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Persons interested in this topic should also look at these articles. They propose one possible solution to the limitations and 'evils' of our current economic model.

http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_a_new_beginning
http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_a_new_beginning_part_2
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http://www.ascentofhumanity.com posted 06/27/2008 at 13:13:44

Yes, amazing how, every time there's a problem, regulation is put in place....and the problem goes away. The problem is not regulation (although too much is bad, certainly). What happens is people get more money, and more influence, during the good times, and get rid of regulation so they can exercise their greed and make even more money. People somehow believe that a logorithmic curve is a good thing. They forget that the regulation played a *key* part in making the economy stable enough, and fair enough, that *everyone* could make some money...not just the people at the top of the pyramid. So, the call goes out for deregulation, talking about the fact that it is getting in the way of them making money. However, it is almost always the case that the methods the regulation are getting in the way of are regulated *precisely because* they are unstable. They produce short term gain with a long-term cost that is unsustainable. Invariably, those playing these "games" know this, and their only solution is to try to put the long-term cost off on someone else, while keeping the short-term gain for themselves. They are literally, to quote another; socializing losses of companies, while privatizing the gains. The public pays for their failures, and the executives and administrators reap the rewards of the successes.

Really stop and think about that. posted 04/01/2008 at 13:42:43

To truly understand the scope of the problem, I encourage all of you to investigate the term "petrodollar". Wikipedia has a limited entry on it, but several good articles in the external links section to begin with. The hole we are in is unfathomably deep, and we are dangerously close to a tipping point that could see the dollar become worth about as much as the yen in a matter of months, if things continue to play out as they have been.

The rich will be okay: they have seen it coming, and will have plenty of euros to keep themselves wealthy whatever happens. We need to stand up and take notice of the real reasons behind what our government is doing in the Middle-East.

Oil is only half the reason. World reserve currency. That's what we are really fighting for. posted 04/01/2008 at 13:20:10

Musolini himself once said, "Fascism could more accurately be called Corporatism." It is the control of the government by corporations. Here is the critical problem with it:

People who get involved with politics and the government have, at least ostensibly, a vested interest in the "common good." In a well set-up system, there is some level of oversight and transparency, those who break public trust can be removed. They are public servants.

People at the head of corporations are in it purely for their own profit. They most typically got where they are by stepping on the heads of others. It is the ability to cause another to suffer for one's own gain, with no feeling for remorse, that allows them to ascend to the heights of administrative and executive power within the corporate sector. They serve no one and nothing but the bottom line, and only that because it serves themselves.

We cannot trust corporations with the common good. We can only trust politicians because we have oversight and transparency with them. As we lose that, trust will erode; because it is easier for the greedy to infiltrate the halls of policymakers. Greed has its place. But greed is not what makes humanity great: that is our ability to see our best interest in the best interest of others. Our community spirit is, as much as anything, what allowed us to rise above our humble beginnings. United we stand. Divided we fall. Don't forget. posted 03/28/2008 at 16:40:03

the process is being gamed. the military-industrial-banking syndicate, as usual in the past 4 elections, has stacked the deck by having a candidate on each side. they want either hillary or mccain. either one will continue deregulation and the rollback of new deal policies, continuing to open the way for a truly corporate state. if hillary isn't going to win, then she will stay in the race and continue to ratchet up the rhetoric and polemic, make the primary as divisive as possible; that way mccain will win the presidential race instead of obama. posted 03/26/2008 at 14:47:29

the powers that be want either hillary or mccain. if hillary can't get the nomination, she will stay in the race as long as possible, and make it as incendiary as possible, to fragment the party so mccain can win.

and if, by some miracle, obama wins, then, in the words of bill hicks, they'll "take him into a dark, smoky room with the heads of industry, and show him a film of the kennedy assassination from an angle he's never seen." and then they'll give him his schedule, and send him out the door with a friendly pat on the rear. its just easier for them to work with someone who agrees with them ideologically. but they'll get what they want, one way or the other.

beware the military industrial complex and the central banking system. follow the money. everything else is just smoke and mirrors. posted 03/25/2008 at 14:58:22

ah, i see. we either think o'reilly is right, or we think that rev. wright is. good of you to point out our choices so clearly. posted 03/24/2008 at 15:26:04

i encourage all of you to look up the term 'petrodollar'. you will find that, historically, opec nations have accepted only us dollars in return for oil. the fed, who prints all of our money, gets a percentage of all money ordered from it. with oil such an absurdly necessary commodity, purchased in such vast quantities, the bankers at the top are making more money than is realistically comprehensible. in 2000, iraq began accepting euros. in 2003, we invaded. iran has begun to accept euros. and, virtually immediately, rhetoric began regarding invading them. clockwork.

incidentally, if enough nations begin to take euros, the value of the dollar falls. as it falls, more people will take the euro instead, and the dollar will become worth even less. we have already seen some of this spiral in action, set off by the credit crises. if it gets bad enough, everything in your bank account will become worth virtually nothing. we are watching the very financial basis of our entire nation (and, to a degree, the world) unravel before our very eyes. i'm not necessarily saying they won't be able to fix it (although my doubts grow every day), but we are definitely living in interesting times.
follow the money. posted 03/24/2008 at 14:43:50

try to schedule a protest these days. you will be directed to an official "free-speech zone", far away from anyone that has anything to do with what you are protesting. not that prostesting really does anything. disobediance, preferably civil (we mustn't become what we despise), is the only thing that will change anything. but, for that, you have to be willing to do without. and no one is, anymore. the pandering/depriving polarity of our society, where we are treated like slaves at work and kings at our leisure, has fully paid off in full for those who have been carefully crafting the society in which we live to create corporate slaves. people whose lives are empty voids which they will try desperately to fill with commodity and luxury after commodity and luxury. posted 03/24/2008 at 14:30:40

I've wrestled with reality for 28 years; and, I'm happy to say, I finally won out over it. posted 03/24/2008 at 14:17:36