Unequal Protection, Part I: Corporations Take Over
The first thing to understand is the difference between the natural person and the fictitious person called a corporation. They differ in the purpose for which they are created, in the strength which they possess, and in the restraints under which they act.Man is the handiwork of God and was placed upon earth to carry out a Divine purpose; the corporation is the handiwork of man and created to carry out a money-making policy.There is comparatively little difference in the strength of men; a corporation may be one hundred, one thousand, or even one million times stronger than the average man. Man acts under the restraints of conscience, and is influenced also by a belief in a future life. A corporation has no soul and cares nothing about the hereafter....—William Jennings Bryan, in his address to the
Ohio 1912 Constitutional Convention
Although the case on its face was a simple tax matter, having nothing to do with due process or human rights or corporate personhood, the attorneys for the railroad nonetheless used much of their argument time to press the issue that the railroad corporation was, in fact, a "person" and should be entitled to the same right of equal protection under the law that was granted to former slaves by the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Mystery of 1886 and Chief Justice Waite
In the decade leading up to this May day in 1886, the railroads had lost every Supreme Court case that they had brought seeking Fourteenth Amendment rights. I've searched dozens of histories of the time, representing a wide variety of viewpoints and opinions, but only two have made a serious attempt to answer the question of what happened that fateful day—and their theories clash.
No laws were passed by Congress granting corporations the same treatment under the Constitution as living, breathing human beings, and none has been passed since then. It was not a concept drawn from older English law. No court decisions, state or federal, held that corporations were or should be considered the same as natural persons instead of artificial persons. The Supreme Court did not rule, in this or any other case, on the issue of corporate personhood.
In fact, to this day there has been no Supreme Court ruling that explicitly explains why a corporation—with its ability to continue operating forever, its being merely a legal agreement that can't be put in jail and doesn't need fresh water to drink or clean air to breathe—should be granted the same constitutional rights our Founders fought for, died for, and granted to the very mortal human beings who are citizens of the United States, to protect them against the perils of imprisonment and suppression they had experienced under a despot king.
But something happened in 1886, even though nobody to this day knows
exactly what or why.
exactly what or why.
Thom Hartmann: Scott Walker is the face now - but the first culprit was 100 years ago.
U.S. Military Diplomacy – From Wounded Knee to Afghanistan
Poetry By Larry Kerschner
Slavery - The Real Essence Behind Human Existence
AT&T to cap users’ Internet access, impose fees for too much information
BlueDaze
CONFIRMED: water contaminated by Barnett Shale drilling waste pits
Natural gas extraction creates MASSIVE amounts of toxic and radioactive waste. Industry has no viable plan for how to safely handle that waste and our regulators fail to protect our VITAL natural resources.Drilling pits taint Montague County water
MONTAGUE COUNTY — North Texas ranchers and homeowners are fighting open pits of drilling mud waste near their properties, but there's little they can do.
Now comes confirmation that some of those pits are contaminating four water wells in Montague County
VIDEOThere are thousands of abandoned and buried pits all over North Texas.
Water contamination from drilling waste pits is why New Mexico passed their pit rule.
FACT SHEETS
Large-scale industrial activities threaten Canada’s boreal forest
A first of its kind report by the Pew Environment Group reveals that Canada’s boreal, the world’s largest intact forest and on-land carbon storehouse, contains more unfrozen freshwater than any other ecosystem. As United Nations’ International Year of Forests and World Water Day coincide, world leaders are grappling with water scarcity and pollution – and scientists are calling boreal protection a top global priority.
A Forest of Blue: Canada’s Boreal Forest, the World’s Waterkeeper compiles decades of research and finds that the boreal- contains 25 percent of the planet’s wetlands, millions of pristine lakes, and thousands of free-flowing rivers, totaling more than 197 million acres of surface freshwater;
- provides an estimated $700 billion value annually as a buffer against climate change and food and water shortages;
- offers the last refuges for many of the world’s sea-run migratory fish, including half of the remaining populations of North American Atlantic salmon.
- maintains freshwater flows critical to forming Arctic sea ice, which cools the atmosphere and supports marine life, from sea algae to polar bears; and,
- stores more than 400 trillion pounds of carbon in lakes and river delta sediment, peatlands and wetlands—more than any other terrestrial source in the world.
- Canada’s boreal forest is increasingly impacted by large-scale industrial activities. Global demand for resources from the boreal is on the rise, with more than half of total exports of forest products, oil, natural gas and hydropower going to the United States.
The Coming Crisis
Japan earthquake: Survivors fear they are being left to die - 17th Mar 2011
People living near the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant said they had received no information or help.The mayor of the town of Minamasoma – just 20km (12 miles) from the complex which has seen three explosions – said: ‘They are leaving us to die.’He added: ‘We weren’t told when the first reactor exploded – we only heard about it on the TV. The government doesn’t tell us anything.’
The 200,000 people nearest the plant have been moved from the area. Evacuee Mitsuru Fujita, 65 said: ‘The government told us it was safe. Now, I feel angry with myself for ever having believed them.’
More than 452,000 people are staying in schools and other shelters, as supplies of fuel, medicine and other necessities run out.
Heartbreaking moment Japanese earthquake survivor holds her dead mother's hand as she says a final goodbye
Maine towns reject one-size-fits-all regulation, declare ‘food sovereignty
...ordinances for four neighboring towns that would sanction direct sales of farm products between farmers and consumers, without the involvement of regulators, and even without the involvement of lawyers, if everyone agreed. This spring, they began presenting their ordinances at town meetings -- that New England institution that has stood the test of time -- allowing all of a town's citizens to vote yea or nay on proposed ordinances governing town spending, along with other purely local laws.
"Patrons purchasing food for home consumption may enter into private agreements with those producers or processors of local foods to waive any liability for the consumption of that food. Producers or processors of local foods shall be exempt from licensure and inspection requirements for that food as long as those agreements are in effect." Imagine that -- buyer and seller can agree to cut out the lawyers. That's almost un-American, isn't it?
For and Against Wind Farms
Better Plan, Wisconsin
Badgers for a Better Renewable Energy Plan
BOARD OF HEALTH PRESSED TO STUDY EFFECTS OF TURBINES
SOURCE Falmouth Enterprise, (via National Wind Watch)
SOURCE Falmouth Enterprise, (via National Wind Watch)
Physics of Resonance
The ghost in the machine
Why subsonic vibrations have the effects they do on the human brain is poorly understood, but it's been demonstrated over and over. You can take the most rationalistic, skeptical individual in the world, and place him or her in a room with a standing subsonic wave, and (s)he will see ghosts. Imagine the results if you did that to someone who already believed in ghosts!
The fantastic inventions of Nikola Tesla
Haarp : The Ultimate Weapon of the Conspiracy
Wind power surges forward around the globe
Between 2000 and 2010, world wind electric generating capacity increased at a frenetic pace from 17,000 megawatts to nearly 200,000 megawatts.
Planet Peer Anonymous Network
Use Secure P2P, Darknet, F2F Projects which Protects your Privacy!
Avoid antibacterials with triclosan: make your own soap
Five infant deaths in Japan, not related to vaccines they received
The use of vaccines Prevenar from Pfizer and Sanofi’s Act-HIB were temporarily suspended by Japan’s ministry of health. There were no abnormalities found in the products although the panel in Tokyo requested data on the safety of giving numerous vaccines simultaneously.
( It isn't. That's why originally - as I recall reading about in "Microbe Hunters" decades ago,anyway - the body was given a chance to recuperate from the onslaught of one vacccine before making it sick again with another. That's how vaccines work - they stimulate immune reaction. Now we live in a society filled with plastics. Medical researcher/blogger Blue Girl posted on that years ago....and I blogged the links here too.
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Do you know where your food has been?
New Study Adds Weight to Diabetes Drug Link to Heart Problems
rosiglitazone is associated with significantly higher odds of congestive heart failure, heart attack and death compared with a similar drug (pioglitazone)Subjects Respond to Washington Monthly Article
...self-styled experts in terrorism who are currently advising law-enforcers in the USA. One of the individuals discussed was a certain Sam Kharoba, who has since stopped by with a comment. Here’s an extract:
Recently, the Washington Monthly published an article by two leftist liberal reporters attacking counter terrorism training efforts in the United States. The article is a testament of how liberal leftist reporters twist the truth to suit their agendas. It is very evident that these reporters; true motive is to attack law enforcement and counter terrorism efforts in the United States….It is apparent from their twisted reporting that no matter what information or facts were presented to them, their true motive was to falsely paint law enforcement efforts as anti-Muslim and discriminating.
What follows is a refutation of “Lying: It’s wrong–except when it isn’t”, found in Chapter 6 (“Islamic Law: Lie, Steal, and Kill”) of Robert Spencer’s book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades). (I would have added their list of articles - but didn't feel like playing around with something designed to defeat that. )
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