On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:19:33 +0000, [H]omer wrote:
> Verily I say unto thee, that Mike spake thusly:
>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:24:58 +0000, [H]omer wrote:
>
>>> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=192012118972057552
>>> http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tInGmeFKplo
>>
>> 3 1/2 hours of video? you're wearing me down! I did watch it though.
>> Interesting stuff, a lot of evidence of the negative impact
>> corporations have on society.
>
> It's essential viewing. Here's another, by the now sadly departed Aaron
> Russo:
>
> "From Freedom to Fascism"
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173
>
> If you can manage another 1Hr 51m, then you have seen three of the most
> important documentaries ever made. That last one is ostensibly about
> income tax, but Russo's investigations make some quite alarming
> revelations. It is clear that democracy is just an illusion.
>
> I don't want to wear you down any more :) but if you have a lazy day
> some time in the near future, here's some more for your collection:
>
> "Walmart - The High Cost of Low Prices"
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3836296181471292925
>
> "Supermarket Secrets - Dispatches"
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5774892958354867332 (part 1)
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3486838871531386599 (part 2)
>
> The above is more UK/EU oriented.
>
> Watch the following two in sequence, since the latter is rather critical
> of the former:
>
> "Farenheit 911"
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6387831398516462334
>
> "Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State"
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6495462761605341661
>
I'll check those out when I get the chance.
>> If corporate laws were enforced properly a lot of these "animals" would
>> be in cages where they belong.
>
> The problem with that is, that it is these "animals" that lobby to
> create and change those laws to begin with, and the politicians, who are
> supposed to be democratically elected representatives of the *people*,
> are in fact rather undemocratically representing *corporations* instead,
> mostly *against* the will of the people. But then corporations generally
> provide more in the way of bribes ... ahem ... I mean campaign funds,
> than us mere mortals.
Very well put!
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