American
Wisdom,
applied
in earnest and according to the principles outlined in the documents
that define our democratic republic, will ultimately, through our
vigilance, control and hope, result in complete and permanent,
Peaceful Victory against Fascism.
Make corporate electioneering contingent on shareholder votes. Sign U.S. Senator petition
If corporations are people (which they are NOT), but if you go with the Roberts' court decision to define corporations as people, then what people are they? Maybe the people who own the corporations? Of course, some corporations are not owned by human beings but by other corporations, and things could go levels deep before you actually find an actual human being at the end of the chain who could be said to be one of the owners/shareholders.
If corporations want to dump money into our politcal system, shouldn't the human beings that own the corporations have a say-so in how that money is used? The way it stands right now, most corporate decisions are made by managers, not shareholders.
While we hope for a constitutional amendment undoing this bogus position that corporations are people (big, giant, artificial people that can do things like make bombers and prisons and death-squads), this move by Sen. Sherrod Brown is a useful intermediate step.
Sen. Sherrod Brown is collecting names.. get on his list to support an initiative to make Corporate electioneering contingent upon approval by shareholders.
There are artificial differentials today that damage our economy. One is exemplified by the "Drug War", which takes things that in a natural market in a free country would be legal, cheap, and not that pervasive, and creates an artificial value elevation based on the threat of fines or incarceration, which motivates entrepreneurs of questionable character to encourage unwitting victims to buy the stuff.. hence my belief that the "Drug War" in its current form is one of the worst influences in the world today.
I have read (and enjoyed) "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead" as well as numerous other materials both about and by Ayn Rand. Two primary flaws in Ayn Rand's Doctrine are
1: Utter disdain for altruism of any sort, and
2: Advocacy for the removal of any regulation on the business sector, even if it is for the purpose of protecting human beings and/or the environment.
Ayn Rand and those who enabled her career to flourish, and who continue to trumpet her doctrine, believe there should be no government.
The critical flaw in this philosophy, which has been readily embraced by rich crooks, is the implication that business, let free to do as it pleases, will do what is in the best interest of human beings, and by extension this logic implies that well, if it doesn't, well then screw human beings.
I would encourage people to read her stuff, (I particularly enjoyed "Atlas Shrugged"), and I would also encourage people to consider what the purpose of government really should be. The phrase "Big Government" was origionally a positive label. It was the organized human response to the excesses of Big Business.
A Constitutional Amendment to End Corporate Personhood
The United State was born in revolution against corporate power. The tea that was dumped into Boston Harbor was the property of the East India Corporation.
Arguments for "free speech" in the case that spurred the serious discussion of an amendment to end corporate personhood, (the "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" Case) are blind and weak. Offering "free speech" to an artificial legal fiction such as a corporation not only transfers the power of self-government away from the people of the United States and into the hands of the multinational corporate elite, but it is effectively the end of the sovereignty of our nation and the official beginning of one-world government (by the elitists).
Ending Corporate Personhood should be a primary political focus for all concerned citizens. It cuts to the core of most of our problems.
Corporatism is Fascism. Fascism SUCKS.
In large part, our American Revolution was a revolution against the East India Corporation and the European Central Banks.
It's "We the People". NOT "We the Corporations".
"On January 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that corporations are entitled to spend unlimited funds in our elections. The First Amendment was never intended to protect corporations."
Corrective action has been initiated already. It needs major popular support. It's already being suppressed by the media. Even google searches are coming up sparse on the topic:
The guys who own the Baywalk aren't guaranteeing that they'll invest 6 million into baywalk. They're saying "up to (6 million)". Even if they were guaranteeing it, why are you intent on selling out the freedom of your constituents by "vacating" the sidewalk there? This would set a very bad precedent in St. Petersburg. This move to give public space to private interests, just so you can keep certain people out of that area, reeks of racism and corporatism. In America, our public servants are charged with preserving our freedoms.
The city of St. Petersburg, FL wants to "vacate" the sidewalk in front of the Baywalk shopping and entertainment plaza so the owners of Baywalk can decide who can and who can't use that sidewalk. This is a selling out of citizen's rights to free speech and assembly. Tell the city the First Amendment is not for sale! City Council council@stpete.org 727-893-7117 Mayor Baker mayor@stpete.org 727-893-7201
"Bankrupt? Get another Credit Card!" -- this is the advice you would get from someone who seriously wants you to fail.
By bailing out the banks, that's what the bought-and-paid-for "representative government" in Washington is doing. There is an energy that wants the government of the United States to fail. In its official absence (there is a valid argument that it is really already gone) rich crooks would rampage over the land without anyone to stop them. Expenditures on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have been instrumental in damaging America too.
Both political parties are guilty of this. Both are horrible but the "Republican" party is clearly the worst. Evidence is their desire for no regulation of business, including businesses that have weapons.
Both parties are representing corporations instead of us.
Corporate Government is Fascism.
Fascism is bad.
They force us to pay taxes, then they give the money to their corporate buddies, often for the purpose of dumping explosives on women and children, so some rich crook can make a profit. It's freaking sick.
This is not what America is about.
America is about the declaration of Independence and the Constitution including the Bill of Rights.
We Want it Back.
Message to President Obama:
Please stop giving our money to rich crooks. Please stop wasting our money and lives in these wars. Please arrange things so we can build a clean energy economy. This does not mean coal or nukes. Please put bunkhouses with soup in our cities. No-one should have to sleep under a bridge in America. No "great country" forces its citizens to do that.
Limbaugh TV Appearance discredits CNN, FOX and the Republican Party
Most Americans are not stupid, hateful or intellectually lazy enough to fall for the purile, misinformed tripe that spews forth from black-shirted Rush Limbaugh.
For those who are, I urgently encourage you to LEARN.
Read "It Can't Happen here" by Sinclair Lewis (1935) and see if any of that seems familiar today.
Learn about Father Coughlin and Joseph Goebbels.
Another publicly visible figure who vehemently hated "liberals" was Adolf Hitler. Why is this?
A Limbaugh in political office would be a tragedy for human beings everywhere. It would certainly mark the end of America.
" Dear Sir, The solution is right in front of us: the Sun. We can rally the efforts of our nation in the creation of a smart energy infrastructure based on solar-generated electricity and hydrogen batteries. It would put the country back to work. It would make grabbing the Caspian Region unnecessary. It would help us prevent the melting of Antarctica and Greenland and the resultant flooding of our largely littoral civilizations. Please be the first President to not just go with the flow, and give us some meaningful policy change. Use the Sun!
With Respect, Mark Frankenberg "
Another thing I could have added was the fact that we don't have to buy the Sun from anyone (this is why nobody in the commercial media is talking intelligently about it). http://www.AmericanWisdom.org
The Oath of Office is extremely important in all positions of public trust. I suspected that Roberts tried to trip up the new President a couple times while administering the oath, with the "faithfully" screw up, the "President to" wtf and the "so help you god" add-on. This doesn't make Roberts look Dumb, it makes him look deceitful.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com... " The Constitution says that a president-elect becomes the president automatically, at the stroke of noon on the appointed day, meaning that Barack Obama had already been president for a few minutes by the time he took the oath of office. " http://www.huffingtonpost.com...
Zeitgeist Addendum Producer "Interviewed" by Alex Jones
A friend of mine mentioned that Alex Jones (infowars.com) interviewed Peter Joseph, Producer of the Zeitgeist films recently, and noted to me that the interview didn't go very well.
Some of my observations about the interview (I grew irritated with it but stuck it through regardless) are:
1. Alex Jones apparently believes that human beings are programmed genetically to be competitive, while Peter Joseph emphasises the importance of nurture / surroundings.
2. Alex Jones believes global warming is "total crap".
3. Alex Jones is openly adversarial to his guest throughout the interview.
4. Peter Joseph maintains his cool after continuous, purile assaults and intentional interruptions, including having his microphone cut in mid sentence.
5. Alex Jones comes off as a champion of aggression, competition and might-makes-right, and is unwilling at any time to consider seriously the ideas Joseph presents in his films, deriding the notion of intellectual thought as "elitism". He also makes disdainful comments about people wearing sandals and those who would use their brains to the point of contemplating the redesign of society.
6. In this "Interview", Alex Jones wouldn't even TOUCH the details of the fraudulent, debt-based, fractional-banking fiat-money system that is outlined in great detail in the Zeitgeist movies, nor would he seriously look at the inherent scarcities and exploitations that are the foundation of it. He briefly mentioned fiat-money and the fed, but WOULDN'T GO THERE.
I agree with Alex Jones' caution about the dangers of a centralized society, but I think his un-thoughtful, short-sighted approach to Joseph and the Zeitgeist Movies make Jones look like a Limbaugh-Wannabee and I couldn't help wondering, exactly what bankers or oil people or elements of the Radical Christian Right are supporting Alex Jones? The same ones who supported Ron Paul? I know that various Hate Groups were among Ron Paul's supporters. Jones is from Texas too, after all.
Remember folks, without working government (which we don't have at present), rich crooks will enslave you.
I highly recommend the Zeitgeist films, and I suggest you look at the SYMPTOMS of the problems that Alex Jones painstakingly lays out in his materials, and I also recommend that you think outside the box and about the future.
Could part of the solution be..
Republic?
Not the bullshit we have today, but a true republic based on the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights, Ruled by We, the People? How about one based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? I suspect that would prompt Jones to go off on a rant about the U.N. He would have more credibility if he went after the WTO. Maybe elsewhere he does but I've heard two of his shows and just don't have the patience for it. I suspect that if he had more influence, McCain would have gotten in. Hmmmm?
Oh, another thing: Corporations are not people, and when you hear people braying about the second amendment, Mercenary companies are often behind it.
I'm not a wannabee Limbaugh. I'm not a wannabee Hartmann. I'm not running for office. I'm sharing what I got from it.
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