By Gary Vey for viewzone

If you read many of the other websites this past few weeks you have been told that the earthquake in Haiti was caused by the HAARP death ray weapon, that Yellowstone Park is about to destroy North America and that earth size UFOs are flying in and out of the Sun.

I've been tempted to get involved in the HAARP discussion, since I know the subject quite well. Yellowstone is a super-volcano, so that story has at least some legs to stand on. The earth-size UFOs have been proven to be stars, visible in the background of the corona. Someone posted the identical images from exactly one year ago.

While we wait for the StarViewer Team to disclose their validated math for the alleged brown dwarf, just beyond Pluto, perhaps the most significant story that will change our lives passed with little or no fanfare on January 21, 2010. It happened somewhat silently yet it will forever change human civilization in our lifetime.

On that date the Supreme Court of these United States decided that corporations, be they American or foreign, are afforded the same rights as a single individual when it comes to contributing money to a political cause or candidate running for a political office. Let me say it again. Under the January 21, 2010 ruling, a corporation can use UNLIMITED funds to support a policy or candidate running for office. Stop and think about that for a while.

How it used to be

America was established as a democracy. The founders of our county were trying to escape the British rule under which the King or Queen of England made all the decisions and the people had to obey or suffer the consequences. The citizens in England put up with this kind of rule for centuries until the Royals tried to dictate in which church the subjects had to worship. For many who came to America, this was just too much and they wanted change. They wanted democracy.

The word comes from the greek demokratia, which means "rule of the people." I won't insult you be defining what it is. In school you learned about the ancients who voted by raising their hands and being counted, or by writing on clay shards that were secretly collected in a large vase. This kind of democracy can still be seen in small town meetings where citizens vote on such things as zoning, new roads and raising taxes for the local school. It's what sets America apart from other countries.

When the decisions involve larger groups of people, like cities or states, it becomes impractical to count every individual's vote. We rely on what is called "representational democracy" where we elect individuals to voice our interests at special meetings where more complex issues are discussed and examined. These representatives supposedly understand our needs and concerns and have the luxury of time and staffing to predict the impact of various proposals, laws and allocations of our tax money.

The representatives who make the laws of our nation are the Congressmen and Senators. They decide how much taxes we pay, whether or nor our child can pray in school, if a woman can get an abortion or vote, whether we will invade another country or whether or not an ordinary citizen is entitled to health care or social security. Again, you know how this works.

But there is a special group of individuals who have enormous power over every American citizen -- and they are NOT elected by us. The Justices of the Supreme Court are appointed by the sitting president and confirmed by a special committee. Their job is not to represent the concerns and needs of the citizen but to uphold their interpretation of the Constitution.

Enough for the history lesson

Please stick with me, it gets more interesting.

President Obama was elected by the people. The average contribution to his campaign was about twenty bucks and came from hundreds of thousands of supporters who liked what he said and what he promised to do. Set aside his shortcomings for now. Obama's election was seen as a victory for democracy and the average and often forgotten citizen.

For about 100 years now, the strength of the individual's single vote has been protected by laws that regulated the amount of money that a large group, like a labor group or corporation, could contribute.

Why? Because the interests of particular groups often do not mesh with the interest of the majority of citizens. Labor groups have an agenda that benefits its members and may not be what is best for the country. Corporations have a charter that must benefit their shareholders and often this is not in tune with what is best for everyone. Of course, individual citizens who are members of a labor group or a corporation have their single vote, so they still have influence, but the influence of groups can surpass their collective influence through their ability to generate huge amounts of cash.

So for about 100 years the government has limited the amount of money that a corporation or group can donate to a candidate running for political office to represent the people. This made perfect sense, since the candidates are supposed to be representing "the people" and not the interest of a group. Right?

How it works now

On January 21, 2010 the Supreme Court decided that corporations have the same right to influence political elections as you and I. It's wide open for them now. OK, let me get specific.

Imagine that a drug company has new medicine for high blood pressure. They have tested it and think it works pretty good, but there have been some side effects and some people have died. Let's say that under the present laws regulating drug companies there is the possibility that people who take this medicine and get ill or die can bring law suits against the company for millions of dollars. The drug company knows that this will be a reality but they have already invested billions of dollars in developing this medicine and owe it to their shareholders to recoup a profit.

Imagine that certain senators have proposed a bill that would limit or dissolve the ability of an average citizen to sue a large drug company for negligence. Imagine that they are up for re-election. Imagine that other senators, or candidates seeking a senate seat, who will eventually vote on this bill are in need of campaign funds. The new ruling does not prohibit the drug company from spending millions -- even billions -- to influence these decisions which are clearly in the interest of the corporation and contrary to what is morally right for the American citizen.

The cable will be inundated with propaganda about these supportive candidates, competing with their billions of dollars against grass roots candidates with funds limited to the contributions of their fellow citizens. Money talks and billions of dollars shouts very loud.

Halliburton and the Carlyle Group will now be able to buy candidates to promote more wars and weapons production. Food producers will support candidates who lower standards and jeopardize our health. Hell, we might even see a resurgence of cigarettes -- this would benefit both the tobacco corporations AND the health industry.

Oh no! What can we do?

Are you ready? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. It has been said that "the supreme court is not final because it is supreme -- it is supreme because it is final." It is the end of the road as far as legislation goes. Even an Executive Order by the president cannot reverse this. It is like the doctor telling the patient he is terminal and inoperable. Democracy has ended for America.

But it's not just America that has been dealt a lethal dose of capitalism -- others will go down with us. Corporations are often multi-national. They will begin altering the trade laws like some viral DNA/RNA that exists only to perpetuate more of itself. Soon there will be no more America, or England, or China. There will be Halliburton-Carlyle Enterprises, The Global Pharmaceutical Corporation, Universal Oil & Coal... Corporations will run everything for their own profit and the citizens of the world will be significant only as consumers -- the necessary "eaters" to provide labor and to consume the products we are told that we need.

What's next?

In a recent article describing the Webot Predictions -- the computer program which has successfully diagnosed and foretold future events by analyzing the world wide web -- the report predicted a massive revolt of the world's citizens against any and every form of government. It described a global uprising that is slated to happen in 2010 where the citizens have had enough. This could be just the event that triggers this revolt.

Left and right united in opposition to controversial SCOTUS decision.

Much has been made of late about the hyper-partisan political environment in America. On Tuesday, Sen. Evan Bayh explained his surprising recent decision to leave the Senate by lamenting a "dysfunctional" political system riddled with "brain-dead partisanship." It seems you'd be hard-pressed to get Republicans and Democrats inside and outside of Washington to agree on anything these days, that if one party publicly stated its intention to add a "puppies are adorable" declaration to its platform, that the other party would immediately launch a series of anti-puppy advertisements. But it appears that one issue does unite Americans across the political spectrum.

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that the vast majority of Americans are vehemently opposed to a recent Supreme Court ruling that opens the door for corporations, labor unions, and other organizations to spend money directly from their general funds to influence campaigns.

As noted by the Post's Dan Eggen, the poll's findings show "remarkably strong agreement" across the board, with roughly 80% of Americans saying that they're against the Court's 5-4 decision. Even more remarkable may be that opposition by Republicans, Democrats, and Independents were all near the same 80% opposition range. Specifically, 85% of Democrats, 81% of Independents, and 76% of Republicans opposed it. In short, "everyone hates" the ruling.

The poll's findings could enhance the possibility of getting a broad range of support behind a movement in Congress to pass legislation that would offset the Court's decision. Of those polled, 72% said they supported congressional action to reverse its effects. Sen. Charles Schumer, who's leading the reform effort in the Senate, told the Post that he hoped to get "strong and quick bi-partisan support" behind a bill that "passes constitutional muster but will still effectively limit the influence of special interests."

The findings of the poll are a bit surprising considering the fact that the case split the Supreme Court, with the five conservative justices in favor and the four more liberal justices against it. The decision was almost universally hailed by Republicans in Washington, who saw it as a victory for the free speech provided for under the Constitution, while President Obama and prominent Democrats in Washington almost universally derided it as a dark day for American democracy.

However, Sen. John McCain, one of the original sponsors of the campaign finance law struck down by Court's decision and one of its few prominent Republican opponents, may have been prophetic when he predicted Americans would turn against the Court. McCain told CBS's "Face the Nation" that there would be a "backlash" once awareness grew about "the amounts of union and corporate money that's going to go into political campaigns."

Perhaps the new poll numbers show that McCain might have been onto something.

Comments:

This is such an important issue and yet no one is talking about it! And before the decision was announded, no one was talking about it either -- or the impact that such a decision would have on our whole country. I just don't get it. It's like someone just killed our democratic system and gave the keys of the nation to the large corporations -- really, literally -- and "we the people" are just dumbed down and watching stories about Tiger Wood's sexual adventures.

Perhaps we deserve what has happened. We didn't defend our freedoms and they were taken away from us just as easy as stealing a rattle from a sleeping baby. It's sad... too sad for even words. And there is nothing that can change it now.

Michael H.

I think many people either do not know what the ruling really was about because I would expect that every citizen would be taking to the streets if they did. Have we really become so dim witted that we cannot see what has just happened? It's really frightening what the future will bring now.

Steve J.

Already the Republicans are embracing the big corporations. They have spoken out to allow the big bonus checks and have been making statements on how it is about time that corporations had their freedom of speech restored. The Republicans needed something to revive their party and restore their seats in Congress and this ruling was a gift to them. God save the republic!

F.G.

So as I understand what has happened it means that, starting right now, any corporation or group can use any amount of money to buy television time, print brochures, hire large PR firms, commercials and contribute any amount of money to any person running for office... and the corporations will use this power to motivate politicians to make laws that favor their profits over the consequences of the average citizen. Great. I'm so glad I am near retirement and have experienced a lifetime of freedom and justice. I fear for the young people, though, as their lives will be like surfs, subject to the will of the corporations who will want low wages, no benefits, shitty food and harder work.

D.B.

I can see it now... instead of regular food the workers will be fed pellets, like mice. We'll wear uniforms to show which company is maintaining us and when we are old and useless to them we will be exterminated. Soilent Green! What's to stop this now?

S.S

But the big corps will still need us to buy their shit. They need consumers, right? So we ought to be ok for that.

K.O.

Anonymous

Hello, My name is Michiel van de Plaats and I have just read your article. Devolpments that we have noticed are interesting and I have to add some things to this. Let's just say, until now, I have seen no supprises yet and can make a small prediction for the upcoming months. It's that time acceleration that is going on right now, goverments and some others are very aware of this factor and for a long time they have used this to their advantage; but recently I noticed a new time wave where things have accelerated again and sinces then I have seen them falling through the basket over and over again. I think now the revolution will change things. When this is to continue you can expect a full collapse of the system like it happened before. The revolution will be a communication thing and a final result of this. With collapse I mean every single piece of communication that humans use, this will result in chaos and finally a new basis for the way we interact. Like a full reset.

This world is not as it seems to be; we are on this world or better to say system and this system is in a system. Whether you call it the universe or whatever it stays the same and the beat has changed big time. We are more dependent on this than we possibly realize at this moment. People should stop thinking that the world is round or flat and accept that there is no shape to this world! This place I more different than what most people think.

As for the Haiti conspiracy, it is not true as it is being told. Just look at results from other stations and you will see a global trend running in the same pace as that time is accelerating. Yes there is more about a lot of these happenings but it is not what we think it is. The real conspiracy is that goverments and others are creating this story to coverup the fact that time is expanding very fast right now at this moment. This expanding can be used, you can do more and more and more in every single timeframe you use until a point that you simple cannot follow the changes anymore. This radiation or interference is keeping me from my sleep big time and I noticed thanks to the HAARP meter that this is running in sync.

This year will be a year of chaos and disaster and at the same time a new basis. Let's hope that people will start to wake up and pay attention to what the universe has to tell us this time. There is a message within all this chaos and interference and it is very logical.

With kind reguards,
Michiel van der Plaats
Netherlands

Yur country really fuckd up. Why you dont just get rid evrybody and start again. Yur goverment so broken now can not fix ever. Bye America.

V.K