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GDP is not a measurement of the health, happiness or even of a nation’s true wealth. The US, for example, includes money spent in the healthcare system as part of its GDP. But what are they measuring? They are measuring the money spent on sickness and death. The more treatments for heart attacks, diabetes and cancer, the higher the GDP.
The biggest value of what Intel makes comes from the creative process behind the design and marketing of its product. And that bigger value goes to the corporations and individuals behind that creative process, not to the country which only offers a low bid for its raw labor and natural resources. That country,like any wage slave, is merely making somebody else rich while using up its own limited resources.
“Let them eat cake?” The last time that kind of arrogant, disrespectful language was used in a similar context, they broke out the guillotines in response.
Businesses look for ways to exploit people for profit. Businesses SHOULD be looking for ways to exploit profit for people. THAT is what an economy is for. But that is not how this crazy world economy has been designed. Inviting “investment” from abroad is inviting exploitation and it stifles a country’s efforts to progress on its own, unique terms at its own unique pace. Let Intel continue its search for the lowest common denominator work force, the one closest to abject wage slavery and abuse. Intel’s chief objective is profit, not the well being or advancement of Costa Rica.
International corporatism is quickly replacing nations as the organizational instrument for societies. Globalism is one term for this process and it means to eliminate the cultural diversity of our species. If you think this is a good thing, support it and sacrifice your country. Corporations have made wastelands out of every environment and culture into which they have moved. They only ever enrich the owners, the stock holders and all the politicians they can buy but they leave the workers in a state of dependency and eventual poverty as they drain the natural resources of the land and the energy of the people while corrupting thoroughly whatever political system is in place.I love optimists! I think, in this case, though, you optimists are off the mark. There may be some sort of hobbled revolution that takes place, but I don’t see it getting far with such a weak minded, hypnotized, ignorant and apathetic American public. There is just not enough steam. Less than three percent of the people own silver, which is one sign of just how few are actually awake as to what is happening. And look how docile we all are as they herd us barefoot through the airport xray machines, like cattle or 1941 European jews into a box car…not a peep.
This country lost its soul many decades ago. The warnings should be issued for threat of a fascist tyranny on the verge of a fait accompli.
2bncr, sounds like you prefer your women to be servile, barefoot in the kitchen and pregnant..and woe to anyone who makes an attempt to free women from that traditional situation. I suppose we can consider you a conservative in that you would like to conserve and preserve the human condition exactly as it is in many backward cultures and how it used to be in more progressive cultures. You and the Pope and the rabbiis and the imans have your work cut out for you because since women started to wake up to their mistreatment, they have been unstoppable.
I was happy to hear from one of my first conversations with a young Tica that these young ladies were well on their way out of a backwards culture of machoism. I wish them luck and I wish you and your religious allies failure in this matter.I agree that the freedom of not speaking or answering about details in one’s personal life is nearly absolute…up and to the point where your life begins to encroach on another’s.
The problem is that our lives are so thoroughly entwined in this world economy that I have a hard time imagining wealth which could come absolutely unattached from the labors and suffering of the some other quarter of human society. The cheap gasoline I burn as I drive to the beach came at some considerable human expense somewhere else on the planet.
This cheap petrol adds to my personal wealth. Does the Nigerian villager who has lost his modest wealth due to an oil company’s polluting of his farm land have a right to ask me how much wealth I have and how I got it? In my opinion, he has that right and some other more significant rights as well.
When half of the world lives on less than $2 per day, and we still have rich asses sitting on gold plated toilet seats,
( http://www.bornrich.com/entry/high-tech-gold-plated-toilet-demands-250000-euros/)you have to wonder if this is just banal evil at work, or is our species insane?[quote=”guru”]My point is that it is NOT the lowest level security personell whom you are dealing with that you should complain to. THEY are just doing their jobs.
Meanwhile, you ARE right about intrusive searches governmental abuses of fundamental liberty and privacy. But complaining to the wage-slaves is not the way to change it.[/quote]The higher-ups to whom you suggest we complain are not reachable and they are not answerable to us anyway. They do as they please as long as wage slaves do their bidding. The Owners, the slave masters, are insulated by layers of people and bureaucrats. They have presidents and senators as purchased puppets. They have corporations which have more rights than real people. And at the bottom, where the abuse takes on a visceral quality, they have the ignorant, and many times, completely brainwashed wage slaves to do the dirty work.
At some point, some people become awake and aware of their enslavement and all the degrading treatment that comes with it. I look for a level of irritation to be reached.
The question is: does that level of irritation rise to the quality of revolution in time to make a difference or do the slave masters win again? These fascist tyrannies come about in increments, step by step. Do you smile and accept the smaller tyrannies because it is easier right now than fighting back? This is how you boil a frog; by increasing the water temperature only a little bit at a time until it is too late for the frog to jump out of the pot.
The waters around us are already making little bubbles and yet people still think a smile and a stern letter to their corrupted congress representative will fix things. It looks hopeless to my eyes. People will not grow up and wake up. My solution is to bow out, get off the grid as much as possible and, along the way to that end, treat the wage slaves of the TSA with as much contempt as ignorance and tyranny deserve. You go ahead and smile if you like as you bend over.
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Smile, be friendly and courteous to them and they will usually be the same to you.[/quote]
Are you going to smile and say thank you when the TSA is fondling your genitals or blasting you with harmful X-rays?
This is the kind of behavior tyrannical governments engineer in the public so as to get a foot in the door, or any other crevice in their presence.
The airplane is a communal area and nobody should be against open inspection of property, conversation or any other notions of privacy that apply to private space. Let them x-ray and rifle through my luggage but I do not want to see them doing the same with my body. If you are in the public plaza, you have a right to the integrity of your physical person. Only slaves do not have this right.
No authority should exist to violate your body. And this is exactly what the TSA is doing right now. They will ramp this up to the next level. They are training a society into submissive behavior for more oppressive management.
[quote=”rward”][quote=”maravilla”]didn’t your mother ever tell you how rude and tasteless it was to ask a person where their money comes from?[/quote]
Maravilla,
Of course I know that to ask someone about their finances is not proper unless you are entering into some kind of transaction with them that might involve a risk on your part.
[/quote]Let us put this into an HONEST perspective. The entire population is involved in a “transaction” with itself. Either we all live in this world together, or we live in it apart and opposed. Whatever wealth you or I have did NOT come out of a vacuum. It came from the world. We either share the world or we continue fighting over it. The notion that it is bad manners to ask about another’s wealth surely came from the oppressive rich bastards who steal theirs from the rest of humanity. Of course they want to keep it all secret.
It is now a small world and at this stage of the game, it is everyones’ business how and by whom the planet’s resources are being consumed. I would love to hear an argument defending the secrecy of wealth. The only good one I’ll accept is if the wealth in question was gifted from an alien planet.
I would not build with bamboo but people have been using this material for a long, long time in tropical regions with relative success. It fairs better than most other woods. My impression is that cement block and steel truss is the best.
I think most politicians would sell their families for money. They certainly have sold everyone else’s.
Kevin Casas-Zamora- a former vice president of Costa Rica – is siding up with these American slime-ball politicians and adding his two cents worth to the report.
I am always interested in more economic ways to build comfortable, sustainable housing. But so far, none of the non-traditional methods of construction seem less expensive or more appropriate for the two main environments in Costa Rica.
So far, modern cement block and steel truss or old fashioned bamboo and thatch are unrivaled.It appears the Costa Rican Central Bank wants to emulate the US devaluation of its currency. Perhaps they expect a devalued Colon will stimulate exports and they need to goose the economy along. I have to wonder, though, how far this will go since the US dollar is on a straight path to extinction. Who knows what is really going on behind the closed doors of these central banks?
I find it hard to hold back when the right wing, bible thumping, soldier worshiping, flag waving “Americans” start popping off with uncivil language and personal attacks on this message board. It brings out the worst in me. So I’ll just stick to topic here.
Let’s just all agree that the TSA is a group of moronic thugs who deserve our disrespect and as much passive resistance as we can get away with. The problem is that there is little we can do to resist short of not flying…which is what will happen if we resist too much. So far, I have not had any confrontations with these people. But I am fighting back some anger each time I have to face this stupid, fabricated security BS and sooner or later, I am going to get into trouble.
The people who are running things insinuate their fascism into our lives in increments. The pace is quickening though.
There is evidence that Costa Rica and the rest of the region are being targeted by the globalists as the World Bank takes aim at Central America. Senators Dianne Feinstein (CA) and Chuck Grassley (IA), co-chairs of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control, released their report Responding to Violence in Central America. The report recommends steps the U.S. can take to “help” Central America reduce drug related violence. You can just imagine what form that “help” will take and what the real motive behind it is.
http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=aebb1f78-6139-459a-baa9-9a9427f22442&SK=2E29BAC27AE9742DE6CFA550BF226584Wagoneer41, I agree with everything you wrote. It’s heartening to know there are North Americans in CR who share these sentiments and attitudes. Not only is your attitude realistic and pragmatic, it is fair and just.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”][quote=”bogino”] Hey Sprite–You seem so [b]Petrified[/b] about [b]The End of Days[/b] that I found a link I think you will enjoy and give you comfort:
http://www.terravivos.com/secure/prophecy.htm%5B/quote%5D
bogino, nothing will give Sr. sprite any comfort whether it does or does not involve global calamity. Whether the world comes to an end tomorrow or later on today, it cannot happen soon enough for him, but it is certain to happen. No matter what the subject, surfing, scuba diving, home building, residency, farmers’ markets or whatever else, it’s all about the impending disaster.
Can you say “broken record” . . . “broken record” . . . “broken record” . . . “broken record” . . . “broken record” . . . “broken record” . . .”broken record” . . “broken record” . . . “broken record” . . ?[/quote]
David, you are right about the broken record. I should probably leave off this theme here. I have nothing new to add. It’s just that when I see a new piece of evidence, I become like an excited child and start pointing and shouting. Once the event has unfolded, I can settle back and
start thinking about more mundane matters, matters which don’t excite me enough to write about or read about.
