Posts tagged corporatism
Power Structures of the World Don't Play Nice
Wall Street blows all other political donors away: During the 2008 election cycle, when the finance sector accounted for nearly 30 percent of all US business profits, its top donors gave $328 million, outspending their closest competitors—lawyers—by more than $200 million.
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Hundreds of protesters clad in rain gear marched through downtown San Francisco on Friday evening - one of several events in a day of action organized by Occupy San Francisco and other allied groups on the second anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United, which removed limits on how much money corporations could spend on political campaigns.
Multiple blocks of California Street and Montgomery Street were blocked for hours by the demonstrations at two banks and the ensuing response by police in riot gear.
In the city’s financial district police arrested 18 people for trespassing, including a group that refused to move their human chain blocking an entrance to the headquarters of Wells Fargo. Another was arrested for allegedly grabbing a police officer’s baton.
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Protesters of all ages make up the occupiers.
Anonymous speaks on #OpMegaUpload as CEO Dotcom faces extradition
Chris Weyant/The Hill (01/18/2011)
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![YET ANOTHER REMINDER THAT DEMOCRACY IS AN ILLUSION
by SIMON BLACK January 23, 2012
With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was.
The site has now been seized by the US government and its homepage converted to an FBI anti-piracy warning. Its founder, a high tech entrepreneur named Kim Dotcom (yes, he had it legally changed), was arrested in New Zealand after his homes were raided and assets seized.
These actions were all at the behest of the US government. And it’s just the latest example of Big Brother overextending its authority across the entire world.
[…]
The government is using its bureaucracy to completely circumvent due process and make an example of somebody that they consider a nuisance.
So why should they care? What interest could the US government possibly have in a silly file sharing site? None. But the entertainment industry does.
You see, we don’t live in a representative democracy. Democracy is an illusion to make people believe that they’re free. Instead, it’s blocs of large corporations who are really in control. If the entertainment business wants Kim Dotcom to go away, the government will invent or break any law necessary to make it happen. They’re all in bed together.
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YET ANOTHER REMINDER THAT DEMOCRACY IS AN ILLUSION
by January 23, 2012
With over 150 million registered users, the file sharing site MegaUpload.com is one of the most popular on the Internet. At least, it was.
The site has now been seized by the US government and its homepage converted to an FBI anti-piracy warning. Its founder, a high tech entrepreneur named Kim Dotcom (yes, he had it legally changed), was arrested in New Zealand after his homes were raided and assets seized.
These actions were all at the behest of the US government. And it’s just the latest example of Big Brother overextending its authority across the entire world.
[…]
The government is using its bureaucracy to completely circumvent due process and make an example of somebody that they consider a nuisance.
So why should they care? What interest could the US government possibly have in a silly file sharing site? None. But the entertainment industry does.
You see, we don’t live in a representative democracy. Democracy is an illusion to make people believe that they’re free. Instead, it’s blocs of large corporations who are really in control. If the entertainment business wants Kim Dotcom to go away, the government will invent or break any law necessary to make it happen. They’re all in bed together.
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best darn government that money can buy ..
The 6 Corporations That Control 90% Of What You Read, Watch, And Listen To…America’s Media Monopolies…
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