II just viewed the movie<a href="http://www.theendofpoverty.com/synopsis.html">"The End of Poverty"</a> . I don't think I've seen a film that bold and honest about our current economic system. Pretty much the gist of the movie is that since 1492 we have had a global economy, and that the colonies' purpose was to transfer wealth from the colonized to the colonizer, and to establish "property rights". The next step was to make sure that European descendants held huge tracks of land. The next step was to turn the people into slaves for large landholders, and corporations. Modern day bankers make sure that everyone has a loan to ensure that they are beholden to the European/ North American slave holders.
American media steps in to make sure that Americans/ Europeans don't have a clue what is going on. It is based on a very racist idea that white people deserve wealth more than others and actually religion has been used to turn natives into proper believers in "private property". The function of religion was to brainwash people into being little Europeans who would support the economic system.
What this boils down to is that the European/ North American elitists do everything in their power to rob poor people of their resources and enrich themselves. The US uses 30 % of the world's resources and has only 5% of the population. It is a very ingrained idea that we as Americans deserve to squander resources and drive large trucks and eat until most of our population is obese while most of the world goes hungry.
In Sudan most of the money they have is used to pay European creditors. My question is why African countries do not default en mass to get off the European banker leash. Can they honestly invade all of Africa at the same time to force them to continue to pay? Wouldn't it be better to use that money to improve the lot of their own people rather than the lot of European bankers? The resources should be nationalized to benefit the poor people within the country instead of benefiting wealthy foreigners.
Now we continue to see wars trumped up in America for the sole purpose of theft of resources for corporations. After the invasion of Iraq, Exxonmobile made obscene profits and they continue to do so. The invasion of Afghanistan probably had more to do with mining of rare minerals than it did, terrorism. The media purposely makes reasoning about both wars vague and muddled. No one can really say why we are still fighting or even why we went into Afghanistan other than an emotional rant that boils down to revenge. Do you really think we went to Afghanistan to get revenge for the attacks on the World Trade center? <a href="click here">How did Clinton handle the first attack? </a>
It's time that the US take its resource consuming down to a sustainable level that will allow others to live without abject poverty.
