GreenEarthAl
28th January 2003, 14:50
The Political Food Chain
by Bulljivus
January 27, 2002
http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Bullj...FoodChain.shtml (http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Bulljivus/ThePoliticalFoodChain.shtml)
As globalization continues to take effect on the world, one thing is becoming increasingly more apparent; the most powerful countries have absolute control over all of the others, and there is nothing anyone can do or say to change this. This has been demonstrated by the United States much more frequently and enthusiastically than other nations, but the rest of the world is starting to get the hang of it; As you are reading this, there is a process blossoming in power hungry countries all over the earth; sometimes it is called ‘liberation’, sometimes ‘reform’, and sometimes a war mongering Texan in the oil business will be obscene enough to call it ‘justice’. It is the giant iron fist, punching up the little people. And the wielder has always gotten away with it.
In an eastern country called Tibet, you can be arrested for liking practically anything about yourself. You will quite possibly undergo torture for speaking your own language, possessing your own flag, practicing your own religion, disagreeing with anything at all, or just wishing you had some rights. Women are sometimes sterilized, monks are beaten and shot, children are brainwashed, leaders are forced into exile, cultural deserters are rewarded with money and land, nuclear waste is dumped in mountains, entire rivers are stolen and diverted to china to make up for the irresponsible overuse of water in industry, and life is stressful all around. This is China’s ‘liberation’, officially begun in the 40’s, an effort to help correct the ‘backward’ nation of Tibet. In other words… Tibet had sealed off its borders to all other countries for centuries, in order to prevent the material avocation of the rest of the world from spreading into its culture. It further developed spiritually, and completely disarmed itself in order to live in nonviolence and unity. Eventually, China decided that the baby had had the candy long enough, and moved in with the iron fist strapped on tightly, ready to punch the dharma out of them.
The Chinese military illegally invaded Tibet in 1949, illegally committed genocide over 1 million of its people, and has since illegally occupied it in an illegal fashion; Chinese troops simply flooded the country one day, demanded control, and massacred people to prove that they were serious. And when the Chinese had taken the land over, they needed the Tibetans to fade away for changes to go smoothly. This meant a war on Tibetan culture and identity. Monasteries were destroyed, monks were arrested for no reason, the Tibetan language was replaced with Chinese, children were taught in school to reject Buddhism, propaganda made Tibetans seem to be dirty and backward paupers, and the police cracked down on any form of cultural expression whatsoever. If you ask a Chinese government official about this, they might state that what is happening in Tibet is a harmless culture change, or integration. Much of this is still taking place today, and of course, not many people other than the Tibetans care. ‘Why should we’, they cry out.
This is not an isolated incident. A similar story can be told about a Western country called America, where a race of people known as Indians were one day greeted by an army of white skinned Anglos who had no place else to go. What followed was a genocide, which was, unfortunately, successful. Meetings of peace turned out to be ambushes after the Indians arrived unarmed to greet the settlers. The buffalo were irresponsibly shot for sport until the Indians could not live off of them anymore. Villages were sometimes invaded and entirely wiped out. The Indians were crushed until the number of survivors was a manageable number, then the cultural destruction began. Native American children were forced to learn English and abandon their own language. Literature commonly projected Indians as drunks, savages, stiff robots, or war lusting primates, and soon after, television would do the same. Those who had survived the initial wave of violence were now immersed in a country where they were inferior, unwanted, feared, and even hated, but above all, frustrated, and incredibly, incredibly alienated. This is the result of ‘culture change’, a trick used to beat cornered prey into submission. Soon Tibetans will feel the same alienation when China has completed fazing them out.
Of course, there are other ways of exploiting weaker people. The third world is the arena for viewing the true globalization of the earth, where people become valueless commodities. The IMF visits impoverished countries with promises of development and work, only to install American businesses to be operated by American businessmen, where the only work available to the inhabitants is practically slave labor that pays pennies a day. Eventually, the pre-industrialized American businesses end up sucking all of the money away from undeveloped local ones, leaving the region even poorer than it was before. The Caribbean is a shining example- tourists visit for the beauty and sights of the region, but none of their money ends up there. It all goes back up to the pockets of already rich American businessmen. After the American super-businesses have taken over, the inhabitants of wherever have no real choice but to work for them; they no longer have any chance of establishing their own trade. Africa is another example of the handiwork of corporations, where diamond and coca industries buy low and pay little for labor, then sell exponentially higher back at home, taking advantage of the inhabitants of the region who have no other options.
There is even a warfare form of exploitation. Perhaps the most relevant group of exploitees today can be found in the Middle East, where the United States installs soldiers instead of slaves. You may have heard of some of them in the news; they recently retaliated against the US and killed over 3,000 innocent people. They were supposed to be disposable guards, trained to keep Russians away from America’s dark gooey lifeblood. When it comes to oil, America is the world’s dealer, nursing countries on the stuff in order to hold a form of blackmail over them in case they get out of line. Training poor local extremists and transforming them into a brutal and adequately-armed coup is something necessary when you want to keep that kind of hold on people.
It is expected that these militants may turn to hate us after learning that they had been used, but something happened that the government didn’t (or maybe did) expect; the coup actually acted on that hate. It took the lives of thousands of innocent people for the world to see the results of what happens when you give a gang teeth, then kick it. But America did not learn from it. Although we have declared a ‘war on terrorism’, the cycle of installing, exploiting, and deserting will continue as strongly as it did before, and the consequential violence will follow. In fact the war on terror is just a sloppy and fairly obvious attempt to further the United State’s oil supply, which is ironically the reason why much of this terrorism was born in the first place. It is a war furthering terror, once again for the purposes of exploitation.
American citizens are quite possibly the most unique and interesting group of exploitees in the world. We are directed immeasurably by television alone, through a network of advertisements and consumer related concepts that tell our minds that ‘this is what life is’. We are exposed to our own kind of propaganda, where the goal is not to break our spirits or make us kill, but to make us live for buying things that no one needs. There is not a moment in our everyday lives where a corporate advertisement isn’t staring us down from somewhere (if you’re reading this on the internet, chances are half a dozen advertisements have sprung up on your way to get here), and whether we believe it or not, it affects us. The mind is swamped with pictures of nothing but elaborate products, and although we feel immune because we don’t always run out and buy them, we become structured to the point of living in a bubble of corporate babble, which we cannot see past. We are blindfolded to the beauty of the world, and a false description of it is whispered into our ears, along with a car advertisement or two.
We are trained to drive oil burning automobiles to resource devouring jobs to come home to watch electricity infused television and eat foods that cut down rainforest to be grown. We are told to be on the lookout for suspicious activity, because an attack from the communists/terrorists/insert form of evildoers/ could come at any time. And sometimes, we’re told that we need to go to war in a country full of oil fields to wipe out the problem, by people who just happen to be oil company executives or friends of war manufacturers. And it adds up; In order to continue to stay rich off of us and sell us the products we’ve been accustomed to want and make us swallow the resources we’ve been programmed to need, corporations and governments need to gather from the rest of the world, which leads to the aforementioned exploitation again. And again. And again a lot more times.
We are not hopeless yet. Although we have been forced to become the battery pack that fuels the greedy, it is this exact position that gives us our strength. They cannot function without us. We have the power to cut them off anytime that we want. All that we need is unity. It seems difficult to believe that change will come, and many of us accept the fate of working every day and dying without having any form of a life at all, but that is the sole reason why it is difficult for change to come. Greed overwhelms because greed is united; love united can also overwhelm. If we all realize the truth and act on it, regardless of what we have at stake to lose, we will have control. The only other alternative is to continue playing the game of The empire eats the rabbit, until the rabbits are all gone and this world unbuckles itself from it’s SUV that gets 10mpg and starts eating the guy in the Honda next to it to survive. That is all there is to it. We have let greed rule the earth for far too long, and it is only going to get stronger with each passing day while the Earth’s capacity to handle it will dwindle and dwindle. How does it feel to have your hand on the plug?
http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Bullj...FoodChain.shtml (http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Bulljivus/ThePoliticalFoodChain.shtml)
by Bulljivus
January 27, 2002
http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Bullj...FoodChain.shtml (http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Bulljivus/ThePoliticalFoodChain.shtml)
As globalization continues to take effect on the world, one thing is becoming increasingly more apparent; the most powerful countries have absolute control over all of the others, and there is nothing anyone can do or say to change this. This has been demonstrated by the United States much more frequently and enthusiastically than other nations, but the rest of the world is starting to get the hang of it; As you are reading this, there is a process blossoming in power hungry countries all over the earth; sometimes it is called ‘liberation’, sometimes ‘reform’, and sometimes a war mongering Texan in the oil business will be obscene enough to call it ‘justice’. It is the giant iron fist, punching up the little people. And the wielder has always gotten away with it.
In an eastern country called Tibet, you can be arrested for liking practically anything about yourself. You will quite possibly undergo torture for speaking your own language, possessing your own flag, practicing your own religion, disagreeing with anything at all, or just wishing you had some rights. Women are sometimes sterilized, monks are beaten and shot, children are brainwashed, leaders are forced into exile, cultural deserters are rewarded with money and land, nuclear waste is dumped in mountains, entire rivers are stolen and diverted to china to make up for the irresponsible overuse of water in industry, and life is stressful all around. This is China’s ‘liberation’, officially begun in the 40’s, an effort to help correct the ‘backward’ nation of Tibet. In other words… Tibet had sealed off its borders to all other countries for centuries, in order to prevent the material avocation of the rest of the world from spreading into its culture. It further developed spiritually, and completely disarmed itself in order to live in nonviolence and unity. Eventually, China decided that the baby had had the candy long enough, and moved in with the iron fist strapped on tightly, ready to punch the dharma out of them.
The Chinese military illegally invaded Tibet in 1949, illegally committed genocide over 1 million of its people, and has since illegally occupied it in an illegal fashion; Chinese troops simply flooded the country one day, demanded control, and massacred people to prove that they were serious. And when the Chinese had taken the land over, they needed the Tibetans to fade away for changes to go smoothly. This meant a war on Tibetan culture and identity. Monasteries were destroyed, monks were arrested for no reason, the Tibetan language was replaced with Chinese, children were taught in school to reject Buddhism, propaganda made Tibetans seem to be dirty and backward paupers, and the police cracked down on any form of cultural expression whatsoever. If you ask a Chinese government official about this, they might state that what is happening in Tibet is a harmless culture change, or integration. Much of this is still taking place today, and of course, not many people other than the Tibetans care. ‘Why should we’, they cry out.
This is not an isolated incident. A similar story can be told about a Western country called America, where a race of people known as Indians were one day greeted by an army of white skinned Anglos who had no place else to go. What followed was a genocide, which was, unfortunately, successful. Meetings of peace turned out to be ambushes after the Indians arrived unarmed to greet the settlers. The buffalo were irresponsibly shot for sport until the Indians could not live off of them anymore. Villages were sometimes invaded and entirely wiped out. The Indians were crushed until the number of survivors was a manageable number, then the cultural destruction began. Native American children were forced to learn English and abandon their own language. Literature commonly projected Indians as drunks, savages, stiff robots, or war lusting primates, and soon after, television would do the same. Those who had survived the initial wave of violence were now immersed in a country where they were inferior, unwanted, feared, and even hated, but above all, frustrated, and incredibly, incredibly alienated. This is the result of ‘culture change’, a trick used to beat cornered prey into submission. Soon Tibetans will feel the same alienation when China has completed fazing them out.
Of course, there are other ways of exploiting weaker people. The third world is the arena for viewing the true globalization of the earth, where people become valueless commodities. The IMF visits impoverished countries with promises of development and work, only to install American businesses to be operated by American businessmen, where the only work available to the inhabitants is practically slave labor that pays pennies a day. Eventually, the pre-industrialized American businesses end up sucking all of the money away from undeveloped local ones, leaving the region even poorer than it was before. The Caribbean is a shining example- tourists visit for the beauty and sights of the region, but none of their money ends up there. It all goes back up to the pockets of already rich American businessmen. After the American super-businesses have taken over, the inhabitants of wherever have no real choice but to work for them; they no longer have any chance of establishing their own trade. Africa is another example of the handiwork of corporations, where diamond and coca industries buy low and pay little for labor, then sell exponentially higher back at home, taking advantage of the inhabitants of the region who have no other options.
There is even a warfare form of exploitation. Perhaps the most relevant group of exploitees today can be found in the Middle East, where the United States installs soldiers instead of slaves. You may have heard of some of them in the news; they recently retaliated against the US and killed over 3,000 innocent people. They were supposed to be disposable guards, trained to keep Russians away from America’s dark gooey lifeblood. When it comes to oil, America is the world’s dealer, nursing countries on the stuff in order to hold a form of blackmail over them in case they get out of line. Training poor local extremists and transforming them into a brutal and adequately-armed coup is something necessary when you want to keep that kind of hold on people.
It is expected that these militants may turn to hate us after learning that they had been used, but something happened that the government didn’t (or maybe did) expect; the coup actually acted on that hate. It took the lives of thousands of innocent people for the world to see the results of what happens when you give a gang teeth, then kick it. But America did not learn from it. Although we have declared a ‘war on terrorism’, the cycle of installing, exploiting, and deserting will continue as strongly as it did before, and the consequential violence will follow. In fact the war on terror is just a sloppy and fairly obvious attempt to further the United State’s oil supply, which is ironically the reason why much of this terrorism was born in the first place. It is a war furthering terror, once again for the purposes of exploitation.
American citizens are quite possibly the most unique and interesting group of exploitees in the world. We are directed immeasurably by television alone, through a network of advertisements and consumer related concepts that tell our minds that ‘this is what life is’. We are exposed to our own kind of propaganda, where the goal is not to break our spirits or make us kill, but to make us live for buying things that no one needs. There is not a moment in our everyday lives where a corporate advertisement isn’t staring us down from somewhere (if you’re reading this on the internet, chances are half a dozen advertisements have sprung up on your way to get here), and whether we believe it or not, it affects us. The mind is swamped with pictures of nothing but elaborate products, and although we feel immune because we don’t always run out and buy them, we become structured to the point of living in a bubble of corporate babble, which we cannot see past. We are blindfolded to the beauty of the world, and a false description of it is whispered into our ears, along with a car advertisement or two.
We are trained to drive oil burning automobiles to resource devouring jobs to come home to watch electricity infused television and eat foods that cut down rainforest to be grown. We are told to be on the lookout for suspicious activity, because an attack from the communists/terrorists/insert form of evildoers/ could come at any time. And sometimes, we’re told that we need to go to war in a country full of oil fields to wipe out the problem, by people who just happen to be oil company executives or friends of war manufacturers. And it adds up; In order to continue to stay rich off of us and sell us the products we’ve been accustomed to want and make us swallow the resources we’ve been programmed to need, corporations and governments need to gather from the rest of the world, which leads to the aforementioned exploitation again. And again. And again a lot more times.
We are not hopeless yet. Although we have been forced to become the battery pack that fuels the greedy, it is this exact position that gives us our strength. They cannot function without us. We have the power to cut them off anytime that we want. All that we need is unity. It seems difficult to believe that change will come, and many of us accept the fate of working every day and dying without having any form of a life at all, but that is the sole reason why it is difficult for change to come. Greed overwhelms because greed is united; love united can also overwhelm. If we all realize the truth and act on it, regardless of what we have at stake to lose, we will have control. The only other alternative is to continue playing the game of The empire eats the rabbit, until the rabbits are all gone and this world unbuckles itself from it’s SUV that gets 10mpg and starts eating the guy in the Honda next to it to survive. That is all there is to it. We have let greed rule the earth for far too long, and it is only going to get stronger with each passing day while the Earth’s capacity to handle it will dwindle and dwindle. How does it feel to have your hand on the plug?
http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Bullj...FoodChain.shtml (http://www.corporations-suck.com/CKs/Bulljivus/ThePoliticalFoodChain.shtml)