When Corporations Rule the World
Posted January 12th, 2009 by Samuel Howell Jr.
Hey everyone,
Here is a book that I believe everyone should read. You can read some excerpts here: http://books.google.com/b...
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You mean they’re not yet? ;-)
--Cliff, Sioux City, Iowa
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January's song: That's the Way of the World by Nelson Rangell
Corporate Facilitators..
...that being government, is what has given rise to world corporate power. The market would keep greed in check if it were not for the government facilitators.
It is the men who control the corporations that rule the world
blaming it on corporations is just "covering" for the actual rulers.
Most folks whop are getting published are part of the control grid.....just one of those things.
This is true, but due to the
This is true, but due to the nature of corporations, the corporation sole shields the man from accountability. So, it is the corporation that is acting and not the man.
Right..which allows
Psychopaths to get away with doing consiousless, psychopathic stuff without being liable for it. Corporations get legal treatment as if they were human, but if they were "human", they would be psychopathic.
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Political Ponerology and Psychopaths: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes
www.dailypaul.com/node/53...
Twilight of the Psychopaths
http://www.truthnews.us/?...
The Biological Basis of Elitism and "The Divine Right" Rule
http://www.bibliotecapley...
The Role of the Psychopath in the Generation of Global Evil
http://ponerology.blogspo...
Two-seed theory: The origins of the psychopathic elite
www.dailypaul.com/node/68...
THE PSYCHOPATH - The Mask of Sanity
http://www.cassiopaea.com...
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
http://www.amazon.ca/With...
The Trick of the Psychopath's Trade: Make Us Believe that Evil Comes from Others
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The Sociopath Next Door
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Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work
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scanning the chapter titles,
the author seems to have a collectivist agenda even though his analysis of corporate excesses if certainly valid.
Nevermind corporations,
what about the governments that already rule the world?
I would argue that is much more severe. Futhermore, I think one must remember that corporations don't have the power to tax or to go to war for example.
Corporations don't have the power to tax or go to war. However,
Corporations don't have the power to tax or go to war. However, they have the power, with their army of lobbyists that outnumber our representatives, to force the government to do those things on their behalf. Just the most obvious example: who benefited most from the war in Iraq? Not the American people, not the Iraqi people - it was the corporations that supplied the military and benefited from higher oil prices. Corporations have both an interest and access to the levers of power to start wars and suppress dissent. Haliburton, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the war, had Cheney doing their bidding for them in the White House. And, we didn't get the real "news" from the so-called "free" corporate press. And the war was financed by the corporate banking cartel known as the Federal Reserve and their member banks and related corporate financial institutions.
The whole war was not for the people, it was for the benefit of the corporations. And as I said, this is simply the most obvious example. This kind of thing goes on daily in the halls of power, and we don't hear about 99% of it.
Corporations have co-opted our representative government. The government no longer represents the people, it represents its most powerful constituents - corporations. We live in a country with a government that is of the corps, by the corps and for the corps.
Oh yeah, corporate power is a very serious issue that needs to be addressed.
I beg to differ, Michael,
I beg to differ, Michael, with your assertion that corporations don't have the power to tax or go to war. My studies have proven to me that what is acting as our government today is a private corporation, which was formed by our original Constitutional Republic after the Civil War. Congress did this to carry out the business needs of the Republic by circumventing the restrictions placed upon it by the Constitution.
At that time, 1871, there was the the Constitutional Republic and the Corporation known as the District of Columbia, with our elected officials, eventually, after it was revised and finalized in 1878, occupying both seats.
After the un-constitutional passage of the 17th Amendment, only the corporate seats were then filled.
This is also why the Federal Reserve Act was not un-constitutional, because it was two corporations contracting with each other - not the national government.
By 1933 the Federal Reserve had completely bankrupted the Corporation. And, as the Corporation was the creation of the original jurisdiction Republic, the people were declared enemies and there property seized to settle the bankruptcy.
In order to bring the people out of their enemy status, Roosevelt offered his "New Deal" with the creation of the SSA. Through the use of the Administrations number, the people now contracted with the Corporation and were drawn into it's jurisdiction.
This is also why the income tax is legal. Because the relationship which is created by the use of the SSAs number is that of a trust. The trust is created by the corporation and resides in the District of Columbia, regardless of where the individual lending consciousness to the trust resides. When the SS# is used to acquire a job, it is the trust and not the individual which is working - Federal Income.
By 1944 the Corporation was quit-claimed to the IMF, which is now who ultimately rules this country. All through contract.
You can choose to disagree or disbelieve. But, that doesn't change history.
Agreed
The body currently masquerading as our government is nothing more than a private corporation.
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I think one must be careful with the word 'force' here. I don't believe it to be accurate. I think a better term would be 'pressure.'
Lol, for sure. But remember, the press (TV/radio) is not free (in the classical liberal sense of the term). There exists a regulating body--the FCC.
I agree. But I take a different approach.
The power at its root is political power. The politicians are the ones with the final say. So, I think we must go after them and not the symptom (corporate power).
Not an either or
Patrick,
I agree to an extent with your first point about force. But I don't know what goes on inside the upper echelons of the halls of power. If representatives are threatened with smear campaigns, or blackmail, or even physical violence, it would be very close to "force."
I don't know how far corporations go with their threats, but I think at times it goes beyond just "pressure." Corporations have a lot of power: With their myriad resources and legal powers, they have the ability to destroy people - if not kill them, then destroy their reputations and ensure that they'll never work again.
As for your second point, I'm not sure how the FCC prevents major media outlets from reporting the truth, but I'm open to hearing about it.
I agree that politicians have the final say, but there is no incentive for them to be responsible to the people, so I think a dual front war is in order.
Some people might say that this is a waste of resources. However, it seems to me that most people I talk to come down on one side or another of the issue - either it is the government, or the corporations that need to be reformed. I think that wherever people are most passionate is where they should be fighting the abuses of power that they see.
Government is the problem, not corporations
Patrick is right, leftist documentaries aside. The corporations are just reacting to the presence of the government. If the government would just keep their stinking hands off of the free markets corporations wouldn't have to bribe officials to stop hurting them. I agree corporations should not be allowed to influence politics, but I'm sure not blaming corporations for the mess we are in. That solely lies with the government.
To get rid of corporatism, you don't do anything to corporations. You severely cut back on what the government is allowed to do. That tells me where the problem lies.
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That's true. It's an interesting point.
Well, the FCC is basically a government media cartel (for radio/tv).
Mainly it enforces a barrier to entry. This severely restricts competition. I think that's a big reason why the MSM is so stagnant.
As well, the FCC controls licensing. An executive of a media company knows that if his tv station is too critical of the government for example, political pressure could cause "problems" with their license renewal. So, this creates an incentive for tv/radio to "play it safe" (especially the smaller tv + radio outlets).
I agree. I think democracy has intrinsic incentive problems.
I'm not sure if corporations need to be reformed. I mean, if there wasn't politicians giving them special favors then would they be a problem? They could of course still commit fraud, but that would be able to be dealt with properly in an environment that's free of special privileges.
Thus, it seems to me that one must go after the root of the issue which I believe is definitely governmental power.
Also, who had the final say
Also, who had the final say in the bailout? The people who overwhelmingly opposed the measure or the corporations?
I don't think either
Was it not, in the final picture, the politicians who physically voted for the measure?
You may recall the IMF
You may recall the IMF saying the US better do something and do it fast.
Yes,
even if that is taken into account, didn't the final say lie physically in the politicians who voted on it?
I don't see how it could be said to be otherwise.
The bottom line was that if
The bottom line was that if the politicians didn't approve the measure, martial law would be declared and the executive would pass the measure at the behest of the IMF.
You don't think a
You don't think a corporation has the power to tax or go to war? I know of a corporation that taxes and is at war right now.
Re: the US gov't being a corporation
I haven't seen any evidence of that.
Secondly, if the US government was a corporation on some technical level, it think it would have to be considered a unique kind of corporation. Ie. it would be logically improper to compare it to a company like the WWE.
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good post.
btw have you seen Jshowell on DP in the last week?
one of the MODS blocked him next day I unblocked him but never saw any posts/comments from him since.
If you see him online please let me know(I think you might be related).
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I haven't noticed any post
I haven't noticed any post by him lately. We aren't related, though.
Thank you for reply
I send him an email last week and he did not reply...will try again to reach him...he was one of the most hardworking contributors on DP and I am really upset we lost him.
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