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The Latest Chapter of the Global Corporate Takeover

Even if you subscribe to the “accidental” view of history (i.e. stuff just happens with some black swans along the way), you cannot deny the decades long push towards a carefully managed consolidation of global economic and political power. In Marshall’s latest article, he describes the evolution in plain sight of the G20 as power centralizes, as it always does, under the opportunity of crisis.

In May of 2010, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the IMF, stated that, “crisis is an opportunity,” and called for “a new global currency issued by a global central bank, with robust governance and institutional features,” and that the “global central bank could also serve as a lender of last resort.” However, he stated, “I fear we are still very far from that level of global collaboration.”[1] Well, perhaps not so far as it might seem.

       
The notion of global governance has taken an evolutionary path to the present day, with the principle global political and economic actors and institutions incrementally constructing the apparatus of a global government. In the modern world, global governance is an inter-lapping, intersecting, and intertwined web of international organizations, think tanks, multinational corporations, nations, NGOs, philanthropic foundations, military alliances, intelligence agencies, banks and interest groups. Globalization – a term which was popularized in the late 1980s to refer to the global spread of multinational corporations – has laid the principle ideological and institutional foundations for this process. Global social, economic and political integration do not occur at an equal pace; rather, economic integration and governance on a global level has and will continue to be ahead of the other sectors of human social interaction, in both the pace and degree of integration. In short, global economic governance will set the pace for social and political global governance to follow. (Read Full Article)

The Absolutely Devastating Food Safety Modernization Act

I'm deeply concerned and have been tracking the purposefully misnamed Food Safety and Modernization Act which is making its way through Congress and must be stopped. This is it all in one bill: Codex, NAIS, an end to organic food production, a mandate of GMOs and more police state measures of enforcement. This bill is the definition of treason.

Codex Alimentarius is a decades-in-progress global doctrine that places food, drugs and supplements under global regulatory control. These international bodies are bankrolled and controlled by the largest stakeholders of the corporations they claim to regulate, legitimizing monopolistic food and drug cartels that destroy competition and suppress alternatives.

Codex establishes a legal doctrine that replaces Common Law, which allows you to consume what is not explicitly prohibited, with Napoleonic Law, which prohibits consumption of what is not explicitly allowed. Codex severely restricts personal health-related choices, including less profitable supplements that prevent (not treat) ailments.

 The origins of GMOs and the cartel behind the majority of our food production is very, deep, dark well. You’ve probably seen Jeffrey Smith's work (Seeds of Deception and his latest Genetic Roulette). I also highly recommend reading William Engdalh's Seeds of Destruction, which goes beyond the science and into the geopolitics of GMO's and large agribusiness in general. Henry Kissinger's infamous quote sums it up best:

"To control the oil is to control nations; to control the food is to control the people."

The roads of GMOs lead you back to the Rockefeller Foundation, along a foreign policy based on NSSM200 (reduce population in countries with resources) and up to theft of native crops by patent by large multinationals in Asia, Iraq and Africa.

It is much uglier than "unintended consequences" like so many seem to think.

510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,  may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US.  It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.  It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.”  ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower

It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.

Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designedit and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes.  S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.

History

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry.  Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control.  Monsanto promoted HACCP.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president.  Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto.  Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsantoas a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.

S 510 fails on moral, social, economic, political, constitutional, and human survival grounds.

1.  It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency.  It resembles the Kissinger Plan.

2.  It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.  It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection.  Instead, S 510 says:

COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

3.  It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.

4.  It imposes Codex Alimentariuson the US, a global systemof control over food.It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements.  Its bizarre historyand its expected impactin limiting accessto adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic foodand health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.

5.  It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.

6.  It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease.  Biodiversityin farm animals is being wiped out to substitutegenetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents.  Animal diseases can be falsely declared.  S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.

7.  It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.

8.  It deconstructs what is left of the American economy. It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer.  The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

9.  It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe.  The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety— are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.

10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied.  It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review. It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Lawin the US. (Read Full Article)

Engdahl's Gods of Money Interview

In a 40 minute interview, William Engdahl discusses the end of the new American century and gives brief summary of the power structure that has enabled it for 70 years.

 

http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2010-01-21%20William%20Engdahl.mp3

It is critical to separate nationalist sentiments (i.e. So what is wrong with American century?)  from the actual corporatist goals that originated in 1939 War and Peace Studies, financed by the Rockefeller Foundation. The think tank made a calculation that the British Empire was over and to hedge their bets by backing both logical heirs: Germany and the US based on Mackinder’s Heartland strategy.

 

Learning from mistakes of the French and British Empires, the think tank knew not to make the mistake of calling the American Empire an empire. Instead, they united under a banner of “extending freedom, free enterprise and democracy” and set up financial policies of plunder defined by Wall Street during the Bretton Woods System: The World Bank, IMF and a global economy based on the USD. The goal as seen played out in Africa, Latin America though the 80’s, Asian Tiger Economies in the 90’s and former Soviet states after the Soviet Union devolved is to break the economies and make them dependent on the IMF.

Now that China is industrialized and beginning to have her own ideas, the system has run out of new blood to exploit so it is beginning to feed on itself as is playing out in the economic plunder of the remaining productive elements of Western economies. And so the snake begins to feed on its tail.

 

While many believe this is the logical end game for how the end of the Dollar system dovetails into a global currency and more centralized power by the IMF, Engdahl believes fractures in high-level power structures due to differing agendas of the BRIC countries make this less likely.

Dealing with Denial and Authoritarians

Washington’s Blog covered the idea of an authoritarian personality disorder at the heart of a widely-held denial that the interests of leaders often conflict with those they lead. Ironically, those who are often quick to criticize “the government” for being corrupt get defensive over specific cases of how deeply the corruption runs.

Yet, it seems so naïve to me that anyone would blindly accept that there aren’t figures within legitimate governmental bodies, with the personality type that would seek power to begin with, who have complex individual motives that overlap with others in the private and public sector to form factions that are at diametrically opposed to those they represent over the long term. Only in some far-away utopia would one not be required to keep diligent watch over shadowy governmental associations between power brokers and policy makers with overlapping interests.

Deniers, sometimes of the "conservative" talk radio variety, often exclaim that the “government” is incapable of conspiracies because they are “too stupid” or incompetent as if all members of government from chief executive to low-level bureaucrat, 16 spy agencies and every private contractor within sign a secret, nefarious agreement. Only "left-wing loons" would believe in such a thing. The reality is that while some leaders are in play, many in legitimate power, including at times the President, play their role as useful idiots, unaware of the bigger picture, ignorant of the economic and geopolitical chessboard and often sincerely believing they are carrying out a plan that is for the greater good. As the expression goes, the right hand seldom knows what the left hand is doing.

So when you speak in terms of “secret societies” you give the propagandists ammunition as a tin-foil’er and mow a path to Stalin’s asylums.

Instead, box the propagandist into a position that forces him to deny think tanks, policy institutes and loose associations with common interests of the world’s most influential industrial and financial stakeholders in spite of insurmountable historical context and documentable money trails.

Enron Style Environmental Shell Game

Through all of the controversy surrounding Climategate and climate change, one simple point that doesn't often get discussed, is the relationship between emissions and the inevitability of their decline due to peak extraction of fossil fuels.

Cutting emissions by half by 2040, or whatever the goal du jour may be, seems less a goal, than an inevitable predicament when you'll have have half the oil, natural gas and coal that you do today to burn. Yes, that is a gross over-simplification that doesn’t take into account infinite feedback loops, but the attempt to create a marketplace to trade paper and place an artificial value on a pollution right during an era of mass forced deindustrialization due to the natural laws of peak extraction, always seemed to me a greater con job that the great John Law could have ever conjured.

Many aspects of environmental collapse, are realities, but the Climate-ista agenda is not about the environment. It is about control, money and increased global government.

As for how the shell game actually works...

The UN and other agencies calling for a waron global warming say the price tag will be trillions.

But - according to top experts on climate and cap and trade - the regulatory framework being rammed through in America and internationally won't actually reduce carbon to any meaningful degree. See this, this, thisand this.

Now, the Independent notesthat the Copenhagen framework uses Enron-style accounting tricks to give the impression of cutting carbon, without really doing so: (Read Full Article)

Cap and Trade - Cui Bono?

The Real Role of Bailouts

Professor Chossudovsky describes the role of the mother-of-all-bailouts in the on-going global economic strip mining operation. In the latest chapter of economic shock doctrine played out many times in 3^rd world countries, government extorts funds from the public to deliver funds to private interests under the guise of “for the public good” and banner of "too big to fail", who in turn buy up assets on the cheap and then sell rights to use those assets back to the government and in turn the public.

In this playbook, government helps banks finance their own debt and uses public money to help a private oligarchy swallow up huge sections of the economy at fire sale prices.

Free Speech has no Place in Transnationalism

This is what free speech looks like under transnational totalitarianism. Clearly the well-spoken man with the bull horn and peacefully-assembling protesters are threats and must be put down.

What would our founding fathers think of the military policing and ear-piercing crowd dispersion tools such as LRAD? Contrary to what you think you know about your rights, you have the right to assemble in free speech zones if you have a permit, pay taxes, do as the G20 dictates and be quiet.

Stepping back to the Paris Peace Talks in 1919, what sunk Woodrow Wilson's grand designs for the League of Nations, a precursor to the UN with an analogy to the current G20 push, is the pesky Constitution which required 2/3rds Senate approval for any foreign treaty as spelled out in Article II, Section II.

I wonder how effective our Senate will be in checking the "new economic order" where participating nations agreed to support "counter-cyclical stimulus" (Read: continuing to try and sustain what is economically unsustainable at the behest of international oligarchs and financial cartels) and other measures that arise out of G20 meetings?

As we know, it is not the formal treaties that move the earth in these transnational forums, but the informal backroom agreements, born from think tanks and NGOs, that impose agendas of their sponsors without any oversight of the people’s representatives of each sovereign nation. There are no checks and balances between the G20 agreements and the unchecked powers of the major central banks and other transnational institutions that flank Congress, Parliament and other representative bodies alike.

The History and Pillars of Global Government

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” George Orwell

 

 

The 5-part article linked below is written to describe the evolution and future prospects for global governance. Some of you won’t like the neo-Marxist overtones, but the author ultimately describes the struggle between a free-thinking individual and the collectivity and control imposed by a global cartel.

The article takes a look back-forward from the establishment of the Bank of England, the Morgan-Rockefeller oil connection in the Bolshevik Revolution, financial bankrolling of both sides of European wars, growth of increased global institutions with WWI (Council of Foreign Relations, Bank of International Settlements) and WWII (IMF, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) and recent "global reform" efforts in the face of the on-going financial collapse.

The recipe for global governance looks something like this:

· States acting not in the best interest of the state but in the interests of the powerful interests that control the state.

· The establishment of “self-regulating” network of central banks and international financial organizations.

· Institutionalized cooperation between monopolies and government under the guise of “free markets”.

· Economic shock doctrines to dominate the 3rd world with debt bondage.

· Creation of national interdependence and the formation of regional superstates in North America, Europe, Asia and the Global South.  The European Union was originally based on free trade agreements similar to NAFTA, a precuror to similar designs for a North American Union.

· Formation of a Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC) that “controls the levers of an emergent transnational state apparatus and of global decision making.” This class has no borders, and is composed of the technocratic, media, corporate, banking, social and political elite of the world.

· Creation of transnational classes. Marx called for the workers to unite but rang hollow until Mussolini fused nationalism with socialist tendencies to unite the class. In the current plight, the middle class gets destroyed because there is no counterpart in most of the world. More importantly the middle class could replace the proletariat as the revolutionary class, due to the super gap from the super rich and threat of civil unrest from the underclass.

· Financial and environmental crises perceived to be beyond the capabilities of the nation state result in transnational governmental bodies and reforms which serve to consolidate power.

o   “well established democracies,” such as those in Western Europe and North America, will, through successive crises (climate, finance, war), erode and replace their democratic systems of government with totalitarian structures that are able to “take the bold actions necessary” to deal with “transnational challenges”.

· Expanding domestic security forces, surveillance capabilities, and the employment of special operations-type forces ostensibly to counter terrorism erode individual liberties, while at the same time a borderless world leaves no refuge from global totalitarianism.

· Destruction of national state sovereignty in transition to a system of private power of transnational elites.

· State outsourcing of intelligence gathering, war, prisons and information brokerage.

· Global wars as a solution to economic crises and depopulation.

· Erosion of organic civic society as a barrier to power consolidation.

 

Part 1: Global Power and Global Government: Evolution and Revolution of the Central Banking System
Part 2: Origins of the American Empire: Revolution, World Wars and World Order
Part 3: Controlling the Global Economy: Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve
Part 4: Forging a “New World Order” Under a One World Government

   Part 5: Global War and Dying Democracy: The Revolution of the Elites

 

Ron Paul on IMF Bailouts

Here's the latest from Ron Paul on the war supplemental appropriations bill and IMF bailouts which punishes those it pretends to help through cut throat Keynesian policies.

John Maynard Keynes famously said, "in the long run we're all dead."

Perhaps he didn't realize how quickly his economic legacy would help that cause.   

Last week Congress passed the war supplemental appropriations bill. In an affront to all those who thought they voted for a peace candidate, the current president will be sending another $106 billion we don't have to continue the bloodshed in Afghanistan and Iraq, without a hint of a plan to bring our troops home.

Many of my colleagues who voted with me as I opposed every war supplemental request under the previous administration seem to have changed their tune. I maintain that a vote to fund the war is a vote in favor of the war. Congress exercises its constitutional prerogatives through the power of the purse, and as long as Congress continues to enable these dangerous interventions abroad, there is no end in sight, that is until we face total economic collapse.

From their spending habits, an economic collapse seems to be the goal of Congress and this administration. Washington spends with impunity domestically, bailing out and nationalizing everything they can get their hands on, and the foreign aid and IMF funding in this bill can rightly be called an international bailout!

As Americans struggle through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, this emergency supplemental appropriations bill sends $660 million to Gaza, $555 million to Israel, $310 million to Egypt, $300 million to Jordan, and $420 million to Mexico. Some $889 million will be sent to the United Nations for so-called "peacekeeping" missions. Almost one billion dollars will be sent overseas to address the global financial crisis outside our borders. Nearly $8 billion will be spent to address a "potential pandemic flu" which could result in mandatory vaccinations for no discernable reason other than to enrich the pharmaceutical companies that make the vaccine.

Perhaps most outrageous is the $108 billion loan guarantee to the International Monetary Fund. These new loan guarantees will allow that destructive organization to continue spending taxpayer money to prop up corrupt leaders and promote harmful economic policies overseas.

Not only does sending American taxpayer money to the IMF hurt citizens here, evidence shows that it even hurts those it pretends to help. Along with IMF loans comes IMF required policy changes, called Structural Adjustment Programs, which amount to forced Keynesianism. This is the very fantasy-infused economic model that has brought our own country to its knees, and IMF loans act as the Trojan Horse to inflict it on others. Perhaps most troubling is the fact that leaders in recipient nations tend to become more concerned with the wishes of international elites than the wishes and needs of their own people. Argentina and Kenya are just two examples of countries that followed IMF mandates right off a cliff. The IMF frequently recommends currency devaluation to poorer nations, which has wiped out the already impoverished over and over. There is also a long list of brutal dictators the IMF happily supported and propped up with loans that left their oppressed populace in staggering amounts of debt with no economic progress to show for it.

We are buying nothing but evil and global oppression by sending your taxdollars to the IMF. Not to mention there is no Constitutional authority to do so. Our continued presence in Iraq and Afghanistan does not make us safer at home, but in fact undermines our national security. I vehemently opposed this Supplemental Appropriations Bill and was dismayed to see it pass so easily.

Lessons from Argentina

If you want to understand the events that lead up to the economic collapse of Argentina early this decade, watch these videos. Take good note of what political corruption and plunder by global banking institutions and multinational corporations ultimately leads to: Destruction of the middle class, societal breakdown and human suffering.

What the central banking cartel does to the homeland, the IMF does in spades to the colonized.

Fernando Feral Aquirre's site is an excellent first-hand account of the everyday realities that came to be as a result.