Sustainability and Politics: World's rich threaten democracy says Oxfam in pre-Davos report

Monday, January 20, 2014

World's rich threaten democracy says Oxfam in pre-Davos report

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Does not take a Nobel winning economist to know 85 people = 1/2 world's wealth is fucked.
Hello, does this version of Capitalism and "making a more perfect union" sound kosher to you?
1% have rigged the game, and they are rigging our government, legislation, and rules so they take even more. Game change needed: Americans must take back policy for the many, not allow for piracy policy that rewards the few. In trade agreements, tax codes, and elections, humans -- individual citizens -- must come first. Loans should be cheaper for those who can't afford them. Student loans must be cheaper than borrowing rates for banks. Corporations should not be able to bet on and buy out all air time to mislead people during elections. The rights of people are separate from and above the need for corporate profit.
These are basic things of which people have an acute awareness. We have to fight to restore balance away from the 1% in our, and the global, economy. Read Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Robert Reich now. And help support legislation that grows and supports the middle class. Not the 1%.

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I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.