Reach out and touch this moment
All that ever was
All that will ever be
Flowing through your finger tips
Flowing through this moment
Beckoning you to reach out
~~Me'08~~

Check out new 8 part playlist "IRAN is not the problem"

I just added a new playlist "Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory - Police State". I'm gonna party like its 1984...

Check out my new playlist "CIA Covert Operations and U.S. Interventions Since World War II"

Once again, our political system taking our country hostage. This time trying to push the Keystone Pipeline deal through with the payroll tax extension. Isn't hostage taking illegal? Current US politics as usual.

Waste, fraud, corruption and greed. The greatest loss is what could have been.

Chris Hedges, those arrested, all the Occupy protesters across our country are true HEROS. Standing up (or sitting in) for the rest of us, the 99%. They bravely stand up and expose themselves, even for the 99% who are misled or uninformed and do not support them. Much attention has been focused on Oakland, glad to see some coverage of OWS. Hadn't seen much on them lately but they never left my thoughts. They are the original shining example of non-violent civil disobedience in the Occupy movement. MLK and his mentor, Gandhi, are standing among all of them in spirit. "There is power in non-violent resistance... They know how to handle violence, but they've proved over and over again, that they don't know how to handle non-violence"... Martin Luther King.

Free Market? Fine, but every game must have a set of rules by which to have fair play, even in a society. Corporations have no conscience other than to their shareholders. Therefore, regulations must be established to prevent corporations from externalizing (dumping) cost of doing their business and to protect the society they serve. As a case in point, we have seen what a deregulated financial market has given us. Plunder! Corporate Charter is a privilege in our society, not a birthright. As if Corporations were people...

In addition to reversing Corporate Personhood lets see some severe restrictions in the revolving door between the corporate world and politics. Especially the revolving door between regulators and the industries they are to regulate. That practice is nothing more than blatant fertile ground for corruption, it needs to stop.

The West acquires its resources through death, thievery, intimidation and plunder. Otherwise known as war disguised as humanitarian. Lining the pockets of the Military Industrial Complex and their cronies along the way. China acquires it's resources through mining, development and aggressive competition. Investing in innovation along the way. The two business models are about to clash. China, Steady Eddie vs. the West running on it's fumes.