A Familiar Ring

I found this video today in some of my internet travels. It's a documentary about "geo-engineering," and its effects on agriculture, food supply, and economics. Geo-engineering is a euphemism for weather modification, using chemical agents and other techniques. It sounds like science fiction, doesn't it? Unfortunately, I've become increasingly aware in the past couple of years that it might be "science," but in my opinion, it isn't fiction. For example, it doesn't take but a few minutes to find online the text of patents for technologies to modify weather. If people are patenting it, someone's doing it.

Now, a few years ago, anything that talked about geo-engineering or "chem-trails" got pegged as tinfoil hat territory. But lately it seems that many people are noticing evidence that something big has changed in the eco-system--increased respiratory disease, increased neurologic disease, increased severe weather events, changing weather patterns, and more--and the dots, when you follow them, seem to lead not just to run-of-the-mill pollution, but to geo-engineering.

Do yourself a favor and watch this film. After you watch, if you want to conclude it's craziness, be my guest. (If you're new to the subject, you might want to search for the predecessor to this film, called What in the World are They Spraying? first.)

An Important Hour

If you don't understand how everything can have gone so wrong in the world in recent years, you need to spend an hour watching this movie. . .

Update: I used to have an imbedded YouTube video here, but it has been squashed, probably because so many people are watching it, so here's the place to go to watch it. Just paste this address in your browser's address window:

http://new.hulu.com/watch/392812

Go watch it quick before it gets squashed there, too.

Who Knew?

A while back, in a post titled, When the People Win, I talked about the situation in Iceland, as an example of what could happen if we just flew the interdigital bird in the direction of our friends, the Big Banksters, and said, "no, sorry, won't be paying you to tank our economy anymore, and by the way, we won't be paying you your protection racket money anymore to keep you from tanking our economy, either."

Back in 2008, when the banksters crashed Iceland's economy, Icelanders refused to give them trillions of dollars as a reward called "bailouts." Then they refused to accept "austerity," which is code for take the money from regular people in taxes, cut all the programs that benefit regular people, and give all the money to the Big Banksters and Big Business, then collect fat campaign donations from Big Bank and Big Biz, so you can do it again later on. What did they do instead? The arrested a bunch of furry bankster behinds, took out their corrupted politicians, defaulted on the fake debt the banksters had run up, and began to run their own country again.

I thought that it sounded like a pretty dang good idea--one we should emulate. Well, the edgiest of the mainstream media, the Young Turks show, has finally caught up with a little housewife in the midwest. The video is below. I still think the Icelanders are on to something here. Shall we meet at the Capitol? I'll bring the rocks.

How To Be A Thief, For Fun and Profit

The answer is actually surprisingly simple--be rich to start out with. An article on Salon.com yesterday, provides the outline.

Remember MFGlobal? That's the big trading firm who went belly up a few months ago after supposedly making a real lot of really really bad bets on the value of foreign currencies. When the piper came to the door to be paid on these bad bets, MFGlobal didn't have enough money to pay their pals at other big financial firms, so they took it from their customer accounts--$1.6 BILLION worth of money that belonged to someone else. Most of this money, the bankruptcy trustee says, will never be recovered. Jon Corzine, former Goldman Sachs fat cat and Democratic party fat cat, was boss man there at the time.

Neither Corzine nor anyone else from MFGlobal is in jail, or has been charged with any crime, even though it is "illegal" to use segregated client funds except as directed by the client. You know how they're thwarting the supposed efforts of prosecutors to hold someone accountable. They said they didn't mean to. Yep. That's their story. You can't make this up. It was apparently an "accident" that they took money out of customer accounts--those dang accounts, always slipping in there and tossing money onto your computer screens when you least expect it!

Now, it seems, MFGlobal executives are going to get BONUSES for being so clever as to get away with taking $1.6 billion of other people's money. Three of the fattest cats from MFGlobal are slated for bonuses of six figures each!

So, there you go. Make lots of money and cultivate lots of political connections. Take other people's money without their permission (most of us call that stealing, but apparently not the federal authorities). Get paid a big bonus. Cool.

Makes you wonder why anyone actually works for a living, doesn't it?

Agenda Item One

This morning, I happened upon an essay by iconic journalist Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, President of the Writers' Guild of America. It set my mind ablaze again with the thought that, politically speaking, absolutely nothing else matters--not abortion, not gay rights, not tax rates, not environmental regulation, not 'saving social security'--nothing else matters until we wrest control of our political and social systems away from the moneyed interests who have hijacked them for personal and financial gain.

The last paragraph of the essay fairly sums it up (but read the whole thing anyway):

These gargantuan super PAC contributions are not an end in themselves. They are the means to gain control of government – and the nation state -- for a reason. The French writer and economist Frederic Bastiat said it plainly: "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living in society, they create for themselves, in the course of time, a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." That’s what the super PACs are bidding on. For the rest of us, the ship may already have sailed. (emphasis mine)

Almost poetically, Moyers and Winship have set the agenda for anyone who cares about our world not becoming even more harsh, unfair, skewed, corrupt, and evil than it already is: we must break the cycle of governments' sale to the highest bidder and restore control of the world's resources and of society to the people. Everything else is secondary. Everything.

Here's How It Works

Back on September 27, I posted about a ludicrous court case in which a judge actually ruled that Americans have no fundamental right to decide what they eat and drink.

At the time, I knew it was part of a power play. I just didn't know whose power play it was. Now we know, because it's given us our latest example of corruption and incompetence paying off:

The judge in that abomination of a case, Patrick Fiedler, has gotten himself a partnership at Axley Brynelson, LLP, a law firm who defended mega-giant food adulterator, Monsanto in a big patent action recently.

One thing that a couple of decades in the law taught me--working for a big law firm pays a whole lot better than being a state court judge. It has to. It has to pay for your soul.