Friday Fun

[danbaron]

Koch Brothers' ties to the Nazis

http://my.madison.com/forums/Topic4463094-2890-1.aspx

We Must Stop This Corporate Takeover of American Democracy

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/20-11

Can Politico Sink Any Lower?

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/20/can-politico-sink-any-lower/

Robert Reich and 'Amend 2012' Launch Campaign for Constitutional Amendment to Overturn 'Citizens United'

http://crooksandliars.com/kenneth-quinnell/robert-reich-and-amend-2012-launc

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I didn't see this one at first.

It's a good one.

Want to see the world's most expensive home?

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/19-9

(http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/01/19-9)

[Charles Pegge]

You may be interested to know that Lockheed Martin was contracted to process our Nation's 2011 Census.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/17/man-fined-census-lockheed-martin?newsfeed=true

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/feb/19/census-boycott-lockheed-martin

[Charles Pegge]

The architectural context of Antilla Mansion :eek:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/thumb.cms?photoid=6809635&width=415&resizemode=4

Topple Towers?

[danbaron]

I'm happy to see people refusing to comply with the census, due to the involvement of Lockheed Martin.

What percentage of people have the courage of Derek Shields?

We are involuntarily blanketed with propaganda by corporations.

The corporations wouldn't do it, if, it was not effective.

Absolutely, I am convinced that people are involuntarily brainwashed.

It happens all day, every day.

People are manipulated in every way.

From their political views, to what they want to purchase, they are continually propagandized.

Therefore, in my opinion, it should be illegal.

And, I would bet, that in the future, the brainwashing will be recognized by the public as obvious, and it will be illegal.

What other options do people have to publicly express views contrary to the state/corporations, except by civil disobedience?

And, what corporations are more immoral than weapons manufacturers?

I think it is easy to manipulate people's opinions, especially if it is done from birth.

It seems that most people have no internal sense of right and wrong.

Any point of view which has predominated since they were very young, they automatically consider acceptable.

The advertisers, the marketers, know this.

They have no interest in (and maybe no understanding of) morality, only in profitability.

There is nothing that they will not promote, if they are paid, and they are legally protected.

Today, what percentage of people have a sense of good and evil, that differs from legal and illegal?

Derek Shields' fine is relatively small.

But, if he doesn't pay, then, he goes to jail, right?

From where should an unemployed person get the money?

(How long before, it will be illegal to be unemployed?)

(How long before, a person will have to be employed, to be able to vote?)

Here in the US, it is becoming normal for huge fines to be imposed by the state for the slightest infractions.

It's the new way, instead of the overt tyranny of prison, the covert tyranny of the prospect of financial destitution, is employed.

A person can be financially ruined for defying the state in the slightest way.

And, recently, on my radio show, they had a guy on who said that if an American citizen is charged by the state with a crime, on average, it will cost him between $30,000 and $50,000 dollars to go to trial and defend himself.

Most people cannot afford it, so, many plead guilty to reduced charges, when, in fact, they have committed no crime.

What is the proper name for such a system, besides tyranny, fascism?

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"Protesters say they are willing to break the law and face a £1,000 fine and a criminal record by refusing to fill in the 32-page questionnaire."

A £1,000 fine and a criminal record?

For refusing to provide information about yourself to the state?

Are the US and the UK, twins?

Maybe it is just me, but, I don't think the government should have the right to force me to provide any information about myself.

Once again, remind me, does the government exist to serve the people, or, vice versa?

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Concerning the super-rich in India, to me it is amazing that such people live in the most unbelievable decadent opulence, apparently without the slightest feelings of embarrassment, shame, or guilt, while simultaneously, many millions in plain sight, are in a daily miserable struggle for subsistence survival.

The more narcissistic a person is, the more he/she has the delusional view of himself/herself as better, special, entitled, correct?

And, the more he/she views others as objects, not sentient beings, yes or no?

But, always looming just beneath their awareness, is the knowledge that they are constructed from the same material, in exactly the same way, as those for whom they have only indifference or contempt.

Maybe, such people hate humanity.

But, in that case, I think they, most likely unconsciously, hate themselves.