Who still trusts corporations?....
Reflections on the doom machine
"the present age has compartimentalized human activity. everything
of value is on the out side. while the inner life of the human being is neglected.
We are acting like slaves to a machine. a machine has no feeling
and it is dening us our own. and we let it do this to ourselves"
-Polanyi the great transformation.
"Facism should more properly be called 'corporatism' because it is the total merging of corporate and state power"
Benito Mussolini
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" I think there is not enough of
a critical analysis of the fact that the way the economists see the world is destructive. Economists "externalize" most of the natural world—biodiversity, ozone layer, fossils, water, topsoil and so on. The "services" performed by nature are not accounted for in our economic system, so that a tree, for example, is seen as having no value until money is spent to watch it (ecotourism) or cut it down. Economics is based on the enormous creativity and productivity of human beings, and so it is assumed that steady growth is possible (which it is not) and necessary! No one asks the important questions, such as what is an economy for, how much is enough, is it providing what people really need. " david suzuki read the rest here |
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Economic globalization is causing severe
economic dislocation and social instability. The technological changes of the past few years have eliminated more jobs than they have created. The global competition "that is part and parcel of globalization leads to winner-take-all situations; those who come out on top win big, and the losers lose even bigger." Higher profits no longer mean more job security and better wages. "Globalization tends to delink the fate of the corporation from the fate of its employees." Unless serious corrective action is taken soon, the backlash could turn into open political revolt that could destabilize the Western democracies |
| you cant maintain a small garden with a buldozer. even if you let jesus or the buddah drive the darn thing. |
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Wealth condensation is a global phenomenon with disparate regional effects; the reserve labor force is foreign more often than not and that's not going to be addressed via education of the domestic labor force, the proposals for which don't accomplish that anyway. The premises of this "reformism" are so hopelessly flawed they're untenable. It's relatively simple to deal with all this. Inequality and poverty are inherently destabilizing phenomena. Poverty is inequality's inseparable twin; poverty is a lesser bidding position vs. other participants in the economy. Redistribute wealth globally to level out inequality between countries and within countries and they're done away with. Unfortunately the very notion of a solution is anathema to the oligarchy. Their entire existence as a political and economic force is dedicated to the preservation of the inequality and hence poverty that sustain their own elevated bidding positions and political power. No voluntary solution will ever occur. So what these "reformist" positions represent is nothing more than partial concessions with the aim of preserving sufficient inequality to satisfy the oligarchy's insatiable greed without triggering mass unrest that might threaten their elevated bidding positions within the economy or grip on political power. In other words, concessions to prevent greater potential reductions in inequality and poverty. The fatal flaw in the reformist position is that the greed is insatiable. Securing the oligarchy's gains with concessions is anathema to those who so fervently want to take everything away from those who don't have enough wealth or political and economic power to defend themselves. As opposed to such concessions, direct "security"
measures will be implemented to prevent any redistribution. That is
the true meaning of the "War on Terror." Expect debtors' prisons,
debt bondage and other forms of slavery, police state crackdowns, mass
imprisonment to replenish prison slave labor workforces, and wars of
collective punishment against populations fighting for their survival
in the face of economic deprivation so severe it's tantamount to a collective
death sentence. In fact, all those things are going on as we speak in
thinly-veiled fashions where not explicit. |
| For nations, communities, and individual
workers global competition is about competing against every other nation,
community, and worker in the world for a declining pool of jobs by courting
corporate favor. It is not about creating new jobs, but rather about redistributing
them to those that are willing to give up the most in terms of wages,
subsidies, tax breaks, working conditions, and environmental standards.
More fundamentally it is about shifting wealth from communities and working
people to corporations and share holders. more http://www.flora.org/flora/archive/mai-info/flaw.htm |
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Learn from Japan "Japan managed to evade a colonial imposed dark age after Comodore Matthew Perry brought his gunboats to tokyo in 1853, demanding that the country open its doors to trade with the west. Previously, Japan had adopted a forteress mentality, protecting itself from contact with the dangerous outside world and its cultural disruptions. It continued to protect itself even while it was catching up with the west and in the process transforming itself from an agrarian culture to an ingenuity- based , post agrarian society. Throughout the transformation, the society took immense care to cherish and nurture its own famriliar cultural characteristics. It restored its figure head emporer, glorified the ideals of its samurai, maintained its shriness, and above all cultivated its arts and the highly developed estetic values they embodied. In sum, japan assimilated the western ways into its own culture rather than allowing its own culture to become irrelevant while it was emulating the west.(..)It took from its foreing contacts good and bad, what it wanted to assimlate, without losing cultural memory, identity and competence." - Jane Jacobs, Dark age ahead |
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