WHO must we defeat to take back our country?

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

NAME THEM!!!!!

I'll start:

General Electric
Rupert Murdoch
FUCKING FORBES "BILLIONAIRES" BRAG LIST http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/07/billionaires-worlds-richest_07billionaires_cz_lk_af_0308billie_land.html

Ah, to be a BILLIONAIRE while hundreds of millions could live,...and YOU LIVE IN A MANSION, TOO,...if you gave a smudgeon beyond your "WANTS" and gave to others' NEEDS.

It's gross,...how those Forbes folks treat people,...

NAME THOSE WE MUST DEFEAT!!!!

[sam sarrha]

1. media consolidation, corporate bribes/campaign contributions

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Yes, this is imperative.

Reforming health care and tackling drug companies and insurance providers will define targets as well

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

9. At this point, we would have to dismantle them,...and THAT would be WAR.

You know that.

Interesting, though,...how, our 'government' is attacking nations for government-controlled the media while we are attacking corporate-controlled media.

It all comes back to PEOPLES' GOVERNANCE,...which does not exist, yet.

[begin_within]

2. The greedy brat in all of us

[Forkboy]

3. Start with repubs, and then our own inner selves.

Is that too deep? :)

[ColbertWatcher]

5. People who...

...believe because they believe and nothing you can say will ever have any impact on that belief. They hate what they hate because they've always hated what they hate. And they know what they know because they believe what they've been told and they remember what they were told and it has guided their lives all along.

And all this colors everything they do including how they vote, which will be against their own good interests, because the TV tells them everything they need to know because it always has.

[dweller]

6. The Shadow

as only the Shadow knows.
dp

[KillCapitalism]

7. You named 'em!

Anyone who is mega-wealthy and takes an active part in oppressing the poor and middle class.

I think John Edwards is the guy we need to help us defeat them!

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

11. What's the difference between competition and capitalism?

The meaning and the purpose.

What's the difference between survival and greed?

The meaning and the purpose.

[BooScout]

8. Big Oil......n/t

[ConcernedCanuk]

10. That's the problem - "WRONG QUESTION" - - - should be WHAT

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do we have to defeat.

Suggested short list:



fear

apathy

laziness

self-centeredness

conceit

ignorance(result of apathy and laziness)

greed

defeatism

insecurity (gotta go with the flow, ya know) . . . . and so on

That's a start - I expect the list will grow

But it is "OURSELVES" we must defeat

all the losing qualities that let the "powers that be" influence us against our will

Hopi Elder saying: "WE are the ones we've been waiting for"

Don't wait for someone else

We(you)are IT!

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

13. That's easy for you to say *LOL*.

Obama won the Iowan caucuses.

WE ARE THE ONES WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!!

:bounce:

The Hopi Elders also advised against our own egos,...take nothing personally.

FLOW IN THE RIVER.

[Orsino]

12. Money.

Money must be disenfranchised.

[Initech]

14. Exxon, British Petroleum, Conoco-Philips, Shell Oil

Big pharma
The lobbyists

[Wiley50]

15. Ultimately, the financial elite and their minions: their foundations, their think tanks, their

multinational corporate conglomerates with their interlocking boards of directors,
their dirty deed doers: the CIA (including Poppy, the rest of the family, the Baker Boyz and the PNAC crowd),
their representatives who run government at their direction ( who we think we elect to represent us in Washington
and state capitols),their televangelists and mega-church pastors, but most of all (and, critically, the first and essential battle we have to win to get any foothold) their propaganda mill: their newspapers, radio networks and, especially,
their 5 network monopoly on our TV news, the moist obvious of which is Faux.

Only once we break this media monopoly, through which 95% of the country is propagandized

can we even begin back their willing victims