Who Suffers? Who should be sad?

http://www.survivalinternational.org/films/mine

And there it is, the last hundred years or so in a microcosm, on some hills in eastern India.

You know, this is not just some sad story, one of thousands going on around the world now. This is not just about how the bad guy corporations are killing some indigenous culture.

This is about how they are killing us.

The Vedanta Corporation wants the bauxite in the hills that these people live in. Bauxite is a key element to making aluminum. Making aluminum is not just necessary for construction, it's for anti-perspirant additive. It's for food additives. It is through making aluminum that fluoride is produced. The harmful effects of fluoride in our water, toothpaste and all over modern day consumer goods is what we have to thank for lower IQ's as well as early onset dementia, among many other things.

My point is, they don't just want to kill little known indigenous people, they want to kill all of us.

This should be clear to anyone who is paying attention.

I mean really, are any of you under the impression that because we are in a western 'modern' society, that our corporations or governments actually care whether we live or die? Fast or slow?

Why would you think so?

This mini-documentary takes place in Ireland:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/212.html

What evidence do you Americans or Canadians or French or Germans or English people who come here have to think that we are treated any differently than these folks?

Can some one explain to me how we are being treated differently? Because I have to say, I don't really think that we are.

http://www.wimp.com/oilspill/

This is not comprehensive about the oil leak, but to me, the interesting thing is that they only had a plan 'A', no plan 'B' to stop a leak/spill such as the one going on in the Gulf of Mexico.

Does that sound like 'enlightened capitalism' to you?

It sounds more like gambling to me. Considering the information about the global financial crisis that's been going on for years now this does not seem to be a radical conclusion to me.

Why are people like me being ostracized by the media and government as extremist and potential terrorists?

CNN is paying attention to Sean Penn's work in Haiti this weekend. Go to their web site and listen to his interview with Anderson Brown.

They aren't providing vaccines to the people in Haiti for diphtheria and whatever else you are likely to contract when you live in a city with no sewage system.

Are you 'listening' to this? Do you 'hear' me?
Or are you simply scanning another blog page out of your top 2 or 3 favorite blog sites that you visit everyday?

I do NOT know what you should do. I know that my partner and I are trying to get to Haiti to help 70-100 orphans get out of that cesspit that Port-Au-Prince is. We have a friend who has been in Haiti for 5 weeks this spring. There is a possibility to relocate this fairly large group of kids who've been living in a space about the size of our living room/dining room (with no access to outside space) since the earthquake. Before the earthquake there were only 30 children in there.

http://kelalea.wordpress.com/
www.eggonalimb.net/haiti_kola.html
http://eggonalimb.net/haiti.html

We have no idea if it is a realistic plan because it obviously depends on many factors we have no control over. But we know that we will achieve nothing if we do nothing.

At the moment we don't even have the money to go. We might get it, but I am forcing myself to stay in the present, and at the present, we could get there but we couldn't afford to stay there. From what our friend has told us, there are some people who have gone to Haiti supposedly to help, but they ended up needing more help than they actually gave, so we won't get into that situation.

Again, I do not know what 'the best' thing to do is, but what I am certain of is that it is idiotic to continue to pretend, even for a second, that there is some loving intent behind anything these corporate fucks are doing to our world. It is the height of stupidity to think that either a democrat or a republican or even a libertarian is going to get our system back to a level playing field for all.

It is the penultimate irony that the people who run corporations run NGO aid groups.

Why would anyone think that the world's powers want Haiti to be any different than it has been lo these many years? Why?

Why would anyone think that the Vedanta Corporation is going to back off from those mineral rich hills? Why?

The corporations do what they want, to the land, to people, to unborn generations over and over and over.... in country after country.

It is us who want change, not them.

In my view, the level of change our world and its people are yearning for will finally begin to appear when we start doing what is clearly in the interest of our neighbors.

This level of change will happen when we say NO to the corporations... and our neighbors rally to our side.

I do not want violence, either applied by us or received by us.

If I could actually say that I wanted any one particular thing, it would be that I want people to live without conflict, the inner kind. I want people to see, for themselves, the warped logic that is being sold to us, by the new age community as well as the corporate world.

And to simply walk away from that life, this life lived in conflict.

What is a life lived in conflict?

That is a person who votes in a politically correct way, but loves their aluminum block engine in their brand new Chevy Suburban.

That is a person who lives in the idea that he manifests his own material abundance but runs to the doctor if he notices a skin discoloration on his belly.

That is 300,000,000 million people who believe they model liberty for the whole world while their military bombs villages in Pakistan.

This is mass psychosis applied deliberately by few on many.

I am out of paint so I will lay aside the brushes I am using to draw this picture for you.

Be well, but more importantly for ALL of us, be clear...

Peace,
Steve
eggonalimb.net