March 23, 2004
The hired hands of Big Business, the
thugs who are making up the somewhat credible-looking façade of the
government of the Unites States and many other countries are well on the way
of changing the complete mechanisms by which the world is run.
Their buddies in Europe in this
Mafioso enactment of the big scheme are the new socialists, Gerard Schröder
of Germany and the New Labour apostle Tony Blair of Britain. The so called
rightist governments of France, Italy and, until recently, Spain are not
noticeably different from the ‘new socialists’. They seem to have reunited
themselves in what is known as the ‘third’ way. Left and right seem to be
concepts without any real meaning and at this stage of the game, we seem to
be all charging forth to accommodate the robots with the cold hands who have
bought up the politicians of the world. It’s a champagne and caviar party
for the 1% of the 1% of the people of the earth and the rest of us are
paying for it.
The buying of the world is what this
is all about, the privatization of all the
utilities that we thought of as belonging to the realm of local and federal
government. Naïvely, it seemed to us that everybody on the planet should
have a right to clean water, a non-toxic environment and even, if the
standard of living is up to the task of supplying it in a specific country,
such utilities as proper sewerage and electricity, access to basic education
and freedom from religious persecution. And if the standard of living is not
up to this task, then for shame, make it up to the formerly so mercilessly
exploited countries and pay them back for the disgraceful and humiliating
ways you once treated them during the colonial and the slave trade era.
The world can, at this point, well
afford these fundamental humanitarian rights. The big ‘if’ however, is: does
the world want a reasonably egalitarian division of wealth and resources?
The present state of the world does not point in that direction. We are in
fact moving very fast in the completely opposite direction, as the mass of
the wealth of the top one percent of the people of the world equals the
combined wealth of millions of poverty-stricken masses in Africa, Asia and
in Latin America. In the United States itself, millions of people do not
have sufficient means to afford proper housing, food, health care and
schooling. And this even more so than in Europe, where the highly praised
and by many Americans hated and feared “socialist” system keeps the larger
part of our populations from starving or living this life on the fringe that
can hardly be considered living. The ‘socialist devil’ is a notion kept
alive by the propaganda spewing mass media playing up to the corporate
world. I am by no means though implying that we in Europe have found the
humanitarian formula for a reasonable distribution of wealth. People in
Europe are also dying from cold and excessive heat and general social
negligence, maybe just in a somewhat more visible way than in the often
forgotten corners of the United States and in what is generally called the
third world.
However, the ‘populist’ governments
of ‘old’ Europe are gradually and very discretely being undermined by the
new winds of corporatism, privatization and
blindness to the basic needs of the people. Humanitarian considerations are
being ignored for the profit of the very few and extremely greedy
corporations which assure us that they will supply all people, without
consideration of race, creed or social standing, with the universally needed
commodities and rights to a civilized life. They promise green pastures
without the slightest intention of being held to their promises, once they
have taken over utilities and services. They, like their puppets in
government positions, are totally callous, totally unaware of any ‘basic
rights’ for all people. Money speaks – everything else is ignored.
The mafia that is running the world
in the name of God and democracy are as little concerned with those laudable
ideas as the cavemen who killed their enemies for a desired booty. In fact,
the sense of humanitarian cooperation and sharing, at least within the
tribe, was most certainly more strongly developed in those ‘uncivilized’
times than in today’s grab-what-you-can-get-your-hands-on mentality.
And I haven’t even begun to mention
how the planet is gradually being made not just the booty of the wealthy
few, but also and foremost is being made into a waste land that will not in
a near future be able to sustain the growing population of the earth.
The challenge to the minority of the
people who are aware of the self-destroying state of the world and of the
deepening chasm between rich and poor is not to try to convert the owners of
the wealth of the planet, which would be a totally hopeless venture, but to
force a change by the brute power of the masses of people who have during
the past few years amply shown that they are not going to put up with being
robbed of their very shirts. The millions and millions of angry people will
not put up much longer with the self-serving structure that the very few are
busy installing on this planet, the callous and blind charging ahead in the
name of financial profit to the accompaniment of the growing decay of the
world.
Previous empires have all been
caught by their own excesses and the essential thing at this time is to make
it happen sooner and not later. The mental disorder of greed and hunger for
power and Machiavellian rule must be seen and treated for what it is, a
highly contagious disease that will have disastrous consequences if not
fought back by all possible means. Not tomorrow, but today!
