Jill Stein Arrested: Green Party Nominee Faces Charges After Bank Protest

Myrddnn,

I can't really disagree with the rest of your comments.  I have spoken on some of the questions you pose in other of my comments.  I think if you view what's happening through the lens of a crowded planet with limited resources, what's going on in our government and political system starts to make more sense.  You might be interested in this.  And this.  

There is nothing humanitarian about what the US and other western nations are up to.  Our leaders are not trying to bring democracy to other nations.  Democracy is the last thing our leaders want to see, not in other nations and certainly not in the US.  

I think that what's happening politically now is that the world leaders are arranging for the time when chaos will be the order of the day.  The loss of civil liberties, setting up for martial law, endless wars, etc.  I think they're giving the 'haves' one last bite at the apple, to amass as much wealth as they can, to move their families to high ground for the coming bad times.  The US is positioning itself much like the Roman Empire did, and will take what it wants through military might - Not for we ordinary mortals, mind you, but for the survival of the elites.  

I think it's obvious that the decision was made some time ago, like several decades ago, that the US wasn't going to respond and try to avert the catastrophe.  Too many people to get on board, too much work, and altruistic work at that.  It was a cynical and corrupt decision, with greed controlling it, with the likes of Jim Baker and the Bushes making fortunes by the decision (in oil).  War industries were another venue for amassing great wealth, and that's the path that Cheney took.  Clinton went the way of setting up and using a real estate bubble and hedge funds to make his fortune.

In the late 1990s, when the bubbles were taking shape, I estimated that those who didn't have a net worth of, at least, $250,000 wouldn't stand a chance, but I'm revising that upwards to $5 million.  That's just bare bones, to keep from dying from an inability to purchase food and water, and keep a roof over your head that you don't have to trade watch duty with family and friends to keep marauders out.  

Bleak?  You bet.  But we have to start talking about it and demanding politicians address it.  

Watch "After The Warming" with your families and friends.  It's somewhere to begin.
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