[ralfy]

Related:

"Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world"

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg ... the-world/

[onlooker]

Great find Ralfy. I may add that one can trace this confluence of corporations with banks back to the controlling interests of the House of Rothchilds in the Dutch East Indies Co. which is considered the first major transnational corporation. The Rothchilds holding pivotal roles thus in both banking and business.

[vox_mundi]

"Capitalism is institutionalised bribery."
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he problem is someone filled the heads of the 'excess population' with notions of 'rights' and 'equality', that somehow they 'deserve' a share. The reality is they have no rights, they are excess, and they have no share.

Only global notions of 'crimes against humanity' prevents their extermination, and that notion seems to only come out of the closet these days when some powerful nation want's to use it as a propaganda tool against some adversary. Don't expect it to protect the excess populations of the world for long.

No one has said where the poor will be evacuated to. It will be interesting to note where that will be and how many actually arrive.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '.').. under the terrorism provision there is a mandatory 5 year sentence
...
To me it is a lot like the three strikes law that forces mandatory sentences on petty drug offenders that get caught too often while our prisons are over crowded. The whole mandatory sentence process kind of makes the judge into a referee, not the person using experience and common sense to try and balance the scales of justice.

[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', '.').. under the terrorism provision there is a mandatory 5 year sentence
...
To me it is a lot like the three strikes law that forces mandatory sentences on petty drug offenders that get caught too often while our prisons are over crowded. The whole mandatory sentence process kind of makes the judge into a referee, not the person using experience and common sense to try and balance the scales of justice.

[onlooker]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'O')ur education system is has always been regimented, training for factory line work. We are the hoi-polloi and drudgery is out lot in life. Prison or wealth is for those who escape the Factory Farm.

[onlooker]

I like that Darth Nino haha, stay safe weather is getting weird.

[onlooker]

Yes because if their is one thing the intellectual and artistic classes fear is NO freedom of expression. So a subversive mindset risks having the heavy hand of Big government come down first and foremost on freedom of expression.

[onlooker]

You know if I may make an observation about you P, you seem to be a hybrid of intellectual/survivalist. Quite the combination.

[onlooker]

Their was another person who seemed to fall into both categories. The Unibomber. Unfortunately, he took a bad path as we all are aware of.

[Newfie]

Drivel.

Classic TPTB blaming some obtuse group, the "farmers." All whining about what others are doing to "poor me." Boo hoo. Where is the action, where is the verb, where is the resolution?

Here, read something about real freedom and see if you like it..

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8662 ... all_Income

Hers another truly free thinker, and doer.

http://www.amazon.com/Sea-Steading-Life ... 0595387586

These are folks who put there thoughts into action and really did something.

[onlooker]

Newfie while I applaud your sea faring experience and the willingness to go through with it, their are other forms of freedom including freedom of the mind. "To see the farm is to leave the farm". Anyway, happy voyaging

[Newfie]

It's not about seafaring, these happen to be the folks I'm familiar with. I'm sure there are many other landlocked folks who have been just as successful. You just don't hear about the. Because they are quietly living unassuming lives, in freedom.

The truth of that silly film is that the "herd" is the "herd" because that is what nerd animals do. They are not the slaves of the "farmer" any more than a queen bee subjugates the colony, they are two parts of one system.

Jarad Diamond do PES a good job of describing why some animals (cows) become domesticated and some (zebras) don't. One of the traits, a necessary trait. For domestication, is that the cows follow leadership, they troop along happily.

Humans are a self domesticated breed. It's In our genes to be what we are, as it's likely In our genes to blame someone else. What makes us such herd animals? Marriage, off spring and mortgages/debt. We get tied into that system by our owndoinfpg and then bemoan the fact while blaming someone else for our sad state of slavery. We aren't called "wage slaves" for nothing.

Yet there are those precious few who live otherwise, who do resist domestication. Some sail, many more do not, I suspect. My cousin, the Cesarian Abbot, may well be one. None are financially rich. Many lead rich lives.

But rise to the challange of your films final lines, if you are so inclined.

But please quit whining.

[onlooker]

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg ... the-world/
AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.