To know the truth it is only part of the Story. Your lack of action is the other one.
Sold To the Highest Bidder!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmhL8bjL9vc
Passivity kills!
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- stopnoise
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Thanks S.and W. Noise !!!
Nice video...
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Every American ought to be ashamed of themselves for letting corporate power get away with their practices. As an electorate, we get so caught up in petty political squabbling, which really is theater to give us taxpayers the illusion of a democracy, while the fat cats are stealing our lunch money.
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- ProgressiveBum
- 4 months ago
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thank you so much for posting this video... a good doc. to see also is "The Corporation", a Candadian production addressing the insanity of corporations.
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Like an old building where everything becomes obsolete and no longer works so it is the government today. We have two options. Trying to fix this old building by re-designing it or leave it alone and build a new one from scratch.
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Let's start the debate on how best to reverse this.
Speaking truth to power is essential, but it can have pretty drastic consequences.... I'm just sayin'
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When 1% of the population controls 80% of the wealth the options are pretty much gone...
Awareness & resistance is an avenue but how futile it is in front of these overwhelming odds remains to be seen...
At this point & time I'm afraid we are in the middle of a tragic play where we take the pain and the fight or become slaves...
The perenial blue or red pill ;)
"The Matrix is a system, Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many are so...hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it." - Morpheus in The Matrix
What seems a very terrifying aspect of our society is the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe such events. I think that’s more terrifying than the occasional Hitler or LeMay or other that crops up. These people would not be able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity. I think that it’s in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who share a very serious burden of guilt that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent. - NOAM CHOMSKY
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- WhiteNoise
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Here you go StopNoise - its an excellent companion piece and interweaves with Sold To The Highest Bidder.
About the FilmWINNER OF 26 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS! 10 Audience Choice Awards including the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.
Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" The Corporation includes interviews with 40 corporate insiders and critics - including Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.
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"A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain" - Anatole France
A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis." - Umberto Eco
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- WhiteNoise
- 4 months ago
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A trailer to the movie - The Corporation:
Thank you again WhiteNoise and StopNoise - this is such an important issue:What can we do? Amongst other things stop buying their products, stop watching mainstream media, and stop eating junk food... buy local products from local people as much as possible.
BeeDee posted an excellent link to another facet of this subject a few months ago called "Century of the Self" a four part documentary produced by the BBC. Well worth the time to watch and an infinitely more valuable way of spending your time rather than watching the 7 o'clock news....
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However people keep forgetting, keep losing their collective and educational power. How come the government keeps getting stronger and people keep getting dispersed? Most humans forget that they will not live physically for an eternity. Physical life has its depreciation. Instead many people that worked all their lives does not get rewarded, they get dumped somewhere. You see, these questions goes deep into the psyche of how we treat and respect other humans and life.
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Adam Curtis's material is crucial to understand the narrative being shoved down our collective throat.
• The Power of Nightmares
THE RISE OF THE POLITICS OF FEAR
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=135THE PHANTOM VICTORY
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=136THE SHADOWS IN THE CAVE
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=137VERDICT : We're back in Plato's Cave
Back to were we never left some say ;)
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- WhiteNoise
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You just have to open up your checkbook to see who owns you. Our first & most readily accessible act to maintain our freedom, now considered a commodity, is how you choose to spend your hard earned money. By strategizing & figuring out how you can live more off the grid than on is an important & an empowering step to new millennium independence. There’s no better time for anyone to stop & do a self-evaluation to see if they’re on the path that realizes their dreams-or off course & needing redirection.
Freedom on the local level is a good place to start. Supporting local businesses & services that are a closer fit to your lifestyle has a ripple effect throughout a community from how you spend your money everyday-meet your new owners, associates & friends. By looking at & breaking down your finances, you're able to see how much flexibility you currently have & be more selective how & with whom you do business, which ultimately influences your life's direction & destiny.
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- darkhorsejim
- 4 months ago
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agreed...fuck WalMart to start, and Nike, and Liz Claiborne and all the rest of the crap peddlers who operate with impunity....we all need to stop buying the crap we don't need and support our localities.
one small step for humanity
one giant kick in the ass for corporations
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- Incredulous
- 4 months ago
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Great! Love all the contributions to all the films and the great filmmakers who are trying to show this government in it's true light. I do think change is happening and it's important that people keep the struggle for the truth alive!
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White Noise and stopnoise,
I very much agree with the video and I have the utmost respect for much of what you say.
Excellent video. All undoubtedly the truth but the awful reality is that I think the revolution that is needed will be better accomplished with Obama in office than McCain.
I am dreadfully sorry to say that I do not think there is a snowball's chance in Hell of electing Ron Paul or Ralph Nader.
Total deregulation will never happen even if by some miracle Paul were elected. He has no allies in office.
Obama and then revolution in that order.
If McCain is elected, Blackwater will suppress the revolution.
Let me hear your thoughts.
I am too much of a strategist to put any faith in a third party this year and electing McCain will be the end of America as we know it.
Now let's find some REASONABLE common ground.
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- Inofuilwell
- 4 months ago
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- satanskidney
- 4 months ago
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Thanks stopthenoise, but tell me something I don't know. Like how do you get all the states to unite and take back the federal government? Just voting democratic is NOT ENOUGH. We need more third parties, more control over the media, and more egalitarian people in government.
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- tomofnorthcal
- 4 months ago
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Schumer is one of the leading architects of restrictive gun laws.
I had rather elect a Democrat like Obama and THEN revolt if he doesn't help us fight the corporate control.
I'll join but we might as well let the Democrats get rid of a few lobbyists and regulate a few corporations on the way.
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- Inofuilwell
- 4 months ago
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I have friends that won't vote, period. I think that is fruitless and apathetic. Yet these guys earlier were trying to teach me apathy. Now look at them. One of them will vote for Mickey Mouse to send a message that they don't want corporate candidates, the other tells me there is no use, but then again he lives in Canada now and has a Canadian wife. That's a copout even though I can't blame him. The fact that Nader, nor Paul will stand a chance is reason for them not to vote, but I told him go ahead and vote your conscience whether your candidate has a standing chance anyway. At least your expressing your right!
But these guys will not vote because this is how far the establishment has gone to raise apathy to a new height! It's no surprise and most people won't see a dramatic change in our government because those calling for a change are the one's who screwed it up in the first place. These hard core corporations and politicians better do a little soul-searching and those working for them are losing their jobs and worried about their pensions and eggnests. They should've been the whistleblowers and lost their jobs just to expose what has been going on. But since, for a short while the corruption was making money for everyone, it was OK. Workers just shutup, and keep their jobs and let the bigwig thieves screw everything up. Now that the economy is in the dumps, I see nothing but people at the top pretend to be fixing the situation. Then again the fixing starts at the top, while the bottom sinks even lower depths.
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we all need to be reminded that its crucial to think for ourselves. nothing would ever get changed if we were afraid to disagree, to challenge, to question. just because its allways been that way doesnt mean its right!
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- punks4trix
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