Sometimes, our "culture" is just too fucked-up for words.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. bravo!! spot on, my friend.

:applause:

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. No shit. It's obscene.

K&R

[baldguy]

4. Corporations are the only people that matter, and Wikileaks isn't a corporation.

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. I'm just getting around to reading Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States"...

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...and I believe he says that by the 1870's, the Supreme Court
had essentially declared corporations' "personhood" and that the
14th Amendment, basically intended to protect the rights of
African-Americans, had been invoked in about 18 lawsuits
involving them -- and 228 involving the "rights" of corporations.
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[MrMickeysMom]

21. You'll notice the repeating theme with that book, MFM...

... Amazing that beginning with the arrival of Chris Columbus, it just keeps repeating and repeating, and repeating..... over and over and over.

[BlueMTexpat]

28. I am ashamed that it took me so long to read. I gave copies of

that book to everyone in the family - and some friends - for Christmas this year!

[Kali]

5. ...

:thumbsup: k and r

[northamericancitizen]

6. Right on !

[Kurovski]

7. K&R. (nt)

[kag]

8. Excellent! n/t

[Rage for Order]

9. Nothing placed on Facebook is private

And if people think it is then they are delusional.

[Codeine]

12. Exactly. nt

[liberation]

20. Since corporations involve more than one person nothing they do is technically "private" either.

I think the term "privacy" in this context refers to the amount of control people have over the scope of transmission of their information.

[Tsiyu]

10. the k und the r

wunderbar!


:kick:

[eppur_se_muova]

11. America doesn't have a culture, it has an economy.

or what's left of one.

[Ghost Dog]

14. Ding ding!

But, there's always jazz, blues and rock & roll.

Oh, and Hollywood. :)

[Initech]

13. Money so they say is the root of all evil today...

[liberation]

22. Today? That quote appeared in the 1st epistle of Paul to Timothy in the New Testament

Almost 20 centuries ago. Also in the old testament, usury (aka banking) was one of the big sins.


So it seems to me "same as it ever was..." ;-)

[Bluenorthwest]

24. The quoted variation is from Money by Pink Floyd

It is a lyric.

[liberation]

27. D'oh

I guess I wasn't in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set ;-)

[Capitalocracy]

30. I think they put the "today" and the "so they say" in to make it rhyme...

K&R for the OP. Not much else to add, it says it all.

[Initech]

45. Dark Side Of The Moon FTW

[L0oniX]

63. No it wasn't.

It's "the -love- of money is the root of all evil".

[L0oniX]

62. The most miss quoted phrase in the history of communication. Thanks.

It's "the -love- of money is the root of all evil". Money is not evil in and of itself ...obviously.

[JVS]

16. There is no justice.

[xchrom]

17. Recommend

[JVS]

18. May the Good Lord provide for them.

Freedom for Assange.
Ass cancer for Zuckerberg.
Amen.

[femrap]

19. A BIG K AND R!!!!

Our 'culture' sucks. BIG TIME!

[Dappleganger]

23. Nothing short of brilliant.

As always, your posts never disappoint!!!

[upi402]

25. Oh SNAP! +1,000!

That is brilliant. Wow, I'm floored.

[KG]

26. private information is not required to use facebook.

[upi402]

29. people are stupid, rain is wet. ...still

The irony holds

[liberation]

35. Corporations and govs are not required to use secrets to operate either

[WinkyDink]

58. You think.

[riverwalker]

31. for a private person

like me, the whole concept of "Facebook" is as alien and repulsive as roller skating butt naked through the Mall of America shouting out my social security number.

[silverweb]

33. Well said!

A superlatively creative expression of my own thoughts re Facebook. :D

[liberation]

36. Hey! Don't knock off naked roller skating throught he Mall of America...

... until you try it ;-)

[MiddleFingerMom]

40. GEEZ........ ........

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[Paka]

43. Privacy & Facebook

Amen to that!

[treestar]

32. Not equivalent

classified information is different.

[liberation]

34. Indeed, the latter has more vowels than the former

... so totally different and stuff.

[Cerridwen]

47. True. One protects the individual from the criminals. The other protects

the criminals from the masses.

[Lucian]

53. Stupid post.

My personal information is supposed to be classified.

-1

[treestar]

55. So if Julian decides to leak your personal information

That'll be OK? because he's the hero and stuff.

[WinkyDink]

60. Why bring up a doofus "example"? It is FAR more likely that FB will reveal your ID and perusings.

[treestar]

61. Keep off FB

People voluntarily put the information there. For their own purposes. FB doesn't charge $$. That is the price.

Just a silly comparison. Julian steals information people expect to be private. The other guy uses what people voluntarily give him in a public place.

[WinkyDink]

59. The avaricious First Lady of Tunisia SOOO agrees with you!

[midnight]

37. It sure seems like something is not right....

[micraphone]

38. Absolutely Spot On

Corps, see middle finger salute!

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[pacalo]

39. Genius!

[SpiralHawk]

41. The k and the r

ptoooey on the so-called man of the year

[conspirator]

42. K&R n/t

[Initech]

44. dupe

[donheld]

48. War = Peace n/t

[Urban Prairie]

49. Never have registered as a member on FB

When it first became popular, I thought that it would only be appealing to those looking to network for better/new job opportunities or promotions, and I wasn't in that category. However, I was a seller on eBay and Amazon for a period of several years, and they were the only internet websites where I ever had to reveal my true identity and location, in order to make sales, and I managed to maintain a perfect seller rating on both. It was not easy to avoid getting negative feedback, because my wife and I were desperately struggling to make ends meet during those years, her career job had been outsourced, and I was waiting to receive approval for my disability retirement, and was quite ill during almost the entire time.

[DeSwiss]

50. All the wonderful sounding words:

..."rule of law" "the presumption of innocence" "liberty and justice" "a government of, by and for the people" -- are just that -- nice sounding words.

Still, I suppose that it is a good thing to see that we are slowly but surely opening our eyes to these facts and are coming to understand that we live in a fascist police state. A state where the banks own everything -- but only by virtue of our sufferance -- only because we say they do -- only because we allow them to rob us blind.

- Because this is what they do......

K&R


"The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. The process by which banks create money is so simple the mind is repelled. With something so important, a deeper mystery seems only decent."

~John Kenneth Galbraith

[Liberal_in_LA]

51. +400

[Enthusiast]

52. K&R! nt

[Lucian]

54. + a million.

[Skidmore]

56. Actually, I'd replace both of them with

a picture of the Disinterested Citizen who gave his rights away to be a consumer.

[WinkyDink]

57. And THAT is EXACTLY WHY Assange was not MotY.

[TBF]

64. Specifically it's the economic system. Spot on though. K&R nt