We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, June 23, 2012

What Gina did next

Click here to access this edited extract from Gina Rinehart: The Untold Story of the Richest Woman in the World, a biography by Adele Ferguson, from The Age (Australia). 

Here is another example, this time from Australia, that illustrates how the top layer of the One Percents are subverting entire nations to serve their interests of power and profit. The methods are familiar. We have seen some of them used by ALEC and Israel.