Gina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMxUh4JuLMs


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Goodies

time to watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-R5Vh5tOWk&NR=1



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLfsG8XKWfw



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anxkrm9uEJk



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBzQI_7ez8



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH2iufUU1f4



http://www.worldwithoutus.com/did_you_know.html








and read ishmael. srsly. pz.

Meltdown

In one of my education classes we were given an authors critique on a text that is meant to describe other nation’s points of view in their own textbooks. It is clear that other nation’s texts are going to read differently than the ones produced in America. Ideally, the intentions of the book History Lessons: How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History is great for the understanding of how other nations history came to be and shows the comparisons. The United States has this “isolationist tendency”, as do all other nations and it is important to be aware of the truth. Unfortunately, both sides can be viewed as fact. Who are we to decide that their point of view is wrong? We are taught to believe that whatever we have done in our own histories is what made us the country we came to be today. This brings up the impact of conspiracy theories. In essence, they are real. We have proof of it from our own American history, but what is not clear is how much of what we think to be true, is actually true?

Now so more than ever, I believe we are living in a very corrupt system of government. This may be because I am more aware of the political goings-on that we are facing due to the upcoming elections, but never the less it is clear to me that something is wrong. From history we have seen that America used to be a very dominant, proud and free nation. It was those factors alone which laid out the fundamental outlines for how our democracy should run. We used to rise above many other countries, and other countries, at least I think so, used to admire us for what we stood for. There are two possibilities for this aching feeling of sadness and paranoia I feel coming from our nation. It could either be that our current President truly did put us in a horrible rut, or that corporate America is really trying to take over the world behind our backs.

Sticking with conspiracy theories though, I am questioning their liability. Why should I believe these theories? I do not want to believe in them solely because I feel I ought to protest our government in every way possible. I want to know facts, and I need real truth coming from the higher-ups in our country. I want our country to admit that it was wrong about something rather than constantly pointing their fingers and playing the blame game. It is important to be rational when considering conspiracy theories as truth. Logic and research must be legitimately done and both sides need to be present. Hearing what one wants to hear is generally going to shine through.

What is interesting is how much conspiracies, especially real ones, impact our society. We have grown to be dependant on a nation and a president to lay down the laws and regulate corruption so we can grow and become prosperous either independently or as a whole community. Using the example of Watergate in 1972, it is unbelievable someone with such power as Nixon could tarnish such a democracy. With investigations in burglary, fraud, espionage, wiretappings and laundering it is no wonder the public was disgusted with the Republican Party. With that in mind, their government completely changed. Many new laws were put into effect as well as amendments like the Freedom of Information Act. The following House and Senate elections dramatically changed as well. Democrats gained five seats in the Senate and 49 were in the House.

Conspiracy theories are a very real thing today, too. Take the 9/11 theory that the government knew about it the whole time. Recently, though, I came across a book that really shook me. It is called Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins. In brief, corporate higher ups come together and go into underdeveloped countries and propose them with huge loans saying if we give you a certain amount of money, you can build up your country and economy and will have the ability to pay us back whenever you can. These countries such as Ecuador and Costa Rice obviously are willing to accept this offer. The countries now get into serious debt and in the end wind up owing their life and all their profits to the United States because they cannot payback their dues. This is why these countries thrive off tourism and cannot make ends meet on their own. These “hit men” go into the country, build it up, and then leave and let the rest just fall into their laps and banks. It makes sense and is not surprising. This gives so much power to the United States it is unbelievable; all the underdeveloped countries are now at the mercy of a huge superpower of a nation, the U.S. Things like this are happening within our own country now which makes it even more intolerable. Companies are lending out mortgages that are clearly never going to be paid off? Why is it that this happened?

With all this corruption going on in our government is it surprising that our society does not trust our government the way it used to? There is hardly a sense of nationalism. It was in full force when the 9/11 tragedy struck, but now it barely exists. Our country needs a strong and firm government willing to change and clean up the messes we have made, not one in which we need to be weary of its intentions and ideals. Conspiracy theories, ones that seem plausible, do nothing to satisfy the people. We need to aim towards a nation that wants prosperity for all and will put the people first, not the needs of the power-hungry and the war-lords. What happened to: for the people, by the people? We deserve to know the truth, it is our country after all, the government should only be there for support and progressive leadership.