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By Thurman, on September 26th, 20092009-09-27T01:11:00ZF jS, Y%
So you’ve been looking around this website and you’re thinking, “Okay, this guy hates big business, favors socialized medicine, and wants to annul everybody’s marriage license. Just another leftist whack job.” I can’t say that I blame you, after all, I’m not likely to change much by telling you or anyone else bored or angry enough to read this about how screwed we all are.
In a few years, the price of crude oil will get cranked back through the roof and we’ll all be busy packing our kids or ourselves off to some new foreign country with a name nobody can spell to fight and die for another five or ten years worth of the black blood that fuels our civilization.
Continue reading It’s The Ecology, Stupid!
By Thurman, on September 25th, 20092009-09-25T20:50:00ZF jS, Y%
For as long as anyone living today can remember, the United States of America has prided itself on being the melting pot of the world. We live in a gloriously diverse society filled with people from all parts of the globe and representing an enormous variety of religious and ethnic backgrounds.
At this point in the history . . . → Read More: The Offense Of Marriage: An Uncivil Union
By Thurman, on September 12th, 20092009-09-13T04:01:00ZF jS, Y%
The entrepreneurial spirit of the American people has always been the driving force behind the growth and strength of our nation, but the suggestion that corporations should have the same civil rights and privileges enjoyed by living human beings is absurd. The idea that the United States Supreme Court would even consider the question of corporatate funding of political campaigns is hostile to the principles of democracy we all learned as children, but in America today multinational corporations and other powerful interests are poised to become the not-so-silent owners of the United States government.
Continue reading Corporate Reformation
By Thurman, on September 7th, 20092009-09-07T16:31:00ZF jS, Y%
Do you want your children to inherit a world where most people are serfs toiling in the fields of a corporate feudal lord? I’m betting the answer is no, but if the people of the United States ever hope to take back our government from the corporate oligarchy now running the show, our only hope rests on campaign finance reform.
In spite of recent legislation such as McCain – Feingold, powerful well heeled interests still decide who we elect to most political offices and how those lawmakers vote. The second a candidate is sworn in, fund raising for the next election cycle begins.
Despite claims to the contrary, most funding for President Obama’s 2008 campaign came from powerful multinational corporations, PAC’s, and industrial interests. Yes, millions of private citizens, myself included, sent candidate Obama small amounts of cash, giving his campaign a slight advantage over his opponent, but the really big donors; bundlers like Goldman – Sachs, Time Warner, JP Morgan Chase, and others are the ones who dictate the agenda for our president and most other elected officials.
If we’re to ever make the sweeping changes needed to create a better civilization, we must first remove private money and it’s undue influence from our electoral process. Continue reading Big Money Got No Soul
By Thurman, on September 5th, 20092009-09-05T14:33:00ZF jS, Y%
It seems unimaginable that one simple economic reform could bring about an era of honesty, equity, and trust between people and nations, but corporate financial transparency would do just that.
A mandate of absolute transparency in all financial transactions is the surest way to eliminate secrecy, lies, and manipulation at all levels of commerce and government. The idea sounds revolutionary, but if every citizen had the right and the ability to review the complete financial records of any commercial entity, the behavior and priorities of most corporate executives would soon reflect the ethical standards we expect from the rest of society.
The current state of corporate malfeasance is due in large part to the fact that money is so easily hidden and manipulated. Today many businesses still get away with paying workers different salaries for doing the same job because our culture protects that information. The boss doesn’t want you to know how much he’s paying your co-workers nor does he want to know about your financial difficulties for the same reasons that he doesn’t want you to know how profitable his business is; to do so would expose the injustice we all live with every day.
In most business settings discussion of corporate finances outside the ‘need to know’ circle of management, or comparison of compensation between coworkers is grounds for immediate termination. Keeping employees in the dark about matters affecting their common interests is one way a wealthy minority maintains control over the majority of mankind that keeps the commercial universe functioning. Continue reading The Virtue of Corporate Transparency
By Thurman, on September 2nd, 20092009-09-02T23:32:00ZF jS, Y%
The power to create and issue money ought to be the sole dominion of government and should never reside in the hands of private institutions, but today all new money created in the United States comes into being in the form of loans from corporate banks, not the US Treasury.
One of the major effects of this method of money creation is that enormous wealth ends up under the control of a tiny minority of the people, and those who wield such power get to determine where the money goes and what projects get funded (or opposed).
The US fractional reserve banking system generates new money by allowing private banks to make interest bearing loans to consumers, corporations, and governments; creating money from the ether with only a few strokes of a keyboard. All new money in our economy comes into existence in the form of interest bearing debt.
Only the federal government has the constitutional authority to create money and spend it into circulation without inflationary results. Fractional reserve banking destroys democratic institutions because private banks create money which is then loaned to the government at interest, creating inflation as soon it is enters the marketplace. Continue reading Money, Usury, & The Neo-Feudal State
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Flirtin’ With Disaster: Vital Services & The Profit Motive
Essential services are those sectors of industry which are so critical to the well being of a civilization that without their wide spread availability property is destroyed and will people suffer or die. In the western world, electricity, water and sewage treatment, waste management, police, fire protection, nominal telecommunications, education, and basic medical care are all . . . → Read More: Flirtin’ With Disaster: Vital Services & The Profit Motive