Babylon the Great (Harlot)...The Whore that Rides the Beast
The government of the United States of America is no longer a democracy, but is run on capitalist interest which is a doctrine of self interest by the cause of national security and gain. It is a false doctrine of freedom, which enslaves people to themselves through consumerism as well as to the corporations that provide us with our labor.
Certainly for some this seems good…the ones who benefit the most… But for the majority of the world living paycheck to paycheck, what these few enjoy only increases the misery of the many. It is an angel of light that makes men captive to their own lusts while leaving a wake of human destruction and decay behind it.
Evidence this by the growing number of poorer nations in the world today, whose many people have become victims of corporate greed…A list that continues to grow.
"We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations."
Joel Bleifuss, In These Times magazine
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process."
Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 1907
"The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment."
Michel Chossudovsky, economist
"... the establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation..."
Edward Herman, economist and media analyst
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."
General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant, 1935
“The so-called "defense" corporations are multinational conglomerates that have no great loyalty to the United States; they are in fact no longer U.S. corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves.”
John Stockwell, former CIA official and author
" There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives."
Edward Herman, economist and media analyst
"True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress?"
Chief Luther Standing Bear, 1933
*****
"The United States does not have an automatic call on our resources. There is no mind-set that puts this country first."
Cyrill Stewert, Chief Financial Officer of Colgate-Palmolive Corporation
As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency. "
David Korten, economist and internationalist
"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed."
Abraham Lincoln, American president, 1861-1865
"The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations' favor. The consequence is a "race to the bottom" in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate."
Jeremy Brecher, historian and author
“Rollback [the destabilization and overthrow of Third World leftist-populist governments with right-wing governments] as a foreign policy ... causes untold devastation and misery for millions overseas, and hinders any potential positive U.S. influence in world affairs... To the extent the U.S. public backs rollback; this support is rooted in a misguided sense of patriotism. Patriotism itself - love of one's country and one's people - is a natural and reasonable human feeling. But patriotism which measures one's country by military superiority over all rivals regardless of consequence is irrational... There is surely a more rational form of patriotism that searches for excellence in social, economic, and moral spheres rather than in weapon systems. "
From the book Rollback by Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould
“With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. "
Michael Parenti, political scientist and author
The truth of the matter is, and what we as citizens support, is that this unfettered way of life that we are asked to sacrifice our all for, has become as a millstone around our necks. And until we are willing to cast it off, so shall it remain until it has crushed us to death.
Need I say more!?
Certainly for some this seems good…the ones who benefit the most… But for the majority of the world living paycheck to paycheck, what these few enjoy only increases the misery of the many. It is an angel of light that makes men captive to their own lusts while leaving a wake of human destruction and decay behind it.
Evidence this by the growing number of poorer nations in the world today, whose many people have become victims of corporate greed…A list that continues to grow.
"We are witnessing an unprecedented transfer of power from people and their governments to global institutions whose allegiance is to abstract free-market principle, and whose favored citizens are soulless corporate entities that have the power to shape and break nations."
Joel Bleifuss, In These Times magazine
Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process."
Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, 1907
"The achievements of past struggles and the aspirations of an entire nation are [being] undone and erased.... No Agent Orange or steel pellet bombs, no napalm, no toxic chemicals: a new phase of economic and social (rather than' physical) destruction has unfolded. The seemingly neutral and scientific tools of macro-economic policy constitute a non-violent instrument of recolonization and impoverishment."
Michel Chossudovsky, economist
"... the establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business -- so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation..."
Edward Herman, economist and media analyst
I spent thirty-three years in the Marines, most of my time being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism."
General Smedley Butler, former US Marine Corps Commandant, 1935
“The so-called "defense" corporations are multinational conglomerates that have no great loyalty to the United States; they are in fact no longer U.S. corporations but transnational entities loyal only to themselves.”
John Stockwell, former CIA official and author
" There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives."
Edward Herman, economist and media analyst
"True, the white man brought great change. But the varied fruits of his civilization, though highly colored and inviting, are sickening and deadening. And if it be the part of civilization to maim, rob, and thwart, then what is progress?"
Chief Luther Standing Bear, 1933
*****
"The United States does not have an automatic call on our resources. There is no mind-set that puts this country first."
Cyrill Stewert, Chief Financial Officer of Colgate-Palmolive Corporation
As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency. "
David Korten, economist and internationalist
"Corporations have been enthroned .... An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people... until wealth is aggregated in a few hands ... and the Republic is destroyed."
Abraham Lincoln, American president, 1861-1865
"The recent quantum leap in the ability of transnational corporations to relocate their facilities around the world in effect makes all workers, communities and countries competitors for these corporations' favor. The consequence is a "race to the bottom" in which wages and social conditions tend to fall to the level of the most desperate."
Jeremy Brecher, historian and author
“Rollback [the destabilization and overthrow of Third World leftist-populist governments with right-wing governments] as a foreign policy ... causes untold devastation and misery for millions overseas, and hinders any potential positive U.S. influence in world affairs... To the extent the U.S. public backs rollback; this support is rooted in a misguided sense of patriotism. Patriotism itself - love of one's country and one's people - is a natural and reasonable human feeling. But patriotism which measures one's country by military superiority over all rivals regardless of consequence is irrational... There is surely a more rational form of patriotism that searches for excellence in social, economic, and moral spheres rather than in weapon systems. "
From the book Rollback by Thomas Bodenheimer and Robert Gould
“With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. "
Michael Parenti, political scientist and author
The truth of the matter is, and what we as citizens support, is that this unfettered way of life that we are asked to sacrifice our all for, has become as a millstone around our necks. And until we are willing to cast it off, so shall it remain until it has crushed us to death.
Need I say more!?
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