example: In Beijing, let the (choke) Games (cough, cough) begin! sf chron, 8-6-08
The danger pollution poses to athletes participating in the Olympics in China has attracted a good deal of media attention to the seriousness of China's pollution problem.
Although our Corporate Media cannot ignore the filth that China is drowning in, they have roundly failed to put together the big picture: The filth of China is the byproduct of moving virtually all of our manufacturing to a police state with little or no environmental, labor, safety, or health laws.
The fact is, that without the help and assistance of our corporations and corporate government, China would not have been capable of stealing our manufacturing, and drowning itself in its own filth.
By ignoring our assistance and complicity in China's fouling itself and the world, the corporate press can ignore the social and political changes here in the US that are paralleling the growth of China's wealth and filth.
Our corporate press blinds itself to the fact that China's filth, as well at the massive new wealth of China, are the byproducts of moving American manufacturing to China, and dividing the wealth of the American middle-class between China and American corporations.
The wealth of China is substantially composed of their share of the profits generated by destroying the American middle-class. The filth and pollution in China, and the spread of poverty here, are the environmental and social by-products of this great rip-off.
The other partners in dividing up our middle-class's share of our nation's wealth live here in the US. They are the Corporate Masters who fund Both of our Domestic Political Parties. They are the American Corporate Elite. They have sold the health, welfare, and security of our country down the river to increase their hold on illegitimate political power and push their profits to historic highs.
Don't be fooled by the rhetoric of "globalism" and "a better way of life." These are merely the new code words for the same old stuff: empire and aristocracy.
Our Corporate elite are just the new, modern version of the same old pretension to aristocratic superiority sufficient to justify an empire ruled by the rich and powerful, rather than a domestic government by and for the people. The previous global empire was colonial, ours is corporate. The previous aristocracy was based on blood lines and land, ours is the boardroom and the foundation. Despite this evolution of aristocracy and empire, both are still based on naked industrial, financial, and military power.
These are exactly the same pretensions of top-down rule that our Revolution defeated, and our Constitution once checked. But no more. The corporate aristocracy has arisen, and it brooks no check on its power.
The aristocrats are back in charge of America, but this time they wear suits and ties. And our modern corporate aristocrats are very supportative of China's Industrial Police State, not just because of how it enriches them, but also out of envy of China's unchecked open combination of political and economic power.
Democracy has nothing to do with what our government and corporations are doing here at home or around the world.
China has been vital to the Corporate theft of the American middle-class"s share of our nation's wealth and political power. Without China's help killing our middle-class, our corporations may have fallen short of the wealth needed to bribe both political parties into submission.
The fact is that corporate bribery owns both parties. When this fact is combined with the destruction of our middle-class, we can see how the China trade has played a vital role in the corporate takeover of our government. The final result is that we have experienced the loss of our Constitutional right to rule ourselves through democratic processes.
Today, our government is ruled by a very small economic elite of self-appointed corporate "superiors," rather than through democratic processes. Government and society are being effectively ruled and regulated by the wealth of the corporate class, when our Constitution calls on our citizens, joined together in democratic government, to regulate all the affairs of our nation, including business.
Because the filth of China is the byproduct of the corporate thievery of our rights and money, we can't expect the corporate lapdog press to report this story. We can't expect them to inform us that the US is the biggest purchaser of China's industrial production, and therefore the greatest funder of China's filth. Without the vital oversight of a free press we are are kept in the dark about the fact that we are not just funding the filth of China. We are also funding their powerful domestic police state. We are also funding China's growing power and influence around the world.
So we only get half the story: The Corporate press points out the pollution, but does not have the balls to track it to it's source in American boardrooms and Congress, let alone tie the Olympics of Filth to the many crimes of the Chinese Government.
Although the Corporate Press is silent, silence cannot protect us from the dangerous consequences of funding and encouraging China's filth, and covering it with the credibility of the Olympics.
Ultimately, the filth of China blows across the Pacific, along with container ships filled with consumer crap, back into the US. In the final analysis the irresponsible profits of our international corporations, and their supposed "better way of life" has not only fouled the air and water of China, but has fouled the air and water of the whole planet. China is just their biggest smokestack.
Our corporation's successful use of China to concentrate massive profits has given them sufficient wealth and power to bribe both parties into abject submission. This in turn allowed the corporations to shift virtually all of our manufacturing overseas, which has plunged billions of people around the world into grinding industrial poverty, destroyed the American middle-class, and has so polluted the environment that the seasons have changed.
While we were being robbed of our riches and rights, the corporations and their bribed politicians have been crowing about how much wealth they created. The numbers look great until you look closer, and see that all the wealth they created went into their own pockets.
The Corporate Press and Politicians always omit the most important point when they brag about all the money they are making: most is stolen from our own people and people around the world. Most disturbingly, these profits came at the expense of our civil rights and political freedoms. The result is that all of our political, natural, and social infrastructures have been sucked dry.
The corporations, their lapdog corporate press, and their bribed politicians, all tell us that sending our manufacturing to China is good. Good for them, anyway. It has made them richer and more powerful than the Nazis were at the height of their power.
Besides the environmental filth of China, we have only scratched the surface of what China is doing with their share of the profits of destroying the American middle-class.
At the very least, our money and political support has supercharged China's domestic police state, emboldened their crimes against basic human rights, and has strengthened the hold of the weird commie elite that controls the Chinese Police State.
On a broader scale, our corporate government and our corporations have stood silent and gone on with business as usual, essentially funding China's rape of Tibet, their militarization of Asia, and the expansion of China's global reach and influence.
China's domestic crimes, along with their massive production of filth, are substantially funded by the massive profits generated by allowing Corporate America to move our jobs to China. China and our corporations, with the willing assistance of the thoroughly bribed criminals that run our government, (Both Parties) ate our middle-class. There is only one path we can take to move things in the other direction, and restore our middle-class.
Our goal must be to shut off all trade with China until they establish reasonable political, environmental, product safety, health and labor standards. We must boycott the Olympics of Filth and all of the corporations that are sponsoring it.
Establishing and implementing the trade policies necessary to restore our middle-class is impossible unless we take our government back from corporate control. Until then, I am going to boycott all Chinese products, and I am making it a special point to
Boycott the Olympics of Filth
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