Ralph Nader, this is the name we are dealing here at this doc. To be sincere, he was a complete unknown to me, as a non US citizen, I knew of the existence of presidential candidates and public figures like Pat Buchanan or who run as independent candidates to the presidency of the United States several time but not Ralph.

Ralph Nader strikes me as the quintessential american, the kind of person that truly believes in the american values, dream, myths and democracy.
Coming from a unknown family of well educated with Cristian Lebanese origin, Ralph must be the most influential person in the US that has caused so much benefit to the little american man. He is a fighter for justice, for your rights, he was responsible to implement the security belts in cars, something that huge corporations like general motors were totally against, but they finally had to give in to Mr. Nader because Ralph was actually right in his arguments, no security belt = you raise the probability of not making it after the road accident.

Well, security belts is something we take for granted
today, it is by default a part of nowadays vehicles, well it wasn’t in the fifties, and there had to be a man who fought so we can actually live, that man was Ralph Nader.
He was also the person behind the implementation of regulations sucha as the obligation to print in cigarettes packages a label warning you that you are increasing your risk to develop illnesses like lung cancer.

He was as well the person pushing work place rights such as being the right to be told in advance by your boss whether a task or work position could harm your health by any specific reason such as gas inhalation, radiation exposure, etc,..
This guy expended his whole life to fight for the little men category, the one that 99.9 % of the people belong to and against the ones that by buying our politicians and later making pass laws more beneficial to their stocks, obviously in detriment to all citizens rights.

During his life of service to the public he organized, established and founded many organizations and institutions with the sole purpose of defending our environment, fighting for medic care, high taxes for the corporations and lower those of the less wealthy, the kind of things that many people leave behind for they are too scared or lack of energies to keep fighting all your life. Well Ralph has gained already a place in Paradise no doubts, for he is not corrupted, for he is not evil, for he is not egoist.

On the other side of the sphere, we have, as the doc depicts, not only the corporations who wouldn’t doubt it to play dirty against this exemplary citizen, but their best allies, the republican party. For when some “third party” agent, pays a visit to the right congressman, senator or even president, and places a certain amount of “zeros” in a certain account, the person behind the 3rd person is definitely getting something in return: help to make a law pass in congress, help to make a law fail,…in either case all is numerable and can be sum up in how many dollars I get from it.

Hey, do not forget, the republicans are not there along, they run, pass, push the same actions all together, the send troops to protect corporations oil in middle east, they don’t give a fuck for the middle american man, they care less for the soldiers who bravely fight for what their government tell them to.
The same republicans and democrats, the two truly representatives of corporations, they go side by side an stand behind the Commission of Presidential Debates, what? didn’t you  know who these guys are? Well they are one democrat and one republican deciding who can and cannot show up in televised election candidates debates, and guess who these two guys are going to let you view in the screen? Only their 2 candidates, other are not invited, very democratic…indeed.

After 2000 elections in the states, after the looser democrats lost it in Florida with Al Gore, lacking all minimal decency and self respect, they go and accused another candidate of their lose, very mature, very manipulating, very evil, what? you thought that only republicans use these shitty techniques? They are as power greedy as their republicans brothers, but they all attack the “bad example” given by Ralph Nader, because they dont want to have anybody ethical enough to fight for those that cannot, to speak for those that would never be heard, to spend his private time for “the others” without expecting in return.

As I said, after the 2000 campaign, democrats accused Nader of their own lose, pathetic! Nevertheless this extraordinary human being stays focused even at his 75 against those who curse them and would like him to step aside from the social consciousness, well fellas, if you democrats are afraid of this individual it’s because he reminds you of how you should be and behave, and
that is a menace to you. The fact is that Ralph Nader was the only candidate of the 2000 that was capable of filling the Madison Square Garden of people that actually paid to see him, no stripers, no band, no monkey jingle jangle like the huge 2 parties are used to, after they pay their “followers” to come to their rallies.
Everybody knows how democracies treat ethical and straight mind that speak what they think and mean what they say, they kill these, like any dictatorship, either physically or socially.

http://www.nader.org/

If there is an educational and informative documentary work, Zeitgeist is its name. A deep research into our current monetary system based on enslave, scarce and above all profit for the benefit of CORPORATIONS. Names like Exxon, Texaco, WalMart, Merrill Lynch, CityGroupInc, Morgan Stanley, CNN, CBS, FOX, MacDonalds, AT&T, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, etc,… All  these nice entities are the real owners of our global world and won’t think twice to send their economic hitmen and try to brive heads of state in order to let them into his country and exploit his resources.  Once the specific foreign leader bribed, the companies get into the country, exploit its resources by a small fraction paid of the real cost of it. Thus, the profit is all for the corporations and the targeted country is left as before but this time with no natural resources and a bunch of corrupted new rich men leaders.

If the leaders refuse to be bribed… accidents happen, CIA fashion. If the CIA cannot do it, the Army will, and then you will find that what it was supposed to protect and defend its citizens is now fighting for corporation interests instead of values. Just to exemplify this: Before 1980’s Afghanistan produced 0% of the world’s opium, after the US/CIA backed Mujahideen won the Soviet/Afghan war, by 1986 they were producing 4-% of the world’ heroin supply. By 1999, they were producing 80% of the total market supply. But then something unexpected happened, the Taliban came to power and by 000 they had destroyed most of the opium fields. Production dropped from 3000+ tons to 185, a 94% reduction. . On Sept. 9th 2001, the full Afghan invasion plans were on G. Bush’s desk. . Today, after the US invasion, US controlled Afghanistan provides 90% of the world’s demand breaking records nearly every other year*.

These same corporations are the ones that killed the electric car, which by the way, it is a known solution since the beginning of last century just because it doesn’t go on petrol, thus we have no profit there, so they banned the use of the batteries (that are also under their control) in these cars. These are the people that wont blink while deforesting the amazons or as Bayer, who wouldn’t have remorse after selling in Europa what was previously banned in the US, a medicine that had been proved cause of aids in many patients. This people aren’t neither interested in well being and environment, but in proliferating, keeping people watching American gladiator and made them think that technology put them on the unemployment.

And here is where it comes www.thevenusproject.com: a new way of thinking and acting for today’s generation. On an era where technology success surrounding us in our daily chores there is no excuse to make the change the corrupt system where we think our politicians will take care of us in this democracy and push forward our interests. Reality is much different: those leader have pending bills with those people that actually placed them on the top, yes, you guessed right again, the corporations, those entities that pay for Obama’s election campaign and right after he won, will pay a visit to his office. And this is how the current system works.

This same corporations control the media, so they can keep you with their news, right where they want you to think. And here is the way we can improve our situation in order to make things change: do not support this corporations by buying their news, by consuming their products, electricity or water, try to be as much self dependent as possible, for in this materialist world we all know what happens when an article/idea is not consumed: they stop producing/exploiting it, it dies and they will have to come up with something the people wants. That is what happened when they started boycotting the city bus companies in southern US for the where were part of the racist system against African Americans. And what are the options? As mentioned, planet friendly technology together with environment protecting energies like tides, helical, waves, solar and thermo, all of them long knocking on our doors.

I found this piece of investigation not only a must-see, but a must follow. There are some grey areas where I may object, such as simplifying all religions and make one from all of them, saying that we are all the same. Score: 9

* Source: Washington Post, “Afghanistan Opium Crop sets record” and UNODC report “The Opium economy in Afghanistan”

The Union is a fine documentary about cannabis, marijuana, hump. How the prohibition of this plant came into effect and more important why. The documentary is centered around British Columbia long tradition of marijuana growing, producing, distributing and selling. Interested factors are showed about the all positive factors of this plant as fiber, medicine, combustible and others. How tobacco industry kills approx. 400.000 in the US alone, more than all hard drugs as cocaine, heroine and other + all traffic accidents + alcohol casualties combined. How secondary effects of the pharmaceutical industries medicines kill every year thousands of individual, aspirin for instance kills,how this industry only cares about medicines secondary effects as far as it can be proved that they were responsible, else, they wont care putting you down while consuming their “legal” poisons that by the way, most of them create dependencies. This war on marijuana will feed one of the growing and more profitable industries in America: private jails; special forces will feed also from this illegal drug, by the way also by confiscating whatever they get into their hands. But also regimens of advocates and above all of them again the pharm companies, as far as you buy from them, their stuff is legal. On the other hand a striking factor says it all, the number of deads caused by marijuana…oh…let me see…zero, yes you read it right, “0″, nada, rien, niente. That is right. So why is it illegal? because politicians don’t want to acknowledge that either they were wrong or that they were stupid to go with this stream of nonsenses, either reason wont make them reelect. Score: 7.5