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19 Mar 2006 @ 02:42, by nemue. Activism
Do you know why you are here on earth? This is a question that many ask either themselves or others so I thought I would ask you.
What role will you or are you playing? Will you be part of the solution, part of the problem or a silent bystander?
Our world is undergoing a significant change. Regardless of your belief in the New World Order, the coming of our alien family to save us, destruction of mother earth due to climate change, the coming of Planet X, WW111 etc etc etc we are undergoing change. What role you will play?
Do you believe you are here on this earth to help save the planet and to assist in moving us to the age of enlightenment?
Are you here to thwart change – that is part of the controlling forces? Or conversely you don't believe that we are being controlled by other forces/factions
Or, are you one of the millions who will stand by and do nothing just accept your fate? More >
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 1 Mar 2006 @ 09:52, by jazzolog. Activism
A country is not only what it does---
it is also what it puts up with, what it tolerates.
---Kurt Tucholsky
Nothing the happy newspapers say can change the fact that all over India, from the biggest cities to the smallest villages, in public places and private homes, George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America, world nightmare incarnate, is just not welcome.
---Arundhati Roy
We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country's good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world's evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation's wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies. In a word, a criminal—known to be armed and shown to be dangerous.
---Lewis H. Lapham
Ever since I was stopped by a fully armed, battle dressed SWAT team (which stands for Special Weapons And Tactics) [link] or [link] I realized no one catches a glimpse of this President of the United States without an invitation. The man was campaigning in a republic of supposed free election in 2004. What had become of my country? Where was my pride in being an American, the liberators in World War II, the Good Guys?
It wasn't just the War On Terra (as Molly Ivins now is calling it). Here is a leader whose anger at criticism must never be revealed to the people. He must be insulated by handlers, carefully scripted and rehearsed. Some American families have fathers like that. Mom's job is to make sure his blood pressure never flies so high that he blows a gasket. The kids grow up never learning how to negotiate problems or compromise with friends. The United States citizenry has become like that now. All we know how to do is consume. With citizenship practically dead, at least as it used to be taught to us all at home and in school, I've come to despair that anything can be done to stop the insanity of this administration.
Furthermore, the very process of impeachment, which is an effort to correct rather than indict, has become so predictable and cheapened in recent years I've hesitated to join any cries for something to begin. The Clintons were hunted with such tenacity as soon as he took federal office that it's little wonder he finally began the behaviors of a monkey in the zoo. Any mention of Republican problems and we hear about Ted Kennedy again. The Congress refuses to hold hearings about eavesdropping on the American people. So why am I writing about this and what chance is there? More >
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10 Feb 2006 @ 09:37, by nemue. Activism
Does this picture touch your heart? Can you stand by and say nothing? Please have your say..we need your vote. More >
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18 Jan 2006 @ 22:40, by gsosbee. Activism
Until the United States' terrorists and assassins are stopped in their tracks, the world cannot rest. Human beings are presently tortured, imprisoned and murdered by the fbi and the cia worldwide for no cause; this will not stop until the global population demands the surrender of the homicidal sociopaths who dominate U.S. political and economic policies. The concept that if the U.S. is let alone (or with its *puppet allies) to be armed with nuclear weaponry in order to allow the rest of the world to live in peace is total lunacy. The United States used the nuclear bomb, threatens to use it again, and will in fact use it again to attack any nation which remotely threatens the U.S. stranglehold on the world.
Indeed according to Karl W B Schwarz (and others),"evidence is still piling up that they have done wrong for the past three presidential administrations in using depleted uranium weapons on Iraq twice, Bosnia and Afghanistan." *
Consult with the individuals around the globe who have survived the torture camps now being run (in secret) by the fbi and the cia. Review the testimony of current Targets of fbi/cia torture campaigns for more insights on the barbaric and homicidal methodologies employed by the U.S. government at home and abroad.
Under the best of scenarios (as viewed from the perspective of non conforming-belligerent nations), however, the world cannot defeat the U.S. war machine. Any attempt to prepare to do so will be met with total destruction of the aggressor. Even today the U.S. has another weapon (other than conventional) which can theoretically wipe out, instantaneously, any cache or bank of unfriendly technologies which may pose a threat to the U.S. or its allies: the laser beam fixed in positon in outer space can accomplish this little task just fine (see world in a box at www.sosbeevfbi.com).
The real issue , I think, is how to stop all weaponry on earth and space from being used and at the same time to afford all human beings alive some hope for peace and stability everywhere and for all time. The formation of a one world , one people Humane global government must be studied and proposed. The tyrants of any given country cannot be entrusted with Human Rights and Individual Freedom issues ever again. This means that the people of the world, not their respective governments, must embark on mankind's most ambitious odyssey: the journey toward permanent peace and harmony on earth and the uncompromising realization of Human Rights for all. This can be done; such a goal is not simply a dream. What appears as an unattainable dream is that the United States or any other government on earth will someday stop killing and torturing people and allow them to live in peace , mutual respect and love.
_*Note the following statement by Benjamin Netanyahu (in a paper on "Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic And International Terrorism", 1995)wherein he unwittingly confesses to the character and nature of American and Israeli intelligence groups and their associates globally:
"By its very nature, the inhuman method chosen by the terrorists to achieve their aim disqualifies the aim from the start as one worthy of moral support....the methods reveal totalitarian strain that runs through all terrorist groups....terrorists are the forerunners of tyranny."
The intel groups torture, imprison, terrorize and murder at will (and then subsequently brag about it) and anyone who challenges these fools may be targeted for death.
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SOSBEE'S PROCLAMATION
Whereas the present government of the United States (feigning leadership) openly and without the slightest pretense of respect for human life and in complete disregard for universally accepted standards for basic human rights, engages under color of its national flag in murder, torture, imprisonment and terrorist practices against the peoples of the world, NOW THEREFORE SHOULD BE DECLARED AND HEREBY IS DECLARED A CRIMINAL AND ILLEGITIMATE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY (THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) and as such deserves not a respectable place among the family of nations and more significantly merits nil when the final account of Humanitarian efforts be tabulated by all that is holy and graceful in the universe.
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We the people of the world hereby prevent the fbi, the cia, the militia, or any other government agency (or person) of the United States (or any other country) from dictating the terms of our surrender unto their authority, custom, culture, power now and for all times; in furtherance of this recognition, the world's population forthwith seeks to expose such dictatorial intent (and the techniques employed in support of same) by public investigation which serves on a continuing basis to protect and to defend the people of the world (now and in the future) from any form of inhumane governance. EVERY MAN/WOMAN.
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As people discover the immoral, cowardly and macabre character of the agents, operatives, handlers and associates of the fbi/cia (as manifest globally in the killing/torture techniques used by these sociopathic assassins to insure compliance to new world order dictates) we may not reasonably expect a merciful redress from foreign and domestic freedom fighters forced from desperation to employ against US equally aggressive and abhorrent stratagems. Geral Sosbee .
All of the torture tactics used by the fbi and the cia require analysis and discussion. Among other websites see.... www.sosbeevfbi.com [link] http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/statement.html [link] http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2005/05/1347.php [link] http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/remote_behavioral_techology.htm The failure of the global academic community to engage the topics included in the above listed sites reflects the decadent mentality of those who pompously and pretentiously presume to carry the banner of enlightenment for our civilization. Any questions ? geral sosbee
See Also:
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See the above article in a different format at:
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See Also:
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*For evidence to support this statement by Schwarz see the following link from which this is excerpted:
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GOING NUCLEAR
And as evidence surfaces that Bin Laden had been making plans to go nuclear, some experts believe that in fact the US Air Force is deploying nuclear materials. Here is areport out of Australia on the use of weapons hardened with depleted uranium, a concern that surfaced in the Gulf War and later in Kosovo. I haven't read much about thisin the US presss:
Depleted Uranium Toxicity in Afghanistan
by Richard S. Ehrlich
"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - American warplanes are attacking Afghanistan with depleted uranium weapons which could poison combatants and civilians, especially children, according to U.S. officials.
"The possibility of radioactive dust storms sweeping across Afghanistan and polluting rivers has meanwhile sparked fears in Pakistan.
"The radioactive dust released by the impact of these weapons can easily get into the food chain and the water supply through the Kabul River in Afghanistan and thus into Pakistan's Indus [River]," reported Dawn newspaper.
"There are simply no contingency measures to brace people against such a disastrous humanitarian fallout," Dawn added.
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See:
Torture Warrants and Law: Justifying Torture and
Making it Legal?
Rosemary Horton, P.L. Duffy Resource Centre,
Trinity College, Western Australia
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27 Dec 2005 @ 19:13, by rishi. Activism
An Expose’ of the film;
Wal Mart, The High Cost of Low Price
December 2005 has seen the release of a little-advertised, but informative movie that will appeal to anyone who truly cares about other people, and the fate of humanity as a whole. This movie is a “must-see for all thinking minds”, being one of the most startling and revealing films since Michael Moores’ “Fahrenheit 911”. Entitled, “Wal Mart; The High Cost of Low Price” produced and directed by Robert Greenwald, the movie exposes what is perhaps the largest-scale corporate scandal of our time, dwarfing even the Enron level of social corruption.
If you’ve ever marveled at the fact that behind the facing or label of almost any product, from wrenches and plastic toys, to fashion clothing and appliances, there reads, “Made in China” then this movie will explain what’s going on in corporate back-rooms. Part of the “high cost of low price” as the movie explains, are miserable sweat shops around the world where far less than minimum wage-slaves toil day and night, so that Wal Mart can “sell for less”. It explains that even American workers are exploited to the maximum possible extent to drive down costs, and still make a pretense of staying within the limits of the law. But actually, Wal Mart DOES NOT stay within the law on several accounts, from environmentalism and wage/overtime scandals, to the inhumane working conditions for it’s armies of sweat-shop, worker-ant, human machines.
Although the movie is brilliant in its’ presentation and scope, it fails miserably in certain areas of commentary. Not once during the entire film were the words “consumerism”, “materialism”, “trade deficit”, “wrong values”, “sweat shops” “supply and demand” or “simple living” ever mentioned, let alone discussed to any depth. Not once was the entire scope of corporate enterprise and its’ associated wide-spread fraud and corruption exposed. So although everyone should go out of their way to see, “Wal Mart; The High Cost of Low Price” they should also keep in mind that this is by no means a comprehensive view of our social-corporate problem as a whole. After the below highlights are mentioned, see our letter written to director Robert Greenwald, that lavishes praise and criticism alike, upon this epic work.
To review some of the highlights of the movie, the following facts and figures were mentioned. These facts alone should give even the most casual reader the clear and unmistakable impression that something is gravely wrong with a society and corporate ethic alike, which could allow such tragedy to occur, merely for the sake of increased profits.
From;
“Wal Mart; The High Cost of Low Price”
See website information at www.walmartmovie.com and www.bravenewfilms.org
· In 2003 Wal Mart posted 240 billion dollars in sales, but cost tax payers a total of $1,557,000,000 to support its’ under-paid employees.
· Wal Mart imported 18 billion dollars in goods from China alone in 2004.
· Lee Scott, Wal Mart CEO, earned $27,207,799 in 2005,
while the average Wal Mart hourly employee was paid $13,861
· The cost for a Wal Mart factory worker to assemble an average toy car is 18 cents, while the retail cost at Wal Mart for that item is $14.95. [Assuming additional shipping charges, raw materials and stocking for a total cost of $1, the profits to Wal Mart on an elaborate piece of plastic is at least 1400 %.]
· Tax abatement/taxpayer subsidies for Wal Mart amount to hundreds of millions of dollars per year, at all levels of government. Wal Mart encourages its’ employees to go on government assistance programs [to compensate for its’ lack of adequate pay and benefits]. A UC Berkeley study concluded that in California alone, Wal Mart costs state tax payers 86 million dollars a year, and up to 25 million dollars to county taxpayers. [This drain to taxpayers to supplement underpaid and under-insured employees, went to such expenses as; Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, health care, income tax credits and housing subsidies, because workers cannot survive on their hourly pay]
· Wal Mart is currently fighting employee lawsuits in at least 31 states for hundreds of millions of dollars, due to lost pay/non-payment of overtime. It has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to settle class action lawsuits, “cheating people out of overtime on 40+ hours a week” in various states throughout the nation.
· Racial and sexual discrimination exist as a systemic practice through this organization, as documented by many lawsuits and public cases. Unfair or unlawful hiring practices have also come to light, such as the hiring of illegal immigrants for less than minimum wage pay, as after-hours cleaning persons.
· Overseas hiring practices in places such as China, Bangladesh and Honduras, have been exposed in many investigations consistently revealing illegal, inhumane and immoral practices on the part of Wal Mart factory management.
· In Bangladesh, 189,000 women are on the known payrolls, working a documented 7 days a week, with 14 hour days, making 13-17 cents an hour. Many were shown asleep and exhausted at their sewing machines and other manufacturing stations.
· In China, workers make less than $3 a day for 15 hour days, working 7 days a week. Regarding these practices, workers were routinely told by management to lie to inspectors about their working conditions, pay, living conditions and hours worked per week. Many were even given false pay stubs to show to these inspectors, and those who did not “lie well” for the company were harassed or fired. Worker paychecks had automatic deductions taken out of their weekly earnings to pay for crude, dormitory-style housing. They were forced to pay these deductions whether or not they lived at the company dormitories, so of course, most are forced to live there, and this does not include the cost of utilities such as electricity. Living conditions of the employees are less than minimal…unthinkable under US standards…with double-decker beds, no place to wash or even hang laundry, little to no storage, few to no windows in tiny buildings that have no security, forced to wash their clothes on the floor in small plastic tubs. Many workers are made to work with little to no ventilation and other minimal facilities, in super-cramped factory areas surrounded by as many as hundreds of other workers in long rows, working as fast as they can under the eyes of abusive management. One worker was quoted as saying to Americans, “These profits you make and the wonderful life you have, are the sweat and tears and overtime-working of the Chinese people”.
· In Honduras, an interviewed manager and loyal, career employee of Wal Mart, speaks of being fired after bringing to light revelations of widespread worker abuse in every single factory he visited there. He said he was fired for performing his job, and that no actions were taken by Wal Mart to correct the human rights abuses they regularly forced upon their indigenous workers, once those facts were reported.
· The estimated value of the Wal Mart jet fleet is $125,350,000. Such jets are routinely used by top executives to visit those store locations, the movie explained, within which any hint of forming an employee union is mentioned. Employees who attempt to form unions or improve conditions are “profiled” by managers, harassed, fired and held under surveillance.
· The top 5 members of the Walton family, the original proprietors of the now world-wide Wal Mart chain, are worth an estimated 102 billion dollars. Ten billion of that would promote adequate wages and health care for all U.S. Wal Mart employees. The Walton family has given an estimated 1% of their wealth to charity, but made 3.2 million in political contributions in 2004 alone. The Walton family received a federal tax cut of $91,500 for every hour of the 2004 tax year.
· There is a Wal Mart employee program called, “The Critical Need Fund” into which employees may donate a portion of their pay in order to assist fellow employees in times of crisis, such as in the case of hurricane or tornado victims. Into this fund, employees paid a sum of 5 million dollars in 2004 alone, whereas the Walton family donated only $6000.
· A facility exists for the Walton family to escape to, in the event of a collapse of society or an apocalyptic-style, world war scenario. It is composed of vast wooded grounds, hi-tech equipment and an extensive underground system of tunnels and rooms. Included in this facility are a helicopter pad, satellite up-link dishes, and a highly fortified chain-link fence with barbed wire, surrounding the entire complex.
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Dear Mr. Greenwald,
Perhaps needless to say, your hard-hitting movie, “Wal Mart; The High Cost of Low Price” is an epic accomplishment in the expose’ of a corporate monster. Before this movie was available, the vast majority of the public was doubtlessly unaware of these scandals you expertly reveal to every viewer. Your work is genius and long over-due. In a very real way, society owes you a debt of thanks and gratitude for what must have been an often difficult-to-document subject matter. Every person who has money and buys products should see your movie as soon as they possibly can. Wal Mart; The High Cost of Low Price would make worthwhile compulsory viewing in public schools, and in any setting where the welfare of humankind is being carefully considered.
With that being said, we would also like to point out to yourself and to your viewing audience, that several key points were strangely missing within an otherwise excellent documentary. You missed a sparkling opportunity in your film to make landmark social statements. Had you given these subjects their proper due, it would have elevated this work from the level of mere documentary, to classic masterpiece of social responsibility.
Perhaps the most conspicuous point that was lacking in, “Wal Mart; The High Cost of Low Price” was that the “high cost of low price” is by no means limited to Wal Mart alone. If you were aiming at making a socially responsible statement on this mark you failed miserably, because such scandalous activity as your movie exposes, is truly widespread amongst most, if not all, of the major corporations in America and abroad. Wal Mart is by no means the only corporation, for instance, which treats its’ workers like replaceable machine parts. This has become an across-the-board phenomena in the slashing of 401K retirement plans, reduction of worker benefits, discouragement of unions, increased working hours for less pay, intentional understaffing, the exploitation of the poor and a lack of proper compensation in overtime, not to mention damaging working conditions. Wal Mart by no means has the monopoly on such practices as the building of foreign sweat shops that routinely abuse their workers, or in paying them far less than what we would lawfully consider minimum wage. Wal Mart is by no means unique in its’ flagrant disregard for the environmental health of the ecosystems which surround its’ factories. Wal Mart is surely not the first corporate institution, which we all well know, that bribes government officials in the form of “political contributions” to make its’ exploitive intentions easier to implement.
So although your films’ statements are truly exemplary for pointing out unethical Wal Mart practices, they fail completely in not giving even the slightest mention to HOW WIDESPREAD such corporate practices really are. The thinking person is prompted to wonder after seeing this film as to just why this is, and what your motives were in that direction. After an hour or so the movie begins to come off as a Wal Mart bashing party, (which is well deserved, don’t get me wrong) by forces who are jealous of Wal Mart’s privileged economic position, not as a responsible social statement regarding corporate corruption as a sum total. One might even conclude that your movie is a form of corporate warfare, based not on a real concern for people, but as an attempt to take a swipe at the biggest bully on the playground.
You might protest this conclusion calling it unfair, however, if your movie is not just motivated by corporate in-fighting, then why is there not even one mention in the entire length of the film of such words as, “consumerism”, “materialism”, “supply and demand”, “trade deficit”, “wrong values”, “sweat shops” or “simple living”? If in fact your motive for making this movie was to uplift the human condition, as it is made to appear, then why is it you did not address, even for 30 seconds total, any of these implicitly related issues or key words? Perhaps this was an honest mistake on your part, and if so, you will be interested to note that the problems your movie describes are NOT confined to Wal Mart alone, but reside within our society as a whole.
When we say “wrong values” what comes to your mind? After seeing your film it’s not hard to conclude that the management of Wal Mart has its’ values in the wrong place to say the very least. To put that more succinctly, it’s obvious that they do not see human life as having any value, other than the monetary profits that can be made from it. Their executives obviously think that there is no God higher than money, and toward the daily worship of this end, they’re willing to do LITERALLY ANYTHING to make a buck, including destroy the ecosystems of the entire world, reduce entire populations to the status of wage slaves, lie, cheat and defraud the public at every level of social concern, corrupt government officials and the democratic process from city, regional and state levels to the making of federal regulations, and in every other way, pervert the human condition to one of poverty and community disaster. But our essential question to you, Mr. Greenwald, is this….”How are any of these wrong values and goals in any way confined to the Wal Mart corporation?” To literally DO ANYTHING to make a buck can surely be considered the underlying slogan of life, in the last 40 years of the so-called “American Dream”. Such corruption of right values is seen everywhere rampant in our society and world civilization as a whole. In essence, it is the modern public expectation that “nobody cares about anything” except for themselves and the greedy values which underlie the very heart of the consumer ethic, and materialism in general. You missed a wonderful chance to point this out in your movie, and to make a real case for social change, rather than just corporate one-upmanship.
On the unnecessary waste generated by American society, which is by far the most wasteful society in the history of the planet, one could feed and clothe half the world. Consumerism is completely out of control. This becomes even more obvious when reflecting upon, (so-called) “Christmas”, where the Teachings of Christ, a simple-living advocate and the ultimate anti-materialist, has been transformed into the spectacle of consumption we see today. Why doesn’t your film address this point, especially in the context of a simpler and more sane lifestyle?
A very large portion of “Wal Mart; The High Cost of Low Price” was dedicated to hearing the woes of small-time American businessmen who, after long years of local community existence, were displaced by Wal Mart. Fair enough, and to those people the viewer can certainly commiserate. However, the thinking person is once again left asking themselves…”How many of their competition did these local establishments put out of business in the normal course of affairs, and just how much did THEY give back to their community beyond the usual love of more and more profit, seen everywhere else today?” Would any of these local proprietors, if given the chance to be CEOs’, really have done anything differently than Wal Marts’ Lee Scott? Is Wal Mart really the only entity who displaces its’ competition with its’ presence? No, of course it isn’t. It is commonly considered fair and appropriate for the so-called, “free enterprise” system of economics to function in this way. And that is a large part of my point. A selfish, dog-eat-dog way of life based on greed and destruction is not a sane way to live.
The thinking viewer is also prompted to say, “Let’s just be honest about this whole issue shall we?…and realize that the entire social structure to which we belong is based upon the maximum greed and acquisition possible, in the shortest period of time, regardless of what it costs other people or the world at large!” Let’s face it…this is exactly how society routinely functions. If we’re going to really change anything for the benefit of the common person, it’s going to have to be through the change of these very wrong, TV-promoted consumer values upon which society runs, not just in the criticism of a singular corporation. What about K-Mart, Weyerhauser, McDonalds’, General Motors or McDonald Douglas? What about Microsoft, General Electric, Johnson and Johnson, The Fox Network, The American Broadcasting Company or Halliburton, Exxon, United Airlines, AOL/Time Warner, or countless others? How about the entire consumer culture that is promoted every day upon the radio, television and newspapers, which lie to people constantly about how widespread environmental destruction is becoming as a result of consumerism, and how a huge portion of the people of the world suffer endlessly just to support the so-called, “American way of life”? What about the extremely typical neighbors next door, who think that life is all about money and showing off their new car and fancy clothes, and to hell with the rest of the world? If you had been truly concerned with the human condition, Mr. Greenwald, then wouldn’t it be reasonable to say that this is the kind of all-inclusive statement you would have wanted to make?
If you genuinely cared about the human condition, why didn’t your movie talk about the very “supply and demand” that makes such entities as Wal Mart possible to start with? Without the wrong values of consumerism and materialism firmly established in almost every citizen’s mind, there simply would NOT be the kind of public demand for products which literally sustain Wal Mart and hundreds of other entities like it. In other words, if people didn’t think they had to have every, “new and improved” trinket that crossed their television screens, places like Wal Mart would not be the bloated monster it is today. No demand means no ability to supply. If we’re really going to address this problem, don’t you think the most ethical thing to do would be to point out how almost everyone is complicit in this world devastation we’re discussing? Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to show that everyone who buy’s into the whole consumer products world, where even love is equated to material objects, is partially responsible for the sweat shops, the mass deaths, the political uprisings, the environmental disasters and the misery of countless children in foreign nations? Wouldn’t it be even more appropriate to point out that if we’re REALLY concerned with stopping terrorism, that we’d better stop giving farmers and idealists reason to become terrorists to start with, by no longer exploiting their countries, their natural resources and their children for the sake of fashion magazine imagery?
What we’re getting at here, if it isn’t completely obvious already, is that the problems your film, “Wal Mart; The High Cost of Low Price” run much deeper than a singular corporation or nation. The problems we’re discussing are a matter of almost every human being on this planet, being suckered into the wrong values of consumerism and materialism. These problems could not exist without widespread public participation in such values…to buy without thought, and upon whimsical impulse or egotism, (as in keeping up with the Jones’). Without the wrong values of consumerism and materialism which infect Wal Mart and the rest of the planet, this world would not be able to support those dictators, terrorists, (State and otherwise) sweat shop overlords, corrupt politicians and illicit wars, whose primary driving force is similar greed and egotism. You seem an intelligent man, I’m sure you can see the connection here. Corrupt companies and governments are ultimately maintained by corrupt populations. This is a sad but true fact which nobody wants to hear, but it is true nonetheless.
So instead of questioning a given corporate entity, let’s question those consumer values of greed, (there’s never enough) and egotism, (fashion and glamour) which underlie them. Let’s question and oppose not just a single example of corruption, but those corrupted values which make them possible at all.
Perhaps in your next film you will take a more socially responsible course, one that addresses the actual CAUSES of world and social destruction, rather than just one set of corporate symptoms. We do dearly hope that this is so. We hope that you will see the intent of this letter as one which is concerned not with criticism of your fine works, but with the improvement of the human condition. Known producers and writers like yourself have a truly unsurpassed opportunity to change this troubled world for the better. We urge you to make the very best use of that opportunity in the future.
Thank you once again, and best wishes.
Sincerely,
Matthew Webb visionquest@eoni.com
Sandi Hunter spellscaster9@yahoo.com
For additional reading, see the Social Commentary section of the Library at;
The World Mind Society [link]
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 22 Dec 2005 @ 21:28, by freo7. Activism
I AM Bac`, speaking to you NOW from the ALL that IS, Everywhere including the Earth Source 2 of course!!
Last evening 6PM - 9:30 PM PST (my linear time connection) we did a global ;D Quan Yin Activation, CLEARING & RELEASING of 40 billion former Earth souls whose purposes and alignments we [b]not in sync with the new energies coming in now through Earth Source into Gaia Being. An untold number of what Earthlinigs would call starseed came in to replace them and TO BE THE NEW ENERGIES. Many of these are what Earthlings would call walk ins but that is not a totally correct way to put it. It is really just the higher aspects of the souls (levels of) who exited or 'other soul aspects of them that left.[/b]
The global conference call was patched from the [link] Quan Yin Activation Center in Hawaii to a city in each country where we the transition infra structure (I call it) people are stationed.
The so called old world consciousness (40 billion of it) have moved on to differing alighnemnts and realities more congruent with their current choices about what life is and isn't.
As above, so as below now comes into a congruence with my individuated purpose for being here at this time. It turns out that I am in fact an aspect of P`Tah. Has anyone here heard of him?
I just found this P`Tah part out experientially when I was 'floated' to my own proper and correct synchronization => original blue print of mine own DNA and that is how I landed in the 9th dimension of US ALL HERE AND NOW and merged with my God Self (while BEING IN HIS sacred circle) within Earth's dimensional Consciousness.
* He seems definately a masculine expressor while I am aspected female but he and I merged so whoever and what ever I am here & now is quite fine by me. :-X LOL
Just wanted to touch base with my beloveds here in this group: Hail Destra full of light, How I LOVE your name and the names of all your people. The GOD WILL be done now.
*Today we are celebrating and seeing the LIFE FORCE changes; beholding, since last evening's *Earth Only* Collective consciousness's massive clearing & releasing, within GAIA HER SELF's, BEING/BODY.
Mah Gii Kah Oui brothers and sisters!
OUR RELATIONSHIP (in the relativity of all life forms) and THE SOURCE of us all is now totally grounded in GAIA BEING.
P E A C E ~ B E
typed by Brenda McCann, aka Freo`7 in Idaho USA Earth... and Beyond :-*
Spirit vein/name/frequency ID: The Adventurer,
AHANDA KAH Sii AHA! :-[
Also known by the name P`Tah in the 9th dimensional collective solar plexus of us all, The BUILDER, while we are Earth Based 4 Earth's current transitions.
See Copy of "THE CALL TO SERVICE" HERE => Quan Yin Creation Center More >
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14 Dec 2005 @ 19:06, by letecia. Activism
This makes me so Angry!! Please take action now!
Congressman Ducan Hunter (R- El Cajon) is trying to sneak an amendment into the Defense Appropriations bill to give control of Santa Rosa Island (now part of the Channel Islands National Park) to the Department of Defense to use as a Military recreation facility. The public would no longer be able to use the island. This is not a request from the military; it is coming out of Hunter's office. We must stop this!
Please read the attached article from the LA times and the statement from Ron Sundergill, Pacific regional director, National Parks Conservation Association who explains the likely hidden reason for this bizarre transfer of public park land to the Defense Dept.
Get Mad then make the following calls:
Congressman Duncan Hunter (202) 225-5672 - tell his office that you oppose this backroom deal.
Congresswoman Capps(Santa Barbara) (202) 225-3601 - Tell her you support her efforts to stop this
Congressman Gallegley (Mountain communities/Santa Ynez) (202) 225-5811 - Tell him to get on the horn to fellow Republican Hunter and say "back off!"
Tell our senators to stop this amendment:
Senator Boxer (202) 224-3553
Senator Feinstein (202) 224 3841
Senator John Warner (R-Virginia) ( 202) 224-2023 - This is the guy Hunter is negotiating with in the Senate to get this amendment included. Tell him this is sleazy and sneaky and to put a stop to it.
This could happen this week! Thanks for you help. Forward to people you think will be concerned.
Ann Wisehart
December 10, 2005 latimes.com
Military Wants Santa Rosa Island
By Tim Reiterman and Richard Simon, Times Staff Writers
WASHINGTON - A California congressman confirmed Friday that he wants to convert Santa Rosa Island in Channel Islands National Park into a Department of Defense installation for military recreation and special forces training - a move critics say would severely limit public access.
The proposal by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is being circulated as an amendment to a defense authorization bill that both houses of Congress began hashing out this week.
Hunter put forward a similar measure in May, but withdrew it after objections from environmentalists and Democrats and after consulting with Republicans.
In a statement e-mailed Friday night by his spokesman, Hunter said the proposed amendment "would broaden the recreational use of Santa Rosa Island to the benefit of wounded and disabled members of the armed services who have sacrificed for our country."
Through the spokesman, Hunter declined to discuss the amendment, citing ongoing negotiations with his Senate counterpart, John Warner (R-Va.). Warner's office did not return calls seeking comment.
Hunter's proposal calls for the Department of Defense to transform the 53,000-acre island into a military operation, effective Jan. 1, 2009. The goal, the proposal said, was to provide "morale, welfare and recreation activities to members of the armed forces and their dependents, veterans, official guests and such other persons as the [Defense] secretary determines to be appropriate, including paralyzed and disabled persons."
The island, according to the proposal, also could provide training areas for special operations forces and would continue to allow deer and elk hunting that is currently permitted.
Critics of the proposal said military personnel already can visit the park, just like the general public.
Rep. Lois Capps, a Democrat whose Santa Barbara district encompasses Santa Rosa Island, said the proposal is a bad idea "that is being pushed in secret negotiations."
"All Americans should have access to the Channel Islands National Park, not just top military brass, members of Congress and folks who can pay thousands of dollars to go on private hunting trips," Capps said.
Santa Rosa is the second-largest of the five Channel Islands that make up the park.
The proposal did not state that the island would be removed from the national park, but said the Defense Department would run the island.
Environmentalists adamantly oppose the proposal, saying it would deny the general public access to a significant portion of a park created two decades ago.
"The public would be completely frozen out," said Ron Sundergill, regional director of the National Parks Conservation Assn. "For all intents and purposes . it would no longer be a national park. It would be a military recreational compound."
A spokeswoman for the Department of Defense declined to comment, saying that it was premature to discuss any proposal that was not formally incorporated into the bill.
National Park Service spokeswoman Holly Bundock said the agency has heard about the proposal and is concerned that shifting control to the military would substantially cut public access to a scenic island with rare wildlife and plants, including the Santa Rosa Island manzanita, the Santa Rosa Island soft-leaved paintbrush and the Island fox.
"Santa Rosa is a public island," she said. "Taxpayers bought the island . and we operate it as a national park."
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Santa Rosa Island was a cattle ranch - and later sheep were introduced. When it was sold to Vail & Vickers Co. in 1902, the island was devoted exclusively to cattle raising.
The federal government purchased Santa Rosa Island for $30 million. In 1986, it became part of Channel Islands National Park along with four other islands in the chain - Santa Barbara, Anacapa, Santa Cruz and San Miguel.
Officials say the park had more than 500,000 visitors last year.
The public can visit by boat and there is an airstrip. Visitors can camp and hike the island, which is 15 miles long and 10 miles wide.
The former owners of the island are permitted to continue operating a deer and elk hunting concession on the island through 2011.
The congressional proposal would allow that operation to continue until then.
CA Republican Duncan Hunter's amendment would deny the public access to Santa Rosa Island within Channel Islands National Park, converting it to Military Uses
By: Ron Sundergill, Pacific Regional Director, National Parks Conservation Association
Published: Dec 10, 2005 at 09:12
Following is a press statement by Ron Sundergill, Pacific regional director, National Parks Conservation Association:
We have learned that Representative Duncan Hunter (R-CA), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, is planning to propose an amendment to the Defense Authorization bill that would shift Santa Rosa Island, the second largest island within Channel Islands National Park, to an exclusive recreational outpost and game reserve for armed forces personnel and veterans, eliminating broader public access. In addition, the amendment would allow Special Operations Forces to use the island for military training.
The clearest indication of the intent of this amendment comes from reviewing a similar proposal Rep. Hunter made to a military spending bill earlier this year. He withdrew that highly controversial amendment after objections were raised, and after it became apparent that the Department of Defense had not even asked for it. The first version of his amendment was a bad idea and the new, dressed up version is no better.
We recommend that Rep. Hunter abandon this misguided amendment, which undoes a mediated settlement approved by a court of law in the fall of 1997 to protect threatened resources on the island.
This amendment is an attempt to grab a large portion of Channel Islands National Park and, in part, turn it into an exclusive commercial elk and deer hunting island compound for a small portion of Americans, and would result in a sweetheart deal for a well-connected family that has already sold their estate effective at the end of 2011 for $30 million. The proposal would turn administration of the second largest island within the park, Santa Rosa Island, over to the Secretary of Defense. Santa Rosa Island's land mass is 52,794 acres and it encompasses over 42 percent of the land mass within the National Park.
Islands National Park lands were set aside by our nation for the use and enjoyment by all Americans -- the young, the old, civilians, military personnel, veterans and nature lovers -- who go there to soak in the fresh air and marvel at its beauty. All Americans should continue to fully enjoy the wonders of this park.
Why would Representative Hunter, why would anybody for that matter, want to suddenly restrict a large portion of this beautiful place to a small portion of Americans? It makes no sense!
We can only guess that the reason this is being proposed is to protect the commercial interest that operates the elk and deer hunting venture on the island. The owners of the venture, whose family sold the island to the federal government in 1986 for nearly $30 million, will be required to end their commercial activities in 2011. The timeline for ending the elk and deer hunting results from a legally binding agreement between the National Park Service and the National Parks Conservation Association, but the owners of the hunting venture strongly objected to the agreement.
If Santa Rosa Island is turned over to the Department of Defense for military recreation and other purposes, the permit for the commercial hunting operation is then likely to be renewed. This is especially evident since the proposed amendment requires that the current contract with the commercial hunting operation be honored, and contains no restriction on the renewal of the contract.
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11 Dec 2005 @ 01:50, by nemue. Activism
Over 700,000 people homeless with no means of support due to the action of their government!!!! And still the world stands by and does nothing. Commonwealth countries still trade with this despotic government, as do many other developed countries.
The UN offered temporary tents for the homeless but the government rejected them.
In case you are not aware why these people are homeless it is because the government bulldozed their shanty houses. They bulldozed them but didn’t bother to provide the displaced with any means to survive. And still the voice of the world is silent. How long can we continue to turn a blind eye?
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7 Dec 2005 @ 14:56, by shreepal. Activism
New Civilization Global Movement – NCGM - Charter seeks to usher on Earth an Order of Human Institutions geared to accomplish five objectives of New Civilization: Common Survival of all life on Earth, Freedom of individuals from all kinds of oppression, Common Prosperity of all people, Global Unity among different subdivisions of Mankind and Enlightenment of human beings.
This document is divided into three sections:
Introduction to NCGM
Activities of NCGM
Charter of NCGM
INTRODUCTION:
NCGM is an initiative of people who feel concerned about the present condition of Earth and Mankind. Presently, it is web based and being facilitated by New Civilization Network.
NCGM holds that Mankind has arrived at the crossroads where the fate of Earth as a hospitable home for life and the fate of life in its evolutionary course would depend on Mankind selecting a correct path.
NCGM seeks to usher on Earth a New Order of Human Institutions geared to accomplish five noble objectives of New Civilization. Human Institutions are the institutions of interactive collective living of human beings and these include family, community, society, economy, culture, faith groups, politics, governments, nations and nations’ inter se living.
NCGM relies on people’s power, as contradistinguished from the power of political governments, for enabling Mankind to steer onto the correct path.
Charter of NCGM gives a call to peoples of all nations, faiths and cultures to IDENTIFY those individuals, organizations and governments who conduct themselves AGAINST the five noble objectives of New Civilization. It further calls peoples to win these adversaries with the WEAPON OF TRUTH, strategy of LOVE and NON-VIOLENCE and tactic of NON-COOPERATION in order to accomplish New Civilization’s objectives.
NCGM expects to grow in vigor, with the passage of time, enabling it initially to make an impact on world events and then finally to decisively control the course of those events that vitally affect the fate of Earth and of Mankind.
Presently, a Workgroup of NCN – akin to Secretariat of NCGM - is taking initiative to organize NCGM and the first Earth Summit of Peoples for New Civilization.
It is envisaged that there would be held at regular intervals Earth Summits of peoples for New Civilization for taking stock of the man-made events that adversely effect Earth and Mankind and for taking decisions on measures that are needed to correct the same. The first Earth Summit of Peoples for New Civilization is proposed to be held as early as possible to adopt a Charter of Action.
In the Workgroup the representatives of people belonging to one country have been allotted one vote and decisions therein are taken by a majority vote. People of one country may be represented by one or more than one individual. Any person who wishes to join and is willing to work may join the Workgroup.
Currently the Workgroup includes: 1. Ming (France) 2. Silviamar (Spain) 3. Judih (Israel) 4. Zimpen (Sweden) 5. Shreepal (India)
ACTIVITIES OF NCGM:
(1) NCGM is being facilitated by New Civilization Network and to join log on NCN.
(2) The first Earth Summit of Peoples for New Civilization and New Civilization Global Movement are being organized by a Workgroup. To join the Workgroup log on NCN.
(3) To find background material for Earth Summit and NCGM click Shreepal, a Concerned Global Citizen.
(4) It is envisaged that, as soon as possible, NCGM would enable people to post on its web site any man-made event happening anywhere on globe that adversely affects Earth and Mankind to get a helping hand from NCGM.
Charter of New Civilization Global Movement:
HAVING FAITH:
THAT planet earth is our common home and we human beings have inherited it from our forefathers, in trust for our own use and for the use of all other life-species dwelling on earth of the present and of the succeeding generations.
THAT all life-species are sacrosanct and deserve survival and preservation at our hands.
THAT all man-made disputes – whether social, cultural, economic, political or any other - arising from conflict of interests are capable of being resolved by human beings in peace and amity;
THAT mankind is an evolving species being at the apex of life-evolution on earth yet being at an intermediate stage only; and
THAT mankind is capable of exploring the unknown micro and macro universe, harnessing the unveiled secrets of nature and its forces, and is capable thereby to consciously shape her destiny and the destiny of earth and of universe;
AND BEING CONVINCED
THAT mankind is living under the threat of annihilation at her own hand by the use of weapons of mass destruction;
THAT a firm and sustainable human-unity is the only effective and workable guarantee to protect human race against such threat of self-annihilation; and
THAT such human-unity can only be established on the solid foundation of the commonality of human-interests, the commonality of purpose of life of human beings on earth and the commonality of the destiny of human race;
WE,
THE CITIZENS OF EARTH,
CALL UPON
PEOPLES OF ALL NATIONS, FAITHS AND CULTURES
TO
Identify those individuals, organizations and governments
Who conduct them against the five noble objectives of New Civilization, and
TO
Win over them with
The weapon of
INSISTANCE ON TRUTH,
The strategy of
LOVE and NON-VIOLENCE, and
The tactic of
NON-COOPERATION
TO
ACCOMPLISH,
In common interest, these five noble objectives of New Civilization, namely:
COLLECTIVE SURVIVAL of all life-species on earth by observing peace, good order, complete and global disarmament and respect for and conservation of nature;
FREEDOM, from political, economic, cultural and social oppression, within national and international organizations of human society, by guarding the individuals’ human rights and the interests of organized society;
COMMON PROSPERITY of peoples by utilizing technological advancements and scientific management of global natural resources to avoid waste, unsustainable exploitation and natural imbalance, and to bring efficiency;
GLOBAL UNITY among different subdivisions of mankind by promoting mutual respect for diversity, understanding and harmony in diversity; and
ENLIGHTENMENT of human beings by encouraging them to imbibe the knowledge of science, from material science to psychic science, and encouraging them to remain always opened to change of convictions.
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5 Dec 2005 @ 04:07, by oasiian. Activism
We are on the dawn of a new Era, an era of Enlightenment, progressing into a world where Warrior no longer means something necessarily of War, but of the defence of our spirits, our rights, and our freedoms, which the empires of China and America breach.
We must defend these, for they are all that is true. More >
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