dudes,
New information has come to light:
Quote from: AVAAZ.com
Details are leaking of a top-secret, global corporate power grab of breathtaking scope -- attacking everything from a free Internet to health and environmental regulations, and we have just 4 days to stop it.
Big business has a new plan to fatten their pockets: a giant global pact, with an international tribunal to enforce it, that is kept top secret for years (even from our lawmakers!) and then brought down like a Death Star on our democracies. Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Walmart and almost 600 other corporate lobbyists are all in on the final draft -- including limits on smoking laws, affordable medicines and free speech on the Net.....
Contiinued here.. (http://www.avaaz.org/en/stop_the_corporate_death_star/?bNBysbb&v=17858)
Just a bit worrying.
Thanks for this Meekon5 - I was not aware of this. I've signed the petition, for what good it'll do. Even if this doesn't directly involve our country this is still a shocking piece of undudeness. A deal that big involving that many countries should not be a secret. Citizens should have the right to know what their government is doing "on their behalf".
Some more interesting info here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/27/pacific-free-trade-deal
I admit that I always find it a bit disconcerting when people discuss a giant "secret" cabal of wealthy individuals and corporate interests that seek to control every aspect of our lives.
I mean it's true. But the "secret" part is what eludes me.
I don't see much of this a "news". They've been systematically trying to control the internet every aspect of society forever. No secret.
Seems that the details are somewhat irrelevant.
It's the same old same old.
And people will continue to lap up the same swill that is shoveled at them through the TV until it's too late.
People will go eventually go fascist to protect their own freedoms. Out of nothing but pure ignorance and gullibility.
Unchecked aggression?
I will not vote this year as either of the candidates are untrustworthy slimeballs and nihilists .We are so screwed! Of course big business wants to be Big Brother... :o
I might have to run on the Dudeist ticket. My platforms would include, but not limited to: "will everyone just take it easy, man?" and "well, that just like your opinion, man" and "bar's over there," and "the female form does not make me uncomfortable" and "I haven't got any leads, but the boys in the crime will be working in shifts." Fuckin' eh.
In my opinion not voteing is even worse then foreign for a scum ball at lest in foreign you are putting it out that this aggression will not shan't and this is part of the path to get it fixedby not vvoting your just letting others control this world and the scum bags will always win
I'd vote for you, DB. Sadly I fear I'm in the wrong country.
Quote from: mrpaddy on September 14, 2012, 05:03:59 AM
I'd vote for you, DB. Sadly I fear I'm in the wrong country.
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Quote from: okfinewhateva on September 14, 2012, 01:44:39 AM
I will not vote this year as either of the candidates are untrustworthy slimeballs and nihilists .We are so screwed! Of course big business wants to be Big Brother... :o
Lesser of two evils.
Actually I think nihilists would be an improvement.
If they believed in nothing at least they wouldn't believe in the nonsense they do believe in.