In a nation where 'Ignorance is Strength' and 'War is Peace' and where 'Double-speak' can lead to 'Thought Crimes," it might be understandable that some might see this as possibly the Death of Dreaming. Yet, in this place where power has become, not the means, but an end in itself: We must now find ways to prevent love from becoming hate; so that this wounded planet can emerge from the nearly finished prison that we've built with inattention. Welcome to the New World Order!
This country is being run by creatures that have lied to us about every single thing they've done-yet-people still listen to them. How is that possible! Not only do these imposters LIE, they are stealing everything that's not nailed down, while they rob us blind. If the public were awake they would not accept anything this government says-about anything-ever again! In business or in life LIAR's must be ostracized, shunned, ignored at the very lest-preferably imprisoned. But in America-incorporated, people treat these liars, as if they deserved respect? In the real world 'respect' never comes with a title or an office, it must always be earned.
There are no weapons inspectors for the US, the UK or Israel yet the US has the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. Preaching Peace and waging War it was the US that opened the door for 'Terror' in the world today. It was our policies created the resistance that we call terrorists. If we want peace then we should change these polices-yet all we get is "Stay-the-Course!"
Writers of late just can't figure out why so many people simply don't want to know; will not listen; nor will they choose to see, what's happening everywhere that America-incorporated has chosen to intervene around the world. There is a video that has potentially many of the answers to this mystery and one that casts real light on the how and why of what got us into this mess in the first place. (1)
Here is a rough transcription of what Arundhati Roy says in part, in her video of "WE." "George Bush has said the US is the most peaceful nation on earth. Yet the US has been at war every year for fifty years. Wars are fought for hegemony, for business, and of course there is the business of war. All of this has been about oil, because whoever controls oil controls the world's markets. The 'Hidden-Hand' of the world's markets cannot work without the 'Hidden-Fist.' The Hidden-Fist that keeps the world safe forSilicon Valley's technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corp. This is the definition of the New World Order.
After September 11, 01 both the Hidden-hand and the Hidden-Fist have had their cover blown; McDonald's cannot flourish without MacDonaldDouglas. Now we can see the other weapons of the 'Free Market' bearing down on the Developing World with that clenched unsmiling smile that never ends. America's perfect war has the perfect vehicle for this task that never ends, which is the perfect expansion for imperialism. In the last ten years of unbridled corporate globalization, the world's total income has expanded by an average of two and a half percent a year; and yet the number of poor in the world has increased by one hundred million. Of the top biggest economies-51 are corporations now-not countries. The top one percent of the world has the same income as the bottom 57 percent, and that disparity is growing.
Now under the spreading canopy of the War-Against-Terror this process is being hustled along. The men-in-suits are in an unseemly hurry while bombs rain down on us and cruise missiles skid across the skies, while nuclear weapons are stockpiled 'to make the world a safer place.' Contracts are being signed, patents are being registered, oil pipelines are being laid, natural resources are being plundered, water is being privatized and democracies are being undermined. In India the structural end of the corporate globalization project is ripping through people's lives: development, massive privatizations and labor reforms are pushing people off their land and out of their jobs-resulting in a kind of barbaric dispossession that has few parallels in history.
Across the world as the Free-Market brazenly protects Western markets, and forces Developing Countries to lift their trade barriers: the poor get poorer and the rich-richer! Civil unrest has begun to erupt in the global village. In countries like Argentina and Brazil,Mexico, Bolivia and India the resistance movements against corporate globalization are growing. To contain this, governments are tightening their controls. Protestors are being labeled 'terrorists'- then being dealt with as such. But civil unrest does not only mean marches and demonstrations and protests against globalization-unfortunately it also means a desperate downward spiral into crime and chaos and all kinds of despair and disillusionment-which as we know from history, and from what we see unspooling before our eyes, has become a breeding ground for terrible things: Cultural nationalism, religious bigotry, fascism, and of course, terrorism. All of these march arm-in-arm with corporate globalization. There is a notion, gaining credence, that the Free-markets break down national barriers; and that Corporate Globalization's ultimate destination is a Hippie paradise where the heart is the only passport, and we will all live happily together inside a John Lennon song: "Imagine there's no country!"
What the Free-market undermines is not national sovereignty-but democracy! As the disparity between rich and poor grows, the Hidden-Fist has its work cut out for it-multinational corporations on the prowl for sweetheart deals that yield enormous profits: but they cannot push through these deals and administer these projects, in developing countries, without the active contrivance of state machinery in the police, the courts, and sometimes even the army. Today corporate globalization means the international confederation of loyal, corrupt, preferably authoritarian governments in poorer countries-to push through unpopular reforms. It needs a press that pretends to be free it needs courts that pretend to dispense justice. It needs nuclear bombs, standing armies, total integration laws and watchful coastal patrols to make sure that it is only money, goods, patents, and services that are being globalized: not the freedom of the people, not a respect for human-rights, not international treaties or racial-discrimination or chemical or nuclear weapons, or green-house gas emissions, or climate change-or god forbid-justice! It's as though even a gesture toward international accountability would wreck the whole enterprise. Meanwhile down at the mall there's a mid-season SALE. Everything's discounted: Oceans, rivers, oil ~ flowers, childhoods, aluminum factories, phone companies, wisdom, wilderness, civil rights, equal systems, air-all 4,600 years of evolution-it's packed, sealed, tagged, and valued; and available 'Off-the-shelf" NO RETURNS! As for Justice, I'm told that it's on offer too-you get The Best-that-Money-can-Buy!
Because as Donald Rumsfeld has said: 'Americans must be allowed to continue their way of life.' ~ The American way-of-life is simply not sustainable, because it does not acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
Fortunately 'power' has a shelf life. When the time comes maybe this mighty enterprise will, like others before it, over-reach itself and implode from within. It looks as though structural cracks have already appeared. As the War-Against-Terror casts its net wider and wider, America's corporate heart is hemorrhaging.
For all the endless empty chatter about 'democracy' today the world is run by three of the most secretive institutions in the world: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and The World Trade Organization (WTO) all three of which are dominated by the US. Their decisions are made in secret. The people who head them are appointed behind closed doors. Nobody really knows anything about their politics, their beliefs, or their intentions. Nobody elected them. Nobody said they could make decisions on our behalf. A world run by a handful of greedy bankers and CEO's who nobody elected, cannot possibly last." End of Quote
History has a way of dealing with absolutes of any kind, especially despotic governments in service to criminal enterprises that masquerade as nations. (2) True: History has never had to deal with nuclear weapons or WMD's on the scale that these exist today. However the planet has experienced worse and the planet will survive: the human race on the other hand may not! Ordinary people designed these constructs that tower over us today, and because these are human projects they are filled with those things that will in-the-end bring them all down. Strip away all the flags and macho strutting, and all that's left is just another set of barbarians out to steal that which is not theirs. And, as they are criminals, they cannot ever trust each other, much less the actual plans they've laid so far: which is why the RUSH is on, to get to the next step and open new wars to cover for the horrors of the wars already lost. If these people have their way, this world will look more like "Lord of the Flies" or "1984" than anything that these would-be thieves could ever manufacture.
At the moment the cabal is caught mid-stride: neither connected to Iraq and Afghanistan, nor yet committed to Iran and Syria: NOW is when the public must begin to scream our discontent-because this may be the last time to let the world know just exactly how much we hate this whole idea of pillage and plunder and rape and murder just to keep our "American way of life" in a starving and dying world that was never ours to destroy!
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1) Arundhati Roy - WE http://www.ichblog.eu:80/index.php?option=com_
2) The Act of 1871 |
