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Bain’s Oil & Gas practice serves all areas of the industry: We advise government and national oil companies, major and independent commercial oil companies, petrochemical producers, renewable energy companies, oil field service firms, private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds.
That's what BP's CEO Tony Hayward did. In 2008, he hired Bain Capital to say the company would be better managed if it spent less money. Bain used consulting BS terms like reducing "complexity," but it all meant the same thing: cut, cut, cut.
The Inclosure or Enclosure Acts were a series of United Kingdom Acts of Parliament which enclosed open fields and common land in the country. They removed previously existing rights of local people to carry out activities in these areas, such as cultivation, cutting hay, grazing animals or using other resources such as small timber, fish, and turf. "Inclosure" is an old or formal spelling of the word now more usually spelled "enclosure": both spellings are pronounced pron.: /ɨŋˈkloʊʒər/.
The term “capitalism” was introduced by anti-capitalists but not by Marx. Its most notable early appearance is in Louis Blanc’s Organisation du Travail (1840), published while Marx was still a grad student in Berlin.
"With its virile affirmation of the individual, and which succeeded in creating a society through the free federation of men, of villages and of towns. "In those cities, sheltered by their conquered liberties, inspired by the spirit of free agreement and of free initiative, a whole new civilization grew up and flourished in a way unparalleled to this day."133 The free cities were virtually independent; although the crown "granted" them a charter in theory, in reality the charter was typically presented to the king and to the bishop of the surrounding diocese as a fait accompli, when "the inhabitants of a particular borough felt themselves to be sufficiently protected by their walls...." Peter Kropotkin, 1842-1921
Originally posted by ANOK
It's not governments/state that is the barrier to your freedom, it's the economic system.
One group and one group alone is responsible for virtually all wars and bloodshed on the face of this planet. This evil cabal is few in numbers but, like a deadly octopus, its tentacles reach out to grip and strangle untold multitudes of innocent victims. The initiates of every secret society and internationalist organization, from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Jesuits to the Bilderbergers and the Order of Skull & Bones, obey the dictates of this sinister group and tremble when standing before its leaders.
The cabalist group I refer to is the Synagogue of Satan, an ancient, yet modern, elite so politically powerful and so fabulously wealthy that even past history has been twisted, reshaped, and revised to meet its preferred version of humanity's gloomy, totalitarian future.
The Synagogue of Satan
Originally posted by davesmart
Does state capitalism come into play?
Or, are we really socialists pretendind to be the above..or vice versa
Originally posted by Sly1one
Get rid of capitalism and you still have a system that oppresses freedom unless its total anarchy...and YES freedom does mean you get to say whatever the hell you want as verbal audible sounds interfere with others freedoms little to not...
Once you interfere with the freedoms of others you open the door for others to interfere with your freedoms...this is absolutely rampant in almost every social dynamic that exists...
I can't identify if it is human nature to oppress or if its a learned behavior...
I know that in my case the desire for freedom is a natural desire that I believe I was born with. I loathe oppression and despise people who think they have any say so over another human beings life...outside of raising children. Obviously I have a problem with Authority...because I refuse to acknowledge it...
I consider us all equally incompetent and should only suffer our OWN incompetence instead of the incompetence of others made under the guise of "authority" type concepts.
In that same regard I consider us all equally competent and should only benefit from our OWN competence instead of the collective forced charity by the above authority.
In either case having your own life in your own hands is what freedom to me...is all about.
TAXES are the progenitor of oppression...everything else is just an exacerbation of that.
Classism is the systematic oppression of subordinated groups (people without endowed or acquired economic power, social influence, and privilege) who work for wages for the dominant group (those who have access to control of the necessary resources by which other people make their living).
Originally posted by Sly1one
Where I'm hung up is that I don't see a form of governance/economy in the modern world that won't oppress ANYONE...its basically just a Haagen Dazs flavor of the week of oppression...
Utopian socialism, properly so-called, is the name given to socialist aspiration in the era prior to the development of industrial capitalism. It refers to the yearning for an egalitarian society, but without the scientific analysis of social evolution that modern scientific socialism provides.
Originally posted by ANOK
reply to post by fever
Hmmm who wrote the dictionary?
I don't care what the dictionary says, only what history shows to be true.
Originally posted by ANOK
Hmmm who wrote the dictionary?
“the biggest cover-up in the history of mankind is the history of mankind itself”
“There are two histories: official history, lying, and then secret history, where you find the real causes of events.” ~ Honoré de Balzac
"The model of human prehistory built-up by scholars over the past two centuries is sadly and completely wrong, and a deliberate tool of disinformation and mind control. ...they demonstrate a systematic destruction of proofs that show another reality than that the official story. Falsifications and even destruction of such proofs has been common for more than two hundred years." LINK
"Throughout recorded history, the Illuminati has successfully withheld from humankind major aspects of history and science in order to subjugate the masses"
By manipulating the souls evolving on earth, the Illuminati have deliberately suppressed the spiritual facts of life, not to mention liberating technologies, which could bring plenitude to all.
Secrets of Suppressed Science and History
The Illuminati realized they had to deceive an entire population of people if they had any hope whatsoever of achieving their coveted New World Order. As early as 1911, the Illuminati began buying textbook writing companies, until they owned them all after World War I. Once they got control of textbooks, they gradually began to "dumb down" the curricula and rewrite history. Rewriting history was the first step in achieving the New World Order. Source
Originally posted by Murgatroid
Hmmm who wrote HISTORY?
Originally posted by fever
So the meanings of words hold no meaning?
Originally posted by ANOK
... you have to find the true meaning of words by going to the route, not what the dictionary says. This may be shocking but when it comes to politics the dictionary cannot be trusted.
Some dictionaries, not all, claim capitalism is free-market when obviously it isn't.
The dictionary doesn't say socialism is worker ownership, but research the history of the term and the socialist movement it becomes obvious that's what it is.
I didn't ask for a source btw.
Originally posted by ThinkingHuman
... and who decides what the true meaning is - for You?
I agree btw that history is not what we are taught in school. But can you put the blame on capitalists
To answer your question, what is Freedom? - that is easy: Choice. Obviously, that implies REAL choice, not that between different members of a cartel. Monopoly is the enemy, and yes, capitalists love to from cartels where their profits are all but guaranteed. But who enables that cartel/monopoly? it is the government - which is a monopoly in itself.
If there was no such thing as Federal law in the US, the States would regulate commerce and at least some would do a better job at it than others, and the less good ones would be avoided and experience a drop in tax revenue.
The individual would have no reason to "Occupy" because he would have 1) better power to participate in a closer State government (than one that is time zones away), and 2) could exercise his Choice to go to a better State.
Any viable political system must allow for individual ownership - or else there will be no motivation for productivity. Ownership means Capitalism. Socialism is removing individuals' choices and rights (which includes ownership).