Response to the tropical cyclone Nargis, which hit Myanmar on 3 May 2008 has been hijacked by vested interests on all sides, leaving millions of Asia's poorest people without any effective aid.
Because policies are pulled and hauled in different directions by special interests- in this case Big Pharma, insurance companies, the American Medical Associatiion, and so on- the result is an automobile with five wheels, an electric motor but no batteries, and a catalytic converter that doesn't work.
The current political situation in Thailand is allowing a re-entrenchment of various institutions to maintain vested interests, a re-writing of the constitution and a re-structuring parliament to pre-empt the possibility of a return to power of the type of administrations that were freely elected since the turn of this century.
And, with regard to nuclear weapons the vested interests are the nuclear weapons manufacturers- a handful of companies collectively earning over $100 billion per year from the business and lobbying powerfully to maintain the nuclear arms race.
Such admissions- even from official US state media operations- help expose the current disinformation campaign targeting Beijing for supposed“repression,” and means that Western special interests- including the US government itself- are at the very least undermining China's legitimate counter-terrorism efforts.
Given their relative size and simplicity, as well as the general lack of vested interests, student governments can also be redesigned from the ground up, allowing for imagination, creativity, and tinkering on a level not possible elsewhere.
It is because of the reality that the inequality between those with vested interests and others cannot easily be solved, and that there is no end to people who want to get rich even if it means breaking the law.
CCHR has worked for more than forty years for full informed consent in the field of mental health, and the right to all the information regarding psychiatric diagnoses and treatment, not just the information coming from those with a vested interest in keeping the public in the dark.
This fight against the vested interests that make billions of dollars by keeping us hooked on petroleum, by encouraging a superficial culture of consumption and waste, is a fight that will require tremendous moral courage at every turn.
However, despite attempts by the Western media and the special interests they represent to appear indifferent or even opposed to Catalan independence, policy papers from Western corporate-financier sponsored think tanks indicate an eagerness- particularly by NATO- to integrate what they expect to be a robust military capability into their global wars of aggression.
With Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms joining the so-called war on“fake news,” those who seek to maintain the rise of the alternative media and a balance of power across information space must identify the special interests driving this agenda, as well as various means to undermine and overcome it.
既得権益は変化を遅らせてしまう。
Affronted interests delay change.
既得権益や権力を持っている人たちは、。
Those with old power and vested interests.
これらの既得権益集団はアメリカ大統領より強力なのだ。
These interest groups are more powerful than the President of the US.
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