More abject corporate stupidity.

This time it's a two-fer.

Interesting conclusions about new frankenfood labeling.

https://www.fooddive.com/news/gmo-labeling-not-likely-to-impact-purchase-decisions-study-says/616452/

For most people, this label would prompt them to ask questions like, 'Hey, what's this?' or 'What exactly does this mean?'.

For me, seeing this label would make me seriously think twice about buying it. But I acknowledge that I'm likely in the minority.

That being said, seeing the Non-GMO Project symbol on something, will definitely increase the odds of my buying something - that's for sure.

The Re-Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/01/12/the-re-assassination-of-martin-luther-king-jr/

The establishment will go on and on about how honorable and great Dr. King was for pushing for civil rights in the United States (as if seeking to be treated equally is something that requires honor).

But really, King was killed because he finally came around to realizing that no just cause cause can truly be pursued without the abolishing of class, and the end to militarism.  

The war in Vietnam is but a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit, and if we ignore this sobering reality we will find ourselves organizing clergy-and laymen-concerned committees for the next generation. … In 1957 a sensitive American official overseas said that it seemed to him that our nation was on the wrong side of a world revolution.  … I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.  We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society.  When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies.  On the one hand we are called to play the Good Samaritan on life’s roadside; but that will be only an initial act.  One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho Road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life’s highway.  True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial.  It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.  A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.  With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say:  “This is not just.”  It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of Latin America and say:  “This is not just.”  … A true revolution of values will lay hands on the world order and say of war: “This way of settling differences is not just.”  This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.  A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

America, the richest and most powerful nation in the world, can well lead the way in this revolution of values.  There is nothing, except a tragic death wish, to prevent us from reordering our priorities, so that the pursuit of peace will take precedence over the pursuit of war.  There is nothing to keep us from molding a recalcitrant status quo with bruised hands until we have fashioned it into a brotherhood.[1]

 

[1] Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Beyond Vietnam:  A Time to Break Silence is among the writings of Dr. King compiled by James Melvin Washington and published under the title A Testament of Hope:  The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. (San Francisco, Harper and Row, 1986).

What is driving this 'Great Resignation'?

Hmm what a surprise to absolutely no one who works in a corporation.

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/toxic-culture-is-driving-the-great-resignation/

Toxic corporate culture. A toxic corporate culture is by far the strongest predictor of industry-adjusted attrition and is 10 times more important than compensation in predicting turnover. Our analysis found that the leading elements contributing to toxic cultures include failure to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion; workers feeling disrespected; and unethical behavior. In an upcoming article, we will dive deeper into each of these factors and examine different ways managers and employees can spot signals of toxic culture.8 For now, the important point is that a toxic culture is the biggest factor pushing employees out the door during the Great Resignation.

There are other factors as well:

• Job insecurity and reorganization
• High levels of innovation
• Failure to recognize performance
• Poor response to COVID-19   

Ultimately I look at those others as really a function of the main one.

What? The US has an 'Anti-Democratic Role' around the world?

You don't say?

FAIR enough: https://fair.org/home/obits-for-a-south-korean-dictator-gloss-over-uss-anti-democratic-role/

I am sure the late Betty White would be amused by this.

A rather succinct summary of how the CIA has become the Deep State.

https://peoplesparty.org/the-cia-has-been-taking-over-for-decades/

Greenwald pointed out how nefarious things are getting. “The Biden administration, along with leading Democrats such as Adam Schiff, have been stating explicitly that one of their top priorities is the adoption of new laws designed to import the Bush/Cheney/Obama War on Terror onto U.S. soil for domestic purposes. As recently as February 14, The Washington Post published an article titled ‘The agency founded because of 9/11 is shifting to face the threat of domestic terrorism.’”

I know it might be easy to read that and think, “Good! They’re going to arrest those damn domestic terrorists.” But — and I can’t stress this enough — we need another “war on terror” about as much as we need a hole in the head, or a venereal disease, or another Sarah Palin. The War on Terror has been an utter disaster for any country on the ass end of it. So why would any American want our own citizens to be on the ass end of the next one?

There’s nothing like bringing overseas disasters back home. While we’re at it, let’s build some Fukushima-style nuclear plants on the coast of California.

Point being, violence is already illegal. Planning to harm people is already illegal. Hence, domestic terrorism is already illegal. The Intelligence Community already has loads of power and money and weapons and people. They don’t need more. They already violate our rights and our privacy and our freedom on a regular basis. They don’t need to do it more.