That is what I am going to do from now on with organizations, institutions etc that take an anti-social stand: I will let my dinero develop patitas and walk away from it. Free Trade? Free Flow
Whole Foods does not have a huge customer base. In comparison to other grocery chains, it's miniscule. Their 2010 sales were $2.2 billion. To take just one example, Safeway's sales for that year were over $40 billion. The sad fact is that most Americans just don't know about this issue, or care. That is what needs to change.
Now, more than ever, we need Facebook and other social networking sites as forums for venting and voicing our opposition to the ever-creeping (and creepy) private take-over of our beloved public institutions. We will be using these sites to monitor the UW to make sure it stays clear from the reprehensible madness of the right and its incessant need to control the world, including Wisconsin, through its insatiable need for profit and dehumanization.
I have been following the nuclear escalation closely, and it is quite scary to see the spin starting to take place (i.e. the US nuclear energy industry trying to protect itself.) As the event gets more serious the experts and "scientists" coming in to comment (and tell us we are all panicking about nothing) have direct ties to the nuclear power industry. I'm not an investigative journalist, but I am sure this doesn't stop at the commentator level. Has there been any direct research done yet on how many of our major media corporations have significant shares/investments in nuclear energy? We already know our gov't definitely does. I want to know how much can the American public trust any information coming from any major US news outlet?
Furthermore, I just want to put out there that the "powers that be" are so interested in nuclear energy because it is a form of control. Green energy is essentially "open platform." Particularly solar energy is relatively easy to develop, and someone can even install it on their own roof and go off grid. But nuclear energy is something that has to be controlled by a higher body... nobody can put a mini nuclear plant in their back yard. Social media (and the internet generally) has empowered and connected populations (look at the Middle East right now) that they have worked so hard to disassociate from each other.
They can no longer have complete control over the information people receive (i.e. corporate owned media) or ideas that are shared, so they need to tighten control in other areas- like energy. They know oil is running out, so nuclear energy was their hope for a new controlled form on energy. They will spin anything to resist public backlash against it.
Whole Foods does not have a huge customer base. In comparison to other grocery chains, it's miniscule. Their 2010 sales were $2.2 billion. To take just one example, Safeway's sales for that year were over $40 billion. The sad fact is that most Americans just don't know about this issue, or care. That is what needs to change.
I have been following the nuclear escalation closely, and it is quite scary to see the spin starting to take place (i.e. the US nuclear energy industry trying to protect itself.) As the event gets more serious the experts and "scientists" coming in to comment (and tell us we are all panicking about nothing) have direct ties to the nuclear power industry. I'm not an investigative journalist, but I am sure this doesn't stop at the commentator level. Has there been any direct research done yet on how many of our major media corporations have significant shares/investments in nuclear energy? We already know our gov't definitely does. I want to know how much can the American public trust any information coming from any major US news outlet?
Furthermore, I just want to put out there that the "powers that be" are so interested in nuclear energy because it is a form of control. Green energy is essentially "open platform." Particularly solar energy is relatively easy to develop, and someone can even install it on their own roof and go off grid. But nuclear energy is something that has to be controlled by a higher body... nobody can put a mini nuclear plant in their back yard. Social media (and the internet generally) has empowered and connected populations (look at the Middle East right now) that they have worked so hard to disassociate from each other.
They can no longer have complete control over the information people receive (i.e. corporate owned media) or ideas that are shared, so they need to tighten control in other areas- like energy. They know oil is running out, so nuclear energy was their hope for a new controlled form on energy. They will spin anything to resist public backlash against it.
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