Deaths of millions of poor people are a planned strategy of evil men with great power and privilege.  How so?  All things evolve.  That is an immutable law and only fools ignore it.  Capitalism replaced mercantilism and socialized democracy will replace capitalism.  It is only part of the evolution of economic systems.  Marx was correct when he said that the seeds of destruction were built into capitalism because he knew that either greed or limited resources would eventually cause its demise.  Socialism failed in the Soviet Union for the simple, but tragic fact that its leaders were fascists who were only interested in feathering their own beds while ignoring the good for the all.  They were narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths and, thus, fell somewhere on the spectrum of masculine pathology.  Capitalism is predicated upon the theory of “unlimited growth.” The concept of unlimited growth is a euphemism for unbridled greed fueled by unfettered consumerism.  Unfettered consumerism, to be successful, is based upon a world in which there are unlimited natural and mineral resources.  And so here we find the end of capitalism.  We live in a world in which there are currently 6 billion people.  Most of the world lives in poverty.  With 6 billion people, we have decimated large swathes of forest, fished out 90% of the large fish in our oceans, poisoned massive amounts of soil from toxins in landfills and from agricultural run-off, polluted our oceans with waste and toxins which has resulted in the killing of significant marine life, heated the oceans from the rise in carbon dioxide emitted from overuse of fossil fuels and forest decimation, and placed at risk significant amounts of potable water such that many people will not have access to drinkable water within the next several decades.  Again, this is with 6 billion people.  It is projected that there will be approximately 8 billion people living on this tiny planet by 2050.  Additionally, in the next several decades, robots will replace millions of human laborers.  Capitalism and overpopulation are mutually exclusive.  There are only two ways to solve the global problem that faces the entire world: 1. hundreds of millions of people have to die, or 2. capitalism has to die.  Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and several thousand privileged and powerful males in contemporary society who are extremely wealthy and who rely on capitalism to maintain their massive fortunes would prefer the first option and would likely prefer, with little or no confrontation to their conscience, that hundreds of millions of people die.  Ebeneezer Scrooge’s uncharitable comment in A Christmas Carol about being rid of the “excess population” most closely depicts these men who are in power and who rule much of our world.  Meanwhile, 99% of the rest of the world’s population would prefer that capitalism die its natural death.  Naomi Klein’s “disaster capitalism” is a strategy of evil men.  I suspect that the handful of males who are in the most powerful positions in the world and who have a stranglehold on power and ruling this planet know that more people are coming to understand the choice between either the death of millions of people or the death of capitalism.  And as a result of knowing this truth, more people are going to revolt against the powers of corruption, deception, exploitation, domination, and destruction so that we can forge a new stage in the evolution of economic systems and, thus, a new stage in the evolution of human consciousness.  This will be a consciousness which seeks to share power between genders, races, ethnicities, religions, and nations.  It is a more mature consciousness which wants to empower others and collaborate toward a common good for the all instead of excess for a few versus exploitation, poverty, hunger, disease, and death for the rest of the world.  DO I HEAR THE WORDS “GLOBAL REVOLUTION?”

An interesting article about the rape of natural resources.  The author starts with the recent IRC mortality study as a background.  She then launches into the issue of rape, women and natural resources.  The Executive Director for Friends of Congo points out a big player, a US corporation, in the rape.

How do we deal with the Cleveland-based OM Group?  Are they gulity of funding the war?  Would a boycott be effective?  What are differences between OM Group and the US oil industry?

Good questions P.T. The corporations involved, (at least a couple of the US corporations) are in fact named. What we don’t know from the article, (though I’m going to try to find out) is exactly how this results in the horrific rape of these women and children, with the sexual violence as a means of terror.

I admit that I’d like to understand that myself, and it would probably take a more lengthy piece to do that. I honestly don’t know or understand it, though it somehow seems like I should.

The rape of the resources of course is DECADES old, and it’s not just the mining, but so much more. The fish, the forests, the oil, the humans… everything that might be present in terms of natural resources in Africa...a huge Continent. It’s been under rape conditions for centuries.

For this particular phase of it specifically by the multinationals and for the past decade, we do need to understand more of the specifics, since as Amy notes, it’s gone virtually unreported in the U.S. media. (no surprises there).

So, it sounds like a lot more work is in order, to bring the specifics to the full knowledge of the American public, since there’s no doubt that along with these other national rapers, the US is probably the major criminal. That’s nearly always the case.

Japan and China have their greedy little hooks in this deal, as well. Japan is one of the production locations for these metals and China is buying tons of this stuff for magnets, capacitors and high-stress aircraft components. Nobody seems to care about the Africans.