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To Live In A Colorblind World

Alex Birch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:11:39 -0700

To be honest, I want to live in a colorblind world. I want race to simply not matter anymore.

But as one black woman in class pointed out, "If you don't see that I'm black, you don't see me."

But she sees me as a white person. Can I see myself that way? What would it mean if I did?

It would mean that you'd see yourself. We shouldn't feel bad about being born white, black, yellow, blue or pink. One should be proud of one's people and one's culture. That goes for all people, worldwide. Instead of trying to create a system where all cultures compete for economic success in a globalist system, Corrupt wants each culture to thrive on its own merits and ideals, without having to compromise with other cultures or be turned into a supermarket arena. We defend the traditional culture of all people and we do it with pride and joy.

Pan-Nationalist Movement
Data reference: Race
Data reference: Racism

Technology Sets New Default Lifestyle "Needs"

Alex Birch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:00:10 -0700

I once read a story, in which a philosopher who has spent his life absorbed in study goes to a market one day. He is shocked, and says: “There are so many things here which I have no use for.”

For a long time I was confused – why would the philosopher be so shocked? But now I understand that his shock came from realising the huge gap between his own default settings and those of mainstream society.

Every time modern technology presents us with a new possibility, we quickly learn to see it as a necessity, and it becomes a default. The process is becoming shorter and shorter. Consumption has become something that we see as only right and proper.

Theodore Kaczynski noted the same thing: our modern industrial society keep pushing technology more and more into our lives, until we begin to see its developments as necessities. We think we need all televisions, cell phones, computers, iPods, cars, clothes and extravagance. Guess what--you dont! We become falsely dependent upon services and products that serve little or no real meaning to our lives here and now. We need to reduce what we consume and start to think about what we really want out ot life instead.

Data persona: Theodore Kaczynski

Ron Paul Was Right

Alex Birch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:37:22 -0700

Look, it's Ron Paul! But what is he doing in New York, the fancy magazine for elites, alongside establishment finance types like a former Morgan Stanley economist and a famous investor? Isn't he sort of "kooky?" Everyone (who didn't live in a basement or wasn't a furry) laughed at Paul's quest for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, especially since Paul wanted to get rid of the Federal Reserve and take America back to the gold standard, in which money is backed by something other than the worthless promises of filthy bankers and shiftless bureaucrats. But now it looks like the Fed's board of governors may be leading us into depression, and even that capitalist bible the Wall Street Journal ran an article this weekend speculating that the thinking behind the gold standard, if not the standard itself, "will have its day again." So Paul's stock is rising!

Ron Paul understands that America is controlled by international banking interests and launched his presidential campaign to push the limits of political discussion. He's one of the few American politicians today that believes in a complete societal change back to the constitution and a social system that rewards hard working people, not abusive parasites.

Sean Connery Withheld Funds From Son

Alex Birch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:07:57 -0700

Scottish actor Sean Connery stopped giving his son money to force him to make his own way in life, the actor's former wife says.

Diane Cilento alleged the former star of the James Bond movie series said several years ago he would no longer give his son Jason any money as part of his goal of teaching the young man how to earn a living on his own, The Sunday Times of London reported.

Connery wants his son to avoid committing the mistake of taking everything from granted and riding on his father's past. As a responsible father he realizes that we all need to create our own future, and ultimately can't rely on our parents, our government, or our God to make something out of life. Only we as individuals can do that.

Insurance Companies Ignore Customer Needs To Boost Profit

Alex Birch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:02:03 -0700

You heard that right. Townsel's insurance company declined to cover her daughter's hospital bills because of her daughter's "attempted suicide." Her daughter was two years old. Only after five appeals did Townsel force her insurance company to provide the coverage she deserved from the start.

It doesn't take much to realize the silliness of the insurance company's argument. These kinds of stories - more common than many realize - illustrate how badly our health care system is broken. Insurance companies have an incentive to deny coverage and boost their profits whenever they can, even if their reasoning defies logic. Though the insurance industry claims it's in the business of making people healthy, they routinely deny coverage at every turn. And it's all perfectly legal and acceptable.

We created a society where corporations have enormous power over its customers. Now we're paying for that "freedom" by being exploited. We can only escape this if we redesign society to force companies to work for the benefit of the people, not to maximize profit and economically expand at every price.

Coffee Machine Milk Like Washing Powder

Alex Birch — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:38:58 -0700

Although it is the word "milk" that is the one written on the button of coffee vending- machines, the liquid that trickles into your coffee is far from it, claimed The Stockholm Consumer Cooperative Society (KfS) on Monday.

"It is pretty much the same sludge that Björn Gillberg washed his clothes with in the 1970s," said Louise Ungerth at the society referring to the environmental debateur who caused an uproar in the 1970s when he washed his shirts in an artificial creamer on live television.

"I was very surprised when I rang Selecta, the market leader, and found out about the sugar solution and hardened fat that I have poured into my coffee four or five times a day at work over the years. It says milk on the button," Ungerth said.

Marketing fools most people, which is why people's opinions change depending on what they see on TV. It should be common sense to most of us that the products used in coffee machines aren't of very high quality. You're better off making your own coffee at work, or even better, avoid it altogether and drink water instead.

US Abortion Politics: Every Sperm Is Sacred

Alex Birch — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:26:55 -0700

Several reports issued at the time illustrated just how devastating Bush's policy had become. By 2002 USAID had ended shipments of contraceptives to 16 developing nations in Africa and Asia as a direct consequence of the gag rule.

"Hundreds of women are dying every day in poor countries from botched abortions," says Barbara Crane, executive vice-president of the North Carolina-based reproductive rights organisation IPAS, who wrote me by email last week. "By repeatedly cutting the budget for international family planning and putting in place the global gag rule, the supposedly 'pro-life' Bush administration ignores this tragic reality - and without doubt causes more unsafe abortions, posing high costs to women, their families and society at large. It is ironic that the same groups that oppose abortion rarely step up and support better access to contraception."

I usually take a moderate stance in the abortion issue. If you get raped or your child is expected to be born with severe defects, abortion seems like a good idea. When abortion becomes a tool to be able to live a careless lifestyle without the consequences, it promotes degenerate behaviour among people. So we need to apply abortion with common sense, and even more, point out that no life is nor should be sacred, especially not when we're facing worldwide overpopulation problems.

Monty Python joked about this a long time ago, and it's still relevant today:

Russia Moves Further Away From Cooperation With The West

Alex Birch — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:15:34 -0700

Yet it seems likely that BP will lose its battle, because inside Russia the nationalist tide is running so strongly. One among many delusions guiding western foreign policy towards Putin's nation (we may still call it that, even if Dmitry Medvedev is now nominally president) has been that if Russia were more democratic, it would be easier to live with.

In reality, whatever the shortcomings of Russian elections, there is no doubt that most Russians applaud nationalistic policies. A recent poll showed that 73% thought that Putin had led the country in the right direction, while well over half perceive the US in hostile terms. Resentment towards western wealth and success, which Russia still shows little sign of learning how to match, runs deep in the national psyche.

With extraordinary insouciance, the Bush administration has fuelled Russian paranoia about strategic encirclement. It has offered Nato membership to Georgia and Ukraine, and plans to install elements of its anti-missile shield in the Czech Republic and Poland. It will be hard for a new US government to retreat from these commitments, and even harder to forge an accord with Moscow, if the eastward push goes ahead.

After having executed its aristocratic elite during the revolution and then promoting sleazy oligarchs to power after the end of the Soviet era, Russia is now using nationalism to avoid further instability and finally get something done. Internally it's not powerful enough to take down America or any other Western country, but it compensates with self-preserving policies and pragmatic realpolitik, which is alien to the market clowns in the Bush administration.

You bet that Russia is going to take control over its oil, and it will do so with a smile, because finally it is able to stand up against the Angloamerican alliance - and doing it without starting another cold war. How about that?

Addressing Over-Population As Climate Change's Root Cause

Alex Birch — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:56:44 -0700

Over-population's key role in causing climate change [ark] is again emerging as a central component of the debate on global warming solutions [search]. Too many people, many of which consume to dreadful excess while others live on $1 a day, are the root cause of virtually every global ecological crisis [search] including food and energy. I agree with Paul Ehrlich and James Lovelock that "we have grown in number to the point where our presence is perceptibly disabling the planet like a disease."

Seven billion people now, when a bit over a century ago there was one billion -- and each needing to be fed, housed, and clothed -- and virtually the whole world embracing democratic conspicuous consumption as the way of life. How could this not possibly be the root cause of ecosystem loss [search], ocean dead zones [search], scarce water [search] and an increasingly inoperable atmosphere? And of course, one American is equal to the environmental destruction of many in the not-yet-over-developed world, as it is not just raw numbers, but aggregate consumption (population x per capita consumption) that matters in terms of resource over-use and resultant ecosystem loss.

Thankfully common sense is finally breaking through social taboo, and discussion regarding how to stop and reverse population growth is once again central to efforts to achieve ecological sustainability. The fact that dire famine and death predicted from Malthus [search] to the Population Bomb [search] have not yet happened globally (but are well along regionally in Haiti, Darfur and elsewhere), because of technologies that have delayed the inevitable while ensuring the collapse will be all the more severe, does not mean people and inequitable consumption can grow forever. Indeed, in a world of ecological overshoot, if any of us and life itself is to survive, there is no such thing as the right to have a baby [ark].

It's great to finally see some consensus on this issue among the environmentalists. Corrupt is dedicated to contribute to the environmentalist discussion and help raise overpopulation awareness among the "green intellectuals."

Data reference: Overpopulation myths
Interview: Environmentalist Writer And Activist John Feeney

Noam Chomsky On US Policy Towards Iran

Alex Birch — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:13:51 -0700

Great commentary from Chomsky on the consistent irrationality of US foreign policy, especially towards Iran.