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Our Most Dangerous Foe
By Timothy Gatto
Created 05/14/2008 - 10:11pm

There is a reason that the world is the way that it is. There is force behind most governments and most economic upturns and downturns that is pervasive and insidious. What I am about to talk about, millions already know, and millions think they know. The point is that not many really know the scope and the power that these entities posses. The name in of this vile enemy to the human conditioning is responsible to no one. They take their orders from no one and their names are legion. They own the media in every facet and form; they own everything and want everything. The people that support these nefarious organizations are everyone. Most don’t suspect them, hell most support them. They have made life better for many Americans and some people overseas, but in their haste for profits, they are killing the Earth.

The name of this plague among man is the corporation, the unfettered multi-national corporations that decide what should be sacrificed, and who, where, and in what areas things should be sold and at what price. There was a time that corporations had government controls on them. They still do, but the size and the wealth of corporations makes the idea of fines and judgments’ against them almost like a form of tribute to nations that they do business with. Exxon-Mobil paid a paltry $125.000.000 fine for the oil spill in Alaska. The fines that have been levied on corporations have barely scratched the surface of their profits. The truth is that corporations are the life-blood of the campaign donations to politicians that run for office in this nation. Who bites the hand that feeds them?

The food crisis in the World today can be traced to corporate interference. Many self-sufficient countries were told to forgo their agricultural pursuits to “modernize” their industries. The result was that these countries relayed on the nations that were super-powers in agriculture. One of these countries was the United States. Why not import food from the profits of your industries they were told. Many countries did just that in the decade past. Now that the US and other food producing countries had a “captive” customer base, like Haiti, who was almost self-sufficient in rice at one time, the corporations did what corporations do. They saw a great way to reap more profit, so they raised their prices on grain and fertilizer, sometimes by over 300%. Now countries like Haiti could not even afford to pay for three meals a day, owing to their new found economy that was supposed to “modernize” them. The result is food shortages world-wide.

Monsanto has found a good way to bring back customers. They have bio-engineered a form of corn that will germinate once. The corn grown from that seed is inert. People can’t re-plant their corn from their last years crop. Quite a trick! Customers must return again and again to buy this seed in order to eat. The trouble with this corn is that it’s inbreeding with regular corn. Soon we’ll all be at Monsanto’s door asking for our cup of grain.

This isn’t only happening in agriculture, it’s happening everywhere. Corporations are practically running governments and educating our children. They are fighting our wars and lobbying for more. They are pervasive, they are everywhere and they are controlling everything. Corporations are not inherently evil. They are however what they are. The first responsibility of a corporation is to it’s shareholders and to their bottom-line. That is how they were set-up and that is how they operate. They have no agenda save to sell their product. That however is something that has got to be regulated to some degree by people that are responsible to the general population of the Earth!

Corporations must take into account what they do as far as what they are doing to the Earth as a whole and to entire populations of people. They cannot wantonly use the Earth’s resources without some kind of stewardship either imposed on them or supervised over them. They can’t pay slave wages for manufactured goods and sell them for hundreds of dollars in rich nations. The entire essence of a corporation needs to be redefined and regulated. Who can do this? The United States in Tandem with the countries of the United Nations. Will they? Of course not, not as long as the corporate state subsidizes these politicians we call our leaders.

The world is not turning a blind eye to this problem. The IMF and the WTO are some of the main players that support this corporate world. People are demonstrating and the truth is coming out. People must see the problem before they act. There is a movie that g=has just come out that while it could have been better, it addresses the core concerns. You can see it for free at: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12998.htm [1] Watch it, maybe twice. Show it to your friends. I don’t have the answers but for every problem there are solutions.

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