An observation of how and why the 1% Global Capitalist Oligopoly is lethal
to the survival, liberty, and democratic self-determination of the individual and collective destinies of the 99% worldwide.
First of all, please examine this article about a food shortage in Venezuela:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/13/world/americas/venezuela-food-shortages/index.html?hpt=wo_bn8
Now, please examine these two concurrent italicized paragraphs, which, in the context of the article, are actually completely unrelated:
Venezuela is not a poor country. It's the thirteenth largest producer of oil in the world and an important producer of minerals. But Jennifer McCoy, director of the Americas Program at the Carter Center in Atlanta says the country is paying for the centralization of the government and a socialist agenda pushed by President Chavez.
"His goal that he has stated is to deepen the revolution, to deepen and expand socialism and to show, I think, the country his vision of his socialist experiment," McCoy said.
In the first paragraph above, it states that Dr. McCoy is saying that "the country is paying for the centralization of the government and a socialist agenda pushed by President Chavez." However, the second paragraph, which is a quote by Dr. McCoy that the author of the piece is using to support the assertion of the first paragraph, has nothing whatsoever to do with the assertion.
Simply: Dr. McCoy stating this: "His goal that he has stated is to deepen the revolution, to deepen and expand socialism and to show, I think, the country his vision of his socialist experiment," does not in any way indicate that Dr. McCoy "says the country is paying for the centralization of the government and a socialist agenda pushed by President Chavez." They're completely unrelated in this context. It appears to be propaganda. The author of the piece is being disingenuous, appears to be pro-capitalist spin from MSM.
Chavez has recently regulated businesses, requiring them to disclose information so that their operations are transparent to the Bolivarian People's Government:
It's not just ordinary people who are worried about the situation. Under government guidelines published last month, producers of basic products, including foreign companies, must now register with government regulators and disclose how they produce, distribute and market their products, a move that has caused great concern among domestic and international companies operating in Venezuela.
It appears that businesses are punishing the Venezuelan people by hoarding food in retribution for being regulated:
Venezuelan authorities blame the shortages on some producers who have allegedly hoarded regulated products. According to officials, in a raid conducted in November, they found more than 200 tons of powdered milk hidden in a warehouse.
This is one reason why modern oligarchal global capitalism totally sucks, and how it destroys democracies.
It gives the 1% wealthy private interests the ability to withhold goods and resources necessary for the survival for the 99%. Governments have no real control of the 1%. They either have to do what the 1% wants, or the 1% can take respective extreme economic or even military measures to punish the 99%, and our legislators as well, for anything that the 1% deem as transgressions of or opposition to their will and desires.
For example: If President Obama tries to regulate the oil industry, the oil industry can withhold gasoline, causing a gas shortage and an economic crisis. This is vengeance, and it harms the 99%, as well as the popularity of the President. I believe that the oil companies did this exact thing to the people and to President Carter in the late 1970's to punish us and President Carter, and to help get Reagan elected.
Another example: President Obama attempts to regulate the banksters. The banksters don't want to be regualted. They make up some woo, because they can, and use it to cause an economic/financial crisis, punishing the 99% and President Obama, while they increase their profits off the woo.
Another example: A significant majority of the population wishes to establish a single payer form of public funded universal health care, say, somewhat similar to the Candian model. The vastly wealthy and powerful Health Insurance/Pharmaceutical Industry pressures legislators that they have co-opted through bribery to insure that the type of healthcare system that the majority desires cannot possibly be legislated into existence.
Etc. 1% control of our world is pervasive in most areas of our lives.
This is a primary reason why Occupy has come into existence. Our government has become essentially powerless to do anything that is not approved by the 1%. This problem cannot be solved through the current political process. Democracy is no longer functional. We are, essentially and literally, in the throes of the Global Dictatorship of the 1%. Not only do they control, globally, as an oligpoly, most of the factors and means of production, including most resources necessary for basic survival and heir distribution, but they also own an overwhelming share of the media, which they have been successfully using to control public information and opinion in order to consolidate their control over the globe without evincing significant populist democratic resistance.
By necessity, Occupy came into being. We, the free sovereign People, the 99%, are compelled to take direct action. We recognize that the 1% has evinced a design to reduce us under absolute despotism. It is now unquestionably our right to throw off government by the 1%, and to provide new guards for our security and the security of all future generations.
It appears that our only option at this time that is a viable means of throwing off this dictatorship and re-establishing control of our individual and collective destinies is mass all encompassing non-violent direct action conducted in unison.
One example of this type of action is a coordinated general strike and boycott by a majority of the populace, united for the purpose of re-establishing a means to achieve the natural rights to individual and collective self determination and the the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in which they collectively determine to be the most reasonable way possible.
Occupy needs the support of as many of you, the 99%, as is possible if we are ever to live in a world where liberty, justice, and equality are possible for the greatest possible majority of people.
Recognize and understand the immutable fact that the 1% does not have divine or any legitimate sanction to rule us.
Stop recognizing them and their minions as having power and authority over us.
Whose authority? Our authority.
Whose power? Our power.
Whose world? Our world.
Keep hope alive.
Solidarity.
Occupy.
peace
love
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