Who Will Rule? Citizens Movements Take On Corporate Power
Monday, April 07, 2008
Corporate power lies behind nearly every major problem we face-from stagnant wages and unaffordable health care to overconsumption and global warming. In some cases, it is the cause of the problem; in other cases, corporate power is a barrier to system-wide solutions. This dominance of corporate power is so pervasive, it has come to seem inevitable. We take it so much for granted, we fail to see it. Yet it is preventing solutions to some of the most pressing problems of our time...
We wake up in the morning. Do our morning rituals and live our daily lives, living in the greatest country on earth, America.
We've all heard of the Nazis, we've all heard of historical oppression.
What if someone was to show you, prove to you there is a real threat not very much different then the terrible stories we read about in our history books and on our history channels.
I've started to tell my friends. I've started to tell my family. But it seems very few people react with interest. The media machine has been so successful in making them believe they are 100% safe from loosing their freedoms from within. All they worry about is loosing their freedoms from external forces.
I just want to say that it saddens me, it angers me. If the great democracy is lost on our watch, we would have deserved it. Because it would of been lost by us, and no one else.
After watching America: Freedom to Fascism! - It is hard for me to not associate the ignorance of these people with our direction away from the founding fathers.
Reproduction is the single most important aspect of humanity because without it we could not continue. If you consider humanity as a single organism like I do, reproduction is life. It is the means in which we as a whole continue to live.
I think abortion is a terrible thing. To end the possibility of a new life should be unheard of. However, we live in an unperfect world where our culture simply is not educated and sophisticated enough to have the social structures that makes abortions non-existent.
I do dream of a society like that. A society without money, yes without money. A society that has few priorities which includes happiness, self improvement and self expression. Imagine.
In a world where we are forced to earn money to survive, where we are lied to as part of the masses, where we are ignorant by design of our policies, a woman must have the choice to choose when to have a baby. That was made more clear today then ever before through some words by a Canadian abortion doctor Garson Romalis on Jan. 25 in Why I am an abortion doctor.
This is a great article! It explains why Japan and now Europe are more technologically advanced then the US. Why the US is falling behind in education, production... you name it!
...in the current fiscal year (2008) we are spending insane amounts of money on "defense" projects that bear no relationship to the national security of the United States. Simultaneously, we are keeping the income tax burdens on the richest segments of the American population at strikingly low levels.
...we continue to believe that we can compensate for the accelerating erosion of our manufacturing base and our loss of jobs to foreign countries through massive military expenditures - so-called "military Keynesianism", which I discuss in detail in my book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. By military Keynesianism, I mean the mistaken belief that public policies focused on frequent wars, huge expenditures on weapons and munitions, and large standing armies can indefinitely sustain a wealthy capitalist economy. The opposite is actually true.
...American strategists began to build up a massive munitions industry, both to counter the military might of the Soviet Union (which they consistently overstated) and also to maintain full employment as well as ward off a possible return of the Depression.
It is often believed that wars and military spending increases are good for the economy. In fact, most economic models show that military spending diverts resources from productive uses, such as consumption and investment, and ultimately slows economic growth and reduces employment.
It is, of course, impossible to know what innovations never appeared as a result of this diversion of resources and brainpower into the service of the military, but it was during the 1960s that we first began to notice Japan was outpacing us in the design and quality of a range of consumer goods, including household electronics and automobiles.
I selfishly want this Star Trek movie to be awesome, but fear it won't. Here is my premise why.
According to box office sales, the latest Star Trek movie Star Trek Nemesis didn't do as well as it's predecessors. I've heard many reasons for this and the reason that resonates best with me is the movie does not appeal to what Star Trek stands for. It makes weak parallels on our current human condition, a concept that has made Star Trek what it is today.
They instead replaced depth with some action packed moments which can be enjoyed as an action thriller, not Star Trek. I admit, I've watched the Enterprise saucer section crashing into Shinzon's ship in slow motion at least 5 times, but that's more an obsession with the sheer size of the ships (yes, I'm a size queen).
JJ Abrams is a great director, but he's best known for super action thrillers such as: Cloverfield and Mission Impossible III. I hope they put some substance into this movie, I really do!
