Noam Chomsky, Who Owns the World?

This is THE most informative article i have read in years , AND it so has he ring of truth ....

While we have men (and women) of the intellectual might of Chomsky and big-balled Kucinich, the tireless activism of Amy Goodman and Naomi Klein, it seems to me that their voices and their heroic efforts are not enough -and have not been enough- to make noticible changes, either at home or abroad.

The majority of American people don't even have a clue what goes on outside their comfortable sphere filled with fucking Walmarts and cannot be bothered, or dismiss categorically, those voices of reasons who wish to show them the true rules of the game played on the world stage.

One administration goes out after fucking up everything that can be fucked up, not just in this country, but third-world ones as well, and then another guy comes in heralding a new age of hope and change and similar bullshit, throws a few crumbs to some segments of society to build up the illusion of changes but the same shit goes on and on and on.

Anybody who has ventured outside the US borderlines can tell you how unsophisticated the average American person is -and is perceived to be- when it comes to politics in general, foreing policy and international trade and agreements.

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[current background noise: Pigs (Three Different Ones) by Pink Floyd}

Sometimes its EASY to forget how "helpful' Clinton was -

[. . .Others are Mexican victims of Clinton's NAFTA, one of those rare government agreements that managed to harm working people in all three of the participating countries. As NAFTA was rammed through Congress over popular objection in 1994, Clinton also initiated the militarization of the U.S.-Mexican border, previously fairly open. It was understood that Mexican campesinos cannot compete with highly subsidized U.S. agribusiness, and that Mexican businesses would not survive competition with U.S. multinationals, which must be granted "national treatment" under the mislabeled free trade agreements, a privilege granted only to corporate persons, not those of flesh and blood. Not surprisingly, these measures led to a flood of desperate refugees, and to rising anti-immigrant hysteria by the victims of state-corporate policies at home. ]

TRUMP would understand - - -

[ Grand Area doctrines clearly license military intervention at will. That conclusion was articulated clearly by the Clinton administration, which declared that the U.S. has the right to use military force to ensure "uninhibited access to key markets, energy supplies, and strategic resources," and must maintain huge military forces "forward deployed" in Europe and Asia "in order to shape people's opinions about us" and "to shape events that will affect our livelihood and our security." ]

adding this to 'Culture",.....remnants of culture, I suppose.

Its always a little sad when you have to finally leave that apartment behind,....you have it all cleaned up and ready for the new occupant . . . . .

Now we know how Romans in Britain felt,....abandoning walls, and hot baths . . .

So sad

p.s. We should work on establishing longer leases before we develop property,....at LEAST a LEASE longer that 8 years. Uhm,....unfortunately,....that JUST MIGHT require some cross party cooperation.

OR - - -we could ALWAYS just GET OUT of the real-estate market . . .