Being Owned in an Ownership Society

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Thursday August 30, 2007 · 6:49 AM PDT

2007/08/30 · 06:49

Are you tired of being owned? It's not hard to find areas of our lives where our autonomy has been seized, insulted, dismissed, and ground into the dirt.

Your locked - wiretapped? - mobile.
Your locked-down, DRM'd media.
Your local broadband monopoly.
Your student loans
Your personal privacy - collected, collated, tabulated and sold in bulk.
Your food safety.
Your rationed health care, where a major illness or injury can bankrupt you with scary speed.
Your security theater
Your pharmaceutical prices.

All of this leaves any sane person feeling like a domesticated farm animal, milked for cash value at every turn, then discarded when productivity ceases.

DeafScribe

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Tuesday August 28, 2007 · 12:46 PM PDT

2007/08/28 · 12:46

First off, a thank you to chapter1 - it was his essay on delurking that motivated this post.

I've been writing as a sideline to my day jobs since 1985, and I'm pleased to report that everything I've written for pay has sold - and I've sold quite a bit.

So it is no small measure of personal irony that I've written so little at Daily Kos. It's largely because I've been awed and humbled by the quality of the posts here. There are many of you who lack professional writing skills, but didn't let that stop you - you simply write from the heart, with powerful results.

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Thursday December 29, 2005 · 7:36 AM PST

2005/12/29 · 07:36

Want to work? Get permission from the government first.

That's the plan in a new House bill that passed a party-line (Republicans in favor, natch) House Judiciary Committee vote. It's up for a full floor vote in the House next.

If the bill passes Congress and becomes law, the "permission slip" provision for ALL American workers - not just immigrants - will kick in two years after the bill passes. Read More

Katrina Aftermath: What's in the Water?

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Monday September 12, 2005 · 12:55 PM PDT

2005/09/12 · 12:55

The Society of Environmental Journalists is highlighting yet another disturbing example of the Bush administration's habitual secrecy.

Despite the filing of an FOIA request a week ago, the EPA has thus far refused to release results gathered by "...12 field teams doing initial assessments of the environmental impacts including potential impacts from chemical facilities, oil refineries, and water treatment plants." Read More

The Planet They're Living On

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Thursday September 08, 2005 · 5:24 PM PDT

2005/09/08 · 17:24

How many times - especially this past week - have you thought, "What PLANET are these people living on?"

You know who I'm taking about - people in leadership positions who reject the "reality-based community", who seem determined to view the world through a bizarre prism of their own making, disconnected from any recognizable cause or effect.

And the base, the root for this viewpoint is....what? Is it "faith-based?" Is it an extreme need for security? How does an outlook that literally flies in the face of reality persist? Is it somehow adaptive?

Yes, it is. And here's why. Read More

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