The Elders of Zion Get a Break
In Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world the New Scientist cites a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology study, opening with this:
“AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
The study’s assumptions have attracted some criticism, but complex systems analysts contacted by New Scientist say it is a unique effort to untangle control in the global economy. Pushing the analysis further, they say, could help to identify ways of making global capitalism more stable.”
While the argument that an elite group of bankers have control over the rest of us may carry some weight, the fact of the matter is that the global economy is controlled by a variety of equally avaricious syndicates who I believe should be scrutinized with the same level of disgust that The Occupy Wall Street Movement are making fashionable in New York and around the world.
A case in point: According to the United Nations — itself a den of thieves I might add — international drug cartels and their narco-terrorist enforcers, traffickers on mules, and mules on aeroplanes, down to the street-level pushers, all buoy up a black market [hopelessly under-]estimated at over $400 billion. Notwithstanding that all that money gets laundered through the banks and their clientele of “legit” businesses — an issue for public outcry in of itself — where is the popular outrage about the human misery and hidden costs associated with this capitalist trade? How about organizing a grass-roots protest on the corner of every dope-dealing intersection, posting video clips of pistol-whipped crack-whores on YouTube and exposing the horror of it all for tea-time consumption on cable news?
Concerned Women for America – hardly feminists but lobbyists all the same — estimated ten years ago that in the United States alone pornography accounts for over $100 billion in revenues. With the proliferation of the internet and e-commerce one can only guess at it’s current worth. More so today than a decade ago, the porn industry generates such huge profits that large corporations continue to set moral compunction aside for the thrill that comes with every money-shot they now bankroll and shamelessly distribute. Oui, oui mesdames et messieurs, it is, indeed, a messy business. Enabled by technology and big bucks, multinational corporations have become the institutionalized pimps, peddling nastiness in the guise of “free speech” and “consumer demand” to any paying voyeur who wants to get an eye full.
So, what to do? Picket hotel chains, close them down; tell the cable companies we won’t do business with them even if it means no TV, broadband or mobile phones? Of course, we might consider protesting on the corner of every dope-dealing intersection and kill two birds with one stone perhaps. That’s kind of grass rootsy, isn’t it?
Beyond the parochial interests of the Concerned Women for America and their 2002 report, The Porn Ring Around Corporate White Collars: Getting Filthy Rich, there is no mention of other money makers that line the pockets of fat cats many of whom I suspect control substantial banking interests. No guesstimation of the billions of dollars worldwide extracted from the miserable sex slaves who “service” a burgeoning sex tourism trade, for example. No reference to the corporate pimps who profit from Bangladeshi brothels, Bangkok peep-shows, and well-financed global crime syndicates who truly know no borders, no moral boundaries either.
And don’t get me started on the tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals conglomerates, the military-industrial complex, and what Mickey D can do with his hormone laden beefburgers…yada, yada, yada. All this would require peripatetic picketing that would exhaust even the most passionate primitives, antithetical zeitgeists, and who knows, even sleeper cells.
Rather, I’d like to suggest we keep things in perspective and not get overly excited about a movement protesting the global banking system, multinationals and their nefarious parts. Let’s not read too much into the theses of a triumvirate of complexity theorists waxing hypothetically. If one is serious about affecting change it will take a more thorough analysis of our global inter-dependencies, societal and cultural differences, underhand dealings, and personal motivations than it seems anyone is prepared, or equipped, to undertake.
On a brighter side, what the New Scientist piece does do, if only for it’s readers, is get us Jews off the hook for being the damnable conspirators behind the banks’ centralization of global power. In a quick once over of the list of 50 top international players in the New Scientist article, Goldman Sachs – now that Lehman is defunct – stands alone among a company of distinguished gentiles, itself a sign of the times.
Yes, at last, the Elders of Zion get a break. Thank you New Scientist, thank you.
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