Corrupt government, conspiracy, new world order, no future.

The elixir of corporate is growth ... unquenchable growth. It’s an amalgam imbedded in their genes. Paraphrasing what was once spoken by the president of NABISCO ... "I am looking forward to one world of homogeneous consumption. A world where Arabs, Americans, Latinos, and Scandinavians, will munch RITZ crackers as enthusiastically as they already drink COKE. or brush their teeth with COLGATE." Does that not depict the appetite of power? Would insatiable be too strong a word?

In the book Trilateralisim, editor Holly Sklar wrote "Corporations look forward to a post-national age where social, economic, and political values are transformed to universal values." The present "Push Hamburger" dictum unquestionably limits the intake of knowledge -- unquestionably is intent on creating look-alikes, and is fast approaching a world of imposed universal conformity.

If left to their own devices, power will proceed to dehumanize the work force and the societies they inhabit. Ambrose Bierce 1884-1914 stated "Corporation: an ingenious devise for obtaining individual profit, without individual responsibility."

Shortly after the Second World War, American business began its march to conquer the markets in virtually every part of the world. There was an unparalleled movement of capitol, goods, technology, and managerial resources sent abroad. Along with the above came corporate morality.

As the engine of corporate rolled along, it became apparent that doing business around the world required the alteration of diverse cultural practices. The practice of pay-offs was more prevalent than American executives imagined. They not only adapted, but quickly improved and spread the practice. From document stampers to heads of government, the hand was openly extended for the inherent pay-off.

Profiting from this method of contract proved to become a bonanza. As pay-offs are bound to ensure control, power gladly doled it out to secure that advantage. It became a justifiable business expense. Nobody was fooling anybody. Corporate knew those transactions were either shady or downright illegal, but it served their purpose. It goes on today with even more bravado and at every conceivable level.

Business, by no means ever a democratic structure, was building a "power structure" around the world that surpassed any in history. This modern evolution of growth and control expanded the organizational chart with new categories of executive responsibility. A new style of team player entered the operation, one educated in the ways of electronic communication and devoid of social scruples. He had to be fluent in double-speak ... in other words, a superb liar.

Business was being infused with the latest technological advances. Former entrepreneurial practices concentrating on the manufactured product were being dismissed, totally replaced with a disciplined focus of just being concerned with the manufacturing of money. It was almost as if most corporations lost sight of how they came to be, the product that brought them recognition and the workers that helped them accomplish both. The player with the most suppressed conscience was sure to advance rapidly in the power tower. Greed fed on greed. The new way to increase wealth was to discard rather than enlarge local plants and its work force. The worker became a disposable commodity. As you may know, in the lingo of economists, "humans" are classified as a commodity ... a resource.

Since neither the product nor it’s goodness was still of prime concern, American corporations shamelessly flooded the market with inferior merchandise. It was far below the standards they were once capable of producing and far below the standard of foreign products entering our U.S. market. Allocating money for R&D made no sense to the greedy money growers. Leveraging money -- this they understood. The product was of no concern to them. It became a mere incidental not the normal focus of business.

This ego ridden breed of "money finaglers" wheeled and dealed their way to the top. Buying, selling, merging, influencing the paper (stock) in the stock market, amputating human resources from the equation. Disregarding any possibility of illegality they plundered societies’ dreams with utter disregard. Their front-men, "our government" backed them every inch of the way.

The contest for control within corporate was rageing. Devise a new tactic for capturing money, display a ruthless disregard for morality and law, split, divide, and devastate human resources ... you made it. As a result of this abomination the worker was transformed. Once he was a dedicated caring employee ... future oriented. Now! in order to survive he has been forced to adjust to a destructive and demeaning work place and keep his mouth shut. At the workers lowly level, the need to know disappeared entirely. Allegiance and concern for the company was replaced solely with fear of losing a job. After all, hasn’t this become a worker’s overriding concern, as the burial of our American dream has come to influence our daily lives.

The lock-out of the worker on the floor from any contact with upper management has been thorough. Even the workers’ unions -- the one instrument a worker could use to break through to management ... began sucking up to power. They were beaten, minimized as a threat to the company. They too were converted and disciplined. With very little apparent justice on his side, the disoriented worker, (having barely survived corporate surgery) acquired drone like qualities.

As this modern architecture of corporate organizational hierarchy was metamorphosing, so too were the players’ capitulation to corporate immorality. Morality became a game. To win, one must find palatable ways to disguise the absence of morality. The more cunning one was the better were the rewards (as exhibited by government, banking, Wall Street, corporate), in their involvement with the world wide organizations they have brought up to speed.

The payment of $450,000.00 by Northrop, to two Saudi Arabian generals was subjected to criticism by the U.S. legal system. It never got further than criticism.

When General Telephone and Electronics hesitated in paying $40,000,000.00 to Major General Sohardjano, Director of Indonesian Department of Posts and Communication, the $330,000,000.00 contract was awarded to Huges Aircraft. What were those conditions?

Negotiations establishing relations with Pertima and subscribing to the stock of its New York City Indonesian restaurant controlled by General Sutowo, involved; Mobile, Atlantic Richfield, Armco Steel, Continental, Brown and Root, and a Halliburton subsidiary. The cover story was, establishing an Indonesian restaurant in N.Y.C., would enhance the image of Indonesia. A spokesman for Atlantic Richfield made this statement. "We feel it’s a good investment as far as our relationship with Indonesia is concerned." Can you believe all this for a restaurant and relationship?

U.S. tire companies intent on obtaining a price increase in their Mexican Market, ran $420,000.00 through the Mexican Trade Association. Six companies (including Firestone and Uniroyal subsidiaries,) got approval on the same day money changed hands.

Philip Morris, through its affiliates in the Dominican Republic, made regular monthly payments to Dominican officials. The checks were made payable to President Partido Reformista.

One publicized scandal centered around Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. It was about his acceptance of $1,100,000.00 from Lockheed.

Germain Baudine, managing director of Belgium’s state telephone system, was convicted for receiving a "gift?" from ITT’s President and Managing Director, Frank Pepermans.

The money machine does just as well right here in the United States. Norman Jaspan, president of a firm specializing in uncovering corporate fraud and corruption in our country, estimates kickbacks, bribery, extortion (in the food, retail, and building industries) pass about five to eight billion dollars annually to U.S. Government and Union officials.

Examples of power’s corrupting influence appear wherever you have a mind to investigate. The preceding examples should be sufficiently thought provoking, and should reinforce the saying ... "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

We still have a way to go to reach the heights of our search. Only the rulers of governments and guardians of corporate doings have been depicted as part of the "power structure." Beyond them, satisfied to remain anonymous, others more powerful yet conceal themselves in the shadows behind their cooperative protegees.

Who can induce a President to conspire in an arms for hostage operation meant to conceal an ulterior purpose? A "Greater Power?"

How can the U.S. support Sadam Hussein up to moments before attacking him, and for what purpose? A "Greater Power?"

Did an American President possibly stall the release of hostages for greater political advantage ... "Whose?" A "Greater Power?"

For what reason was Panama invaded and the captured president tried in the U.S.? Haven’t we supported him all along knowing his source of money was drugs? Now that we have him behind bars, the drug problem in America has only gotten worse. Whose needs brought this to the fore? A "Greater Power?"

What political advantage was at work when the U.S. gave refuge to pillagers of the Philippine society? A "Greater Power?"

Questions just keep getting heaped on questions. The hot button questions, assured to get the ratings up, are aired daily -- bandied about by well paid pundits ... then buried to make room for the next disposable outrage.

Obviously -- "We The People" are being pacified by having serious subjects disguised as entertainment purposely designed to minimize their importance. There is no end to the manipulative devices foisted on us. Those in "Power" are intent on corralling us like a flock of sheep, in order to efficiently keep us moving along the highway to the "New World Order" ... and a new race of humans. Where was that tried before?

I FEEL LIKE I�VE BEEN HIT BY A BUS

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