by John Hamer
Is it so difficult to check information to confirm whether or not any premise is true? I have been asked many times when stating a fact to one of these people, to ‘prove it’ but when I offer to do so by pointing them in the right direction, they will often ostentatiously decline the offer on the basis that It cannot possibly be true. It obviously must be extremely difficult for some people to check information though because so many people believe absolutely everything they are told by the mainstream or figures of authority, or simply assume it must be true, without bothering to check it out for themselves.
If a so-called ‘scientist’ suddenly announced via the media that adding arsenic to coffee will increase one’s desirability in the eyes of the opposite sex, would these people blindly ingest it or would a more sensible approach be to double-check the facts first? Obviously everyone knows that arsenic is poisonous, but how many other poisons do we westerners ingest daily because some petty official gave the all-clear to add it into our food supply. I am speaking of such horrors here as; mercury (thimerasol), aspartame, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), fluoride, rBGH, Bisphenol-A, GMOs and others too numerous to mention and all of which appear with monotonous regularity on the ingredients list of popular foodstuffs. A few minutes of research via that invaluable tool, the Internet, which is available to virtually all now, would soon provide a mountain of evidence to demonstrate that these substances are far from the benign entities they are purported to be and indeed are in some cases, bordering on deadly. But are these people aware of this fact? Welcome to the world of the useful idiot.
However, having said all that, to be a truly useful idiot is not just simply a case of for example, taking part in the mass-ingestion of all this filth, but in order to qualify as a bona fide, paid-up member of the club, the really useful idiot is someone of the ilk of the official or the ‘scientist’ who vehemently propounds the purity of these substances. He may also be the dentist who mockingly laughs when questioned about the safety of fluoride in toothpastes or the nurse who threatens to call the Child Protection Service / Social Services if you refuse a vaccination for your newborn baby. It is often also the person who received his standard dose of academic propaganda without ever comprehending the fact that once upon a time, the first rule of ‘good science’ used to be to question everything and not just blindly accept anything laid down by someone claiming authority.
So, the useful idiot is not only conditioned himself, but is also a valuable distribution agent of that conditioning to others. When confronted with a viewpoint which falls outside of his dogmatic stance, his brain shuts down because he has lived most of his life with the ideas and propaganda inherent in a lifetime of brainwashing. To be confronted with the fact that everything he previously thought he knew and has based his entire life upon is false, is an extremely nasty medicine to have to swallow. This is an acknowledged condition known as ‘cognitive dissonance’.
Of course, this all makes the useful idiot the prime target of Elite disinformation campaigns. Nearly all criminal actions by the Elite through their puppets in government, receive their primary support from this portion of the population exactly because they are so easily misled by authority. These people have been conditioned to automatically disbelieve and ridicule anything that comes with the engendered label of ‘conspiracy theory’ and instead of checking facts for themselves, firmly believe that there is no need to do that because if it is deemed to be a conspiracy theory, therefore by definition, it must be utter nonsense.
But why should we bother trying to communicate with these unquestioning robots at all? Surely they are the absolute definition of a lost cause? However, if we can demonstrate that beyond all doubt that just one of their misconceptions is totally without substance and unsupported by facts, it may just be that they are no longer able to assume that any of their other misguided views are of any real substance either. They may eventually be shamed or forced into doing the research, which may then lead to the world-shattering realisation that suddenly they know nothing. I have been in that position myself and believe me it is not a very pleasant place to be. It appears that the whole world has suddenly fallen apart and the question then becomes one of ‘what is actually real and what is not?’ and almost like a child, one has to start re-learning how to relate to this strange new reality, over again.
Eventually though, one accepts the loss of innocence. That dupe that was so convinced of what was right and wrong and certain of his place in the grand scheme of things suddenly finds himself in a scary place, a world he must now investigate alone to determine the truth, instead of being spoon-fed the reality proscribed by faceless others in the world of academia or the media. The empowerment and the sheer awe inherent in this process are almost unbelievable in their scope and have to be experienced to be understood. It is almost like a blind man who can suddenly see after forty years or so of blindness, never knowing what he was missing all that time because he had nothing with which to compare it. But, once the huge leap across this vast chasm has been made, it is not only impossible to go back to being the person we were before; it is absolutely unthinkable so to do.
Of course, no-one regards themselves as a useful idiot, blindly serving the interests of monsters in the cruel and heartless oppression of their fellow man, but the fact remains that many people are in just such a position. You may despise some of them or wish them ill, but please do not give-up on them all. There are some good, honest, well-meaning people amongst their ranks and confronting their unintentional ignorance is not simply just the duty of we who are better informed; it is also an act of compassion towards those who are not.
Corporations
“They decide who governs and how, who serves on courts, what laws are enacted, and whether or not wars are waged. Corporate dominance, especially financial power, and democratic values are incompatible. They operate ruthlessly as private tyrannies. They're predators, we're prey, and every day we're eaten alive. They do it because they can, and in America by mandate. Publicly owned US corporations, including financial ones, must serve shareholders by maximizing equity value through higher profits. They do it by exploiting nations, people and resources ruthlessly. Social responsibility doesn't matter, neither does being worker-friendly, a good citizen, or friend of the earth. Bottom-line priorities alone, matter. Failure to pursue fiduciary responsibilities means possible dismissal or shareholder lawsuits. Yet nothing in America's Constitution or statute laws endow corporations with their rights. They usurped them by co-opting Washington, the nation's courts, state capitals, and city halls. As a result, over half the world's largest economies are corporations. Financial ones controlling the power of money are most dominant. Corporate personhood enhanced their power, yet imagine. Although corporations aren't human, they can live forever, change their identity, reside in many places globally, can't be imprisoned for wrongdoing, and can transform themselves into new entities for any reason. They have the same rights and protections as people without the responsibilities. As a result, they operate freely unrestrained, especially financial giants controlling the power of money at the public's expense.” Stephen Lendman. ‘The Network of Global Corporate Control’, 16th December 2011
Let us begin with a brief comparison of Tanzania (the country) and Goldman Sachs (the corporation):
Tanzania – Annual GNP $2.2bn
25 million people
Goldman – Annual profit $2.2bn
160 partners
Spot the financial similarity and yet the discrepancy in the number of people who ‘benefit’.
At present, giant corporations are becoming larger and larger, buying up their competitors, and bribing and lobbying local authority councillors, mayors and representatives of government to scrap legislation which curbs their insatiable appetite for growth to the detriment of all else. Already, the effect of this covert coup on free trade has left us with shopping malls which are almost exact copies of one another, offering little or no choice for the consumer and thus creating a
virtual cartel. Parking restrictions are being placed by local authorities on roads where small businesses are desperately clinging on to what trade is left. Meanwhile, previously public spaces, even major roads, are being re-routed, driving traffic into giant shopping malls and supermarkets where the seemingly grandiose selection of shops is actually owned by just a handful of mega-corporations.
At present in the relatively small village where I live, opinion is divided on whether the supermarket giant, Tesco should be allowed to build a new store about one mile from the village centre. Those people who say ‘yes’ argue that it will lead to greater choice, more convenience (ie. not having to drive the whole 6 miles or so to the next nearest other supermarket) and best of all to lower prices than are currently available in the existing local shops. I can see the point to a certain extent but I firmly believe that it is far more important to our local community that we retain the existing, small, in many cases, one-man local businesses that have in some instances remained in the same families for a hundred years or more, rather than succumb to the might of the large corporations whose buying power and immoral treatment of suppliers and thus lower prices, will probably lead to the village centre becoming a ghost town in very short order.
In addition, should Tesco (or any other large corporate entity for that matter) decide say, two years hence that profits are not high enough after all, there not being a large enough local population to sustain their desired profit levels, then they will simply cut their losses and leave without so much as a thought to the local economy. The reality then will be that having destroyed all the small, local businesses, then there will be nowhere for the locals to shop and they will wind-up having to travel even further whilst leaving desolation in the village centre itself. It will also have a devastating effect on the local community in terms of job losses. The loss of say 30-40 jobs in a small area such as this would be critical. This scenario has been shown to happen in many, many examples throughout the Western world.
“One of the main problems that we have with our political system in the United States is that in many ways, corporations can literally buy seats in our Congress. We have the United States Supreme Court that recently upheld a decision to allow corporations to spend unlimited amounts on independent expenditures.” Marcy Winograd, Congressional Candidate and co-chair of the Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles
Corporations play a huge role in our day-to-day activities and they are constantly making decisions that have a profound effect on our daily lives. For example, a corporation makes the decision to empty its chemical vats into a nearby river, the water supply is poisoned and residents of the adjacent town fall sick; or a corporation makes the decision to cut costs to increase profits and initiates a round of job losses and thus the community that was formed around the corporation is decimated. We have often been appalled, angry and go on rants about the evil of corporations but according to Professor Simon Baron Cohen, evil itself is not the issue.
Baron-Cohen, an expert in autism and developmental psychology, is also a psychology and psychiatry professor at Cambridge University. For many years he has spent considerable time researching the reasons why people commit vile and heinous acts. His theory is that the lack of empathy is the root cause of all evil deeds and that this lack of empathy can be measured and treated. He also defines empathy as the drive to identify another person's thoughts and feelings combined with the drive to respond appropriately to those thoughts or feelings.
He further asserts that the lack of empathy or failure to utilise it to its full potential is the driving force behind most of what ails our society on a global, domestic, community and family-unit scale. The abstract arenas of diplomatic, legal, and military channels are insufficient to appropriately deal with conflict because their involvement forgoes empathy from entering the picture on a true person-to-person level.
In his books Baron-Cohen describes an empathy bell-curve spectrum and quotient test that indicates where an individual will be placed along this curve. Most people naturally fall right in the middle but there is a zero degree empathy range and within this lie the psychopaths, narcissists, and individuals suffering with borderline personality disorders.
So what does all this information have to do with corporations? Simply that corporations are legislatively derived artificial ‘individuals’ that can sue and be sued, raise funds, make political decisions, etc. They are headed by a board of Directors that is by law duty-bound to make decisions in the best interests of the corporation and its shareholders and not necessarily in the best interests of mankind in general, nature et al.
Since corporations are businesses whose sole purpose is to make money whatever the consequences, overall best interests are almost always those that increase profit, to the detriment of all else and empathy be damned.
True, there are some organisations that whilst in the process of turning a profit, strive to do no harm to society. However embedded deep within Baron-Cohen’s bell-curve are corporations that seem to have made human suffering into a profitable side-line. For example, that same name that has cropped-up in these pages many times, Monsanto Inc., creators of Agent Orange, DDT, Roundup, GMOs and a veritable plethora of other toxic substances that have caused horrific damage and injury to the world on a global scale.
Then there is Firestone and its rubber plantations in Liberia which poison the local and wider environment, pay slave-labour level wages and house workers in unsanitary conditions that most caring people would not see fit to keep an animal.
Likewise, Nestle and their cocoa plantations in the Cote d'Ivoire which employ young children and pay them less than subsistence wages and also keeps them living in substandard conditions. Also, Big Pharma and their concerted efforts to keep us purchasing medicines that either patently do not work or cause more harm than good.
Let us also not forget Coca Cola, that caring organisation that has probably justly been accused of murdering individuals seeking to form unions to gain fair wages and treatment, although no punishment or retribution of any kind was forthcoming from complicit, bought-and-paid-for governments.
Not one corporate executive involved in making any of the above decisions or ‘giving the orders’ for any of the above actions has served any jail time or indeed in effect committed a crime. By their very definition, corporations are able to forgo or bypass empathetic decision-making because they are abstract entities. When making decisions that directly affect humanity, empathy is a necessary ingredient. Take away the capacity for empathy and you are left with what we have today, psychopathic corporations spreading what we would deem to be evil all over the world, under normal circumstances. The corporate machine is a coldly calculating force that makes decisions that are solely driven by bottom-line figures with the wellbeing and basic needs of humanity in a distant second-place, if even considered at all.
In a fair and just society, corporations should be held to the same moral standards as individuals. Profits should not be allowed to be made to the detriment of the environment and equitable wages should be paid worldwide regardless of location.
Imagine a world where government leaders were not bribed and cajoled by corporations to make decisions directly against the best wishes of the people they were elected to represent in the first place and imagine a world where all corporate psychopaths did not exist. Is this really too much to ask? As long as all major corporations continue to be owned by the Elite few who we know literally stop at nothing in the garnering of their obscene profits, it would certainly appear so.
Bohemian Grove
The 40ft stone owl worshipped by ‘Grovers’
Eighty miles north of San Francisco is a playground for the mega-rich known as Bohemian Grove and it is here where over 2000 members of the political, corporate, media, cultural and military elite of the world, gather every July for two weeks, for their annual Satanic rituals, possibly including human ritual sacrifice. They have been meeting here since the 1880s.
According to
reliable sources, a ritual sacrifice, firstly of Mary Magdalene and then Jesus Christ takes place every year. A human body or an effigy of one is burned in front of the pictured, large owl symbolising Moloch, the pagan Canaanite God in a ceremony known as ‘The Cremation of Care’. Indeed, there is very strong evidence that the Grove members are Satanists.
In 1978, the ‘club’ actually argued in court that it should not have to hire female staff because members at the Grove ‘urinate in the open without even the use of rudimentary toilet facilities’ and that the presence of females would ‘alter club members' behaviour’.
“I was programmed and equipped to function in all rooms at Bohemian Grove in order to compromise specific government targets according to their personal perversions. Anything, anytime, anywhere with anyone was my mode of operation at the Grove. I do not purport to understand the full function of this political cesspool playground as my perception was limited to my own realm of experience. My perception is that Bohemian Grove serves those ushering in the New World Order through mind control and consists primarily of the highest Mafia and US Government officials.
