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POPSHow To Dismantle Corporate Fascism Definition and examples: http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/DD6E3476-DCCD-48A0-9DDB-733FB51E31C8/ Measures to dismantle it: 1) Take away corporations' freedom of speech. It is a right for citizens, not artificial entities. They should not be involved in mass media and in funding television programs for their own benefit. 2) Take away corporations' ability to control government. Prohibit lobbyists from having access to Congress. Prohibit their campaign funding of political candidates.
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POPSDo you know where your seeds come from?
Americans dislike corporate monopolies. Monsanto has stealthily become just such a monopoly. But they are carrying their game of ‘world domination’ to another level. They are genetically modifying our food stuffs in such a way that will guarantee their position in the food and home gardening industry. They currently control 85%-90% of the U.S. nursery market. Their ‘close relationship’ with government has made it almost impossible to save seeds from plants you grow on your own land. And just to ensure their position at the top of the heap they are genetically modifying every plant they control so that any seed produced is infertile. If your crops experience some sort of disease, Monsanto will sell you the chemical that will turn on the disease fighting gene in that plant. The only way, for now, that we can fight this Franken-monster company is to buy heirloom seeds. Heirloom seeds do not have patents but I imagine Monsanto is working to ‘correct’ this condition.
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POPSMy Corporate Fascist Nightmare "There is another ominous sign in the rise of corporate fascism worldwide: "civil liberties are now systematically under attack. For instance police forces in free societies, in return for being allowed to use their new toys of torture such as a Taser (1), have yielded power to private security guards at our airports, bus stations, workplaces and financial institutions. These private, armed guard companies operate beyond the control and oversight of any legislation or the "rule of law" and it appears, have only contempt for "due process" and the principles of habeas corpus or the presumption of innocence in their daily dealings with the public at large" "Benito Mussolini who coined a phrase that describes the term very well: "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.""
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POPSLotteries: A Tax on the Poor? I've often joked that the lottery is a tax on those who are bad with math. However, with all the slick advertising that our states do to induce people to gamble using the lottery, it has become an unfair tax on the poor as well.
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POPSHealth Insurance Industry Profit Margins Profit mongering, greedy, healthcare plans on average make a whopping 3.3% profit margin!!! Geez, the nerve of those guys! Lefty Challenge: Sarcasm aside, if 3.3% is just too high, what do you think their profit margin should be?
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POPSJohn McCain, Friend of Monopolies I think there are two reasons McCain invokes Teddy Roosevelt. 1. Roosevelt wasn't a Republican in the modern sense, but a Republican in the original sense -- i.e., a progressive. McCain hopes to signal some that his "maverick" label actually means something. 2. Teddy Roosevelt is the one face on Mt. Rushmore that Americans know the least about. In the end, I'd say it's more 2 than 1.
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POPSHousing market crumble has Mortgage insurers worried Mortgage insurers worried? They're not likely to lose their homes. While they say talk about 'Not worrying' The real estate industry knows that talking the market down can be fatal. They consistently try and talk the market up. The Large Mortgage Insurers say they have the cash reserver to keep afloat, and no doubt, get failed smaller insurance companies for a song. I can see another means by which they can entrench more and more complete monopolies. Of course Monopolies are Technically illegal. They just have to corporatize, carefully diversify assets (Isn't a lot of money going to Europe,) and a Rose by another name can still have a stem covered in pricks.
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POPSExclusive: Can Our Nation Survive a Severe Lurch to the Left? But what about a seemingly healthy company like General Electric (GE)? A book was written separating the Robber Barons of the 19th and early 20th century those that used government influence to help create and protect their monopolies (i.e. Rockefeller and Standard Oil). GE clearly falls into the latter group. CNBC was granted the first interview with the new President, and the on air commentators were joking about how the station had arrived as a prominent force in media. They pondered why the Presidency bestowed such an honor on them. Let's see: NBC, MSNBC and CNBC are all owned by GE. NBC political coverage was so slanted it could only be described as an unpaid Obama advertisement. MSNBC was worse. It was a continuous 24 hour Democrat infomercial. CNBC's political correspondent, John Harwood, is a devoted Democrat supporter. Do you wonder why Obama gave that interview to CNBC?
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POPSGoing After OPEC The real energy problem, in other words, isn't Big Oil; it's Big Government. As with so many other things, President Reagan got it right when, not even a week after taking office in 1981, he signed Executive Order 12287 decontrolling the price of oil and gas. He then ordered his secretary of energy to focus on encouraging U.S. companies to find and produce more. It worked like a charm, bringing oil prices down sharply and OPEC to its knees. By 1986, after a 74% drop in the price of oil, some even doubted OPEC could survive. Such would-be monopolies look invincible when demand rises and prices follow. But when supply increases, prices fall and members start cheating, they look pathetic. This pretty much describes the history of OPEC. Reagan's strategy of energy decontrol would work again today . But this time it's supplies, not prices, that need to be untethered.
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POPSDemocratic Party's Perverse Energy Policies And "Big Oil"
It would be possible for American oil companies to develop those reserves, play a far bigger role in international markets, and deliver gas at the pump to American consumers at a much lower price, while creating many thousands of jobs for Americans. This would be infinitely preferable to shipping endless billions of dollars to Saudi Arabia, Russia and Venezuela. The largest American oil company, Exxon Mobil, is only the 14th largest in the world, and is dwarfed by the really big oil companies--all owned by foreign governments or government-sponsored monopolies--that dominate the world's oil supply. Because the Democratic Party--aided, sadly, by a handful of Republicans--deliberately keeps gas prices high and our domestic oil companies small by putting most of our reserves off limits to development. China is now drilling in the Caribbean , but our own companies are barred by law from developing large oil fields off the coasts of Florida and California.
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POPS(NOT)Federal (NO)Reserve - Bank After watching this video This video here that i have clipped is a must see. It is the Beginning of the criminal control of these global Banking Families. http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/8D34CDB8-B4BA-475A-A016-BA569688751A/
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POPSSolar users to feel surge in wallet Hopefully, this "step in the right direction" will be adopted in other jurisdictions that are currently "over-priced" monopolies. If so, emerging technologies will improve energy economics.
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