Forum Post: How America was Sold to the Corporations
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 16, 2011, 11:28 a.m. EST by CalifTom
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We now have plutocracy. We've squandered our inheritance bequeathed to us from the great men who built this country. We've been sold out to corporate greed by flag-draped disloyal politicians. Future historians will have a field day exploring how this was accomplished while the populace was distracted by the light weight issues of our time (abortion, gay marriage). Let's build a monument on the Washington, D.C. mall to savage capitalism, greed, and the Kool Aide drunk middle class citizen who proved incompetent in their duty to be an informed citizenry. Can the Tea Party folk get off the Kool-Aide and join this great awakening?
I am 100% in support of Gay Rights...however, it's like rearranging the chairs on the Titantic while we are being taken over by selfish interest.
We need a Mass Mobilization in the Capitol: One Million People at least. Then non-violence protests in wave after wave of protestors blocking entrances (our Senators and Reps aren't doing anything anyway and just go there to convince us that they should get paid). Plan for this ASAP but target date is up for discussion as it depends on Organization and other things like weather (so it might have to occur in Spring?). New Motto: Fight the Plutocracy! This is more accurate than the 1% and includes the Corporations, Media, and Elected Officials and others who wield the real power behind the Throne.
Block the Congress!! Hawt!!!
Yep.
Exactly. However, many more people will come to your side when you are proactive (for “new” Business & Government solutions), instead of reactive (against “old” Business & Government solutions), which is why what we most immediately need is a comprehensive “new” strategy that implements all our various socioeconomic demands at the same time, regardless of party, and although I'm all in favor of taking down today's ineffective and inefficient Top 10% Management System of Business & Government, there's only one way to do it – by fighting bankers as bankers ourselves; that is, using a Focused Direct Democracy organized according to our current Occupations & Generations. Consequently, I have posted a 1-page Summary of the Strategically Weighted Policies, Organizational Operating Structures, and Tactical Investment Procedures necessary to do this at:
http://getsatisfaction.com/americanselect/topics/on_strategic_legal_policy_organizational_operational_structures_tactical_investment_procedures
Join
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/StrategicInternationalSystems/
because we need 100,000 “support clicks” at AmericansElect.org to support a Presidential Candidate -- such as any given political opportunist you'd like to draft -- in support of the above bank-focused platform.
Most importantly, remember, as cited in the first link, that as Bank Owner-Voters in your 1 of 48 "new" Business Investment Groups (or "new" Congressional Committees) you become the "new" Congress replacing the "old" Congress according to your current Occupation & Generation, called a Focused Direct Democracy.
Therefore, any Candidate (or Leader) therein, regardless of party, is a straw man, a puppet; it's the STRATEGY – the sequence of steps – that the people organize themselves under, in Military Internet Formation of their Individual Purchasing & Group Investment Power, that's important. In this, sequence is key.
Why? Because there are Natural Social Laws – in mathematical sequence – that are just like Natural Physical Laws, such as the Law of Gravity. You must follow those Natural Social Laws or the result will be Injustice, War, etc.
The FIRST step in Natural Social Law is to CONTROL the Banks as Bank Owner-Voters. If you do not, you will inevitably be UNJUSTLY EXPLOITED by the Top 10% Management Group of Business & Government who have a Legitimate Profit Motive, just like you, to do so.
Consequently, you have no choice but to become Candidates (or Leaders) yourselves as Bank Owner-Voters according to your current Occupation & Generation.
So please JOIN the 2nd link so we can make our support clicks at AmericansElect.org when called for, at exactly the right time, by an e-mail from that group, in support of the above the bank-focused platform. If so, then you will see and feel how your goals can be accomplished within the above strategy as a “new” Candidate (or Leader) of your current Occupation & Generation.
Copy pasta
Guess what? Part of the reason why the rest of the world stays poor is because of corporations.
Example -> Corporate interests get CIA to install a dictator in Congo in 1961: http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/29/as_congo_marks_50th_anniversary_of
"Well, the story really begins, in the modern era, in 1885, when — or 1884 to '85, when all the major countries of Europe led — preceded by the United States, actually; we were the very first — recognized the Congo not as a Belgian colony, but as the private, personally owned colony of King Leopold II of Belgium, a very greedy, ambitious man who wanted a colony of his own. At that point, Belgium was not sure that it wanted a colony. Leopold ruled this place for 23 years, made an enormous fortune, estimated at over a billion in today's American dollars. Finally, in 1908, he was forced to give it up to become a Belgian colony, and then he died the following year. And the Belgians ran it for the next half-century, extracting an enormous amount of wealth, initially in ivory and rubber, then in diamonds, gold, copper, timber, palm oil, all sorts of other minerals. And as with almost all European colonies in Africa, this wealth flowed back to Europe. It benefited the Europeans much more than the Africans.
"And the hope that many people had when independence came all over Africa, for the most part, you know, within a few years on either side of 1960, people had the hope that at last African countries would begin to control their own destiny and that they would be the ones who would reap the profits from the mines and the plantations and so on. Lumumba put that hope into words. And for that reason, he was immediately considered a very dangerous figure by the United States and Belgium. The CIA issued this assassination order with White House approval. And as was said at the beginning, they couldn’t get close enough to him to actually poison him, but they got money under the table to Congolese politicians who did see that he was assassinated, with Belgian help. It was a Belgian pilot who flew the plane to where he was killed, a Belgian officer who commanded the firing squad.
"And then, the really disastrous thing that followed was this enthusiastic United States backing for the dictatorial regime of Mobutu, who seized total power a couple years later and ran a 32-year dictatorship, enriched himself by about $4 billion, and really ran his country into the ground, was greeted by every American president, with the sole exception of Jimmy Carter, who was in office during those 32 years. And he left the country a wreck, from which it has still not recovered."
TL;DR Belgium & US wanted their corporations to control Congo's natural resources so killed a democratically elected president who aimed to take control of their own resources
Note that this was in the middle of the cold war, when the US jumped at any mention of socialism
Example 2: CIA installed dictator in Iran for similar reasons Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
"The 1953 Iranian coup d'état (known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup[3]) was the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States under the name TPAJAX Project.[4] The coup saw the transition of Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi from a constitutional monarch to an authoritarian one who relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in February 1979.[5]
"In 1951, Iran's oil industry was nationalized with near-unanimous support of Iran's parliament in a bill introduced by Mossadegh who led the nationalist parliamentarian faction. Iran's oil had been controlled by the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC).[6] . . . Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the Abadan oil refinery, the world's largest, but Prime Minister Clement Attlee opted instead to tighten the economic boycott[9] while using Iranian agents to undermine Mosaddegh's government.[10] With a change to more conservative governments in both Britain and the United States, Churchill and the U.S. Eisenhower administration decided to overthrow Iran's government though the predecessor U.S. Truman administration had opposed a coup.[11]"
TL;DR Overthrew Iranian president because he tried to claim the country's resources for the country's benefit but the oil companies intervened.
TL;DR our lives are good because our (and other European) corporations siphon off the country's resources and its profits away from the people who live there.
People just don't know the extent of influence corporations have~
Also,
The CIA put Saddam Hussein into power http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1963_Iraqi_coup_d'%C3%A9tat#U.S._involvement
And guess who benefited from cheap oil in the Middle East? Not the Middle East.
These are just the declassified ones.
Great Post JustWantanAccount. Most Americans don't have a clue why Iran took hostages and why the most educated country in the middle east has to rely upon a popular fundamental uprising to get rid of American influence.
We need to get Iranian people in here and start talking to them! I don't think that they like their government, either - apparently Iran banned satellite TV.
Let's all go demonstrate on Washington at the White House! After all, they enabled Wall Street greed by deregulation, tax breaks for the wealthy and bailouts. Why isn't anyone criticizing the politicians! I notice people don't criticize Obama and I note that Obama is not criticizing the movement. I believe he's biding his time to see if people in the movement will figure out that 's he's to blame through deregulation, tax breaks for wealthy and bailouts. He's waiting to see which way the wind blows.
I feel it's closer to a corporatocracy. Push it farther it's a kleptocracy.
And I wouldn't call gay rights or abortion a light weight issue. Nor would I call things like marijuana legislation or immigration. They are more or less SOCIAL issues. This isn't so much about them.
Abortion is a light weight issue? Gay rights too?
When you compare them to global issues (like the global recession), yeah, pretty much.
I think they are a bot more than distractions.