Why American Jobs are being outsourced

America once the epitome of the free enterprise system and capitalism has over the years fallen from grace, in fact over the past 10 years the fall has been substantial.

How did we decline so far so fast?

The beginning of the end really began as a part and parcel of Reaganomics, building an American empire, and the capitalist version of it. The idea was that business could prosper better in third world environments where laws were lax, and child labor protection was non existent, In short America prior to 1938.

During the early part of the 20th century states attempted to pass laws protecting children, however as we are finding today, the Supreme Court was out of step with the times. In each instance, the case brought before the Supreme Court was ruled against the state interest and the interest of the children. It wasn’t until 1941 that an act of the US congress passed in 1938 was found to be constitutional “The Fair Labor Standards Act”

For the next 40 years, manufacturers were required to hire children only over age of 16, and they were limited in the number of hours, and type of jobs they were allowed to work.

In addition environmental laws made it too expensive to operate some businesses in the States. So under Reagan a plan was developed which promoted outsourcing of American jobs, they went first to South America . Under Reagan more than 2200 businesses representing several million workers were displaced

Today in developing countries 250 million children age 5 to 14 are working without child labor law protections, and they are producing almost every product we purchase. With capitalism, there is a tremendous advantage and reason to move to these countries, it’s called profits!

As manufacturers began to move out of the United States there developed a worker backlash. Detroit began with its concept of planned obsolescence, as early as the 1920’s, to produce a product that would last for only a short time, then requiring new purchases.

This manufacture model allowed Japan to gain a real foothold on the American consumer and the auto industry began a decline in earnest in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Planned obsolescence was a concept that came about in the US as early as the 1920’s, and 30’s the real and secret logic behind it was to conceal the real cost of the object, by giving the consumer a product that had a limited life expectancy.

By the 1960’s and 1970’s American consumers were turning to Japanese automobiles which offered a longer life product use, and a cheaper price tag.

Today consumers still have no idea they are being abused by capitalist theories of profits. Just what it will take to wake us up is the all time question?

How do we get America moving again?

17.3 million Americans need jobs.

Vacant storefronts abandoned and often shuttered homes and schools tell the story of the economy in real life 3rd dimension.

Wherever we go from one coast to another, this is the reality for many towns and cities across America , a nation no longer reminiscent of its better days, a nation of shrinking tax rolls and migration.

For many and for generations yet to come, there will be a different face peering out from the murky windows, staring as in a translucent state of amnesia

We as a nation have been in a decline since the 1980’s but is was so gradual a decline that we didn’t notice until the fan turned brown from our splattered remnants.

And now that we see the picture that has so assiduously unfolded, how do we as a people get out from under this elegantly conceived effrontery to not only us, but to a lifestyle that made us a great people?

Yes America was forced to transition, to pick up roots planted while the nation appeared to be on a forward momentum, but that roll wasn’t a boom and prosper roll, at least not for us.

We were used, we had become, somehow in the darkness and shadows, the mere pawns of those who consider themselves the elite of our society, and we as a people now at the hands of a government that has joined in league with them, have found ourselves without recourse to recover the government we had believed was ours.

Instead we find ourselves at the mercy of a street in New York , where the enterprises of capitalism have abandoned American principles and churned from democracies ashes a new form of governance, and it is not one with our assent.

However, there is something that remains more pressing to our society; can we yet emerge from this creative captivity unscathed?

In common parlance, what America needs is jobs, and there is one concept that may work, a return to a form of isolationism, but in trade only.

It is suggested that for America to recover, drastic measures are required, and are offered for consideration in this article:

First; no imports would be allowed unless we as a society require them, as such oil would be allowed, while all manufactured items would not. Whether it would be autos or clothing or appliances, they would be disallowed.

Second; our large corporations will be required to open plants in America and to hire Americans or their products would be denied sales in the US .

Third; these multinational corporations would be taxed 90 percent on all goods manufactured and sold abroad, giving them incentive to reverse the trend begun under the Reagan/Bush administration which promoted the exit of jobs and businesses in America in favor of a service oriented society.

And finally: there will be no additional bailouts for the financial sector, if they lose our money again they will like any other criminal be dealt with in a similar fashion.

The Supreme Court ends Democracy in Favor Of Capitalists Rule

It has been said that the end of our republic would come about through the courts! Today that proverb has come home to nest.

The US supreme court as expected has ended limits on corporate spending for US political campaigns, which will effect this year's congressional races and the 2012 presidential contest. This ruling marks the beginning of the end for our Republic.

The 5-4 ruling on Thursday was a defeat for the law's supporters who said that ending the limits would unleash a flood of corporate money into the political system to promote or defeat candidates. A further argument which seemed to also fail was that the First Amendment guaranteeing free speech did not guarantee that right to corporations.

The ruling by the Bush appointments, and conservative majority transformed the political landscape and the rules on how money can be spent in future presidential and congressional elections, which have already broken new spending records with each political cycle.

The justices on Thursday overturned supreme court precedents from 2003 and 1990 that upheld federal and state limits on independent expenditures by corporate treasuries to support or oppose candidates. The ultra conservative court has continually since the Bust appointments were first seated over turned precedents that were based on good and sound law.

Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said the limits violated constitutional free-speech rights. "We find no basis for the proposition that, in the context of political speech, the government may impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers," he wrote.

How the court determined that a Corporation was a natural person and had the rights of individuals is still an enigma. It is a stunning defeat for literacy.

A corporation is not a natural person it is a creation of law, and as such DOES not possess the rights garnered by the US Constitution, for example: Both the fifth and the fourth Amendment have been found not to apply to corporations: A recent 1st Circuit Court of Appeals case has a nice summary of the various decisions and doctrines preventing corporate entities from asserting 5th amendment privileges against self-incrimination. The case, Amato v. US, involved a subpoena to produce corporate records for a corporation whose sole shareholder, officer and employee was the target of a criminal investigation. The plaintiff in the case (who was the sole shareholder) attempted to quash a subpoena for corporate records by asserting 5th amendment privileges. The Appeals Court ultimately upheld the subpoena holding that corporations may not assert 5th amendment privileges to avoid producing documents.

But as the court today “incorrectly” noted: the same entity that does not possess constitutional rights now possesses the constitutional right of free speech?

Dissenting views

The court's conservative majority, with the addition of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, both Bush appointees, previously voted to limit or strike down parts of the law designed to regulate the role of money in politics and prevent corruption.

The court's four liberals, including its newest member, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who was appointed by Obama, dissented.

In his sharply worded dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens said: "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the nation."

The case began when a conservative group, Citizens United, made a 90-minute film called “Hillary: The Movie” that was very critical of Hillary Clinton, now-secretary of state, as she sought the Democratic presidential nomination.

Film controversy

Citizens United wanted to air advertisements for the film and distribute it through video-on-demand services on local cable systems during the 2008 Democratic primary campaign.

But federal courts said the film looked and sounded like a long campaign
advert, and therefore should be regulated like one.

Hillary: The Movie was advertised on the internet, sold on DVD and shown in a few theaters.

Campaign regulations do not apply to DVDs, theaters or the internet.

The court first heard arguments in March, then asked for another round of arguments about whether corporations and unions should be treated differently from individuals when it comes to campaign spending.

After a special argument session in September, the conservative justices gave every indication that they were going to take the steps they did on Thursday.

Was the decision correct? The right of Free speech applies to individuals, not corporations, and it stems from the first amendment to the US Constitution:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

In an intelligent reading of the language of the First Amendment it is clear that it was meant strictly for individuals, “people” are individuals, not corporations” to interpret it otherwise as the Supreme Court has now done is to nullify the very existence of our republic. We will from this day forward no longer be a democracy; instead we are now to be ruled by “corporate control” through its vast economic resources, over our government. In short welcome to Fascist America.

The Ism of Destruction Conclusion

The Final Days Of Capitalism

For the past century and a half, the issue of Fascism and Communism has inescapably confronted the American economic landscape. We as a nation, in a defining moment, had experienced a period of indiscretion as McCarthy and Hoover viciously attacked the socialists leaning consciousness as communists. In reality what this country was experiencing was the beginnings of a class struggle, when the United States would adopt the principles of corporatism, capitalism for the elite, against the interests of the multitudes, that middle class that serves as the backbone of any society, the working class.

Corporatism had become part of American economics even before the first great depression. With its beginning firmly implanted by the enactment of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act (FRA), by which the Banks took full control over our money supply. The large corporations, however, would begin to appear even prior to the passage of the FRA, as the industrial revolution began to take hold, and family fortunes had been amassed first through the slave trade then the opium trade with China .

This new law however, allowed the banks to expand the corporate presence in America and to develop even larger more powerful and politically dominant companies, companies that over time would become strong enough to take control of the Government itself.

By the late 1920’s and mid 1930’s the American Banking interests had begun to openly promote Fascism in Germany and Italy having paid hundreds of millions of dollars to both Mussolini and Hitler, in addition they entered into a coup to over through the duly elected government of the United States, the administration of Franklin Roosevelt, in its place was to be a fascist government. History acknowledges that this attempt was led by none other than the JP Morgan banking interests. This coup contrary to popular belief, did not fail.

Capitalism must of necessity control, not only labor, but the markets of commerce, and the product to be introduced. It is because of this need to expand its market presence that corporations continue to grow and absorb other companies, and to become monopolies, first in their geographical area, then internationally. A perfect example of this control is the terminator seed. The patented technology enables a seed company to genetically alter seed so that the plants that grow from it are sterile; farmers cannot use their seeds. The patent is broad, applying to plants and seeds of all species including both transgenic (genetically engineered) and conventionally-bred seeds.

Here then, the corporate presence has taken full control over the worlds food supply, they control what foods will be grown and the amount necessary, and the seeds by which to develop that market, and thereby the price.

What else could the purpose of this technology be, except to control the food supply and its market? Accordingly, several countries also following the capitalists formula have passed laws coercing this seeds use, thereby controlling agriculture on an international scale.

Capitalism now in its end stage had three important periods:

According to the Marxist economist Ernest Mandel, (a revolutionary Marxist theorist).who popularized the term “late-stage capitalism” with his 1972 Phd dissertation, believed that late-stage capitalism will be dominated by the machinations, or perhaps better, fluidities, of financial capital.

In his work Late Capitalism, Mandel argues for three periods in the development of capitalism. The last or "Late capitalism" is a term sometimes used to refer to capitalism from about 1950 onwards, generally with the implication that it is historically limited, and will eventually end.

The three stages:

First is market capitalism, which occurred from 1700 to 1850 and is characterized largely by the growth of industrial capital in domestic markets.

Second is monopoly capitalism, which lasted until approximately 1960, and is characterized by the imperialistic development of international markets as well as the exploitation of colonial territories.

Third, is late capitalism, which displays such features as the multinational corporation, globalized markets and labor, mass consumption, and the space of liquid multinational flows of capital!

Accordingly, Mandel and the other Marxist philosophers saw something of mischief with the capitalist system, and warned of its decaying effects and of the final and inevitable transition of government. They favored communism as the benefactor of the working class.

Mandel’s philosophy has its origin in Karl Marx's judgment that the capitalist mode of production, like any other mode of production, is in the broad sweep of history a limited and transient phenomenon, rather than being the natural, ever-lasting condition for human life. Thus, it can be periodized in terms of its historical emergence, its heyday, and its subsequent phase of decline and disappearance.

In general, Marx seems to have believed as a generalization that no mode of production disappears until it has developed all the productive forces which it can contain within its social relations of production. Technologies would ultimately become incompatible with the existing social framework, causing that social framework to break down, and a new social framework to emerge. According to Rosa Luxemburg (another Marxist philosopher), that could mean an advance to socialism as she had advocated, or fascism, or a relapse into barbarism.

What we have witnessed of the failure of democracy in America , with its progeny capitalism, is a transition of democracy into fascism.

The industrial revolution which began around 1760 made dramatic changes to the colonial society, by way of its economic functions. The process of economic and social change took place gradually over several decades. Yet prior to the onset of the industrial revolution the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita remained broadly stable, however, the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of the modern capitalist economy would soon change that. With the Industrial Revolution, began an era of per-capita economic growth in capitalist economies, like Europe and North America .

Friedrich Engels in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 spoke of "an industrial revolution, a revolution which at the same time changed the whole of civil society." In his book A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Raymond Williams states: The idea of a new social order based on major industrial change was clear in Southey and Owen, between 1811 and 1818, and was implicit as early as Blake in the early 1790s and Wordsworth at the turn of the century.

The causes of the Industrial Revolution and the on vent of modern capitalism were complicated and remain a topic for debate, with some historians believing the Revolution was an outgrowth of social and institutional changes brought by the end of feudalism in Britain after the English Civil War in the 17th century. As national border controls became more effective, the spread of disease was lessened, thereby preventing the epidemics common in previous times. The percentage of children who lived past infancy rose significantly, leading to a larger workforce. The Enclosure movement and the British Agricultural Revolution made food production more efficient and less labor-intensive, forcing the surplus population who could no longer find employment in agriculture into cottage industry, for example weaving, and in the longer term into the cities and the newly developed factories. The colonial expansion of the 17th century with the accompanying development of international trade, creation of financial markets and accumulation of capital are also cited as factors, as is the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
By the late 18th to the early 19th century with the expansion of modern capitalism new political philosophies would emerge vying for control over this new economy. The notion advanced under the old feudal systems of Europe , a merger between capital and government began in earnest with the Rothschild’s banking interests now fully in charge of 5 nations. The Rothschild dynasty would seek partnerships in America , and ready alliances were forged.

By the mid 19th century two opposing political theories or ideologies vying for control of the world’s political structure became antagonistic and began in open debate; Communism and Capitalism. Capitalism an outgrowth of the feudal system, the landowners aligned with the ruling elite, a monarch or king, was better defined originally as a form of Fascism and it was for this reason that Lenin and Marx attacked it. They argued for the working class, that class of individuals that had no right to land but only a right to sell their labor.

Marx and Engels clearly understood the differences, yet we are taught that they are evil, and should be feared, when in fact they fully understood capitalism, but took their preventive measures to the extreme.

Communism which is at the far left of the political scale is as evil as Fascism which is at the far right. Democracy can exist at neither end of the political arena, and capitalism can not exist under communism, but thrives under fascism, it is for this reason that democracy, which tolerates capitalism because the leaders are rewarded by the capitalists, and beholden to their wealth, that any democracy will transition over time to fascism.

The proponents of capitalism have inaccurately promoted capitalism as a more effective means of generating and redistributing wealth than socialism or communism, or have portrayed the widening gap between rich and poor that so concerned Marx and Engels as a temporary phenomenon. Recent history demonstrates that under Capitalism, more appropriately defined as corporate America , the discrepancy between the classes have widened substantially.

Marx thought that Capitalists were evil, that they exploited labor to enhance their own wealth. So far history has demonstrated that Marx view of Capitalism was a correct assessment. In all Capitalists countries but paradoxically America , Labor is used and discarded, as the Capitalists engender wealth for themselves. The recent financial crisis demonstrates the shift from a lack of adherence of labor, to the grants of financial support from those very persons disenfranchised by the capitalists system, the middle class.

Marx succinctly summarized his approach when he wrote in the first line of the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto, published in 1848:

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

This statement is a truism. Marx argued that capitalism, like previous socioeconomic systems, will inevitably produce internal tensions which will lead to its destruction. Just as capitalism replaced feudalism, he believed socialism will, in its turn, replace capitalism, and lead to a stateless, classless society called pure communism. This would emerge after a transitional period called the "dictatorship of the proletariat": a period sometimes referred to as the "workers state" or "workers' democracy".

The internal struggle Marx anticipated was to be a struggle between the classes, the working middle class and the elitist’s upper class. This struggle was inevitable, as the workers vied for their share of the wealth produced by their labor.

Historically Marx theory was both right and wrong. Capitalism Marx rightly theorized would fail, however Communism would also fail. That one element all have failed to consider in political equations is the human frailty greed.

It is time now for serious considerations of a new economic theory, one that eliminates the banks as the capitalists, and our elected official’s their beneficiaries. It is time for an economic system that would provide protection for the workers, punishes those who acquire wealth through dishonest means, and one that will more evenly redistribute that wealth.

It is also time we began to rethink the manner of control over our currency. To remove that control from the banks, that agency that has abused their franchise.

Perhaps that system would encompass the government itself as the capitalist, and manager of our money supply?

The Ism of Destruction: Part 3

This series of essays relates to Capitalism, and how it has been a tool to promote the demise of Democracy. The theory is that Private Capitalism does not work within a system designed to promote the ends of justice, because Private Capitalization as the reader of these essays will discern, promotes injustice and a transition to an ulterior form of governance.

Volume 3, Capitalism must promote Fascism

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

The early twentieth century Italians, who invented the word fascism, also had a more descriptive term for the concept -- estato corporativo: the corporatist state. Americans, have come to equate fascism with its symptoms, rather than its structure. The structure of fascism is corporatism, “the corporate state”. The structure of fascism is the union, marriage, merger and fusion of corporate economic power with governmental authority, and power.

Failing to understand fascism, as the consolidation of corporate economic and governmental power in the hands of a few, is to completely misunderstand what fascism is. It is the consolidation of this power that produces the regimes that lead our nation.

While we are able to identify the opposite of fascism, i.e., government intrusion into and usurpation of private enterprise, we have not been trained to identify the intrusion into government by private enterprise, the very definition of the fascist state.

Fascism is defined by the following model:

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism. Encouraged by the prominent display of flags and bunting to the ubiquitous lapel pins, the fervor to show patriotic nationalism, both on the part of the regime itself and of citizens caught up in its frenzy. Catchy slogans, pride in the military, and demands for unity were common themes in expressing this nationalism. It was usually coupled with a suspicion of things foreign that often bordered on xenophobia.

2. Disdain for the importance of human rights. The regimes themselves viewed human rights as of little value and a hindrance to realizing the objectives of the ruling elite. Through clever use of propaganda, the population was brought to accept these human rights abuses by marginalizing, even demonizing those targeted. When abuse was egregious, the tactic was to use secrecy, denial, and disinformation.

3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause. The most significant common thread among these regimes was the use of scapegoats as a means to divert the people’s attention from other problems, to shift blame for failures, and to channel frustration in controlled directions. The methods of choice, relentless propaganda and disinformation were usually effective. Often the regimes would incite “spontaneous” acts against the target scapegoats, usually communists, socialists, liberals, Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, traditional national enemies, members of other religions, secularists, homosexuals, and “terrorists.” Active opponents of these regimes were inevitably labeled as terrorists and dealt with accordingly.

4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism. Ruling elites always identified closely with the military and the industrial infrastructure that supported it. A disproportionate share of national resources was allocated to the military, even when domestic needs were acute. The military was seen as an expression of nationalism, and was used whenever possible to assert national goals, intimidate other nations, and increase the power and prestige of the ruling elite.

5. Rampant sexism. Beyond the simple fact that the political elite and the national culture were male dominated, these regimes inevitably viewed women as second class citizens. They were adamantly anti-abortion and also homophobic. These attitudes were usually codified in Draconian laws that enjoyed strong support by the orthodox religion of the country, thus lending the regime cover for its abuses.

6. A controlled mass media. Under some of the regimes, the mass media were under strict direct control and could be relied upon never to stray from the party line. Other regimes exercised more subtle power to ensure media orthodoxy. Methods included the control of licensing and access to resources, economic pressure, appeals to patriotism, and implied threats. The leaders of the mass media were often politically compatible with the power elite. The result was usually success in keeping the general public unaware of the regimes’ excesses.

7. Obsession with national security. Inevitably, a national security apparatus was under direct control of the ruling elite. It was usually an instrument of oppression, operating in secret and beyond any constraints. Its actions were justified under the rubric of protecting “national security,” and questioning its activities was portrayed as unpatriotic or even treasonous.

8. Religion and ruling elite tied together. Unlike communist regimes, the fascist and protofascist regimes were never proclaimed as godless by their opponents. In fact, most of the regimes attached themselves to the predominant religion of the country and chose to portray themselves as militant defenders of that religion. The fact that the ruling elite’s behavior was incompatible with the precepts of the religion was generally swept under the rug. Propaganda kept up the illusion that the ruling elites were defenders of the faith and opponents of the “godless.” A perception was manufactured that opposing the power elite was tantamount to an attack on religion.

9. Power of corporations protected. Although the personal life of ordinary citizens was under strict control, the ability of large corporations to operate in relative freedom was not compromised. The ruling elite saw the corporate structure as a way to not only ensure military production (in developed states), but also as an additional means of social control. Members of the economic elite were often pampered by the political elite to ensure a continued mutuality of interests, especially in the repression of “have-not” citizens.

10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated. Since organized labor was seen as the one power center that could challenge the political hegemony of the ruling elite and its corporate allies, it was inevitably crushed or made powerless. The poor formed an underclass, viewed with suspicion or outright contempt. Under some regimes, being poor was considered akin to a vice.

11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts. Intellectuals and the inherent freedom of ideas and expression associated with them were anathema to these regimes. Intellectual and academic freedom were considered subversive to national security and the patriotic ideal. Universities were tightly controlled; politically unreliable faculty harassed or eliminated. Unorthodox ideas or expressions of dissent were strongly attacked, silenced, or crushed. To these regimes, art and literature should serve the national interest or they had no right to exist.

12. Obsession with crime and punishment. Most of these regimes maintained Draconian systems of criminal justice with huge prison populations. The police were often glorified and had almost unchecked power, leading to rampant abuse. “ Normal ” and political crime were often merged into trumped-up criminal charges and sometimes used against political opponents of the regime. Fear, and hatred, of criminals or “traitors” was often promoted among the population as an excuse for more police power.

13. Rampant cronyism and corruption. Those in business circles and close to the power elite often used their position to enrich themselves. This corruption worked both ways; the power elite would receive financial gifts and property from the economic elite, who in turn would gain the benefit of government favoritism. Members of the power elite were in a position to obtain vast wealth from other sources as well: for example, by stealing national resources. With the national security apparatus under control and the media muzzled, this corruption was largely unconstrained and not well understood by the general population.

14. Fraudulent elections. Elections in the form of plebiscites or public opinion polls were usually bogus. When actual elections with candidates were held, they would usually be perverted by the power elite to get the desired result. Common methods included maintaining control of the election machinery, intimidating an disenfranchising opposition voters, destroying or disallowing legal votes, and, as a last resort, turning to a judiciary beholden to the power elite.

Each of the foregoing stages has been fully implemented. Couple this with the known conspiracy to over through the US Government by the JP Morgan banking interest during Roosevelt’s administration, and one can see that Democracy died many years ago.

The Ism of Destruction: Part Two

This series of essays relates to Capitalism, and how it has been a tool to promote the demise of Democracy. The theory is that Private Capitalism does not work within a system designed to promote the ends of justice, because Private Capitalization as the reader of these essays will discern, promotes injustice and a transition to an ulterior form of governance.

Volume 2 :Capitalism and the Age of Opium

In the early 1800's, China , by its own design, was still largely cut off from trade with the outside world. All trade with Europe was channeled through one port, Canton . Even there, Europeans could only trade through specially designated Chinese agents known as co-hong. Several Chinese products, such as silk and porcelain, were in high demand in Europe, but the most popular trade item in the early 1800's was tea, consumption of which increased by a factor of 30 times between 1720 and 1830. Unfortunately, the tea trade led to a serious drain of silver from Britain. “The British East India Company”, desperate for something to offset this trade imbalance, found such a commodity in opium, which not only upset China's balance of trade, but the stability of its whole society. American merchants were enlisted to provide the opium in trade protected by the British crown. It was from here that the American founding families made their fortune.

William H. Russell (Skull &Bones; co-founder-Yale University, 1832) cousin Samuel Russell formally established Russell & Co. on January 1, 1824 for the purpose of acquiring opium and smuggling it into China . Russell & Co. merged with the number one US trader, the J. & T. H. Perkins "Boston Concern" in 1829. By the mid-1830s the opium trade had become "the largest commerce of its time in any single commodity, anywhere in the world."

Links between the drug trade, European colonial expansion, the creation of the global capitalist system and the creation of the modern state are closely intertwined. It is said that one would not exist without the other. It is possible to suggest a hypothesis, that mass consumption, as it exists in modern society, began with drug addiction. And, beyond that, addiction began with a drug as a commodity. Something was necessary to initiate the cycles of production, consumption and accumulation that we identify with capitalism. In the nineteenth century, Opium was the catalyst of the consumer market, the money economy and even of capitalist production itself.

So Capitalism, as an economic form, evolved from unlawful and debasing activity, and the wealth of capitalists instead of confiscation, became a tool of governance and control and therefore of political corruption.

Opium was the tool of the capitalist, first used against the peasants and the lower and middle classes in transforming them, and in so doing monetizing their lifestyles. Opium was able to generate thus create pools of capital to feed the institutions that accumulated and accommodated it: the banking and financial systems, the insurance systems and the transportation and information infrastructures. Those structures and that economy have, in large part, been inherited by the successor nations of that state of the world, and today it is not only opium, but cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, meth, and ecstasy, each drug has its recourse through the channels of government where it becomes the tool of capital and protected by administrations and their secret communities.

Opium smuggling didn’t just make money. At times, opium was money. Opium built empires and had a hand in financing much of the world’s infrastructure, the railroads, and steam lines, and all major industry and not only in America .

Drug trade tends to destabilized existing societies not merely because they destroy individual human beings, but more importantly, because they have the power to undercut the existing political economy. They create new forms of capital; and they redistribute wealth in an upward mobility.

It is for this reason that their will be a perpetual “War on Drugs” because the government itself is responsible for its importation, and distribution, in actuality drug use is a tax upon the poor and middle class of any nation, and the intelligence communities of each import and distribute it, and the benefits are channeled to that end. It is the same; there is no distinction between the creation of money, as a tax upon the people and the sale of drugs, the distinction relates only to whom the tax is paid. In the former it is the bank that receives the tax, and in the later it is the government agent.

Capitalism is inherently self disruptive of commerce, the reason being, that Capitalists are self serving. Their goal is not to advance society, but to enslave it, and it is all based on a single standard, Greed!

The Ism of Destruction

This series of essays relates to Capitalism, and how it has been a tool to promote the demise of Democracy. The theory is that Private Capitalism does not work within a system designed to promote the ends of justice, because Private Capitalization as the reader of these essays will discern, promotes injustice and a transition to an ulterior form of governance.

Volume 1 ~ An Introduction:

“Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.” — John Adams (Vice President under George Washington and Second President of the United States )

The reader and observer of democracy will feel sadness and despair at its passing, but the irony is, that it could not have been prevented.

America, as a nation, has passed that defining moment in its history and from where generations yet to come may question, how the greatest experiment of antiquity failed. The framers of our government, they will find, could not protect against the insentient appetite of capital greed.

America is truly the last republic, but it had a run of just over 200 years, while Rome the model of our government had over 450. The similarities leading each to its collapse are astounding:
(1) The Roman Republic was governed by a complex constitution, which centered on the principles of a separation of powers and checks and balances.
(2) The evolution of the constitution was heavily influenced by the struggle between the aristocracy, or the patricians, and other talented Romans who were not from famous families, the plebeians.
(3) Early in its history, the republic was controlled by an aristocracy of individuals who could trace their ancestry back to the early history of the kingdom. Over time, the laws that allowed these individuals to dominate the government were repealed, and the result was the emergence of a new aristocracy which depended on the structure of society, rather than the law, to maintain its dominance.
(4) Thus, only a revolution could overthrow this new aristocracy.
(5) The Republic collapsed under the weight of corruption.

The similarities are striking, what we have lost, in America, can not be measured in wealth as it transcends political and economic virtues and platitudes, expelling with it the interest of a “myth”, the immutable facade called liberty. We have lost that one defining character by which we, as a people, have been defined, our interests in Liberty and the principle of self government has been but a grand illusion. We have come to learn that the capitalists are the banks that control even the government of the United States and because of this control our form of governance had to be transitioned.

It was John Adams that said “Freedom can never be restored. Liberty , once lost, is lost forever.” Yet in America , we shared not liberty but its illusion, fashioned from the evolvement of the European banking interests, and called capitalism. Yet by any other name, capitalism is still fascism, because fascism is the ultimate evolution of capitalism.

Remarkably, we as a people have allowed our nation to embark on that path, that subway from which there is no exit, and from where there is no return! There is no light at the end, only more darkness, a darkness that has enshrined us. It is as our wealth has been manipulated by that shadow, which now stands fading in the light that has caused us to reminisce. Too late we stand in the doorway of ourselves and look frenetically into that blackness.

We as both a people and a nation have lost that which we were, that for which we were intended, a greatness above all, and a shining example to humanity. It was not through innocence, but insolence of a false sense of knowledge that we were deceived. We believed in a system that advanced its own interests above ours, and by whose very virtues, and vanity we have been enslaved, that system known and devised to all as capitalism, the means to provide sustenance for labor took as it always intended, and dishonored us. It now transcends the human experience by altering our form of governance.

What is capitalism, but control of a specific commodity or market, and the means by which to control that commodity and to create that market, but eviscerated through the control of government, our government.

The theory, Capitalism, is nothing more than that by which those at the top multiply their wealth, at the expense of labor. Yet there are no Criteria by which capital is to multiply and as that is true, there are instances where capital has multiplied through illegal and corrupt practices, and continues there today.

Capital is more so advanced through corruption, than by any other means, through deception, bribes, and illegal acts, through protective legislation, and wars, capitalism then, as it survives through these channels is a false theory of economic enterprise, corrupting governments as it corrupts individuals who serve at their will.

The Enslavement of Mankind

Capitalist have made their wealth from the suffering of humanity. The early capitalists: The English Corporation instrumental in populating the New World was the “Royal African Company”. Chartered in 1672, this company proceeded to take a significant part in the slave trade. For the profit of “shareholders”, it brought to the western hemisphere masses of men and women who had been taken from Africa against their will. Eventually, many thousands of white merchants and seamen on both sides of the Atlantic participated in this unjust commerce, including several hundred from Massachusetts and Rhode Island and very prominent American families. The total number of Africans transported to the New World was about 10 million. Their destination was usually Brazil or one of the Caribbean sugar islands, but some 596,000, or about one of every 17, went to areas that became part of the United States .

The advent of capitalism and its values represented a “reversal of a millennial moral consensus” Capitalism has superseded democracy, encouraged corruption and greed, and failed our nation.

The failure of our government is the outgrowth of a system prone to self-destruct.

Layered Capitalism and the Fall of Democracy

The Banks have taken control over all major American Corporations. With this they control not only the corporation, but our very existence as a free people. Our media, (Radio, Television, and Print) are controlled, our medical care can be denied, as they own the hospitals and insurance companies. Our jobs can be terminated by their will as they control every one of the fortune 500 companies. Credit can be denied as they are the providers. The Banks today touch and control every aspect of our lives.

The Facts:

The Federal Reserve System, established by Bankers, has allowed moneyed monopolies, which they control, to spring board control over all of our lives, whether our industries, the Media (Radio and Television), our hospitals, our manufacturing, our Newspapers, our Pharmaceutical companies, our oil companies, or any of the fortune 500 companies. The Banks and their investment vehicles control every single corporation that is a part of any facet of our existence. It is by virtue of this complete control over the financial resources of our industry and employment that they control without limit those very individuals who are elected to public office and through them the government of the United States.

These same corporations control everything and even control each other in layers, having set up their own investment vehicles in which each of these players own an interest. It doesn’t matter if one corporation such as Lehman Bros. fails they own Goldman Sachs also, in fact they own them all!

These insidious corporations controlled by possibly 10 families are: (i) JP Morgan; (ii) Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd; (iii) State Street Corporation; (iv) FMR Corporation (Fidelity Management & Research Corp); (v) Vanguard Group, Inc.; (vi) Mellon Financial Corporation; (vii) Legg Mason Inc.; (viii)Morgan Stanley; (ix)Bank Of America Corporation; (x) Franklin Resources, Inc.; (xi) Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; (xii) Janus Capital Management, LLC; (xiii) Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc.; (xiv) Bank of New York Mellon Corporation; (xv) Northern Trust Corporation; (xvi) AXA (Paris, France); (xvii) Wellington Management Company, LLP; and (xviii) Capital Research Global Investors. Each company is related to the others.

The observer will notice an overlay of corporations that control not only the “target” Corporation, but the entity that invests in the target corporate. In the Examples below you will see that State Street Corporation, for example, invests in Price (T. Rowe) while Price (T. Rowe) invests in State Street Corporation, yet the investors in each are the same players, using these vehicles to layer and conceal their identity while they control another corporation such as Hewett Packard or Alcoa or American Express or A T & T or any of the other fortune 500 companies.

Another example is JP Morgan and Northern Trust Corporation, follow the money and you will see that these Banks and investment pools they control, own or control everything in the United States. Thus all of our income, wherever we spend it, goes to them. What ever we want, what ever we need we pay the Banks for the privilege of acquiring it. If we work for Wal-Mart, we are working for these banks and their investment pools e.g. Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd; State Street Corporation; Vanguard Group, Inc.; FMR LLC (Fidelity); Morgan Stanley; Dodge & Cox Inc..; AXA (Paris, France); Capital World Investors; Bank of New York Mellon Corporation; Wellington Management Company, LLP.

If you work for Verizon you are working for these same banks e.g. Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; Capital World Investors; State Street Corporation; Vanguard Group, Inc.; AXA (Paris, France); Capital Research Global Investors; FMR LLC (Fidelity); Morgan Stanley; and Northern Trust Corporation.

If you need a prescription drug or over the counter product you would buy a product manufactured by either: Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, AstraZeneca, Merck, Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth, Eli Lilly & Co., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., or McKesson Corp. In either event these competing companies are all controlled by the same banking interest e.g. Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd; State Street Corporation; Vanguard Group, Inc.; FMR LLC (Fidelity); Morgan Stanley; JP Morgan, Wellington Management Company, LLP, AXA (Paris, France), Bank Of America Corporation, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Janus Capital Management, LLC.

The Banks even invest in each other for example the investors in JP Morgan are: Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd; AXA (Paris, France); State Street Corporation; Vanguard Group, Inc., FMR LLC (Fidelity) Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, Capital Research Global Investors, and Northern Trust Corporation.

The investors in Goldman Sachs Group for example are: Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; State Street Corporation; FMR LLC (Fidelity); Vanguard Group, Inc.; Wellington Management Company, LLP.; AXA (Paris, France); Janus Capital Management, LLC; Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc.; and Northern Trust Corporation.

If you get seriously ill and are hospitalized, you will be admitted to one of these hospitals, HCA Inc, Health Management Associates Inc., Tenet Healthcare Corp., Triad Hospitals Inc., or Community Health Systems, Inc., your insurance will benefit these investors; FMR Corporation (Fidelity Management & Research Corp); T. Rowe Price Associates; Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; Mellon Financial Corporation; Franklin Resources, Inc.; Vanguard Group, Inc.; JP Morgan Chase & Co.; and State Street Corporation.

The investors in Janus Capital Group Inc. who invests as a separate entity are: AXA (Paris, France); Vanguard Group, Inc.; Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; State Street Corporation; Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc.; FMR LLC (Fidelity).

The investors in Legg Mason Inc., are AXA (Paris, France); Price (T. Rowe) Associates Inc.; Barclays Global Investors UK Holdings Ltd.; Vanguard Group, Inc.; Goldman Sachs Group Inc.; State Street Corporation; Franklin Resources, Inc. Legg Mason has subsidiaries such as Private Capital Management Inc. and Royce & Associates, these entities may invest separate from or in addition to Legg Mason.

Do you get the picture?

We’ve been suckered because of corruption that began before we were even born, bribery and deception and the total control over the money of America, the 1913 passage of the Federal Reserve Act. Because of this control over our money, the banks have become so powerful, that they are no longer capable of being restrained. The Government has and will continue to cower before them, as we have already observed, with the trillions of dollars in bailouts, all at our expense.

Did the banks need the bail out money?

Absolutely not! They could have sold shares in one or more of the companies they control! The value is in the Trillions. It’s now strictly a give and take, we are required to give, and they to take the remainder of our wealth, until we as a nation are bled to death, and then the form of this government will change more to their liking. If we allow this travesty to continue unabated, Democracy is finished, and so too is America.