The new rules of imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products and disease ex

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The new rules of imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products and disease

exports

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 by: Mike Adams

http://www.newstarget.com/021873.html

 

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