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Started July, 2009


 

 

 

Democracy

  

"Democracy is the worst form of government...
Except for all other"

- Winston Churchill 

 

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There is only one way that "Democracy" will Serve to Grow a Nation in a Direction of Universal Holistic Health and Responsible Ecological Stewardship... and that is with Accurate and Realistic Information Dissemination, Transparent and Accountable Government... and a Constitution and National Philosophy that is Conducive to Essential Physical, Psychological, Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual Growth.

 

 

To Be Continued...

 

 

 

 

Capitalism (Webster's Unabridged Dictionary):

"An economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market."

 

 

 

"One of the shrewdest ways for human predators to conquer their stronger victims is to steadily convince them with propaganda that they're still free."

   - N.A. Scott

 

 

Truth, honesty, and integrity are demanded NOW for the harmonious quality of life that we all secretly desire in the new ethical Earth. No lies. No greed. No corruption. No violence. No abuse. No misrepresentation. No control. No deviant behavior. No politicians. No slavery. No genital mutilation. No disease. No neediness. No lack. No starvation. No hoarding. No ownership. No cheating. No adultery. No hidden agenda. No false information. No gossip. No low level actions. No envy. No prostitution. A powerful NO is indeed needed NOW with the personal discipline to follow through in our daily actions that will then be mirrored to us in our external world! So that we experience the satisfying YES of a creative, peaceful, and light filled world-garden.

   - Navajo

 

 

The word "Democracy" does not appear in the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution. Nor does it appear in any of the Constitutions of the 50 States.

 

 


Three Founding Fathers on Democracy


"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... have ever been found compatible with personal security or the rights of property... and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

   - James Madison


"We are a Republican Government. Real liberty has never been found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy."

   - Alexander Hamilton


"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself."

   - Samual Adams
 

 

 

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both"

  - Justice Louis D. Brandeis

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a Better Informed & Involved Public...

 

Lonnie J. Burris
Activist & Concerned Citizen

 

 

 

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Economy
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Resources:

 

Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy

 

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

 

 

 

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How Obama Became a Civil Libertarian's Nightmare

 

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America's Billionaire-Run Democracy

 

Noam Chomsky: "Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours" (Video)

 

Why the Right Wing Is Petrified of Letting Voters, Instead of the Electoral College, Pick Presidents

 

How Privatizing Government Shovels Cash to Parasitic Corporations and Undermines Democracy

 

7 Signs the Corporatocracy Is Losing Its Legitamacy -- And 7 Tools to Help Shut It Down

 

Democracy Vs. Plutocracy, Unions Vs. Servitude

 

Is Reversing Citizens United or Corporate Personhood Enough?

 

America Beyond Capitalism (Video)

 

Put the Fat Cats on a Diet: Stop Buying Tainted Food from Billion Dollar Corporations

 

The Rebirth of Social Darwinism

 

This Is What Revolution Looks Like

 

"We've Had Our Eyes Opened..."  Veterans Joining the 99% Movement

 

We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not State or Religion

 

The Elite Plan for a New World Social Order

 

How Occupy Wall Street's Moral Vision Can Beat the Disastrous Conservative World View

 

This One Could Take Them All Down

 

Occupy The World: To the Barricades Comrades

 

We Are the 99% Who Want Peace, Harmony and Love on the Planet

 

Democracy Versus Bankers at the Fed

 

How Much do American's Know About Democracy? Turns Out We Could Learn a Few Things from Nature

 

Inside the Christian Right Dominionist Movement That's Undermining Democracy

 

Is Democracy As We Know It on It Way Out?

 

How a Corporate Supreme Court Cabal Joined Forces with Right Wing and Kochs to Quietly Sell Out Our Democracy

 

Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy (Videos)

 

Government Spending Cuts Don't Cut, They Shift Costs to Us

 

Save Democracy: Tell Corporations to Dump ALEC

 

Why the Tea Party Is Wrong

 

Making the World Safe for Democracy

 

Unlimited Secret Money Is Drowning Democratic Elections

 

Yet Another Poll Shows... Plutocracy Stupid, Democracy Smart

 

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The Family's Threat to American Democracy

 

The Supreme Court Sold Out Our Democracy -- How to Fight the Corporate Takeover of Our Elections

 

Scalia, Thomas Put Democracy at Risk

 

The Perfect Storm that Threatens American Democracy

 

Honoring Common Cause's John Gardner: "Now It's The Citizen's Turn"

 

How Democracy Dies: Lessons from a Master

 

What Rotten Eggs Reveal About the State of Our Democracy

 

The New Aristocrats of Finance Pose a Serious Threat to Our Democratic Way of Life

 

The Postal Service Is Essential to Democracy-- It Should Be Re-Imagined, Not Shrunk

 

Where Do We Go From Here: Getting Rid of the Oligarchs

 

Democracy in America is a Useful Fiction

 

6 Signs That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End

 

10 Steps to Disastrous Financial Reform We Can't Allow the Government to Take

 

911: Truth, Trutherism, and Truthiness

 

How Dick Cheney's Radical Acts in the White House Still Threaten Our Democracy

 

The Commonwealth of Morons

 

Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism?

 

7 Ways We Can Fight Back Against the Rising Fascist Threat

 

How the White House's Deal with Big Pharmacy Undermines Democracy

 

How Kids Learn to Love Capitalism

 

Today's Economic Crisis in Historical Perspective

 

 

 

 

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