Julian Assange: The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be “free” because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely [...]
If it could be argued/proved that the global economy is a de facto pyramid scheme, would it then be possible to take legal action against the economic system as a whole? http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1618076 http://www.grist.org/article/our-global-ponzi-economy/ http://www.iied.org/pubs/pdfs/17058IIED.pdf http://www.alternet.org/environment/130897/why_the_global_economy_is_a_ponzi_scheme_and_we_are_all_bernie_madoffs/