3 Loose Shingles to
Blow the Roof off Global Corporate Oligarchy
Sun Tzu, author of the ancient and enduring strategy treatise,
The
Art of War, once said:
Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course
runs away from high places and hastens downward.
So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is
weak.
Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which
it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is
facing.
Wind, similarly, finds its way into the weakest points of a roof, and no
matter how strong, should it find these points, is capable of taking the entire
roof off with a good gust.
Imagine increasing global awareness of
the disparity and injustice purveyed by
global corporate oligarchy as a storm, and imagine the roof
of this oligarchy’s house covered in workers trying to tack down these weakest
points. Where are they?
Where do they fear the wind blowing hardest?
1. Organic Food: The
American Revolution began not to fight for independence from England, but to
preserve socioeconomic and political independence
already achieved by the colonies, an independence the British
attempted to reassert themselves over with new regulations and taxes.
For all intents and purposes, the American colonies had developed “full set
economies” and were no longer dependent on distant imperial administrators.
In a similar manner, today, technology is enabling local communities the
ability to become independent from the corporate monopolized production of
food, and as more people join the organic food movement, the more mature and
independent local networks become.
To reassert its control over these increasingly independent local markets,
just like the Imperial British, the corporate oligarchy is attempting to impose
rules, regulations, and taxes to stifle this movement.
An indication of just how insecure the oligarchy is about the organic food
movement, is the inordinate amount of time, money, and effort it puts into
trying to discredit and dissuade the population from participating in it.
Image:
Conflict of interest? Strange that Stanford University is partnered with agricultural
giant Cargill and just so happens to come out with a study that suggests
organic food is no better than its big-agri competition. According to Stanford
University, Cargill has donated at least 5 million dollars for the creation of
a Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE). Cargill’s website has a
page describing its partnership with Stanford which can be found here. Cargill and many others also are
listed as donors by Stanford University in their 2011 Annual Report (page 38,
.pdf).
The Standford study was touted by the corporate-media in a concerted
campaign to double up the “roof” as the winds of change continue to blow.
The same flawed, unconvincing argument made by Cargill-funded Stanford
researchers was repeated verbatim by AAP, this time, the lie specifically
targeting children.
So despite the attempted hype, it seems organic food, grown locally and free
of pesticides and the toxic affects of genetic manipulation (GMO), contains
obvious benefits many more honest scientists are recognizing in greater numbers
than Cargill, Monsanto, and the fraudulent Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
can counteract with paid-for “studies” and PR campaigns.
Image: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI),
a paragon of all that is wrong in the world today, wants you to eat your GMO,
somewhat even more disturbing than finding simply Monsanto or Cargill driving
pro-GMO propaganda. Neo-eugencists like Jon Entine have a platform to peddle
their ideology and support for corporate-monopolized biotechnology because of
the backing of influential think-tanks like AEI.
More disturbing than perhaps
manipulated studies put out by Cargill & Co. through increasingly
discredited institutionalized “academia,” are modern day eugenicist outfits
like the “
Genetic
Literacy Project” (GLP) run by corporate-financier American Enterprise
Institute (AEI) think-tank “fellow,” Jon Entine.
Entine
is a proponent of racial superiority, and uses his background in
genetics, as the Anglo-Americans and Nazis similarly used “science,” to prove
their 20th century eugenicist theories.
While racist crackpots like Entine are a dime a dozen, what sets him apart
is the substantial funding and backing he receives from the Fortune 500
corporate oligarchy through his AEI ties.
Of course by “scientists,” Entine means Monsanto, Cargill, Bayer,
“scientists,” who are on par with the intellectual dishonesty of Stanford
researchers who published their findings regarding organic food without
transparently disclosing their ties to Cargill.
GLP represents a team of workers out in the stormy winds of change, desperately
trying to tack down the weakest points in the roof of global corporate
oligarchy.
Just like the American colonies developing their economy beyond dependence
on Imperial Britain, global populations are recognizing the benefits and
necessity of developing independently of monopolizing big-agriculture.
To blow the roof off, start with
something as simple as visiting and supporting your local farmers’ market,
planting even just your own fresh herbs on a window sill,
boycotting Fortune 500 junk food, and spreading a general
awareness of the obvious connection between natural food and human health.
Downloading songs, movies, and books
for free is deemed “illegal.” Then again, so was circumventing the British tea
tax.
A tyranny that thinks it can hide behind the color of law will simply make
living free, and the human progress that engenders independence and
self-sufficiency an illegal, criminal act.
Dumping tea into the harbor was a revolutionary act, signaling to the
Imperial British that the self-serving bindings of their “law” were similarly
being dumped with it.
Image: The
intellectual property racket does to global human information, what GMO
proponents do to the global food supply, poison it, dominate it, monopolize,
and monetize it, stifiling our collective well being and progress. Boycott and
seek to replace the memberships of all these organizations with
local, open source, alternatives.
In reality, if you have bought a CD and then decide to give it to a friend,
or sell it second hand, it is well within your right to do so.
You have not committed a crime in the realm of common sense, and for now,
even in legal terms you have done nothing wrong.
Technology simply allows you to give that CD away to millions of people –
through file sharing. No physical property is being stolen from the
corporations that have sold you that CD, therefore it is not, and never will be
theft.
File sharing, and computers in general have given rise to the term
“disruptive technology,” or technology that disrupts established paradigms.
The concept of disruptive technology is not new though. The horseless
carriage was a disruptive technology that put traditional carriage makers out
of business.
Cheaper means of printing have threatened publishers and authors who remain
stuck in traditional and very antiquated business models.
Imagine the leaps and bounds human progress would never have made if
obsolete business models were able to impose their will on humanity through the
color of law, and prevent competition from infringing upon their
self-proclaimed rights, conveniently contrived and manipulated to meet and
defeat any and all new innovations.
File sharing is not stealing. It never was and never will be. No matter how
many laws the antiquated media monopolies pass, no matter how many
official-sounding agencies and guilds they construct, there is nothing wrong,
no theft occurring when people share.
The Founding Fathers dumped tea into the harbor. Modern day revolutionaries
share files.
If the risk of file sharing seems too great, there are other things you can
do that are just as helpful. This includes simply innovating and supporting new
ways of creating, sharing, and profiting from all forms of media, competing
with, and ultimately replacing traditional corporate media business models.
Already, with the Internet, small independent movies, music, and art of all
kinds have flourished and have proven there is creativity and profit beyond the
boundaries of legally protected “intellectual property.”
Open source is a concept that is gaining momentum and disrupting legal
paradigms just as technology is disrupting economic paradigms.
By supporting open source alternative media, in the realm of software,
music, movies, and now even hardware, you are doing the next best thing to file
sharing – a modern equivalent of flaunting the laws of a tired imperial captor.
3. Alternative Media: A death of a thousand cuts. That
is what the corporate media is suffering.
For every viewer disgusted with biased, dishonest, clearly corporate-financier
motivated propaganda that decides to turn off the TV and begin a blog, website,
radio show, or local movement, a tiny, but permanent cut is made.
A single blog may seem insignificant – especially if it only reposts news an
individual finds more honest and congruent with reality than what is seen on
network TV. But collectively, this has had a huge impact.
10 years ago lies that would go unquestioned have now sparked immediate and
widespread backlash.
The example above, regarding the Cargill-funded Stanford study, received
immediate skepticism, scrutiny and eventually condemnation.
Image:
The cover of Cass Sunstein’s “Conspiracy
Theories” paper, which details strategies for overcoming opposing views
that contradict establishment talking points. Amongst these strategies includes
hiring people to actively infiltrate segments of society that hold alternative
views and introduce “informational diversity” to lure them back into mainstream
paradigms. Classic examples of cognitive infiltration can be seen behind the
“left” Kony
2012 scam, and “right” Glenn Beck, andWorldNetDaily projects.
Just like with organic food and disruptive technology, measures have been
formulated to deal with a burgeoning alternative media.
The real alternative media eventually finds them, exposes them, and
neutralizes their toxic effects.
Making a blog is free, maintaining it with weekly updates can be done easily
in the amount of time most people waste watching CNN, Fox News, or BBC.
The amount of money people waste on newspapers and magazines emanating from
the corporate oligarchy’s propaganda machine could just as easily be directed
toward donation buttons and online stores found on your favorite alternative
media site.
It is a small step we can each
individually make, that collectively allows us to make great strides forward in
reasserting the will of the people over the minuscule membership and
self-serving destructive interests of
global corporate-financier oligarchy.
Tony Cartalucci’s
articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at
Land Destroyer Report.
H/T Activist Post
