Time To Tame Corporate Power

"<a href="http://www.thegreatboycott.net">REVOLT AGAINST THE EMPIRE WELCOME TO THE GREAT BOYCOTT</a>/ by Jon Rappoport <p>This is a boycott against the eight biggest pesticide companies in the world, but it is much more than that. It's a boycott against THE POWER and against a way of life represented by all the gigantic multinational corporations, which every day extend their control over the planet. By the time you finish reading this material you'll realize how destructive their power is, in detail. You'll understand more clearly why these simple stark things need to be done: <li>1. stop buying these corporations' products; <li>2. don't buy their stock on whatever exchanges they're traded; <li>3. demand that others including institutions sell their stock in these companies; <li>4. don't work for these corporations; <li>5. find a way to personally pass on the word. <p>This is definitely a PASS IT ON thing. <p>The eight corporations to be boycotted are: <li>· Dow <li>· Du Pont <li>· Monsanto <li>· Imperial Chemical Industries <li>· Novartis <li>· Rhone Poulenc <li>· Bayer <li>· Hoechst <p>There is one overriding reason for going after these eight corporations. They are all forwarding <a href="http://www.thegreatboycott.net/biotech.html">genetic projects</a> to engineer food seeds so that our food supply in the fields will accept much higher doses of herbicides without curling up and dying. This will drench both the soil and our bodies with corporate toxic chemicals and improve their profit statements. <p>Of course, these mega-companies are up to their eyeballs in poisons. Poisons, you might say, are their life. These corporations and others like them stand for control of the planet, as around us the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. <p>Huge multinationals, of course blur with governments, thereby availing themselves of important political connections, intelligence agencies, military links. Despite protestations to the contrary, multinationals that destroy the world's air, water, soil, trees and human/animal health don't consider life the bottom line. Money and power are always the bottom line. Toxic clean-ups and smokestack filters notwithstanding. <li>· Shall we passively go along with the redefinition of global life as 'units produced' and 'number of android employees hypnotized into loving the cubicle, the factory line, the lab, the computer station'? <li>· Shall we say this is the highest and best expression of life on this planet? <li>· Shall we say we accept a planet seeping with chemical poisons? <li>· Shall we decide to create a pink fluff of "spirituality" around our heads and buffer ourselves off from the destruction of the natural world? <li>· Shall we pretend that electing people from one party or another to national office will unseat these corporate rulers? <li>· Shall we fake it entirely? <li>· Shall we imagine that growing a little organic garden in the backyard will completely stop the annual use in the U.S. of six trillion pounds of industrial chemicals? We are dealing with monopolies. A monopoly will say or do anything to dominate its chosen sphere. You throw out a monopoly by doing two things: <li>1. boycotting the hell out of it as described above; <li>2. and then developing real alternatives for their toxic products. <p>So, yes, the worldwide revolution in organic growing of food is a tremendous alternative to pesticide mongers, but not without a powerful, loud and ongoing boycott. These companies, if forced into lower production of pesticides, will try ANYTHING to win. Hell, they'll sell the idea that tons of their organophosphates should be released into outer space to kill floating viruses! And you know what? Millions of brain-dead TV-watchers would buy in. <p>If you think I'm exaggerating in estimating how far multinationals will go in trying to peddle their toxins, meditate on the fact that the completely descredited and horrible drug, Thalidomide, a sedative that caused massive deformation in babies, is now being tested on people with AIDS. <p>Dow and Monsanto would still be selling their stocks of Agent Orange left over from the Vietnam War if enough people hadn't kept up a thunder of protest about dioxin, the molecule this defoliant contained which causes cancer, birth defects and immune suppression, and is called by scientists the most poisonous small molecule on the planet. <p>So the answer to a monopoly is: boycott it and lay down real alternatives to the needs it pretends to fill. <p>The Great Boycott is not being run as an organization with a single leader and a cadre of assistants. It is being run by YOU. On your own you'll find new nasty multinationals to add to the list and you'll spell out the reasons why. You'll discover good boycotts already underway sponsored by people who have worked harder than any of us for years, decades. This boycott if it succeeds will be run by small groups of people all over the world using the Internet, faxes, home-grown articles, videos, audio tapes. Using self published booklets, papers, info sheets, flyers. In LA we're going to have monthly meetings to keep our participation moving out into wider circles. <p>The way things look, unless we launch a major effort our human societies in the 21st Century are going to disappear up their own anuses. If that's too graphic for you, take a look some time at Rocky Flats, Colorado, world center for poisonous leaking chemicals; or look at a baby deformed by these chemicals. That's what graphic really is. Steady state politeness and niceness are not going to carry the day. Don't knuckle under. Don't believe liars. Don't march off the cliff. Boycott!" <p>Sounds good to me!

You may want to go further and boycott any store selling their products and make it known why you are doing it.

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

Shoot the bastards!

Interesting story Milton.
One question.
If all this enviromental pollution is true,why are the people not dying by the thousnds?

What is the level of well being of the population, the quality of their lives? How many people die per day on this planet?

Have no idea how to find the answers to that one Milton.