STEAL THIS RADIO #113
Interview with chiropractor extraordinaire Allan Sigignano, of Spring Street Chiropractic, about What is Chiropractic?, should children use chiropractors?, and the whole question of alternatives to the industrial model of medicine.
Spring Street Chiropractic is located in downtown Manhattan, just west of Bowery. Surrounded by Little Italy, Chinatown, and SOHO, it is convenient to the #6, N/R, B, D, Q and F subway trains. Office hours are by appointment only.
Address:
21 Spring Street (at Mott) · New York, NY 10012
Phone:
(212) 343-9218
Email:
vertebra@springstreetchiro.com
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Mitchel Cohen also rants on this show about the BP oil “spill” as class warfare in the Gulf.
BP’s Class Warfare in the Gulf
Many well-meaning people are calling for a boycott of British Petroleum, because of the catastrophic explosion of the “well” it owns in the Gulf of Mexico, and the absolutely terrible decisions that have been made to avoid “collapsing” that well and saving the Gulf. It is a mistake, however, to limit our protests to British Petroleum alone.
All offshore drilling uses similar processes. In fact, BP’s “petrol volcano” in the Gulf of Mexico uses THE most sophisticated, state of the art technology. Except, it turns out that Dick Cheney and Halliburton refused to implement specific safety measures or heed the many warnings and predictions concerning offshore drilling, to save a few bucks.
President Obama and the Democrats, like former President Bush and the Republicans, have been promoting offshore drilling (although Obama criticized that practice during his Presidential campaign). The reality is, executive action could have — and could still — order the miles-long hole deep into the bowels of the earth to be collapsed, by blowing it up using conventional charges.
But no U.S. president wants to signal the authority of government decision-making over the “rights” of capital (which were recently upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court). If you think that Wall Street has experienced some drops lately, just watch what happens to the market should the Executive Office take the bull by the horns, so to speak.
But that is the crux of the problem, isn’t it? The fact that BP or Shell are foreign-owned companies may help make swift (swift?) action by government palatable here — more than the U.S. government might be willing to do should an Exxon-Mobil or Conoco rig have exploded. But the reality is, they all use the same technologies and are shooting craps with our planet, with our lives.
What is happening in the Gulf — however predictable — may have been an “accident” in the narrow details — and even there, new specific details are emerging concerning
The explosion and ongoing catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is not solely the product of a particular corporation or anomaly. The same set of corporations and families that own and control the oil also own and control the coal and nuclear sectors; they provide the same rationalizations, make the same “bottom-line” decisions through the same processes, are driven by the same profit-seeking motivations, deflect criticism by means of the same phony arguments proselytized by the same PR conglomerates evincing the same phony assurances, use investments from the same set of banks and governments, are protected by the same legal framework, assumptions and institutions, and are empowered by the same set of mechanisms — payoffs to shareholders, who are complicit in the policies that “their” corporations employ in competition with others in the search for greater and greater profits, at any cost.
This is class war, not just a fight about the decisions of a particular corporation which is no better nor worse than any of the others of their class. Their class interests impel BP to continue to act as recklessly as it is doing, with allowance by the U.S. government, in the name of its investors.
Does the system that privileges corporate rights over Nature and over workers’ rights, have the right to continue to have its way with us? Well, let’s at least name that system: Capitalism.
In order to make a buck, their class interests have declared war on the earth, while Greenwashing their image. And the earth, in its own way, is fighting back.
The question is put to us again, this time with the fate of the planet hanging on our decisions: Which side are you on?
- Mitchel Cohen
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