More Corporate Crap, guess who it lands on?

You got it Sparky, you and me. Yet again. I'm tempted to write that the pigs are "at it again" but then I stop and think and then I remember that they never fucking stopped.

We watched a great little gem of a documentary on Sundance tonight called The Refugees of the Blue Planet. Basically it was about the refugees that are made when a corporation gets to toss people off the land and take it over and the refugees who are forced to live elsewhere due to climate change, which is caused by corporate greed and burning fossil fuels. According to the filmmakers these types of refugees now outnumber the ones we are used to, you know the ones who get displaced by war, which is usually waged on behalf of corporations.

They focused on some islanders in the Maldives who are losing their homes due to rising sea levels, some Canadians in Alberta who are losing their homes due to oil companies drilling, and on some Brazilians who lost their homes and farms because a paper company wanted to build a eucalyptus on their land.

Looks nice huh? All those trees. Well guess what? These eucalyptus trees suck the ground dry and the people who live near them are forbidden to cut them. The corporate pigs use literally tons of pesticides to kill bugs that might harm their trees. And the company that grows these trees forced thousands of farmers off their farms so they could grow more of these trees. You know what they make out of these trees? Pulp for paper. And 95% of that pulp is for the North American and European markets. The paper they print their obscene yearly reports on, the paper they use for their advertising, the paper that they want us to buy, is made from the trees that are breaking the backs of many of our Brazilian American brothers and sisters.

Now in Canada the oil companies have pretty much free reign to drill where ever they want. And when they drill, especially in Alberta, they hit what is known as "sour gas" which is a highly poisonous gas. If some of this gas leaks out while they drill for oil, it can kill you almost instantly. They make the oil companies draw up evacuation plans in case some leaks out, but everyone knows that if enough leaks out, everyone in the area will be dead before any bogus plan can be implemented. The sad thing about this is that the government of Canada and the oil companies could care less about the ordinary citizens fear about the drilling and the sour gas leaks. They just want all the fucking oil they can drag out of the fucking earth so they can fucking sell it to us here in the US of fucking A.

Now what they're gonna tell us when we complain about it is this, "We need the oil, we need to make gas out of it. We need that pulp to make more and more paper. If we stop then the economy will grind to a halt. We must have more, we must make more, and damn you for saying anything different."

You know what? These were the same pigs who said that ending child labor was a bad idea, that labor unions were a bad idea, that the 40 hour week was a bad idea, that putting people before profits was a bad idea.

You remember the things they thought were good ideas? They thought that unlimited use of pesticides that ruin our drinking water, World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean war, the Viet Nam war, the war on Iraq and Afghanistan were good ideas. They think that raping our planet is a good idea. They think that helping the Bush Junta silence all dissent is a good idea. They think that lying to us about what we actually need and want is a good idea. They think that fucking over anyone who does not live in North America or western Europe is a good idea. They think that not paying you a decent wage for your the labor that makes them rich is a good idea. They think that them not paying taxes is a good idea.

We say: stop the madness, stop the mindless consumption, stop falling for their lies, stop being their partner in raping the planet and in their abuse of others, and stop voting for the bastards who support their bullshit.

We can fight them, there are things we can do, all of us. We can and should: shop local, eat at locally owned restaurants, buy organic food when possible, buy locally grown food and support politicians who support a sustainable viable future.

We've listened to rich white pigs who do not have our best interests at heart for long enough. It's time we took our country, our market place, and our planet back. Let's stop acting like the pigs want us to and start taking care of the things that matter to us.