Vandana Shiva is simply brilliant and a true face for tenacious courage.

Beautiful! If there was a President of the World....I would vote for her! The 3 Ghandian points she makes at the end....self governance, self sustaining agriculture, speaking truth to power....all requiring bravery and dedication. These are the keys to our ability to survive this corporate takeover of our world.

The irony is that what makes her beautiful and brilliant is that she would never consent to be President of the World. The three Ghandian points would make the possibility of such a position an abomination in her eyes. I agree that these three points are the key for all of us to follow in our resistance to the corporate state.

“The power of the state joining with private corporation is a new phenomena we see post globalization. When government is closely married to big money and starts to serve big money then it will inevitably disenfranchise ordinary people of their freedom and rights similar to a fascist state.”

As a college student currently studying in Washington D.C., I can see through observation how collectively aware people are becoming of what has become a Corporate State. The anti-corporate sentiment is brewing and the fall of the Corporate State will come sometime soon. However it will not originate nor propagate easily on this side of the globe.

Key quote: "We Americans are actually being colonized by our corporations."

Isn't she extraordinary! Just slowly breath in and out, meditating on that brilliant and energetic mindset of hers. It's just beautiful and profoundly courageous!

There is a growing awareness of the of the next phase of human political evolution,the corporate state. The destructive potential of corporations has been know and discussed for centuries. A lot of the current discussion seams to be based on the concept of going down the wrong path, taking the wrong direction. From the time we first used a twig or a stone as a tool technological development was inevitable. Can we say that it was avoidable or the wrong path? The industrial revolution has been a very brutal experience for the human race. Could we have avoided it? Have there been any benefits? Any lessons learned? When we are exploited to death, does it really matter whether it was done by a monarchy, a nation state, or a corporate empire? Whether they kill you on purpose or by accident your still dead. If it were agreed upon by everyone that a certain corporation needed to be brought to an end, no other action need be taken than to simply stop using their product. No corporation can withstand that,and would cease to exist. Each of us have power in our actions. The corporate structure seeks to dis empower it's customers and any opposition to it's goals. This is a lesson we can learn from them. The way forward is to teach ourselves to understand our power as individuals and it's limitations, and to teach corporations that their existence and future depend upon there serving our needs not the other way around. The corporation is a powerful organizational structure. We must use it like fire to warm our house not burn it down. Lets start a new holiday across the entire planet. A day that all the workers take off and gather together and raise our voices to proclaim to corporations and governments that they exists to serve us not the other way around. Would someone like Vandana Shiva be willing to help to make this holiday a reality?

FREE AMERICA

REVOLUTIONARY (DIRECT) DEMOCRACY

I enthusiastically agree with everything this wonderful woman said. We desperately need the manifestation of Evolution from dependence through independence to trans-egoic INTERDEPENDENCE, a re-union with alienated nature and Nature. However, we will need leadership, a WISE leadership.

Here's a powerful film to use as a primer on corporations--where they get their power and how to change that.
http://www.thecorporation.com/index.cfm?page_id=46

What a wonderful person! I was nodding agreement so hard my hat fell off. She makes me want to be a better man.

Dr Suersh Deman, http://newsviews-raceclass.blodspot.com
Saturday, 10 July 2010
CNN: CHRISTIAN AMANPOUR ON FARMERS SUICIDES IN INDIA - NEO-LIBERAL POLICIES
FORHRIGHT PHYSICIST SHIVA
Vs
EVASIVE ECONOMIST BHAGWATI

The World Bank and IMF have been instrumental in influencing public policy in the Third World countries either directly through neo liberal economists or indirectly through recruitment of young ambitious scholars from India and the Indian subcontinent as a long term strategy. In fact, many of these young scholars were made experts of Indian Political Economy overnight in America although they have little to do with Indian political economy except for actively endorsing the American Foreign Policy line. In fact, most of the Third World countries were either compelled to bowed down to American pressure or their leadership was removed from the face of history (Noriega, Sadam Hussein, etc.) for daring to challenge American hegemony with the exception of China, Cuba, North Korea, Zimbabwe, etc. Professor Noam Chomsky of MIT, though not an [Economist] or Political Scientist, summarized American Foreign Policy very eloquently as follows:

"We are your masters and you shine our shoes. Any weaker enemy has to be crushed so that the right lessons are taught" [see, Noam Chomsky's article in Guardian Weekly 1991].

The Economic Pyramid CTC3
______CONSUMER
_____RECREATION
____COMMUNICATION
___TRANSPORTATION
__BUSINESS
_INDUSTRY
AGRICULTURE
|SOIL|MINERALS|FOREST|WATER|
|WIND|SOLAR|GEOTHERMAL|ETC.|
Our economy rest on a base of natural resources.
Conservation is the wise-use, management, & development of the Earths natural resources.
Conservation (going green) is needed at all levels of the Economic Pyramis!!!
CONSUMER POWER Vs. CORPORATE POWER!!!

THE HUMAN UNION---HU ARE YOU.

Membership---Everybody is already in it. Call your Chamber of Commerce to opt out.
Rejoin at any time.
Dues---Pay it forward with solidarity, common sense and good will.
Leadership---Apache nantan, talk it up, see what happens.
Tactics---Peaceful, Speaking Truth to Power, Resist, Occupy, Produce.
Goals---Fair pay, Fair play, Justice under the Law, Benefits to the Seventh Generation. No War.
One Planet, One People.
IF NOT NOW---WHEN?

Each little bit helps. I guess we do what we can individually until one day we look over and we are doing it beside someone. The corporate drives us apart, divides us into the highest number of consuming units. In doing so it destroys society, community, family and, eventually, civilization.

The corporation is anti-life, anti-human, and Anti-Christ.

Did you think the A-C would be flesh and blood?

Excellent comments, all. Being in the Philippines, I can see firsthand how the so-called ideal espoused by Ayn Rand and her followers (and most of the neo-conservatives embrace it), has actually limited the evolution of the so-called 3rd World economies. Rather, we now have an
overlay: 3 distinct classes--abject poor (the largest majority) who have little political clout, a surging middle class who are more focused on consumerism, and a very small, but wealthy percentage of the population which controls over 90% of the wealth.

This is the path that the United States is headed down. Stop listening to Faux Noues and the hate-mongers on "right wing" radio. What is being taken for truth is dividing us even more!

I love listening to Vandana..especially when she is trashing Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. Me, I'd just call them capitalist pigs and insert a whole bunch of four letter words. Vandana has a knack for very eloquently stating what a crock of sheeeet Gates and Buffet are attempting to sell us.

On another note, I felt like I was watching an infomercial. In my humble opinion this only cheapens the message of a great woman.