The oligarchical takeover of the world's essential supplies

 

Sundance, over at The Conservative Treehouse, has an excellent article pointing out how corporate and oligarchical interests have taken over much of the world's supply of essential materials.  Riffing off a recent report of how Canada is forcing farmers to dump tens of thousands of gallons of milk that's over their official quota, he lays out how such regulations, both national and international, stifle production and distribution worldwide.

He warns:

This is modern corporatism, the nexus of govt intervention, regulations and the multinational exploitation of industry.  This is also the globalist example that shows how the concepts of “capitalism” and “free markets” have been destroyed.

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Understanding how trillions of trade dollars influence geopolitical policy we begin to understand the three-decade global financial construct they seek to protect.

That is, global financial exploitation of national markets.

FOUR BASIC ELEMENTS:

• Multinational corporations purchase controlling interests in various national outputs (harvests and raw materials), and ancillary industries, of developed industrial western nations.
• The Multinational Corporations making the purchases are underwritten by massive global financial institutions, multinational banks. (*note* in China it is the communist government underwriting the purchase).
• The Multinational Banks and the Multinational Corporations then utilize lobbying interests to manipulate the internal political policy of the targeted nation state(s).
• With control over the targeted national industry or interest, the multinationals then leverage export of the national asset (exfiltration) through trade agreements structured to the benefit of lesser developed nation states – where they have previously established a proactive financial footprint.

For three decades economic “globalism” has advanced, quickly. Everyone accepts this statement, yet few actually stop to ask who and what are behind this – and why?

Every element of global economic trade is controlled and exploited by massive institutions, multinational banks and multinational corporations.

Institutions like the World Trade Organization (WTO), World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), control trillions of dollars in economic activity. Underneath that economic activity there are people who hold the reins of power over the outcomes. These individuals and groups are the stakeholders in direct opposition to principles of America-First national economics.

There's much more at the link.

Sundance's article is a long, meaty one, but very well worth your time to read and understand.  He brings together many of the elements of our national and international economy and shows how they're all related, interconnected, and controlled.  Essential reading, IMHO.

I saw the results of this at first hand in many Third World countries during the 1980's.  Nations whose populations were starving as a result of drought, war and other disasters appealed for help.  At the same time, First World countries were destroying millions of tons of produce, millions of gallons of milk, and so on, because they were producing more than they could sell in the markets available to them.  That surplus could have kept millions of people alive, but the producers would have made no money out of it, and could not countenance the thought that if they helped once, they might be expected to make next year's surplus available, too.  Furthermore, governments could not stomach the costs of shipping it to where it was needed, and getting it "the last mile" to those dying of hunger.  They did little or nothing to help - and millions died.

There are many who'll argue that basic economics make it unrealistic to help people in that way.  All I can say is, try holding an emaciated child in your arms, all its bones sticking so far out through the skin that it looks as if their epidermis is about to rupture.  Listen to them cry, weakly and breathlessly, for food you cannot give them.  Watch them die.  Listen to the lamentations of their mother and siblings as they prepare them for burial.  They're already so weak they can't lift the body, or wrap it in cloth - they have to be helped.  Know, as you're watching, that you're going to be burying the rest of that family during the coming week, unless a miracle happens.  Then tell me about "basic economics".  It may be true, from an economic perspective . . . but from a human one, it sounds very, very hollow.

Welcome to modern industrial and commercial priorities.

Peter