It's been like Bernie turned on the lights and we can see the filth and cockroachs scurrying for the cracks! Damn, that man is powerful!! LOL

Too many got a peek.

Do you know his last post?

The government meme was, "They can't think for themselves they always have Pravda telling them how and what to think."

Fast forward to 2016. In the USA don't dare criticize corporations on the MSM. People still fail to understand the origins of the Great Recession. US citizens often fail to understand that the USA is the only developed nation without universal heath care. Of course you already know this. I just like repeating it.

It needs to be said as loudly and as often as possible! Keep talking!

He is free to make his cartoon anytime he wants.
Just because he gets fired for it don't mean he is not free to do it...so we are told.

tolerated.

Hat tip to Third Way Manny!

aren't allowed

Zombie Agriculture, Inc. = Zombie Food

Not surprising the magazine is trying to hide the ugly truth by firing the truth teller. That kind of truth squelching goes on all the time, and there are hordes of Big Ag, Big Pharma, Big Chem & Big Food ZombieTrolls out there on the Intertoobs doing their worst to obfuscate, and otherwise keep the truth from people.

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Ya know, a place where the pearl necklaces are safe from being clutched, and people swooning into frilly sofas.

Monsanto is the embodiment of all that is evil in agriculture and multinational corporations.

If they are pure evil, then they have no room to get even more evil. And given their track record, I'd bet that they'll find some way to be more evil.

That's just how evil they are. Bastards.

Could you repeat that? A little slower please.

(that was great, thx)

...which means, selling round-up ready corn, etc. from Monsanto, but whether or not the big-wigs at head office even noticed the ad is not known...

Pioneer (one of the companies mentioned in the cartoon) is a big seed company.

The fourth estate is dead and now they are trying to kill comics.

owned by the 1% - the hacks are merely the house slaves who think they're superior to the rest of us field hands.

I think we are going to see the rise of independent journalists. Which is pretty much where I get most my news.

because this corporate plantation owned by the 1% is not on the side of the people

This is why although I left the industry against my will that I will likely NEVER return! This is FASCISM plain and simple! Corporate influence is a stain on our society! In virtually all instances, it runs counter to the will of the workers and of the general population! IT MUST BE QUASHED - PERIOD!!!

if any taxes in Iowa. Pioneer is a division of Dupont now. I would guess they probably don't pay a lot of taxes either.
Pioneer was founded by Henry Wallace, former VP and very progressive Dem. But they are just a cog in a wheel now.

ETA from my good friends at the Iowa Fiscal Partnership: http://www.iowafiscal.org/ifp-news-no-income-taxes-big-checks-from-state/

IOWA CITY, Iowa (Feb. 11, 2015) — More companies are benefiting from a lucrative tax subsidy that permits large, profitable corporations to get checks from the state without paying any Iowa income tax.

“Most notable is that Iowa continues to give a lot of money to companies that aren’t paying income tax. There were 181 companies that received RAC checks from the state because their tax credits exceeded their income tax liability,” said Mike Owen, executive director of the nonpartisan Iowa Policy Project in Iowa City, part of the Iowa Fiscal Partnership.

The report, released Wednesday, also shows:
— Only 16 companies — or 6.5 percent — claimed 83 percent of the benefits and at least 75 percent of the checks.
— Those 16 companies each had at least $500,000 in claims, totaling over $42 million in 2014.
— The top five companies benefiting from the credit have been the largest beneficiaries over the last five years: Rockwell Collins, Deere & Co., Dupont, John Deere Construction and Monsanto."

in the corporations that supply the farmers needs. Unfortunately.

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It's not that they agree with the content that the publication/media outlet is providing.

It's to control the content of the publication/media outlet.
Print/Broadcast something they don't like, they'll pull their multi-million dollar ad.

doing the bidding of corporations, if not outright owned and operated.

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The cartoonist was free to express himself in the cartoon as he saw fit. but let's remember that it's editorial content, not news.

The paper was free to publish the cartoon as it's editorial board saw fit.

The offended company was free to pull their advertising from a paper it felt had dissed them by the cartoon.

Where I take a bit of an issue is with the firing of the cartoonist. Not that the paper wasn't within their rights to release any employee who they feel has cost them business, but it seems to me that, if they were going to let someone go, the fault should really lie with the editor who allowed the "offending" cartoon to be published.

Free speech and freedom of the press are assured by the constitution, but there are no guarantees that there will never be any backlash, justified or otherwise. Like the old saying, "You pays your money and you takes your chance."

does compromise a free press, especially when that influence is punitive, as in this case. When Phil Donahue was fired, editorial opposition to the Iraq invasion took a dive. The free press may still be free, but it sure is quiet, and soon, there will be neither free speech nor a free press.

As I said, the cartoon wasn't news, it was commentary, and it's a different standard. My opinion would be diametrically different if a news story had been the issue.

but it's rooted in facts and reality. Corporate news already limits access to hard news by deciding what we will see and hear. Commentary slips in there with facts, like this cartoon, and they shut it down. After all, it's only opinion, right? Well, not so with this cartoonist and not so with Phil Donahue. They had their facts. Of course, these commentators didn't lose their "freedom," only their jobs, so free speech still intact, right?

and, guess what? Bernie won Indiana!!!

This needs more exposure.

Harper's Magazine had a good article on Iowa in the past edition from February 2016
"The Trouble with Iowa"

http://harpers.org/archive/2016/02/the-trouble-with-iowa/


Honk---------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016

Voltaire: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise"

Others have probably said the same thing in different words.

It was a very anti-Semitic remark in context.

Thanks for the thread, SecularMotion.

I'm surprised our resident Monsanto censors aren't here attacking him.

an award from the American Association of editorial cartoonists.


http://editorialcartoonists.com/cartoon/

wholly owned subsidiary of BIG AG if they didn't know it already. Question is, do they care?

I hope this guy makes more money writing cartoons attacking these 3 ugly, heartless bastards than he did working for Farm News. Maybe he can get syndicated!

Fucking greedy thin-skinned assholes!

Letting the cat out of the bag: 2129 farm pays = 3 CEO paychecks is not good business. Once the marks know they're targeted, they won't go near the trap.

and I mean hard, working farmers equals 3 paychecks of these corporations ceos. That's not even their stock options and all their other bennies.

We need to return to small local farming and ranching for our food. Raising our own seed, produce and meat.

We need to get off the chemicals, mono crops and factory farms which are poisoning the soil and water, killing the beneficial soil organisms and threatening the safety of our food supply.

Big Agra is so Rollerball it's not funny.

Big-Ag = Big-Chem

Look we ask advertisers to stop sponsoring people whose messages we don't like: rush limbaugh, glenn beck, chris brown, etc. So big ag did the same to punish this dude for calling out their companies. It sounds like Monsanto and their partners pulled their ads.

They have as many friends in dc as the Koch brothers do

Period.

what their opinion is of all these other places getting the money they worked for, if they would sit still for this?

Or maybe they deserve exactly what he described. Good men do nothing and all that.

They are evil.

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I called them, got an answering machine.

Pretty close to an exact quote: "" My name is (actual name and tel # as they request) I'm calling to express my disappointment and disgust in that they would curtail freedom of speech at the hand of a large corporate advertiser. This is how corporations get larger and more powerful, it truly is a trend toward fascism. Your local farmers know what they are dealing with in these large suppliers, why don't you? Goodbye""

This poor guy didn't even know not to bite the hand that poisons you