Mike Papentonio had a
fantastic pod cast from Sunday the 12th apparently. I watched about a half hour of his hour long
show on Free Speech TV and of this morning that same link was still there, and
I’d strongly suggest to blog readers who care about their country to go see
it. The first segment has to deal with
business fines, even fines of a Billion or more dollars, are just “the cost of
doing business”. Mind you if you rob a
bank or you rob a person’s house and steal his property the first thing the
police do is make you give back the property and return it to its rightful
owner. In big business there is no such
regulation. For instance Ford Pintos had
exploding gas tanks. And it was
suggested the company KNEW they were dangerous to start with and they
calculated that they could make X billion dollars in profits before they would
ever be fingered. And if a corporation
kills scores of innocent people, there is no death penalty. It’s what you call the limited liability law
of corporations that no one individual can be sued. And the companies pay their fines not out of
their CEP’s salary – who caused the mess, but rather from the remainder of the
stock holders, perhaps you and me. If
corporations really did have the “rights” of persons, then ALL of those ill
gotten profits from an exploding gas tank or a defective or contaminated drug-
- would be paid BACK before you even Began to assess the damages. Here you would go monetary damages such as
hospital or perhaps funeral expenses, and then you would throw in things like “emotional
damage” and there might be an additional punitive find just as deturrance in
case someone else tries the same stunt.
But if you know right off the bat you’re going to make four billion in
profit from an illegal and immoral act, and you will only have to pay back a
billion and a half in fines - - and nobody goes to jail and nobody gets fired,
then you are going to do it. Someone
gave an example yesterday of some “game” that kids play using matches. God knows what. If you have three kids playing the game - -
perhaps none of those three will set the house on fire. But with each additional kid, like if you
have ten or twelve playing with matches, there is going to be one screw-up
along the way, and parents will then step in and say “That’s enough!”. We should use that same logic in the proliferation
of guns. In the old days corporations
used to have to abide by by-laws to “act in the public interest” according to
the terms of their “Charter” or permission from the government to exist. There was a “corporate death penalty” where a
corporation would be dissolved by the Government were it violating this “Charter”. No such public interests have existed in
corporate charters for a long time. The
second part of the show was more in this Pan Pacific Partnership, which I have
referred to as NAFTA on steroids. Only
Five of the 29 terms of this agreement have anything to do with trade according
to Papentonio. The rest constitute a “Bill
of Rights’ for trans-national corporations, where they have the strength of sovereign
governments and can “sue you” for “restraint of trade” is for instance- - you
try and discriminate in trade against a product made in Viet Nam because you
believe it’s shoddy workmanship or unsafe, and your Department Store has always
had certain standards for things they sell.
Somehow giving corporations the rights of Sovreign Nations hasn’t
bothered Rush Limbaugh at least so far. I
haven’t heard one time his bringing up of this Pan Pacific Trade
agreement. We already told you about the
“fast tracking’ and how this thing is being developed in utter secrety, and
kept from the main stream media lest the people at large know what’s in the
thing and write their Congressman.
President Obama’s election was a complete and total fraud worked on
us. So on this perhaps me and Rush
Limbaugh might have something to agree on but for completely different
reasons. Remember I told you about the
so called “Urgency of Now” and how President Obama couldn’t wait four more
years to gain a little seasoning and maturity.
But as I said in a recent post, he did this not for OUR benefit like he
was so concerned about OUR needs and create some new Paradise in 2009, but it
was strictly his own Ego. Obama IS a
Manchurian candidate of sorts just as the far right has claimed. But he got funding for his 2008 election from
Corporations and has done their bidding every step along the way ever
since. You know that corporate and Wall
Street prosecutions are virtually non existant.
Nobody has gone to jail. Now
these corporations- - whose desire is to create some world wide permanent
under-class of poor working stiffs who will never advance - - are really
pushing for this Trans Pacific agreement to be ratified as quickly as
possible. In that post, I barely
scratched the surface of the nightmare of horrors that are in the bill and are
in those other 24 whole provisions that doesn’t involve trade or terrifs
directly. The final segment of Mike
Papentonio’s program had to do with what we Democrats are going to do about
it. With the election of Mayor DeBlasio
in New York- - and others such as Elizabeth Warren- - we are seeing a
restoration of some of the principles the democratic party has traditionally
stood for. Back in the thirties there
was a strong populist uprising against corporate abuses by farmers, miners, and
many other groups all coming together for a united cause. Even Rush Limbaugh is quaking in his boots
these days because he knows this movement is already gaining traction out
there.
I listened to Rush
Limbaugh this morning and how he defended the National Football league and the
right of any football player to get a concussion and Alzheimers, and any other
form of brain damage leading to suicide or God knows what. Rush will always come down against any Union
and against any worker in any occupation.
That’s just the nature of the beast.
Of course Rush has always been “Out to Lunch” on economic matters, and
you can tell he’s an ignoramus on anything economic every time he opens his
mouth. I doubt he’s spent so much as one
day in a college level economics class.
If I were the teacher on that first day and I heard some of the bogus
beliefs and FOX talking points he holds near and dear, I’d kick him out of the
class right then saying “Nobody as Stupid as you should be allowed to remain
here and taking up space of a seat that could be occupied by some student who
actually wants to learn”. In terms of
charges made about the Stimulus money in 2009 I will say that a large
percentage of that was spent unwisely, going into the hands of political
crooks, in my opinion. By the way
paying money in Union dues, or even “protection money” to the Mafia- - - is
Never Intended as any “economic stimulus”.
It is simply a “Fee for Service”.
I strongly urge these Ronneyites to read the story of Nabal in the
Bible. Because here is a case of a guy
paying “protection money” and Jehovah comes down on the side of those parties
demanding payment. You could liken this
to police protection being afforded to rich people that poor people don’t
get. When a rich person calls the police
you know they’ll arrive promptly and be polite and sensitive and listen to the complaint
you are making, and go after the bad guys.
In poorer neighborhoods there is no guarantee the residents will be
anywhere near as Satisfied with the service.
(Selah) In terms of this whole
Austerity crock of bull - - - any businessman knows “You need money in order to
make money”. This is the whole modas
opperandi behind the “stimulus” to begin with.
But in terms of my wanting to protect President Obama from personal
attacks, those days are Over. When I
look at president Obama and his reasons for wanting to become President I am
filled with nothing but disgust. In fact
if anyone wants to bring impeachment charges, don’t assume I’d be against
that. The liberals are in the process of
completely divorcing their interests from that of the President. In other words, our fate is no longer linked
with His. What every progressive needs
to look it from now on is not ‘How will this affect the President” but, “How
will what we choose to do today affect our changes or moving our Own agenda
forward”?
We now come to the next
segment on “Ring of Fire”. This one has
to do with what they call “reverse eminent domain”. This is where a government can come in and
ORDER the banks to sell the city or State their mortgages and these
governmental agencies assume they and charge the residents of the houses in
decaying neighborhood affordable interest rates. Excuse me if I sound like Rush Limbaugh on
this one but I say it’s government meddeling in private markets. Some may say “so what if the government screws
the banks out of money!” I happen to
still believe two wrongs don’t make a right.
If the government “asks” the banks if they want to sell and then
inquires how much the banks are willing to sell them for, this is one
thing. But we know that eminent domain
is about Conthiscation first and foremost, and fairness takes a back seat. You wouldn’t want the government saying “There’s
a freeway coming through your neighborhood; sell us your homes”. A few people leave just out of that fear. Meanwhile vacant houses accumulate and the
neighborhood gets run down. And now the
remaining residents say ‘OK we’ll sell our homes at the price you offered us”
only to have the government then say “Well, they aren’t worth that now because
the neighborhood has declined”. This
would be a case of causing your own problem, and then profiting from the
situation you, yourself caused.
In terms of gold and
silver we see a major scam job going on among these ‘Patriot’ stations where
you get Financial agencies that base their policies on political consideration
rather than on economic reality.
Needless to say your odds of getting any kind of “advise” or opinion that’s
actually worth anything from these agencies is near zero. We hear of a great economic crash coming in
three months. There seems to have been a
steady decline in gold and silver prices over the past three years or so. Isn’t it strange how the better the rank and
file or “main street” economy does, the more panicked Rush Limbaugh and company
get. This is just a classic case of
projection, or they sensing their own inadequacy and coming uselessness, project their fears on to those asking them
advice. So they say things like “This is
a red hot silver deal and you better jump now while we’re still offering
it. If I’m a guy who has food in a world
of scarcity, the last thing I’m going to do is to broadcast that fact to the
rest of the community, and pay for the privilege, only so they can all come clamoring to my door saying they want some.
(Selah) People pull bogus shit
like yesterday on Dr Oz and that “heat loss” experiment thing he ran “proving”
that you lose LESS heat from your head on a cold day than you do from the rest
of your body. Dr Oz knows better than
doing such a carnival stunt. I’ve seen
the actual chroma results on me personally, on a cold day at a science exhibit in December of
1998. Most heat loss come from your head. And I’ve seen these results
replicated on TV showing that the vast majority of heat loss on a cold day
comes from your head. Of course I am
sympathetic with Rush in that a lot of bogus health crap is being peddled on
us. I know the stuff they are doing to
redefine the basic food groups, and they’re doing it just to be assholes. Did you know, for instance, that the reality
is that cholesterol is created by the body to combat inflammation - - and if
you take an antibiotic to cure the inflammation- - you eliminate the
cholesterol problem. Believe it or not,
fat is actually an important nutrient to the body, particularly in brain
development. You’d never know this from
watching television. Those in the know
would say that a cholesterol reading down to double digits would in itself be a
sign of cholesterol levels that were Abnormally Low. In terms of suicide and the NFL I might say
that certain limelight professions such as acting and professional sports lead
to a sense of “peaking out’ and ‘past your prime” anxieties that you don’t have
in other profession. The suicide rate
would appear to be 75% higher for NFL players as opposed to the general
population or less than double, and NOT the six times the rate that Rush
Limbaugh was concerned about.
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