The Model Corporation. Part Six of Six-Part Series. Up Against Ominous Realities

3. Escaping Banksters' Collection Agencies. Sorkin may not have known it at the time but Strike Debt, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, was being formed and soon thereafter prepared a "Debt Resistors Operations Manual." The downloadable manual gives detailed strategies and resources for dealing with credit card, medical, student, housing, and municipal debt, and tactics and information for dealing with and avoiding personal bankruptcy. Strike Debt also launched a project named "Rolling Jubilee." Its purpose is to buy personal debt on the cheap from banks that would otherwise turn its debt over to usurious collection agencies and then simply wipe out the debt.

Outcome: Since its formation the project has "raised enough money to abolish $11,236,570 Of Personal Debt." [17] Well, that's admirable, but do you know how much personal debt there is in America? Two and one-half trillion as of 2012, that's how much. Rolling Jubilee on its own could roll on forever and never wipe out debt slavery, let alone keep up with corporate price-gouging and consumer spending that is 70 percent of all economic activity.

Establishing Public Banks.   I defer to Ellen Brown's expertise on this strategy to foil the banksters. She never ceases to amaze me with her prolific writing and actions in the public interest. A lawyer and author of 11 books and countless articles, she is President of the Public Banking Institute and outspoken champion of public banks, cooperative banks, conventional banks committed to responsible lending and service to the local community, and Community-Development Financial Institutions that include community-development banks, community-development credit unions, community-development loan funds, community-development venture-capital funds, and microenterprise loan funds.

Outcome: Enough of these establishments now exist to justify what she calls the "public banking movement." [18] It is one in which both community-activist groups as well as individual citizens can participate (e.g., in cancelling accounts in big banks and transferring them to democracy-friendly depositories). But can the movement ever create enough establishments to put the banksters out of business?

An Extremely Ominous Reality: Agribusiness and Chemical Industries

I put them together because chemicals saturate the food chain and agribusiness thrives on chemicals. There's an old nostrum that "we are what we eat," which is why these two industries are so hazardous and potentially deadly, especially with their genetically modified organisms that are an assault on and gamble with nature that may ultimately have dire consequences for our species.

Within this pair of industries is the Monsanto Corporation. Mike Adams, chief contributor and editor of NaturalNews.com, says that "MonSatan---is now the No. 1 most-hated corporation in America---and the destructive force behind the lobbying of the USDA, FDA, scientists, and politicians that have all betrayed the American people---." [19] Not surprisingly it is a lightning rod for all sorts of counter attacks, three of which are cited next.

1. A Mock Trial. The first of several mock trials planned was held April 21, 2012, in Iowa City. There was a crowd of about 100. It was partly public theatre. One man, who was dressed as a "superweed", sat up on the witness stand swigging from a bottle of Roundup and saying, "I don't give a f--k about Monsanto, though they do make a good drink."[20] But it was mostly conducted formerly and seriously, although not evenhandedly, the five black-robed "judges" announced since Monsanto isn't either.

Outcome: Mock justice, an entertaining event, and some heightened public awareness.

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