Make the Bankers Pay

Iceland, Ireland pushing back against neo-feudalism.
by Tony Cartalucci 

Editor's Note: For more information, please read "Farmers group wants Ireland to follow Iceland and burn the bondholders.” 

May 12, 2012 - Across the dominion of the corporate-financiers on Wall Street and in the city of London, the reckless Ponzi schemes destroying the West's economy and plunging it into an economic depression have left politicians, the bought and paid for servants of corporate-financier hegemony, wringing the public dry to cover losses. In reality, when an enterprise fails because of criminality, incompetence or both, citizens are not demanded to pass the hat around to "bail them out." They are declared bankrupt, their assets (if they have any) are stripped, often if fraud is involved, executives and board members go to jail, and society attempts to fill the void with sounder enterprises run by more reputable people.

However, when the fraud and failure unfolds amongst the highest levels of corporate-financier power, amongst men who have organized wars that have sent millions to their deaths, overseen social "projects" that have left hundreds of thousands of women forcibly sterilized, and instead of going to jail, are showered with self-aggrandizing awards from institutions of their own creation. This faux-authority, faux-legitimacy has left the people subjected to their machinations with the illusion that they must pay for, heed, follow whatever solutions are then prescribed by the very elite who created the problem in the first place.

Indeed, if we want this current system to continue - it would be wise to follow their instructions to the letter. However, if we are unsatisfied with this system, it is important to not only protest these unjust measures, to refuse absolutely to abide by any of their edicts, but to create and promote our own programs to put society back on the rails of progress and moving forward.

Video: Max Keiser discusses a possible push-back by the Irish people against debt that isn't theirs.

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Iceland was one of the first nations during the latest round of global financier manipulation to say "no." The bankers created the problem, Icelanders said, so the bankers will pay for it, not the Icelandic people. Ireland has followed suit - in the face of a draconian, neo-feudal "house tax" leveled against the Irish - essentially forcing people to pay for the "privilege" of living on their own land, have overwhelming refused to pay it. While it may be "illegal" to say no to the neo-feudal house tax, paid to corporate-financiers who apparently see themselves as neo-lords, it is certainly not wrong. It is wrong, in fact, to heed to unjust laws created by self-serving minorities at the expense ($130 USD per home) of the majority.

The Irish have followed this noble defiance with a campaign - predictably muted by a willfully ignorant international media - called "Farmers For No." Farmers for No is an organization that is precisely what is needed - not austerity measures - but grassroots organizing and cooperation at a local level, to solve local economic woes, with local solutions. Farmers for No is currently campaigning to follow Iceland's example and vote no against austerity, and instead default on loans the Irish people are already being demanded to pay for, but loans they are in no way responsible for.

While Farmers for No is fighting its battle "far off" on the Emerald Isle, their fight is our fight. Whether you live in Greece, Spain, France, or England, across the sea in the United States, or in Asia - which is currently pursing the same sort of financier consolidation, directed by Wall Street and London, and leading to the very sort of catastrophic meltdown the West has just experienced, Farmers for No's battle is yours.

Video: Dr. Webster Tarpley explains how banker debt bailouts are not the responsibility of sovereign states. For more analysis by Dr. Tarpley, visit Tarpley.net. 

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Next, Farmers for No, and grassroots organizations around the financially-wrecked Western world, must begin devising, promoting, and implementing pragmatic programs of their own - after making it clear they will not accept such programs to be decided for them by the very people, criminals even, who created the problem in the first place.While we may differ in opinions as to what we should do, any program truly devised by the people and for the people will be preferable to anything devised by Wall Street, London, and other Western financiers gravitating toward their orbit. Most likely a synergy between local free market and national investments in production, real education, and infrastructure would be best. Additionally, taxing (with a Tobin tax) the banks themselves to bailout nations from monolithic and ever-increasing debt, should be considered in lieu of wringing dry the populations of the West with austerity.

However, whatever your opinion may be, nothing will happen so long as you sit on the sidelines, or worst yet, continue patronizing the corporations and banks behind economic, foreign, or domestic policies you disagree with. We must begin to organize ourselves, begin promoting and implementing our own ideas on a local level, leveraging technology to do so, and stop waiting for a "buffet of palatable options" to be spread out before us by the very criminals that have historically exploited, misled, and plundered our society for generations.   

 

SOPA - Don't Just Protest - Get Even

by Tony Cartalucci

January 18, 2012 - The entire reason why SOPA's authors and supporters have the money, influence, and power to put draconian bills like it forward in the first place is because of our daily patronizing of their corporations and the goods and services they provide.



SOPA supporters include the US Chamber of Commerce, the MPAA, and many of the mega-corporations Americans, and indeed people around the world, support on a daily basis. The key to stopping SOPA and the watered down feigned "concession" that will surely follow it is to undermine the unwarranted power and influence of the corporations and financiers backing it in the first place. If Americans withdrew their support from these corporations, if theaters were left empty, if Pepsi and Coke were left collecting dust on the shelves of an empty Walmart, bills like SOPA would not exist, let alone have a chance to be passed into law.

Below is just one letter signed by just one group of these corporations and organizations. Boycott, put out of business, and replace these corporations with local alternatives.

Sponsors of this letter in support of "rougue sites legislation" include:

3M
Alliance of Automobile Manufactures
American Apparel and Footwear Associations
Autodesk Inc.
Bose Corporation
Broadcast Music Inc (BMI)
Caterpillar
CBS
Council of Fashion Designers of America
Electronic Arts (EA)
Ford Motor Company
GlaxoSmith Kline
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Johnson & Johnson
L'Oreal
Macmillian
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
National Basketball Association (NBA)
National Football League (NFL)
NBC Universal
News Corporation (Fox News)
NHL
Nike
Nintendo of America
Oakley
Pfizer
PGA of America
Philip Morris International
Reebok
Rite Aid
Rolex
Rosetta Stone
Software & Information Industry Association
Sony
Dow Chemical
McGraw-Hill
Timberland
Walt Disney
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner
Toshiba
US Chamber of Commerce
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)
Universal Music Group
Viacom
Wal-Mart
Warner Music Group
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Xerox Corporation
Zippo Manufacturing

If you can't live without the endless crass torrent of "bread and circus" as well as trinkets provided by the above mentioned supporters of this corporate-fascist agenda - the literal crafting and backing of legislation of, by, and for corporations -you don't deserve the freedom you believe yourself entitled to.

There is not one corporation listed above that society could not live without and in many cases replace with decentralized, superior local alternatives. Freedom is not simply voicing your opposition or choosing representatives to do so on your behalf. Freedom is also about the responsibility to keep in check the creation of unwarranted power and influence garnered from your daily payments in attention, money, time, and energy to corporations that would seek to impose their will upon society using the very mechanisms of governance designed solely for the people's benefit.

Identify the source of power behind bills like SOPA, and indeed many of the government policies wrecking our society, miring us in endless war, and leaving us in economic destitution. Boycott them, and replace them. We cannot be blamed for the greed and depravity of the global corporate-financier elite, but we can be blamed for fueling their megalomania on a daily basis.

Sanctions: Cut the Globalists Off From Humanity

UN Sanctioning Sovereign Nations, We the People Sanctioning the Global Elite: Time to cut them off from humanity.
editorial by Tony Cartalucci

The first step in destroying an entrenched enemy is to cut them off from the rest of the world. The globalists of NATO, the US, UK, France, Qatar, and others, have illustrated this principle in Libya on several levels. First they cut off the nation of Libya from the outside world, putting arms and trade embargoes on the Libyan government, blockading their shores, and seizing control of their airspace. As Benghazi's Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) terror brigades swept across the country under NATO cover, raping, murdering, and brutalizing all in their path, the globalists began organizing the surrounding and cutting off of individual Libyan cities, allowing (and assisting) rebels in cutting off food, medical supplies, cooking gas, electricity, and unimaginably even water, literally to starve the populations into submission. While the people of Libya have shown immense resolve against this strategy, it is only because of the incompetence of NATO and the lack of fortitude, character, or any desirable human quality amongst the rebels that this process of isolating and besieging the Libyan people has failed.

The absolute mockery the UN sanctioned NATO military intervention in Libya is making out of the contrived notion of "Responsibility to Protect (R2P)" is evident as civilians escaping from the Libyan city of Sirte accuse NATO of genocide, of bombing schools, hospitals, and homes and mass murdering innocent people. Additionally, under the cover of NATO, entire Libyan cities have been exterminated, with the population being rounded up, murdered or exiled and their property stolen. One such example, Tawarga, reported on by the Telegraph in their article, "Gaddafi's ghost town after the loyalists retreat," involved a town of 10,000 people whom the rebels said would never be allowed to return to their homes.

Americans during World War II were asked to stand against fascism in Europe and imperialism in East Asia, to intervene in the transgressions of Germany and Japan against the sovereignty of neighboring nations. In hindsight, the British and Americans were just as guilty at the time of grooming their own empires, but hypocrisy aside, rising to the occasion to stop the building of empire over free humanity is indeed a noble cause. Who then will rise to the occasion today, against the US, UK, France, Qatar, NATO's members and those backing the illegitimate UN, contrived International Criminal Court and other self-serving "international institutions" that are having their way with this planet? Who? And how?

It isn't just Libya that is in the cross-hairs. Afghanistan has suffered a decade of occupation and war at the hands of a banking, corporate-financier cartel who call themselves "globalists." Iraq too is suffering a proxy government beholden to invading foreign powers. The people of Uganda are literally being massacred so Anglo-American bankers can scoop up vast tracts of land to fuel yet another Ponzi economic scam, one based not on fiat currency, but even further-fetched "carbon credits." When one looks at the vast amount of resources at the disposal of the "globalists" they feel overwhelmed and not unexpectedly ask what can anyone do against such brazen, reckless disregard for human life, human sovereignty, and human rights?

The answer is staring us in the face every time we pick up the corporate-newspapers or flip on the corporate-news channels and here the word "sanctions." We the people must slap sanctions on the globalists, and it doesn't even require a UN mandate to do it. It simply involves identifying the corporations and institutions that are enabling the globalist agenda, systematically boycotting them, and eventually replacing them entirely on a local or regional level. There is nothing a multinational corporation can do that the modern nation-state can't, and in many cases, nothing multinationals can do that people can't do even on a local level. And as technology advances in both terms of information and manufacturing, this equation will only tip further in "we the people's" favor.

The ghouls of globalism have demonstrated without doubt their insincerity over their proclaimed goals of establishing an "international order" based on the rule of law, where "the rule of law" is applied to everyone but themselves, who brazenly, and consistently violate even their own contrived mandates, edicts, and resolutions when it suits them. In Libya, the "Responsibility to Protect" turned into targeted assassinations, regime change, and nation building (read: neo-imperialism) before UNSC r.1973 came back from the printers - a foregone conclusion 30 years in the making, spun only as "humanitarian intervention" for public consumption. Thus the globalists have demonstrated that they are incapable of lording over humanity with their "international order," and without doubt demonstrated the necessity of excising them and their ill-conceived notion of "global governance" entirely from society at all costs.

The globalists have procured this vast amount of impressive power only through our own complicity. We daily, monthly, yearly, and from generation to generation pay into the vast, ever expanding corporations that make up the global elite. We elect to shop at their stores, buy their products, use their services, exchange their currency and keep that currency in their banks. We elect to divert our time, energy, and attention to their corporate sponsored spectacles, be it on the race track, the football field, the basketball court or the baseball diamond. We are told that our nation's destiny is determined at the polls, and that the only way to effect real change is to choose from amongst several, bought off, corrupt, self-serving politicians, who needless to say, already serve the globalists, not the people. In reality, we vote everyday, with a vote far more effective and far reaching than anything that happens at election time. We vote with our purchases, our choice of how we spend our free time, and the way we utilize the resources we have at our disposal.

It would then reason, that by not paying into the globalists' corporations, institutions, and diverting ourselves with their distractions, we could begin repealing much of this unwarranted power they have accumulated. Eventually, we can begin replacing their corrupt, self-serving institutions that span the globe and presume dominion over all humanity, with local institutions that serve the people. It is not something that will be done overnight, it will take time. Even the globalists, with their endless power, must incrementally tighten their grip on their enemies, even ones as small as Libya. Surely everyone could easily do away with Coca-Cola and Pepsi today, as well as turning off the corporate-sponsored diversions on TV and on the sports fields. If we can't perhaps we don't deserve freedom or prosperity, but the mere, fleeting illusion of it we are afforded by our globalist overlords when it suits them. America's Founding Fathers would most likely be appalled at how modern day Americans have pawned off self-reliance, freedom, and independence for the illusion of security, convenience, and even entertainment. We need to stop looking for heroes to save us, and simply find ourselves a mirror. We are the key to our own salvation, as no one cares about our best interests more than we the people, our families, and our immediate communities.

Let us commit to putting "sanctions" on the globalists. Cut these degenerate megalomaniacs off from the world they so desire to dominate. Leave their stadiums empty, their airlines destitute, their checkpoints desolate, their corporate troughs filled with Chinese made slave goods virtual ghost towns, their banks as trusted and relied upon for economic activity as that game of monopoly collecting dust in the closet. Put them out of business, put them out of business forever. They have demonstrated without a shadow of a doubt that they, not some cave dwelling fundamentalist or Libyan colonel, are the greatest threat we as humanity face.

For a partial list of corporations that absolutely must be put out of business please see: "Naming Names." To see why even seemingly benign corporations like Pepsi and Coca-Cola are accomplices in the most egregious crimes against humanity, see: "Destroy the Globalists." For alternatives to the vast, globalist consumer paradigm, please see: "The Globalists' Worst Nightmare."

A Modern Declaration of Independence

A real revolution starting in our own backyards.
by Tony Cartalucci

Bangkok, Thailand May 25, 2011 - The current system, domineered by corrupt, career politicians and the corporations and banks that manage them like a troupe of actors, seeks to monopolize power on all levels. We are witnessing a "global government" taking shape, with "global institutions" that make decrees, laws, and even war not based on the greater good of humanity, but for the greater good of a corporate-financier oligarchy seeking to spread their power and influence to the four corners of the globe. They have done so under the poorly dressed guise of "human rights," "freedom," and "democracy." As the cheap veneer that covers their true designs peels away, we are outraged but perhaps at a loss of what to do.

Freedom is independence, the exercise of independence is sovereignty. Taking back your sovereignty is the real revolution. (Photo via Nashville Farmers' Market)
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We are witnessing the destruction and despoiling of Libya, US-funded uprisings creating unmitigated chaos across Syria, a fake-revolution destabilizing and threatening the future of 80 million Egyptians at the hands of a US International Crisis Group stooge, Mohamed ElBaradei. And while disingenuous pundits still try to convince us that these are real revolutions and that real change is around the corner, we are on a road that leads to nothing more than absolute subjugation, exploitation, and inevitably much worse.

We have been convinced through a lifetime of lying manipulative media and our sabotaged education system that change comes only through a ballot box, hoisting up placards, and street mobs. In reality, elections are rigged - and whether the actually mechanics of the elections are rigged or not makes little difference when all the candidates are sponsored by the same corporate-financier interests. Like a theatrical performance, the same manager presides over all the actors on the stage in a story that is ultimately a work of complete fiction. Likewise, street mobs are easily manipulated, generally led by the very people protesters think they are "rising up against." Emotions run high, and the energy of the people is easily harnessed as a further means to the global elite's ends.

Real power lies not with political office, but rather in the ability to actually, physically do something. In fact the very definition of power is the "ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something." When a politician says to build a bridge, it is not he who builds it. Rather it is engineering firms who have the tools, knowledge, and means to literally, physically shape the world around them. When a politician sends his nation to war, it is most certainly not he who fights it, rather the military and its soldiers, the industries that arm these soldiers, the logistical networks that transport them to the front line, and the corporations that feed, cloth, and shelter these soldiers. When a politician makes any rule, regulation, law, decree, or proposal, it is never he who actually "does" it.

Corporations like General Electric, Monsanto, DynCorp, Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Wal-Mart, Exxon, Google, BP, and AT&T most certainly have the "ability to do or act" and literally change the face of the earth. In fact, the vast majority of the rules, regulations, laws, decrees, and proposals, that our politicians feign to have developed on their own, come from think-tanks funded by and representing the collective interests of these very corporations. They literally fuel society, move mountains, bridge rivers, manufacture machines that dominate the air, land, sea, and even space, hold dominion over our means of communication, and oversee the distribution and sale of nearly everything we use on a daily basis. That is power.

Any means of protest or "change" that does not undermine or effect this current balance of power is nothing more than a superficial, ineffectual, and ultimately futile exercise at best, and a self-defeating, counterproductive, co-opted acceleration of humanity's consolidation and control under these global corporate-financier interests at worst.

Changing the Balance of Power

To actually change the balance of power, we must understand how the global corporate-financier elite have accumulated so much power to begin with. First and foremost we the people have paid into centralized mega-businesses for generations, funneling our work, savings, attention, and our dependency into the hands of the wealthy elite. Secondly, the global elite have augmented their positions in society with self-proclaimed authority, a myriad of rules, regulations, laws, pomp, and decrees that protect their various rackets and monopolies. They have also completely infiltrated and commandeered the political system. The United States federal government for instance, is increasingly demanding state and local governments become beholden to them, thus defeating the whole purpose of having a state and local government in the first place.

Quite obviously then, to change the balance of power, the solution must address these two factors. First we must end our servile dependency on consumerism and the "paying into" this corrupt corporate-financier system. Humanity as a whole is endowed with tremendous creative abilities - consumerism negates these abilities and reduces us to mere human-livestock. We must become producers once again, particularly in America where the nation was built on production, industry, creativity, invention, and rugged individualism. Second, we must recognize the "corporatocracy" as the illegitimate parasites that they are, and render moot their ever growing list of laws, rules, and regulations designed solely to protect their own interests at the cost of society and the world as a whole.

It Has Already Begun

The control of agriculture is one of the fundamental sources of power. Agriculture feeds, clothes, shelters, and even fuels society. It is something that we cannot do without, and depend on for our health and our very survival day to day. It is one of the first logical aspects of the current paradigm one should consider "taking back." And taking back people are.

It began in Sedgwick, Maine, where a local ordinance was passed protecting local farmers and markets from federal regulations designed entirely to destroy localized agriculture on behalf of mega-corporations like Monsanto, Cargill, and Syngenta. Rather than asking permission, the good people of Sedgwick, Maine simply declared their sovereignty vis-à-vis a state and national government that has long outgrown its mandate. The neighboring towns of Penobscot, Blue Hill and Trenton followed suit. Douglas Wollmar of Trenton, a local farmer who helped push through the ordinance in his town, cited Thomas Jefferson who said, "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves," in regards to shifting the unwarranted influence and power of the federal government back into local people's hands.

In the spirit of Jefferson's words, the "Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance of 2011" clearly and unequivocally declares its sovereignty in all matters regarding local agriculture in what can be called a "modern Declaration of Independence:"

"We the People of Sedgwick, Hancock County, Maine have the right to produce, process, sell, purchase and consume local foods thus promoting self-reliance, the preservation of family farms, and local food traditions. We recognize that family farms, sustainable agricultural practices, and food processing by individuals, families and non-corporate entities offers stability to our rural way of life by enhancing the economic, environmental and social wealth of our community. As such, our right to a local food system requires us to assert our inherent right to self-government. We recognize the authority to protect that right as belonging to the Town of Sedgwick.

We have faith in our citizens’ ability to educate themselves and make informed decisions. We hold that federal and state regulations impede local food production and constitute a usurpation of our citizens’ right to foods of their choice. We support food that fundamentally respects human dignity and health, nourishes individuals and the community, and sustains producers, processors and the environment. We are therefore duty bound under the Constitution of the State of Maine to protect and promote unimpeded access to local foods."

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And this is the true nature of freedom. It is not merely "doing what you want," rather it is taking on full responsibility for yourself and your place within your local community - having complete mastery and control over your own destiny, which requires self-reliance, self-sufficiency, and political and economic independence. We have been duped by the current power brokers that "doing what we want" is the total summation of freedom - not realizing that "what we want" is a perception carefully managed and manipulated by the system. In other words, like a caged rat, we are free to do as we please, as long as it's done within the confines of the cage. The current power brokers have convinced us that the cage bars are there for our own good - if we even notice them in the first place.

Translating Food Sovereignty into Total Sovereignty

Food is a fundamental aspect of power - but it is not the only aspect. Water, energy, industry, communications, security, transportation, and education are also essential. Translating the food sovereignty movement into a total sovereignty movement is the next step in the real revolution. A single county is more than capable of handling its own energy requirements, the management of communications, its own security via the sheriff and his ability to deputize, the production of clean water that meets the requirements of the local people, the management of transportation, and all matters regarding the education of its people.

Proof of this is the modern city-state of Singapore, no larger than most US counties, that indeed manages everything from commerce, transportation, and education, to their water supply, energy, and defense. Singapore boasts one of the best education systems in the world, a formidable military, and is a regional hub for industry and technological research & development. We can imagine then, American communities building a similarly localized independent society based on the US Constitution. These communities, independent and thriving, would act as cells do in the body, constituting healthy states, and in turn a magnificent nation - true to the principles it was founded on, honoring those who laid and defended with their blood that foundation.

By declaring and exercising our sovereignty in all matters on a local basis, we leave the elite's cage of societal management and begin managing our own affairs free of their influence. It is then up to us as to where our destiny leads us, a destiny we ourselves shape directly, day to day, rather than waiting and hoping in vain for a better "administration" next election. We must stop reacting to the global elite's strategy of tension, ever reacting to their outrageous provocations and egregious crimes against humanity.

We must instead look ourselves in the mirror and understand that we are the ocean upon which their entire empire floats, and we can just as easily sink that empire. Instead of reacting, we must start simply acting - locally, as the people of Sedgwick, Blue Hill, Penobscot, and Trenton have, declaring and exercising our sovereignty and independence on a daily basis. We do not need to ask permission to exercise what is our birth right. We do not need to ask permission to reassert our sovereignty in matters concerning agriculture, commerce, industry, or education. We simply need to start doing it.

For ways to battle the globalists by achieving self-sufficiency and freedom through independence please read on:

Destroying the Globalists
Self-Sufficiency
Alternative Economics
The Lost Key to Real Revolution
Boycott the Globalists
Naming Names: Your Real Government

Destroy the Globalists

One Fat-Cat Corporation at a Time.
by Tony Cartalucci

Bangkok, Thailand April 14, 2011 - We've told you who, in "Naming Names," now it's time to tell you how. Many may ask, "How exactly can we boycott the globalists when they control everything?"

The answer is by systematically boycotting and replacing them with local alternatives. You can actually start today, by boycotting corporations you may not have even considered part of this nefarious agenda and corporations you not only can certainly live without, but would be better off for it. It requires absolutely no money at all, in fact, it will save you money in the long run and if you decide to replace them, you may learn a valuable skill-set in the process.

Coke Idol and You: What is wrong with Coke,
is everything that's wrong with America.

The focus will fall first on Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Two very similar corporations which populate both the Brookings Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations, unelected, extra-legal conglomerations that conspire and contrive world policy, world wars, and the means to implement them for the sole benefit of its corporate membership, entirely at your expense both in blood and treasure. (See: War is a Racket by Smedley Butler.)

What's Wrong with Pepsi & Coke?

Conflict of Interest: Pepsi and Coke are both corporate members of the Brookings Institute, who for example, published "Which Path to Persia?," a 156 page report detailing methods to institute regime change in Iran. These methods range from foreign funded color revolutions and covert military operations, to arming terrorist groups (including MEK which has killed Americans) and all out invasion.

Even if you believe Iran represents a clear and present danger, wouldn't it be the job of our elected representatives to determine a course of action? Couldn't these "experts" be assembled into a committee under the watchful eyes of representatives elected by the people, even if they required a degree of secrecy? How does any functioning democratic society then tolerate a corporate funded organization comprised of unelected "experts" with absolutely no oversight and the ability to ultimately steer American policy? Because, indeed, much of what was written in "Which Path to Persia?" has already become a reality, without the consent, and in many cases, without the knowledge of the American people.

Another example comes from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), to which Pepsi and Coke are also both corporate members. Many of the reports coming from the CFR end up becoming public policy. Again, unelected businessmen, bankers, and policy wonks funded by corporate special interests steer American policy, including the myriad of laws, rules, regulations, and tax structures that protect megalithic monopolies like Pepsi and Coke.

The "Building a North American Community" report from 2005 spelled out in detail the integration of Canada, the United State, and Mexico into a European Union-style superstate. Incrementally, and against the will of the American people, this agenda has been slowly unfolding into what has become the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP), another cleverly named stepping-stone to supernationality.

You will find not only Pepsi and Coca-Cola as corporate members of these clandestine, meddling organizations, you will find their people sitting in as individual members as well. Just like JP Morgan during the robber baron age, these people end up running corporations not for their love of their trade, railroads and steel for Morgan, in Pepsi and Coke's case, bubbly beverages, but rather to exploit the immense amount of wealth they produce with their national and global monopolies.

These corporations rival the size and prosperity of some nation-states. Collectively, the Fortune 500, through their coordination via organizations like Brookings and the CFR, comprise a "dark nation" that exists beyond borders and the typical limitations of the traditional nation-state. However, technology has made it possible to live without most of these overgrown corporations, where local businesses can most certainly accomplish anything they can, sometimes more.

Certainly, however, in the case of beverages we as individuals and as communities are more than capable of creating, exchanging and enjoying beverages without any corporation involved at all. Why then do we insist on pooling our collective resources in their hands to give us flavored sugar water? Many would cite regulations and taxation that prohibit us from producing and selling locally, such regulations born from these immensely influential corporations in the first place. This is all the more reason to boycott them and put them out of business.

Coke: Enjoy (your brain tumor.) Monsanto says aspartame is safe,
Why would such an ethically conscious corporation like Monsanto lie?

Your Health: Another reason to boycott Pepsi and Coca-Cola in particular is because everything they sell is horrible for your health. A look at their product lists shows us a parade of sugary, aspartame infested, preservative packed, chemically contrived-mercury laced HFCS dripping, salt encrusted garbage. Americans need not look but past their own waistline to see that they are literally slow-killing us. Of course, everyone and anyone is more than welcome to choose for themselves how they live but if you would like another reason to boycott these corporations, being better off with your health without them is certainly a good one.

Pepsi Product Lines

A full list with links to individual product line websites can be found here. Don't be fooled. Pepsi Co. doesn't just sell the tooth rotting cola drink of their namesake, they are also the purveyors of:

Drinks: AMP, Aquafina, Gatorade, Lipton, Starbucks Coffee, Tropicana, and many more.



Food: Lay's, Doritos, Tositos, Cheetos, Fritos, Sun Chips, everything from Quaker Oats, Ruffles and many more.



Coca-Cola Product Lines

Frankly, the Coca-Cola list is too long to put on a single page. You can go to their website and see for yourself the extensive empire they have built, including brands that come from around the world. The full list can be found here. Below are only a few examples.







Conclusion

As you can see, almost everything you put in your mouth comes from these two corporations, and any exception to this most likely is in the form of another similar globalist conglomerate like Nestle, or bought from the globalist consumer troughs at Walmart (also a CFR corporate member.) The implications of these two, extraordinary lengthy lists of products that are found worldwide, gives us a real metric by which to measure the reach and depth this planet is infested with by corporate interests. It permeates nearly every aspect of our lives, and many unwitting souls entirely depend on them, and by doing so, are entirely at their mercy.

You may be tempted to throw your hands up at what seems like a futile task. But honestly, what your body really needs can always be found locally. Filtered water, locally grown produce, and homegrown garden vegetables most definitely would not only be better for you, but better for society. If you understand the gravity of what the above list represents, you must also understand that no excuse stands for continuing to fund these nefarious, expansive empires.

Coke and Pepsi and the products they peddle can certainly be done without. Nothing in the above list you require to live. Even bottled water, in the long run, is more expensive (economically and socially) than quality water filtration systems or atmospheric water generators (dehumidifiers with water filters built-in.) While ultimately we will need to break our dependence on corporations like Walmart, Target, and the big oil corporations, etc., starting by putting these two giants into their graves and replacing them with healthy, local alternatives is an excellent start.

Economic and financial expert Max Keiser breaks
down the power of voting with your wallet.

This article was inspired by economic and financial expert Max Keiser who has for years tried to educate people about the power of smart consuming and how people can literally change the world one purchase at a time. This philosophy is can be applied with a little thought and effort to great effect.

Buy silver, crash JP Morgan, explained.

Keiser's latest campaign involves buying silver in order to crash globalist banking giant JP Morgan. JP Morgan has been issuing paper certificates representing silver they do not own (counterfeiting). Should people around the world (and they are) heed Keiser's call and force firms like JP Morgan to deliver silver they do not hold, they will "crash." By holding silver, an alternative form of currency to the globalist fiat dollar, you are also boycotting and replacing yet another facet of the globalist empire.

We will not dismantle and replace this system overnight, and we cannot do it individually, but by acting individually toward a life of greater self-sufficiency and independence we move collectively toward a freer and more prosperous future.

For ways to battle the globalists by achieving self-sufficiency and freedom through independence please read on:

Self-Sufficiency
Alternative Economics
The Lost Key to Real Revolution
Boycott the Globalists
Naming Names: Your Real Government