What is happening in the world?
Well, I've been hoping for the ability to encapsulate everything I've been seeing over the past 5 years into a single piece I could post here at ThePete.Com, but I have yet to really feel like I could cover every point I feel needs covered in a single, cogent blog entry. I tried making a film about it and it's still in post, but it doesn't speak to the military industrial complex or the neo-cons.
The good news is that I found a clip today that covers just about every important angle of what's wrong with America in the world today. The clip is called What Barry Says and you can check it out by going to Knife-Party.net. Once you get there, click the giant logo and then a new window will open with flash inside. Click on "knife party" and then at the bottom of the text that appears, find the link to check out a 35mb QT of What Barry Says. I emailed Simon Robson, the clip's creator to see if I could get permission to mirror it since it's rather difficult to get to it on his site. If you don't mind Windows Media, you can also find the clip [http://www.wimp.com/propaganda/|here] at a site that calls it "leftist propaganda." That's a true statement, but what that site fails to mention is that every single one of Barry's claims are true--I've already verified them myself.Barry, btw, is Barry McNamara, a "political thinker" (whatever that is) who is much better than I at distilling huge concepts down to basic ideas (and I thought I was pretty good at it). I tried to find his website, but couldn't manage to find it. I'm not even sure he has one...
Special Thanks be to TheChad for sending me a link to this clip.
Good little video. Interesting and most definately accurate.
ReplyDeleteOf course America is leading the charge, but I don't think it is just the American Gov't that is in on this...Britain and many others as well....I think it is important to think of these corporate entities as no longer belonging to one single nation, because looking at how business is done these days that is definately not the case. I don't know, that's just my take on it...but it was definately a nice watch!
That's true, Morgan--the US is not the only example of politicians working for the military industrial complex. However, the US is supposed to be much more moral than that. We're not supposed to be bought and sold. I'm sure you know that in the end what the US political system does is allow legal bribes. In a sense, corruption is built in to the American system of government. This has little to nothing to do with freedom and the "American Way." In fact, one wonders if this wasn't the plan from the beginning when the Founding Fathers first framed the way our government would work. After all, give a human the power to take money from special interests (any special interests) and that power will corrupt.
ReplyDeleteThen again, the Founding Fathers also believed every American citizen would have a gun and would be willing to use it against law makers who abused their power.