13-02-2010, 06:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-02-2010, 06:18 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Magda Hassan Wrote:Not just the government. Remember 'Spleenless in Seattle'? John Moore had his spleen removed and the doctor patented it's particular abnormality and made plenty and then sold it on to a Swiss biotech firm who has made 3 billion and not one cent for Moore.
http://www.albionmonitor.com/9805a/copyr...sgene.html
Good point. In the current hyper-corporate ruling elites minds (sic) they own you more than you own yourself - they own 'nature' more than Nature owns itself. They own and can buy/sell anything/everything and F***! the rest of the biosphere, of which they have not a clue [other than its potential profit value]. I have NEVER been an advocate of Capitalism [nor of Soviet-style Communism]. I am a [Proud] democratic socialist and those who don't see the path there - and the ancillary path along that of NATURAL values, philosophy as well as sustainability, equality, equity, a future for all living things..... are doomed, IMO, to be consumed by the simplistic 'football' model of two sides - no other possibilities - and one side must always 'win'. There are infinite other possibilities, polities and structures, if you dare to imagine them and create them.....
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass