America was DESIGNED for this sort of slavery and neoslavery by the Founding Fathers, and in particular, James Madison, The Father of the Constitution, who was an elitist and a drunkard and opium addict whose life was devoted to enslaving other human beings (both white AND black) so that he and his upper crust society (like his friend Thomas Jefferson) could live lives of opulence and drunken and drugged ease, while his slaves were whipped while working in Madison's fields from dawn till dusk. THe Consitution was the product of this design. The American Constitution is the machine that allows concentrated capital to enslave and exploit. Other western countries cannot come close to what the elite can accomplish here. They do not have our Constitution and the system it engenders. Many other countries have tried to reach our level of exploitation, but no other western countries can top us. At least with the current configuration....
You misunderstand something: these lawsuits are not costing them anyway. On the contrary, these lawsuits are optimized so as to MAKE them money. These lawsuits are a revenue stream for them, NOT something that costs them money at all. This is just another business for them. Why on earth would they stop doing this?
They are doing EXACTLY what the American system and the American Constitution were DESIGNED to enable--specifically, cornering and putting at a disadvantage a set of Americans and then and exploiting them. This is what America has been about from the very beginning. Remember that whole African slavery, indentured servitude, white slavery thing? THat was the launching pad of America, and we are right on path here with large amounts of organized capital exploiting human beings. So what are you bitching about? Move to France if you don't like it! Oh, wait, the French are too smart and too much in control of their control to let in too many immigrants. Never mind....
the good thing about this for Tempeans is that they can get the 40 dollar broadband and can get use VOIP and download free videos. No need to pay for the telco's phone or the cable co's cable tv.
Who the hell is this fucker to be telling anyone about ethical standards of conduct?
How many people has this evil fucker help murder? 100000 in Iraq? He has also collaborated with Congress and the elite media to manage to shut out any possibility of universal healthcare for all Americans as well, thus ensuring that at least yet another 18000 Americans die this year from lack of basic healthcare.
I call for the Dept of Justice to indict George W Bush for conspiracy to committ murder, and for war crimes.
....corporate power. Al Qaeda? The Nazis? Caesar's armies? Nothing compared to the multinational corporate enemy we all face now. And the worst part is that they have inflitrated our political class. Our treasonous politcians have betrayed us in our hour of need.
You wrote: A company has--or should have--the right to sell its wares under any terms it wishes.
Not if the people (acting through their govt) decide otherwise. Corporations have EXACTLY whatever rights WE CITIZENS decide to give them. THEIR rights are determined by US. If the French govt contrains corporate rights, then it is because the fRench PEOPLE want it that way.
You see, teh American propaganda has warped your perspective. A country is supposed to be "by the people and FOR the people' not by and for the corporations.
See how that works?
So how do we get America headed in that direction? How about trying our politicians for treason?
I think it is more than that. I think American culture is an evolved culture, evolved through the exercise of power by wealthy nidividuals and corporation. America was created to facilitate the consolidation of power for a number of wealthy people, i.e., the "Founding Fathers".
We as people are a product of genetics AND culture. So culture is part of what each of us is.
Over the last 100 years or so, rich people and corporations have collaborated to use the media to evolve the American culture--and thus evolve the American culture into a culture that suits them--a culture of hard working, hard-consuming people. A profit machine for investors.
TV is crucial factor in maintaining this culture. Qithout TV as a vehicle for disseminating neoliberal, mercantilist beliefs into the culture, the American Profit Machine would start to erode. More Americans would voting for genuine leftist, stop buying so much consumerist stuff, etc. Well, if this analog switchover is not done well, it would not be ALL that big a factor--most people would have the digital TVs. But remember that as in any well managed Big Corporation, profit optimization is the goal.
Why is my karma so high? Um, because a lot of people agree with me, maybe? Take a look at my many fans on my slashdot page.
Now go back to your propaganda input mode where you turn on the TV and let the world's best video-propagandists at CBS/ABC/NBC/Fox, et al., pour propaganda directly into your willing little brain. Then turn on the radio and let your neurons bathe in the Limbaugh aural-propaganda stream. Go read the NY Times and let the best word-propagandists in the world create a fantasy world for you.
Why is it that I am the only one who seems to understand that we need to go back to harsh punishments for powerful people (e.g., politicians, CEO's, etc) who are obviously crooked. We need to try, convict and sentence all this powerful and corrupt people. Sentence them to death by hanging. That is the only way to swing the pendulum back, to correct the culture.
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Who cares about Bin Laden? The real killer is lack of a national healthcare system, like every other western nation has. That lack is killing 18K Americans every year.
Probably 90% of Congress should be tried, convicted in a court of law for treason. And then sentenced and punished IAW the traditional punishment for traitors.
These people are crooks of the highest order. When you sell out the American citizens at this level of betrayal, you are guilty of treason.
Our constitution defines treason as aiding and abetting the enemy. Clearly our greatest enemies are the corporations. I call for Santorum to be tried as a traitor. If he is convicted, he should be sentenced as harshly as possible.
Conspiracy Theory! TinFoil Hatter!!
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I agree with the basic premise here, but the media and entertainment industry has trained the sheeple to shout "Conspiracy Theory" whenever someone states the obvious about the media--that it is mostly PR.
Actually, American culture itself is a product of PR, evolved over generations through the continual application of PR/Propaganda by the corporations and the Rich. American culture is like some sort of domesticated animal, so far evolved by external propaganda/PR forces that it little resembles a genuine culture, i.e., compare a poodle to wolf.
I doubt anyone could be persuaded to work on my project from scratch unless it is presented in a somewhat complete package already. It is my idea, and not theirs. I need a completed project to initiate the snowball effect.
THat said, I do feel somewhat confident that once many leftist/liberals view the completed proto-video, they will find my thesis compelling. One problem is that my theses are very original, although many leftists who are familiar with Chomsky will also be familiar with some of my thesis. Frankly, some of my thesis and my perspective on American history will be so radical that unless you see it presented documentary-style, it may seem rather crackpottish and tinfoilhattish....
I am counting on a snowball effect to gather some people to do a remake/extension of it. No one wants to start on a project from scratch that is pretty much all someone's else's idea. But I am hoping there are some leftists who upon seeing the documentary, and seeing my invitation at the end of the doc for others to take my work and collaborate OSS style to improve and extend it, will then do so. It may take years for it to get underway. Broaband needs more penetration here in America for this sort of collaboration to take off.
But the video will be there, waiting for that to happen. It can be distributed over p2p, and specifically bit-torrent style p2p via the auspices of free video distributors such as archive.org, yahoo, and google.
I am making a video documentary, which will be licensed as Creative Commons. I hope that when I finish it, it will serve as an inducement to other people (leftists) to take it and improve upon it. A collaboration of people working over the internet, using OSS procedures and OSS collaboration software, could possibly improve upon it so much that it could be much better than most documentaries shown on broadcast or cable tv.
It is possible to do that. Remember that the script and video and audio footage, along with the editing, are major parts of any documentary. And these aspects of a documentary could easily be improved by collaboration. Of course, because the footage--even in the improved version--would likely consist of older public domain footage obtained downloaded over the net, along with semi-amateur video interviews, the look of the finished product would not be as good as you get over cable tv, DVD, or even or over broadcast. However, once the finished documentary is released for downloading, the viewers would not expect that much anyway.
...through due process of law. But should hang them and those of that ilk. Indict, try, convict, sentence, and execute. As economic traitors. For economic treason. It's all about the political consciousness, man. We just need another constitutional amendment.
It is the RIAA/MPAA goons that should be getting tortured in Guantanamo, not the Al Qaeda. And do the same for the treasonous politicians who do the bidding of the MPAA/RIAA.
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....is really plaguing you, aint it?
America was DESIGNED for this sort of slavery and neoslavery by the Founding Fathers, and in particular, James Madison, The Father of the Constitution, who was an elitist and a drunkard and opium addict whose life was devoted to enslaving other human beings (both white AND black) so that he and his upper crust society (like his friend Thomas Jefferson) could live lives of opulence and drunken and drugged ease, while his slaves were whipped while working in Madison's fields from dawn till dusk. THe Consitution was the product of this design. The American Constitution is the machine that allows concentrated capital to enslave and exploit. Other western countries cannot come close to what the elite can accomplish here. They do not have our Constitution and the system it engenders. Many other countries have tried to reach our level of exploitation, but no other western countries can top us. At least with the current configuration....
Proof? Read Madison' own writings.....
I am creating a video documentary that encapsulates many of my viewpoints. Look for it this summer....shitferbrains....
You misunderstand something: these lawsuits are not costing them anyway. On the contrary, these lawsuits are optimized so as to MAKE them money. These lawsuits are a revenue stream for them, NOT something that costs them money at all. This is just another business for them. Why on earth would they stop doing this?
They are doing EXACTLY what the American system and the American Constitution were DESIGNED to enable--specifically, cornering and putting at a disadvantage a set of Americans and then and exploiting them. This is what America has been about from the very beginning. Remember that whole African slavery, indentured servitude, white slavery thing? THat was the launching pad of America, and we are right on path here with large amounts of organized capital exploiting human beings. So what are you bitching about? Move to France if you don't like it! Oh, wait, the French are too smart and too much in control of their control to let in too many immigrants. Never mind....
the good thing about this for Tempeans is that they can get the 40 dollar broadband and can get use VOIP and download free videos. No need to pay for the telco's phone or the cable co's cable tv.
you have a gift!
Who the hell is this fucker to be telling anyone about ethical standards of conduct?
How many people has this evil fucker help murder? 100000 in Iraq? He has also collaborated with Congress and the elite media to manage to shut out any possibility of universal healthcare for all Americans as well, thus ensuring that at least yet another 18000 Americans die this year from lack of basic healthcare.
I call for the Dept of Justice to indict George W Bush for conspiracy to committ murder, and for war crimes.
....corporate power. Al Qaeda? The Nazis? Caesar's armies? Nothing compared to the multinational corporate enemy we all face now. And the worst part is that they have inflitrated our political class. Our treasonous politcians have betrayed us in our hour of need.
You wrote:
A company has--or should have--the right to sell its wares under any terms it wishes.
Not if the people (acting through their govt) decide otherwise. Corporations have EXACTLY whatever rights WE CITIZENS decide to give them. THEIR rights are determined by US. If the French govt contrains corporate rights, then it is because the fRench PEOPLE want it that way.
You see, teh American propaganda has warped your perspective. A country is supposed to be "by the people and FOR the people' not by and for the corporations.
See how that works?
So how do we get America headed in that direction? How about trying our politicians for treason?
Must be great to have a government that is not in the pockets of the corporations.....
I think it is more than that. I think American culture is an evolved culture, evolved through the exercise of power by wealthy nidividuals and corporation. America was created to facilitate the consolidation of power for a number of wealthy people, i.e., the "Founding Fathers".
We as people are a product of genetics AND culture. So culture is part of what each of us is.
Over the last 100 years or so, rich people and corporations have collaborated to use the media to evolve the American culture--and thus evolve the American culture into a culture that suits them--a culture of hard working, hard-consuming people. A profit machine for investors.
TV is crucial factor in maintaining this culture. Qithout TV as a vehicle for disseminating neoliberal, mercantilist beliefs into the culture, the American Profit Machine would start to erode. More Americans would voting for genuine leftist, stop buying so much consumerist stuff, etc. Well, if this analog switchover is not done well, it would not be ALL that big a factor--most people would have the digital TVs. But remember that as in any well managed Big Corporation, profit optimization is the goal.
Why is my karma so high?
Um, because a lot of people agree with me, maybe? Take a look at my many fans on my slashdot page.
Now go back to your propaganda input mode where you turn on the TV and let the world's best video-propagandists at CBS/ABC/NBC/Fox, et al., pour propaganda directly into your willing little brain. Then turn on the radio and let your neurons bathe in the Limbaugh aural-propaganda stream.
Go read the NY Times and let the best word-propagandists in the world create a fantasy world for you.
Maybe they are afraid that if this happens, a lot of Americans will miss out on the TV propaganda. What would happen then?
I approve Chavez obtaining weapons. Yes. What, you don't believe in the right to carry arms? What happened to the 2nd Amendment?
I like chavez cuz he gives land and money to help the people. Sow the Oil, etc.
Why is it that I am the only one who seems to understand that we need to go back to harsh punishments for powerful people (e.g., politicians, CEO's, etc) who are obviously crooked. We need to try, convict and sentence all this powerful and corrupt people. Sentence them to death by hanging.
That is the only way to swing the pendulum back, to correct the culture.
Who cares about Bin Laden? The real killer is lack of a national healthcare system, like every other western nation has. That lack is killing 18K Americans every year.
You best mind your p's and q's, young man. blogspottingwatchwatchers.com is on your case....
Probably 90% of Congress should be tried, convicted in a court of law for treason. And then sentenced and punished IAW the traditional punishment for traitors.
These people are crooks of the highest order. When you sell out the American citizens at this level of betrayal, you are guilty of treason.
Our constitution defines treason as aiding and abetting the enemy. Clearly our greatest enemies are the corporations. I call for Santorum to be tried as a traitor. If he is convicted, he should be sentenced as harshly as possible.
I agree with the basic premise here, but the media and entertainment industry has trained the sheeple to shout "Conspiracy Theory" whenever someone states the obvious about the media--that it is mostly PR.
Actually, American culture itself is a product of PR, evolved over generations through the continual application of PR/Propaganda by the corporations and the Rich. American culture is like some sort of domesticated animal, so far evolved by external propaganda/PR forces that it little resembles a genuine culture, i.e., compare a poodle to wolf.
I doubt anyone could be persuaded to work on my project from scratch unless it is presented in a somewhat complete package already. It is my idea, and not theirs. I need a completed project to initiate the snowball effect.
THat said, I do feel somewhat confident that once many leftist/liberals view the completed proto-video, they will find my thesis compelling. One problem is that my theses are very original, although many leftists who are familiar with Chomsky will also be familiar with some of my thesis. Frankly, some of my thesis and my perspective on American history will be so radical that unless you see it presented documentary-style, it may seem rather crackpottish and tinfoilhattish....
I am counting on a snowball effect to gather some people to do a remake/extension of it. No one wants to start on a project from scratch that is pretty much all someone's else's idea. But I am hoping there are some leftists who upon seeing the documentary, and seeing my invitation at the end of the doc for others to take my work and collaborate OSS style to improve and extend it, will then do so. It may take years for it to get underway. Broaband needs more penetration here in America for this sort of collaboration to take off.
But the video will be there, waiting for that to happen. It can be distributed over p2p, and specifically bit-torrent style p2p via the auspices of free video distributors such as archive.org, yahoo, and google.
I am making a video documentary, which will be licensed as Creative Commons. I hope that when I finish it, it will serve as an inducement to other people (leftists) to take it and improve upon it. A collaboration of people working over the internet, using OSS procedures and OSS collaboration software, could possibly improve upon it so much that it could be much better than most documentaries shown on broadcast or cable tv.
It is possible to do that. Remember that the script and video and audio footage, along with the editing, are major parts of any documentary. And these aspects of a documentary could easily be improved by collaboration. Of course, because the footage--even in the improved version--would likely consist of older public domain footage obtained downloaded over the net, along with semi-amateur video interviews, the look of the finished product would not be as good as you get over cable tv, DVD, or even or over broadcast. However, once the finished documentary is released for downloading, the viewers would not expect that much anyway.
...through due process of law. But should hang them and those of that ilk. Indict, try, convict, sentence, and execute. As economic traitors. For economic treason. It's all about the political consciousness, man. We just need another constitutional amendment.
It is the RIAA/MPAA goons that should be getting tortured in Guantanamo, not the Al Qaeda. And do the same for the treasonous politicians who do the bidding of the MPAA/RIAA.
I do support the right of people to sue big corporations, however.
Just for the money!
you are an unappreciated genius...