Classic "Shock Doctrine"

...if it were true.  Only I can't find any evidence that it is.  The latest news about any sanctions imposed against Mayanmar/Burma dates from 2007.   All the more confusing that you are writing this posthumously.  Help me out here!

by Maxwell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 111 comments) on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 1:17:54 PM
 

Sanctions Against Myranmar

This is just a new sanction against Myranmar.  Bush has sanctioned them before, but the "holy grails" of energy (e.g., natural gas and oil) are never sanctioned.  That's because American companies have been poised (or in the cue) to get into the game and when they do, they don't want to have to deal with the sanctions.  

 American oil companies have proven for a long, long time that they don't care about democracy in foreign markets they get their product from.  They don't want to be "pressured" (the intent of the new sanctions) to pressure for a democracy they don't want.

But what caught my eye about this new round of sanctions is that Bush did it the same day Myranmar got slammed by the cyclone! Some might call this "foreign relations" but I call it bullying.  Kinda like an alpha male country barring his teeth and pushing the weaker countries around.  Bush's sick macho bravado.  Then Myanmar gets knocked out by the cyclone.

There is something that I meant to put in the article but didn't want to make the article too long so I kept it out.

A "CEO President," Bush doesn't care anything about real democracy. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that psychopathic predator western capitalism and democracy doesn't mix.  Each are totally different.  

Most corporations are dictatorships (from the top) and are authoritarian in structure and systems.  By their very nature, they are racist, misogynistic and care nothing for their employees.  Corporations exist to earn profits for their owners any way they can and if it's illegal, if they can get away with breaking the law or if they can cost effectively pay for fines and fees somewhere up the road.  Profits are their legal mandate.  Because profits come before anything, corporations are loathe to pay taxes because they interfere with the bottom line.

Most corporations prefer to work with dictatorships because they can get cheap steady workers and natural resources cheaper.  But Myanmar's military dictatorship won't prostrate themselves as cheap whores to western capitalism.  That's the only reason why Bush is pushing for "human rights" reform. 

Democracies strive for citizen participation, strive to be fairer to all groups, strive for non-authoritarian/non fascist governance, structures and systems are less restrictive, believe in taxes, so forth.  

Joel Bakan wrote in his book "The Corporation," that if many of the big corporations were psychiatrically evaluated as individuals, that they would be psychopaths!  Do you know what a psychopath is?  A person who is completely without conscience.  A person who constantly lies.  A person who sees the world completely different from the majority of people and strives to bring this sick, twisted world view into reality.  A psychopath is an evil person. A psychopathic corporation is an evil institution.  

Why is it so hard to bring the word "evil" to the table of humanity?  I think that will be the theme of my next article.  What happened to values?  Why is it okay for corporations to enslave the workers of the world (slavery), "capture" markets by any means (lying, theft, racketeering, murder, pollution, so forth), manipulate markets like food and oil that cause catastrophic suffering and death and determine governments?

Thank you for your comment.  If you have any more questions, please ask.  Martha Rose Crow 

by Martha Rose Crow (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 4:23:53 PM
 

Possibility of the cyclone being created or steered?

Great article, Martha Rose.

 For comparison we could also look at http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/307115.shtml

-  that is about the Tsunami, was it man-made?

 There seems even more evidence of the ability to use or even direct and magic up high winds and rain events as weapons of war, or triggers to destabilise countries.

click here can perhaps also focus HAARP or Energy Weapons on individual buildings ... - or complexes of buildings - as per Sept 11th if www.drjudywood.com is right, and I think she is broadly speaking.

by Keith Mothersson (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 30 comments) on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 6:48:02 PM