Christianity provides, among other things, a valuable heuristic for maintaining a stable civilization.
You're delusional if you believe this, in this point in time. The oligarchy is at war with the bottom 90% of society and the public still believes in capitalism, capitalists have literally had the US in a state of lawlessness and endless wars for the last 200 years, there is nothing stable about "christian civilization".
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket....It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatised soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
Perhaps an over abundance of intelligence upsets the balance of those qualities in a non-optimal way, the same as adding too much sugar to our hypothetical cup of coffee spoils it.
Except the evidence does not bear this out, over 75% of people in the US still are religious in some sense a sizable chunk rejecting scientific knowledge and having negative effects on policy.
Your whole post is irrational, you "digital download" files from a DVD/CDROM to your computer when you copy it. A game is just a bunch of files, whether those files are on disc or on another computer that you copy.
The reality is any drm infested game, part of its files are held hostage on a computer at company headquarters, they can literally shut down the game you paid for, that's the fraud right there buddy because they've fraudulently taken the files and computer instructions hostage, they've coded the game in a way that's fraudulent and criminally against your rights as a paying customer to always access the game you paid for.
American companies take the cake - windows 10 is literally spying on its own customers, and steam was much more invasive then anything sony released since Steam is now inside most popular high budget games. American's have out done the japanese by a large margin because they control the hardware and operating system that runs the worlds computers.
American companies are undermining the privacy and civil rights of the entire planet, it's hard to compete with valve/w steam, apple, and microsoft's windows 10.
if you suggest that it might be a good thing to support an American console company like Microsoft, everyone glares at you like you just said "I love Hitler" and kicked a puppy..
You may not be aware that's because american companies treat their paying customers like dirt, like Microsoft trying to get rid of game ownership for the xbox and make every future game "always online" internet connected, aka getting rid of your customers rights to own their own games and be left the fuck alone. But ideological hyper capitalist chimpanzee's seem to think anything a big company does must be good for everyone(tm). Right now the entire game industry is literally destroying and doing nasty shit to videogames making them impossible to preserve and use in 20 years, no one with half a brain as a paying customer is going to respect an organization that is outright criminally hostile towards you and kicking you in the nuts in terms of game ownership.
Loot boxes, microtransactions, drm and attack on game ownership are the reason everyone looks at you like you're stupid because you are lacking any awareness of what these companies have been doing to their customers: Treating them like shit.
If you treat your paying customers like shit and like they're criminals, then you should expect to become a despised company in return for your gloriously corrupt anti customer policies.
Where does this notion come from that a nation can "force" another nation to grant a particular individual diplomatic status?
Perhaps you're unaware of the history of the untied states? The charges issued by sweden authorities was because of the strong arming of the US to punish economically or otherwise sweden so the swedes said yes master to washington and we got total propaganda hit piece against assange via false charges. Anyone who has any understanding of american history understood exactly what was going on, Assange stuck his neck out against the empire, that's a big no no the american upper class.
Anyone who has any understanding of american history and foreign policy knows exactly the kind of influence american upper class has on other states.
If you've stuck with Windows despite all the horrible shit that Microsoft has been doing to you, you've earned this. Seriously, you have put in a concerted effort bear all the spying, absurd UI changes and just all around malicious behavior, so this is your reward.
Our species is dumb, welcome to earth. Same reason mmo's, steam and f2p games are things. The average person on our planet is a fucking tech illiterate moron.
You know that the Web is more than just social media and online shopping sites - right?
It wouldn't matter if people were technology literate but the rise of steam, world of warcraft and facebook means the average person has no clue how technology works and have are being taken advantage of. PC games have been outright made defective and part of the software is held hostage by drm, it's a far cry from the open games of the 90's. No dedicated servers with PC games these days that release the server exe's because they want total control of the software.
The average consumer is too stupid not to spend money on walled garden software like games, etc. So these companies like Microsoft are reengineering the software that runs operating systems and the internet because the average person is too tech illiterate to understand what windows 10 and things like league of legends mean for the future of software users don't control.
... someone like AMD or Intel operating systems an application you can switch to without rebooting the machine. The reality is I've had the idea that the only possible way Linux will gain ground is if you can run multiple OS's at the same time the same way we run applications at the same time. It has to be as easy as switching apps on a windows 8 taskbar. That would require a company like AMD to build it into the hardware/bios. So that you could run windows 7/10 side by side with Linux. Until running an OS can be switched and run at the same time like any other app in windows, there's no reason to ever transition because there's just too much legacy code for windows.
You have to learn from what microsoft did. Microsoft was smart in that they know legacy code is what gave them their OS monopoly, no one wants to rewrite anything. We're lazy as a species, we take the path of least resistance so the only way to make any kind of linux headway on the desktop.
... it is exposing how shallow and stupid humanity always was. The reality is we live in a dystopian idiocracy. The reason the world is so corrupt is because the vast majority of the public falls for the lies of the rich and powerful and their corporations and vote against their own interests. That's reality.
he right to purchase a good, and thereby own it, is a fundamental aspect of a fair, open and free market.
It's too bad most right wingers are ignorant that the free market doesn't exist and is a myth preached to the stupid masses. The rich have never subscribed to the ideology they preach, your society has never worked how you believe it does.
Testing theories of representative government - shows the rich get whatever policies they want, the rest have no impact. AKA no rule of law for the average person.
Socialism is an easy fix for cases like this. In a socialist system this vitamin wouldn't even be available because it never would have been developed in the first place.
Because we all know companies would never take billions in state subsidies while morons like you fuck yourselves by believing that free market bullshit. Socialism for the rich, harsh reality for the free market fundies amongst the public.
"Without fail, it’s the most privileged people who feel the need to Do Something"
Yeah, maybe that's why they're "privileged".
How did this anti-capitalist bullshit rant make it to "news for nerds, stuff that matters"?
Because historically illiterate dipshit fake nerds like you simply don't get the free market fairy is a myth. Real nerds want to know what is actually true and how reality works because society is always changing, so that means constantly reassessing and challenging sacred cows. Capitalists didn't just hand working people their rights they had to fight and die literally for them.
Copyright is an artificial monopoly enforced by the State. Nothing at all to do with capitalism
Capitalists have always needed a state and have always taken state subsidies and used the state to create monopolies, the jokes on you. Your thoughts on these matters are not even wrong.
The reality is IP law is so out of control you need to sit down and get a good reason as to why it's bullshit.
Teach him about the theft of PC games and show him most wanted 2005 and NFS world online - same game but just rebranded for corporations to take control of the files on their servers. The reality is the corporate world has been stealing everything that isn't nailed down because they know the public is tech illiterate and indoctrinated. There is no such thing as balanced capitalism if you look at the last 200 years of copyright law. Go pick up a copy of Most wanted 2005 and download NFS World online, and show him how corporations trick people.
I'll use the example of need for speed for the PC.
Call me old-fashioned but I can't help considering someone ridiculous who apparently gets all his knowledge from Youtube videos. No matter what message you've got, I didn't even check it and don't care, try reading some books first. You can find them in the library.
Uhh you do know the first video is former national security advisor of the united states? AKA someone with serious foreign policy credibility, he's been giving speeches everywhere and talking about his concern for the political awakening of the publics of the world. The reality is the rich are exploiting everyone else and that has elites concerned because it's starting to become obvious the elites have always been robbing the world and the rule of law is a myth. That's the reality, otherwise he wouldn't call the political awakening of the masses a "menace", aka a menace to their profits.
In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket....It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatised soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
Screw that.... ANOTHER attempt by government to manipulate the free market economy, with the flawed idea it will improve anything.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference... welcome to the way the world has always worked. Only the uneducated believe there has ever been a free market.
There are, the problem is the lack of human intelligence. A true independent media needs its own central bank to be immune to corporate influence, aka you'd build a media that had the ability to loan money to itself and build it into the system. That would be an anethema to the upper class however, you can see their feelings here about the common man:
It's amazing how people will pay for the privilege of running on a meaningless treadmill, and also pay for the privilege of not running on the meaningless treadmill, seemingly unaware that they don't have to run on the meaningless treadmill in the first place.
No it isn't, the whole plan since forever was to remove control of PC games from gamers. The problem is the market can't defend itself in a post internet age. You need physical proximity to the business to hold these companies accountable.
The big plan was to rebrand games as "mmo's/online" and push drm since the informed members of the public are 100's of miles away, what are they going to do? Then all the corporate world had to do was wait for a new generation of gamers to grow up who don't know any better and are ignorant. The vast majority of the public is tech ignorant. If not for the internet these scam practices wouldn't be possible. The wall between the stupid half of mankind and the corporate world came down post mass internet penetration, allowing the corporate world to steal PC game software by cutting the software into two chunks and defrauding the public.
Most of the public is too ignorant and uninformed to participate an a high tech capitalist society, the human brain didn't evolve to deal with it and we see the irrational dystopian outcome.
Slashdot Mirror
Christianity provides, among other things, a valuable heuristic for maintaining a stable civilization.
You're delusional if you believe this, in this point in time. The oligarchy is at war with the bottom 90% of society and the public still believes in capitalism, capitalists have literally had the US in a state of lawlessness and endless wars for the last 200 years, there is nothing stable about "christian civilization".
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
http://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
https://vimeo.com/39566117
Testing theories of representative government
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Democracy Inc
http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed- Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatised soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/
Perhaps an over abundance of intelligence upsets the balance of those qualities in a non-optimal way, the same as adding too much sugar to our hypothetical cup of coffee spoils it.
Except the evidence does not bear this out, over 75% of people in the US still are religious in some sense a sizable chunk rejecting scientific knowledge and having negative effects on policy.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/151760/christianity-remains-dominant-religion-united-states.aspx
The west wing says it better than I can.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD52OlkKfNs
Your whole post is irrational, you "digital download" files from a DVD/CDROM to your computer when you copy it. A game is just a bunch of files, whether those files are on disc or on another computer that you copy.
The reality is any drm infested game, part of its files are held hostage on a computer at company headquarters, they can literally shut down the game you paid for, that's the fraud right there buddy because they've fraudulently taken the files and computer instructions hostage, they've coded the game in a way that's fraudulent and criminally against your rights as a paying customer to always access the game you paid for.
American companies take the cake - windows 10 is literally spying on its own customers, and steam was much more invasive then anything sony released since Steam is now inside most popular high budget games. American's have out done the japanese by a large margin because they control the hardware and operating system that runs the worlds computers.
American companies are undermining the privacy and civil rights of the entire planet, it's hard to compete with valve /w steam, apple, and microsoft's windows 10.
if you suggest that it might be a good thing to support an American console company like Microsoft, everyone glares at you like you just said "I love Hitler" and kicked a puppy. .
You may not be aware that's because american companies treat their paying customers like dirt, like Microsoft trying to get rid of game ownership for the xbox and make every future game "always online" internet connected, aka getting rid of your customers rights to own their own games and be left the fuck alone. But ideological hyper capitalist chimpanzee's seem to think anything a big company does must be good for everyone(tm). Right now the entire game industry is literally destroying and doing nasty shit to videogames making them impossible to preserve and use in 20 years, no one with half a brain as a paying customer is going to respect an organization that is outright criminally hostile towards you and kicking you in the nuts in terms of game ownership.
Loot boxes, microtransactions, drm and attack on game ownership are the reason everyone looks at you like you're stupid because you are lacking any awareness of what these companies have been doing to their customers: Treating them like shit.
If you treat your paying customers like shit and like they're criminals, then you should expect to become a despised company in return for your gloriously corrupt anti customer policies.
Sorry to tell you your brain doesn't see nor live in reality, your brain does not literally reason the way you think it does, see the science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Where does this notion come from that a nation can "force" another nation to grant a particular individual diplomatic status?
Perhaps you're unaware of the history of the untied states? The charges issued by sweden authorities was because of the strong arming of the US to punish economically or otherwise sweden so the swedes said yes master to washington and we got total propaganda hit piece against assange via false charges. Anyone who has any understanding of american history understood exactly what was going on, Assange stuck his neck out against the empire, that's a big no no the american upper class.
Anyone who has any understanding of american history and foreign policy knows exactly the kind of influence american upper class has on other states.
Overthrowing other peoples governments the master list
If you've stuck with Windows despite all the horrible shit that Microsoft has been doing to you, you've earned this. Seriously, you have put in a concerted effort bear all the spying, absurd UI changes and just all around malicious behavior, so this is your reward.
Our species is dumb, welcome to earth. Same reason mmo's, steam and f2p games are things. The average person on our planet is a fucking tech illiterate moron.
You know that the Web is more than just social media and online shopping sites - right?
It wouldn't matter if people were technology literate but the rise of steam, world of warcraft and facebook means the average person has no clue how technology works and have are being taken advantage of. PC games have been outright made defective and part of the software is held hostage by drm, it's a far cry from the open games of the 90's. No dedicated servers with PC games these days that release the server exe's because they want total control of the software.
The average consumer is too stupid not to spend money on walled garden software like games, etc. So these companies like Microsoft are reengineering the software that runs operating systems and the internet because the average person is too tech illiterate to understand what windows 10 and things like league of legends mean for the future of software users don't control.
... someone like AMD or Intel operating systems an application you can switch to without rebooting the machine. The reality is I've had the idea that the only possible way Linux will gain ground is if you can run multiple OS's at the same time the same way we run applications at the same time. It has to be as easy as switching apps on a windows 8 taskbar. That would require a company like AMD to build it into the hardware/bios. So that you could run windows 7/10 side by side with Linux. Until running an OS can be switched and run at the same time like any other app in windows, there's no reason to ever transition because there's just too much legacy code for windows.
You have to learn from what microsoft did. Microsoft was smart in that they know legacy code is what gave them their OS monopoly, no one wants to rewrite anything. We're lazy as a species, we take the path of least resistance so the only way to make any kind of linux headway on the desktop.
... it is exposing how shallow and stupid humanity always was. The reality is we live in a dystopian idiocracy. The reason the world is so corrupt is because the vast majority of the public falls for the lies of the rich and powerful and their corporations and vote against their own interests. That's reality.
he right to purchase a good, and thereby own it, is a fundamental aspect of a fair, open and free market.
It's too bad most right wingers are ignorant that the free market doesn't exist and is a myth preached to the stupid masses. The rich have never subscribed to the ideology they preach, your society has never worked how you believe it does.
Testing theories of representative government - shows the rich get whatever policies they want, the rest have no impact. AKA no rule of law for the average person.
https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
US distribution of wealth
https://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Socialism is an easy fix for cases like this. In a socialist system this vitamin wouldn't even be available because it never would have been developed in the first place.
Because we all know companies would never take billions in state subsidies while morons like you fuck yourselves by believing that free market bullshit. Socialism for the rich, harsh reality for the free market fundies amongst the public.
Energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
https://vimeo.com/39566117
US distribution of wealth
https://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
"Without fail, it’s the most privileged people who feel the need to Do Something"
Yeah, maybe that's why they're "privileged".
How did this anti-capitalist bullshit rant make it to "news for nerds, stuff that matters"?
Because historically illiterate dipshit fake nerds like you simply don't get the free market fairy is a myth. Real nerds want to know what is actually true and how reality works because society is always changing, so that means constantly reassessing and challenging sacred cows. Capitalists didn't just hand working people their rights they had to fight and die literally for them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Copyright is an artificial monopoly enforced by the State. Nothing at all to do with capitalism
Capitalists have always needed a state and have always taken state subsidies and used the state to create monopolies, the jokes on you. Your thoughts on these matters are not even wrong.
Energy subsidies
https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm
Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
... about how his brain doesn't reason correctly. You can tell people the facts and you won't reason to the right conclusion:
Science on reasoning
The reality is IP law is so out of control you need to sit down and get a good reason as to why it's bullshit.
Teach him about the theft of PC games and show him most wanted 2005 and NFS world online - same game but just rebranded for corporations to take control of the files on their servers. The reality is the corporate world has been stealing everything that isn't nailed down because they know the public is tech illiterate and indoctrinated. There is no such thing as balanced capitalism if you look at the last 200 years of copyright law. Go pick up a copy of Most wanted 2005 and download NFS World online, and show him how corporations trick people.
I'll use the example of need for speed for the PC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need_for_Speed:_Most_Wanted_(2005_video_game)
Same game forked and modified to be held hostage and rebranded "MMO".
NFSWORLD homepage with years the game has been shut down
Against intellectual monopoly
Against intellectual monopoly
I was under the impression that tampering with telecommunications was illegal in Canada, punishable by imprisionment.
Can someone explain to be how these acts could be legally conducted?
Long story short you don't live in a democracy, what corporations want governments will pass.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
https://vimeo.com/39566117
Education as ignorance
Education as ignorance
Call me old-fashioned but I can't help considering someone ridiculous who apparently gets all his knowledge from Youtube videos. No matter what message you've got, I didn't even check it and don't care, try reading some books first. You can find them in the library.
Uhh you do know the first video is former national security advisor of the united states? AKA someone with serious foreign policy credibility, he's been giving speeches everywhere and talking about his concern for the political awakening of the publics of the world. The reality is the rich are exploiting everyone else and that has elites concerned because it's starting to become obvious the elites have always been robbing the world and the rule of law is a myth. That's the reality, otherwise he wouldn't call the political awakening of the masses a "menace", aka a menace to their profits.
In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.
"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."
Between two ages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski
From war is a racket:
"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."[p. 10]
"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]
"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]
General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of traumatised soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home.
War is a racket
He wrote this on american empire, aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.
The grand chessboard
The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives
Grand chessboard user review
And I had thought east germany had joined west germany, not the other way around...
All states are at war with their respective publics, see this comment by former national security advisor. It's the rich vs the rest.
Citizens called a "global menace" here by former national security advisor of the US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time. Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Book:
http://trilateral.org/download/doc/crisis_of_democracy.pdf
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Wikileaks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
https://vimeo.com/39566117
Gee perhaps if you'd stop being politically uninformed you could actually elect someone to fix that clusterfuck of a government down there.
US distribution of wealth
https://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
Protectionism for big business by state intervention
Big business was always protected there was no market
Screw that.... ANOTHER attempt by government to manipulate the free market economy, with the flawed idea it will improve anything.
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference... welcome to the way the world has always worked. Only the uneducated believe there has ever been a free market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
There are no easy solutions.
There are, the problem is the lack of human intelligence. A true independent media needs its own central bank to be immune to corporate influence, aka you'd build a media that had the ability to loan money to itself and build it into the system. That would be an anethema to the upper class however, you can see their feelings here about the common man:
Former national security advisor on his reservations of the political awakening of the masses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski
It's amazing how people will pay for the privilege of running on a meaningless treadmill, and also pay for the privilege of not running on the meaningless treadmill, seemingly unaware that they don't have to run on the meaningless treadmill in the first place.
No it isn't, the whole plan since forever was to remove control of PC games from gamers. The problem is the market can't defend itself in a post internet age. You need physical proximity to the business to hold these companies accountable.
The big plan was to rebrand games as "mmo's/online" and push drm since the informed members of the public are 100's of miles away, what are they going to do? Then all the corporate world had to do was wait for a new generation of gamers to grow up who don't know any better and are ignorant. The vast majority of the public is tech ignorant. If not for the internet these scam practices wouldn't be possible. The wall between the stupid half of mankind and the corporate world came down post mass internet penetration, allowing the corporate world to steal PC game software by cutting the software into two chunks and defrauding the public.
Most of the public is too ignorant and uninformed to participate an a high tech capitalist society, the human brain didn't evolve to deal with it and we see the irrational dystopian outcome.
They already do.
How the NSA identified satoshi
"I distrust ALL modern USA political parties/movements, and evaluate individual politicians instead."
Then you really don't understand your political interest as a non rich person. Big business interests are allayed against the common man.
Crisis of democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFxtNgOeiI
Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.
Science on reasoning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ
Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwU56Rv0OXM
https://vimeo.com/39566117
US distribution of wealth
https://imgur.com/a/FShfb
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html