Guide To Democracy and Rooting Out the Axis of Evil - for dummies (part two)

Dec.15th 2011 Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low income  A question keeps surfacing..............................

How low will you go, America?    Will you wait until three quarters, 75% of Americans are poor or low income?    Or until all 98% of Americans become poor or low income, as the 2% take it all?   Who is perpetuating an outdated and unworkable economic/monetary/corporate system whose major output is measured by a crushing, world-wide DEBT, one which demands ever greater austerity for the majority? Is this the epitome of modern science, technology, wisdom, understanding? Who kicked whom out of the temple in days of old for being useless parasites sucking the life out of the living?

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/blocking_the_gates_to_the_temples_of_finance_20110418/ Life for the pharisees of high finance is solely about self-gain. The suffering of the poor is not their concern. The 6 million families thrown out of their homes are not their concern. The tens of millions of pensioners whose retirement savings were wiped out because of the fraud and dishonesty of Wall Street are not their concern. The failure to halt carbon emissions is not their concern. Justice is not their concern. Truth is not their concern. A hungry child is not their concern…………….

Guide To Democracy and Rooting Out the Axis of Evil - for dummies (part two) 

Dec.15th 2011 Census data: Half of U.S. poor or low income http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57343397/census-data-half-of-u.s-poor-or-low-income  AP} WASHINGTON -Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans -nearly 1 in 2 -have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earnings that classify them as low income

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

St. Columbanus Church food pantry in Chicago feeds 500 households a week, but some weeks it struggles to keep up with demand. (CBS)

 It is Time to rebuild the American Dream and balance the scales with a free science

Neither the American Dream, nor the World Dream of Sustainable Prosperity can be accomplished in the 21st Century with a crippled and stagnant science and energy perspective of Reality The future beckons, yesterday's flat world scientific concept must be relinquished.

The Deadliest DEMOCRACY OMISSION

As we are witnessing, the effects of our shallow, scientific definition and applications of Energy, required for human survival, are becoming increasingly deadly. From global warming, pollution, ecological imbalance, to resource wars, famine, poverty……to both individuals and institutions, unknowingly perpetuating continuous development towards a restricting, limiting, strangulating future, based on false and omitted evidence of Reality.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We must demand our institutions of higher learning to honestly seek, research and teach the wonders of an ever greater, expanding reality, and cease merely following directional corporate university research funding, whose sole motive is short term profit, a dangerous lethal trend.

We must not be misled by the masters, the gods of science and Newton's Chair, proclaiming almost all is known, causing many sincere individuals and institutions looking to corn, monkey ladders to space, and other insufficient/inefficient trivia to resolve energy issues.

An example of attempting to create a sustainable prosperity with a crippled knowledge base fostering shrinking development and prosperity:
World watch Report #186: Creating Sustainable Prosperity in the United States: The Need for Innovation and Leadership http://www.worldwatch.org/bookstore/publication/worldwatch-report-186-creating-sustainable-prosperity-united-states-need-innov  Summary

The United States finds itself at a critical juncture, as environmental degradation and resource depletion threaten the capacity of the U.S. economy to generate wealth for the indefinite future. The choice is not between the status quo and sustainability. The choice is whether the United States builds sustainable prosperity through prudent choices now or declines into sustained impoverishment because it failed to steward its assets when it had the choice.

In a comparative analysis of sustainability, the United States ranks barely in the top third of nations. Despite growing awareness of the need to build a sustainable national economy, U.S. output continues to be characterized by linear flows of materials, heavy dependence on fossil fuels, disregard for renewable resources, and resource use that is strongly connected to economic growth.

Creating a sustainable U.S. economy will require a thoughtful and strategic set of national, state, and local policies that essentially remake the economic playing field under a new set of principles:

• Renewable resources cannot be consumed faster than they are regenerated.

• Non-renewable resources must be reused or recycled to the greatest extent possible, creating a circular economy.

• Ongoing development should focus less on ever-higher levels of consumption and more on increased quality of life.

• A sense of fairness, especially around wealth distribution, is needed to generate social and economic stability across society.

• Deceleration of population growth will make the creation of a sustainable economy far easier.

Stories by Chris Hedges http://www.alternet.org/authors/5769

Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. He writes a regular column for TruthDig every Monday. His latest book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.

Occupy Wall Street is a Movement Too Big to Fail Posted on Oct 17, 2011, Source: Truthdig The movement spreading around the United States and the world is simply too big and too radical to be co-opted by political parties or establishment groups.

Why Corporate Elites Should Be Petrified of Occupy Wall Street Posted on Oct 10, 2011, Source: Truthdig The occupation of Wall Street has formed an alternative community that defies the profit-driven hierarchical structures of corporate capitalism.

No Excuses -- Join the Occupy Wall St. Movement or Stand on the Wrong Side of History Posted on Sep 30, 2011, Source: Truthdig Either you obstruct the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street or become the passive enabler.

How Corporate and Political Forces Have Almost Neutralized All Avenues of Resistance in US Culture Posted on Aug 29, 2011, Source: Truthdig The only commodity our state offers is fear.

Militarized Police: Why Is the FBI Treating Americans Like Enemy Combatants? Posted on Jul 11, 2011, Source: Truthdig  - The widening use of militarized police units effectively nullifies the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the use of the armed forces for civilian policing.

Lies Become Truths: The Demise of the Newspaper Leaves Americans Dumber, Blinder and Prone to Ideological Manipulation Posted on Jun 27, 2011, Source: Truthdig The loss of print journalism is impoverishing our civil discourse and leaving us less and less connected to the city, the nation and the world around us.

The Corporate State Will Continue its Inexorable Advance Until We're Locked into a Permanent Underclass Posted on Apr 29, 2011, Source: Truthdig

Hedges: We Must Defy the Corporate Monsters Laying Waste to Our World Posted on Apr 18, 2011, Source: Truthdig Once we demand that a society serve the needs of citizens and the ecosystem that sustains life, rather than the needs of the marketplace, we make hope visible.

Our Public Schools Are Churning Out Drones for the Corporate State Posted on Apr 11, 2011, Source: Truthdig Unconscious civilizations become totalitarian wastelands.

Guide To Democracy and Rooting Out the Axis of Evil - for dummies (part one)

Democracy is NOT influence pedaling of science, knowledge, wisdom & understanding

GuideTo Democracy and Rooting Out the Axis of Evil - for dummies (part one) 



Robert Reich: "The REAL Public Nuisance"

Robert Reich breaks some knowledge on the REAL public nuisance. OCCUPYDEMOCRACY 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ltxMtS1Frpk  

It is time to comprehend that neither the American nor World dream of Sustainable Prosperity can be accomplished in the 21st Century with a crippled and stagnant science of energy and Reality perspective choking off potential and possibilities.
The Deadliest DEMOCRACY OMISSION

As we are witnessing, the effects of our shallow, scientific definition and applications of Energy, required for human survival, are becoming increasingly deadly. From global warming, pollution, ecological imbalance, to resource wars, famine, poverty……to both individuals and institutions, unwittingly perpetuating continuous development towards a restricting, limiting, strangulating future, based on false and omitted evidence of Reality.

Democracy is NOT influence pedaling of science, knowledge, wisdom & understanding:

• That the current state of the dysfunctional world reflects the epitome of 21st Century Modern Science, Technology, Wisdom and Understanding represents a grave, misleading and false belief error - one based on a science and educational system severely crippled, diseased and lacking the full spectrum of scientific awareness.

• That the current state of the world reflects the epitome of 21st Century Modern Science and Understanding of ENERGY, resting upon a 100 year old Stagnant concept of E=MC2, deadly radiation, oil, corn, swinging baboon vines (ladders to space), and other cumbersome, insufficient, and inefficient trivia concepts - represents a science and educational system severely crippled, diseased and lacking the full spectrum of scientific awareness, a system governed (funded) by extreme self interest and immediate profit goals.

• That the current state of world-wide economic strangulation and Debt reflects the epitome of 21st Century Modem Science, Technology, Wisdom and Understanding – in a world whose population, needs, desires, wants are exploding, and AGAINST ALL ODDS, the economy is in a 10-30 year sideways Decline Spin, with 98% of worldwide wealth and resources flowing in the hands of a 2% minority, as the remaining 98%, seven billion people, struggle to cope on the scraps of the remaining 2% of worldwide wealth and resources ........................ represents a science and educational system severely crippled, diseased and lacking the full spectrum of scientific awareness, a system governed (funded) by extreme self interest and immediate profit goals.

The Road to Democracy

Historical Control Methods upgrading, consolidating into current day Big Brother- Guns no longer needed – subliminal, coercive persuasion, social influence methods (as in politically correct or else) which indirectly threaten jobs and lively hoods for complete adherence to unquestioned obedience are far more effective:

For some scholars, a dictatorship is a form of government that has the power to govern without consent of those being governed (similar to authoritarianism), while totalitarianism describes a state that regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior of the people. In other words, dictatorship concerns the source of the governing power (where the power comes from) and totalitarianism concerns the scope of the governing power (what is the government).

In this sense, dictatorship (government without people's consent) is a contrast to democracy (government whose power comes from people) and totalitarianism (government controls every aspect of people's life) opposes pluralism (government allows multiple lifestyles and opinions).

Other scholars stress the omnipotence of the State (with its consequent suspension of rights) as the key element of a dictatorship and argue that such concentration of power can be legitimate or not depending on the circumstances, objectives and methods employed.[1]

Thought reform, coercive persuasion is not mysterious. It is the systematic application of psychological and social influence techniques in an organized programmatic way within a constructed and managed environments (5,7,8,9,10). The goal is to produce specific attitudinal and behavioral changes. The changes occur incrementally without its being patently visible to those undergoing the process that their attitudes and behavior are being changed a step at a time according to the plan of those directing the program.

In psychology, the study of brainwashing, often referred to as thought reform, falls into the sphere of "social influence." Social influence happens every minute of every day. It's the collection of ways in which people can change other people's attitudes, beliefs and behaviors. For instance, the compliance method aims to produce a change in a person's behavior and is not concerned with his attitudes or beliefs. It's the "Just do it" approach. Persuasion, on the other hand, aims for a change in attitude, or "Do it because it'll make you feel good/happy/healthy/successful." The education method (which is called the "propaganda method" when you don't believe in what's being taught) goes for the social-influence gold, trying to affect a change in the person's beliefs, along the lines of "Do it because you know it's the right thing to do." Brainwashing is a severe form of social influence that combine¬s all of these approaches to cause changes in someone's way of thinking without that person's consent and often against his will.

"Fascism Is about the state running things on behalf of corporations". Adrian Lyttelton in his book on Mussolini wrote that 'Fascism can be viewed as a product of the transition from the market capitalism of the independent producer to the organized capitalism of the oligopoly.' It was a point that Orwell noted when he described fascism as being but an extension of capitalism. Lyttelton quoted Italian Nationalist theorist Affredo Rocco: 'The Fascist economy is... an organized economy. It is organized by the producers themselves, under the supreme direction and control of the State

Revisit the Concept of POWER, both physical and mental:
http://www.relaxspa.net/RevisitingPower.htm

Corporism: The Systemic Disease that Destroys Civilization http://www.countercurrents.org!glo¬reinerl1503.htm Huge corporations now control America's body politic by reason of their bald-faced purchases of the three branches of the American government and America's major media. by Ken Reiner: kreiner@earthlink.net 05/09/03: I view the continuing growth of corporate power and its despotic control of governments throughout the world, including our own, as a socio-economic disease. While MussoJini and others named it "Fascism," I call it "Corporism" because that name better reveals its underlying institutional structure. I would define Corporism as the domination of government and society by the emergence and power of the giant publicly-traded multinational corporations and financial institutions, organized in totalitarian hierarchies, which singly and in combinations buy or destroy their competitors, corrupt the politics of nations, and seize, hoard, and wield for themselves most of the wealth of the human race.

Revisit: Friday 21 February 2003By William Rivers Pitt > t r u t h o u t
Perspective >

OF GODS AND MORTALS AND EMPIRE

It sounded like two behemoth icebergs colliding in the North Atlantic, but you needed the right kind of ears to hear it. Two immensely powerful forces crashed into each other over the weekend of February 15th, and the resulting thunder has set the world to trembling.

On one side were the people, who took to the streets all across the world by the tens of millions to stand against George W. Bush's push for pre-emptive war on Iraq. The numbers, and the locations, were staggering.

The weekend of February 15th saw this force ram headlong into the will of men who walk in shadow, whose hands wield lightning and steel, pestilence and famine. In their ranks stand Presidents, Prime Ministers, corporate magnates, untouchable billionaires, and the advisors who whisper to them of empire and domination. They are few in number, but life and death flows from their fingertips in freshets and gouts. These men control the armies and navies of great nations, nuclear and chemical nightmares beyond measure, unassailable technological weapons and walls, the financial cords which hold the package together, the water, the air, the oil, the law, and a global media machine by which they can obscure their designs with pleasing lies.

No mere citizen could do what these men in one moment can do with the crooking of a little finger. With a word, they can erase cities, deprive an entire populace of water and light, unleash disease and famine, annihilate the economies of dozens of nations, and imprison forever anyone who dares dissent. These men bleed, they sicken, they die, but in their time of life they can punch holes in the sky large enough to make Zeus wince with envy. Like the millions who marched, the gathering of such fearful powers into the hands of so few is also without precedent in all of human history