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In reply to the discussion: What DO you call it when democracy is broken at the behest of business? [View all]nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)13. there's so much urgency in these messages. we have to wake up.
i spend a lot of time on the water kayaking, either in the springs here in FL or around estuaries or coral down in the keys. we're well into a "tipping point" here in FL. we're about to have a water problem like CA, but it will be b/c our water is fouled from salt water intrusion (what happens when we use more water than we have, the ocean seeps into our aquifer). On the other end of the stick, the pH is so off in the keys that the corals are dying...and with them go whole ecosystems. Ugh...i could go on and on. there's so many attacks on our fragile habitat and so little being done to help.
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What DO you call it when democracy is broken at the behest of business? [View all]
nashville_brook
May 2015
OP
Excellent OP. Thanks, esp. for including quotes and FDR who well knew the ruthlessness of
appalachiablue
May 2015
#78
yes they are. not all intentionally -- many are just ill-informed, or don't grasp the entirety of the problem.
nashville_brook
May 2015
#16
i think it's important, for myself, to cop to the fact that I actually "supported" globalism
nashville_brook
May 2015
#11
Globalism is only a means for the greedy assholes to take maximum advantage of us.
Enthusiast
May 2015
#57
you'd think the "black helicopter" people would be up in arms about this
nashville_brook
May 2015
#66
indeed. i feel like Eisenhower gave the last great warning, when it was too late...
nashville_brook
May 2015
#12
halliburton, brown bros, KBR...they all learned how profitable unending war can be
nashville_brook
May 2015
#74
i totally agree. there's been an accrual of power that's been exercised in shocking ways.
nashville_brook
May 2015
#42
or kleptocracy. i try to avoid those words b/c as academic language they tend to hide
nashville_brook
May 2015
#28
Evil is truly banal. it IS business as usual for many people...i bet most of which don't have a clue
nashville_brook
May 2015
#43
Holy shit. "TPP gives corporate lawyers the ability to preempt “non-tariff barriers” to trade"
GoneFishin
May 2015
#46
and the weirdest thing is that Alan Grayson has been sounding this alarm since at least 2013
nashville_brook
May 2015
#48
From your link : "Canada has ... been sued for ... taxing windfall profits by oil companies."
GoneFishin
May 2015
#54
that is the fear, at least -- and it seems to be the case. we need to see the whole document.
nashville_brook
May 2015
#71
here's a piece by Ezra Klein in VOX that I believe makes the case for getting real about fascism
nashville_brook
May 2015
#50
That's another reason the right calls Obama a nazi and fascist. Because it is actually true that
GoneFishin
May 2015
#55
You are correct. There are many who call themselves Dems who are sympathetic to rightwing economic
GoneFishin
May 2015
#69
it's much more efficient to achieve their ends thru secret trade agreement
nashville_brook
May 2015
#72
"The 1920's and early 30's." FDR and Truman knew it. The ITO was to keep it from returning.
pampango
May 2015
#62