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The new rules of imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products and disease
exports
History tells us that imperialist nations quite predictably invade weaker
nations on a regular basis... especially when those weaker nations happen to be
standing on valuable natural resources like oil or uranium. Thanks to this
desire for strategic control over territories, the twentieth century was the
bloodiest in human history, with more people being lost to war, greed and
conquest than during any single century in recorded history (including the
centuries spanning Greek and Roman civilizations).
War remains as supported as ever today, and in fact, many nations actually
thirst for war. Just look at the pro-war coverage on Fox News and the unending
war games being played on computers and game consoles by young men who find
entertainment in war. (In fact, the U.S. Army is actually recruiting young men
now through a free, downloadable video game that teaches young boys how to pick
up a rifle and kill people with it.)
Why some nations create war The people of some nations actually create war
(or support it) in their quest to express a sense of nationalistic heroism.
Failing nations need heroes, and when those heroes are no longer found in the
realms of science, art, politics or global achievement, they will be fabricated
from the false victories of war.
The tearful American mom whose son dies in Iraq is, indeed, suffering a
tremendous personal loss, but her loss is a necessary part of feeding the
population's desire to proclaim there are heroes among them. Through the
sacrificing of young men who are killed in Iraq, the people of America can find
common connection, righteousness, and purpose where none existed before. War
gives meaning to empty lives, and it delivers a masochistic form of
entertainment to those who are too young, too old or too wealthy to
participate. This is precisely why, throughout human history, the leaders of
failing nations have habitually turned to military imperialism as a method to
distract the people from far more serious problems at home. When the sons of a
nation are returning home in body bags, nobody pays much attention to failures
in education or the economy.
This is not to say that there are not some instances in which going to war has
genuine justification. When a nation is threatened by an invading force, for
example, going to war to defend your own land against invading aggressors is
not only necessary, it is also truly heroic. Defending your own land is
courageous; invading your neighbor's land is cowardly. (Some people claim, by
the way, that the only way to protect America's land is to invade other
countries first. This concept, called "preemptive war" is based on mass
distortions used to falsely justify actions of war.)
In America today, the thirst for war remains as strong as ever. But the real
war being waged on the world right now by America is not merely found in the
limited military action in the Middle East. That's only the blunt instrument of
this war. The real American invasion is happening through foods, medicines,
personal care products, international banking and intellectual property law.
Through the proliferation of fast food restaurants, pharmaceutical companies,
chemically-contaminated consumer products and similar items invented in
America, the world is being bombarded by systems of food, medicine and
distorted intellectual property claims that are producing far more casualties
than any bombs-and-bullets war.
How to control a nation In World War II, the Germans attempted to steal
natural resources from neighboring nations by forcefully occupying and
controlling the targeted territories. Today, war is far more sophisticated:
America steals national resources by patenting seeds, genes, medicines and
ideas, then applying economic and political pressure against targeted nations
to forcefully take a cut of their productivity through the application of
intellectual property law. Only Thailand has offered any sort of resistance in
an attempt to protect its people from the predatory, monopolistic drug pricing
of Big Pharma, for example, but most countries just go right along and pay
tribute to the western world through outrageous patent royalties on medicines
that should belong to the people.
If that's not enough to dominate the targeted nation's economy, America sends
in the World Bank. The World Bank makes predatory loans to desperate nations,
knowing full well they cannot pay them back. It then uses the leverage of debt
to invade those nations with western financial institutions. Those banks and
lending institutions subsequently turn around and engage in predatory financial
practices that soak the people of the target nation, skimming off productivity
and exporting it back to the West where rich white men cash in billions without
a single honest day's work.
The World Trade Organization, for its part, makes sure that targeted nations
comply with imperialistic western trade practices. The huge push of Big Tobacco
into Asia, for example, is the result of support by "world trade" proponents
who threatened to impose trade sanctions against Asian nations if they tried to
ban cigarette advertising. Today, more than a third of Chinese men are addicted
to cigarettes, generating billions in annual profits for Big Tobacco companies
who are right now producing more Chinese casualties than any war in China's
long history.
Western medicine is also invading the continents around the world, bringing its
expensive, heartless and corporate-controlled system of medicine to nations who
were actually far healthier, happier and more financially solvent before
America showed up with all its patented chemicals. Chinese medicine, for
example, is routinely discredited in China by arrogant Chinese doctors who went
to med school in America then returned home to betray their own fellow
citizens. Drug companies see China's one billion people as nothing more than
revenue-generating patients, and convincing all those people to take more
medicines will require a well-planned, well-funded economic and philosophical
assault on Chinese medicine. Essentially, Big Pharma must find a way to
disconnect the Chinese from their heritage, turning them all into depressed,
diseased "white" consumers whose medical mythology worships the falsehoods of
western reductionism.
Consequences of the great American invasion All around the world, America is
invading nations through its foods, medicines, consumer products, dangerous
economic practices, synthetic chemicals and intellectual property. And
everywhere that American products are adopted, widespread disease and death
soon follows.
Small island nations in the South Pacific, for example, had never heard of
diabetes, heart disease or depression just two generations ago. But then
American-made processed food products invaded their islands, edging out
traditional foods like raw coconut, fresh fish, seaweed and taro. Today, South
Pacific populations are suffering from widespread diabetes, depression, heart
disease, learning disabilities, asthma and much more -- all thanks to the
"invasion" of American foods, medicines and products.
America is the world's largest exporter of disease. Through our popular soda
products, cigarettes, fast food chains and manufactured foods, we have caused
more death and disease around the world than any nation in human history
(including Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot). And it all remains perfectly legal. Our
chemical companies even manufacture and export pesticide chemicals that have
been banned in the United States. Poor agricultural nations openly use those
deadly pesticides on their crops, then ship the produce back to the U.S. where
consumers buy it at grocery stores. It's all perfectly legal and, in fact,
encouraged by U.S. political leaders.
Resistance is futile It's actually more than legal: It's required! Any
nation that says "no" to western products and intellectual property is
immediately branded an enemy of world trade and is targeted for legal action by
the WTO. Even creating pro-consumer safety standards such as banning aspartame,
sodium nitrite or hydrogenated oils can be deemed a violation of international
trade agreements. Product sales, you see, are the No. 1 priority, even when
nations are being decimated by the products manufactured and exported by
American companies.
Poor nations with undereducated populations suffer enormously under western
economic imperialism. It's easy to sell Pepsi, cigarettes and lotto tickets to
people in a country like Panama, for example, where the education level remains
low and people are easily tricked into thinking that western products will make
them happier. Pepsi, in fact, is the dominant consumer product throughout most
of Central and South America. You can hardly travel anywhere south of the U.S.
/ Mexico border without being inundated with Pepsi propaganda. The Pepsi logo
is more prominent than images of the Virgin Mary or the Pope, even though many
South and Central American populations are Catholic. (It's quite clear what
they actually worship!)
These international product invasions are important to the bottom line of U.S.
corporations, of course, who are expanding their propaganda campaigns to
non-U.S. countries following the wising up of American consumers. Only
uneducated, ignorant consumers drink soft drink products in America these days.
It's the same crowd that buys lotto tickets, smokes cigarettes, watches TV
infomercials and lives on frozen dinners. Smart consumers in America switched
to healthier drinks long ago. That's why soda sales continue to fall each year,
and that's why U.S. soda corporations have to increasingly crank up their
marketing machines in countries that haven't yet caught on to the toxicity of
aspartame or the links between diabetes and high-fructose corn syrup.
The west is conquering the world There's no more need to drop tanks,
soldiers and bombs on nations in order to conquer them. Countries can be
controlled through economics, intellectual property law, banking and finance
systems. Consumers can be controlled through advertising, publicity and
corporate-fabricated fake news.
The corporations, as always, rake in the profits while the consumers pay the
price all over the world. They eat their American hamburgers, drink their
American sodas, take their American medicines and think they're cool,
sophisticated consumers even while their internal organs are beginning to fail
from all the toxic chemicals. Soon, they will suffer from American diseases:
Cancer, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, heart disease, obesity and violent,
psychotic behavior. In fact, we're already seeing it: Countries like Thailand
and Japan are witnessing unprecedented obesity for the first time in history,
and diseases like diabetes and depression are only a few years away from
becoming pandemic throughout Asia. This is almost entirely from their adoption
of western diets and medical practices.
Those nations that continue to worship western culture are engaged in a
dangerous game of paying homage to precisely the wrong group. Worshipping
American foods, products and medicines will only destroy the health and
happiness of any nation, and mimicking American financial markets will only
spell economic suicide in the long run. There is nothing good that can come of
debt spending, intentional disease proliferation (through ignoring disease
prevention programs), widespread chemical contamination and corporate dominance
over the people and the government. These are the things that will come to
destroy the world's nations, probably starting with America.
The last days of America as we know it The era of American dominance in the
world is nearly over. It will likely be replaced by an era of Chinese
dominance, in which western medicine, western science, western debt spending
and western culture will ultimately be rejected by most world nations.
It's time for Americans to face up to the reality of the country they're living
in. Take the issue of health care as a rather important example. Did you know
that you can get better health care in Cuba than America? Did you know that the
life expectancy of a Cuban citizen is the same as an American citizen, and yet
Americans spend hundreds of times more money per capita on disease care and
sickness care than Cubans? American medicine is an utter failure, and it's
destroying the economic viability of the entire country. Businesses are going
bankrupt or moving offshore because of health care costs, and even those that
can afford to operate on U.S. soil are faced with the reality that it's almost
impossible to hire employees who can actually think these days thanks to the
widespread use of brain-damaging prescription drugs. Success stories like
Google are increasingly rare.
I remember living in Taiwan in the 1990's, and I paid something like $4 / month
for health insurance coverage. A visit to the doctor cost me $2 out of pocket.
Every person in Taiwan who has a job gets automatic health insurance coverage,
and the nation has prospered economically over the last four decades in a way
that the U.S. simply cannot match. The Taiwan people are innovative,
resourceful and hard working. Of course, they're also hopelessly corrupt when
it comes to politics, but that seems to be a universal law: Power corrupts, and
absolute power corrupts absolutely.
America's reputation is in shambles If you travel the world these days and
ask about America, you might be surprised at the negative answers you'll hear.
This is not obvious to people living in America because, of course, they only
have access to the controlled, pro-America news sources that dominate
mainstream thinking. But the world opinion of America has already suffered a
severe setback under the leaderhip of President Bush, and in time, the world
will reject American intellectual property, the American medicine scam and the
harmful effects of American foods and beverages.
History will reveal America to be a nation that burned itself out on drugs,
debt spending and junk foods, destroying the health its own people until its
population could hardly even reproduce without medical intervention. Lacking
any useful ideas, steeped in the defense of the status quo and abandoning the
true needs of its own people, American political leaders have set our nation on
a destructive course that may prove impossible to reverse. And they seem to
want to destroy as many other nations as possible along the way -- as long as
it generates more profits for U.S. corporations in the short term. "Poison the
world and reap the profits!"
The future belongs to smart nations Any nation that wishes to protect itself
from the same fate America is headed towards would be wise to reject American
foods, medicines, beverages, consumer products, intellectual property laws and
financial practices.
The nations that survive and prosper over the next hundred years will be:
Those nations that save money and invest in their future (rather then
spending it on war or underfunded entitlement program).
Those nations that reject western foods and pass laws to protect their
populations from dangerous chemicals in foods, beverages and consumer products.
Those nations that reject American intellectual property guidelines and ban
corporations or private individuals from "owning" patents on medicines, seeds
and genes.
Those nations that invest in education, energy efficiency and environmental
cleanup in order to create a better future for their children.
Those nations that invest now in energy independence, teaching their people
to use less energy while switching to vehicles that can run on electricity
(which can be produced domestically in any country).
Those nations that reject elite-controlled banking and money systems and
restore the power of the currency to the people, where open trade can happen
with zero inflation, creating enormous abundance for the people.
No nation will likely fully embrace all these points, but those that manage to
fulfill at least some of them will do far better than those who don't. What's
certain is that those nations attempting to mimic the culture of America will
suffer the same fate as America -- a fate that will soon be obvious to even the
most insistent deniers who claim that environmental pollution, endless debt
spending and the mass contamination of food and medicines with deadly synthetic
chemicals are somehow sustainable practices. The end result of all this is not
in question by any serious thinker: Widespread bankruptcy, disease pandemics,
environmental collapse and a bursting of the food production bubble.
Papua New Guinea may ultimatey emerge as one of the few successful, sustainable
nations in the world. If you're not sure why, I urge you to read Guns, Germs
and Steel by Jared Diamond, and then study the history of human civilization
from a geographic viewpoint. You will see that the only nations with any sort
of future are those that protect and nurture the health of their people and
their environment, taking a long-term perspective rather than short-term
economic gain. America has no long-term vision other than controlling world oil
resources. America has no investment whatsoever in the health of its people and
virtually no effort to protect its environment. America is fixated on
short-term thinking and stop-gap measures, ignoring the greater concerns of
education, renewable energy, individual health and individual liberty. And
finally, America is a bankrupt nation by any honest accounting method, and it
is only by the grace of debt holders of Asia that America can
continue to sell debt at all.
No wise nation will follow America into this quagmire (and why should they,
when they have their own quagmires to explore?).
The good news in all this, by the way, is that you don't have to follow the
fate of your nation. By protecting your own health, saving your own wealth and
investing in the future of yourself and your children (through education,
fertile land, etc.), you can avoid the worst of what's coming and actually
thrive during difficult times. That's why taking charge of your own life right
now is more important than ever. Be independent from the mainstream. Learn how
to protect your own health and reject medical propaganda. Understand the basic
laws of economics and how debt is manufactured and sold. (A good book on that
is called the Concise Guide to Economics and it's available free at
http://www.conciseguidetoeconomics.com ). Teach yourself the basic principles
of sustainable living, green living and "hippie wisdom." These are the things
that will get you through the tough times ahead.
In terms of financial news, be sure to read the Daily Reckoning
(www.DailyReckoning.com) if you want to hear the truth about world financial
news. Also check out the book Empire of Debt, which earns my top recommendation
for the best book available on the coming financial collapse of America.
I haven't even mentioned peak oil yet, by the way. Ever wonder what happens
when the oil runs out? Check out this page on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
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