Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Billionaires’ Superyachts Dock in Thames for Olympic Games

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Billionaires’ Superyachts Dock in Thames for Olympic Games

Click here to access article by Alex Morales from Bloomberg.

See how the rich .01 of the One Percent visit the Olympics.

These are people who benefit most from the capitalist system and will be the ones to defend it vigorously from changes that the rest of us want. They sponsor agents who create wars to enhance their power and profits, wipe out indigenous people to steal their resources, deny man-made climate change, bribe your governments, make money off drug trafficking, etc. These are the creditors to which all the debtors of the world are beholden to. Workers of entire nations are working a substantial part of their lives to pay off debts incurred by One Percent-controlled governments that have bailed out their banks.