The Corporation

Very well done documentary that will wake-up the comatose, if nothing else for a couple hours to see how corps{es} are bringing a Zombie Apolcalypse upon the world. All star cast Michael Moore, Howard Zinn, Norm Chomsky, Dr Vandana Shiva and more. 5 Stars! Please share this one, your help and participation in this magnificent awakening is always very much appreciated…In Lak’ech! Annette aka AscendingStarseed

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The Corporation is a documentary directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, who goes into the psychopathic business world. Is based on the book entitled ‘The Corporation, the pathological pursuit of profit and power’, by Joel Bakan.
The documentary begins by explaining the enormous power that was given to corporations by giving them the rights of a person. But if corporations have the same rights as a person, what kind of person is the corporation? Over the years we have seen the last of these entities interest was wealth, profit above the good of the society, people use to describes corporations as constructive members of the society, because they produce goods we need for daily life, besides offering employment to the community. But we can’t forget that the primary goal of a Corporation is the money, they have a profit motivation.

The Corporation’ es un documental dirigido por Mark Achbar y Jennifer Abbott que durante dos horas y cincuenta y tres minutos se interna en el mundo empresarial psicopático. Está basado en el libro con el título ‘La Corporación, la persecución patológica del beneficio y el poder’, de Joel Bakan. Con entrevistas realizadas tanto a ejecutivos de multinacionales, brokers de bolsa, espías industriales, así como a activistas y pensadores contra la globalización (Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein y Michael Moore, entre otros) se analiza el comportamiento de las multinacionales. Todo adornado con imágenes de anuncios y noticias de la televisión y videos promocionales de las empresas. La linea argumental consiste en dar por válida la hipótesis legal por la cual una empresa es “una persona” con derechos y obligaciones. Si es así la película se adentra en su comportamiento, su conducta y sus deseos. Amoral, única y exclusivamente motivada por la búsqueda del beneficio propio, no obstante busca la autojustificación y dar una cara humana. Sometiendole a un test psiquiátrico propuesto por la Organización Mundial de la Salud, Joel Bakan demuestra que “La Corporación” responde al perfil de un psicópata, y para testificarlo entrevistan a un alto cargo del FBI especializado en Psicópatas. La película, entre otros premios, ganó el de la audiencia al mejor documental en el festival de cine de Sundance, al que por premura no se presentó, pero fue invitada especialmente y aclamada por el público. A partir de este premio, el autor decidió distribuir libremente la serie por las redes de pares.

The Corporation ist ein kanadischer Dokumentarfilm aus dem Jahr 2003. Der Film analysiert das Verhalten von Großunternehmen im Geschäftsleben.Einer der wesentlichen Aspekte des Films ist, dass Großunternehmen nur die eigenen Interessen verfolgen und dabei prinzipiell keinerlei Interessen anderer Personen – insbesondere von Menschen – berücksichtigen. Der Film wurde vom Rechtswissenschaftler Joel Bakan geschrieben und von Mark Achbar und Jennifer Abbott produziert.Das als sehr wirtschaftsfreundlich bekannte Magazin The Economist schrieb über den Film: „Beide Lager der Globalisierungsdebatte sollten aufmerken. The Corporation ist ein überraschend rationaler und intelligenter Angriff auf die wichtigste Institution des Kapitalismus.

http://www.thecorporation.com

The Dream To Awaken Our World

 

Posted on May 20, 2012

 

A history professor once taught: A country cannot control a technology without an academic culture that understands the science. For example, during much of the 20th century, Eastern countries that coveted Western technology learned that the ideas and ways of Western science must also be adopted by their academic institutions if the technology were to be successfully wielded. A sword does little good outside the hands of a trained swordsman.

Here at the beginning of the 21st century this principle is now being used toward our technological enslavement. Our science has been stunted and misdirected, and technological developments have been classified in the name of national security (e.g. T. T. Brown’s work in electrogravitics in the 1920′s) or suppressed for the sake of business (e.g. Nikola Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower in 1917) out of which a top-down industry of suppression and deception has since flourished. Project Camelot and other alternative news sites have interviewed witnesses and whistle blowers who have provided evidence for this time and time again.

A primary goal of Blue Science is to shine light onto the suppressed physics and technologies that have been kept from us. The risk of our enslavement, for ourselves and future generations, by a scientific dictatorship now outweighs both the alleged risk to national security, and the inconveniences incurred to the petroleum and related energy industries should their oligopolies be negatively impacted. The very hands that our well-intentioned predecessors attempted to keep the new technologies out of are exactly the ones to which they have fallen into. This unbalanced state of forces catalyzed by the Internet now sets the stage for the new energy physics and technologies to inevitably emerge into the public sphere. This is the stage upon which we now choose our roles, write our scripts, and play out our parts in History.

To learn is to teach, and vice versa. Blue Science shall cover fundamental concepts of quantum theory, for instance, looking closely at the actual kinds of exotic phenomena it does model, vs. common misconceptions of its applicability to things like telepathy, remote viewing, etc. the ultimate point being not to disprove psychic phenomena, but instead, to look for new physics to understand and explain them rather than limit ourselves to the conceptual pigeonholes provided to us by 20th century physics. We will examine in detail alternative unified theories such as the subquantum kinetics of Paul LaViolette, among others. We will attempt to communicate to a broad audience, but not at the expense of important details. For example we will use differential equations when needed, as this is the most precise language we have for describing and modeling physical systems, but we will do our best to translate them into less technical language as well. Accordingly, this is the level of detail we invite other researchers to share their work with us. We seek to find and share the work of researchers whose experiments have tangible results, or whose theories make accurate and falsifiable predictions.

Project Camelot has shown us what is possible–let us now bring these ideas into reality.

http://www.blue-science.org/articles/2012/05/20/the-dream-to-awaken-our-world/

(Japan) Read This And Cry : The Message of Fukushima Unit Three

How the Corporate Right Hijacked America’s Courts to Enrich the Top 1 Percent

 

 

America’s political-economy is caught in a vicious cycle, with concentrated wealth at the top leading to outsized political power.

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For a generation, America’s political-economy has been gripped in a vicious cycle. Those at the top of the economic pile have taken an ever-growing share of the nation’s income, and then leveraged that haul into ever-greater political power, which they have in turn used to rewrite the rules of “the market” in their favor. Wash, rinse and repeat.

It’s the result of years of institutional investments by the corporate Right to advance a reactionary legal regime in America’s courts. In the process, the richest Americans now have their hands in both our legislative and judicial branches, while working America has become a voiceless stepping stone.

“The more pernicious effect of economic inequality comes indirectly through its impact on political inequality,” says MIT economist Daron Acemoglu, co-author of Why Nations Fail. In an interview with Think Progress, Acemoglu explained what he called, “a general pattern throughout history”:

When economic inequality increases, the people who have become economically more powerful will often attempt to use that power in order to gain even more political power. And once they are able to monopolize political power, they will start using that for changing the rules in their favor.

This dynamic is best understood in the realm of electoral politics. In a study of something that most people already consider to be obvious, Larry Bartels, a political scientist at Princeton, examined lawmakers’ responsiveness to the interests of various constituents by income, and concluded:

In almost every instance, senators appear to be considerably more responsive to the opinions of affluent constituents than to the opinions of middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of the income distribution have no apparent statistical effect on their senators’ roll call votes (PDF).

Or consider ALEC, an organization funded by major corporations that writes laws that, among other things, curtail workers’ rights to organize and disenfranchises the poor, elderly and people of color. It then lobbies state lawmakers to pass its “model legislation,” and sweetens the deal with junkets – all-expenses-paid vacations at posh hotels for legislators and their families – where they can rub shoulders with the titans of industry.

Look at the fruit that union-busting bears for the wealthiest Americans:

(click for larger version)Another way the wealthiest Americans have rigged the rules so more of the national income flows upward may be just as consequential, but less well understood. A 30-year campaign to push America’s courts sharply to the right has borne abundant fruit for those in the top 1 percent.

We see it reflected in today’s Supreme Court, which, having unleashed a flood of super-PAC cash into our political campaigns in a decision that was one of the most brazen examples of judicial activism in the court’s history, now stands poised to overturn not only the Democrats’ healthcare bill, but much of the jurisprudence that supported the welfare state developed since the New Deal.

A study by the Constitutional Accountability Center found that the Chamber of Commerce had won 65 percent of its cases heard by the court under Chief Justice John Roberts, compared to 56 percent under former Chief Justice William Rehnquist (1986-2005) and just 43 percent of the cases that came during the Burger court (1969-1986).

But that’s only the beginning. “The Roberts Court,” wrote Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, is “slowly but surely… giving corporate America a handbook on how to engage in misconduct. In case after case, it seems big companies are being given the playbook on how to win even bigger the next time.”

Many of the court’s rulings have overturned long-standing precedents. While conservatives constantly rail against judges “legislating from the bench,” it is far more common for right-leaning jurists to engage in “judicial activism” than those of a liberal bent. That’s what several studies have concluded. Media Matters offered a run-down of a couple of prominent ones:

A 2005 study by Yale University law professor Paul Gewirtz and Yale Law School graduate Chad Golder showed that among Supreme Court justices at that time, those most frequently labeled “conservative” were among the most frequent practitioners of at least one brand of judicial activism — the tendency to strike down statutes passed by Congress. Those most frequently labeled “liberal” were the least likely to strike down statutes passed by Congress.

A 2007 study published by University of Chicago law professor Thomas J. Miles and Cass R. Sunstein… used a different measurement of judicial activism: the tendency of judges to strike down decisions by federal regulatory agencies. Sunstein and Miles found that by this definition, the Supreme Court’s “conservative” justices were the most likely to engage in “judicial activism” while the “liberal” justices were most likely to exercise “judicial restraint.”

In a recent opinion, two federal appeals court judges suggested that all efforts to protect workers, consumers or the environment were unconstitutional, including regulatory efforts by the states. It’s a radical view, but one that has gotten increasing traction in conservative legal circles. It is also the culmination of years of institutional investments by the corporate Right to advance what’s come to be known as the “law and economics” movement, which analyzes legal rulings “costs” – essentially applying neoliberal economic logic to the field. Its advocates eschew the notion that human rights or economic fairness are inherently valuable factors for the law to consider.

The model has gained increasing influence in American courts, and that’s no accident. In his book, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law, Johns Hopkins scholar Steven Teles writes that conservatives, reacting to what they viewed as liberal hegemony in the legal community of the 1960s, fought hard to shift the legal terrain rightward.

Spurred by their overlapping grievances, informed by an increasingly sophisticated of how to produce legal change, and coordinated by strategically shrewd group of patrons, conservatives began investing in a broad range activities designed to reverse their … organizational weaknesses. While similar kinds of organizational development were happening in other domains … in no other area was the process of strategic investment as prolonged, ambitious, complicated and successful as in the law.

In 1998, the Washington Post reported that “Federal judges are attending expenses-paid, five-day seminars on property rights and the environment at resorts in Montana, sessions underwritten by conservative foundations that are also funding a wave of litigation on those issues in the federal courts.”

Funding for the seminars, run by a group called the Foundation for Research on Economics and the Environment (FREE), also comes from foundations run by companies with a significant interest in property rights and environmental law issues.

One of the group’s funders was the John M. Olin Foundation, which invested millions of dollars in the law and economic movement – endowing university chairs, funding think-tanks and providing early support for the Federalist Society, which was founded in 1982 by former attorney general Ed Meese, controversial Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork and Ted Olsen—who years later would win the infamous Bush v. Gore case before the Supreme Court in 2000 and then go on to serve as Bush’s solicitor general. The foundation said in a 2003 report to its trustees, “All in all, the Federalist Society has been one of the best investments the foundation ever made.”

In 2005, the Olin Foundation actually declared “mission accomplished” and closed up shop. The New York Times reported that after “three decades financing the intellectual rise of the right,” the foundation’s services were no longer needed. The Times added that the loss of Olin wasn’t terribly troubling for the movement, because whereas “a generation ago just three or four major foundations operated on the Right, today’s conservatism has no shortage of institutions, donors or brio.”

If the economics and law movement were to become the standard in our legal culture, it would represent a massive upward redistribution of wealth. Not only would “transfer payments” – unemployment benefits, assistance for needy families and the like – be deemed unconstitutional, but so would minimum wages, job training programs, subsidized student loans and most of our already threadbare social safety net. And that environment will have been purchased for a princely sum by those who have profited so handsomely from America’s spiraling income inequality.

Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet. He is the author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy: And Everything else the Right Doesn’t Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America. Drop him an email or follow him on Twitter.

Owned & Operated

BRAVO!! Very well done, this is a great film to give people who are still caught up in the downward spiral of consumerism, destruction, greed and war. Time to wake up, this explains the reasons why very well, thank you ASH!

Published on Apr 10, 2012 by CrackinStudios

Owned & Operated is a mosaic of the world through the lens of the internet. Showing our lives as consumers, under the thumbs of privileged individuals and their methods of control. But the world is awakening, and the experience is something outside the normal rules of social interaction, causing excitement in those who are not served by the current system… and fear in those who are pampered by it.

This documentary attempts to present these events using the video, audio and written content uploaded to the internet by the collective human consciousness comprised of every individual participant.

Oh yes, change is coming… and it will be more dramatic than anybody can imagine.
If you don’t have an hour and 46 minutes to spare just yet, you can check out the 2 minute teaser for the film right here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlxfqAJqRrg

This is a community project. If you’d like to get involved, check out our website at http://www.crackinfilms.com

Fairewinds Update: Radio Ecoshock: The Worst Problems In The World and Dr David Schindler on Canada’s Tar Sands

Alex Smith, of Radio Ecoshock, interviews nuclear industry expert Arnie Gundersen, of Fairewinds Associates.  Smith notes that the nuclear accident at Fukushima Japan is far from over as three reactors continue to meltdown.  Smith adds that now there is a storm of international worry about nuclear fuel pools tottering in blown up buildings putting the whole Northern Hemisphere at risk.

Gundersen says it is unlikely there would be an explosion if the #4 Fuel pool collapses. But dangerous “hot” particles would still be sent around the world, because within two days of the collapse, the Zirconium and radioactive metals (like Cesium and Plutonium) would burn at a very high temperature, sending particles high into the air. The result would be an everlasting disaster for Japan. Arnie thinks it could create a no-man’s land 50 miles across the country, perhaps destabilizing the government.

According to Smith, “Arnie Gundersen, a year ago, warned us here on Radio Ecoshock, and to anybody who would listen, that a world-scale catastrophe was lurking in the nuclear fuel storage pools of both reactors Three and Four, at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan.  Why is this story finally getting wider attention, a year later?”

Link to listen, stay tuned after Arnie for eye-opening data on the Tar Sands environmental disaster unfolding in Canada:

http://fairewinds.com/content/radio-ecoshock-worst-problems-world

Save Bears from Being Buried Alive in Appalachia!

 

These are the things that make my head feel like it’s going to explode! On some level humanity has choice and free will in it’s condition, but the wildlife doesn’t not deserve this kind of suffering – it’s absolutely unconscionable. Please flow the link below to sign the petition, these petitions do make a difference so please take a moment to help the bears.

They need 4000 more signatures, if every 2012 The Awakening reader who sees this post signs the petition below WE can make enough of an impact to wrap this  petition up and send it to Congress! Will you please help the Appalachian mother bears and their cubs?

Mahalo!

Annette

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For nearly two decades, mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining has been destroying Appalachia’s natural landscape and wildlife habitats.

Recently, a native woodsman witnessed bulldozers covering the entrance of a black bear den with debris, leaving a crying mother bear and her cubs trapped inside to die.

In addition to hurting bears, the bulldozing and explosions involved in MTR destroy flying squirrel, salamander, mussel and other native animal habitats.

Please sign the petition to convince Congress to ban MTR and to enforce legal requirements for coal mining in Appalachia.

Sign here:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/466/225/288/save-bears-from-being-buried-alive/

IRAN JUST A FEW MONTHS AWAY FROM ANNOUNCING PLASMA PHYSICS ENERGY, MIKE HARRIS AND GORDON DUFF “GLOBAL INTELLIGENVE OPERATIVE”

April 10, 2012 (with corrections)

Must listen to this recent show on Republic Broadcasting with host Mike Harris and his guest, “Global Intelligence Operative” and editor of Veteran’s Today, Gordon Duff.

FREE ACCESS COURTESY OF MIKE HARRIS CLICK HERE FOR MP3

They discuss the state of plasma physics that has been in use by the secret space program for 20 years (according to Duff) which in reality is more likely to be closer to 50 years… Regardless, in connection with a small New Jersey company, Iran is well along in building commercially viable plasma physics plants that can power interstellar space flight well outside our solar system, with a by-product of all the electricity you can use.  And desalinated sea water… with no radiation and no other ill effects.

In this casual conversation Duff and Harris discuss the impact of Iran going public with this technology that puts the energy wars into sharp relief… the possible real reason why the U.S. and Israel are so anxious to go to war with Iran.

Supporting article on plasma physics (also refer to post below)

click here

They also touch on the absurdity of Gary McKinnon being in prison for stumbling on the Secret Space Program fleet-to-fleet transfers and list of off-world non terrestrial officers…  click here for the Camelot interview with Gary McKinnon.

Lastly, they discuss Jeff Prager’s recent claims that 4 nukes were used in the 911 attack — aneutronic  bombs that have no residual radiation except for the firefighters who would have been exposed to high levels of radiation in the first potent 48 hours after impact…Duff says the CIA has verification of this info from several different angles..  Note:  this sounds to me like a further cover story for directed energy weapons but at least it’s closer to the truth.  http://www.elusivetruth.com/2012/03/jeff-prager-links-nukes-to-911/

Of course Camelot and our readers have been well informed about the existence of a Secret Space program that goes much deeper than the superficial treatment here, but given that Republic Broadcasting and Veterans Today are relatively mainstream media sources… openly discussing the Secret Space program and very real energy sources they have been using for years… creating a rogue on and off world culture of secrecy… this could be viewed as a form of Disclosure.

http://projectcamelotproductions.com/blog-hp.html

Lerner and Iranian scientists launch “Fusion for Peace” initiative

 News on March 23, 2012

by Aaron Blake

Three physicists, one US and two Iranian, have issued a statement proposing a joint US-Iran research collaboration that they contend could be an alternative to confrontation and war and, if successful, could “make uranium enrichment obsolete, block proliferation everywhere, liberate the world from oil, and open up a new source of cheap, clean unlimited energy.”

The proposal, published in the online newspaper, OpEdNews, calls on the US and Iranian governments to set up a joint US-Iran Aneutronic Fusion Program to research methods of producing nuclear fusion energy without the production of neutrons. Aneutronic fusion devices can be extremely compact and economical to build, so they can be researched for more quickly and cheaply than the deuterium-tritium fusion devices that have been the main line of fusion research. In the past few years, Iran and the US have become the leading countries pursuing this type of fusion device. If they can be developed, they would provide safe, clean energy far more cheaply than uranium-based nuclear fission, and would thus make the entire uranium enrichment cycle obsolete.

The Iranian and US scientists have already been collaborating informally, exchanging ideas and data, but are calling for a joint project to greatly accelerate this research. Until the past year, aneutronic fusion, which requires temperatures of billions of degrees, was considered simply too difficult by most researchers. However recent results, including news that was published today in the respected peer-reviewed journal Physics of Plasmas, have shown that such extra temperatures can be produced and confined using small devices. One such device, called the dense plasma focus (DPF) can be built for only a few hundred thousand dollars, and Iran now has set up more of these devices than any other country in the world. The US is the only other country with an active aneutronic fusion effort.

The scientists’ statement says that “aneutronic fusion could make uranium enrichment obsolete because, if it works, aneutronic-fusion-produced electricity would be cheaper than any available today. Aneutronic fuels produce energy that can be converted directly into electricity, without going through the expensive cycle of generating steam and putting it through turbines. Such an ideal energy source would be far cheaper than nuclear fission energy based on uranium, (what is commonly called nuclear energy). There would be no reason for Iran or any other country to continue to pursue fission energy for peaceful purposes. To prevent nuclear weapon proliferation, the use of uranium could be universally banned as nuclear fission energy production was shut down.”

They call on the two governments to “rapidly establish two Aneutronic Fusion Centers, one in the US and one in Iran, staffed by scientists and engineers from both countries and funded by the governments in proportion to their respective national GDPs. These Centers would work in cooperation with existing research groups, but with greater resources could speed up the work several-fold. Research results would be fully shared by the two countries. As the project grows, other countries not now involved in aneutronic work can join in.”

The scientists are urging other researchers and concerned citizens to join in this call. A petition aimed at the US administration is circulating at FusionForPeace.org.

http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=com_lyftenbloggie&view=lyftenbloggie&category=0&Itemid=90

The Fuel Pools of Fukushima: THE GREATEST SHORT-TERM THREAT TO HUMANITY

By Washington’s Blog

Global Research, April 9, 2012

Washington’s Blog

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30207

Global Research Editor’s Note This detailed report by our Contributor Washington Blog must be read very carefully. The World is at a critical crossroads. The Fukushima disaster in Japan has brought to the forefront the dangers of Worldwide nuclear radiation. The crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war”. Nuclear radiation –which threatens life on planet earth– is not front page news in comparison to the most insignificant issues of public concern, including the local level crime scene or the tabloid gossip reports on Hollywood celebrities. The implications of this report must be understood. Public opinion worldwide must be informed so that meaningful actions can be taken without delay in support of the Japanese teams. Spread the word. Forward this report far and wide. Post it on Facebook. It is essential to put pressure at all levels of government, nationally and internationally to take all actions necessary to avert an impending catastrophe, which in a very real sense threatens the future of humanity. Michel Chossudovsky, April 9, 2012