An 8-point Manifesto on the Collapse of Global Industrial Civilization

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7. Thank you for this post.

The Biggest Firms control the politics of the major nations. We not only have a fascist society, we have fascist global situation. (Fascism, is by definition, the control of government by the corporate world.)

We just witnessed the Secretary of State realizing that her visit to China was an indication to one of China's most beleaguered dissidents that it was now or never. So he planned a retreat to an American Embassy so he could have the USA restore his rights. This was at first was embarrassing tot he USA - how awful that our ignoring of the many Chinese civil rights violations occur and are now emphasized while we wanted to talk "free trade." (I guess it is really really free trade when rich people in San Francisco can go to the Far East and obtain a Chinese prisoner's kidneys for a fraction of the sum they would pay here - and without any waiting lists!)

But now the State Department woke up and realized they can spin this story to show how beloved our nation is, in terms of dissidents wanting to come here.

But what rights do we in this nation possess? Not only do we have to hope no one we know is under surveillance, and avoid visits with them, as that young San Diego man recently found out the hard way, ** Meanwhile we can sit back and as the major "experts" tell every developed nation under the sun that only "austerity" will help out the financial crisis looming above us. Never mind that the austerity measures are only for us peasants, and involve things like cutting back Social Security, which will actually HUIRT the economy, but then who cares? You are either very very rich and truly matter, or you are SHIT out of luck.

Those of us who realize we are SHIT out of luck now must indeed create intentional communities, turn to barter, and turn to other methods of survival.

** Said San Diego man spent five days in jail, with no one checking on him. No food, no water,. He survived because he remembered you can drink your own urine. His crime: he visited a friend who I guess was someone with marijuana deals on-going. Since 90% of ur biggest banking firms have been busy over the last four decades laundering money of the drug cartels, I think we should just legalize the shit and quit pretending that some college kid who visits a friend deserves to die.