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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

WHEN CORPORATIONS ATTACK

(A ROUGH RANT)


Now that we’ve all noticed how much we’re bleeding, you might want to take a look to see what is causing all the damage.


Let’s see, what’s been happening lately?





Afghanistan has become the longest running war ever waged by the United States. Oil is killing much of the life in and around the Gulf of Mexico. A good portion of America’s wealth has disappeared from what was once known as Wall Street.


Now what do all these wonderful events have in common?


In case you haven’t noticed, CORPORATIONS HAVE DECLARED WAR ON THE UNITED STATES.


BP is currently destroying the ecology and the economy of the Gulf Coast.


Every weapon manufacturer and two-bit service company in the world is bankrupting the US by scamming every buck we can print from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.


What was left of the US budget after the Iraq and Afghanistan scams was diverted to the international banks when they threatened to bring Europe and North America back into the Great Depression.


If a bunch of fundamentalist idiots flying airplanes did half the damage to the US as BP has already done, the United States would have attacked England without even passing a declaration of war.


It’s time to get with the concept, corporations are out to destroy everything which the United States has stood for all these years. Corporations are programmed to be killing machines and now they have turned against us. What controls the people of the United States once possessed have been discarded or ignored.


Wake up!!! We are under attack by an enemy who has already subverted a majority of the population. Most workers put their current paychecks before everything else.


And let’s not forget the thousands of American citizens who will die each and every year because the insurance corporations and bankers, and the politicians who work for them refused to allow any form of universal health care to become law in this land.


Start counting the bodies. How many thousands of civilians have given up their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan in what are entirely corporate wars? How many US military gunmen and mercenaries along with the “enemy” combatants in those two countries have died so companies like Halliburton can pay a higher dividend?


Corporations have also attacked our food supply, giving us frankenfoods which contribute to the bottom line of numerous corporations while also contributing to the corporate health care system currently in place. Corporate animal factories may soon become lethal beyond description. The health benefits of bio-diversity inherently conflict with the ideals of mass production and distribution.


Put them all together. What do all of these for-profit corporations have in common? Why do for-profit corporations exist? For-profit corporations exist only to make money. These corporations do not give a rat’s ass about human beings. They don’t support any form of government. For-profit corporations exist for only one purpose, to grind every possible penny out of whatever they control. Anything that gets in the way of corporate profit is to be either bought off or destroyed.


How did this happen? Multi-national corporations is one of the answers. Generations back, even if those who truly owned the corporations couldn’t be touched, the senior management could be somewhat swayed by public opinion. These human beings had to live in communities where pressure could be exerted to keep some minimal form of social control. But now corporate higher ups can be transferred from jurisdiction to jurisdiction at jet speed. And those corporate officers who need to stay in a single jurisdiction usually end up in gated communities surrounded by similar multi-national fugitives. They no longer have the need to interact with society in general. Laws and mores of individual countries mean nothing to these organizations. Quarterly returns are their gods and civilizations.


Maximizing shareholders’ returns doesn’t mean being a good citizen. It means what it says.



Anthropomorphizing isn’t just what Disney does to the animal kingdom. Anthropomorphizing is what the corporate media does every day as they try to portray what are basically computer programs, corporations, as having human emotions. Corporations don’t feel anything. Corporations aren’t a “they”. For-profit corporations are contracts designed to maximize profit. Corporations are greed on paper and in the legal system.


What has happened is the US has entirely lost regulatory control of the business community. It’s as if the Air Force were deciding what missions it wished to undertake. Anyone who believes that left unfettered the for-profit corporate community would not bring back slavery is a fool. Why wouldn’t it?


Enough for now.
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