Ralph Nader: Corporate takeover of America. Pt. 1

[THYRDEYE]

Watch this video as I have predicted & documented the corporate makeover of the NYC Landscape. This didn’t happen overnight!

“The Urban Eye” Fits in with the OCCUPY WALL STREET movement "Join your host Jerry Rio as he takes you on a nostalgic tour as he explores the disappearing icons of this metropolis and find out what New Yorkers think about unchecked development and the corporate homogenization that has altered and destroyed much of the uniqueness of the New York City landscape"

[unfortunatebeam]

I wish Nadar had the influence and following of Ron Paul. We need someone up front and centre keeping a sharp focus on the corporate takeover of the US and the rest of the world on the front line and radar of every national political discussion. To his credit, Paul does sometimes mention this and he damn well knows it's something serious and crucial, but he doesn't mention it nearly enough. it's always just government this and that cuz he has to pander to the anti-government dolts.

[unfortunatebeam]

did the host forget to shave??

[jobedied]

Nader is full of Crap Americans will always vote for those that stick it up their asses. They always have and always will. Tea Party morons are the next bunch of butt pirates Americans will give the vasoline to.

[dannon2010]

if someone had said 20 years ago that the best news in America would be "Russia Television", I'd say you're crazy. We're in deep, deep shit boys and girls, and Obama is simply a Corporatist of the highest order...a fraud. Reminds me of an old Who song...."Meet the new boss, same as the old boss..."

[bboldt2]

Nader is about the only voice that the mainstream media allows to filter through (too rarely for my taste). I was so pissed at him, during the last presidential election, when he waited until the last minute to finally come out of the woodwork and run. By the time he entered the race all the Liberal and Progressive players had already lined up behind either Obama or Hillary. (boy is it hard to post on this site!)

[bboldt2]

This left precious little chance for anyone to regard him as a spoiler with an agenda or with any clout. (In electoral politics, its not the validity of your position but the number of supporters you can rally--even if it is only as a balance of power spoiler!) I still wish the hell I had voted for him, instead of working for and voting for Obama. The blood is on my hands.

[bboldt2]

This left precious little chance for anyone to regard him as a spoiler with an agenda or with any clout. (In electoral politics, its not the validity of your position but the number of supporters you can rally--even if it is only as a balance of power spoiler!) I still wish the hell I had voted for him, instead of working for and voting for Obama. The blood is on my hands.

[saywhatfo]

Another problem is that this video only has 2,500 views and beber/idol has millions.

[TimeWarp66]

Liberals are just useful idiots. Puppets of communist regimes. Why would they only feature Liberals on "Russia today"

[metalreign81]

@TimeWarp66

If you aren't worried about corporate power than YOU are the puppet

sorry it's just the truth and I'm rollicking over with laughter at YOU'RE expense

hahahahhahahah

[TimeWarp66]

@metalreign81

Corporate "power"??? Give me a fucking break you drone. The only power a corporation has is to offer you goods or service you may choose to buy or not. The government on the other hand has the power to force you to do anything it wants.

Congratulations, you are a useful idiot.

[Mr1700]

@TimeWarp66 corporations can influence gov with power

[TimeWarp66]

@Mr1700

Than that's the fault of government. We need more constitutional amendments separating economics from state. 

[Mr1700]

@TimeWarp66 but the corporations do it to. u cant just blame the government. u seperate gov from economics then we go back to the days where children worked and their were no unions.

[TimeWarp66]

@Mr1700

1) What a eliminated child labour was free market competition raising the level of working conditions not government laws.

2) Unions do not create the middle class. Capitalism does.

[woostopalypse]

@TimeWarp66 How did "free market competition" raise working level conditions? Federal regulations making harsh child labor conditions illegal ended child labor. The capitalists loved exploiting little kids. It made them rich and they fought hard as hell to keep exploiting, but protests and many terrible conditions being public made it difficult.

Yeah, capitalism worked really well for those little kids in sweat shops. That's the free market. Capitalists are free to exploit kids!

[TimeWarp66]

No society in history has been able to develop without the labour of their children. At the dawn of industrial revolution, over 95% of children had to work. In less than two hundred years, today's developed and industrialised countries broke away from thousands of years of human history and made child labour mostly redundant by substantial gains in productivity and incomes. In recent decades, some of the newly industrialised countries compressed this process in to a single generation.

[woostopalypse]

@TimeWarp66 inhumane child labor did not become redundant from gains in productivity and incomes That's absurd. inhumane child labor has relocated to places like China, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

I'm not saying that child labor doesn't occur in other societies through history. But capitalism gave rise to a level of exploitation in which one could correctly call it child slavery. Children were literally locked in sweatshops and worked 12-16 hours a day, with little bathroom breaks.

[TimeWarp66]

Let me ask you this:

What would these children be doing if these "evil" corporations weren't offering them jobs? They'd starve to death on the farm, as most children did here and in Europe be4 the industrial revolution. These families and children choose to work there b/c it's better than what they had be4. They are being lifted out of poverty through the free market. It's not a fast process going from a 3rd world country to a 1st world country. And you leftists work to make it even harder.

[woostopalypse]

@TimeWarp66 In what context? If you're talking about China, Vietnam, and other Asian countries, their cultures existed long before the rise of capitalism

Even if these kids were starving and homeless, that does not give corporations the right to exploit them and place them in terrible conditions.

I've also noticed you've changed your argument from corporations ending inhumane child labor to defending inhumane child labor. I guess can now agree corporations (and you) support sweat shops?

[TimeWarp66]

Theirs a video called "The truth about sweat shops" here on youtube. Very educational.

Capitalism does eliminate child labour through the provisions of competition and increases in capital. Once parents have enough capital to send their children to school, they no longer have to send them to work. Without the presence of that corporation, those children would remain in poverty. Competition enables the corporations with the most humane working conditions to attract the most employees.

[unfortunatebeam]

@TimeWarp66 decades of "capitalism" encroachment into poorer countries has already proven and shown that it doesn't increase capital, it def doesn't improve working conditions, and has not got rid of child labour. In fact, the whole pt. as to why they go over there is to get away with cutting costs with such areas to meet their goal of making more profit. You say "without the presence of that corporation" oh? just THAT one? well where's the competition there? deluded corporate propaganda myths.

[woostopalypse]

@TimeWarp66

In America, we have laws against sweatshops and inhumane conditions. I'm asking those corporations to obey those laws even if they are in other countries. It is hypocritcal for one to say that sweatshops are wrong for Americans but okay for Asians in another country.

I know what would get them out of poverty; give them a living wage instead of exploiting them!

[TimeWarp66]

@woostopalypse

Why not set the minimum wage to $100 an hour? Wouldn't everyone be rich? No, of course nit. We'd have 80% unemployment and people in the 3rd world would stay in poverty. Only the free market can lift these people out of poverty. That's it. Read some basic economics.

Their are a million videos on youtube talking about why and how the minimum wage destroys jobs.

[dannon2010]

@TimeWarp66 no...you have it backwards.... turning a first world country into a third world one. "You don't want to work without a union, no benefits, no healthcare, lowering pay...? Well then don't work" Show me one bit of evidence that lowering taxes creates jobs...Warren Buffett said it best...if there is profit to be made, businesses will do the work, in spite of whatever taxes exist...it's true and the 50's and 60's proved it.

[unfortunatebeam]

@TimeWarp66 it was the the moneyed interests that went into those poor countries in the first place, disrupted the people's traditional ways of life, mostly sustainable farming that each family worked themselves and most produced enough for themselves to subsist, and then offered a solution of wage slavery for them in order to get out of the mess the corps created! btw, your claim about most children starving in Europe is just bogus

you're buying a little bit too much into the company line...

[dannon2010]

@TimeWarp66 I assume you forgot about child labor laws in the US..first one, I think in early 1910's..the US didn't develop any between now and then with child labor laws intact? Yeah, think how much better shape the US would be in if just those damn kids just would have done their part. Damn liberals destroying the Country with their fascist regulations.

[unfortunatebeam]

@TimeWarp66 wrong again you ignorant putz. it was the worker's rights movement like the IWW who fought long and hard (some to the death and many more harrassed, threatened and injured by big corporate criminals and their hired goons) for their rights and freedoms such as creating better working condions and ending child labour. the corporate sector was dead set against this and it had nothing to do with free market competition.

[unfortunatebeam]

@TimeWarp66 The only power a corporation has is to offer you goods or service you may choose to buy or not." wow, what massive psychological projection coming from you, calling over people idiots and drones when you're dropping dogshit bombs like that! Gee I guess the hundreds of millions corps. send to cadidates to buy favours just flew over your head. or how bout how they can freely endanger people's lives, destory environments human and animal and get away with it with a slap on the wrist?

[unfortunatebeam]

@TimeWarp66 or how about the banks that had the power to coerce congress into signing the bailout bill after it was already defeated and get billions of dollars of bailout money for their criminal activity, hand that out in bonuses to the assholes that wrecked the economy, and then not presecute ONE of these lowlifes for their crimes? The power to price gauge and profteer and get it away with it, and cook the books and rig the market to steal people's pensions, savings, trust funds.

[unfortunatebeam]

@TimeWarp66 tihey can lay off and fire millions of workers just to outsource to make even more profit, they can take peoples homes away for not paying outlandish interest that's written on mortgage contracts but in a form of doublespeak.

Not only do they simply have "power", they have an absolutist level of power. You talk like it's still the18th century. I can't believe I'm even talking to someone so blindsighted and/or braindead that they actually don't think corps. have power LOL

[TimeWarp66]

@metalreign81

God, you're dumb. Please die. 

[metalreign81]

@TimeWarp66

ditto

dittohead

[borisbmx]

Federal Government Agenda began in 1940s: convert civilians into fluoridated third eye blind zombies.

[slugworth63]

We support people who live in and raise their children in total filth and who will lie, cheat and steal to get something for nothing, while the truly needy are ignored. We provide food stamps to the "needy" yet their children get free breakfasts, lunches and after school snacks at taxpayer expense

[slugworth63]

While hard-working Americans struggle to survive we continue to aid the children of undocumented aliens, while the parents work under the table. We support unfit parents who refuse to work and whose children terrorize our neighborhoods with gang activity. We support people who put their greed for narcotics and their immoral lifestyles above their children's needs. We support criminals and welfare cheats.

[slugworth63]

Thon Hartmann is a modern day Boleshevik.

[deracinated1]

when did you figure out the bank owning families ,and their managers, have wanted 90% of the population quelled. ie die in the gutter. you are not "fit" enough to compete with the killing machine. they write openly about their plans to shape the world. how a very very few sick people want to see it. Obama has been a great planned success for the Illuminati. He is bleeding out an already wounded country. When Nader says it is over and the rich have won....thats land mark.

[crawfordviolin]

"Launched by government: biotech, 1/2 of phama, containerization, semiconductor, the internet. All came form government R&D department of defense, nasa, national institute of public health. Goes to corporations who make it appear in their ads that they came up with the technology." ---NADER  Which technologies is he referring to specifically? (I'm trying to do a research presentation about R&D) Help would be appreciated!

[markdown01]

Thom Hartmann is just as brilliant as Nader Styrofam. One of the many great minds. Ralph Nader, Thom Hartmann, Kucinich, Alan Grayson, Paul Krugman, Max Keiser, Joseph Stiglitz, William Black, Naiomi Klein, Robert Reich. The answers we need for our problems are out there. An administration made up of just the above could pretty much fix America's problems. Which is why they would never be. The powers that be, what George Carlin called 'The Real Owners' will never allow that for that very reason.

[cleanhomer]

@markdown01 No, the only real reason why the great minds won't get that power is because the people themselves make themselves too drugged up to keep their eye on the ball of government. Lincoln said this is a government of the people; well, this is, it's a government of a drugged-up people!

[unfortunatebeam]

@markdown01 then you gid rid of the "powers that be", by force if necessary. never say never.

[guydudeasian]

@markdown01 I'd like to get your opinion on Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders. On the Paul side, he's been a constant advocate for withdrawing our troops from our numerous military bases around the world and for ending our drug war. Bernie Sanders has been excellent in terms of holding the Fed accountable and other economic endeavors.

[markdown01]

@guydudeasian Sanders is much like Kucinich. Though 'socialist', Bernie knows what is needed to preserve Capitalism. A thriving middle-class and upward mobility, which America has so little of now. Ron Paul is right about ending wars for profit & the Fed, wrong on eliminating social programs like his hero (who I can't stand) Ayn Rand wanted. The problem isn't a 'big govt.' people as him bash, it's that it's not for we the people but corporations now.

[guydudeasian]

@markdown01 Exactly. Also, considering the Fed, I think it's best to basically strip MOST of its powers. I say most becuz one of its functions is check clearing between banks. We can keep it for that. To get rid of it entirely, we would have to cross our fingers and whatever else we got and hope that banks would place the liability on themselves. I don't see that happening any time practical in the future.

[markdown01]

@guydudeasian Don't strip the powers, just transfer it to the US treasury, with decisions made by Congress. It's in the Constitution, Congress makes the decisions on monetary, not private bank as Thomas Jefferson warned us about.

[guydudeasian]

@markdown01 Another sensible solution, the transferring of the Fed into the Treasury. I'm a little bit concerned with Congress making monetary decisions. While I know it is explicitly stated in the Constitution that Congress shall make those decisions, politicians nowadays play political games with money and other financial decisions. People are far more corrupt than they were back in the 18th century (i.e. Bill of Rights guarantee). How would you go about fixing that problem?

[markdown01]

@guydudeasian Congress is supposed to do it per the Constitution. We need to get money out of elections. End 'Citizens United'. 100% public (tax) financing of elections (they don't cost much vs. almost everything else we do). All lobbying 100% illegal. Get caught, go to jail. Make elections matter. End that war by the right-wing to restrict voting rights, caging & other bullshit. Then we have term limits again called 'voting the bums out' and voting in politicians who answer to we the people.

[hcwcars1]

@markdown01 Chris Hedges

[Lightmane321]

Whoever is in charge of the cameras needs to be fired. Stop swinging the cameras around. That's so annoying & distracting.

[styrofoamheart]

thom talks too much. i clicked on this to hear nader, not thom.

[freddycupples]

Thom, youre the closest thing on radio to the Chuck Harder show of the mid 90s; a populist voice exposing the predatory nature of the corporate state. Now why don't you do what Chuck did and give Ralph 1 hour each week of your 15 hours to come on as a guest or allow Ralph to designate one of his many associates.

[sharingideas]

To corporate America, an Obama quote: If all you're thinking about is material wealth, then I think that shows a poverty of ambition."

[styrofoamheart]

@sharingideas that must have been before he became a republican president.

[fizzywool]

What ever happened to state chartered , insurance, banking, corporations, hospitals,schools, roads, and on and on. Why do we need a Federal or International government to do our bidding or in most cases to not do any of our bidding but instead tell us to roll over and die.

[bonfirejovi]

All the government research was done by the military NOT for consumer use. By that logic we should pay more to the military but obviously Nader wouldn't like that. Not only that but the private sector DEVELOPED the product to make it more efficient and user friendly. For example, look at the personal computer or the commercial internet.

[kingmafi6699]

@bonfirejovi

The Internet is the infrastructure that supports the world wide web.

The Internet is far from efficient. As you mentioned it was originally intended for use with academics during the cold war and we are on IPv4 which is quickly running out of addresses.

Alot of the Internet infrastructure is simply underpowered and does not have it's full potential bandwidth capabilities.

The corporations themselves rely on military funding to build such a vast and ambitious project.

[bonfirejovi]

Nader should know better, what does the derogatory term "market fundamentalism" have to do with corporate welfare?

[bonfirejovi]

Freedom is negative and security is positive in nature. Freedom is the same as liberation. You need a mix of freedom and security. Most advanced countries have approached in this as can be seen by the freedom part (free markets) and the security part (universal healthcare). Freedom is not positive in function but that doesn't mean you should disregard security which is.

[truthout911]

Thom is a big hypocrite because he had been advocating in the 2004 election for Nader to turn over his voters to Democrats. Hartmann is such a liar

[HollaAtYoBoyz]

lol 7:44. Does he expect us to believe that obama is just now finding out that corporations pull the strings? hahahaha Unreal the disinfo on this channel. Its called fascism and obama knows it. he didnt pop out of nowhere and become president by accident. the corporations put him there and obama knows this. The fact is the left/right paradigm is 2 different heads of the same coin usurping the people of wealth and collectivizing the people of the republic. Total tyranny!!!!!

[0PsycoDad0]

13:30

The more interesting question is " are the willing"....

[xadam2dudex]

he's right the takeover is almost complete.. I wouldn't doubt that the election was rigged by the republican dirty trick organization...the people that manufacture the voting machines are big time republican supporters

[xadam2dudex]

@xadam2dudex PS where is part 2 ???

[rmccay88]

@xadam2dudex

Trust me, if that was the case Harry Reid would have lost. You should read into the reports that were coming out a week before the election about the voting machine fraud in Reids favor. Call me a "kooky conspiracy theorist" but there is no way in hell a moderate state in the union that has consistently had one of highest unemployment, highest bankruptcy, and highest foreclosure rates, would re-elect this guy without that type of help.

[rickbar123]

@rmccay88 look at Kansas

[xadam2dudex]

@rmccay88 republicans have done this before they targeted certain people they see as progressives Grayson, Feingold..Harry Reid is hardly a progressive call me a conspiracy theorist but I think both 2008 and 2010 was planned in conjunction with the right wing activist Supreme Court's Citizens United case to undermine the democrat party by blaming them for the economic collapse and the false war on terror the republicans ( corporatist ) want to fight to control the government forever

[rmccay88]

@xadam2dudex

Reid is hardly a Progressive? I guess that's true to someone who is a super-ultra progressive. Your other points don't make any sense considering Obama and the Democrats won big in 2008 because of the economy. I agree about the 'false war on terror" part, you can't wage a war on a tactic. But both parties are corporatist owned and controlled. You are a sheep if you think only the Republican party is.

[bulldogger]

There might be hope for RT yet.