Global corporations are ruthless, amoral entities generally run by ruthless, amoral, very rich, very insulated executives, regardless of the product or service. This is neoliberal capitalism at its purest. The ONLY WAY to slow this rapacious trend, let alone turn it around, is to recognize the acute difference between the people of the world being victimized by these policies and the elite governments that are facilitating them, and in the process betraying the common interests of their constituents. While there is still a remote chance, these elites have to be replaced in office by people with vision and courage to make structural and paradigmatic changes in the government's priorities and operations.

When it manifests here in the loss of homes, rising food prices, record fuel costs and rates of increase, profound corruption and tax avoidance, goverment bailouts for the rich and "let-them-eat-cake" for ordinary citizens, soap opera elections and propaganda disguised as journalism, it is the emerging vanguard of major economic catastrophe, a perfect storm no one politician can stave off with soothing rhetoric or empty promises. The shit has already broken the fan.

Despite the chaos of the 1960's, the riots in the streets, the demonstrations all over this country, the destruction of property, the loss of life in the Viet Nam war and here at home (Kent State), there was a galvanized energy among the mostly young citizenry, a driving passion to challenge and speak truth to power in huge numbers, to reverse the course of this nation away from the insanity of that war and its consequences. Without such driving energy, we're stuck in a dark version of the movie "Pleasantville", where we stand by helplessly, powerless, as our government continues its unchecked imperialism, the "opposition" remains paralyzed or apathetic, and our society further regresses back to 19th century Social Darwinism, except with cell phones and omnipresent pornography.

I'll have died of illness or old age by the time this happens, but you'll have to live in this Bizarro future. Do something soon, or kiss your ass, along with the Constitution and your personal freedom, goodbye. Next stop, Rwanda Redux. What ahppened there can--easily--happen here.

Haiti is a good example, there are no old people there the median age is 26 and a mere 3% of the population is 65 or older. The same thing in Viet Nam although the median age is a little higher. Iraq will be next...no history but a young work force that doesn't know any better. Haiti is a good example because they were subsistance farmers with an intact social structure...now they export thier resources and starve.

As the author reports, it is immoral and wrong for the companies and particularly the speculators, to be making the immense profits they are, off of the backs of the poor, and destitute. Is it any real surprise though, the free enterprise system, for the large companies, is not free enterprise at all, but a totalitarian fifedom, designed and legislated into existence to benefit only a few, and those few seem to have very little conscience. Money has become their god and they do not care who gets harmed or killed in their quest for higher profits, or greater market share. There is a God and my guess is He won't allow this kind of evil to go on without some retribution.

Let's see. Am I surprised?
We shall reap what we are busily sowing. The depths of corruption and indifference of which people are capable is starting to shock even those who have been apathetic up to now.

no wonder the rich want the Cuban system to collapse, and along with it a food industry which is thriving and exposes the modbidity of what the rich offer us.

Yes, let's see.
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We have a treacherous government, a politically cowardly or bought off opposition, complicit -- if not by their words, then by their silence -- media, a silent church,and an apparently disinterested or inert electorate. All of which leaves the people, Americans and around the world, at the mercy of the greed and power goons. We have exactly what we deserve and it will remain as it is or probably get worse until we suffer the inconvenience and discomfort of DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Exactly ncycat. All you have to do is pay f attention and then get damn angry. Every where you turn, you are getting screwed in one form or another. Can't go anywhere anymore because of the gas, you are cutting back on unnecessary groceries, oh yes, you no longer have insurance and your house payment is in default. We are embedded in this world crisis and still I see people in this country just sitting back complacently like it hasn't hit home yet. I used to hear the old "it has to hit them in the pockets before they pay attention," well hello. We are all in this as deep as we can be while the fat cats are still on top getting richer laughing their way to the bank as they take food from our tables.

Wow. What a surprise. And it just sprang up, fully formed, right out of the blue like that - boom! and nobody was expecting that would happen. Nobody could have seen that coming. After all, 35 years isn't enough time to catch on to the shell game, is it?

Where the blinketyblank have all the watchdogs been all this time? Hasn't it been glaringly obvious for some time now that you really shouldn't trust the fox to guard the hen house (no matter how charming the pro-corporate fairytale)?

First, you need to stop drinking the anti-government koolaid. The government is you - see to it that the people you hire do their job properly, that is, take care of business for you the way you want it done. Shift the dynamic. Reclaim it. Be vigilant. The govt is not your nanny, it's your servant. Stop paying attention to the "anti-government" manifesto because the corporations are the biggest welfare queens around. That whole anti-government gospel was a big manipulation. And they're laughing at you, and not just for falling for it over and over. Remember Enron's comments on grannies and the manufactured power failures and how they laughed? Remember how they laughed at you then? Newsflash: they still are. It's the same laugh you hear from the mugger in the street.

This is it - the ruling spirit of our age - you are plunder, nothing more than farm animals, criminals by default, deadbeats, cannon fodder, needy, fearful little ids to be pushed around.

The corporate predators must be leashed again. The shorter the chain the better. If global starvation, drought, environmental depletion, degradation aren't enough to show you that the system is faulty to the core and killing people, and to mobilize you, you need a brick upside the head.

It was government action that gave your parents and grandparents the good life you resent them for now. Their mistake was their lack of vigilance coupled with complacency. You must see to getting your government back shaped the way you want it, and you will be able to end these rapacious practices that are killing millions. And become citizens again.

There will be blood.

To the neo-con's is what capitalism is all about folks.....

It takes the meaning of capitalism from economic system of private ownership of capital to profit at the expense of others. They believe what they are doing is their God given right and they will kill millions and denounce anyone who thinks otherwise.

The age of soylent green is upon us. how sad is that.

progress-regress -- "It means we tell foreign creditors to take a hike "

Really ? So we take their money and ask them to f__k off ? We take over Iraq and their oil and ask them to f__k off. We do what we bloody well feel like and ask them to f__k off. It seems to me we ARE really practicing a form of National Socialism of the variety practiced by Germany in the 40's. Might is right ... screw the world. This head in the ass attitude fits our collective persona like a glove.

Youre comments on this forum and the others are a reflection of your inner right-wing, zionist, ultra-conservative, isolationist asswipe attitude.

The first step in Changing the process that got us Here, would be in my View,For Congress to pass 100% Public Campaign Finance legislation. This would be first step of many. the Next step would to establish A counter balance to Corporate Power, allow Labor Unions the right to Organize workers. Labor Unions have changed over the years, they support not only Issues that directly effect there members, you may find them supporting local Envirnmentalist, Or anti-war activists. Thats what I mean by Counter balance.

Kill them, the heads of the oil companies, and the heads of the health insurance companies. Throw in some defense contractors.

We need national socialism in this country. I wish you lefties would wake up. You are right about the economy and about these corporate scum, but you have no solution. You even support some aspects of globalism like illegal immigration. We need to seal our borders and defend our culture to the death.

Neo-con's defintion of capitalism: a social and economic system which enslaves man by stripping them of life neccessites and free will.

Another shock, per Naomi Klein, is brewing today, shocks beings times when social norms are more or less dynamited into fluidity, creating the opportunity for a redirection of public opinion and the institution of new agendas. The shock will be the economic crunch, thousands more homeless people, thousands more hungry and unable to access health care or the basic necessities of life. The crime rate will soar, law enforcement will become increasingly draconian and brutal, and Americans will, for the first time in their pampered history since 1929, find themselves in a state of desperation. We have a history of anger and violence when our well being is threatened, so look for the social fabric, our "domestic tranquillity," to come somewhat unglued. We'll be looking for somebody to blame, so there, according to Medusa, would be our opportunity to reach the exasperation point with predatory corporations and pull their fangs.

The trouble with seeing this as means to liberating our hostage society, is that "we", the people who supposedly "own" the government, are still a disorganized rabble. Social opportunism is getting to be an exact science for the people who hold the megaphones, and the crowd (a notoriously gullible beast) will go after whatever scapegoat these professionals point us to. If you believe there is a limit to our credulity, I can only refer you to the fact that most Americans believe a satisfactory explanation for 911 and our Mideast wars lies in the existence of a Batman comic book archvillain named Osama bin Laden who lives in a cave and directs a shadowy worldwide army of freedom hating necrophiliacs to destroy good republicans everywhere. "We" had better get a damn sight more organized and globally cohesive before I will have any faith in the just comeuppance of Exxon et al. Sometimes catastrophic privation gives us a Thomas Jefferson and sometimes it gives us a Hitler. It all depends on who grabs the microphone.

Progress: "You are right about the economy and about these corporate scum, but you have no solution."

We are the solution to the problems we all face. We have the numbers, let us do something big. Anything. Something, please.

Progress, for example, has got the microphone and suggests we bring back swastikas and target Mexican immigrants.

Let's face it once Bush makes the Federal Reserve controller and owner of this countries wealth we all becomes slaves. They own this country and the governmnent are their puppets. They screw us just as they screw the world. Don't blame us progressives. It is going take the entire country united to change it.

It will take at least 3/4 of the population of this country to change it. Everyone feels threatens by this change so no one is taking the iniative. This upcoming election is just another sham, nothing is going to change. If anything this country will further go down the drain. I guess it is going to have to totally collapse before something is done about it.

Ahh, it will be so good when water gets privatized so that is can be fairly distributed. The profits that is, split fairly between the politicians and the corporate powers.

What's not to like? Why shouldn't we the taxpayer bail out the corporations whenever they have a loss, yet not share the wealth when they profit obscenely.

Nader addresses this problem. Hillary, Obama, McCain don't. Go figure.

Let's face it I don't get a dime without the government knowing about it. I can't imagine that this doesn't get to people, especially business people. I mean, if someone knows every move you make how do you rise above those who are out to destroy you? This whole country just gets to me.

I think there should be a science experiment. One with rats that get abused all the time and one with rats that get their needs met and publically show how they act towards one another. The lack of intelligence in this country flores me. I might have dyslexia and it might show up in my writing but most of what I read purely doesn't make any sense at all.

Making Sense out of Nonsense

First, the non-sense:

"There are too many people and not enough resources."

Second, making sense of it:

1) Remove indigenous peoples from ancestral lands, resources and lifestyles.

2) Put fences around them so that overcrowding occurs. Deny them access to anything outside the fenced area including food, water & shelter. Bring limited quantities of basic necessities to the fenced area. And then tell them:

a) This is a situation of overcrowding.

b) We do not have sufficient resources.

c) We must create some order (police state) to insure fair rationing.

d) And… a system to reward those most deserving (competition for 'limited resources' with valuations decided by elite self-interests).

There are many proofs that can amply demonstrate that this is the most basic two-step principle of elitist domination as well as how those dominated come to 'understand' their chances for personal 'success.'

______________ Example _____________

The 12 Myths of Hunger

(excerpt copied from http://www.foodfirst.org/en/12myths)

Why so much hunger?

What can we do about it?

To answer these questions we must unlearn much of what we have been taught.
Only by freeing ourselves from the grip of widely held myths can we grasp the roots of hunger and see what we can do to end it.

Myth 1: "Not Enough Food to Go Around"

Reality: Abundance, not scarcity, best describes the world's food supply. Enough wheat, rice and other grains are produced to provide every human being with 3,500 calories a day. That doesn't even count many other commonly eaten foods - vegetables, beans, nuts, root crops, fruits, grass-fed meats, and fish. Enough food is available to provide at least 4.3 pounds of food per person a day worldwide: two and half pounds of grain, beans and nuts, about a pound of fruits and vegetables, and... enough to make most people fat! The problem is that many people are too poor to buy readily available food. Even most "hungry countries" have enough food for all their people right now. Many are net exporters of food and other agricultural products.

Please go to http://www.foodfirst.org/en/12myths to learn about all the myths, including the Overpopulation Myth.

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And remember, the original and most destructive MYTH of all is: Humans Are Omnivores.

The Fact is that Humans Are Herbivores with a nature determined place in a naturally abundant ecology.

So, how does the empire best obscure these ecological facts? By the systematic destruction of natural habitats such as the burning of the rainforests. Until they are ALL gone, someone might figure it out, that nature really did abundantly provide for humans just as it provided for every other functioning member of the ecology.

The Herbivore Awareness Project http://allinharmony.org

There are many proofs that can amply demonstrate that this is the most basic two-step principle of elitist domination as well as how those dominated come to 'understand' their chances for personal 'success.'

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But people want to be controlled by their government...that is something I WILL NEVER, EVER, NEVER, EVER understand.

My God in heaven the IRS is SO deceptive.

Vox, excuse me? I didn't say anything about targeting mexicans, and I certainly have no response to you calling me a nazi.

National socialism doesn't mean nazis, it means government acts in the economic interests of the country, and that if these interests conflict with those of multi-national corporations, the government wins and not the corporations. It means we tell foreign creditors to take a hike and we hunker down and deal with the effects for a decade or so. It means government controls certain key industries like health care, water and food production/distribution, and heavy industry. It means we say screw the global economy and work on the american economy. It also means, yes, closed borders.

I should have made that clearer.....I don't know why anyone would want to have their money controlled by the government and interest free no less. This will NEVER be brought about in the Corporate media.

It seems that anything that comes about that should be made for progress is actually being made to be used against us. Women's rights were abused. The latest development......computers. I hardly want to go on it anymore.

Regress,

Can you be so incredibly dense to really not know what kind of baggage comes with the term 'national socialism?'

Perhaps this will help:

Na·zi 1. a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party of Germany, which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural, economic, and political activities of the people, and promulgated belief in the supremacy of Hitler as Führer, aggressive anti-Semitism, the natural supremacy of the German people, and the establishment of Germany by superior force as a dominant world power. The party was officially abolished in 1945 at the conclusion of World War II.
2. (often lowercase) a person elsewhere who holds similar views.

[Origin: 1925–30; < G Nazi(ionalsozialist) National Socialist]

But, you DO know what that term really means, don't you Regress? So maybe you aren't a LITERAL nazi, meaning you do not belong to a German political party banned since 1945. But you'd like to see their agenda translated and updated for 21st century America, wouldn't you?

Record oil and Ag company profits. Off shore hiding of defense contractor profits...

Any chance this is the last grab for the money before Marshal Obama cleans up Dodge? He's gonna have at least one "high noon" episode if he wants to "change" all this BS.

Progress, do you think that there might be a twin dimension in the spirit world? Could you see having to get a passport from God in order to go to Russia?

I honestly believe in capitalism but NOT "corporate welfare".

04 May 2008 18:15:03 GMT
Source: Reuters
JERUSALEM, May 4 (Reuters) - The United Nations is set to halt delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip on Monday because its vehicles have run out of fuel, a U.N. official said.

Gaza has been facing a fuel shortage because of Israeli restrictions on supplies and a strike by Palestinian fuel distributors.
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Does this mean that, thanks to Rice and the Jews, there will be one and a half million fewer mouths to feed?

Study world history more.

Hitler was sent on a COINTELPRO style mission (http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9905a/jbcointelpro.html ) for the German army (under the direction of Kaiser Wilhelm, Queen Victoria's grandson) when he began attending the meetings of one of Germany's socialist parties.

Hitler's rise to power was also a matter of international participation... a drama coach was hired to train him. A eugenics tutor was sent from England to prepare him in the 'his' new philosophy of eugenics...

Following WWII, all human experimental data and findings were distributed to the ruling elite throughout Europe. Additional funding was made available for refinements to these experiments and new venues/opportunities for continuing even in the US (research: MK-Ultra and Paperclip) were established.

The CIA was formed also from remnants of the German SS and today works hand in hand with other secret services including MI6 in matters of information control and disinfo, surveillance programs, terrorist training and selection, the world wide drug trade, arms smuggling, currency scams (such as the one perpetrated in Argentina not so long ago)…

Gladio operations throughout Europe depended heavily to CIA and German Nazi expertise. These operations are not unique to Europe but have been a feature of empire for millennia ("by deception you will make war") and (by deception the people will be made to fear freedom and demand more police control... 9/11 is a good case in point but small local operations are being run through FBI's tactical offices; http://www.copi.com/articles/guyatt/gladio.html and http://www.monitor.net/monitor/9905a/jbcointelpro.html)

The secret services protect, bolster and help extend the rule of the corporate/military elite order; who have ruled in Africa, Asia, South America, Europe, etc. for quite sometime. It is a Nazi model of government and it is based upon genocidal policies to maintain elite rule.

Progress - I am sorry I called you a nazi. We could do with less invective labeling and more solutions. I also think multinational corporations are today's bad guys, and if they are not controlled by government then I don't know who will do it. However government can also be the bad guy if it is owned by private interests (as per real nazis) and does not really represent the peoples' interests. The nationalization of health care and essential industries sounds attractive to me if it could be done as many Europeans have, with the interests of the population foremost both in the system and in the minds of public servants. I worry that we will not be able to shake a history of profiteering banditry. We have a positive instinct to become robber barons, and to turn pubic service into private monopoly.

Globalization, unless we dismantle all communication technology and go back to village life, is probably inevitable at this point. I don't think it is necessarily a bad thing, even though it is monstrous in its present form. If food distribution and trade were conducted, as per the ideal national system, in the interests of populations rather than profiteers, it would be fine with me. Isolationism is unhealthy and smacks of fear. Why not engage with the world in some capacity different from domination? We need a world in which mutual interest trumps self interest, and universal security assures national security. Don't ask me how we get there from here.

I live on the border, and I have a subjective response to the border closing mentality. I have no problem with the mixing of cultures. If I may relapse into invective, the people I meet who favor a border fence have been, without exception, thinly disguised racists. They tend to be uneducated, uncharitable, defensive xenophobes, stingy, myth-ridden right wing paranoids, every single one of them, especially after you get to know them better. Like I said, it's a personal aversion to a nasty streak in otherwise nice people of my acquaintance, standard arguments pro and con notwithstanding. I am afraid of Dick Cheney. I will not be afraid of a Mexican immigrant.

Its time to fight back, or shall you all lay down and die? stop paying the government,and vote every incumbent out. get be hind what you say and feel. That's what our constitution say's we can do,even the highest court in the land ,has turned its back on us. Its main job is to decide what our constition means, but refusses to hear our calls to tell us what the last ten words mean. We want our grievances heard,and to hold our government accountable,also to withhold our support,but this tyrannical government,has gone too far and we the people need to make them pay.

Why is it that in France the government is afraid of the people and in the USA, the people are afraid of the government? Let's all get off our collective asses and act. None can do it alome.

Capitalist corporations are soon going to reap their just rewards. Starving people will rise up and take back that which belongs to them by force.

Capitalism, which worships greed, is destroying itself. May its end come quickly. May all those who've made billions via exploitation become paupers and get a taste of what they've inflicted on millions of powerless people!

Capitalism is a cancer!

Why on earth should any of this be a surprise? It's simply corporate capitalism working as it's designed to do.

Milton Friedman, the god of neoliberalism, went so far as to say that any corporation failing to maximize profits should be sued by stockholders.

Nothing personal, just business.

"Milton Friedman, the god of neoliberalism, went so far as to say that any corporation failing to maximize profits should be sued by stockholders."

Speaking of Uncle Miltie ( yes he was my uncle and no I wasnt to blame) I remember sitting at the dining room table at my Grandpa's house listening to Milton exposit on the food business. He noted that ( and this was in the fifties) the average family paid exactly the same percentage of income for food that they did in 1910. He fully expected that this would change dramatically....wrong by only a few decades

http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0502-12.htm

This stuff is beginning to be really obvious.

The corporation is an interesting phenomenon (i.e. The East India Company… how did it acquire its monopoly… and who protected it?)
... a vehicle whereby the owners (shareholders) are effectively shielded from personal accountability for any 'externalities'...

…and the actual owners may be anyone; hiding behind an investment group; or another corporate entity or a stand-in financial agent.

Furthermore, the degree of criminality, conspiracy, even murder that is planned at the highest levels (shrouded in secrecy) of corporate pyramids would astound most...

... e.g. genocide in Indonesia to set the stage for revision to a slave economy with an obscenely wealthy upper class...

The conspiracies of some of the major corporate players; Rockefeller, GE, GM, United Fruit are truly outrageous... and our political, military, academic institutions and secret services fully support their actions.

Recently, an excellent expose on the machinations of Monsanto and the threat its GMO program poses for all life was removed from Google video.

The video is called "The World According to Monsanto"... in which you will discover that hunger is actually a managed and desired outcome of corporate policy... "strategic" as one woman says...

Capitalism? Communism? Socialism? Islamic State? Yeah right! Iran was being run by German secret services during the time that the CIA had its hands full directing the war room in Iraq.

This is not a 'free-wheeling' situation. It is highly controlled. Genocide... find out what it means in all its aspects... then take another look... who is deciding? With whom are they conspiring... forego the disinfo sources of the elite... including the false histories that are written for mass consumption and mass manipulation and deception called text books.

I think this may be the leading edge of the invisible hand of Malthus. If we didn't have so many rich farmers on welfare, corporate interests to defend, and Arabs on top of our oil to deal with, maybe we could really do something truly constructive.

We are about to witness famine caused by movement of commodity via WTO agreement.

Prof. Amitrya Sen has published economic analysis why faminies happened in 20th century. It was dicovered that the commodity moved to where people could afford the high prices. The movement of commodity was regional.

This famine will be caused by movement of commodity produced in poor country being shipped to rich countries under the guise of WTO agreement. The movement of commodity will be international.

We in rich countries with empathy for this disaster must put pressure on this movement of food stuff across international borders. Most affective pressure will be to boycott food grown outsite our own borders. Reduced demand will turn this tide.

I don't see this as boycott against farmers, rather boycott against traders who are inclined to take advatange of food shortage.

Good luck to all who read this.

Please read the article 'Perhaps 60% of today's oil price is pure speculation' at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ENG20080502&articleId=8878
It is about "the US Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) which states, "Excessive speculation in any commodity under contracts of sale of such commodity for future delivery . . . causing sudden or unreasonable fluctuations or unwarranted changes in the price of such commodity, is an undue and unnecessary burden on interstate commerce in such commodity."" However the article explains a giant loophole to this act which is allowing the speculation that is driving the price of oil and basic commodities up. Money that had been invested in this whole subprime mortgage mess is now diverted to speculation on commodities... And may end up killing many people.

wait until the chickens come home to roost - then maybe America will wake up

So much for the Global Economy and multinational monopolies...

This might sound crazy, but does anyone consider NOT participating with the drama and strife? I decided a long time again that THIS is not MY Reality. Don't let them fool you into believing you HAVE to be a "member of society".

(What is that, anyway? I didn't help build this society.)

This Age is passing. Let it go. We don't have to be limited and angry about it.

What can you do in the interim? I stopped flooding the Collective Consciousness with fear- and/or drama-based karmic patterns. Instead of focusing on all the things I was against, I thought about everything I was FOR.

So, instead of getting sick to your stomach raging against the FDA, Iraqis shot in their sleep or the birds, bees, bats and amphibians all dying...visualize a world you would be proud and ecstatic to live in. Live that vision. Imagine It, and Live It. It has been 10 years that I first tried "Living Heaven", and let me tell you, doing what makes you happy every second of every day gets easier every single time you do it.

STOP GM FOOD

GM crops are part of the problem, not part of the solution.

In one week in April 1999 all major European food manufacturers went GM free. This can happen in the USA.

This is a lot of very interesting of reading, but click on this item and then read/scroll down and find how "Grassroots Consumer Action Could Halt Use of GM Crops in US"
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_10691.cfm

People are starving while elites are gorging. Everyone is asking what to do, what to do? Well, you have to have a goal, right? Try land, water, and food rights for all. And K-12 civics class for all, including a lesson that first explains through stories how various communities were victimized by their dependence upon elites for food. Then it develops the reasons for citizens to place land, water, food security at the top of their civic priorities, and explains how to achieve them and keep them.

Last week they said biofuels were starving the people. This week it's the multinationals. At least they are making progress and moving their finger closer to the real culprits - the elites themselves who are running the show, and the people who enable the elites by doing exchange/association with them. If you'd like to contribute in an individual way, you can shift your exchange/association away from the elites and toward your local community.

The wikipedia article on speculation quotes the lamest rationalization - something like speculation cushions supply/demand transients. That's like saying after you've been in an accident, and the hospital has managed to stop the bleeding, a speculator should suck your blood to smooth out the abrupt changes in blood loss. There's really no legitimate reason for speculation or any of the elites' business activities. The elites SHOULD be starving for business - then we will have nirvana.

"...Try land, water, and food rights for all. And K-12 civics class for all, including a lesson that first explains through stories how various communities were victimized by their dependence upon elites for food. Then it develops the reasons for citizens to place land, water, food security at the top of their civic priorities, and explains how to achieve them and keep them."

I really like this. And, it is really easy and there is actually NO reason NOT to do it. In fact, we Have to do it!

"This might sound crazy, but does anyone consider NOT participating with the drama and strife? I decided a long time again that THIS is not MY Reality. Don't let them fool you into believing you HAVE to be a "member of society"".

I am truly trying to make that effort, but society has a way of discouraging this kind of life. It makes you secretive and evil.

"If I may relapse into invective, the people I meet who favor a border fence have been, without exception, thinly disguised racists. They tend to be uneducated, uncharitable, defensive xenophobes, stingy, myth-ridden right wing paranoids, every single one of them, especially after you get to know them better."

I have to agree with this other poster that people can't seem to stop trying to control other people's lives. They can't seem to accept anyone different than themselves. This is happening within our country. What is frightening is the force that is being used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToyZZ8AFxUU