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Saturday
June 28, 2008
Capitalism stole my virginity
Days of innocence are all long gone ... Nowhere's untouched by the shame
Lyrics by The International Noise Conspiracy
Activism's line of least resistance
Plus: Other Stuff:
1) Trouble with Facebook ... 2) Money huggers ... 3) Bohemian Grove,
anyone? ... 4) Mr. Brown Bean ... 5) The Gates to African hunger ... 6)
The high road or high-test?
Last night I watched this Google video: The Capitalist Conspiracy
It
does a decent job of laying out the covert structure of the capitalist
system and how it has achieved its current stranglehold on the average
North American, offering at the end some recommendations, one of which
is to elect a leader who is "totally independent of established
politics".
I happen to agree with this, and am constantly amazed
at how even political activists think they have to choose from among Dems and
Repubs, Libs or Cons, even going so far as to blind themselves to the obvious
duplicities of their preferred candidates.
For instance, it's
astounding to me that so many 9-11 truthers claimed Republican Ron Paul
supported their movement even after he publicy denounced it, and it boggles me even more to see anti-war activists turn a blind eye to Democrat Barack Obama's flip-flops on
war, depending on his audience.
Even Canadian peaceniks are rationalizing Obama, convincing themselves he is the best of a questionable lot. Mention Ralph Nader to
them - who stands for everything they claim to champion - and it will
be as if you had said nothing at all. They will continue on about how
Obama may have his faults, but it's rigid to expect
perfection, and besides he's the best option available.
Is he really? There
are faults and there are faults, and I'd say rabble rousing about Iran
when talking to pro-Israel audiences is a pretty scary one:
Obama: Iran threatens all of us (Suntimes)
Won't rule out force in speech in Chicago to pro-Israel group
With
regard solely to the wars, I agree with the challenge to peace
activists contained in this article which was written during the US
primaries:
[American] Peace voters have choices in 2008, will they have the courage to support peace candidates?
There
are several candidates who oppose both the Iraq occupation and the use
of aggressive military force as the dominant approach to foreign
policy. Peace voters make up the majority of Americans, but will they
have the courage to vote their convictions or will they be manipulated
by the two parties and the corporate media? Will they work and
financially support peace candidates? It is a test for the peace
movement to see whether it has the courage to put peace first.
Activists
who rationalize looking for a saviour to spring out from the midst of
the establishment just don't come across as serious about their cause.
They appear to only want to throw the occasional organized tantrum in
between long lulls, demanding that political parent figures do things their way, always hoping the news media will help them spread the word and always being disappointed when they don't.
Serious activism requires creating your own media, constantly engaging and
educating the voting public about their own power, and working hard to put
forward some real alternatives.
It's
good advice for Americans to consider an independent who is long known
to be trustworthy. I don't want to be put in the position of supporting
any particular person, but I can't help it if Ralph Nader comes to mind
when he's spent so many years consistently being on the outs with the
establishment, and has demonstrated time and again that he has only the
interests of the people at heart.
If he doesn't have enough of an aura of official authority for left-leaners, then just how anti-status quo can they be?
More
good advice is that if people stopped using credit cards and put the
money they sink into useless status items toward paying off their
debts, they would soon cripple the machine. Refusing to comply
with mass vaccinations and microchipping would also put a nice crimp in
the NWO agenda.
The people really do have the power. Why are they not using it?
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Other Stuff:
1) Trouble with Facebook - (Thanks to Brian H)
Do you have facebook? Some potential problem areas you might not have thought of.
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2) Money huggers - (Thanks to Brian O)
The trouble with the CBC's credibility.
The British High Commissioner to Canada hosted a Summer Ball last Summer. Some
of the guests: the CBC's Don Newman and Paul Hunter!! Chief Justice
Mclachlan. U.S. ambassador David Wilkins & others. Media elites.
Gov't elites. Business elites. Secret Police. All hanging out together.
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3) Bohemian Grove, anyone? Well, not just anyone.
Wanna
get an idea of the level of maturity of our self-styled world leaders
when they all hang out together at Bohemian Grove? Listen to Ralph Nader being interviewed about the freaky goings on. (Nixon hung out there, and Reagan was there while he was still just a B movie actor playing governor - and you think presidents are elected?) Learn more here.
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4) Mr. Brown Bean
British PM Gordon Brown still
has his nose suitably turned up at Robert Mugabe, no doubt to distract from the
Iraqi and Afghani blood baths for oil.
Take a look at the photo of Brown in this article: Zimbabwe poll new low, says Brown (BBC). Doesn't he remind you of Mr. Bean? Oh, if only we had some politicians who didn't make Bean look capable and astute.
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5) The Gates to Africa's hunger - (Thanks to Bahija)
Here's something Gordon Brown doesn't seem to be jumping up and down about :
Africa's unnatural disaster
Behind
most news on the issue, there’s an assumption that casts hunger as a
natural result of unfortunate weather conditions, coupled with
bureaucratic inefficiency and bad economic planning.
I wrote something quite similar after a group of Africans visited Canada with a plea for help that doesn't include meddling:
Helping African farmers - to death!
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6) The high road or high-test?
This next item sent me into an unwelcome fantasy of a possible future:
The energy underworld (CBC)
U.S.
State Department officials say that as much as 30 per cent of refined
fuels in Iraq are diverted to the black market or smuggled out of the
country.
All under the watchful eye of the allied invasion
forces, of course. But seriously, if ever the major oil conglomerates
were needed to take over in Iraq, it's now, eh?
But even
more seriously, and much more close to home, just how addicted are
vehicle owners to gas and oil, and what might they be willing to do to
keep their engines running when the shortage becomes critical, or the
price becomes too prohibitive?
Better think about it now,
because when you can't get the stuff you might be tempted, late at
night, to "borrow" it from your next door neighbour. If he catches you
at it, will you apologize or hit him over the head with a shovel?
Will
you look at old, happy, non-criminal photos of yourself in your snappy
new SUV and say, "There, but for the price of oil, went I"?
yayacanada
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