Trade treaties, mega-corporations, and worldwide socialismBy Jon Rappoport The ever-emerging popular image of socialism: a humane government colossus controls the means of production for the benefit of the people; and share-the-wealth at all levels of society comes alive. This is political theory for children in a condition of arrested developmentfor example, college students and Hollywood actors who long for lunch at the White House. (The Underground, Jon Rappoport) I use the loaded word socialism in the headline, because its important to understand that Globalism is a form of socialism. That may not sit well with some people, because they believe in the socialism team and they think that team is against Globalism. Nothing could be further from the truth. Its about time they woke up. Globalism was born out of the triumphs of cutthroat capitalists like Rockefeller, and out of the triumphs of international bankers like Rothschild and Warburg. These men made a decision quite natural for them: By hook and by crook Ive acquired my fortune; now I want a monopoly; I want to cut out the competition; I want empire; therefore, I have to control governments; I want to make governments more powerful, so by controlling them I control society. What better way to make governments more powerful than by forming a long-term (criminal) collaboration with mega-corporations, including major banks? Governments plus giant corporations. Does that equal socialism? You can quibble and say the corporations are really in charge and therefore this arrangement isnt socialism. Call it oligarchy. Call it runaway capitalism or the corporate state. The collaboration among governments, mega-corporations, and bankers is the triangle. Its the engine of control. It grossly limits freedom. It claims, through propaganda, that its government wing is for the people. Thats utter nonsense, of course. Todays socialists believe government is the answer to the control of society by big money and big greed. Thats a delusion. The governments are on the side of big money. Socialists also like to say that governments are weak sisters in the pocket of the corporations, and therefore the governments must become stronger. Another dangerous fantasy. The last time I looked at America, for example, the government had an extensive military, a dizzying number of spying agencies, and a gigantic Justice Department that could make arrests and put criminals on trial. If thats weak, whats strong? Who are the major money men of Wall Street the US government has thrown in prison? Who are the mega-corporate thugs the government has sent away for life terms? The government is firmly in bed with the corporations. Committed. Purposefully. All the trade treatiesGATT, NAFTA, CAFTA, the TPP, etc.are basically instruments of the government-corporate collaboration. They strengthen the corporations and they strengthen the de facto global management system, which is government on a far larger scale. Securing monopoly requires controlling governments and making those governments more and more repressive, in order to put populations under control. It makes perfect sense, if youre a billionaire/ trillionaire sociopath. When I say Globalists controlling governments, Im talking about a partnership, and if one partner, equipped with armies, spies, and prosecutors, surrenders to the other partner, thats a form of extreme cowardice. Just one example: the current Globalist TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) negotiation is secret, as are the details of the treaty. But any legislator in any of the 12 member nations could step out of the shadows and communicate everything he knows about whats in the treatyif he wanted to. In the US, a senator might, at the extreme, spend a night in jail for violating Executive Branch regulations on classified data. He would also spark a much needed Constitutional crisis, and he would become a popular hero. But no; so far, no US Senator or Congressman has dared to spill all the beans. Voluntary surrender of power. Of course, when government surrenders its powers long enough (since roughly 1913 in the US), and when Globalists/Socialists are brought into one key government position after another, up to and including the Presidency, the corruption runs very, very deep. Does this sound like a benign State that wants to do everything it can to help the people? Does this sound like heraldic Socialism determined to build a peaceful and fair society? Right now, President Obama is running around in a panic, trying to put together enough Congressional votes to pass the TPP. Does that sound like a man who wants to rescue the American people from the mega-corporations? The so-called classic definition of socialism: government controls the means of production. Just change that a bit: government, in criminal collaboration with mega-corporations, controls the means of production. Split hairs if you want to; but its a distinction without a difference. George Bush the Elder (Globalist), who briefly served as the director of the CIA and a director of the Council on Foreign Relations (Rockefeller/Globalist powerhouse), ran for a second term in the White House against neophyte Bill Clinton (Globalist). Under ordinary circumstances, there was no way Bush could have lost. But it was Globalist vs. Globalist. A distinction without a difference. There are still hope-and-change people out there who wonder how their man, Obama, could be supporting Monsanto. They havent gotten the memo yet. Obama is a Globalist. Monsanto is a mega-corporation. GMO crops? Roundup? The health dangers of GMOs and pesticides? Irrelevant. None Dare Call It Conspiracy by Gary Allen, 1971: most of us believe socialism is what the socialists want us to believe it isa share-the wealth program Here in the reality of socialism you have a tiny oligarchial clique at the top, usually numbering no more than three percent of the total population, controlling the total wealth, total production and the very lives of the other ninety-seven percent. If one understands that socialism is not a share-the-wealth program, but is in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth, then the seeming paradox of super-rich men promoting socialism becomes no paradox at all. Instead it becomes the logical, even the perfect tool of power-seeking megalomaniacs. In America, untold numbers of young college students are being conscripted into the illusion of government-as-savior. Matriculating on the basis of government student loans, having to go deep into debt to pay back those loans, these young people are already wards of the State. For them, the only question is: how can they minimize the interest on the loans? Otherwise, they see government and its support of politically correct behavior and speech as conditioning mechanisms leading to a better world. This is Pathetic Mind Control 101. As part of this political correctness, the students are taught to rail against big corporations, never realizing their adored Mommy-Daddy Government is an active partner in crime with the corporations. Reform government. Make government better. Make government more responsive to the people. This is like hoping to stage a conciliatory dialogue with a T-Rex in Jurassic Park. Socialismthe nightmare it representsis the premier vehicle for those super-rich men who have limitless political goals that add up to population control. The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here. We tend to believe its the corporations in charge of the governments, and although this is true, corporations are owned by people and the wealthiest people on the planet own the majority of the most powerful corporations. Some have tried to figure out the web of ownership and power these people exert through global corporations. Its difficult to do since the super wealthy are able to hide what they own. It may be true that gains are privatized and losses are socialized, but it is a new form of fascism were seeing. Traditional socialism was able to provide some benefits to regular working folks and the poor. These things are systematically being taken away. If you look at the increased military actions and the installation of brutal police states, this is indicative of what the overlords think is around the corner. Corporations should go the way of the dinosaurthis whole thing about connection is absurd. the gold collar criminals want to control the wealth so they do not have to work. A bunch of soft handed bozos. All corrupt systems of governance are in reality a method to consolidate and control the wealth and remain so as long as real democratic institutions like a free press; broad, diverse education; unrigged voting machines; independent judiciary; anticorruption authority etc are in place and healthy. Governments plus giant corporations does not equal socialism. It is called fascism. Just like the National Socialists, Nazi for short Being an adult means you no longer need to be governed. Grow up. Anarchy means no rulers, not no government or governance. When people grow up they realise provision has to be made for the halt, the lame and the weak in all civilised societies worth the name. Perhaps you have a better solution than the one which has made the West so enviable to the rest of the world (doubtless faulted, frail and all too human) democratic socialism, such as is practiced in all advanced nations beyond feudal dictatorship level. 