What is the meaning of the term 'Amerika'?

[chaska]

[knowbody0]

1. back in the day

anarKy

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. "Amerika" is the German spelling of "America".

I'd have to know what context you're referring to.

[rot0r_head]

3. I've seen it used by both left and right

to show frustration with society's progress into what the person feels is unacceptable territory.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

6. To me it describes the direction that government has taken especially

in the areas of foreign policy.... which is shaped and molded by corporate influence through the use of them dastardly lobbyists.

It is morphing into a sort of "corporatocracy" and this work explains how this can be so to the nth degree.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1887208046/qid=1098899381/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-7394843-0963312?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
From Publishers Weekly
When Corporations Rule The World David C. Korten

>>This well-documented, apocalyptic tome describes the global spread of corporate power as a malignant cancer exercising a market tyranny that is gradually destroying lives, democratic institutions and the ecosystem for the benefit of greedy companies and investors. Korten (Getting to the 21st Century) points out his conservative roots and business credentials?and then proceeds to finger such classic conspiracy-theory scapegoats as the Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations as the planning agents of the new world economic order he decries. Korten, founder of the People-Centered Development Forum, prescribes a reordering of developmental priorities to restore local control and benefits. Suggested reforms include shifting tax policies to punish greed and reward social responsibility, placing a 100% reserve requirement on demand deposits at banks and closing the World Bank, which he claims encourages indebtedness in nations that can't afford it.<<


Other books that fall upon this line of thinking are listed at Amazon as well....

* Alternatives to Economic Globalization by John Cavanagh, et al (Rate it)
* The Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Toward the Local by Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith (Rate it)
* Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights by Thom Hartmann (Rate it)
* The Corporation : The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan (Rate it)
* Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz (Rate it)

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. From the 60s

Fascist govt = Nazis = german spelling. Ref to fascists and war mongers in Washington, i.e. Nixon.

[drdtroit]

5. Ask your local Obergruppenfuhrer. n/t

[Lavender Brown]

7. There was a movie "Amerika" in the 80s

about America becoming a communist country. :shrug:

[chaska]

8. Well, this is all very clear...

as mud. :^)

[knowbody0]

9. we used to leave out the C in everything

it's fun.Kan u kare?
muddy water is not klean

[aden_nak]

10. Adolph Hilter named his personal train (and mobile HQ) "Amerika".