Power is Poison to my people
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I have been a Poison fan since I first heard "Talk Dirty To Me" in 1986. I stayed true with Native Tounge, when a lot of fans bailed. I bought the Greatest Hits, craving anything new. I loved Crack a Smile and  have listend to it every day since it came out, but Power to the People is  a huge let-down. PTTP is a decent track, and I hate every bone... is  interesting with CC on lead vocals. But the tracks are poorly produced and  the band is too hard. I listen to a lot of harder bands than Poison and  love them, but that's not Poison. I'm all about change, but this was not  the direction for Poison to take. The live cuts are also overkill. We heard  these songs on Swallow This Live, and again on Crack A Smile: Unplugged.  It's getting old. I'm still a fan and love the tunes. But unless you are a  die-hard fan of the band stick to the Crack A Smile and Flesh and Blood.
4505483
An unbelievable shattering story of complete abuse of power. This story needs to be made into movie stat to make everyone aware of the violation of rights this family encountered. The majority of the medical team in my opinion should be charged with murder.  Do we not learn lessons from this shocking experience. I cried many tears. Each chapter I thought would get better but it went for worst to worst. People do not listen. Omg.
1134795
My library app suggested the Power of Now audiobook, so I started listening to it before going to sleep.  I seriously have NO idea what the Power of Now is about because I fall asleep 5 mins into it, but over the last 5 nights it is clearly hypnotizing me into being more positive. If I try to run off to join a cult, stop me.

I could be being recruited as a terrorist right now, I have no idea. But, my horrible crabbiness has gone away and I like my family again and want to save my marriage.
2608248
The power plant supplies electricity for the town called Paradise.  Control over that resource draws the ones who thirst for power to control and exploit people. Will you find that Ben found the right solution?
796085
Trump has filled his administration with deplorables who are hell bent on destroying our democracy. By the time you read this book many of the main players will have been fired. But it is fascinating reading about the past history of these people whose faces became familiar to us before and after the election. I've only read half of the book so far because I have to stop and scream frequently. I'm praying for our democracy.
2322725
I have known for a long time that people working in government  were given money on the side for favors, but until I read this book I had know idea how corrupt nearly every person (who are suppose to be working for the people in their state) really are.  It is a sad day in our lives when our elected officials take money from companies and individuals to pass a bill in their favor rather than pass it because it is a good or bad bill.  After reading this book my suggestion is to take all members of congress and fire them.  Their offices should be on four year terms.
4754047
VERY INTENSE AND PROBABLY TOO ACCURATE.  THIS DISPICTION SADDENS ME.  THE CORRUPTION AND EVIL IN THIS CULTURE AND OTHERS IS FRIGHTENING.  I GET VERY ANGRY AT THESE BELIEFS AND THE PEOPLE WHO PERPETUATE THEM.
4818487
The tribal people do not understand democracy or our government but want freedom. Our dealings must be in their language and culture not ours.
Centuries of living in their terms will be very slow to change. We expect too much.
3614543
Imagine a race of people who depending on what elements their mother and father can control will have aspects of that magical ability passed on to them and it can be more than one or two elements. Well then the bad guys show up and want to rule over everyone as they destroy key elementals that could stop them. It's a good thing some have chosen to hide their powers so they aren't killed or considered a threat. More twists and turns than you can shake a stick at. Great reading.
4184106
This book, although it could use some editing and is occasionally a bit confusing, is really scary in how well it portrays the issues facing America today.

I firmly believe that we have exactly the kind of greedy, power hungry, bad guys running our country as the author described.

As horrible and destructive as it would be, I believe we NEED this kind of revolution!

HOW CAN WE MAKE IT HAPPEN?!?!?
712198
Should read "48 laws of control and manipulation"' not power. Empowerment is much different than control. This book is about how to use people to get what you want.
1452932
Powered individuals are starting to appear on the streets of the city and the police are outnumbered even when there's hundreds of police and only three of these powered individuals. You'd think that if powers suddenly started appearing in any city that certain number of them would decide to become super-heroes, rather than super-villains. In this case, you'd be wrong. Spectacularly, appallingly wrong.

Powered individuals invariably become misanthropic thugs, intend only on catering to their own increasingly twisted desires. There's one man, a police officer who barely survived one run-in with powers, who thinks he can buck the system. He believes he can get powers and still remain a good man.

Does it work? Well, let's just look at the title and think about that a little while in connection with the previous question.

Mike Carey is at the top of his game with this twisted, visceral and very good look at what the world would be like if powered individuals really did exist and almost all of them were as-- er, ah, jerks. And almost all of them were jerks.

You get the picture.

Now get the book.
3240108
This book mirrors much of the frustration normal, everyday people feel with the religious fascist dictating world politics today.

I imagine, hopefully not in my life time but soon, there will be a great conflict between the superstitious and the sane people.  I imagine that a brutal, crippling war will be started by the Agnostics/Atheists, of which I am one, during a time when the religious fascists are busy fighting amongst themselves.  It will be a decisive strike and will change the face of mankind but it will ultimately fail.

You see, you can't possibly stop all of the stupidity always. Stupidity is a powerful force and is not bound by lack of intellect or social upbringing but is in fact fostered by an oligarchy of powerful men using childish superstitions to control not-so-bright groups of willing sycophants.

Just so we don't get hung up on semantics, "ignorance" is not knowing something and there is no shame in that.  However, "stupidity" is knowing what is right and still doing the wrong thing.  This is often called faith.

All of this speak of control and religion reminds me of the 3rd passage of the Tao Te Ching:

"If you do not adulate the worthy, you will make others non-contentious.

If you do not value rare treasures, you will stop others from stealing.

If people do not see desirables, they will not be agitated.

Therefore, when the sage governs,

He clears peoples minds,

Fills their bellies,

Weakens their ambition and

Strengthens their bones.

If the people are kept without cleverness and desire

It will make the intellectuals not dare to meddle.

Acting without contrivance, there is no lack of manageability."

Pretty creepy since it basically says, in this translation, that a wise and powerful ruler will keep his people happy and well fed but ignorant.  You see, when people start thinking for themselves they start to wonder why they are doing all the work and the leader is getting rich.  They start to wonder why they are sending their children off to die in pointless, undecipherable wars when the "leaders" themselves are demonstrably cowards and are unwilling to send their own children off to die.

Luckily we have great minds like Ayn Rand who wrote so eloquently, "I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before! I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom."
1491656
WTF?! You burn through energy way too fast in this game! This forces you to restrict energy levels which pisses off the citizens and leads them to mutiny. I would've liked this game if it weren't it's broken energy system.
179273
Frightening and from my experiences around the place with eyes open and coincident serindipiy I'm 95 % certain this is going on . Hidden in military and Masonic structures . How did the world get so f..up ? Sadley the Illuminarti's view of the world is completely negative : Man is rotten and they like to prove it But they believe the solution is to put their Zombie Actors in positions of public leadership and influence so that us corrupt humans can never ere again .The final straw against them  was JFK , after this there lucks been down hill . Such a system is paranoid and regressive and shows there faithless distillation of material obessions reduced to some mathematical formula of numerology probably , really like ants trying to control the weather . With out faith nothing works and this must be the truth for these creatures faithless paranoiacs .
1887913
The worst example of lobbying influence on legislation resulting in harm to consumers that I have found.  Many sleepless nights with this mandated system in my home false alarming.  Many $$ spent on initial government-mandated installation and then many more on visits by electricians to replace faulty units that were screeching away at all hours of day and night.  To all the lobbyists and executives of First Alert -- may you be 'blessed' with many of these units in your own homes.
770265
This is a gruesome true story of mans inhumanity to mam. It reveals a side of the human species that surfaces far to often and results in muct suffering. It is a story of the lust for, acquisition of power by man or institution that is often destructive!