And then another protest, next month, from "the people"

 

Last post, I told of an effort by "Anonymous" to organize people to occupy Wall Street in New York this month. This is being followed next month by another organization--October 2011--to protest, also. They are asking people to take the following pledge: "I pledge that if any U.S. troops, contractors, or mercenaries remain in Afghanistan on Thursday, October 6, 2011, as that occupation goes into its 11th year, I will commit to being in Freedom Plaza in Washington, D.C., with others on that day or the days immediately following, for as long as I can, with the intention of making it our Tahrir Square, Cairo, our Madison, Wisconsin, where we will NONVIOLENTLY resist the corporate machine by occupying Freedom Plaza to demand that America's resources be invested in human needs and environmental protection instead of war and exploitation. We can do this together. We will be the beginning." They also express their goals as the following: --Tax the rich and corporations; --End the wars, bring the troops home, cut military spending; --Protect the social safety net, strengthen Social Security and improved Medicare for all; --End corporate welfare for oil companies and other big business interests; --Transition to a clean energy economy, reverse environmental degradation; --Protect worker rights including collective bargaining, create jobs and raise wages; --Get money out of politics. I have said, time and again, that if we don't do that last one, that is, get "campaign contributions" (read: legal bribes) out of our political system, nothing will likely change. It seems the American electorate--some of us, anyway--are finally waking up. Let's see if we can do constructive, positive and so, non-violent but changing, improving things for the country with all this. "You say you want a revolution?" Link to their site: http://october2011.org/welcome

The George W. Bush Administration vs. The American People

Did you hear this today on NPR? Yeah, more proof of just how great a job George W. Bush and his pals are doing for--no, to--the American People.

You know? When I was younger, I knew there was a part of the government that was fighting for us. There was the part regulating big business. There was the part having corporations to keep pollution to a minimum.

No more.

Not since George Bush got elected in 2000.

Check this out.

In December, 2000, the Enron Corporation--yeah, no kidding, THOSE GUYS--recommended that the Bush Administration DEREGULATE the oil speculation markets. It is now, technically considered a "dark" market. That is, we don't know who's speculating on or in the oil markets, we don't know how, we don't know what they're doing, nothing. All thanks to those geniuses at Enron. Oh, and the White House. Dick Cheney. George Walker Bush. All of 'em. et al.

Prior to 2000 and this "Enron Clause", as it is now referred to, THE UNITED STATES REGULATED THE OIL INDUSTRY AND THIS SPECULATION FOR 78 YEARS. No kidding. For all that time, it was that important. Once we put the foxes in charge of the chicken house, it was all over.

Now does it make any sense why oil is over $130.00 a barrel?

In this same radio show, it was speculated that oil would likely fall to between $60.00 to $80.00 per barrel WITHIN A MONTH if we again regulated the oil speculation markets.

So the question was, do you want to do this with a deep, painful recession, that hurts millions of people around the globe, over time, to reduce the price of oil or do you want to do this more logically, with regulation, over about a month?

Tough question, eh?