The Tories are entering Britain in the TPP (Trance Pacific Partnership), under a slightly changed name but with the same subjection to business.

The Tories said they wanted the UK to leave the EU so as to decide its own laws, but what they really wanted was to augment plutocracy — to give international business more power than the EU permits it to have.

The Vatican has denounced its "doctrine of discovery" which it used to give a religious justification to colonization.

In the 1400s and 1500s, European monarchs were seriously afraid they would go to Hell if they started unjust wars. For instance, the king of Spain really really wanted to attack England, but waited years for a religiously valid excuse for dispatching the armada.

It is foolish to demand that the Vatican make substantive changes in the situation of indigenous people today, because it doesn't have any power nowadays. All it can do is give advice — which can be good or bad.

It is a good thing that a Vatican decision "doesn't change the law in any country." If the Vatican could do that, the first change it would make is to prohibit abortion.

Ralph Nader: *One measure of corporate power’s dominance is its 24/7 relentless, profit-driven capacity to strike back and prevail over reforms or other efforts designed to give the people voice and fairness.*

Some of his examples support one simple lesson:
Never try "help" businesses do something we would want them to do by giving them more money to do it with.

There are more good lessons to be learned.

US citizens: call on Congress not to extend the corrupter's tax cuts for the wealthy. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on Congress not to extend the corrupter's tax cuts for the wealthy. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!