Will this scene be repeated in the U.S. shortly?
Will the surname be: Morgan, Bush, Clinton, Rockefeller, Rothchild,
Murdoch, Gates, Sharon, Beck, O’reilly, Robertson?
Friends, as if the election of Brown within a year of the disappearance of George W., the Village Idiot, wasn’t enough, now the Supreme Court in America has given the corporate world open slather regarding donations for Presidential and Senate-Congress elections.
Obama, quite rightly, has told the citizens of the U.S. that democracy itself has been undermined by this. How right he is! “This ruling opens the floodgates for an unlimited amount of special interest money into our democracy,” Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address.
“It gives the special interest lobbyists new leverage to spend millions on advertising to persuade elected officials to vote their way — or to punish those who don’t. This ruling strikes at democracy itself,” Obama said, according to Reuters.
In the ruling, the court’s conservative majority said the previous limits had violated corporations’ constitutional right to free speech. What garbage!
A corporation is a legal entity, one which, because of this special status, avoided the heavy responsibilities of each citizen who, if they err, can be sued and lose their house and shirt! And only humans had the right to free speech. How exactly do corporations speak? Do all the Directors form a chorus and speak in unison?
Imagine the average American punter trying to make sense of the barrage of endless advertising that will come from this ruling. Imagine the corporate Robber Barons licking their lips concerning this huge impetus to their selfish, profit-driven agendas. Imagine the MSM Barons gloating over the advertising dollar surge that will come their way. Imagine the rabid Republican politicians who’ll have unlimited money to fund their election and hide their shortcomings. Imagine the lobbyists who’ll become overnight millionaires!
Friends, an insanity is gripping America. Americans are rapidly losing the plot. I fear they are moving towards a stage where some right-wing, religious megalomaniac will seize control, impose a 1984 regime, and, assisted by a few crazy nations like the U.K. and Israel, move to take over the world before China or India does.
We live in perilous times! The future is unknown but it is filled with uncertainty and potential trouble.
Enjoy each day while you can.
David
I do NOT disagree, at all.
I wrote “(the) sixties”, not sixty(60) , meaning the whole decade. In the case of own my father he lived his seventies (the decade of) also coping by himself, in his own home, without being send to hospitals etc.
But do not hang me op on fixed digits, please. I have no desire to deprive healthy persons their lifes before times up.
I just want to give support to those who acknowledge that death for many suffering from the one or the other, can be preferable for life. but of course you don’t even be an elderly for this condition to come into effect.
Talking about mercy killings / euthanasia, I give credit to those who dare , and have the courage and the remedies to, to do the very tressparsing job.
Especially I think of an incident with the doctor, Harold Shipman, a convicted serial killer.
read more:
http://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAkQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHarold_Shipman&rct=j&q=Harold+shipman&ei=plVzS81F0MDiBp6OrMkJ&usg=AFQjCNGcSHeWw9ksH0odBMyFTMmKm5-wBg&sig2=qnovd0ae077fqkVffiW9aQ
I personally doubt that this story uncover the whole truth of this unhappy story.
There was a similar story in Denmark, in 1997, where a nurse who was hanged out in the media as having murdered 22 elderly in a old peoples home.
She has later become totally acquited of any charges.
read more (in Danish)
Dorte Gramkow convicted 22 murder Dorte Gramkow was found guildy of murder on 22 people, no doubt about it. And even it’s now proved she has’nt done anything wrong, she will in the conscioness of the many for ever be the criminal… …
http://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=8&ved=0CCEQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kristeligt-dagblad.dk%2Fartikel%2F240414%3ALeder–Plejebo&rct=j&q=Dorte+Gramkow+for+22+drab&ei=X0RzS4ehA4bZ-Qb2x6zUCQ&usg=AFQjCNHisG_zFqJOCsy3p02XRj_gDIe0fA&sig2=DL-KMt59Uilt_ozeXazAYw
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John—the reality behind how we treat and care for our elder people is a natural outcome of a society that for 50-60 yrs has planned on a nursing home indudtry..for profit…make people want things so badly that they work so much there is noone home to care for the elders…as a nurse for so many yrs I was in a position many times to help shorten the suffering we inflict on the old..getting pain orders from willing docs to adm pain injections every 1-2 hrs…advising home hospice pts not to treat an infection that has the potential and is in the process of shortening a miserable end…that being said more of our elderly stay at home than are incarcerated in nursing homes…I am all for a hippie commune for the old tokers and I will sign up..there is a place called the Farm..in Summertown Tenn…one of the original founders is doing just that…let me be around hippie like minded people and live with some dignity…eat well…get sunshine..get off the grid..love and share…Kate
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Grace, there is a barbarity about the way we prolong death and wilfully cause unnecessary suffering. Every person should have the right to die with dignity when they choose to.
During my course of my treatment I’ve seen many sad cases where the intervention just goes on and on until there is only a shell of a human left. We treat our animals better than we do some humans!
Cheers.
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Years ago I worked with a family and the husband was a Doctor. He said the biggest problem he saw was the families unwillingness to let a poor sick person go. I believe that a long life is a Blessing. We are capable, I believe, of growing and learning right up to the last breath. What I have changed, since I have been very sick at moments, is that death doesnt’ seem so bad then. It must be a mechanism of nature..when our bodies are spent. At that point, I say live and let die. Now that I feel better, of course, I want to live. Life wants to live, that’s what it does.
David, what an experience you are getting from this. My god, bless ‘em all.
Gee, hang in. I am glad you are able to get out and switch up the routine, being able to go home and all sometimes. I need to rest more, as you must too. There is so much to do in a day.
Kate, I am with you. The place in Tennessee sounds lovely. I think you are a really right on woman. My son got an award for Courage, so maybe it is on my mind, but you are courageous too. Happiness comes from the inside out. Especially so in cold snowy, politically wrong environs. Stay strong and let us know about the good things you learn.
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David, you get a Courage award too!
It takes alot to have been through all you have and to be where you are today.
Cheers!
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Grace, coming home on weekends, though tiring, keeps me sane. Four and a half hours of driving is worth it.
I have learned much during my treatment time. I know what I will accept and what I won’t! When it’s time, I will die with dignity and no one will stop me.
It is my right!
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Your so right Kate, the whole western world of capialism are completely obsessed with money, and about who can do fastest, cheapest or whatever …..est etc. a world more designed /suitable for machines than for vulnerable human being, where slowness, depth(ness / profundity (wisdom) has no value.
As a Dane, struggling to put reasonable sentences together in a foreign language so when ever I see an opportunity to – I borrow – this time from Grace. She wrote so beautiful
Kate, I am with you. The place in Tennessee sounds lovely. I think you are a really right on woman. My son got an award for Courage [congratulate to you and your son Grace!], so maybe it is on my mind, but you are courageous too. “Happiness comes from the inside out”. Especially so in cold snowy, politically wrong environs. Stay strong and let us know about the good things you learn.
The subject of how to end ‘life’, to ‘say goodbye’ from here without too much pain isn’t unineresting, to say the least to the huge WWII generation who has more or less dominated the (western) world since the sixties . I hope and pray be freed from too much suffer.
APROPOS SUFFER!!
I came to thing of the lastest incident of a young man rescued from the rubbles in Haiti. Wasn’t it 28 days ? he had been ‘buried’ ?.. For God sake don’t do this to me. GOD! PLEASE..
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Grace thanks you
I wish you and your family, luck on your way to healthiness
There’s details in your late post I don’t quite understand – but I hope I’ll be able to piece the whole ‘story’ of yours together one day. you have a great mind.
David
be happy
I wish I were (living) in Australia, I am so tired of frost ( 18 degree is measured lately), with frozen (no) water and snow all over, here in Denmark.
pease and love to all
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“a world more designed /suitable for machines than for vulnerable human being, where slowness, depth(ness / profundity (wisdom) has no value.”
Your words are profound, John. I will try to write more complete thoughts to aid in your reading and comprehension.
A long life when in strong health is a blessing. However, once a person is sick, it is tricky. If the doctors can help the person with a plan to be able to function, then life should be extended. If the person is just sick and not getting better at all, then it is a personal decision. What a sad topic of conversation, yet so relevant for all humans. It was a miracle to find that man after 28 days. There – is an example of a bad situation where dying probably crossed his mind in those long days, yet, he had a life force that kept him here. Fortunately, he was found and now he can live out his life. Whew, close one! Buddha said, Life is Suffering.” There are many times that those words come ringing in my ears. So I pray, that I may learn my lesson. That said, I don’t want you to suffer unneccesarily, John!
Ok, here it comes, John, you get an award for Courage, too! You are very brave to learn English and to bless us all with your thoughts and insights. Thank you for persevering. : )
Stay warm and cozy, especially all of you in the cold climes.
Peace and love, too.
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Thank you, Grace
I am so happy and very PROUD for this AWARD. Since the ‘thing’ is NON physical I want to share it with you, Grace, and all other, in their own right, marvellous people here.
- you are the light at the end of the tunnel.
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John, no one should have to suffer at all! It’s the religious who believe in fantasies about living forever that impose this suffering upon all people, believers or not.
Death should be seen as part of the life cycle and it should be made as easy as possible. A nice meal with friends, a few pills, then you go to sleep forever, with dignity.
John, living in Australia is better at the moment with good rains lessening the effects of the drought. It is humid though and frequent storms are causing damage in some places in New South Wales.
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