two reasons they raise interest rates, all right? The Fed is mandated to really,
they’re supposed to keep employment, manage employment and keep everybody employed is what they’re
mandated to do. But they’re also mandated to curb inflation. So what the theory is,
now think about this, how can raising the price of something lower prices? Well, what this does is
it just makes it harder for everybody, and so they start laying people off, and then there’s less
purchasing power in the economy. And when there’s less purchasing power, vendors theoretically are
supposed to lower their prices because no one can afford to buy them. So what that does is it…
ruins the entire economy what they’re doing is they’re purposely screwing up the economy and what
happened i lived through this in the in the 80s and 90s you know interest rates were went to um
under volcker they went to almost 20 percent and um contractors mailed boards and bricks to
congress and with a note that said these this represents the houses that won’t be built because you
raised interest rates so this is I’m not you know I’m just saying this is It’s not a theory.
This is well documented. This is what they’re trying to do. If you just look, you know, you’ve got
to do a little research. They’re not going to tell you this outright, but that’s what they’re
trying to do. The other thing, all your retirement funds are invested in treasury bonds,
and treasury bonds are based on the prime interest rate that the Fed controls.
And so this is a safe investment for people, and that’s why they, you know, retirement funds tend
to be invested in this. So it affects that. But also, there’s people that park their money.
We want people investing their money. If you’re going to do a capitalist society, in a capitalist
society, we want people investing their money. We don’t want them just parking it in the bank and
earning interest off of it. We want you to take a risk with your money. And when you park it in the
bank, you have hardly any risk, especially treasury bills. They’re the most secure thing, although
that may change. If China has their way, the Treasury may not be the most secure place to put your
money. And if we start seizing assets, too, that will affect whether people put their money in the
dollar. What they’re also doing is, when you raise interest rates,
you’re competing with other countries’ currency. And so other countries have to put their money in
dollars in order to earn the interest rates. on american u.s treasury bills uh let me give you an
example so erdogan but the but what erdogan did is you know when we raise our interest rates now
dollars come out of turkey to go to where erdogan erdogan is the president of turkey dollars come
out of turkey and come out of the turkish lira or whatever their currency is called and um they put
it in dollars because we are giving them a higher return on their investment but they have to
convert them into dollars. So what normally Erdogan would have to do is raise interest rates to
keep money in Turkey. What that does is that makes everything more expensive in Turkey.
So he resisted that a long time ago and kept interest rates down. But other countries don’t do
that. So in my opinion, this is currency manipulation. And this is what the Fed does when they want
to screw other countries. And this happened with the Greece financial crisis. Like I say,
when one country raises interest rates, now the other one has to raise interest rates. And one
economy may be healthy enough to have those higher interest rates while the other one doesn’t.
stable currency and the reason was and and this was on the on the um you would look in the in the
wall street journal and they would have the tie bot uh was what you looked at to see the most
stable currency to compare all your currencies against the the tie bot to see where how stable
everyone’s how healthy everyone’s currency was and um by the way they also used to report what was
called m1 which was the total amount of cash in the economy but since they’re printing money left
and right they stopped reporting m1 so back to the thai bot uh the thai bot was the most secure
currency up until globalization and but the you know because the thai economy was basically self
-sufficient mostly self-sufficient of course you know they exported a few things here and there
but they weren’t dependent on exports they were a tourist economy globalization comes along they
become dependent Now the Thai bot collapses and is no longer the most stable currency. So that,
to me, again, is how, in my opinion, would be currency manipulation. There’s probably other
definitions of currency manipulation.
And also, you know, when they don’t like a president, this is conspiracy theory, but I’m pretty
sure they raise interest rates on… They do raise interest rates on presidents that aren’t,
you know… fulfilling the war economy that they want and the petrodollar economy that they want.
But that’s conspiracy theory. I have no proof of that. So this is why you’re seeing interest rates.
There’s really no reason to have interest rates over 1%, 2%,
3%. That would ruin everybody’s retirement funds. What if we invested in people’s houses?
You know, for instance, this is what they did in the financial crisis was instead of bailing out
people and keeping them in their houses, they bailed out the banks. So,
you know, what if they used that? You would have a more stable economy if everybody could afford a
house and lived in a house and didn’t have to scrimp and save for every penny.
then your retirement funds could be invested in things like savings and loans that were invested in
people’s homes. You’re in my home. And so that would be a much more stable way to invest in the
economy rather than you’re dependent on China and globalization and exploitive and extractive
economies. This is all tied to interest rates.
So I don’t know if that last part made sense, but yeah, it’s all a sham.
It’s all a scam. There’s no, it’s all BS. There’s no reason to have high interest rates,
and it’s all, this is, believe me, I’ve studied this for 50 years now, and I cannot find a reason
for high interest rates other than to support the rentier class and the rentier police state that
we are subjected to. And they make money.
This is where the oligarchs and corporations make how they make their money. Thanks for listening.
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I call it the anarchist book fair. It’s the anti-capitalist book fair up in Corvallis on September
12th. This is the seminar on the workshop on going to…
as a protective presence, going to Gaza as a protective presence, because apparently we can’t get
an international peace force into, we can’t get a UN peace force in to shut the whole thing down.
Like I’ve said, with all these conflicts, there should be no wars anymore. This is the 21st
century. We have modern communications. Let’s get people on the ground and just stop these wars.
They’re not going to do that. So we have to do it ourselves. So that’s what this is about,
is people going over. And I’ve done an article.
There is a boycott, divestment, and sanction movement that I’ve said all along that this is going
to affect, this Gaza war will affect Israeli tourism for the next century. No one’s going to go to
Israel for the next century or the next 10 years until they straighten this whole thing out.
But we need people on the ground to escort and be a protective presence in that area.
So it’s kind of a toss-up, which way do we go? You know, there’s planes flying over there anyway,
although Israel just lifted a ban on flying to Israel,
so there’s much more tourism that supports Israel, but there’s also tourism that is trying to stop.
and ensure that Palestinians are safe. So there’s a debate right now on which way that’s going,
and these people feel that it’s much more important to be on the ground in Israel protecting
Palestinians in Palestine and Gaza and the Middle East. Thanks for listening.
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September 23, 2026
Show Intro 92026 transcribed by Dropbox

September 20, 2026

This is Talk is Cheap on KEPW, LP 97.3 FM, Eugene Peaceworks, Independent Community Radio.
This week, I’ve got Katie from the Anarchist Kitchen of Los Angeles,
interview with her, with doing some really positive stuff that I’m hoping will take off in other
towns and cities like Eugene, hint, hint, nudge, nudge.
I’ve been talking to the socialists, and… I also watched Bill Maher and Fareed Zakaria this
weekend. So Bill Maher, he’s always been kind of a hack.
I respect his free speech stuff that he’s done, but he’s never really done anything that great.
They just said that 60 Minutes, they were just talking about how they’re being compromised already
and being forced to… soften their stories so I think there’s some of that going on with Bill
Maher too but and you know he’s against religion so I don’t understand his whole but I apparently
he’s Jewish so he got on there and said and he every week you know he is against the Palestine
against calling it a genocide I just want to say the only reason we’re calling it a genocide is to
get food aid We wanted the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly,
to get an international force in there to get the peace,
keep the peace, and get some food aid in there. That’s all. So what Bill Maher was saying is that 3
% of the people of Palestine have been killed. And so he compared that to the Holocaust where,
you know, 6 million Jews. were killed. And again,
what we’re saying is we don’t want it to become a genocide. We’d like to stop it before it becomes
a genocide. So maybe calling it a genocide would help stop that. And so I’m not sure about the
comparison there. But anyway, like I say, we are only calling it genocide to get food aid in there
and to prevent a real genocide. A genocide like what was visited upon Jewish people.
Alright, so, and then Farad Zakaria, he’s getting on there and saying that Trump is siding with
Russia because he’s not giving aid to Ukraine. Okay, so I’ve been saying this for years.
I’m sorry, Ukraine. There is a fascist element in Ukraine. The Nazis did try to invade through
Ukraine into Russia, and the Russians lost millions of people because of this.
taken the Minsk Accords. Biden should have gotten them to take the Minsk Accords, both Democrat and
Republican. But I’ve said all along, NATO, we should have had Russia join NATO and all of us join,
all the nations join and then get some humanitarian aid and stop the Russian oligarchs and Putin
and the Russian oligarchs. We should have stopped them from, they’ve got money in the Bank of
England.
that when they ripped off the people of Russia, it’s just sitting right there. So the way to do
this is with diplomacy and humanitarian aid, and then they’ll throw Putin out. I can almost
guarantee you that. So, yeah, this week you get to hear me rant, and you can hear where I’m coming
from. So about the socialists. You know, I read Trotsky a long time ago,
and what I remember about Trotsky, I agreed with Trotsky because he wanted direct democracy.
And so what we’re saying is the only difference between what the Democratic Socialists of America
are advocating and what we’re advocating is it comes down to property rights.
And, you know, I don’t think, in my own opinion, You’re not going to get rid of trade because in
nature, you know, those of you who listen to this show regularly, you know that I’m into
permaculture. And in nature, there’s always a surplus. Farming, there’s always a surplus. Even
hunter-gatherers, the way things grow and the way nature is,
there’s always a surplus. And you want to keep, we don’t want a centralized economy. We want
economies maybe based on watersheds. So each watershed would trade their surplus,
their art and culture, and their surplus goods with one another. This is a bad example.
Kim Stanley Robinson is kind of a techno-yuts. I think I’ve coined a new term here, techno-yuts.
Kim Stanley Robinson, in one of his books, I can’t remember what it is, I don’t think it was his
Mars book, they have this ancient civilization and they’re trading with each other because this one
tribe has a better way of making… a certain trap that they use to catch a certain type of fish.
So there’s where you might have some trade. Someone comes up with a better idea. You know, these
things, these things happen. So again, what we’re saying, and the only problem I’m having with
socialism is that at the point where you start, Prudhon was talking about,
the anarchists are talking about abusive landowners, and this is what’s happening in Zapatista
movement and Rojava, is they stop abusive landowners And I’m also calling it the rentier police
state is what we’re dealing with. If you look up rentier, it’s not just landlords that are rentier.
All of it is they’re taking your video games now, and you’re going to have to rent your video game
instead of owning it. And so this is where ownership, you know, Palestine too,
and the Native Americans, it was their territory. And so they have at least a claim. If a regime
change happens, if aliens come and invade, at least they have in some kind of international court,
in the Federation of Planets, they’ll have some piece of paper that they can show that,
hey, I was awarded, I have a connection to this property in this way. With my family, we’ve used
this property to support myself and a small group of people around us. So that’s what we’re using
that property for, and that’s why we have a right to this property or this territory. So that’s my
only… Problem with the, or issue with the socialists, but again, like I say, I think these guys
are Trotskyists, and that’s a good thing. And that’s why Trotsky was killed, is because he,
Trotsky wanted democracy, like democratic confederalism,
closer to democratic confederalism from the bottom up. Community ownership,
advocating all parties affected, would be, have a say in the decision-making process,
like a, It’s like a co-op. It’s not that radical. You know, if you read Ursula Le Guin’s The
Dispossessed, the books she wrote on anarchy, you’ll notice that,
first of all, they’re taking over some house that’s been abandoned or emptied, and then they fix it
up because everybody has to know. And this is, you know, everybody’s going to have to know a little
bit about tool, a little bit about repairing things. and you never have any large projects like a
space elevator or a, you wouldn’t have high-speed rail. I’m saying that no,
that’s not true, that you can incorporate small entities for large projects,
and you would all get together. And so your high-speed rail, you know,
it might not be so uniform, the high-speed rail. It might be kind of funky if it’s done in an
anarchist way instead of a centralized economy. top-down situation.
Space elevator, too. Each component, as it is, a rocket ship, the components are built by jobbers
all around the country, bake the parts, the millions of parts that go into a rocket ship.
Personally, I prefer the space elevator, a little more elegant.
The space elevator, you realize, is the vagina of space travel. It’s a ring that goes up and down a
shaft. And so it’s much more elegant. I wouldn’t be surprised if women invented the space elevator,
but I don’t know that for a fact. So, but again, like I’m saying, it would be a little more funky
because you’d have individuals that would have to be brought together in an incorporated situation
for large projects, but it could be done. And I agree with Lerslo Nguyen. We want to avoid large
projects. You know, the Nazis had a plan. They were going to use atomic bombs to blow up…
an additional Panama Canal. They were just going to blow up the whole areas and connect to the
oceans and things like that. We don’t want plans like that. We don’t want atomic bomb testing that
might set the atmosphere on fire. And we don’t want to, even the CERN, we don’t need to
accidentally produce a black hole, things like that. I’m not sure we need these. In an anarchist
society, we probably wouldn’t have. these giant projects, but we don’t want scientists running
things either. So, also, this is my own thing. Again, please research this stuff yourself.
Use your own brain at all times. I’m still saying the economy that it is not the tariffs that are
causing the problem with the economy. It is the war, and it is the past wars. And I’ll give you an
example. I’ve watched the price of Listerine now. for since 2014 okay and it is basically almost
tripled the price basically since 2014 since we especially since the Ukraine war because I was in
his class the the teacher was saying how Listerine is different than all the other products it’s a
it’s slightly different and he swears by Listerine and so I don’t buy the generic Listerine so it
is literally tripled in price so My father was a banker, and so 6% interest rates,
high prices, yes, they are causing death and destruction. This is very bad. I’m not saying it’s
not. However, I’m saying it’s not quite as bad as they’re saying,
and it’s not caused at all by what they’re saying. So in banking,
in the savings and loan industry, it was called the 363 days. borrow money at three percent loan it
out at six percent and be home by three o’clock you’d leave the office by three o’clock those
were the three six three days so six percent interest rates are really not that drastic however i
would like to see no interest rates myself or one percent because it was also considered six
percent was considered usury in colonial times so six percent depending on what you say but i’m
just saying that is not what’s causing the problems in the economy. Yes, it’s causing difficult for
people to buy houses, but also $100 a barrel of oil, I’m sorry, but that’s not really that
abnormal. So again, it is war and globalization,
in my opinion, that is causing these high prices. Your money, instead of going to needed
infrastructure, and whether you believe in government running the infrastructure or not,
because your tax dollars are not used for schooling, health care, roads.
Ultimately, in the long run, this causes higher prices for everyone, causes higher prices for you,
causes your car to break down more often, causes the truck that brings your goods to your city to
break down more often because of the roads and bridges. We’re witnessing the downfall of
globalization in their last death throes, where hopefully…
there won’t be so much damage and we’ll get reparations where this is all why we is justified that
we get reparations for mostly for indigenous people and so one other thing um you know i love the
song mr brown i’ve loved it for years by bob marley mr brown i’ve always thought that was about the
police so i’ve been researching that and they’re saying it says that it’s about The Undertaker or
death. And I’m sorry, I don’t agree. And I thought in black culture,
Mr. Brown was the man. But please research this yourself.
However, Mr. Brown upsetting, upsetting the town and you’re driving around in a coffin with two
crows or three crows on the roof and two are laughing. That sounds like sirens to me,
like cherries and berries to me. With his big belly belt buckle.
So anyway, and yeah, upsetting the town. So who really is Mr.
Brown? Okay, so that’s all I got for you this week. So I’ve got Katie from Activist Kitchen in Los
Angeles that I’m hoping is going to be a model. For activists up here, I just went down to the City
Council, Springfield City Council. I’m trying to get, there’s a 30% vacancy rate on commercial
property in every major city. That should be going to at least temporary indigent shelter.
I’m calling them indigents because it’s not their fault that society has cast them aside and not
provided for them. That is an indigent. And it is not illegal to be indigent.
So those are the things I’m working on. And I’ve got a lot of fun stuff that I’ve recorded for you
from the community. Thanks for listening. Tell your friends. Support independent media.
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Home Depot Sucks

May 2, 2026

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FT Hormuz Oil Buccaneers

April 29, 2026

Note: This transcription had music from Ren and Stimpy underneath when I originally read it on air. The underlying theme of Ren And
Stimpy is that their seemingly good ideas always lead to disaster.

This is March 8th, 2026. March 7th, March 8th of Financial Times.
So what this is, this is about a shipper. This guy will, you know, he’s just like out of the
movies. He’ll just ship anything, weapons, oil. He doesn’t care as long as you pay him.
He’ll get those weapons and that oil out of there no matter how many people die because of his
actions or… or whatever you know and so uh this is this guy’s just hilarious and and and you’ll
hear everything that you’ve heard been hearing on the news is all included in here so uh buccaneer
risking his ships and crews in straight and for moves and and you’ll notice we don’t know whether
he pays his crew members in this day and age people are so desperate for jobs that we’re wondering
me and the financial times here are wondering if he actually the extra money that he gets to ship
this stuff does he give it to his crew or does he just send them to their death, you know,
and keep the money for himself. So we’re not sure about that. But, you know,
he has the right to do whatever he wants with the ocean and his ship.
So this is Buccaneer risking his ships and crews in Strait of Hormuz. His name is George Procopio,
shipping magnate, Jamie John, Malcolm Moore, and Nasos Stylianu.
So Financial Times for March 8th. As Iranian missiles streaked over the Strait of Hormuz last
Sunday, bringing traffic across one of the world’s most vital trade routes to a near halt, one
Greek billionaire was steering his ship straight into the turmoil. Dynacom tankers owned by 79
-year-old George Prokopiu has sent at least five tankers through the narrow waterway at the mouth
of the Gulf since the outbreak of war with Iran on Saturday, making it one of a handful of legal
operators willing to brave the journey. Most owners have paused transit until things calm down,
said one shipbroker. But there are a few buccaneers willing to take the risk.
There are big rewards on offer. Freight rates for tankers leaving the Gulf have more than doubled,
hitting record highs. A single so-called VLCC, or Very Large Crewed Carrier,
tanker making the perilous voyage across the strait and on to China would earn about $500,000 in
revenue per day. excluding the cost of additional war risk insurance,
according to price reporting agency Argus. While the risks for the owners are money and tankers,
the sailors on board are putting their lives on the line. Iran has threatened to set any ships
attempting to cross the passage, quote, on fire, hitting at least nine since the conflict began
with at least three seafarers killed. All of Dynacom’s vessels turned off their transponders,
devices that automatically transmit a vessel’s location and identity, for their passage through the
strait. Ship tracking data shows Dynacom’s crewed tanker Athena, which was in the region before the
attacks, stopped transmitting early on Saturday evening southeast of the waterway before
reappearing the following afternoon in the Gulf.
Sitra port on Monday and departed two days later with a cargo of oil.
Born into a wealthy family in Athens in 1946, Prokopio is among the latest generation of Greek ship
owners who have long dominated the maritime trade. Described by a person close to him as unassuming
and a workaholic, he is rarely seen without his trademark baseball cap, drives an old Mercedes SUV,
and walks around without security, a rarity among Greece’s ship-owning elite. Procopio spends most
of the year on his mega-yacht, the 106.5-meter Dream, currently docked on the Athenian Riviera,
and his expansive property portfolio has earned him the nickname the King of Real Estate in his
home country. Last year, he bought a stake in the Four Seasons Astere Palace,
the luxury hotel group’s only Greek property, along with the adjoining Volgmeni Marina.
which primarily serves mega yachts. After buying his first ship in his mid-20s,
Procopio built a huge fleet around the world, along with a reputation for taking risks.
The Greek tycoon’s three shipping companies have more than 150 vessels on the water, with roughly
85 more under construction, said a person familiar with the matter. He’s an industry legend,
and one of those people that does what we call premium…
said one ship broker who has worked with prokopio’s companies using a euphemism for trades that are
legal but carry much higher risks prokopio’s dinacom tanker tankers has moved tens of millions of
barrels of russian crude russian crude oil over the past year and is one of the biggest lifters of
the cargo since moscow launched its assault on ukraine in early 2022 According to Financial Times
analyst analysis of Kepler data and ship ownership records,
the billionaire stirred controversy in 2022 when, months after the outbreak of the war, he said
that sanctions have never worked, although there is no suggestion he has ever breached them.
Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention put Dynacom tankers on its list of international
sponsors of war. for its role shipping Russian crude accusing it of replenishing the budget of the
aggressor country and financing the Russian invasion. However, in 2023, it withdrew Dynacom from
the list and in 2024 withdrew the list altogether following pressure from its overseas partners.
Prokopio had always acted within the law, the shipbroker said, and had complied with price caps and
other Russian crude restrictions, but he added the billionaire’s willingness to shift cargo that
others might not was where he’s made most of his margin. The International Transport Workers
Federation, which represents crew members, has mandated bonus payments for those operating around
the Strait of Hormuz since Monday that are meant to enforce a doubling of both salaries and death
and disability benefits. Crew members can also refuse to sail with repatriation at company’s cost
and compensation equal to two months basic wage.
Okay, so the government is mandating that, but are they enforcing it? We don’t know.
Procopio and Dynacom tankers did not respond to a request for comment, including on whether they
were making the additional payments to its crews. He represents a certain way of doing business.
He represents a certain way of doing business, said Ed Finley. I’m sorry, this is just black comedy
to me. I’m sorry.
He represents… way of doing business said ed finley richardson a shipping investor and founder of
contango research he’s one of a cohort of five to ten owners who really overshadow everyone else
not because of the size of their fleet but also because they’re willing to act boldly Procopio has
a reputation for honoring his contracts where others renege, but sending his ships through the
strait while live fire continues on both sides represented a historic opportunity for the Greek
billionaire, said Finlay Richardson. He noted the risk of entering the Gulf with an empty ship was
lower, and once there, quote,
to ask for the right price for the clear and present danger to your vessel and the crew and
everything else. It’s during these periods that the truly elite ship owners tend to distinguish
themselves, he added, pointing to Greek Tychoon Aristotle Onassis’ willingness to risk German U
-boat attacks in the Second World War and Norwegian magnate John Fredriksen’s move to buy up
contracts to ship oil by tanker during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Charming.
Gee, is that shipping? Do you think maybe that’s a keystone in the globalization world?
But please don’t kill any heads of multinational corporations or shipping people.
Please don’t do that just because someone read an article on the radio.
Summing up, his approach in 2014, Prokofio said, If you are not a risk taker,
you are not in shipping. If you don’t want the risks, you buy U.S. bonds, which is a lot to be
said for U.S. bonds right now.
So, yeah, that’s from Financial Times. I think that kind of sums up what’s going on right now.
There’s a May Day celebration at the Park Blocks on 8th and Oak, April 26th.
May Day celebration, April 26th. Park Blocks on 8th and Oak should be a hoot with all of your
favorite organizations and some that you might have never heard of that you should be involved in.
So that’s very important to be at the May Day celebration for networking on April 26th,
2026 at the Park Blocks on 8th and Oak. And yes,
oil shocks hopefully will move us closer to energy independence with rooftop solar rooftop solar
rooftop solar i’m hoping if i say it enough times the google algorithm will pick it up and just
make it happen for kepw news i’m dj susd
California Regulations

April 29, 2026

This is a response to a Financial Times editorial called Why California’s Plan to Tax Billionaires
is Misguided. Financial Times 3926.
I’ve heard this line for years that California has too many regulations and taxes. If you don’t
want regulations, don’t exploit people in the environment. They set the standard for the,
a, future. No one uses more of California’s infrastructure commons than tech,
oil, and agriculture. New York and California are some of the most desirable places to live and do
business because of the infrastructure and environment. In Eugene,
Oregon, Hyundai got huge tax breaks to build a chip washing plant with the promise of high-paying
jobs. They could have used a more expensive sand process in another location instead of water from
the Willamette River. They didn’t bring the promised jobs and left when the local government
complained. I’m writing this in New Jersey airport after a week in New York City. I’m retired from
driving truck. What you notice as a truck driver is how trash the East Coast is compared to the
later populated West. We don’t want the West Coast to become a toxic waste dump like in the East.
Before truck driving, I designed fire alarm systems. In 2008, a major car manufacturer didn’t want
to pay $50,000 for a fire alarm system at their fuel depot at the Port of Los Angeles,
where they offload and store thousands of cars worth millions of dollars before they distribute
them to dealerships. The building codes are written by large manufacturers.
and insurance companies, as well as public officials, mostly to sell more products and push out
small businesses that can’t afford them. Small businesses have to constantly pay to retrain to keep
up with unnecessarily upgraded products. I was at a Contractors Association meeting during the 2008
financial crisis. A pool installer told me he couldn’t compete with companies that used low-wage
immigrant labor instead of the union help he used. High prices are caused by multinational
corporate monopolies, not regulations designed to even the playing field. George Seldes documented
this in his book Friendly Fascism. Business associations are unions for multinational corporations
that squelch competition, ultimately causing lower quality and higher prices for consumers.
By all means, ship your slave labor products to another port. Take your exploitative practices
elsewhere. we’ll take our chances like they did in the prescient fictional environmental book,
Ecotopia, by Ernest Kallenbach. For KEPW News, I’m DJ Susti.